Patents by Inventor David A. Schmitz

David A. Schmitz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11984186
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for repairing defective memory cells in regions of a memory array associated with high or low priority levels are disclosed. A repair address generator may be configured to generate a memory address map for repair (e.g., blowing fuses at a fuse circuit), depending on whether certain applications may operate at a high priority level indicative of a low bit error rate or a low priority level indicative of a higher bit error rate. For example, a specified error rate associated with a low priority level may correspond to a threshold error rate for certain applications, such as a neural network application that stores trained weights. Such neural network applications may access trained weights being partially stored in defective memory cells, with the least significant bits of such trained weights being stored in defective memory cells that are not repaired according to the memory address map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Hulton, Tamara Schmitz, Jonathan D. Harms, Jeremy Chritz, Kevin Majerus
  • Patent number: 11946405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a four-way conversion catalyst for the treatment of an exhaust gas stream of a gasoline engine, the catalyst comprising a porous wall-flow filter substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate axial length extending between the inlet end and the outlet end, and a plurality of passages defined by porous internal walls of the porous wallflow filter substrate, wherein the plurality of passages comprise inlet passages having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet passages having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end, wherein the interface between the passages and the porous internal walls is defined by the surface of the internal walls; wherein the porous internal walls comprise pores which comprise an oxidic component comprising a first refractory metal oxide, said first refractory metal oxide comprising aluminum, said oxidic component having a platinum group metal content in the range of from 0 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: David Schlereth, Hao Li, Stephen Siemund, Thomas Schmitz, Attilio Siani, Florian Waltz
  • Patent number: 11897116
    Abstract: An engine stand including a cradle assembly configured to support an engine assembly and a dolly configured to support the cradle assembly. The cradle assembly includes an upper frame assembly including a first frame member and a second frame member each fixedly coupled to a third frame member, a protrusion coupled to and extending substantially vertically upward from the first frame member, and a rest coupled to the second frame member, the rest having an engagement surface shaped to correspond to a shape of an exterior surface of the engine assembly. At least one of the first frame member, the second frame member, and the third frame member define an aperture configured to receive a fork from a lift device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Oshkosh Defense, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Mittelstadt, David A. Schmitz, Joseph Stone
  • Publication number: 20230036014
    Abstract: A method for the situation-dependent calculation of a limitation for a steering torque and/or for calculating a control command for a steering system of a vehicle using a control device. Data are received about a vehicle environment, a planned trajectory, and/or data from sensors of the vehicle, a driving situation of the vehicle is ascertained based on the received data, a situation-dependent limitation of a steering behavior such as a steering torque is calculated based on the ascertained driving situation, and a control command for adjusting the calculated situation-dependent limitation of the steering behavior is output. A control device, a computer program as well as a machine-readable memory medium are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: David Schmitz, Michael Foerstner
  • Patent number: 10985624
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor has a shaft and a rotor laminated core connected to the shaft. A coolant duct is formed in the rotor in order to enable coolant to flow through the coolant duct. The coolant duct has a first portion, which runs at least in regions in the rotor laminated core. The rotor laminated core has a sleeve on the outer circumferential surface in order to avoid coolant escaping at the outer circumferential surface of the rotor laminated core. In a method for producing a rotor, a material having glass fibers or carbon fibers and a resin are applied to the rotor laminated core, and the resin is subsequently cured in order to produce the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventors: Philipp Berendes, Bernhard Wiedemann, Stefan Oechslen, Jan David Schmitz-Hübsch
  • Patent number: 10899330
    Abstract: A hydraulic vehicle brake system having at least one brake pedal, a pedal-travel simulator, at least one hydraulically operable wheel-brake unit and a switching valve between the brake pedal and the pedal-travel simulator. The switching valve is adjustable between a first switching position, in which the brake pedal is connected to the pedal-travel simulator and decoupled from the wheel-brake unit, and a second switching position, in which the brake pedal is decoupled from the pedal-travel simulator and the brake pedal is connected to the wheel-brake unit. In the first switching position, a pressure-supply unit is connected at the same time to the wheel-brake unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Schmitz, Ingo Koehler, Peter Schubert
  • Patent number: 10705983
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for implementing a transparent conversion of common virtual storage requests to storage with limited access. Embodiments include providing a storage manager configured to perform address translation for requests, providing a data address translation (DAT) structure configured to connect a higher-level DAT table to a lower-level DAT table, and creating the DAT structure based on a request from a process. Embodiments also include responsive to receiving a storage request, performing a DAT fault process based on validating user credentials associated with an entry of the higher-level DAT table corresponding to the storage request, and responsive to the validation, updating the higher-level DAT table entry to allow access to the restricted-use portion of the common virtual storage, and otherwise, returning a DAT fault for the higher-level DAT table entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elpida Tzortzatos, Michael Gary Spiegel, Karl David Schmitz, Steven Partlow, Harris M. Morgenstern, David Hom, Peter Fatzinger
  • Publication number: 20190181709
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor has a shaft and a rotor laminated core connected to the shaft. A coolant duct is formed in the rotor in order to enable coolant to flow through the coolant duct. The coolant duct has a first portion, which runs at least in regions in the rotor laminated core. The rotor laminated core has a sleeve on the outer circumferential surface in order to avoid coolant escaping at the outer circumferential surface of the rotor laminated core. In a method for producing a rotor, a material having glass fibers or carbon fibers and a resin are applied to the rotor laminated core, and the resin is subsequently cured in order to produce the sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Berendes, Bernhard Wiedemann, Stefan Oechslen, Jan David Schmitz-Hübsch
  • Publication number: 20190168727
    Abstract: A hydraulic vehicle brake system having at least one brake pedal, a pedal-travel simulator, at least one hydraulically operable wheel-brake unit and a switching valve between the brake pedal and the pedal-travel simulator. The switching valve is adjustable between a first switching position, in which the brake pedal is connected to the pedal-travel simulator and decoupled from the wheel-brake unit, and a second switching position, in which the brake pedal is decoupled from the pedal-travel simulator and the brake pedal is connected to the wheel-brake unit. In the first switching position, a pressure-supply unit is connected at the same time to the wheel-brake unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: David Schmitz, Ingo Koehler, Michael Schubert
  • Publication number: 20190126460
    Abstract: An engine stand including a cradle assembly configured to support an engine assembly and a dolly configured to support the cradle assembly. The cradle assembly includes an upper frame assembly including a first frame member and a second frame member each fixedly coupled to a third frame member, a protrusion coupled to and extending substantially vertically upward from the first frame member, and a rest coupled to the second frame member, the rest having an engagement surface shaped to correspond to a shape of an exterior surface of the engine assembly. At least one of the first frame member, the second frame member, and the third frame member define an aperture configured to receive a fork from a lift device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Oshkosh Defense, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Mittelstadt, David A. Schmitz, Joseph Stone
  • Publication number: 20170322620
    Abstract: A polling system and method is provided for enabling a user to create polls that are posted on a microblogging website and that can be answered on the microblogging website. The method includes obtaining the user's login information for the microblogging system. The user is able to create a poll that includes a question. A microblog post is generated for the poll. The microblog post is sent to the microblogging system to post on a website. Other users on the microblogging system are able to respond to the poll within the microblogging system by replying to the user's microblog post with another post that includes an answer choice for the poll. The microblogging system is queried for posts directed to the user (e.g., reply posts to the user). A second microblog post is created with poll results and sent to the microblogging system to post on the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Michael David Schmitz
  • Patent number: 9733698
    Abstract: A polling system and method is provided for enabling a user to create polls that are posted on a microblogging website and that can be answered on the microblogging website. The method includes obtaining the user's login information for the microblogging system. The user is able to create a poll that includes a question. A microblog post is generated for the poll. The microblog post is sent to the microblogging system to post on a website. Other users on the microblogging system are able to respond to the poll within the microblogging system by replying to the user's microblog post with another post that includes an answer choice for the poll. The microblogging system is queried for posts directed to the user (e.g., reply posts to the user). A second microblog post is created with poll results and sent to the microblogging system to post on the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Wayin, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael David Schmitz
  • Patent number: 9696172
    Abstract: Driving directions are presented where a maneuver in the driving directions includes a road symbol and an action symbol. A road symbol identifies the road involved in the particular maneuver, and an action symbol identifies an action to be performed to execute the particular maneuver. In one example, a road symbol, an action symbol and narrative text may be presented in displayed or printed driving directions. In another example, a road symbol and an action symbol may be used to describe a maneuver presented by an on-board or mobile navigation system when the vehicle in which the navigation system is present approaches the point at which the maneuver is to be taken. The road symbol and the action symbol may be presented with, or without, narrative driving directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Mapquest, Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall B. Matthews, G. Duane Gearhart, Michael David Schmitz
  • Patent number: 9453738
    Abstract: Driving directions are presented where a maneuver in the driving directions includes a road symbol and an action symbol. A road symbol identifies the road involved in the particular maneuver, and an action symbol identifies an action to be performed to execute the particular maneuver. In one example, a road symbol, an action symbol and narrative text may be presented in displayed or printed driving directions. In another example, a road symbol and an action symbol may be used to describe a maneuver presented by an on-board or mobile navigation system when the vehicle in which the navigation system is present approaches the point at which the maneuver is to be taken. The road symbol and the action symbol may be presented with, or without, narrative driving directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: MapQuest, Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall B. Matthews, G. Duane Gearhart, Michael David Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20160209231
    Abstract: Driving directions are printed where a maneuver in the driving direction includes a road symbol and an action symbol. A road symbol identifies the road involved in the particular maneuver, and an action symbol identifies an action to be performed to execute the particular maneuver. In one example, a road symbol, an action symbol and narrative text may be presented in displayed or printed driving directions. In another example, a road symbol and an action symbol may be used to describe a maneuver presented by an on-board or mobile navigation system when the vehicle in which the navigation system is present approaches the point at which the maneuver is to be taken. The road symbol and the action symbol may be presented with, or without, narrative driving directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Marshall B. MATTHEWS, G. Duane Gearhart, Michael David Schmitz
  • Patent number: 9339841
    Abstract: An adjustable roller frame may include a frame, a pair of extension arms that are slidable within a channel in the frame, and a pair of cam assemblies that are used to selectively prevent and permit the extension arms to slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Charles T. Buckel, Jr., Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Sara-Jane A. Anderson, Andrew K. Marsden, David Schmitz, Richard S. Walters
  • Patent number: 9322663
    Abstract: Driving directions are presented where a maneuver in the driving directions includes a road symbol and an action symbol. A road symbol identifies the road involved in the particular maneuver, and an action symbol identifies an action to be performed to execute the particular maneuver. In one example, a road symbol, an action symbol and narrative text may be presented in displayed or printed driving directions. In another example, a road symbol and an action symbol may be used to describe a maneuver presented by an on-board or mobile navigation system when the vehicle in which the navigation system is present approaches the point at which the maneuver is to be taken. The road symbol and the action symbol may be presented with, or without, narrative driving directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: MapQuest, Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall B. Matthews, G. Duane Gearhart, Michael David Schmitz
  • Patent number: 9015200
    Abstract: A geographic database is defined using hierarchical data trees and updated by changing selected portions of a data tree. A device defines a binary large object (BLOB) including map data as a first data tree and an update to the map data as a second data tree. The device computes a difference between the first data tree and the second data tree. The difference may include the data and links that are being updated. The device generates an update script including a sequence of edit operations needed to update the map data. The device may communicate the update script to a navigation device, which is configured to execute the update script to perform the update on a local version of the map data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Martin Pfeifle, Andre Reichert, David Schmitz
  • Patent number: 8985936
    Abstract: A method of orienting a selected item from a stack of similar items, the method comprising the steps of separating, engaging and orienting. The separating step separates the selected item from the stack using a first attraction force of a transport apparatus. The engaging step engages the selected item with a second attraction force from the transport apparatus. The second attraction force being greater than the first attraction force. The orienting step orients the selected item relative to the transport apparatus as the transport apparatus is en route to a destination location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nidec Minster Corporation
    Inventors: Johnathan A. Rankin, Rohan V. Patel, David A. Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20150038308
    Abstract: An adjustable roller frame may include a frame, a pair of extension arms that are slidable within a channel in the frame, and a pair of cam assemblies that are used to selectively prevent and permit the extension arms to slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY
    Inventors: Charles T. Buckel, JR., Michael C. Lambertson, Sara-Jane A. Anderson, Andrew K. Marsden, David Schmitz, Richard S. Walters