Patents by Inventor Dirk John

Dirk John 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: 8259170
    Abstract: A stage assembly, an imaging system that uses the stage assembly, and methods for using the stage assembly in a high content screening system. The stage assembly includes a stage having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface and an opening extending between the top and bottom surfaces to receive a specimen plate. The stage assembly also includes a calibration sample bay formed in the stage. A calibration sample can also be secured within the calibration sample bay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Cellomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Salisbury, Dirk John VandenBerg, III, Kim Anthony Ippolito
  • Patent number: 8000815
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the directed supplying and installation of device specific functionalities and/or data for field devices that are disposed in a distributed system. At least one device-specific component is provided which cooperates with at least two functional units that are linked thereto. Said at least one device-specific component comprises means that automatically cause device-specific functionalities and/or data for the field devices, which are stored in the functional units, to be supplied and installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Dirk John, Marco Fahl, Peter Wendt, Achim Laubenstein, Tom Mueller
  • Publication number: 20110043618
    Abstract: A stage assembly, an imaging system that uses the stage assembly, and methods for using the stage assembly in a high content screening system. The stage assembly includes a stage having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface and an opening extending between the top and bottom surfaces to receive a specimen plate. The stage assembly also includes a calibration sample bay formed in the stage. A calibration sample can also be secured within the calibration sample bay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: CELLOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard C. Salisbury, Dirk John VandenBerg, III, Kim Anthony Ippolito
  • Patent number: 7753153
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for the adaptive cruise control of a motor vehicle along the lines of a distance-constant control and a speed-constant control, respectively, which apparatus includes at least two devices interconnected by a data-exchange device. The first device includes at least one transmitting and receiving unit for detecting objects, which operates according to the radar principle and/or lidar principle, as well as at least one target-object-selection device. The second device includes at least one speed and distance controller, and is connected to the first device by a data-exchange system through which data with respect to two detected objects is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Christian Swoboda, Albrecht Irion, Dirk John
  • Patent number: 7519758
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for transmitting measurement data between an object-detection device and an evaluation device are provided, the evaluation device sending to the object-detection device one or more data packets with the object identifiers relevant for the evaluation device, the object-detection device inserting the current measurement data of the detected objects into a fixed, predetermined number of data packets, the objects, which the evaluation device with the aid of the object identifiers marked as relevant, being entered preferentially, and the apparatus outputting the data packet to a data bus via the connector element to the data bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Erhart, Werner Urban, Albrecht Irion, Dirk John, Peter Petschnigg, Daniel Pindado
  • Publication number: 20090043885
    Abstract: System and method for maintenance support for electronically actuated and/or monitored appliances implemented within an electronically networked automation system, having a central monitoring unit processing present operating parameters for appliances for establishing the servicing state of the appliances using comparison operating parameters, where an external SSIS server logically combines the servicing request established by the monitoring unit with appliance-specific servicing performance information stored in a database and forwards these data to electronic mobile terminals of the servicing personnel in order to perform the servicing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: ABB AG
    Inventors: Dirk John, Roland Braun, Stefan Bollmeyer, Frank Fengler, Georg Hilsch
  • Publication number: 20080307406
    Abstract: A device and a method for checking the current software installation in field devices in a distributed system, e.g., an automation system, which field devices communicate via a fieldbus with at least one control unit for system management, wherein the appliance library assistant means are implemented in the control unit and compare the current installation of a selectable field device with the latest available update versions, in order to initiate an update if a more recent update version is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: ABB AG
    Inventors: Dirk JOHN, Dominik Eifel, Frank Fengler, Georg Hilsch, Stefan Bollmeyer
  • Publication number: 20080303472
    Abstract: A method for replacement of a field device to be replaced by a new field device in a system which communicates via a digital fieldbus, e.g., an automation system; wherein previous parameters, information and/or values of the field device to be replaced are compared by an electronic control unit, which communicates via the fieldbus, with parameters, information and/or values of the new field device with respect to at least one data record, in order to modify them if necessary in accordance with the field device to be replaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: ABB AG
    Inventors: Dirk JOHN, Dominik EIFEL, Frank FENGLER, Georg HILSCH, Stefan BOLLMEYER
  • Publication number: 20080301270
    Abstract: A method for directed provision and installation of device-specific functionalities and/or information for field devices which are arranged in a distributed system, in particular in a distributed automation system, wherein in a first step, a field device to be connected to the system is supplied with basic functionalities and/or basic information for operation of the field device in the system, bypassing a higher-level controller for the system, after which in a second step, the higher-level controller automatically installs further required upgrade functionalities and/or upgrade information in order to produce the full functional scope of the field device, using the existing basic functionalities and/or basic information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: ABB AG
    Inventor: Dirk JOHN
  • Publication number: 20080283400
    Abstract: The invention relates to a separation medium for chromatography which is structured in that way that the flow rate is in one preselected direction larger than perpendicular to that direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Dirk John Broer, Emiel Peeters, Ralph Kurt, Roel Penterman
  • Publication number: 20070244584
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the directed supplying and installation of device specific functionalities and/or data for field devices that are disposed in a distributed system. At least one device-specific component is provided which cooperates with at least two functional units that are linked thereto. Said at least one device-specific component comprises means that automatically cause device-specific functionalities and/or data for the field devices, which are stored in the functional units, to be supplied and installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: ABB Research LTD
    Inventors: Dirk John, Marco Fahl, Peter Wendt, Achim Laubenstein, Tom Mueller
  • Patent number: 7177748
    Abstract: A device and a method for cruise control in a motor vehicle, the cruise control being performable as a constant-distance regulation if at least one preceding vehicle has been detected by a radar sensor, or cruise control being performable as a constant-speed regulation if no preceding vehicle has been detected by a radar sensor. Measured object values for detected objects are supplied to the cruise control, which includes a computing device which determines an acceleration gradient for each measured value of each object and adds the individual acceleration gradients of the measured values for each object and outputs the added-up acceleration gradients for the object selected as the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Albrecht Irion, Dirk John, Stephan Dorenkamp
  • Publication number: 20060047402
    Abstract: A device and a method for cruise control in a motor vehicle are described, the cruise control being performable as a constant-distance regulation if at least one preceding vehicle has been detected by a radar sensor, or cruise control being performable as a constant-speed regulation if no preceding vehicle has been detected by a radar sensor. Measured object values for detected objects are supplied to the cruise control, which includes a computing means which determines an acceleration gradient for each measured value of each object and adds the individual acceleration gradients of the measured values for each object and outputs the added-up acceleration gradients for the object selected as the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Albrecht Irion, Dirk John, Stephen Dorkenkamp
  • Publication number: 20050209765
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for transmitting measurement data between an object-detection device and an evaluation device are provided, the evaluation device sending to the object-detection device one or more data packets with the object identifiers relevant for the evaluation device, the object-detection device inserting the current measurement data of the detected objects into a fixed, predetermined number of data packets, the objects, which the evaluation device with the aid of the object identifiers marked as relevant, being entered preferentially, and the apparatus outputting the data packet to a data bus via the connector element to the data bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2002
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Erhart, Werner Urban, Albrecht Irion, Dirk John, Peter Petschnigg, Daniel Pindado
  • Publication number: 20040149504
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are proposed for the adaptive cruise control of a motor vehicle along the lines of a distance-constant control and a speed-constant control, respectively, which includes at least two devices interconnected by a data-exchange device. The first device has at least one transmitting and receiving unit for detecting objects, which operates according to the radar principle and/or lidar principle, as well as at least one target-object-selection device. The second device has at least one speed and distance controller, and is connected to the first device by a data-exchange system through which data with respect to two detected objects is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Hans-Christian Swoboda, Albrecht Irion, Dirk John