Patents by Inventor Florian M. Witt
Florian M. Witt 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).
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Publication number: 20240062357Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process and a system for assessing the performance of cleaning operations by utilizing an automatic read out routine for test strips subjected to a cleaning operation. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a computer program product capable of performing the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Jan Sanders, Fernanda Furtado de Melo Albino, Sabine Swoboda, Sebastian Niebur, Nadine Göhring, Ann Mangskau, Carola Stingl, Daniel D. Anderson, Florian M. Witt, Christian Lührs, Andreas Krohn, Marc Delling
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Publication number: 20230371666Abstract: A compression-expansion locking device for an article of luggage and an expandable article of luggage comprising one or more such devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device comprises a housing member having two or more columns of parallel housing teeth protruding from an inside surface, and a ratchet member movably disposed over the inside surface and comprising complimentary protruding teeth to releasably engage the housing teeth and a release projection disposed in a slot extending along the axial direction of the ratchet member. A release member slidaby disposed within the slot comprises an internal camming surface which when pulled over the release projection by the users urges the ratchet teeth away from the housing teeth to permit movement between the housing and ratchet members. A release button which can be engaged, e.g., by a user's thumb, can be connected to the release member to permit further convenient one-handed operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Richard Krulik, Georgene Rada, Daehwan Kim, Florian M. Witt, Patric Moammer, Adrian Berr
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Patent number: 11803957Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process and a system for assessing the performance of cleaning operations by utilizing an automatic read out routine for test strips subjected to a cleaning operation. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a computer program product capable of performing the process.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Jan Sanders, Fernanda Furtado de Melo Albino, Sabine Swoboda, Sebastian Niebur, Nadine Göhring, Ann Mangskau, Carola Stingl, Daniel D. Anderson, Florian M. Witt, Christian Lührs, Andreas Krohn, Marc Delling
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Patent number: 11766105Abstract: A compression-expansion locking device for an article of luggage and an expandable article of luggage comprising one or more such devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device comprises a housing member having an internal passageway with protruding housing teeth and one or more cam elements. A rack member slidably disposed in the internal passageway has rack teeth releasably engageable with the housing teeth. A release member moveably disposed in the internal passageway comprises a release cam and is displaceable from a first position locking movement of the rack member in the expansion direction, to a second position wherein the release cam impinges against the housing cam element effective to urge apart the housing teeth and rack teeth sufficient to allow movement between the housing member and the rack member in the expansion direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: BRIGGS & RILEY TRAVELWARE LLCInventors: Richard Krulik, Georgene Rada, Florian M. Witt, Patric Moammer, Adrian Berr
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Publication number: 20230210717Abstract: A stimulation device for stimulating sensitive body parts, in particular the clitoris, with a pressure field generating device which has at least one cavity with a first end and a second end, wherein the cavity is delimited by a circumferential side wall connecting its two ends to one another and the first end of the cavity is provided with an application opening for placement on the sensitive body part, and a drive device which is designed to cause a change in the volume of the cavity such that a stimulating pressure field is generated in the application opening. The side wall in at least one section has an essentially continuously circumferential structure, which is variable in length in such a way that the distance at any given point between the second end and the first end of the cavity is variable between a minimum a maximum value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: EIS GmbHInventor: Florian M. WITT
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Publication number: 20220383486Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process and a system for assessing the performance of cleaning operations by utilizing an automatic read out routine for test strips subjected to a cleaning operation. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a computer program product capable of performing the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Jan Sanders, Fernanda Furtado de Melo Albino, Sabine Swoboda, Sebastian Niebur, Nadine Göhring, Ann Mangskau, Carola Stingl, Daniel D. Anderson, Florian M. Witt, Christian Lührs, Andreas Krohn, Marc Delling
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Patent number: 11484463Abstract: A compression wave massage device for body parts is described, particularly for erogenous zones such as the clitoris, including a pressure field generation device and a drive device. The pressure field generation device has a cavity with a first end and a second end, located opposite the first end and distanced from the first end, with the first end being provided with at least one opening for placement on a body part. The drive device causes a change of the volume of the cavity between a minimal volume and a maximal volume such that in at least one opening a stimulating pressure field is generated. The cavity is formed by a single chamber, and the ratio of the volume change to the minimal volume is not below 1/10, preferably not below 1/8.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: EIS GmbHInventor: Florian M. Witt
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Publication number: 20220233395Abstract: A compression wave massage device for body parts is described, particularly for erogenous zones such as the clitoris, comprising a pressure field generation device and a drive device. The pressure field generation device has at least one cavity with a first end and a second end, located opposite the first end and distanced from said first end, with the first end being provided with at least one opening for placement on a body part. The drive device causes a change of the volume of at least one cavity between a minimal volume and a maximal volume such that in at least one opening a stimulating pressure field is generated. The cavity is formed by a single chamber, and the ratio of the volume change to the minimal volume is not below 1/10, preferably not below ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: EIS GmbHInventor: Florian M. Witt
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Patent number: 11393083Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process and a system for assessing the performance of cleaning operations by utilizing an automatic read out routine for test strips subjected to a cleaning operation. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a computer program product capable of performing the process.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Jan Sanders, Fernanda Furtado de Melo Albino, Sabine Swoboda, Sebastian Niebur, Nadine Göhring, Ann Mangskau, Carola Stingl, Daniel D. Anderson, Florian M. Witt, Christian Lührs, Andreas Krohn, Marc Delling
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Publication number: 20220167718Abstract: A compression-expansion locking device for an article of luggage and an expandable article of luggage comprising one or more such devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device comprises a housing member having an internal passageway with protruding housing teeth and one or more cam elements. A rack member slidably disposed in the internal passageway has rack teeth releasably engageable with the housing teeth. A release member moveably disposed in the internal passageway comprises a release cam and is displaceable from a first position locking movement of the rack member in the expansion direction, to a second position wherein the release cam impinges against the housing cam element effective to urge apart the housing teeth and rack teeth sufficient to allow movement between the housing member and the rack member in the expansion direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Richard Krulik, Georgene Rada, Florian M. Witt, Patric Moammer, Adrian Berr
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Publication number: 20210019874Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process and a system for assessing the performance of cleaning operations by utilizing an automatic read out routine for test strips subjected to a cleaning operation. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a computer program product capable of performing the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Jan Sanders, Fernanda Furtado de Melo Albino, Sabine Swoboda, Sebastian Niebur, Nadine Göhring, Ann Mangskau, Carola Stingl, Daniel D. Anderson, Florian M. Witt, Christian Lührs, Andreas Krohn, Marc Delling
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Patent number: 10762617Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process and a system for assessing the performance of cleaning operations by utilizing an automatic read out routine for test strips subjected to a cleaning operation. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a computer program product capable of performing the process.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Jan Sanders, Fernanda Furtado de Melo Albino, Sabine Swoboda, Sebastian Niebur, Nadine Göhring, Ann Mangskau, Carola Stingl, Daniel D. Anderson, Florian M. Witt, Christian Lührs, Andreas Krohn, Marc Delling
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Patent number: 10273035Abstract: A container for pourable foodstuffs has a base, a side wall connected to the base and surrounding a storage chamber. An elastic cuff is connected with a first end to the side wall and has a second end with an opening. The cuff width decreases from first to second end along a longitudinal container axis. The elastic cuff can be pushed into and pulled out of the storage chamber. A sealing element shaped as a stopper can be inserted into the opening for closing the container and has a shank portion matched in shape and size to the opening such that sealing abutment of a shank portion surface against surfaces of the elastic cuff adjoining the cuff opening is established in a contact region of the shank portion when the stopper is inserted. The shank portion has an end with a thickened portion thicker than the contact region.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: KEEPER GmbHInventors: Alex Dumler, Florian M. Witt, Johanna Königsberger, Matthias Hecker, Thorsten Plate, Andrew Ferrier
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Publication number: 20190102876Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process and a system for assessing the performance of cleaning operations by utilizing an automatic read out routine for test strips subjected to a cleaning operation. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a computer program product capable of performing the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Jan Sanders, Fernanda Furtado de Melo Albino, Sabine Swoboda, Sebastian Niebur, Nadine Göhring, Ann Mangskau, Carola Stingl, Daniel D. Anderson, Florian M. Witt, Christian Lührs, Andreas Krohn, Marc Delling
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Patent number: 10167133Abstract: A shaker has an outer container and an inner container moveable inside the outer container. The outer container side wall has an opening through which a first portion of the inner container side wall can be grasped. A space between the outer container side wall and the inner container side wall accommodates an energy accumulator. The inner container, at rest, is pressed with the first portion of the inner container side wall against the opening in the outer container side wall by the energy accumulator and covers the opening. The inner container is movable, counter to the energy accumulator force, transversely relative to a longitudinal axis of the outer container into a displacement position. The inner container has a discharge opening which, when the inner container moves away from the rest position, is moved across a sieve provided in the dispensing opening of the outer container floor.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: KEEEPER GmbHInventors: Alex Dumler, Florian M. Witt, Johanna Königsberger, Matthias Hecker, Thorsten Plate, Andrew Ferrier
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Publication number: 20180213979Abstract: A plastic mixing bowl has a bowl body with a bottom side and an elastic annular seal that is provided with a peripheral region that in radial direction of the annular seal is positioned inwardly and is connected air-tightly to the bottom side of the bowl body. The annular seal has a lip extending from the peripheral region at least partially in radial direction outwardly. The lip is moveable into various positions and has a lower side forming a placing face by which the mixing bowl is supported on a setup surface. Annular seal and bottom side of the bowl body form together a suction cup that delimits a cavity varying in size depending on a position of the lip. The annular seal is repositionable from a position of use to a non-use position and in the non-use position bears flat against an exterior surface of the bowl body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Alex Dumler, Florian M. Witt, Johanna Königsberger, Matthias Hecker, Thorsten Plate, Andrew Ferrier
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Publication number: 20180215495Abstract: A container for pourable foodstuffs has a base, a side wall connected to the base and surrounding a storage chamber. An elastic cuff is connected with a first end to the side wall and has a second end with an opening. The cuff width decreases from first to second end along a longitudinal container axis. The elastic cuff can be pushed into and pulled out of the storage chamber. A sealing element shaped as a stopper can be inserted into the opening for closing the container and has a shank portion matched in shape and size to the opening such that sealing abutment of a shank portion surface against surfaces of the elastic cuff adjoining the cuff opening is established in a contact region of the shank portion when the stopper is inserted. The shank portion has an end with a thickened portion thicker than the contact region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Alex Dumler, Florian M. Witt, Johanna Königsberger, Matthias Hecker, Thorsten Plate, Andrew Ferrier
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Publication number: 20180213961Abstract: A manual fruit press has first and second lever arms and a joint connecting first ends of the lever arms to each other. The second ends of the lever arms opposite the joint have handgrip pieces. The first lever arm has a cup-shaped depression forming a strainer with support block and arranged between handgrip piece and joint. The second lever arm has a press element as an integrated molded component thereof. The press element is a cup-shaped depression projecting downward beyond the handgrip piece of the second lever arm. The press element, when the first and second lever arms are moved toward each other, is lowered toward the support block of the strainer and exerts pressure on a piece of fruit inserted into the pressing chamber between strainer and press element. A collection cup is releasably connected below the strainer to the first lever arm or the strainer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Alex Dumler, Florian M. Witt, Johanna Königsberger, Matthias Hecker, Thorsten Plate, Andrew Ferrier
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Publication number: 20180215527Abstract: A shaker has an outer container and an inner container moveable inside the outer container. The outer container side wall has an opening through which a first portion of the inner container side wall can be grasped. A space between the outer container side wall and the inner container side wall accommodates an energy accumulator. The inner container, at rest, is pressed with the first portion of the inner container side wall against the opening in the outer container side wall by the energy accumulator and covers the opening. The inner container is movable, counter to the energy accumulator force, transversely relative to a longitudinal axis of the outer container into a displacement position. The inner container has a discharge opening which, when the inner container moves away from the rest position, is moved across a sieve provided in the dispensing opening of the outer container floor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Alex Dumler, Florian M. Witt, Johanna Königsberger, Matthias Hecker, Thorsten Plate, Andrew Ferrier
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Patent number: D872072Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.Inventors: Daniel D. Anderson, Florian M. Witt, Steffen Beckmann