Patents by Inventor Gerald Puehringer

Gerald Puehringer 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).

  • Publication number: 20230125167
    Abstract: An optical resonator system includes a multi-strip waveguide structure having spaced semiconductor strips for guiding an IR radiation, a STP resonance structure (STP=slab tamm-plasmon-polariton), wherein the STP resonance structure includes an alternating arrangement of semiconductor strips and interjacent dielectric strips and includes a metal strip adjacent to the semiconductor strip at a boundary region of the STP resonance structure, wherein the metal strip and the adjacent semiconductor strip are arranged to provide a metal-semiconductor interface, and wherein the semiconductor strips of the multi-strip waveguide structure and the semiconductor strips of the STP resonance structure are arranged perpendicular to each other, and an optical coupling structure having a semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor layer is arranged between the multi-strip waveguide structure and the STP resonance structure for optically coupling the IR radiation between the multi-strip waveguide structure and the STP resona
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Gerald Puehringer, Gerald Stocker, Andreas Tortschanoff, Reyhaneh Jannesari, Clement Fleury, Thomas Grille, Bernhard Jakoby, Cristina Consani
  • Patent number: 11506599
    Abstract: A fluid sensor includes a substrate having a top main surface region, wherein the top main surface region of the substrate forms a common system plane of the fluid sensor, a thermal radiation emitter on the top main surface region of the substrate, an optical filter structure on the top main surface region of the substrate, a waveguide on the main top surface region of the substrate, and a thermal radiation detector on the top main surface region of the substrate, wherein the thermal radiation detector provides a detector output signal based on a radiation strength of the filtered thermal radiation received from the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Thomas Grille, Cristina Consani, Peter Irsigler, Bernhard Jakoby, Thomas Krotscheck Ostermann, Gerald Puehringer, Christian Ranacher, Andreas Tortschanoff
  • Publication number: 20200309686
    Abstract: A fluid sensor includes a substrate having a top main surface region, wherein the top main surface region of the substrate forms a common system plane of the fluid sensor, a thermal radiation emitter on the top main surface region of the substrate, an optical filter structure on the top main surface region of the substrate, a waveguide on the main top surface region of the substrate, and a thermal radiation detector on the top main surface region of the substrate, wherein the thermal radiation detector provides a detector output signal based on a radiation strength of the filtered thermal radiation received from the waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Grille, Cristina Consani, Peter Irsigler, Bernhard Jakoby, Thomas Krotscheck Ostermann, Gerald Puehringer, Christian Ranacher, Andreas Tortschanoff