Patents by Inventor Guido Steffens

Guido Steffens 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: 20150114247
    Abstract: The invention proposes a method for producing a printed product, in which a printed product, preferably produced in a forme-bound high-capacity printing process, in the form of a main product (2) or a subproduct is provided with an identification means which comprises a piece of individualizable product-specific information. At least two downstream individualization steps are performed, wherein the identification means allow the piece of information which is to be added in the at least two further downstream individualization steps to be associated with the respective product. Preferably, the new addressee-specific digital printed product comprises blog articles, preferably in the form of a blog insert, which is in turn preferably produced using digital printing. Identification means, for example in the form of ID tags (4, 4?), comprise not only the product-specific identification information but preferably also control information (31-36) which can be read by.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Ferag AG
    Inventor: Guido STEFFEN
  • Patent number: 8928928
    Abstract: The invention proposes a method for producing a printed product, in which a printed product, preferably produced in a forme-bound high-capacity printing process, in the form of a main product (2) or a subproduct is provided with an identification means which comprises a piece of individualizable product-specific information. At least two downstream individualization steps are performed, wherein the identification means allow the piece of information which is to be added in the at least two further downstream individualization steps to be associated with the respective product. Preferably, the new addressee-specific digital printed product comprises blog articles, preferably in the form of a blog insert, which is in turn preferably produced using digital printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventor: Guido Steffen
  • Patent number: 8708255
    Abstract: A shower attachment which can be adjusted about a joint is proposed. The shower attachment comprises in one shower-attachment housing two water guides with in each case one outlet option. A changeover device can be used to change over between the two water guides. The changeover device comprises a valve having a valve closing body. In order to actuate the changeover device, an actuating element is provided on the shower-attachment housing and can be adjusted in two opposite directions relative to the shower-attachment housing. The two adjusting directions of the actuating element are at the same time directions which lead to a pivoting of the shower attachment about the joint axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventor: Guido Steffens
  • Publication number: 20120048969
    Abstract: A shower attachment which can be adjusted about a joint is proposed. The shower attachment comprises in one shower-attachment housing two water guides with in each case one outlet option. A changeover device can be used to change over between the two water guides. The changeover device comprises a valve having a valve closing body. In order to actuate the changeover device, an actuating element is provided on the shower-attachment housing and can be adjusted in two opposite directions relative to the shower-attachment housing. The two adjusting directions of the actuating element are at the same time directions which lead to a pivoting of the shower attachment about the joint axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventor: Guido Steffens
  • Patent number: 7931303
    Abstract: Printed products (2), in particular newspapers or magazines with different supplements are, for distribution, packed into a covering sheet e.g. made of paper. The covering sheet (1) comprises at least one region, which is completely punched-out and/or at least one region (7), which, due to a partial punching out is easily removable from the covering sheet (1). The punched-out region is a window (6), through which the title and/or the headline of a newspaper or magazine packed into the covering sheet (1) is visible. Partially punched-out regions (7) of the covering sheet (1) are marked by corresponding printing as voucher, reply card, collector's card, punch-out sheet or toy and are removed from the covering sheet (1) for functions other than the covering function of the covering sheet (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Ferag AG
    Inventor: Guido Steffen
  • Publication number: 20100031840
    Abstract: The invention proposes a method for producing a printed product, in which a printed product, preferably produced in a forme-bound high-capacity printing process, in the form of a main product (2) or a subproduct is provided with an identification means which comprises a piece of individualizable product-specific information. At least two downstream individualization steps are performed, wherein the identification means allow the piece of information which is to be added in the at least two further downstream individualization steps to be associated with the respective product. Preferably, the new addressee-specific digital printed product comprises blog articles, preferably in the form of a blog insert, which is in turn preferably produced using digital printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: WRH MARKETING AG
    Inventor: Guido Steffen
  • Publication number: 20090305006
    Abstract: The invention proposes a new printed product and a new production method and a new system for producing printed products which exploit weblogs and the blog articles contained therein as a source of news for conventional printed media. A decisive difference from known electronic products and corresponding methods in which blog articles or postings are made available online is that, according to the present invention, the blog articles are fed into the prepress stage in a novel manner and are processed there in order to be supplied to printing forme production following layout creation which is preferably automated depending on the printing method. The methods and systems according to the invention allow the blog articles or postings to be checked, categorized and assessed in such a manner that the actual amount of editing can be considerably reduced in the prepress area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Ferag AG
    Inventor: Guido Steffen
  • Publication number: 20090212233
    Abstract: The invention relates to a holder for a MALDI chip, having a broken corner contour, comprising a first and second respectively accessible bearing surface and a moveable fixing means which interacts with the broken corner contour and which pre-tenses the MALDI chip against the bearing surfaces. The invention also relates to a MALDI chip and a system consisting of the holder and the MALDI chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: QIAGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Karsten Reihs, Udo Adels, Guido Steffen
  • Publication number: 20080231039
    Abstract: Printed products (2), in particular newspapers or magazines with different supplements are, for distribution, packed into a covering sheet e.g. made of paper. The covering sheet (1) comprises at least one region, which is completely punched-out and/or at least one region (7), which, due to a partial punching out is easily removable from the covering sheet (1). The punched-out region is a window (6), through which the title and/or the headline of a newspaper or magazine packed into the covering sheet (1) is visible. Partially punched-out regions (7) of the covering sheet (1) are marked by corresponding printing as voucher, reply card, collector's card, punch-out sheet or toy and are removed from the covering sheet (1) for functions other than the covering function of the covering sheet (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: FERAG AG
    Inventor: Guido Steffen