Patents by Inventor Karsten Schmidt

Karsten Schmidt 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: 20260128926
    Abstract: A communication network for a motor vehicle, comprising at least two parallel communication paths including a main path and a fallback path, which are designed to provide a redundant communication of data in the communication network, the communication network comprising a communication layer, which has at least one communication processor (to organize the communication of the data, and a cryptography layer, which has at least one cryptography processor to cryptographically protect the data to be communicated. The at least one cryptography processor is designed to cryptographically protect the data to be communicated along the at least two parallel communication paths by applying at least two different cryptography algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Karsten Schmidt, Christoph Vogl
  • Patent number: 12575440
    Abstract: Electronic module (1) including an encapsulation (20), a carrier substrate (10) enclosed by the encapsulation (20) and having a component side (25) which has a first metallization layer (15) and on which at least one first electronic component (30) is arranged, wherein at least one second metallization layer (35) for at least one second electronic component (31), in particular for controlling the first electronic component (30), is provided on an outer side (A) of the encapsulation (2), wherein the encapsulation (20) has at least one plated-through hole (5) for electrical connection, in particular for direct electrical connection, of the first electronic component (30) and the second electronic component (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: ROGERS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Karsten Schmidt, Andreas Meyer, Eckart Hoene, Christoph Marczok, Tina Thomas, Ruben Kahle
  • Publication number: 20250378160
    Abstract: A method for monitoring data traffic of a motor vehicle by an attack detection system may include the attack detection system analyzing at least a first part of data from the data traffic. In this case, the first part of the data may be stored in a first operating state of the motor vehicle. In a second operating state of the motor vehicle, which is different from the first operating state and in which the motor vehicle is stationary and not in a driving mode, the stored first part of the data may be analyzed by the attack detection system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christopher CORBETT, Martin OELKER, Karsten SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 12495491
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a metal-ceramic substrate (1), comprising: providing a ceramic element (10) and a metal layer, providing a gas-tight container (25) that encloses the ceramic element (10), the container (25) preferably being formed from the metal layer or comprising the metal layer, forming the metal-ceramic substrate (1) by connecting the metal layer to the ceramic element (10) by means of hot isostatic pressing, wherein, for the purpose of forming the metal-ceramic substrate (1), an active metal layer (15) or a contact layer comprising an active metal is arranged at least in some sections between the metal layer and the ceramic element (10) for supporting the connection of the metal layer to the ceramic element (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: ROGERS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Fabian Wagle, Tilo Welker, Andreas Meyer, Karsten Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20250241884
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for assessing the presence or absence of a therapeutic concentration of a deuterated docosahexaenoic acid during treatment of a patient with a retinal or neuronal oxidative disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Karsten Schmidt, Mikhail Shchepinov
  • Patent number: 12363149
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a data network in a motor vehicle is provided, wherein a switch device is operated in the data network, in which physical ports for receiving and for transmitting data packets are interconnected via a switch circuit. A network processor reads out detection data in monitoring positions of the data packets and forms pseudo target determination data for an associative memory therefrom, which actually is to process target determination data for a target port determination, and it is examined if certain action data results, which signalizes a necessity of a detection action, by inputting the pseudo target determination data into the associative memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignees: AUDI AG, TITECH AUTO AG
    Inventors: Karsten Schmidt, Bernhard Stangl, Costel Patrascu, Alexandru Stireciu
  • Publication number: 20250185166
    Abstract: A metal-ceramic substrate (1) as a carrier for electrical components, in particular in the form of a printed circuit board, comprising a ceramic element (20) and at least one metal layer (10, 20), wherein the at least one metal layer (10) and the ceramic element (30) extend along a main extension plane (HSE) and are arranged on top of one another along a stacking direction(S) running perpendicular to the main extension plane (HSE), wherein a bonding layer (12) is formed in the manufactured metal-ceramic substrate (1) between the at least one metal layer (10, 20) and the ceramic element (30), and wherein a bonding agent layer of the bonding layer (12) has a sheet resistance which is greater than 5 ohm/sq, more preferably greater than 10 ohm/sq and most preferably greater than 20 ohm/sq, wherein an interconnection (15) is formed in the ceramic element (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Tilo Welker, Stefan Britting, Fabian Wagle, Andreas Meyer, Karsten Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20250099415
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for inhibiting the progression of oxidative retinal diseases. The methods include administration of deuterated docosahexaenoic acid or an ester thereof to a patient in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: BioJiva LLC
    Inventors: Karsten Schmidt, Mikhail Shchepinov
  • Patent number: 12226856
    Abstract: A solder material (30) for bonding a metal layer (20) to a ceramic layer (10), in particular for forming a metal-ceramic substrate as a carrier for electrical components, comprising: a base material and an active metal, wherein the solder material (30) is a foil comprising the base material in a first layer (31) and the active metal in a second layer (32), and wherein the foil has a total thickness (GD) which is less than 50 ?m, preferably less than 25 ?m and particularly preferably less than 15 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ROGERS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Britting, Tilo Welker, Karsten Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12177970
    Abstract: A support substrate (1), in particular a metal-ceramic substrate, as a support for electric components, comprising: —at least one metal layer (10) and—an insulating element (30), in particular a ceramic element, a glass element, a glass ceramic element, and/or a high temperature-resistant plastic element. The at least one metal layer (10) and the insulating element (30) extend along a main extension plane (HSE) and are arranged one over the other in a stacking direction (S) running perpendicularly to the main extension plane (HSE), wherein in a completed support substrate (1), a binding layer (12) is formed between the at least one metal layer (10) and the insulating element (30), and an adhesive layer (13) of the binding layer (12) has a surface resistance which is greater than 5 Ohm/sq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: ROGERS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Tilo Welker, Karsten Schmidt, Stefan Britting
  • Patent number: 12035477
    Abstract: An electronics module (100), especially a power electronics module, comprising a metal-ceramic substrate (1) serving as a carrier and having a ceramic element (10) and a primary component metallization (21), an insulation layer (40) directly or indirectly connected to the primary component metallization (21), and a secondary component metallization (22) which is connected to the side of the insulation layer (40) facing away from the metal-ceramic substrate (1) and is especially isolated from the primary component metallization (21) using the insulation layer (40), wherein the ceramic element (10) has a first size (L1, D1) and the insulation layer (40) has a second size (L2, D2) and a ratio of the second size (L2, D2) to the first size (L1, D1) has a value smaller than 0.8, to form an island-like insulation layer (40) on the primary component metallization (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ROGERS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Meyer, Karsten Schmidt, Tilo Welker
  • Patent number: 11985028
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for configuring a network in a motor vehicle having at least a first switch and a second switch. The method provides, based on a common syntax, a first piece of configuration information for the first switch and a second piece of configuration information for the second switch. The method converts, by a respective processing module, the first piece of configuration information into a first piece of control information and the second piece of configuration information into a second piece of control information, wherein a syntax of the first piece of control information differs from a syntax of the second piece of control information. The method controls the first switch according to the first piece of control information and the second switch according to the second piece of control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Karsten Schmidt, Bernhard Stangl, Jose Antonio Munoz Cepillo, Francisco Cotrina
  • Patent number: 11945054
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metal-ceramic substrate (1) includes providing a ceramic layer (10), a metal layer (20) and a solder layer (30) coating the ceramic layer (10) and/or the metal layer (20) and/or the solder layer (30) with an active metal layer (40), arranging the solder layer (30) between the ceramic layer (10) and the metal layer (20) along a stacking direction (S), forming a solder system (35) comprising the solder layer and the active metal layer (40), wherein a solder material of the solder layer (30) is free of a melting point lowering material and bonding the metal layer (20) to the ceramic layer (10) via the solder system (35) by means of an active solder process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ROGERS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Karsten Schmidt, Andreas Meyer, Stefan Britting
  • Publication number: 20240091187
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for assessing the presence or absence of a therapeutic concentration of a deuterated docosahexaenoic acid during treatment of a patient with a retinal or neuronal oxidative disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Karsten SCHMIDT, Mikhail SHCHEPINOV
  • Patent number: 11902300
    Abstract: An approach for monitoring a data transmission system that uses a data transmission means such as a vehicle bus or a vehicle network of a motor vehicle. This system includes a monitoring device that transmits a request message to a transmitting device and to a receiving device. The transmitting device generates a particular transmitter response on the basis of the request message, where the transmitter response is transmitted to the monitoring device. The receiving device generates a particular receiver response on the basis of the request message, where the receiver response is transmitted to the monitoring device. The monitoring device receives the transmitter response and the receiver response and checks compliance with a trigger condition which depends on the transmitter response and the receiver response, the compliance of which indicates an event relevant to monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Markus Klein, Kamil Zawadzki, Changsup Ahn, Wolfgang Stadler, Karsten Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20230333087
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for assessing the presence or absence of a therapeutic concentration of a deuterated docosahexaenoic acid during treatment of a patient with a retinal oxidative disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Karsten SCHMIDT, Mikhail S. SHCHEPINOV
  • Publication number: 20230262071
    Abstract: A method monitors data traffic between control devices of a motor vehicle. In the method, at least one data pattern of a packet type and/or data content to be monitored and/or detected is stored in an associative memory such that in response to input data, which contains the respective data pattern, an associated hit signal is generated by the associative memory, and a network processor reads out detection data from received data packets in predetermined monitoring positions and forms input data for the associative memory therefrom. The network processor examines whether a hit signal results by inputting the input data into the associative memory, and a microprocessor recognizes based on transmission schedule data, which describes an intended transmission scheme of the control devices, by a predetermined comparison routine whether the hit signals deviate from the transmission scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: AUDI AG, TTTECH AUTO AG
    Inventors: Alexandru STIRECIU, Costel PATRASCU, Karsten SCHMIDT, Bernhard STANGL, Jose Antonio MUNOZ CEPILLO
  • Publication number: 20230254327
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a data network in a motor vehicle is provided, wherein a switch device is operated in the data network, in which physical ports for receiving and for transmitting data packets are interconnected via a switch circuit. A network processor reads out detection data in monitoring positions of the data packets and forms pseudo target determination data for an associative memory therefrom, which actually is to process target determination data for a target port determination, and it is examined if certain action data results, which signalizes a necessity of a detection action, by inputting the pseudo target determination data into the associative memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Karsten SCHMIDT, Bernhard STANGL, Costel PATRASCU, Alexandru STIRECIU
  • Publication number: 20230171887
    Abstract: A support substrate (1), in particular a metal-ceramic substrate, as a support for electric components, comprising: —at least one metal layer (10) and—an insulating element (30), in particular a ceramic element, a glass element, a glass ceramic element, and/or a high temperature-resistant plastic element. The at least one metal layer (10) and the insulating element (30) extend along a main extension plane (HSE) and are arranged one over the other in a stacking direction (S) running perpendicularly to the main extension plane (HSE), wherein in a completed support substrate (1), a binding layer (12) is formed between the at least one metal layer (10) and the insulating element (30), and an adhesive layer (13) of the binding layer (12) has a surface resistance which is greater than 5 Ohm/sq.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Tilo Welker, Karsten Schmidt, Stefan Britting
  • Publication number: 20230145955
    Abstract: Method The present disclosure relates to a method for configuring a network in a motor vehicle having at least a first switch and a second switch. The method provides, based on a common syntax, a first piece of configuration information for the first switch and a second piece of configuration information for the second switch. The method converts, by a respective processing module, the first piece of configuration information into a first piece of control information and the second piece of configuration information into a second piece of control information , wherein a syntax of the first piece of control information differs from a syntax of the second piece of control information. The method controls the first switch according to the first piece of control information and the second switch according to the second piece of control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Karsten SCHMIDT, Bernhard STANGL, Jose Antonio MUNOZ CEPILLO, Francisco COTRINA