Patents by Inventor Lars GOEPFERT

Lars GOEPFERT 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).

  • TIMING DETECTION AND CORRECTION METHOD FOR A SLAVE DEVICE IN AN IO-LINK COMMUNICATION AND SLAVE DEVICE OF AN IO-LINK COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20220278819
    Abstract: A slave device for IO-Link communication with a master device, wherein the master device and the slave device operate on a common basic timing, the slave device including at least one Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) module configured to detect an INIT request sent from the master device during communication setup, calculate an actual timing of the master device from the INIT request and correct an initial timing of the slave device to an actual timing of the slave device based on the actual timing of the master device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Germany GmbH.
    Inventors: Lars GOEPFERT, Thomas REICHEL, Tilo SCHUBERT, Miru Richard GEORGE
  • OPTICAL SENSOR, PARTICULARLY HYBRID ANALOG-DIGITAL OPTICAL SENSOR ARRAY
    Publication number: 20200092504
    Abstract: Embodiments of an optical sensor for detecting and processing light signals is presented. An optical sensor according to some embodiments includes an array of photosensitive pixels for detecting light signals, a first signal output for an analog front end signal processing unit for processing the signals of one or more of the photosensitive pixels of the array of photosensitive pixels, and a second signal output for a readout circuit for processing the signals of the array of photosensitive pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Dan Gilbert ALLEN, Thomas REICHEL, Ian OLSEN, Lars GÖPFERT, Mattias GARZAROLLI, Raik RICHTER