Patents by Inventor Manfred Mueller

Manfred Mueller 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).

  • Patent number: 11154199
    Abstract: A medical imaging system for identifying a target structure (TS), e.g. a tumor, in a biological tissue. A hyperspectral camera system is used for imaging a surface area (A1) of the tissue (BT), e.g. with a limited spectral resolution, but enough to allow identification of suspicious areas where the target structure (TS) may be, e.g. such areas can be visually indicated on a display to the operator. A probe (PR), e.g. an optical surface probe, is used to provide probe measurement of a smaller surface area (A2) of the tissue, but with more information indicative of the target structure. The probe is selected to provide a higher specificity with respect to identification of the target structure than the hyperspectral camera (HSC). The hyperspectral processing algorithm (PP) is then calibrated based on probe measurement data performed within the suspicious areas, thus providing a calibrated hyperspectral processing algorithm resulting in images with an enhanced sensitivity to identify the target structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Johannes Joseph Hubertina Barbara Schleipen, Christian Reich, Gerhardus Eilhelmus Lucassen, Manfred Mueller, Vishnu Vardhan Pully
  • Publication number: 20210319616
    Abstract: A System for image processing (IPS), in particular for lung imaging The system (IPS) comprises an interface (IN) for receiving at least a part of a 3D image volume (VL) acquired by an imaging apparatus (IA1) of a lung (LG) of a subject (PAT) by exposing the subject (PAT) to a first interrogating signal. A layer definer (LD) of the system (IPS) is configured to define, in the 3D image volume, a layer object (LO) that includes a representation of a surface (S) of the lung (LG). A renderer (REN) of the system (IPS) is configured to render at least a part of the layer object (LO) in 3D at a rendering view (Vp) for visualization on a display device (DD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Jörg SABCZYNSKI, Manfred MUELLER, Rafael WIEMKER
  • Publication number: 20210291709
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a support structure, a seat surface (14) and a molded polymeric frame (18). The frame has an edge region and the seat surface (14) is mounted to the frame (18) and the frame is mounted to the support structure. At least a portion of the edge region is flexible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Samuel Smith, Manfred Mueller, Michael Long, Kelly Washburn, Robert A. Bratty
  • Patent number: 11094409
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a medical device configured to provide a function to a user, communicate via a wireless communication channel with one or more other devices, and send a signal to shift a medical device application from a locked state to an unlocked state. The system also includes a computing device having wireless communication channels and a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the computing device to communicate with the medical device, execute the medical device application, and shift from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to receiving the signal from the medical device. Core functionality of the medical device application is disabled when the medical device application is in the locked state, and some functionality applicable to the medical device is enabled when the medical device application is in the unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Dominik Ziegler, Manfred Mueller
  • Publication number: 20210227992
    Abstract: A load bearing surface includes a woven fabric surface and a carrier (18) overmolded onto the fabric surface. Portions of the woven fabric are bonded to the carriers(18) o as to remain fixed relative to the carrier during normal loading conditions and during abnormally high loading conditions. Other portions (14) of the woven fabric are bonded to the carrier so as to remain fixed relative to the carrier during normal loading conditions and to move or slip within the carrier, or to rupture, during abnormally high loading conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Manfred Mueller
  • Patent number: 11045082
    Abstract: A catheter (12) has an image sensing system (S1-S5) for imaging the interior wall of a passageway in which the catheter is to be located. The catheter has a radial imaging system comprising a light source arrangement for generating a light output radially around the catheter and an image sensor for receiving the generally radial light after the light has been scattered back by the interior wall. The catheter is positioned within the passageway with a known position and orientation, for example a known angle with respect to the anterior-posterior plane along the length of the catheter, so that it is known where along the catheter length, and at which angular position around the catheter, it is close to the passageway wall. The light output has a different intensity at different radial directions and/or the catheter comprises a light transmission arrangement which gives rise to different transmission of the light output at different radial directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Manfred Mueller
  • Patent number: 11034332
    Abstract: A heater for vehicular sensors is configured to pass sensing energy and thereby permit placement of the heater directly over the sensing area in the path of the sensed energy. In this way, direct heating of the sensing area is provided minimizing the energy necessary to prevent icing and improving deicing speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Manfred Mueller, Piotr Sliwa, Edward F. Bulgajewski
  • Publication number: 20210113154
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an endovascular device arrangement (1) comprising a vascular access port (10); an endovascular device (20) for inserting into a patient's blood vessel through said vascular access port; and a near-field communication module (15) including an antenna (17), wherein at least the antenna of the near-field communication module is located within the vascular access port; and the endovascular device comprises an electronic device (25) and an antenna arrangement (21) communicatively coupled to said electronic device for maintaining a near-field communication link between the electronic device and the near-field communication module whilst the endovascular device passes through the vascular access port, said antenna arrangement comprising an array of antenna elements (21) located along a shaft of the endovascular device (20), each of said antenna elements being communicatively coupled to said electronic device (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Joachim KAHLERT, Manfred MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20210085198
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure sensing device (10) comprising an optical fiber (12), the optical fiber (12) comprises a central axis (L) and at least one optical fiber core (14), the at least one optical fiber core (14) having one or more reflective FBG structures, and a coating (16) surrounding the optical fiber (12), the coating (16) having mechanical properties which are radially asymmetric along the central axis (L).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Manfred MUELLER, Johannes Joseph Hubertina Barbara SCHLEIPEN
  • Publication number: 20210007610
    Abstract: A monitoring system comprises an intra-vascular support device and a sensor mounted to the support device and projecting into the vessel. The sensor generates a signal which is dependent on the level of deformation of a free end. The sensor signal is interpreted to enable detection of changes in the length of a deformable part of the sensor thereby to determine a level of bio-layer formation and also determine a level of flow. The sensor remains able to detect flow even when a bio-layer is formed and it can also detect the presence (and thickness) of the bio-layer, because part of the sensor becomes rigid when constrained by the bio-layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Cornelis Petrus Hendriks, Achim Rudolf Hilgers, Manfred Mueller, Arjen Van Der Horst, Mark Thomas Johnson, Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Hakkens, Daan Anton Van Den Ende
  • Patent number: 10716613
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photonic probe apparatus and a method for probing tissue to detect and mark biological tissue with cancerous or precancerous states. The apparatus involves a probe for illuminating tissue and collecting light from an illuminated tissue region through the probe, a unit for analyzing collected light to determine whether a threshold measure of probability of a cancerous or precancerous lesion in the probed tissue region in contact with the probe is exceeded, and an integrated tissue marking facility which can be activated to mark the probed tissue region through the probe when the threshold measure is exceeded. The photonic probe apparatus and the method are especially suitable for probing regions in squamous and columnar epithelia to detect and mark regions with cervical cancer or cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Manfred Mueller, Payal Keswarpu, Vipin Gupta, Celine Firtion
  • Patent number: 10693569
    Abstract: A phase reference system for a phase-sensitive receiver is shown that provides an output signal which can be used for phase calibration of a frequency-converting device under test. The phase reference system has a first frequency generator that generates a first generator signal with a first generator frequency fg1 and a second frequency generator that generates a second generator signal with a second generator frequency fg2. The first and second generator signals are fed to a multiplier. The multiplier process the signals and outputs first, second and third spectral line data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Simon, Jakob Hammer, Manfred Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200113448
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intravascular blood flow sensor (200) comprising a guidewire or catheter (202) for intravascular insertion, and a vibration sensor (206) arranged and configured to provide a vibration sensor signal indicative of an oscillation frequency of blood flow propagating along a main direction (L) of intravascular blood flow. The vibration sensor comprises a flagellum (206.1) that extends from the catheter or guidewire (204) in the main direction of intravascular blood flow and is elastically deformable in a direction perpendicular to the main direction of intravascular blood flow by the blood flow oscillations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Manfred MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20200054225
    Abstract: A blood flow measurement system for measuring a blood flow quantity such as flow velocity or flow volume inside a blood vessel includes an intravascular blood flow measurement device with a body that comprises an expandable body section. A control unit sequentially provides a size control signal indicative of a respective one of the at least two predetermined expandable sizes to be assumed by the expandable body section. A pressure sensor unit measures respective sequences of blood pressure signals over a measuring time span defined with respect to a heart cycle period. A flow determination unit uses the values of cross sectional area of the expandable body section, the associated pressure signals and a known value of a density of blood, to calculate a value of a blood flow quantity inside the blood vessel based on Bernoulli's law.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Manfred MUELLER, Cornelis Petrus HENDRIKS
  • Publication number: 20200039399
    Abstract: A suspension fabric seat includes a fabric seat surface formed from a woven fabric material having heating element fibers. The heating element fibers are in electrical communication with a conductor. A carrier is overmolded onto the seat surface. The carrier and the conductor are disposed in a frame and a connector is mounted to the frame in electrical communication with the conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Samuel Smith, Manfred Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200008688
    Abstract: The invention relates to a signal processing unit (208) for determining a value of a blood flow quantity characterizing blood flow inside a blood vessel, wherein the signal processing unit comprises a vibration sensor signal input, which is configured to receive vibration sensor signals from an intravascular vibration sensor at two different measuring times, the vibration sensor signal comprising a vibration sensor signal component caused by blood flow oscillations of intravascular blood flow, and a blood flow determination unit which, for each measuring time, is configured to determine the vibration sensor signal components using the vibration sensor signal, to determine a respective oscillation frequency of the blood flow oscillations using the vibration sensor signal component and to determine and provide a frequency ratio of the determined oscillation frequencies as the value of the blood flow quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Manfred MUELLER
  • Patent number: 10510254
    Abstract: For operating a motor vehicle, a travel path of the motor vehicle across a roadway section of a roadway situated ahead of the motor vehicle and in the direction of travel of the motor vehicle is ascertained. The travel path is defined by an instantaneous running condition of the motor vehicle, a virtual local map that contains instantaneous local wind conditions, an instantaneous location of the motor vehicle on the virtual local map, and information relating to the instantaneous environment of the motor vehicle. The ascertained travel path is used for actuating at least one device of the motor vehicle that influences the instantaneous running condition of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Christoph Arndt, Manfred Mueller
  • Patent number: 10383584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (10) for guiding an instrument (12, 100, 100A, 100B, 112) in a body (14). The system (10) records an image where the instrument (12, 100, 100A,100B, 112) is identifiable and the instrument (12, 100, 100A, 100B, 112) records signals indicative of the type of tissue at the instrument (12, 100, 100A, 100B, 112). The system (10) determines the tissue type based on a signal from the instrument (12, 100, 100A, 100B, 112). The system (10) displays an image being a combined image of the body (14) and instrument (12, 100, 100A, 100B, 112) and an indication of tissue type at a position where the tissue type was determined. The present invention further relates to a method of displaying an image comprising tissue-type and instrument position in a body. The present invention further relates to an instrument and a software implemented method for being executed on a digital processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Christian Reich, Rami Nachabe, Jeroen Jan Lambertus Horikx, Arnoldus Theodorus Martinus Hendricus Van Keersop, Robert Johannes Frederik Homan, Nicolaas Jan Noordhoek, Manfred Mueller, Jasper Klewer, Marjolein Van Der Voort
  • Patent number: 10299684
    Abstract: A system and method to support exploring the interior of an object. The system 100, 200 includes a graphical user interface generator (GG) to generate a graphical user interface (GUI). The graphical user interface (GUI) includes an indicator (NC) of a current position of an interventional tool (IT) inside an object (OB). There is also an exploratory indictor (PC) to indicate material composition and/or type that surrounds the tool's tip (TP) at a current position in the object (OB). The exploratory indicator (PC) includes a pointer element for a current reading against a dial element for a range of possible values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Torre Michelle Bydlon, Arnoldus Theodorus Martinus Hendricus Van Keersop, Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen, Vijay Parthasarathy, Vishnu Vardhan Pully, Marjolein Van Der Voort, Manfred Mueller, Gerardus Henricus Maria Gijsbers
  • Publication number: 20180214017
    Abstract: A catheter (12) has an image sensing system (S1-S5) for imaging the interior wall of a passageway in which the catheter is to be located. The catheter has a radial imaging system comprising a light source arrangement for generating a light output radially around the catheter and an image sensor for receiving the generally radial light after the light has been scattered back by the interior wall. The catheter is positioned within the passageway with a known position and orientation, for example a known angle with respect to the anterior-posterior plane along the length of the catheter, so that it is known where along the catheter length, and at which angular position around the catheter, it is close to the passageway wall. The light output has a different intensity at different radial directions and/or the catheter comprises a light transmission arrangement which gives rise to different transmission of the light output at different radial directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Manfred MUELLER