Patents by Inventor Marco Frank

Marco Frank 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: 11959461
    Abstract: A method for controlling wind turbines of a wind farm is disclosed. The wind farm is positioned at a site which includes one or more turbulence generating structures, such as hills, valleys, trees or buildings. A wind direction at the site of the wind farm is detected, and one or more upstream wind turbines and one or more downstream wind turbines are identified, based on the detected wind direction, where each of the upstream wind turbines is arranged in front of one or more of the downstream wind turbines, as seen in the wind direction. If it is detected that turbulent wind conditions are occurring, based on measurements performed by the wind turbines of the wind farm, then at least one of the upstream wind turbines is controlled based on measurements performed by at least one wind turbine which is a downstream wind turbine relative to the upstream wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: Marco Frank, Michael Franz, Gernot Schelch
  • Patent number: 11915689
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a prediction of an audio signal. One of the methods includes receiving a request to generate an audio signal conditioned on an input; processing the input using an embedding neural network to map the input to one or more embedding tokens; generating a semantic representation of the audio signal; generating, using one or more generative neural networks and conditioned on at least the semantic representation and the embedding tokens, an acoustic representation of the audio signal; and processing at least the acoustic representation using a decoder neural network to generate the prediction of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Agostinelli, Timo Immanuel Denk, Antoine Caillon, Neil Zeghidour, Jesse Engel, Mauro Verzetti, Christian Frank, Zalán Borsos, Matthew Sharifi, Adam Joseph Roberts, Marco Tagliasacchi
  • Publication number: 20220307475
    Abstract: A method for controlling wind turbines of a wind farm is disclosed. The wind farm is positioned at a site which includes one or more turbulence generating structures, such as hills, valleys, trees or buildings. A wind direction at the site of the wind farm is detected, and one or more upstream wind turbines and one or more downstream wind turbines are identified, based on the detected wind direction, where each of the upstream wind turbines is arranged in front of one or more of the downstream wind turbines, as seen in the wind direction. If it is detected that turbulent wind conditions are occurring, based on measurements performed by the wind turbines of the wind farm, then at least one of the upstream wind turbines is controlled based on measurements performed by at least one wind turbine which is a downstream wind turbine relative to the upstream wind turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Marco FRANK, Michael FRANZ, Gernot SCHELCH
  • Patent number: 10041820
    Abstract: An integration element including a shaft and a housing, wherein the housing includes a passage for the shaft and the shaft includes connecting elements on the shaft ends which are accessible from outside the housing, these elements providing a rotationally-fixed connection to connecting shafts. The housing has at least one connection for fastening to a connection structure and the shaft together with the housing delimits a measuring equipment space for receiving measuring equipment. The housing is formed by at least two housing parts detachably connected to each other, said housing parts being designed to be separated around the full extent of their circumference surrounding the shaft to allow access to the measuring equipment space. The housing has bearing seats for shaft bearings and these shaft bearings support the shaft in a rotatable manner with respect to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jorg Bauer, Marco Frank, Armin Gerner, Bernd Wittmann, Christian Lehmann, Matthias Sperber
  • Patent number: 9987897
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for adjusting the height of a vehicle body, having two components, which can be moved longitudinally relative to each other, and a movement thread, which is arranged between these components. The movement thread includes a partial thread which is designed as a spindle paired with a first component and a partial thread which is designed as a spindle nut paired with the other component. The partial threads are designed to be axially movable relative to each other by a rotational drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies, AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Simon Mersmann, Kilian Marsing, Georgi Andreev, Marco Frank
  • Publication number: 20170197484
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for adjusting the height of a vehicle body, having two components, which can be moved longitudinally relative to each other, and a movement thread, which is arranged between these components. The movement thread includes a partial thread which is designed as a spindle paired with a first component and a partial thread which is designed as a spindle nut paired with the other component. The partial threads are designed to be axially movable relative to each other by a rotational drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Simon Mersmann, Kilian Marsing, Georgi Andreev, Marco Frank
  • Publication number: 20160320215
    Abstract: An integration element including a shaft and a housing, wherein the housing includes a passage for the shaft and the shaft includes connecting elements on the shaft ends which are accessible from outside the housing, these elements providing a rotationally-fixed connection to connecting shafts. The housing has at least one connection for fastening to a connection structure and the shaft together with the housing delimits a measuring equipment space for receiving measuring equipment. The housing is formed by at least two housing parts detachably connected to each other, said housing parts being designed to be separated around the full extent of their circumference surrounding the shaft to allow access to the measuring equipment space. The housing has bearing seats for shaft bearings and these shaft bearings support the shaft in a rotatable manner with respect to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jorg Bauer, Marco Frank, Armin Gerner, Bernd Wittmann, Christian Lehmann, Matthias Sperber