Patents by Inventor Markus Fischer

Markus Fischer 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: 20110084881
    Abstract: Processes and systems are presented, for identifying a set of neighbors of a radio transmitter based on available geo-spatial coordinates of radio transmitters in operation around the world. In one aspect, the identified set of radio transmitters can be have a desired size (in terms of number of neighbors and/or radial range). The identified set of radio transmitters can be further customized to include radio transmitters of a specific type, and/or radio transmitters that belong to specific network carriers, and/or other possible grouping criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Markus Fischer
  • Patent number: 7923702
    Abstract: A system and a method for processing and inspecting an object are provided, wherein the system comprises a particle beam column, an object holder and a gas supply apparatus. Thereby, the object holder is formed comprising a base, a first table displaceable relative to the base, a second table displaceable relative to the first table and a third table rotatable relative to the second table, wherein the cannula of the gas supply apparatus is fixed at the first table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss NTS GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfram Buhler, Alexander Rosenthal, Emmerich Bertagnolli, Heinz Wanzenbock, Markus Fischer, Gottfried Hochleitner
  • Patent number: 7850178
    Abstract: A toe link for the suspension system of a vehicle includes means for adjusting the axial length of the toe link while preventing relative rotation of the extending ends of the toe link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Lemforder GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Fischer, Eric Holmes
  • Patent number: 7823975
    Abstract: A support with a lumbar adjuster device for a motor vehicle seat includes a front side which, in the installed position, faces a seat user's back and a lumbar adjuster device which is arranged on the front side of the support and is intended for setting the position of the lumbar support perpendicular to the plane of extent of the backrest frame. The lumbar adjuster device has at least one adjuster element to be brought into operative connection with the lumbar support, and at least one slide which is movable with respect to the adjuster element. The slide can be moved, firstly, along a tensioning direction along which it is pretensioned, and, secondly, along a drawing direction along which a drawing force can be transmitted to the slide via a drawing means coupled to the slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Andreas Prause, Alwin Macht, Markus Fischer, Klaus Beloch, Michael Flieger
  • Publication number: 20100267083
    Abstract: The present invention relates to modified cytochrome P450 monooxygenases with an altered substrate profile, to nucleic acid sequences coding therefor, to expression constructs and vectors, to recombinant microorganisms which comprise these vectors, and to processes for the microbiological production of terminally or subterminally hydroxylated aliphatic carboxylic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Juergen Pleiss, Ulrich Schwaneberg, Jutta Schmitt, Markus Fischer, Rolf Schmid, Qing-shan Li
  • Patent number: 7817654
    Abstract: A test device and a test method, the test device comprising a bus controller for the transmission and reception of bus messages, the bus controller having a message memory for offering transmission data for bus messages, the message memory having a memory capacity for a bus message sequence with bus messages to be transmitted within a single transmission cycle or a transmission cycle sequence. The test device includes an intermediate memory for the storage of transmission data for bus messages with a larger storage capacity than the message memory. The test device furthermore comprises a transmission preparing means for reading transmission data from the intermediate memory and for writing, in advance of reading of the bus controller, to the message memory of the bus controller so that the bus message sequence is expanded by additional bus messages which are transmitted by the bus controller within the transmission cycle or the transmission cycle sequence on the motor vehicle bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Vector Informatik GmbH
    Inventors: Olav Augustin, Jochen Braun, Markus Fischer, Martin Gossner
  • Patent number: 7770873
    Abstract: A vapor-liquid contact tray apparatus having a tray with a fluid infeed section and a fluid travel section together with downcomer which is in fluid communication with the fluid travel section of the tray. A redirecting baffle is positioned at an inlet opening of the downcomer and push valves are provided in the fluid travel section of the tray. The push valves are preferably arranged in one or more zones of high concentration of push valves relative to one or more bubbling aperture zones with a lower concentration of push valves or no push valves. The redirecting baffle is provided in the downcomer and extends above the tray to capture fluid flowing horizontally off of the tray (e.g., exiting from a weirless or weir interface) and into a preferably concave upper portion of the redirecting baffle for controlling and redirecting the high momentum flow into and through the downcomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sulzer Chemtech AG
    Inventors: Mark W. Pilling, Markus Fischer, Giuseppe Mosca, Elena Tacchini
  • Patent number: 7708258
    Abstract: The tray has an infusion field of infusion tab valves adjacent the inlet to dissipate the momentum of the liquid flowing across said infusion field. Each valve includes a vertically upstanding wall of a height to obstruct the flow of liquid and the valves are disposed in a staggered array. An adjacent bubbling area has openings for the passage of an ascending flow of vapor into contact with the liquid/vapor mixture flowing across the area. Each infusion tab valve may also have a push valve incorporated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sulzer Chemtech AG
    Inventors: Mark W. Pilling, Markus Fischer, Dale Edward Nutter
  • Patent number: 7690727
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat back structure comprising a backrest support frame which consists of a surface turned towards the seat user's back, a lordosis support which is arranged on the front part of the backrest support frame for supporting the user's back and an adjusting device for vertically adjusting the lordosis support position with respect to the extension plane of said backrest support frame. The adjusting device comprises at least one adjusting element operably connected to the lordosis support and at least one sliding element which is displaceable with respect to said adjusting element and interacts therewith in such a way that when the sliding element moves, the adjusting element is displaced with a directional component perpendicularly to the displacement direction of the sliding element and performs an action on said lordosis support in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Markus Fischer, Matthias Hoffmann, Andrea Bauersachs, Michael Forkel, Jochen Hofmann, Alwin Macht, Georg Scheck
  • Publication number: 20100001131
    Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for and a method of producing aerodynamic resistance on an aircraft, comprising at least one braking flap, wherein the at least one braking flap can be extended into the airflow around the aircraft. In accordance with the invention at least one braking flap is arranged on the fuselage of the aircraft in a region over the wings of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Anil B. Mertol, Volker Cleemann, Carsten Weber, Markus Fischer
  • Publication number: 20090236889
    Abstract: A support with a lumbar adjuster device for a motor vehicle seat includes a front side which, in the installed position, faces a seat user's back and a lumbar adjuster device which is arranged on the front side of the support and is intended for setting the position of the lumbar support perpendicular to the plane of extent of the backrest frame. The lumbar adjuster device has at least one adjuster element to be brought into operative connection with the lumbar support, and at least one slide which is movable with respect to the adjuster element. The slide can be moved, firstly, along a tensioning direction along which it is pretensioned, and, secondly, along a drawing direction along which a drawing force can be transmitted to the slide via a drawing means coupled to the slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GHBH & KG. COBURG
    Inventors: Andreas Prause, Alwin Macht, Markus Fischer, Klaus Beloch, Michael Flieger
  • Publication number: 20090152459
    Abstract: A system and a method for processing and inspecting an object are provided, wherein the system comprises a particle beam column, an object holder and a gas supply apparatus. Thereby, the object holder is formed comprising a base, a first table displaceable relative to the base, a second table displaceable relative to the first table and a third table rotatable relative to the second table, wherein the cannula of the gas supply apparatus is fixed at the first table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Carl Zeiss NTS GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfram Buhler, Alexander Rosenthal, Emmerich Bertagnolli, Heinz Wanzenbock, Markus Fischer, Gottfried Hochleitner
  • Publication number: 20090140506
    Abstract: A toe link for the suspension system of a vehicle includes means for adjusting the axial length of the toe link while preventing relative rotation of the extending ends of the toe link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: Z F GROUP NORTH AMERICAN OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Markus Fischer, Eric Holmes
  • Patent number: 7540477
    Abstract: The tray valve for a tray column includes an opening in a tray for a vapor passage and a valve body that is made to match the tray opening. The valve body consists of a top plate and vertically downwardly directed guide limbs arranged at the edge of the plate. The guide limbs have barbs for the anchoring of the valve body in the opening. The material and shape of the valve body are selected so that upon insertion of the valve body into the tray opening the top plate deforms in an arched manner while the guide limbs and barbs without deformation pass through the opening in a snap-fit manner. Weakened portions, in the form of grooves, slits or bores, can be provided in the top plate to facilitate upward arching of the top plate. Any deformation at the inserted valve body can be reversed, with the exception of a slight residual deformation, by an application of force onto the top plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Sulzer Chemtech AG
    Inventors: Markus Fischer, Ireneusz Bobrowski, Vincenzo Curti, Emil Fehr
  • Publication number: 20090134680
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat back structure comprising a backrest support frame which consists of a surface turned towards the seat user's back, a lordosis support which is arranged on the front part of the backrest support frame for supporting the user's back and an adjusting device for vertically adjusting the lordosis support position with respect to the extension plane of said backrest support frame. The adjusting device comprises at least one adjusting element operably connected to the lordosis support and at least one sliding element which is displaceable with respect to said adjusting element and interacts therewith in such a way that when the sliding element moves, the adjusting element is displaced with a directional component perpendicularly to the displacement direction of the sliding element and performs an action on said lordosis support in the direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Markus Fischer, Matthias Hoffmann, Andrea Bauersachs, Michael Forkel, Jochen Hofmann, Alwin Macht, Georg Scheck
  • Patent number: 7534742
    Abstract: The present invention relates to enzymatic activity involved in isoprenoid biosynthesis as well as to inhibitors, notably herbicides, for enzymes in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids. More specifically, the present invention relates to screening methods for detecting such inhibitors, and to enzymatically active proteins for performing said methods as well as purified isolated DNA coding for such proteins. Moreover, the present invention relates to novel inhibitors detectable by said screening methods as well as compositions and processes for inhibiting the synthesis of isoprenoids and for controlling the growth of organisms based on said inhibitors. The invention relates also to the development of inhibitor-resistant plant enzymes and plants, plant tissues, plant seeds and plant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Inventors: Wolfgang Eisenreich, Monika Fellermeier, Markus Fischer, Stefan Hecht, Stefan Herz, Klaus Kis, Holger Lüttgen, Felix Rohdich, Silvia Sagner, Christoph A. Schuhr, Jurathip Wungsintaweekul, Adelbert Bacher, Meinhart H. Zenk
  • Patent number: 7531335
    Abstract: The present invention relates to modified cytochrome P450 monooxygenases with an altered substrate profile, to nucleic acid sequences coding therefor, to expression constructs and vectors, to recombinant microorganisms which comprise these vectors, and to processes for the microbiological production of terminally or subterminally hydroxylated aliphatic carboxylic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Hauer, Juergen Pleiss, Ulrich Schwaneberg, Jutta Schmitt, Markus Fischer, Rolf Schmid, Qing-shan Li
  • Publication number: 20090041047
    Abstract: A test device and a test method, the test device comprising a bus controller for the transmission and reception of bus messages, the bus controller having a message memory for offering transmission data for bus messages, the message memory having a memory capacity for a bus message sequence with bus messages to be transmitted within a single transmission cycle or a transmission cycle sequence. The test device includes an intermediate memory for the storage of transmission data for bus messages with a larger storage capacity than the message memory. The test device furthermore comprises a transmission preparing means for reading transmission data from the intermediate memory and for writing, in advance of reading of the bus controller, to the message memory of the bus controller so that the bus message sequence is expanded by additional bus messages which are transmitted by the bus controller within the transmission cycle or the transmission cycle sequence on the motor vehicle bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Vector Informatik GmbH
    Inventors: Olav AUGUSTIN, Jochen Braun, Markus Fischer, Martin Gossner
  • Patent number: 7488039
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat back structure comprising a backrest support frame which consists of a surface turned towards the seat user's back, a lordosis support which is arranged on the front part of the backrest support frame for supporting the user's back and an adjusting device for vertically adjusting the lordosis support position with respect to the extension plane of said backrest support frame. The adjusting device comprises at least one adjusting element operably connected to the lordosis support and at least one sliding element which is displaceable with respect to said adjusting element and interacts therewith in such a way that when the sliding element moves, the adjusting element is displaced with a directional component perpendicularly to the displacement direction of the sliding element and performs an action on said lordosis support in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg
    Inventors: Markus Fischer, Matthias Hoffmann, Andrea Bauersachs, Michael Forkel, Jochen Hofmann, Alwin Macht, Georg Scheck
  • Patent number: D627706
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Behr, Holger Berkmann, Markus Fischer