Patents by Inventor Martin Franz

Martin Franz 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: 11930981
    Abstract: A dishwasher (1) for cleaning drinking vessels, wherein the dishwasher (1) has a treatment zone (3) and a conveyor apparatus (6) for conveying the items of washware (2) to be cleaned from an introduction region (4) of the dishwasher (1) through the treatment zone (3) to a removal region (5) of the dishwasher (1). The conveyor apparatus (6) is configured to convey a previously defined or definable group of items of washware (2) to be cleaned in batches from the introduction region (4) through the treatment zone (3) and then to feed the group of items of washware (2) as cleaned items of washware (2) to the removal region (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Disch, Martin Schrempp, Adrian Boldt, Benjamin Franz, Roland Werner, David Reinhart, Björn Brodowski
  • Patent number: 11907157
    Abstract: A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Cornami, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul L. Master, Steven K. Knapp, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen, Frederick Curtis Furtek
  • Patent number: 11875127
    Abstract: A method for estimating response relevance with respect to a received query includes receiving a set of user feedback items, a set of historical feedback data, and a set of context data, creating a user profile model according to the set of historical feedback data, wherein the user profile model indicates a weighting attribute based on the set of historical feedback data, weighting the set of user feedback items according to the created user profile model, creating a response relevance estimation model based on the weighted set of user feedback items, the received set of context data, and the received set of historical feedback data, and ranking one or more responses according to the created response relevance estimation model. The method may further include adjusting the user profile model and the response relevance estimation model responsive to receiving additional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruchi Mahindru, Xin Zhou, Martin Franz, Sinem Guven Kaya
  • Patent number: 11702156
    Abstract: A driving system for a tracked vehicle, in particular a tracked vehicle used for the preparation of ski slopes, features a driving wheel rotatable about a first axis of rotation; an idle wheel rotatable about a second axis of rotation parallel to the first axis of rotation; and a track looped around the driving wheel and the idle wheel, and comprising a plurality of strips made of elastomeric material, and a plurality of metal grousers, fixed to the strips; wherein at least one strip has at least one continuous toothed strip, which extends along the inner face of the strip and is configured to engage with the driving wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PRINOTH S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gregor Maurer, Martin Franz
  • Patent number: 11686389
    Abstract: A rotary seal assembly has a first and second machine element spaced apart forming a sealing gap. The first machine element has a seal-holding structure and the second machine element a sealing surface. A rotary seal is held on the seal-holding structure of the first machine element which has a sealing lip, the front side of which faces the sealing surface and at least partially abuts the sealing surface of the second machine element, pretensioned in a dynamically sealing manner. The sealing lip has pockets on its rear side or on its end face facing the high pressure side. The sealing lip on its rear side, in the case of rearwardly arranged pockets, is tensioned against the sealing surface by an elastically deformable pretensioning ring, and is tensioned in the case of the front side pockets by an elastic resilience inherent in the material of the rotary seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Wehmann, Martin Franz
  • Publication number: 20230193999
    Abstract: A sealing device has a sensor system for condition monitoring. The sealing device includes a sealing ring with a dynamic sealing section for dynamically sealing abutment at a sealing surface of a machine part and a pretensioning ring for pretensioning the sealing section against the sealing surface having a first section and a second section. The second section can be deflected in a spring-elastic manner in an axial or radial direction relative to the central axis of the sealing device from a first position relative to the first section. The sensor system includes at least one measuring element arranged in the intermediate space on the pretensioning ring, which responds indirectly or directly to a deflection movement of the first section of the pretensioning ring. A sealing arrangement may have such a sealing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Schuele, Martin Franz, Johan Strandberg
  • Publication number: 20230153265
    Abstract: A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Paul L. Master, Steven K. Knapp, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen, Frederick Curtis Furtek
  • Patent number: 11622002
    Abstract: In an approach to synchronize notifications created in a VR environment to be presented in a physical environment at another time, notifications may be mapped across all relevant environments and associated with conditions that, when triggered, cause a notification to be presented to the user. Computer-implemented methods may include receiving natural language requests at a computing device in a first environment at a first time; parsing the natural language request into semantic components comprising an alert component and a content component; determining one or more conditions based on the alert component and the content component; mapping the semantic components to the plurality of environments; and executing a notification by the computing device, the notification representing the alert component and the content component in a second environment of the plurality of environments if the one or more conditions is satisfied at a second time that is later than the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vittorio Castelli, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Martin Franz
  • Publication number: 20230064961
    Abstract: A method for estimating response relevance with respect to a received query includes receiving a set of user feedback items, a set of historical feedback data, and a set of context data, creating a user profile model according to the set of historical feedback data, wherein the user profile model indicates a weighting attribute based on the set of historical feedback data, weighting the set of user feedback items according to the created user profile model, creating a response relevance estimation model based on the weighted set of user feedback items, the received set of context data, and the received set of historical feedback data, and ranking one or more responses according to the created response relevance estimation model. The method may further include adjusting the user profile model and the response relevance estimation model responsive to receiving additional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ruchi Mahindru, Xin Zhou, Martin Franz, Sinem Guven Kaya
  • Publication number: 20230055513
    Abstract: A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Paul L. Master, Steven K. Knapp, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen, Frederick Curtis Furtek
  • Publication number: 20220414126
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for analyzing feedback with respect to a virtual assistant includes identifying a technical support problem and a corresponding resolution, wherein the technical support problem corresponds to a query, and wherein the corresponding resolution corresponds to the virtual assistant's response, collecting user feedback provided by one or more users corresponding to the technical support problem and the corresponding resolution, creating a set of user profiles corresponding to the one or more users, generating weighted user feedback according to the set of user profiles, identifying contradictory feedback patterns corresponding to the one or more users, adjusting the set of user profiles according to the identified contradictory feedback patterns, and recommending improvements to the identified corresponding resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Ruchi Mahindru, Martin Franz, Daniela Rosu, Sinem Guven Kaya, Xin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11494331
    Abstract: A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Cornami, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul L. Master, Steven K. Knapp, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen, Frederick Curtis Furtek
  • Publication number: 20220224584
    Abstract: In an approach to synchronize notifications created in a VR environment to be presented in a physical environment at another time, notifications may be mapped across all relevant environments and associated with conditions that, when triggered, cause a notification to be presented to the user. Computer-implemented methods may include receiving natural language requests at a computing device in a first environment at a first time; parsing the natural language request into semantic components comprising an alert component and a content component; determining one or more conditions based on the alert component and the content component; mapping the semantic components to the plurality of environments; and executing a notification by the computing device, the notification representing the alert component and the content component in a second environment of the plurality of environments if the one or more conditions is satisfied at a second time that is later than the first time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Vittorio Castelli, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Martin Franz
  • Publication number: 20220207384
    Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method are provided for extraction of factual data from unstructured natural language (NL) text. A detection model is applied to convert unstructured NL text in a first language to annotated NL text. The detection model identifies two or more mentions from the unstructured NL text and a logical position of the mentions. The detection model further identifies a sequential position for each of the mentions and attaches a sequential position identifier. A pattern of rules corresponding with the annotated NL text is identified and applied to the annotated NL text, and one or more facts embedded within the annotated NL text are extracted and converted into structured data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Radu Florian, Salim Roukos, Martin Franz
  • Patent number: 11255439
    Abstract: An axial shaft seal ring has a holding portion and a sealing portion, which are connected to one another via an elastically deformable sealing membrane. The sealing membrane has a plurality of spatial structure areas R in the circumferential direction of the shaft seal ring, which serve as a circumferential reserve of the sealing membrane. As a result of a centrifugal force FR accompanying a rotational movement of the shaft seal ring around the central axis thereof and acting on the sealing membrane, an expansion of the sealing membrane in a radial direction is effected at least in the spatial structure areas, in such a manner that the sealing portion is acted upon by the sealing membrane with an axially directed pull force FZ, which is directed opposite to the pressing force FA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Franz, Christoph Schuele, Christoph Wehmann
  • Publication number: 20210344995
    Abstract: Described are techniques for video conversion for accessibility including a technique comprising determining, using data from at least one camera, that a user is distracted based on a direction of gaze of the user with respect to a display device presenting video content. The technique further comprises converting, by a machine learning model, the video content to audio content in response to determining the user is distracted, wherein the audio content comprises a description of the video content. The technique further comprises outputting, using at least one speaker, the audio content to the user while the user is distracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli
  • Patent number: 11162590
    Abstract: A sealing ring, in particular a radial shaft sealing ring or a rod sealing ring, can be used for sealing a sealing gap which is arranged between two machine elements. The sealing ring comprises an elastically deformable polymer material and a supporting ring which is embedded in a positively locking manner in the polymer material at least in sections. The supporting ring is configured as a 3D-printed part with a multiple-layer construction of its material at least in sections. The material of the supporting ring has a greater modulus than the polymer material. The supporting ring can be widened elastically in a radial direction with respect to the center axis of the sealing ring, and has dimensionally stable first ring segments which are connected to one another in an articulated manner in the circumferential direction of the sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Monica Crudu, Martin Franz, Gianella Attard, Matthias Keck, Christoph Wehmann
  • Patent number: 11166069
    Abstract: Described are techniques for video conversion for accessibility including a technique comprising determining, using data from at least one camera, that a user is distracted based on a direction of gaze of the user with respect to a display device presenting video content. The technique further comprises converting, by a machine learning model, the video content to audio content in response to determining the user is distracted, wherein the audio content comprises a description of the video content. The technique further comprises outputting, using at least one speaker, the audio content to the user while the user is distracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Martin Franz, Vittorio Castelli
  • Publication number: 20210072708
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling an actuator for moving a load. The method includes receiving a selected bandwidth, wherein bandwidth is defined as the frequency at which the gain of the closed loop input-output response is relative to the steady state value and is related to the reciprocal of response time, receiving a command to move the load to a selected position, receiving a feedback of measured motor position, estimating reaction torque or force associated with moving the load in real time, and estimating rotational motor speed and motor position. The method further includes calculating gain for controlling position of the load as a function of the selected bandwidth, wherein in the gain represents an adjustment of at least one of the estimated motor position, motor rotational speed, and reaction torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Art Hull, Paul Martin Franz
  • Publication number: 20210073171
    Abstract: A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Paul L. Master, Steven K. Knapp, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen, Frederick Curtis Furtek