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: 5987404
    Abstract: The invention proposes using statistical methods to do natural language understanding. The key notion is that there are "strings" of words in the natural language, that correspond to a single semantic concept. One can then define an alignment between an entire semantic meaning (consisting of a set of semantic concepts), and the English. This is modeled using P(E,A.vertline.S). One can model p(S) separately. This allows each parameter to be modeled using many different statistical models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew Della Pietra, Mark Edward Epstein, Martin Franz, Joshua David Sherer Koppelman, Salim Estephan Roukos, Robert Todd Ward
  • Patent number: 5908326
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector with a housing (1) of insulating material and a metal contact element (2) fittable in the housing (1). The contact element has a crimp contact region (4) to contact a first cable end (11) and a cutting clamp contact region (3) to contact a second cable (12). Such an arrangement is not suitable for contacting cables of different diameters via the cutting clamp contact region. According to the invention, the cutting clamp contact region (3) has two tension-relieving regions (5, 6), with the cutting clamp blades, which are fitted opposite one another in pairs (7, 8, 9, 10), arranged between them. Two pairs of cutting clamp blades (7, 10) are provided for small-diameter cables and two pairs (8, 9) are provided for large-diameter cables. The pairs of cutting clamp blades (8, 9) for small-diameter cables are arranged between those for large-diameter cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Neuhauser, Rudolf Kraemer, Martin Franz Felix Maluche, Werner Tille