Patents by Inventor Martin Muller

Martin Muller 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).

  • Semiconductor component and laser device
    Publication number: 20070153867
    Abstract: A surface emitting semiconductor component (1) with an emission direction is disclosed, which comprises a semiconductor body (2). The semiconductor body comprises a plurality of active regions (4a, 4b) which are suitable for the generation of radiation and are spaced apart from one another, wherein between two active regions a tunnel junction (5) is monolithically integrated in the semiconductor body. The two active regions are electrically conductively connected by means of the tunnel junction, and the semiconductor component is provided for operation with an external resonator. A laser device comprising a semiconductor component of this type and an external resonator is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Muller
  • Semiconductor component
    Publication number: 20070145388
    Abstract: A surface emitting semiconductor component (1) with an emission direction which comprises a semiconductor body (2). The semiconductor body comprises a plurality of active regions (4a, 4b) which are suitable for the generation of radiation and are arranged in a manner spaced apart from one another, a frequency-selective element (6) being formed in the semiconductor body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Philippens, Tony Albrecht, Martin Muller, Wolfgang Schmid
  • Use of additionally fermented distillers grains for preventing and/or treating increased blood sugar values
    Publication number: 20070141119
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of distillers grains fermented with a yogurt culture and/or buttermaking culture for producing a composition for preventing and/or treating increased blood sugar values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: Bioghurt Biogarde GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Zirzow, Dirk Bokenkamp, Martin Muller, Tom Dieck Heike
  • Crystalline n-formyl hydroxylamine compounds
    Publication number: 20070135353
    Abstract: Certain N-formyl hydroxylamine compounds, such as N-[1-oxo-2-alkyl-3-(N-hydroxyformamido)-propyl]-(carbonylamino-aryl or -heteroaryl)-azacyclo4-7alkanes or thiazacyclo4-7alkanes or imidazacyclo4-7alkanes are useful in the treatment of bacterial infections. Disclosed are crystalline salts of such compounds of formula (I), wherein M is a mono- or di-valent metal; a is ½ or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Joel Slade, Martin Muller, Hui Liu, Joginder Bajwa
  • Cathode for a direct methanol fuel cell and method for operating the same
    Publication number: 20070128502
    Abstract: In low-temperature fuel cells according to prior art, the problem often arises that the diffusion layer of the cathode is filled by water which is permeated or produced on the cathode, such that oxygen can no longer be transported to the catalyst layer of the cathode in a frictionless manner. As a result, said fuel cells are regularly used with a high excess of oxygen in order to reduce the cited transport problems for the oxygen. The inventive fuel cell enables said problem to be solved in that the arrangement of the diffusion layer and the catalyst layer of the cathode is inverted. The diffusion layer, which is embodied in such a way as to also conduct ions, is directly adjacent to the electrolyte membrane. The catalyst layer oriented towards the free cathode space can advantageously directly react with the supplied oxygen without further transport problems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH
    Inventors: Hendrik Dohle, Martin Muller, Jan Bringmann, Jurgen Mergel, Detlef Stolten
  • Electric device with a user guide
    Publication number: 20070069915
    Abstract: An electric device comprising a plurality of operating elements which can be operated by a user. Said device is associated with a status display device, and it also comprises a control logic unit which is coupled to the operating elements in order to detect user operations and which is adjusted. Furthermore, the electric device has an operational state which corresponds to the user operations which are to be adjusted. In a first state, the control logic unit displaces the status display of each operational element, from which it is able to process a user operation, according to an adjusted operational state, and in a second state, said unit displaces the status display of each operational element, whereby it is not possible to process a user operation, according to an adjusted operational state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Christoph Becke, Martin Muller
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic use of antibodies against the urokinase receptor
    Publication number: 20070066798
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a reagent kit for detecting cells in a biological sample using a double-fluorescence technique and the diagnostic and therapeutic application of amino acid sequence-specific antibodies against the urokinase receptor having a high affinity for tumour cell-expressed receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: WILEX AG
    Inventors: Manfred Schmitt, Viktor Magdolen, Thomas Luther, Sybille Albrecht, Martin Muller, Olaf Wilhelm, Nadja Harbeck
  • Method of colouring carrier materials
    Publication number: 20070051275
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing coloured carrier particles (substrates), which comprises a) dispersing the carrier particles in a solution of a colorant or latent pigment, adding the carrier particles to a solution of a colorant or latent pigment, or adding a latent pigment or a colorant to a dispersion of the carrier particles, b) precipitating the colorant or latent pigment onto the carrier particles, and c) in the case of a latent pigment, subsequently converting it to the pigment, and to the coloured substrates obtainable by such a method, and also to the use thereof. Using the methods according to the invention it is possible to obtain colorations and coloured substrates that have surprisingly good light-fastness properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventors: Martin Muller, Didier Bauer
  • Semiconductor laser array with a lattice structure
    Patent number: 7177335
    Abstract: The present invention relates to laser diodes with single mode emission at high output powers, as well as to structures and processes facilitating simple manufacture of such a devices. The invention includes a semiconductor laser (10) with a semiconductor substrate (11), a laser layer (13) arranged on the semiconductor substrate, an array of waveguide ridges (18) arranged at a distance from the laser layer, and several strip-shaped lattice structures (23) arranged on the flat surface between the waveguide ridges. The lattice structure (23) is formed on an insulating or barrier layer (26) at a distance from the laser layer above the laser layer (13). Processes for the production of such a semiconductor laser are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Nanoplus GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Kamp, Martin Müller
  • Contact piece made of tungsten provided with a corrosion-resistant layer made of a base metal
    Publication number: 20060278507
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a contact piece comprising a tungsten overlay soldered onto a support, wherein at least portions of the solder layer and optionally of the support are covered by a layer of a less noble metal than tungsten. The corrosion resistance of the tungsten overlay is considerably improved by the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Gerhard Renner, Udo Siefken, Martin Muller
  • Modular treatment plant having horizontal drum machines
    Publication number: 20060236728
    Abstract: A machine for treating bulk material of industrial volume parts, having a treatment drum which is arranged with a horizontal axis and can be driven in both directions of rotation around the axis, the treatment drum has an open co-axial inlet aperture and an open co-axial discharge aperture, the treatment drum comprises a set of worm-like inner blades which extend at least as far as the discharge aperture and which, in the first direction of rotation of the treatment drum, reposition the bulk material in the drum and, in the second direction of rotation of the treatment drum, convey the bulk material through the discharge aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Alois Müller, Martin Müller
  • Bismuth-containing pigment solid solutions
    Publication number: 20060239885
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel colorants based on bismuth oxyhalide and bismuth oxycarboxylates, bismuth oxyenolates or bismuth oxysulfonates and to the use thereof as pigments and coating agents. They are preferably solid solutions, especially solid solutions mainly in the tetragonal crystal lattice of bismuth oxyhalide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Martin Muller, Didier Bauer
  • Method and device for processing extremely small substance quantities
    Patent number: 7105357
    Abstract: For processing of substances in the reservoir (3) of a microdroplet dosing device (1), movement of a solid carrier material with a binding-active surface takes place in the reservoir, and binding of the substance takes place on the surface of the carrier material which comprises magnetic particles (7) or a carrier pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e. V.
    Inventors: Markus Kalkum, Martin Müller, Eckhardt Nordhoff, Holger Eickhoff, Holger Rauth, Richard Reinhardt
  • Papilloma virus capsomere vaccine formulations and methods of use
    Publication number: 20060198853
    Abstract: Vaccine formulations comprising viral capsomeres are disclosed along with methods for their production. Therapeutic and prophylactic methods of use for the vaccine formulations are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Lutz Gissmann, Martin Muller
  • Papilloma virus-like particles, fusion proteins as well as processes for their production
    Publication number: 20060153864
    Abstract: The invention relates to the recombinant production of proteins as well as VLPs which are suitable as a vaccine for therapeutic and prophylactic vaccination. The invention also relates to processes for the production and purification of recombinant papilloma virus proteins and fusion proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Lutz Gissmann, Jian Zhou, Martin Muller, Jeanette Painstil
  • Organic compounds
    Publication number: 20060148058
    Abstract: The tides which comprise an amino acid sequence consisting of a mutated functional Abl kinase domain, said mutated functional kinase domain being resistant to inhibition of its tyrosine kinase activity by N-[4-methyl-3-(4-pyridin-3-yl-pyrimidin-2-ylamino)-phenyl]-4-(4-methyl-piperazin-1-ylmethyl)-benzamide or a salt thereof, to the use of such polypeptides to screen for compounds which inhibit they tyrosine kinase activity of such polypeptides, to nucleic acid molecules encoding such polypeptides, to recombinant vectors and host cells comprising such nucleic acid molecules and to the use of such nucleic molecules in the production of such polypeptides for use in screening for compounds which inhibit the tyrosine kinase activity of such polypeptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Christophe Barthe, Pascale Cony-Makhoul, Amie Corbin, Sven De Vos, Brian Druker, Harald Gschaidmeier, Michael Hallek, Andreas Hochhaus, Dieter Hoelzer, Wolf-Karsten Hofmann, Phillip Koeffler, Sebastian Kreil, Francois-Xavier Mahon, Martin Muller, Oliver Ottmann, Markus Warmuth
  • Modular treatment plant having horizontal drum machines
    Patent number: 7066187
    Abstract: A machine for treating bulk material of industrial volume parts, having a treatment drum which is arranged with a horizontal axis and can be driven in both directions of rotation around the axis, the treatment drum comprises a permanently open co-axial inlet aperture and a permanently open co-axial discharge aperture, the treatment drum comprises a set of worm-like inner blades which extend at least as far as the discharge aperture and which, in the first direction of rotation of the treatment drum, reposition the bulk material in the drum and, in the second direction of rotation of the treatment drum, convey the bulk material through the discharge aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Inventors: Alois Müller, Martin Müller
  • Method and device for verifying digital circuits
    Publication number: 20060101359
    Abstract: For the verification of digital circuits, which can have multiplier structures in particular, an equivalence test between the digital circuit and a reference description of this digital circuit is proposed, in such a way that firstly for the multiplier structures implemented in the digital circuit the realized implementation alternative of several pre-defined different implementation alternatives is determined in each case and inserted into the reference description in place of the respective multiplication function, in order subsequently to execute the equivalence test with the reference description changed thereby. In this way, the structural equivalence between the reference description and the digital circuit to be verified can be substantially increased, which speeds up the verification process overall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Stefan Horeth, Martin Muller-Brahms, Thomas Rudlof
  • Ultraphobic surface having a multitude of reversibly producible hydrophilic and/or oleophilic areas
    Publication number: 20060013735
    Abstract: The invention relates to a planar structure, particularly a plate, having an ultraphobic surface on which the hydrophilic and/or oleophilic areas can be reversibly produced. The invention also relates to a planar structure comprising an ultraphobic surface provided with hydrophilic and/or oleophilic areas that are each completely surrounded by ultraphobic areas. The invention additionally relates to methods for reversibly producing hydrophilic and/or oleophilic areas on ultraphobic surfaces, to the deposition of liquid drops onto the inventive planar structure, and to the use of the inventive planar structure for conducting mass spectroscopic and/or optical analysis of aqueous liquids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Joachim Engelking, Karsten Reihs, Eckhard Nordhoff, Martin Muller
  • Use of ultraphobic surfaces having a multitude of hydrophilic areas for analyzing samples
    Publication number: 20050279927
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of surfaces having hydrophilic and/or oleophilic areas, each of which being completely surrounded by the ultraphobic areas, for analyzing samples. The invention also relates to a method for precisely dosing liquids without contaminating them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Joachim Engelking, Karsten Reihs, Eckhard Nordhoff, Martin Muller