Patents by Inventor Michael Beers

Michael Beers 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: 20250030172
    Abstract: A deployable reflector structure includes a base in a central portion of the deployable reflector structure. The deployable reflector structure further includes one or more arms configured to extend from the base. The deployable reflector structure also includes an expandable structure coupled to the one or more arms. The deployable reflector structure further includes a reflector coupled between the one or more arms and the base. A drive mechanism may be configured to extend one or more of the arms and the expandable structure with a drive cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: David Storm, John Anthony Alvarez, Michael Beers, Nicholas Perez, Peter B. Laraway, Stephen Rohweller
  • Publication number: 20240359347
    Abstract: An apparatus has a first pressure head on a first body, a second pressure head on a second body, a mechanism between the first and the second bodies, adapting the first and the second pressure heads to close together and to open, a substantially planar sacrificial anode joined to the first pressure head on a surface facing the second pressure head, a force mechanism between the first and the second bodies providing force urging the pressure heads together, and a manually operable mechanism adapted to counteract the force mechanism to separate the pressure heads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Beers
  • Patent number: 10931141
    Abstract: A process is provided for updating user settings in an energy management system for an electric and/or non-electric device. The energy management system has a communication interface, particularly a graphic user interface, for setting points in time concerning planned uses of the device. The process includes the steps of acquiring deviations between the points in time set on the part of the user and the actual points in time of using the device; evaluating the acquired deviations and deducing a possible systematic trend in the deviations, and displaying information to the user at the communication interface concerning a correction of already set future points in time concerning planned uses of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Michael Beer
  • Patent number: 10710460
    Abstract: An energy management device for controlling a charging control appliance in an electric vehicle is provided. The energy management device is designed to adjust a charging profile in the charging control appliance for the charging of a battery of the electric vehicle on a charging station or in the electric vehicle itself, the adjustment of the charging profile at least taking into account a planned time of use of the electric vehicle and a desired charging state of the battery as well as a pre-defined value for the maximum charging capacity of the electric vehicle. The energy management device is coupled to a measuring unit which is designed to measure an actual charging capacity provided for the electric vehicle by the charging station and, independently or as a result of a request from the energy management device, transmit same to the energy management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Michael Beer
  • Publication number: 20180345800
    Abstract: An energy management device for controlling a charging control appliance in an electric vehicle is provided. The energy management device is designed to adjust a charging profile in the charging control appliance for the charging of a battery of the electric vehicle on a charging station or in the electric vehicle itself, the adjustment of the charging profile at least taking into account a planned time of use of the electric vehicle and a desired charging state of the battery as well as a pre-defined value for the maximum charging capacity of the electric vehicle. The energy management device is coupled to a measuring unit which is designed to measure an actual charging capacity provided for the electric vehicle by the charging station and, independently or as a result of a request from the energy management device, transmit same to the energy management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Michael BEER
  • Publication number: 20180226801
    Abstract: A method for determining an operating strategy for an electrical energy store includes subdividing an operating time interval, for which the operating strategy of the energy store is intended to be determined, into a sequence of time segments such that constant power conditions are respectively present in the time segments in the sequence of time segments. For each time segment in the sequence of time segments, a limited number of possible operating powers with which the energy store can be charged and/or discharged in the respective time segment are determined. A plurality of sequences of operating points are determined, where each of the operating points indicates an operating power from the limited number of possible operating powers for a given time segment from the sequence of time segments, and where each sequence of operating points from the plurality of sequences of operating points indicates a sequence of operating powers for the sequence of time segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Michael BEER, Caglayan ERDEM, Willibald PRESTL
  • Publication number: 20170229908
    Abstract: A process is provided for updating user settings in an energy management system for an electric and/or non-electric device. The energy management system has a communication interface, particularly a graphic user interface, for setting points in time concerning planned uses of the device. The process includes the steps of acquiring deviations between the points in time set on the part of the user and the actual points in time of using the device; evaluating the acquired deviations and deducing a possible systematic trend in the deviations, and displaying information to the user at the communication interface concerning a correction of already set future points in time concerning planned uses of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventor: Michael BEER
  • Patent number: 9299355
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for improving a stereo audio signal of an FM stereo radio receiver (10). It is suggested to employ components of a standard HE-ACC v2 decoder (40) in such apparatus (1) to efficiently recover the stereo audio signal (L\R?) while also exhibiting good signal quality. To that end, parametric stereo parameters (15) shall be quantized and submitted to such decoder (40) together with a mono-downmix signal (25). The decoder (25) can then easily recover the parametric stereo parameters (15) by de-quantizing them via a simple lookup table, and finally creating the stereo output signal (L?R?) from the de-quantized parametric stereo parameters and the mono-downmix signal (25). The apparatus (1) further includes a parameter estimation stage (5) which may again be embodied on the basis of components of a standard HE-ACC v2 encoder (65).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Robin Thesing, Michael Beer
  • Publication number: 20140161262
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for improving a stereo audio signal of an FM stereo radio receiver (10). It is suggested to employ components of a standard HE-ACC v2 decoder (40) in such apparatus (1) to efficiently recover the stereo audio signal (L\R?) while also exhibiting good signal quality. To that end, parametric stereo parameters (15) shall be quantized and submitted to such decoder (40) together with a mono-downmix signal (25). The decoder (25) can then easily recover the parametric stereo parameters (15) by de-quantizing them via a simple lookup table, and finally creating the stereo output signal (L?R?) from the de-quantized parametric stereo parameters and the mono-downmix signal (25). The apparatus (1) further includes a parameter estimation stage (5) which may again be embodied on the basis of components of a standard HE-ACC v2 encoder (65).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Robin Thesing, Michael Beer
  • Publication number: 20140129152
    Abstract: The present invention comprises methods and systems for identifying enhancer sequences in DNA, for example, in mammalian genomes. The enhancer sequences are identified using a trained support vector machine (SVM) as disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Beer, Dongwon Lee
  • Publication number: 20110035175
    Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus rating solar units and to a method for rating solar units that comprises multiple acquisition of at least one input parameter and a corresponding multiple acquisition of at least one output parameter in acquisition intervals, at least one acquisition interval being varied for purposes of subsequently acquiring at least one output parameter as a function of the minimum of one acquired input parameter. The invention also relates to a solar unit, to a computer program and to a computer program product with means implementing the rating method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Beer, Jens Kampmann, Boris Farnung, Steffen Ramlow
  • Patent number: 7648124
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a receptacle for a boat drain plug, the receptacle being adapted to support the boat drain plug relative to a boat trailer, the boat trailer having a boat trailer winch, the boat trailer winch including a winch handle shaft, and the receptacle including an aperture sized to receive the boat drain plug, wherein the aperture is located in the winch handle shaft of the boat trailer winch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Inventor: Michael Beers
  • Publication number: 20080190351
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a receptacle for a boat drain plug, the receptacle being adapted to support the boat drain plug relative to a boat trailer, the boat trailer having a boat trailer winch, the boat trailer winch including a winch handle shaft, and the receptacle including an aperture sized to receive the boat drain plug, wherein the aperture is located in the winch handle shaft of the boat trailer winch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: MJS Manufacturing LLC
    Inventor: Michael Beers
  • Patent number: 7260225
    Abstract: In a device for processing a stereo audio signal having a first channel and a second channel the stereo signal is at first analyzed to obtain a measure for a quantity of bits required by a coder to code the stereo audio signal using a coding algorithm. The first channel and the second channel are then modified when the measure for the quantity of bits is larger than a predetermined value, the modification being performed in such a way that the energy of a sum signal of the first and the second modified channel is in a predetermined relation to the energy of a sum signal of the first and the second channel and that a difference signal of the first and the second modified channel is attenuated in contrast to the difference signal of the first and the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Bodo Teichmann, Oliver Kunz, Juergen Herre, Klaus Peichl, Michael Beer
  • Publication number: 20060165670
    Abstract: The invention concerns a composition comprising a Lactobacillus strain and a non-digestible oligosaccaride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Beer, Glenn Gibson, Christopher Smejkal
  • Publication number: 20060159746
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combination, such as a combined preparation or pharmaceutical or nutritional composition, respectively, which comprises at least one cis-polyunsaturated fatty acid, at least one amino acid, and optionally at least one diabetes medicine for simultaneous, separate or sequential use in the prevention, delay of progression or treatment of diseases, especially metabolic disorders and in particular type 2 diabetes and diseases and conditions associated with diabetes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: John Troup, Michael Beer
  • Publication number: 20060099324
    Abstract: The invention concerns compositions comprising one or more viscous soluble fiber(s) and one or more viscosity-lowering protein(s) and their use in the prevention or treatment of metabolic syndrome and/or diabetes and/or for lowering blood cholesterol level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Nicolas Aurio, Michael Beer
  • Publication number: 20060080200
    Abstract: Methods and system of providing benefit plan administration. A method of providing benefit plan administration to a first sponsor having at least one participant enrolled in a benefit plan can include electronically receiving benefit plan information from the first sponsor, electronically providing benefit plan information to the first sponsor, and electronically providing benefit plan information to the at least one participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: David Ashton, Michael Beer, Christopher Bowman, Sheri Hasan, Kent Hinders, Debra Kleppe, Paul Knake, Beth Krakau, Bobbi Perkins, Jerry Ripperger, Jeffrey Van Baale, William Kelly, Stacie Franklin, Susie Thomann, Angela Ellis, Eric Hays, Patricia Kliegl
  • Publication number: 20040014333
    Abstract: A switch assembly usable in a food waste disposer is disclosed having several improvements over the prior art. The switch assembly positively retains an overload switch, making assembly of the switch into the disposer easier. The switch assembly includes terminals, which attach to the start and run windings of the disposer. The terminals are arranged in a uniform direction along a single side of the switch assembly. This arrangement allows a single, integrated connector of winding leads to be easily connected to the switch assembly, facilitating assembly and reducing the possibility of incorrectly wiring the disposer during construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Scott W. Anderson, James Hansche, Michael Beers
  • Patent number: D486797
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Scott W. Anderson, James Hansche, Michael Beers