Patents by Inventor Michael Berthold

Michael Berthold 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: 20260258686
    Abstract: An adjustment arrangement for adjusting an adjustable element of a motor vehicle, which has a motorized or non-motorized drive unit, wherein the drive unit has, as train components, a hollow cylinder and a rod axially guided therein, wherein the adjustment arrangement has a drive spring arrangement with a drive spring, wherein, for guiding the drive spring during operation of the adjustment arrangement, a tubular guide having a circumferential radial guide surface extends outside or inside the drive spring. It is proposed that the circumferential radial guide surface of the tubular guide has a geometry that differs from that of a cylindrical lateral surface, such that the drive spring, during operation of the adjustment arrangement, can only contact the circumferential radial guide surface of the tubular guide in the circumferential direction around the geometric drive axis with individual drive spring circumferential sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2026
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Inventors: Harald KRÜGER, Sebastian PFEIFER, Marco SCHRAMM, Tobias ZWOSTA, Michael SCHNEIDERBANGER, Michael BERTHOLD, Tobias BOSECKER, Patrick ZEUß, Jochen DESCHNER
  • Publication number: 20090157655
    Abstract: In summary, the present invention concerns processes for computer supported processing of source data elements (32-40, 46-54) of a source data quantity (20) with the following steps: Input of at least one query data element, particularly a search string, Determination of a weighted link (42, 44, 60) of the query data element with at least one source data element (34, 38, 40) of the source data quantity (20), particularly with at least one hit string of the source data quantity (20) and Output of the at least one source data element (34, 38, 40) corresponding to a weight (w12, w13, w34) of the jointly weighted link (42, 44, 60) preferably of a hit likelihood of the query data element with the at least one source data element (34, 38, 40), wherein ?the weight (w12, w13, w34) of the weighted link (42, 44, and 60) is determined on the basis of at least one associative link (42, 44, and 60) as well as a further process, a system and a computer program product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ
    Inventor: Michael Berthold
  • Publication number: 20080114756
    Abstract: A method for providing automatic, personalized information services to a computer user includes the following steps: transparently monitoring user interactions with data during normal use of the computer; updating user-specific data files including a set of user-related documents; estimating parameters of a learning machine that define a User Model specific to the user, using the user-specific data files; analyzing a document to identify its properties; estimating the probability that the user is interested in the document by applying the document properties to the parameters of the User Model; and providing personalized services based on the estimated probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Yochai Konig, Roy Twersky, Michael Berthold
  • Publication number: 20060136589
    Abstract: A method for providing automatic, personalized information services to a computer user includes the following steps: transparently monitoring user interactions with data during normal use of the computer; updating user-specific data files including a set of user-related documents; estimating parameters of a learning machine that define a User Model specific to the user, using the user-specific data files; analyzing a document to identify its properties; estimating the probability that the user is interested in the document by applying the document properties to the parameters of the User Model; and providing personalized services based on the estimated probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Yochai Konig, Roy Twersky, Michael Berthold