Patents by Inventor Michael Goetz

Michael Goetz 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: 12266245
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a customer device, a request to provision a financial account for the customer, associating, by the computing device, a mobile device with the requested financial account, and sending, by the computing device to the mobile device, authentication information for the requested financial account. The method further includes receiving the authentication information by the computing device from a financial terminal that received the authentication information from the mobile device, receiving, by the computing device, first location information of the mobile device, and provisioning, by the computing device and based on the first location information of the mobile device being within a predetermined distance of a location of the financial terminal, the requested financial account for the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Shari Van Cleave, Darren Michael Goetz, Dennis Emmanuel Montenegro
  • Publication number: 20240351426
    Abstract: A drive system (10), in particular for a vehicle, comprising a driven unit (12), a drive unit (18) for driving the driven unit (12), a drive interface (20) by means of which the driven unit (12) can be coupled to the drive unit (18), at least one brake unit (22) for braking the driven unit (12), and at least one brake interface (24) which is different from the drive interface (20) and by means of which the driven unit (12) can be coupled to the at least one brake unit (22), wherein the at least one brake interface (24) has a transmission stage (28) with a driven-side transmission component (30) arranged on the driven unit (12) and a brake-side transmission component (32) arranged on the at least one brake unit (22), and a vehicle, in particular an industrial truck, with a drive system (10) of this kind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Michael GOETZ, Sebastian BREITHAUPT, Johannes STOEHR, Yvonne FUERDERER
  • Publication number: 20240169809
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a customer device, a request to provision a financial account for the customer, associating, by the computing device, a mobile device with the requested financial account, and sending, by the computing device to the mobile device, authentication information for the requested financial account. The method further includes receiving the authentication information by the computing device from a financial terminal that received the authentication information from the mobile device, receiving, by the computing device, first location information of the mobile device, and provisioning, by the computing device and based on the first location information of the mobile device being within a predetermined distance of a location of the financial terminal, the requested financial account for the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Shari Van Cleave, Darren Michael Goetz, Dennis Emmanuel Montenegro
  • Patent number: 11908286
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a customer device, a request to provision a financial account for the customer, associating, by the computing device, a mobile device with the requested financial account, and sending, by the computing device to the mobile device, authentication information for the requested financial account. The method further includes receiving the authentication information by the computing device from a financial terminal that received the authentication information from the mobile device, receiving, by the computing device, first location information of the mobile device, and provisioning, by the computing device and based on the first location information of the mobile device being within a predetermined distance of a location of the financial terminal, the requested financial account for the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Shari Van Cleave, Darren Michael Goetz, Dennis Emmanuel Montenegro
  • Patent number: 11764386
    Abstract: A fuel cell device is provided, including a fuel cell stack, which includes a plurality of fuel cell units following each other in a stacking direction, and two end plates, between which the fuel cell stack is arranged. With the fuel cell device, harmful effects from hydrogen exiting the fuel cell units are avoided without making access to the fuel cell units impossible or causing a disproportionately large maintenance expenditure. The fuel cell device includes an enclosure which surrounds the fuel cell stack and the end plates, wherein the free remaining volume that remains within the enclosure between the enclosure, the fuel cell stack, and the end plates is less than 20% of the internal volume of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: EKPO FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Kraft, Michael Goetz, Manuel Morcos
  • Publication number: 20230222879
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a customer device, a request to provision a financial account for the customer, associating, by the computing device, a mobile device with the requested financial account, and sending, by the computing device to the mobile device, authentication information for the requested financial account. The method further includes receiving the authentication information by the computing device from a financial terminal that received the authentication information from the mobile device, receiving, by the computing device, first location information of the mobile device, and provisioning, by the computing device and based on the first location information of the mobile device being within a predetermined distance of a location of the financial terminal, the requested financial account for the customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Shari Van Cleave, Darren Michael Goetz, Dennis Emmanuel Montenegro
  • Patent number: 11625991
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a customer device, a request to provision a financial account for the customer, associating, by the computing device, a mobile device with the requested financial account, and sending, by the computing device to the mobile device, authentication information for the requested financial account. The method further includes receiving the authentication information by the computing device from a financial terminal that received the authentication information from the mobile device, receiving, by the computing device, first location information of the mobile device, and provisioning, by the computing device and based on the first location information of the mobile device being within a predetermined distance of a location of the financial terminal, the requested financial account for the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Shari Van Cleave, Darren Michael Goetz, Dennis Emmanuel Montenegro
  • Patent number: 11568419
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving information related to a transaction with a financial account initiated by a customer at a financial terminal, the financial account including a transaction limit. Based on the information related to the transaction exceeding the transaction limit for the financial account, the method includes identifying a mobile device associated with the financial account and receiving location information of the mobile device via one or both of a passive location response or an active location response. Based on the location information of the mobile device, the method includes determining that the mobile device is located within a predetermined distance from a location of the financial terminal and temporarily changing the transaction limit for the financial account by a variable amount based on whether the location information of the mobile device was received via the one or both of the passive or the active location response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Shari Van Cleave, Darren Michael Goetz, Dennis Emmanuel Montenegro, Dominik Vltavsky, Fairy Bui, Jason Huang, Christopher Sipanya
  • Patent number: 11552309
    Abstract: An electrochemical device comprises a stack consisting of a plurality of electrochemical units which succeed one another along a stack direction and which each include a membrane electrode arrangement, a bipolar plate and at least one sealing element, at least one medium channel which extends along the stack direction, a flow field through which a medium can flow from the medium channel to another medium channel, and a connection channel through which the flow field and the medium channel are in fluid connection with one another, wherein the sealing arrangement includes a connection channel region in which the sealing arrangement crosses the connection channel, and at least one neighboring region which is located in front of or behind the connection channel region in the longitudinal direction of the sealing arrangement, wherein the sealing arrangement has a lower average height in the connection channel region than in the neighboring region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Juergen Kraft, Peter Stahl, Michael Goetz, Manuel Morcos
  • Publication number: 20220246952
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bipolar plate for a low-temperature fuel cell, in particular for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, including a metal substrate with a coating on a surface of the substrate, the coating including an organic polymer and an electroconductive filler. The organic polymer is formed by chemical reaction of at least two components, including a bi- or polyfunctional isocyanate compound as the first component and one or more compounds having at least two free hydroxy or amino groups, as the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander Hoeflich, Michael Goetz, Alexander Groeh
  • Patent number: 11151845
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving, by a computing device from a customer device, a request to provision a financial account for the customer, associating, by the computing device, a mobile device with the requested financial account, and sending, by the computing device to the mobile device, authentication information for the requested financial account. The method further includes receiving the authentication information by the computing device from a financial terminal that received the authentication information from the mobile device, receiving, by the computing device, first location information of the mobile device, and provisioning, by the computing device and based on the first location information of the mobile device being within a predetermined distance of a location of the financial terminal, the requested financial account for the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Shari Van Cleave, Darren Michael Goetz, Dennis Emmanuel Montenegro
  • Patent number: 10840516
    Abstract: To provide a flow element which in particular is used as a component of a bipolar plate in electrochemical devices, which is stable and permits efficient flow guiding, it is proposed that the flow element comprises a plate-like main body that is formed as a shaped sheet metal product and has a channel structure, wherein the channel structure comprises a plurality of channels which are formed by recesses in the main body and are separated from one another by raised portions of the main body, wherein there is provided at least one region with normal level difference that defines, with respect to a height direction running perpendicular to two main directions of extent of the main body, a height difference between a recess and an adjoining raised portion, wherein there is provided at least one region with reduced level difference, in which a height difference between a recess and an adjoining raised portion is less than the normal level difference, wherein the at least one region with reduced level difference co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Juergen Kraft, Manuel Morcos, Michael Goetz
  • Patent number: 10833337
    Abstract: An electrochemical device is provided that includes a stack of a plurality of electrochemical units that succeed one another in a stacking direction and each include an electrochemically active membrane electrode assembly, at least one gas diffusion layer and a bipolar plate having at least one flow field, in which at least one flow field is sealed off simply and reliably and the occurrence of parasitic flows is prevented, wherein at least one bipolar plate has at least one edge web, which borders a flow field of the bipolar plate and is in contact with a gas diffusion layer adjacent to the bipolar plate, and wherein the electrochemical device further includes at least one flow field seal element that seals off the flow field bordered by the edge web and is in contact with the edge web and in contact with the gas diffusion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Peter Stahl, Juergen Kraft, Michael Goetz
  • Publication number: 20200153024
    Abstract: A fuel cell device is provided, including a fuel cell stack, which includes a plurality of fuel cell units following each other in a stacking direction, and two end plates, between which the fuel cell stack is arranged. With the fuel cell device, harmful effects from hydrogen exiting the fuel cell units are avoided without making access to the fuel cell units impossible or causing a disproportionately large maintenance expenditure. The fuel cell device includes an enclosure which surrounds the fuel cell stack and the end plates, wherein the free remaining volume that remains within the enclosure between the enclosure, the fuel cell stack, and the end plates is less than 20% of the internal volume of the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Juergen Kraft, Michael Goetz, Manuel Morcos
  • Patent number: 10256480
    Abstract: In order to provide a flow element by means of which a fluid can be guided and/or distributed over a surface as uniformly as possible, it is proposed that the flow element comprises a plate-like main body, which has a channel structure, wherein the channel structure comprises two or more paths, which connect an inlet side of the channel structure to an outlet side of the channel structure, wherein the two or more channel paths each have one or more meandering segments, wherein meandering segments of channel paths different from each other are nested in each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Juergen Kraft, Michael Goetz, Manuel Morcos
  • Publication number: 20180102554
    Abstract: An electrochemical device is provided that includes a stack of a plurality of electrochemical units that succeed one another in a stacking direction and each include an electrochemically active membrane electrode assembly, at least one gas diffusion layer and a bipolar plate having at least one flow field, in which at least one flow field is sealed off simply and reliably and the occurrence of parasitic flows is prevented, wherein at least one bipolar plate has at least one edge web, which borders a flow field of the bipolar plate and is in contact with a gas diffusion layer adjacent to the bipolar plate, and wherein the electrochemical device further includes at least one flow field seal element that seals off the flow field bordered by the edge web and is in contact with the edge web and in contact with the gas diffusion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Stahl, Juergen Kraft, Michael Goetz
  • Publication number: 20170317373
    Abstract: In order to produce an electro-chemical unit for a fuel cell stack in which a plurality of electro-chemical units follow one another along a stacking direction wherein the electro-chemical unit includes a membrane electrode unit having an anode-side electro-chemically active surface which has an outer border that is defined by an anode-side bordering element and wherein the electro-chemical unit also includes a cathode-side electro-chemically active surface which has an outer border that is defined by a cathode-side bordering element in such a way as to prevent enhanced aging of the membrane electrode unit due to regions of the membrane electrode unit only being supplied with an oxidizing agent, it is proposed that the outer border of the anode-side electro-chemically active surface be displaced outwardly at least in sections thereof with respect to the outer border of the cathode-side electro-chemically active surface in a direction running perpendicularly to the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Stahl, Juergen Kraft, Michael Goetz
  • Publication number: 20170170492
    Abstract: In order to provide a flow element by means of which a fluid can be guided and/or distributed over a surface as uniformly as possible, it is proposed that the flow element comprises a plate-like main body, which has a channel structure, wherein the channel structure comprises two or more paths, which connect an inlet side of the channel structure to an outlet side of the channel structure, wherein the two or more channel paths each have one or more meandering segments, wherein meandering segments of channel paths different from each other are nested in each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Juergen KRAFT, Michael GOETZ, Manuel MORCOS
  • Publication number: 20170170489
    Abstract: To provide a flow element which in particular is used as a component of a bipolar plate in electrochemical devices, which is stable and permits efficient flow guiding, it is proposed that the flow element comprises a plate-like main body that is formed as a shaped sheet metal product and has a channel structure, wherein the channel structure comprises a plurality of channels which are formed by recesses in the main body and are separated from one another by raised portions of the main body, wherein there is provided at least one region with normal level difference that defines, with respect to a height direction running perpendicular to two main directions of extent of the main body, a height difference between a recess and an adjoining raised portion, wherein there is provided at least one region with reduced level difference, in which a height difference between a recess and an adjoining raised portion is less than the normal level difference, wherein the at least one region with reduced level difference co
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: ElringKlinger AG
    Inventors: Juergen KRAFT, Manuel MORCOS, Michael GOETZ
  • Publication number: 20170012301
    Abstract: An electrochemical device comprises a stack consisting of a plurality of electrochemical units which succeed one another along a stack direction and which each include a membrane electrode arrangement, a bipolar plate and at least one sealing element, at least one medium channel which extends along the stack direction, a flow field through which a medium can flow from the medium channel to another medium channel, and a connection channel through which the flow field and the medium channel are in fluid connection with one another, wherein the sealing arrangement includes a connection channel region in which the sealing arrangement crosses the connection channel, and at least one neighboring region which is located in front of or behind the connection channel region in the longitudinal direction of the sealing arrangement, wherein the sealing arrangement has a lower average height in the connection channel region than in the neighboring region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen Kraft, Peter Stahl, Michael Goetz, Manuel Morcos