Patents by Inventor Michael Mann
Michael Mann 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).
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Patent number: 9376289Abstract: An elevator control system includes a control power supply, a computing core in communication with the control power supply, a communication power supply in communication with the computing core, and a sleep monitor in communication with the control power supply, the computing core, and the communication power supply. The sleep monitor is disposed to selectively turn on/off the control power supply and the computing core, and the sleep monitor is disposed to selectively change an operating state of the communication power supply to a low voltage state.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Peter Herkel, Juergen Gewinner, Axel S. Pfeffer, Dirk H. Tegtmeier, Gianfranco Giannini, Michael Mann
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Patent number: 9370521Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers expressing a GLI polypeptide. The disclosed compositions and pharmaceutical preparations may comprise one or more pyrazolyl-containing compounds, or an analog or derivative thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Biao He, Michael Mann, David M. Jablons
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Publication number: 20150361048Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers expressing a GLI polypeptide. The disclosed compositions and pharmaceutical preparations may comprise one or more pyrazolyl-containing compounds, or an analog or derivative thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Biao HE, Michael MANN, David M. JABLONS
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Publication number: 20150326559Abstract: Methods and systems for authenticating a security device for providing a secure access and transaction authorization to a remote network location are provided. The security device is authenticated by installing private security software on the security device. A Two-Channel authorization method includes a transaction notification/authorization channel and a transaction channel. A Three-Channel authorization method includes a transaction notification channel, a transaction authorization channel, and the transaction channel. Embodiments of the present invention provide increased security and privacy. A corresponding system for authenticating a security device and preforming secure private transactions is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Randy KUANG, Stanislus Kisito XAVIER, David Michael MANN, He ZHU, Yiwen WANG, Yuebin DING
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Publication number: 20150326565Abstract: Methods and systems for authenticating a security device for providing a secure access and transaction authorization to a remote network location are provided. The security device is authenticated by installing private security software on the security device. In order to authorize a transaction, a transaction authorization is performed using the security device by display a QR (Quick Response) code from an authorization server on a user terminal and scanning the QR code into the security device. After scanning the QR code, an OTA (One-Time-Authorization) code is sent from the security device to the authorization server for verifying the transaction. Embodiments of the present invention provide increased security and privacy. A corresponding system for authenticating a security device and preforming secure and private transactions is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Randy KUANG, Stanislus Kisito XAVIER, David Michael MANN, He ZHU, Yiwen WANG, Yuebin DING
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Publication number: 20150219664Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions that find use in facilitating a diagnosis of inflammatory liver disease in a subject. The methods and compositions generally involve detection of eotaxin-3 (E3) levels, either alone or with levels of eotaxin-1 (E1), and optionally, with levels of CCL22 and, further optionally, with levels of IL15. These levels can be used to facilitate a diagnosis of a liver disease of at least one of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and/or to facilitate a differential diagnosis between AIH, PBC, and PSC. The methods and compositions of the present disclosure also find use in facilitating treatment decisions for a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: Medizinische Hochschule HannoverInventors: Abdolamir Landi, Michael Houghton, D. Lorne Tyrrell, Tobias Weismueller, Michael Manns
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Publication number: 20150203328Abstract: A system for managing elevator power includes a power line connected to a power grid, a motor connected to the power line and configured to receive power from the power line to drive an elevator, an alternative power source connected to the motor, and a power control system configured to control the power line to supply power to the motor to drive the elevator, to detect a predetermined threshold value of power supplied from the power line, and to supply both power from the power line and power from the alternative power source to the motor based on a determination that the predetermined threshold value of power is supplied from the power line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2012Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Herbert Horbrügger, Michael Mann, Dirk H. Tegtmeier
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Publication number: 20150172292Abstract: Methods for authenticating a security device at a local network location for providing a secure access from the local network location to a remote network location are provided. A security device is registered by installing private security software on the security device that generates an asymmetrical encryption key pair including an encryption key and a decryption key. The encryption key is stored only on the security device and the decryption key is stored only on a remote server. Embodiments of the present invention provide increased security by not storing the encryption key on the remote server so that attackers stealing data from the server cannot pretend to a user having the registered security device. A corresponding system for authenticating a security device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Randy KUANG, Stanislus Kisito XAVIER, David Michael MANN, Robert Frank STEKLASA, Stephen George WILSON, He ZHU, Nicolas Johannes Sebastian BETTENBURG
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Patent number: 8973111Abstract: A method for secure electronic transaction over a computer network, comprising: at a trusted relationship profile server computer: storing a unique identity of a trusted computing unit; generating a confirmation message regarding the unique identity of the trusted computing unit in response to a request from the trusted computing unit; at a security proxy server computer: storing real credentials and local credentials of a customer in a secure vault; receiving the confirmation message and permitting a login process to be performed with the security proxy server using the local credentials, provided the confirmation message is valid; and replacing the local credentials submitted in the login process with the real credentials. A corresponding system for secure electronic transactions is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Inbay Technologies Inc.Inventors: Randy Kuang, Stanislus Kisito Xavier, David Michael Mann
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Patent number: 8970152Abstract: An exemplary power supply assembly includes a drive device having a bus capacitor. A switch associated with an input side of the drive device selectively connects the drive device to a power supply. An inductor has an impedance that limits an amount of current supplied to the bus capacitor during an initial charging of the bus capacitor when the switch connects the input side of the drive device to the power supply. A restrictive circuit portion dampens a resonance effect of the inductor. The restrictive circuit portion has a resistance that allows the bus capacitor to charge quickly. The impedance of the inductor has a more significant effect on how quickly the bus capacitor charges than an effect of the resistance. A dampening factor of the restrictive circuit controls a voltage of the bus capacitor during the charging of the bus capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Daryl J. Marvin, Michael Mann, Steven M. Millett
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Publication number: 20140303160Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers expressing a GLI polypeptide. The disclosed compositions and pharmaceutical preparations may comprise one or more pyrazolyl-containing compounds, or an analog or derivative thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Biao He, Michael Mann, David M. Jablons
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Patent number: 8827042Abstract: An exemplary elevator machine includes a motor that operates in a first mode to move an elevator car and in a second mode to generate power. A line reactor is associated with the motor for delivering power generated by the motor operating in the second mode. The line reactor includes an air core inductor.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Wolfgang Lutz Zemke, Marvin Dehmlow, Michael Mann
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Patent number: 8779310Abstract: A switching device includes a switching element movable from a first position into a second position, a drive unit producing a rotary movement, and a flexible shaft transmitting the rotary movement to the switching element. The shaft has rotatable input and output sections on input- and output-drive sides, respectively. During movement of the shaft, a first rotary angle is producible at the output section, which first rotary angle is less than a second rotary angle at the input section at the same time, such that a first rotary angle shift is produced. The input section is connected to a switching position detection element having a control means with a first region which corresponds to the first position of the switching element and is coupled to the detection element. An identical indication of the detection element can be achieved in case of different rotary angle shifts in the same electrical switching state.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Klaus Keim, Michael Mann, Tobias Erford, Daniel Kuhl, David Saxl, Peter Klonecki
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Publication number: 20140174787Abstract: An insulator for a gas insulated device and method of making and/or producing the insulator are disclosed. The insulator includes an injection molded insulator disc and a conductor. The insulator disc includes a center opening encompassed by an inner bead inside which the conductor is arranged. The insulator disc includes, for example, a first material which is injection molded onto the conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTDInventors: Nikolaus Zant, Dariusz Bednarowski, Robert Platek, Harald Martini, Ralph Uhl, Michael Mann, Cherif Ghoul, Malinowski Lukasz
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Publication number: 20140080593Abstract: A gaming system includes a motion tracking sensing device, a user image reproduction device to display a mirror image of a user operating the gaming system, a user image enhancement display device disposed in proximity to the user image reproduction device, and one or more memory devices storing instructions. The instructions cause the gaming system to sense, via the motion tracking sensing device, a first relative position of the user, generate first graphical images and first graphical image locations based on the sensed first relative position of the user, and output the first graphical images at the first graphical image locations on the user image enhancement display device so that the graphical images overlay corresponding portions of the mirror image of the user when viewed from the sensed first relative position of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: WMS GAMING, INC.Inventors: Carlos Enrique Breban Rivera, Anthony Joseph Walter Prohl, John Lawrence Walsh, David Michael Mann, Timothy Carl Loose
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Plug-in primary power connections of two modules of a gas-insulated high-voltage switchgear assembly
Patent number: 8629367Abstract: A gas-insulated switchgear assembly having a first module and a second module, which each have a gas area, which is in the form of a pressure vessel, is filled with an insulating gas and has at least two phase conductors. The first module is connected to the second module such that the first gas area and the second gas area are hydraulically separated from one another by an insulating body, while the phase conductors in the first module are electrically connected to the phase conductors at the same electrical potential in the second module. The at least two phase conductors in the first module can be electrically connected to the at least two phase conductors at the same electrical potential in the second module, in each case via a detachable plug connection.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Daniel Zwicky, David Saxl, Horst Schalber, Michael Mann, Daniel Kuhl -
Patent number: 8624146Abstract: An exemplary switch having a housing that includes one contact bolt per phase. Each contact bolt moving along a longitudinal axis. In a first position on the axis, the contact bolt connects two active parts to one another. In a second position on the axis, the contact bolt is connected to a fixed earthing contact piece. A drive motor actuates the contact bolts via a drive spindle. The lines of movement of each contact bolt all phases lie in a common plane, wherein each contact bolt is driven by one insulating spindle, which is aligned with the line of movement. The drive spindle lies in the plane of the lines of movement and runs perpendicular to the insulating spindles and is coupled to each insulating spindle via a respective deflecting gear mechanism. The deflecting gear mechanism for the drive of the contact bolts is accommodated in the earthing contact pieces.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Daniel Kuhl, Michael Mann, David Saxl
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Publication number: 20130276082Abstract: A method for secure electronic transaction over a computer network, comprising: at a trusted relationship profile server computer: storing a unique identity of a trusted computing unit; generating a confirmation message regarding the unique identity of the trusted computing unit in response to a request from the trusted computing unit; at a security proxy server computer: storing real credentials and local credentials of a customer in a secure vault; receiving the confirmation message and permitting a login process to be performed with the security proxy server using the local credentials, provided the confirmation message is valid; and replacing the local credentials submitted in the login process with the real credentials. A corresponding system for secure electronic transactions is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Randy Kuang, Stanislus Kisito Xavier, David Michael Mann
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Publication number: 20130270045Abstract: An elevator control system includes a control power supply, a computing core in communication with the control power supply, a communication power supply in communication with the computing core, and a sleep monitor in communication with the control power supply, the computing core, and the communication power supply. The sleep monitor is disposed to selectively turn on/off the control power supply and the computing core, and the sleep monitor is disposed to selectively change an operating state of the communication power supply to a low voltage state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Peter Herkel, Juergen Gewinner, Axel S. Pfeffer, Dirk H. Tegtmeier, Gianfranco Giannini, Michael Mann
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Patent number: D719329Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Payless ShoeSource Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Justin Smith, Michael Mann Langfitt