Patents by Inventor Michael Netzler

Michael Netzler 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: 20240076058
    Abstract: A system for determining the number of passengers in a vehicle, comprising a plurality of sensors arranged to collect data concerning a cabin of the vehicle, wherein the plurality of sensors comprises at least one mm-wave-radar-sensor, and a computation unit, wherein the computation unit is connected to the plurality of sensors and configured to evaluate the data collected by the plurality of sensors in order to determine the number of passengers within the vehicle. Also provided is the vehicle with the system and a method for determining the number of passengers in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Matthias HEINISCH, Hans-Achim BAUER, Michael NETZLER, Max LANGE
  • Publication number: 20220415162
    Abstract: A flight attendant calling device of a passenger aircraft includes at least one calling device control element assigned to a seat of the passenger aircraft for calling flight attendant staff on board the passenger aircraft by a passenger assigned to the seat, a calling device processor configured to create a configuration profile of the at least one calling device control element based on passenger preferences of the passenger of the passenger aircraft assigned to the seat, and a control element configurator, which is coupled to the calling device processor, and which is configured to set up a visual and/or haptic appearance as well as a flight attendant calling functionality of the at least one calling device control element based on the configuration profile received from the calling device processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Michael NETZLER, Michael LÜDTKE
  • Patent number: 11203441
    Abstract: A monitoring system for an aircraft cabin has a main computing unit, a galley operator control apparatus and a physically separate data distribution apparatus, having a first computing unit and a second computing unit, which is autonomous in respect of the latter, and connected via an interface circuit for data interchange. The first computing unit is set up to take a cabin output signal received from the main computing unit for providing an operating signal for operating a cabin function. The second computing unit is set up to take a control command received from a galley operator control apparatus display device as a basis for providing a switching signal prompting a power control device to switch an electrical load on or off, set up to take a cabin output signal received from the first computing unit for providing a display signal to reproduce information on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventors: Christian Riedel, Michael Netzler, Gerd Bruechmann
  • Patent number: 10863352
    Abstract: A network access control method involves requesting access to a network via a wireless communication adapter for a personal electronic device. Then, an acoustic audio code output by an audio signaling device connected to the wireless communication adapter by wire is acoustically captured by the personal electronic device. A digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code is submitted from the personal electronic device to the wireless communication adapter via wireless communication. Subsequently, the wireless communication adapter authenticates the personal electronic device on the basis of the submitted digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fischer, Jan Mueller, Ulrich Rittner, Michael Netzler
  • Publication number: 20190379584
    Abstract: A network access control method involves requesting access to a network via a wireless communication adapter for a personal electronic device. Then, an acoustic audio code output by an audio signaling device connected to the wireless communication adapter by wire is acoustically captured by the personal electronic device. A digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code is submitted from the personal electronic device to the wireless communication adapter via wireless communication. Subsequently, the wireless communication adapter authenticates the personal electronic device on the basis of the submitted digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fischer, Jan Mueller, Ulrich Rittner, Michael Netzler
  • Publication number: 20190308744
    Abstract: A monitoring system for an aircraft cabin has a main computing unit, a galley operator control apparatus and a physically separate data distribution apparatus, having a first computing unit and a second computing unit, which is autonomous in respect of the latter, and connected via an interface circuit for data interchange. The first computing unit is set up to take a cabin output signal received from the main computing unit for providing an operating signal for operating a cabin function. The second computing unit is set up to take a control command received from a galley operator control apparatus display device as a basis for providing a switching signal prompting a power control device to switch an electrical load on or off, set up to take a cabin output signal received from the first computing unit for providing a display signal to reproduce information on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Riedel, Michael Netzler, Gerd Bruechmann
  • Patent number: 10425286
    Abstract: A network access control method involves requesting access to a network via a wireless communication adapter for a personal electronic device. Then, an acoustic audio code output by an audio signaling device connected to the wireless communication adapter by wire is acoustically captured by the personal electronic device. A digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code is submitted from the personal electronic device to the wireless communication adapter via wireless communication. Subsequently, the wireless communication adapter authenticates the personal electronic device on the basis of the submitted digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fischer, Jan Mueller, Ulrich Rittner, Michael Netzler
  • Publication number: 20190206148
    Abstract: A data evaluation system, in particular for data evaluation on interfaces on board an aircraft, includes a data processing server having a receiver device, a data processing processor and an external server interface, and includes multiple data readers, coupled to the data processing server via the receiver device, that each have a device processor and a data capture component connected to the device processor and are configured to forward data captured by the data capture component to the data processing server for conditioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Torben Schröter, Christian Schmid, Markus Wirth, Volker Hasbach, Tibor Grützke, Nikolas Kern, Annika Geisemeyer, Thomas Meyerhoff, Michael Netzler
  • Publication number: 20180124059
    Abstract: Configurations of security settings of an access point arranged on board an aircraft. An exemplary embodiment of a method for configuring security settings of an access point arranged on board an aircraft for the authentication of mobile terminals comprises: receipt of flight-related security data from a mobile terminal via a configuration interface of the access point; and configuring of security settings of the access point in a configuration mode based on the flight-related security data so that automatic authentication of preconfigured mobile terminals for access to the access point is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Martin KUBISCH, Timo WARNS, Michael NETZLER
  • Publication number: 20170180212
    Abstract: A network access control method involves requesting access to a network via a wireless communication adapter for a personal electronic device. Then, an acoustic audio code output by an audio signaling device connected to the wireless communication adapter by wire is acoustically captured by the personal electronic device. A digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code is submitted from the personal electronic device to the wireless communication adapter via wireless communication. Subsequently, the wireless communication adapter authenticates the personal electronic device on the basis of the submitted digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fischer, Jan Mueller, Ulrich Rittner, Michael Netzler