Patents by Inventor Michael Walter

Michael Walter 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: 12642165
    Abstract: A method for treating a usable agricultural area by means of a preferably liquid medium or spraying agent. In the method: when the usable area is driven over, the usable area to be treated is recorded transversely to a travel direction of a recording and spraying device by means of a plurality of image-capturing sensor units which each have a recording range; the image information from a sensor unit is processed by means of a local control unit assigned to the sensor unit; when it is necessary to actuate at least one metering valve for the medium or spraying agent, which metering valve is assigned to the particular recording range, information is transmitted between the local control unit and a main control unit on at least one CAN bus system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Walter
  • Patent number: 12540044
    Abstract: A cellular wheel sluice for bulk material comprises a housing having an interior, an extraction side cover releasably fastened to the housing, a cellular wheel which is arranged in an operational position in the housing so that it can be driven in rotation about a longitudinal axis and which is held on the extraction side cover, an extraction device for displacing the cellular wheel between the operational position and an extracted position, wherein the extraction device has a guide unit for guided displacement of the cellular wheel along an extraction direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, and an extraction drive arranged fixed to the housing and coupled to the extraction side cover for automatically driven displacement of the extraction side cover with the cellular wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: COPERION GMBH
    Inventors: Cornel Fuest, Max Langenberger, Matthias Schorer, Jochen Sprung, Michael Walter, Bruno Zinser
  • Patent number: 12517975
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a cryptographic encrypted computation method (400). The method involves performing a blind rotation of a ciphertext according to a test polynomial. The blind rotation results in an encrypted polynomial product of the test polynomial and a bootstrapping monomial represents the plaintext value as an exponent, modulo a modulus (q) and modulo a quotient polynomial (p(X)). . . . The quotient polynomial p(X) divides a number-theoretic transform (NTT) polynomial XM?1 that allows a number-theoretic transform modulo the modulus q, e.g., q is a power of two and p(X)=XN+XN/2+1. The blind rotation is performed using the NTT, while the test polynomial is defined in such a way that the polynomial product is programmed to have desired output values for respective plaintext values as a fixed coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: ZAMA SAS
    Inventors: Marc Francois Joye, Michael Walter
  • Patent number: 12490732
    Abstract: A control or regulating system for an agricultural working machine is provided, the system comprising a plurality of actuating elements that can be controlled individually or in groups, at least one control unit for receiving and/or sending switching commands to control the actuating elements, wherein the switching commands have at least one setting parameter setting and/or configuring the actuating elements, and at least one signal line to connect at least two actuating elements to the control unit for signal transmission. The switching commands are combined into at least one common group switching command that is transmitted via the at least one signal line, and the actuating elements are set and/or configured by the at least one group switching command. In turn, the efficiency and dependability of previous control or regulating systems is improved in a simple manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: AMAZONEN-WERKE H. DREYER SE & CO.
    Inventors: Jochen Heer, Alexander Siltmann, Bernd Becker, Michael Walter
  • Publication number: 20250340414
    Abstract: A method for controlling an industrial truck in a warehouse includes reading-in (S1) a point cloud of the warehouse is the surroundings of the industrial truck, wherein the point cloud read in contains point information of at least one object present in the surroundings, converting (S3) the point information into a frequency distribution of the point information, determining (S4) a statistical distribution parameter of the point information in the frequency distribution, classification (S5) of the object as a person or as a warehouse technology object on the basis of the statistical distribution parameter, and emitting (S6) a control signal to control the industrial truck in the warehouse on the basis of the result of the classification in the classification step (S5). The invention also describes a control unit for carrying out the method and an industrial truck with a control unit of that type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Gabriela Jager, Michael Walter, Markus Birk, Stefan Traub
  • Patent number: 12275961
    Abstract: Gene-modified, lymphoid-tissue-homing dendritic cells that comprise a 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene and a retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene, where the 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene is expressed to produce functional 1-alpha-hydroxylase enzyme and the retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene is expressed to produce functional retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene enzyme. A method for treating one or more than one inflammation-related condition or disease, the method comprising administering gene-modified, lymphoid-tissue-homing dendritic cells that comprise a 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene and a retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene, where the 1-alpha-hydroxylase gene is expressed to produce functional 1-alpha-hydroxylase enzyme and the retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene is expressed to produce functional retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 gene enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaolei Tang, David J. Baylink, K.-H. William Lau, Michael Walter
  • Publication number: 20250108983
    Abstract: A cellular wheel sluice for bulk material comprises a housing (2) having an interior (3), an extraction side cover (18) releasably fastened to the housing (2), a cellular wheel (8) which is arranged in an operational position in the housing (2) so that it can be driven in rotation about a longitudinal axis (7) and which is held on the extraction side cover (18), an extraction device (20) for displacing the cellular wheel (8) between the operational position and an extracted position, wherein the extraction device (20) has a guide unit (21) for guided displacement of the cellular wheel (8) along an extraction direction (41) parallel to the longitudinal axis (7), and an extraction drive (34) arranged fixed to the housing and coupled to the extraction side cover (18) for automatically driven displacement of the extraction side cover (18) with the cellular wheel (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Coperion GmbH
    Inventors: Cornel FUEST, Max LANGENBERGER, Matthias SCHORER, Jochen SPRUNG, Michael WALTER, Bruno ZINSER
  • Publication number: 20250036714
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a cryptographic encrypted computation method (400). The method involves performing a blind rotation of a ciphertext according to a test polynomial. The blind rotation results in an encrypted polynomial product of the test polynomial and a bootstrapping monomial represents the plaintext value as an exponent, modulo a modulus (q) and modulo a quotient polynomial (p(X)). The quotient polynomial p(X) divides an NTT polynomial XM?1 that allows a number-theoretic transform modulo the modulus q, e.g., q is a power of two and p(X)=XN+XN/2+1. The blind rotation is made more efficient by using the NTT, while the test polynomial is defined in such a way that the polynomial product is programmed to have desired output values for respective plaintext values as a fixed coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Marc Francois JOYE, Michael WALTER
  • Patent number: 12157349
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a refrigerant circuit of an air conditioning system, with a heat exchanger block with a first fluid channel for the flow of refrigerant and with a second fluid channel for the flow of a fluid. The first fluid channel and the second fluid channel are in thermal contact for the exchange of heat. The heat exchanger also includes a third fluid channel having a refrigerant inlet and a refrigerant outlet for the flow of the refrigerant. The first fluid channel is in direct thermal contact with the third fluid channel for the exchange of heat between the refrigerant in the first fluid channel and the refrigerant in the third fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Walter, Uwe Foerster
  • Publication number: 20240224843
    Abstract: A method for treating a usable agricultural area by means of a preferably liquid medium or spraying agent. In the method: when the usable area is driven over, the usable area to be treated is recorded transversely to a travel direction of a recording and spraying device by means of a plurality of image-capturing sensor units which each have a recording range; the image information from a sensor unit is processed by means of a local control unit assigned to the sensor unit; when it is necessary to actuate at least one metering valve for the medium or spraying agent, which metering valve is assigned to the particular recording range, information is transmitted between the local control unit and a main control unit on at least one CAN bus system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Walter
  • Publication number: 20240158690
    Abstract: Chromogenic compositions and devices are described herein which, in some embodiments, permit facile and environmentally friendly production while exhibiting efficient and reversible electrochromic activity. In some embodiments, a composite composition comprises one or more chromogenic thiazolothiazoles contained in an aqueous-based polyelectrolyte matrix. The one or more chromogenic thiazolothiazoles can be soluble in the aqueous-based polyelectrolyte matrix, in some embodiments. Moreover, the chromogenic thiazolothiazoles can comprise at least two pyridinium moieties. In some embodiments, the chromogenic thiazolothiazoles undergo a first color change in response to a first electron reduction, and a second color change in response to a second electron reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Joseph Adams, Michael walter
  • Patent number: 11879962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method on a radar measuring system for determining a uniform speed, in which method two antenna pairs, each consisting of a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna, are mapped to the same position within a virtual antenna arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Sick, Stefan Zechnar, Michael Walter, Kevin Cinglant
  • Patent number: 11789113
    Abstract: An evaluation device for obtaining a segmentation of an environment from a radar recording of the environment, that has an input interface configured to obtain initial training data, where the initial training data comprise radar data of the radar recording and initial characteristics of objects located in the environment recorded with a radar sensor that generates the radar recordings, and where the evaluation device is configured to forward propagate an artificial neural network with the initial training data to obtain second characteristics of the objects determined with the artificial neural network in the forward propagation, and to obtain weighting factors for neural connections of the artificial neural network through backward propagation of the artificial neural network with the differences between the second characteristics and the initial characteristics, in order to obtain the segmentation of the environment through renewed forward propagation with these radar data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Sick, Michael Walter
  • Publication number: 20230320340
    Abstract: Control and/or regulating system (200) for an agricultural working machine (100)—in particular, a distribution machine for spreading material over an agricultural area—comprising a plurality of actuating elements (103) that can be controlled individually and/or in groups, at least one control unit associated with the actuating elements (103), which control unit is designed to receive and/or send switching commands for the purpose of controlling the actuating elements (103), wherein the switching commands have at least one setting parameter (22, 23) suitable for setting and/or configuring the actuating elements (103), and at least one signal line, by way of which the at least two actuating elements (103) are connected to the control unit for the purpose of signal transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Jochen HEER, Alexander SILTMANN, Bernd BECKER, Michael WALTER
  • Publication number: 20210260966
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a refrigerant circuit of an air conditioning system, with a heat exchanger block with a first fluid channel as a refrigerant channel for the flow of refrigerant as a first fluid and with a second fluid channel for the flow of a second fluid therethrough. The first fluid channel and the second fluid channel are in thermal contact for the exchange of heat. A third fluid channel is provided, which is provided as a second refrigerant channel for the flow of refrigerant therethrough, wherein a second refrigerant inlet and a second refrigerant outlet are provided, which are in fluid communication with the third fluid channel, wherein the first fluid channel is in direct thermal contact with the third fluid channel as an internal heat exchanger for the exchange of heat between the refrigerant in the first fluid channel with the refrigerant in the third fluid channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael WALTER, Uwe FOERSTER
  • Patent number: 11087150
    Abstract: A method and a device are for identifying objects from camera images, e.g. for vehicle driver assistance systems. The method involves: capturing a series of camera images, determining a plurality of planes in space by associating adjacent corresponding features in at least two consecutive camera images with a given one of the planes, determining a relative translation vector of a plane, and identifying dynamic objects in the camera images based on the relative translation vector of an associated plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Walter
  • Patent number: 10984263
    Abstract: A method and a device are for identifying objects from camera images, e.g. for driver assistance systems. The method involves: capturing a series of camera images, determining corresponding features in two consecutive images, associating adjacent ones of the corresponding features with a plane in space to determine a plurality of such planes, and detecting objects while taking the determined planes into account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Walter
  • Patent number: 10984264
    Abstract: A method and a device are for detecting and validating objects from camera images, e.g. for driver assistance systems. The method involves: capturing a series of camera images, detecting a potential collision object in at least one image, determining corresponding features in two consecutive images in the image region of the detected potential collision object, associating the corresponding features with a plane, and validating the potential collision object when the associated plane corresponds to a back plane or a side plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Walter
  • Patent number: 10954083
    Abstract: A cellular wheel sluice for granulate bulk product has a housing in which a cellular wheel is rotatably mounted. The housing has an inlet duct for the bulk product. At least two raised granulate roofs are arranged at the inlet duct. A granulate groove is arranged respectively at the transition between two granulate roofs and/or at the transition between one granulate roof and an inlet edge. The two granulate grooves in each case run together at an intersection point in the rotation direction of the cellular wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Coperion GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Adomeit, Michael Walter, Bruno Zinser
  • Publication number: 20210003694
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method on a radar measuring system for determining a uniform speed, in which method two antenna pairs, each consisting of a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna, are mapped to the same position within a virtual antenna arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin Sick, Stefan Zechnar, Michael Walter, Kevin Cinglant