Patents by Inventor Patricia Cruz

Patricia Cruz 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: 20230272657
    Abstract: A drive arrangement for a motor vehicle flap including a gas pressure element, the gas pressure element has an outwardly sealed cylinder and a piston moveable in the cylinder interior along the cylinder axis and subdivides the cylinder interior into two sub-chambers, the gas pressure element has a first drive connection connected to the cylinder, and a second drive connection connected to the piston, the cylinder filled with a fluid and the piston has an overflow channel arrangement to create a balancing flow between the two sub-chambers to balance a pressure drop between the two sub-chambers. The piston is assigned a switchable valve arrangement which, depending on the pressure drop between the two sub-chambers, to create different through-flow states differing the cross section of the overflow channel arrangement. Upon exceeding a predetermined threshold for the pressure drop, the valve arrangement switches to change the cross section of the overflow channel arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicants: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE SE & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFT, BAMBERG, SUSPA GMBH
    Inventors: Michael WITTELSBÜRGER, Clemens FRANKE, Sebastian RAMSAUER, Patricía CRUZ, Roland LÖSCHER, Waldon ZUO
  • Publication number: 20220195522
    Abstract: The present invention responds to the need to provide an endogenous miRNA for quantifying the amount of one or more targets miRNA in exosomes using normalization, that that does not vary within the different tumor types and within the different chemotherapeutic treatments. This is essential to be able to perform robust analysis of the expression of exosomal miRNAs in these pathologies. So far, other types of endogenous controls have been used that are not strictly exosomal, thus reducing their reliability as normalizers. Therefore, for the first time, an endogenous control specific for the exosomal compartment would be available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Inmaculada IBÁÑEZ DE CÁCERES, Javier DE CASTRO CARPEÑO, Julia JIMÉNEZ HERNANDEZ, Carlos RODRÍGUEZANTOLÍN, Carmen RODRÍGUEZ JIMÉNE, Rocío ROSAS ALONSO, Patricia CRUZ CASTELLANOS, Miranda BURDIEL HERENCIA, Olga PERNÍA ARIAS, María Dolores DIESTRO TEJEDA, Mª Isabel ESTEBAN RODRÍGUEZ
  • Patent number: 7669368
    Abstract: Sliding door for motor vehicles, having an outer door skin, an inner door skin and a door inside trim, supported on a guide rail on a vehicle body and movable between opened and closed positions. The sliding door includes a cable guide assembly for accommodating and guiding electric cables, which connect first electric elements provided in or on the vehicle body to second electric elements provided on the sliding door, whereby on moving the sliding door, the cable guide assembly is movable in a plane including the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and whereby a guide channel for guiding the cable guide assembly is provided on moving the sliding door. Guide surfaces of the guide channel are formed or integrated at least in sections on the inner door skin, in a door module support and/or on the door inside trim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thorsten Kuhnen, Patricia Cruz, Arnd Herwig, Olaf Kriese
  • Publication number: 20070296245
    Abstract: A sliding door for a motor vehicle which may be moved along a direction of displacement for opening and closing a door opening in the motor vehicle body is provided. The sliding door comprising a sliding door drive for producing a drive torque, a force transmitting mechanism and at least one further device for actuating an adjusting part of the sliding door. At least parts of the sliding door drive and parts of the further device for actuating an adjusting part have been pre-assembled on a module support outside the sliding door and the module support is arranged and secured as a pre-constructed module to the sliding door, together with the parts pre-assembled thereon outside the sliding door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Olaf Kriese, Patricia Cruz, Hilmar Dohles, Rolf Bucker, Ronny Schreiber, Manfred Stenzel
  • Publication number: 20070157523
    Abstract: Sliding door for motor vehicles, having an outer door skin, an inner door skin and a door inside trim, supported on a guide rail on a vehicle body and which is movable between an opened and closed positions. The sliding door includes a cable guide assembly for accommodating and guiding electric cables, which connect first electric elements provided in or on the vehicle body to second electric elements provided on the sliding door, whereby on moving the sliding door, the cable guide assembly is movable in a plane including the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and whereby a guide channel for guiding the cable guide assembly is provided on moving the sliding door. Guide surfaces of the guide channel are formed or integrated at least in sections on the inner door skin, in a door module support and/or on the door inside trim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE
    Inventors: Thorsten Kuhnen, Patricia Cruz, Arnd Herwig, Olaf Kriese
  • Publication number: 20040157260
    Abstract: A method for detecting the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum includes isolating DNA from a sample suspected of containing the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum. The method further includes subjecting the DNA to polymerase chain reaction amplification utilizing at least one of several primers, the several primers each including one of the base sequences 5′GTTGCTTCGGCGGGAAC3′, 5′TTTGCGTTTGCCACTCAGAG3′, 5′ACCTATCGTTGCTTCGGCG3′, and 5′GCGTTTGCCACTCAGAGAATACT3′. The method additionally includes detecting the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum by visualizing the product of the polymerase chain reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Patricia Cruz-Perez, Mark P. Buttner
  • Patent number: 6733999
    Abstract: A method for detecting the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum includes isolating DNA from a sample suspected of containing the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum. The method further includes subjecting the DNA to polymerase chain reaction amplification utilizing at least one of several primers, the several primers each including one of the base sequences 5′GTTGCTTCGGCGGGAAC3′, 5′TTTGCGTTTGCCACTCAGAG3′, 5′ACCTATCGTTGCTTCGGCG3′, and 5′GCGTTTGCCACTCAGAGAATACT3′. The method additionally includes detecting the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum by visualizing the product of the polymerase chain reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: University of Nevada
    Inventors: Patricia Cruz-Perez, Mark P. Buttner
  • Publication number: 20030054369
    Abstract: A method for detecting the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum includes isolating DNA from a sample suspected of containing the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum. The method further includes subjecting the DNA to polymerase chain reaction amplification utilizing at least one of several primers, the several primers each including one of the base sequences 5′GTTGCTTCGGCGGGAAC3′, 5′TTTGCGTTTGCCACTCAGAG3′, 5′ACCTATCGTTGCTTCGGCG3′, and 5′GCGTTTGCCACTCAGAGAATACT3′. The method additionally includes detecting the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum by visualizing the product of the polymerase chain reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Patricia Cruz-Perez, Mark P. Buttner