Patents by Inventor Patrick FREDERIX

Patrick FREDERIX 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).

  • Apparatus and method for determining mechanical properties of a system
    Patent number: 12571711
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for determining mechanical properties, more particularly rheological properties, of a system, having an oscillatable contact element and having a further contact element, in which apparatus the two contact elements are arranged in such a manner relative to one another that they can be operatively connected to one another by means of the system, having a device for photothermally exciting the oscillatable contact element, and with a device for detecting vibrations in the excited oscillatable contact element, wherein both the excitation device and the detection device interact with the oscillatable contact element, wherein the oscillatable contact element and the system can be excited to oscillate with different frequencies and/or with one or more frequency sweeps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: Nanosurf AG
    Inventors: Gotthold Fläschner, Patrick Frederix, Daniel Müller, David Martinez-Martin
  • Apparatus and method for determining mechanical properties of a system
    Publication number: 20240035945
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for determining mechanical properties, more particularly rheological properties, of a system, having an oscillatable contact element and having a further contact element, in which apparatus the two contact elements are arranged in such a manner relative to one another that they can be operatively connected to one another by means of the system, having a device for photothermally exciting the oscillatable contact element, and with a device for detecting vibrations in the excited oscillatable contact element, wherein both the excitation device and the detection device interact with the oscillatable contact element, wherein the oscillatable contact element and the system can be excited to oscillate with different frequencies and/or with one or more frequency sweeps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Gotthold Flaschner, Patrick FREDERIX, Daniel MULLER, David MARTINEZ-MARTIN