Patents by Inventor Paul Franz
Paul Franz 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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Publication number: 20240152486Abstract: A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Paul L. Master, Steven K. Knapp, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen, Frederick Curtis Furtek
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Patent number: 11977509Abstract: A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Cornami, Inc.Inventors: Paul L. Master, Steven K. Knapp, Raymond J. Andraka, Alexei Beliaev, Martin A. Franz, Rene Meessen, Frederick Curtis Furtek
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Patent number: 11970257Abstract: A hydraulic power trim lift device for a marine propulsion system has at least one lift cylinder, at least one pump and a tank. The lift cylinder has a lift piston chamber and a lift rod chamber separated from the lift piston chamber by a lift cylinder piston. The pump is connected to the lift rod chamber via a first line arrangement and to the lift piston chamber via a second line arrangement. The lift piston chamber is connected to the tank via the second line arrangement when the first line arrangement is pressurized. The second line arrangement has a flow control device acting in the direction of flow to the tank. Furthermore, a marine propulsion system with such a power trim lift device is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HAWE Hydraulik SEInventors: Paul Franz, Florian Mayr, Jürgen Osterried
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Publication number: 20240138129Abstract: One example discloses an on-chip shielded device, including: a planar structure including a substrate and a passivation layer; an electrical component formed within the substrate and coupled to an input signal path and an output signal path; a first shielding element positioned above the electrical component and the passivation layer; and a second shielding element positioned above the electrical component, the passivation layer and the first shielding element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Philipp Franz Freidl, Mustafa Acar, Antonius Hendrikus Jozef Kamphuis, Erik Daniel Björk, Konstantinos Giannakidis, Jan Willem Bergman, Rajesh Mandamparambil, Paul Mattheijssen
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Patent number: 11928757Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed for intelligently generating partially textured accessible images. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate or access a color texture map specific to a given color vision deficiency. For example, the disclosed systems generate a color texture map that divides a color space into one or more textured segment of colors and one or more complementary untextured segments of colors. The disclosed systems can utilize the color texture map to intelligently apply different textures to subsets of pixels that contribute to color vision deficiency confusion. For example, the disclosed system maps pixels from a color image to the color texture map to identify a first subset of pixels corresponding to the textured segment of colors. The disclosed system generates a partially textured accessible image by applying a texture to the first subset of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Adobe Inc.Inventors: Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi, Rachel Franz, Paul Asente
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Patent number: 11921177Abstract: An electronic device (10) includes an electronic component (14); at least one electrically conductive loop or winding (18) disposed around the electronic component; and an electronic controller (24) configured to: obtain (102) a magnetic field direction from a received ambient magnetic field measurement signal; determine (104) at least one magnetic field shim current based on the obtained magnetic field direction; and energize (106) the at least one electrically conductive loop or winding to flow the determined at least one magnetic field shim current.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Arne Reykowski, Alton Keel, Timothy Ortiz, Scott King, Rodrigo Calderon Rico, Paul Franz Redder
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Publication number: 20240032249Abstract: A heat removal apparatus may comprise a vapor chamber device and a cover coupled to the vapor chamber device. The vapor chamber device comprises a base, a folded fin structure coupled to the base, with the base and folded fin structure defining a vapor chamber containing a wick and a working fluid. The cover and the vapor chamber device define a liquid chamber configured to receive liquid coolant. The folded fin structure comprises a plurality of folded fins defining a first plurality of grooves on a first side of the folded fin structure and defining a second plurality of grooves on a second side of the folded fin structure. The first plurality of grooves are part of the vapor chamber. The second plurality of grooves are part of the liquid chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Steven DEAN, Ernesto J. FERRER, John Paul FRANZ, Laura MALCOTTI-SANCHEZ
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Patent number: 11808288Abstract: A hydraulic component for vehicles, such as for maritime applications, is a hydraulic cylinder-piston unit. The piston of the hydraulic component has a piston rod with a measurement section. A magnetic rod in the piston rod extends over the measurement section. The magnetic rod has a helically varied magnetic field direction. The hydraulic component includes a sensor device having a scanning region measuring the field direction. The sensor device is arranged such that, over the entire stroke path of the piston, at least a part of the magnetic rod is located in the scanning region. The sensor device has a sensor unit configured to transmit measurement results for the field direction to a processing unit, configured to process and output the measurement results. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a hydraulic adjustment system having at least one hydraulic component and a vehicle having at least one hydraulic adjustment system.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: HAWE HYDRAULIK SEInventors: Jurgen Osterried, Florian Mayr, Peter Roider, Paul Franz, Peter Muller
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Publication number: 20230174211Abstract: A hydraulic trim device is provided for a boat motor with at least one trimming cylinder, a piston rod movable axially in the trimming cylinder between a first end position and a second end position, a trimming plate and a hydraulic unit. The trimming cylinder can be pressurized via the hydraulic unit to extend the piston rod. The piston rod has a contact portion and the trimming plate has an contact surface and the contact portion is in contact with the contact surface. The contact portion moves along the contact surface when the piston rod moves between the first end position and the second end position relative to the contact surface. The contact surface at least partially has a convex curvature in the direction of the piston rod. A boat motor with a hydraulic trim device and to a boat with such a boat motor are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Paul Franz, Florian Mayr, Jürgen Osterried, Michael Stegmüller
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Publication number: 20220397620Abstract: An electronic device (10) includes an electronic component (14); at least one electrically conductive loop or winding (18) disposed around the electronic component; and an electronic controller (24) configured to: obtain (102) a magnetic field direction from a received ambient magnetic field measurement signal; determine (104) at least one magnetic field shim current based on the obtained magnetic field direction; and energize (106) the at least one electrically conductive loop or winding to flow the determined at least one magnetic field shim current.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Arne REYKOWSKI, Alton KEEL, Timothy ORTIZ, Scott KING, Rodrigo CALDERON RICO, Paul Franz REDDER
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Publication number: 20220340249Abstract: A boat drive hydraulic steering unit has a steering cylinder unit, pump and tank. The cylinder unit has a first chamber, piston and second chamber. The pump is connected to the first and second chambers by respective first and second line. The first chamber is connected to the tank via the first line arrangement when the second chamber is pressurized, by the first line arrangement having a first check valve which opens when the second line arrangement is pressurized. The second chamber is connected to the tank via the second line arrangement when the first chamber is pressurized, by the second line arrangement having a second check valve which opens when the first line arrangement is pressurized. The first and second line arrangements have respective first and second throttling devices acting in the direction of flow towards the tank. A boat drive may include the steering unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Paul Franz, Florian Mayr, Jürgen Osterried, Michael Stegmüller, Markus Weiss
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Patent number: 11454685Abstract: A wireless magnetic resonance (MR) signal receiving system comprises a wireless MR coil (20) and a base station (50). The wireless MR coil includes coil elements (22) tuned to receive an MR signal, and electronic modules (24) each including a transceiver (30) and a digital processor (32). Each electronic module is operatively connected to receive an MR signal from at least one coil element. The base station includes a base station transceiver (52) configured to wirelessly communicate with the transceivers of the electronic modules of the wireless MR coil, and a base station digital processor (54). The electronic modules form a configurable mesh network (60) to wirelessly transmit the MR signals received by the electronic modules to the base station. The base station digital processor is programmed to operate the base station transceiver to receive the MR signals wirelessly transmitted to the base station by the configurable mesh network.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Paul Franz Redder, Arne Reykowski, Rodrigo Calderon Rico
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Patent number: 11320501Abstract: A clocked electronic device, such as a wireless magnetic resonance (MR) receive coil (20), comprises a wireless receiver or transceiver (30) configured to receive a propagation-delayed wireless clock synchronization signal (54) comprising first and second propagation-delayed carrier signals at respective first and second carrier frequencies separated by a frequency difference, a clock (60) comprising a local oscillator (62) driving a digital counter (64), and at least one electronic signal processing component (66) configured to perform clock synchronization. This includes determining a wrap count (k) from a phase difference (?1) between phases of the first and second propagation-delayed carrier signals, unwrapping a wrapped phase (?2,wrapped) of the propagation-delayed wireless clock synchronization signal using the wrap count to generate an unwrapped phase (?2,wrapped), and synchronizing the clock using the unwrapped phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Arne Reykowski, Paul Franz Redder, Rodrigo Calderon Rico
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Patent number: 11277808Abstract: A base station operating with a system clock includes a transmitter, a receiver, a phase error detector and a controller. The transmitter sends a first RF signal modulated onto a first RF carrier having a first phase over a first channel having a first variable phase delay to a mobile station. The mobile station recovers the first RF carrier, generates a second RF carrier, and synchronizes a local clock using the recovered first RF carrier and/or the second RF carrier. The receiver receives a second RF signal modulated onto the second RF carrier having a second phase over a second channel having a second variable phase delay. The phase error detector determines a phase error signal based on the first and second phases, and the controller generates a control signal based on the phase error signal. The control signal is applied to first and second inverse channel models.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Arne Reykowski, Paul Franz Redder, Rodrigo Calderon Rico
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Patent number: 11275134Abstract: In MRI system, acquired MR signals that will have a greater impact on the quality of the final reconstructed MRI image if a data link error occurs are encoded with a higher, or more robust, level of encoding prior to being transmitted over a data communications link. Conversely, acquired MR signals that will have a lesser impact on the quality of the final reconstructed MRI image if a data link error occurs are encoded with a lower, or less robust, level of encoding prior to being transmitted over the data communications link. The overall result is improved data link robustness and efficiency for data being sent over the data link.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Paul Franz Redder, Arne Reykowski, Filips Van Liere
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Publication number: 20210380212Abstract: A hydraulic power trim lift device for a marine propulsion system has at least one lift cylinder, at least one pump and a tank. The lift cylinder has a lift piston chamber and a lift rod chamber separated from the lift piston chamber by a lift cylinder piston. The pump is connected to the lift rod chamber via a first line arrangement and to the lift piston chamber via a second line arrangement. The lift piston chamber is connected to the tank via the second line arrangement when the first line arrangement is pressurized. The second line arrangement has a flow control device acting in the direction of flow to the tank. Furthermore, a marine propulsion system with such a power trim lift device is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Paul Franz, Florian Mayr, Jürgen Osterried
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Patent number: 11119167Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging system (100, 200, 300, 400) includes a wireless communication station (600) which: receives via a receive antenna element (630) at least one first clock signal among two or more first clock signals which are synchronized with a first clock (510); transmits two or more second clock signals from two or more transmit antenna elements (620-1) of a phased array antenna (620); transmits data representing a sensed magnetic resonance signal from at least two of the transmit antenna elements; outputs a clock synchronization signal in response to the received first clock signal(s); and synchronizes a second clock (610) to the first clock signal in response to the clock synchronization signal. The first clock signals are transmitted by a phased array antenna (520) of another wireless communication station (500).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Rodrigo Calderon Rico, Arne Reykowski, Paul Franz Redder
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Publication number: 20210254640Abstract: A hydraulic component for vehicles, such as for maritime applications, is a hydraulic cylinder-piston unit. The piston of the hydraulic component has a piston rod with a measurement section. A magnetic rod in the piston rod extends over the measurement section. The magnetic rod has a helically varied magnetic field direction. The hydraulic component includes a sensor device having a scanning region measuring the field direction. The sensor device is arranged such that, over the entire stroke path of the piston, at least a part of the magnetic rod is located in the scanning region. The sensor device has a sensor unit configured to transmit measurement results for the field direction to a processing unit, configured to process and output the measurement results. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a hydraulic adjustment system having at least one hydraulic component and a vehicle having at least one hydraulic adjustment system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Jurgen Osterried, Florian Mayr, Peter Roider, Paul Franz, Peter Muller
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Patent number: 11015608Abstract: An axial flow pump comprises a housing having a bore, a cylindrical permanent magnet within the housing bore, and at least one impeller inside the permanent magnet and adapted to cause fluid to flow within the cylindrical permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is configured to rotate in the bore around its longitudinal axis. A motor lamination stack surrounds the cylindrical permanent magnet. The motor lamination stack is formed substantially as a cuboid, extending in a width and height direction perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the cylindrical permanent magnet. The diameter of the bore is at least 80% of the dimension of the cuboid in the height direction. A coil of the motor lamination is configured to be energized and to create a rotating magnetic field in the lamination stack to rotate the cylindrical permanent magnet around its longitudinal axis. The coil is disposed to one or both sides of the pump.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: John Paul Franz, Tahir Cader
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Patent number: 10928470Abstract: An image acquisition system (100, 500, 600, 700). The image acquisition system may include at least one processor (110, 502-2, 610, 710) configured to control: a transmitter (112, 612) to form packets for transmission over a high-data-rate (HDR) wireless communication link (HDR-WCL) (124, 624), an image acquisition device (120, 631) to acquire image data and form HDR data, and a scheduler (114, 614) to acquire control information for controlling at least one function of the image acquisition system during the image acquisition, determine a restricted packet size for the packets of the HDR-WCL in accordance with at least deterministic timing requirements of the system, and determine a schedule for transmitting the control information in a corresponding packet of the packets in accordance with the deterministic timing requirements of the image acquisition system and the restricted packet size.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Paul Franz Redder, Arne Reykowski, Timothy Ortiz, George Randall Duensing