Patents by Inventor Paul Mehringer

Paul Mehringer 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).

  • Method and apparatus for monitoring an electrical current consumming device
    Publication number: 20030071610
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for monitoring an electrical power or current consuming device. In the method for monitoring a first time point at which a current value for current passing through the consuming device exceeds a first current threshold value and/or a second time point at which the current value drops below a second current threshold value is first measured. Then first time point and/or the second time point are compared with each other or with other variables, especially a starting time for a control signal for controlling the consuming device, to establish plausiblity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: Paul Mehringer, Christopher Huber