Patents by Inventor Paul Schaffer

Paul Schaffer 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: 8953630
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement comprises an input circuit for reading in a serial data stream, which comprises a plurality of useful data bits, and for reading in a piece of information which indicates the start of the serial data stream. The circuit arrangement also comprises a data processing circuit for removing at least one useful data bit from the read-in, serial data stream. The data processing circuit is designed such that it removes the at least one useful data bit at a prescribed position after the start of the serial data stream. The circuit arrangement also comprises a first output circuit for outputting the read-in, serial data stream for the omission of the at least one removed useful data bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Josef-Paul Schaffer
  • Patent number: 8834839
    Abstract: Imaging agents that comprise labeled substrates of the cystine/glutamate antiporter of cells, whereby the methods of use comprise introducing the labeled agents into cells via the cystine/glutamate antiporter, which are then reduced to a labeled cysteine, and subsequently detected in the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul Schaffer, Brian Duh-Lan Lee, Kande Kankanamalage Dayarathna Amarasinghe, Faisal Ahmed Syud, Rong Zhang, Jack Mathew Webster, Jennifer Lynne Huntington
  • Publication number: 20140167090
    Abstract: An optoelectronic transmission system has a photoemitter semiconductor component and a photodetector semiconductor component. The photoemitter semiconductor component has a radiation source for converting a first electrical signal into a first electromagnetic radiation and a first polarization filter having a first polarization direction for filtering the first electromagnetic radiation. The photodetector semiconductor component has a second polarization filter having a second polarization direction for filtering a second electromagnetic radiation and a sensor element for converting a second electromagnetic radiation which has been polarized by the polarization filter into a second electrical signal. In this case, the first polarization direction of the first polarization filter is identical to the second polarization direction of the second polarization filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Jaime Estevez-Garcia, Josef-Paul Schaffer
  • Patent number: 8693883
    Abstract: An optoelectronic transmission system has a photoemitter semiconductor component and a photodetector semiconductor component. The photoemitter semiconductor component has a radiation source for converting a first electrical signal into a first electromagnetic radiation and a first polarization filter having a first polarization direction for filtering the first electromagnetic radiation. The photodetector semiconductor component has a second polarization filter having a second polarization direction for filtering a second electromagnetic radiation and a sensor element for converting a second electromagnetic radiation which has been polarized by the polarization filter into a second electrical signal. In this case, the first polarization direction of the first polarization filter is identical to the second polarization direction of the second polarization filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Jaime Estevez-Garcia, Josef-Paul Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20120165650
    Abstract: Imaging agents comprising an isolated polypeptide conjugated with a radionuclide and a chelator; wherein the isolated polypeptide binds specifically to HER2, or a variant thereof; and methods for preparing and using these imaging agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Faisal Ahmed Syud, Brian Duh-Lan Lee, Rong Zhang, Peter Brian Iveson, Paul Schaffer, Tove Eriksson, Elin Gunneriusson, Fredrik Frejd, Lars Abrahmsen, Joachim Feldwisch, Nina Herne, Christofer Lendel
  • Patent number: 8124725
    Abstract: Provided herein are PDGF-R? imaging agents that are polypeptides labeled with a signal generator (e.g., paramagnetic label, a radionuclide, or a fluorophore), wherein the imaging agents bind specifically to PDGFR-?. Also provided are in vivo imaging methods using the imaging agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Ernest Marino, Faisal Ahmed Syud, Paul Schaffer, Brian Duh-Lan Lee, Rong Zhang, Malin Lindborg, Elin Gunneriusson, Christopher Lendel
  • Publication number: 20110013642
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement comprises an input circuit for reading in a serial data stream, which comprises a plurality of useful data bits, and for reading in a piece of information which indicates the start of the serial data stream. The circuit arrangement also comprises a data processing circuit for removing at least one useful data bit from the read-in, serial data stream. The data processing circuit is designed such that it removes the at least one useful data bit at a prescribed position after the start of the serial data stream. The circuit arrangement also comprises a first output circuit for outputting the read-in, serial data stream for the omission of the at least one removed useful data bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventor: Josef-Paul SCHAFFER
  • Publication number: 20100272641
    Abstract: Imaging agents that comprise labeled substrates of the cystine/glutamate antiporter of cells, whereby the methods of use comprise introducing the labeled agents into cells via the cystine/glutamate antiporter, which are then reduced to a labeled cysteine, and subsequently detected in the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: JACK MATHEW WEBSTER, FAISAL AHMED SYUD, BRIAN DUH-LAN LEE, PAUL SCHAFFER, RONG ZHANG, JENNIFER LYNNE HUNTINGTON, KANDE KANKANAMALAGE DAYARATHNA AMARASINGHE
  • Publication number: 20100209120
    Abstract: An optoelectronic transmission system has a photoemitter semiconductor component and a photodetector semiconductor component. The photoemitter semiconductor component has a radiation source for converting a first electrical signal into a first electromagnetic radiation and a first polarization filter having a first polarization direction for filtering the first electromagnetic radiation. The photodetector semiconductor component has a second polarization filter having a second polarization direction for filtering a second electromagnetic radiation and a sensor element for converting a second electromagnetic radiation which has been polarized by the polarization filter into a second electrical signal. In this case, the first polarization direction of the first polarization filter is identical to the second polarization direction of the second polarization filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Jaime ESTEVEZ-GARCIA, Josef-Paul SCHAFFER
  • Publication number: 20100073978
    Abstract: A bridge rectifier circuit including a first and second pair of bipolar transistors, wherein the bipolar transistors of each pair have conductivity types that are opposite from one another; first and second input terminals coupled to each of the bipolar transistors; and first and second output terminals coupled to each of the bipolar transistors. Furthermore, each of the bipolar transistors is configured to operate in reverse-active mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Josef Paul Schaffer, Jakob Huber, Hermann Seitz
  • Publication number: 20090274623
    Abstract: Provided are in vivo imaging agents comprising muteins of hTLc having detectable binding affinity for c-Met or a domain thereof, coupled to a signal generator, and the mutein coupled to a signal generator is disposed in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also provided are diagnostic methods using in vivo imaging agents comprising muteins of hTLc having detectable binding affinity for c-Met or a domain thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Clifford L. Smith, Faisal Ahmed Syud, Brian Duh-Lan Lee, Matthew Sam Morrison, Michael Ernest Marino, Jason William Castle, Paul Schaffer, Gabriele Matschiner, Andreas Hohlbaum, Martin Huelsmeyer, Stefan Trentmann
  • Publication number: 20090191124
    Abstract: Provided herein are PDGF-R? imaging agents that are polypeptides labeled with a signal generator (e.g., paramagnetic label, a radionuclide, or a fluorophore), wherein the imaging agents bind specifically to PDGFR-?. Also provided are in vivo imaging methods using the imaging agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Ernest Marino, Faisal Ahmed Syud, Paul Schaffer, Brian Duh-Lan Lee, Rong Zhang, Malin Lindborg, Elin Gunneriusson, Christopher Lendel
  • Publication number: 20090044288
    Abstract: This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting, of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced trait.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Mark Abad, Murtaza Alibhai, Alice Clara Augustine, Amarjit Basra, Erin Bell, Terry L. Bradshaw, Paolo Castiglioni, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Jill Deikman, Molian Deng, Michael D. Edgerton, Karen K. Gabbert, Barry S. Goldman, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Susanne Kjemtrup-Lovelace, Timothy J. Leland, Adrian A. Lund, Linda Lutfiyya, Marcus McNabnay, Donald E. Nelson, Thomas G. Ruff, Beth Savidge, Paul Schaffer, Padmini Sudarshana, K. Sumathy, Carolyn Thai, Rebecca L. Thompson-Mize, Carl P. Urwin, H.G. Veena, T.V. Venkatesh, Steven T. Voss, Zhidong Xie
  • Patent number: 7453509
    Abstract: A digital camera has a lens, a camera housing, and a semiconductor sensor. The camera housing is primarily formed of a transparent plastic block that encloses a semiconductor sensor only on its underside and has an adapted lens on its top side. Between the two there is provided an opaque layer with an aperture that improves the image quality. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a digital camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Losehand, Stefan Paulus, Martin Petz, Josef-Paul Schaffer, Martin Schroeder, Bernd Stadler
  • Patent number: 7176546
    Abstract: A diode circuit includes a pin diode structure, wherein the n-semiconductor layer is a buried layer, on which the i-area is deposited by an epitaxy method, and wherein a p-semiconductor layer is introduced into the epitaxy layer. A contacting of the p-semiconductor layer and a contacting of the n-semiconductor layer are arranged on the same main surface of the semiconductor substrate so that an integration with an integrated capacitor, an integrated resistor and/or an integrated inductor is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Carsten Ahrens, Wolfgang Hartung, Holger Heuermann, Reinhard Losehand, Josef-Paul Schaffer
  • Patent number: 6890513
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new method for the preparation of radiopharmaceuticals based on technetium and rhenium. The method involves the reaction of a salt of the formula [M(CO)3(Xm)3](1+3m), wherein M is selected from a radioisotope of rhenium, technetium and any other radioisotope that binds in a similar fashion, X is any suitable ligand and m is the formal charge for ligand X, with a nido-dicarbollide dianion of the formula [nido-(C2B9H11)]2? and functional derivatives thereof. The method has been shown to be applicable to the preparation of radiopharmaceuticals at the tracer level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: McMaster University
    Inventors: John F Valliant, Pierre Morel, Paul Schaffer, Oyebola O. Sogbein
  • Publication number: 20050040430
    Abstract: A diode circuit includes a pin diode structure, wherein the n-semiconductor layer is a buried layer, on which the i-area is deposited by an epitaxy method, and wherein a p-semiconductor layer is introduced into the epitaxy layer. A contacting of the p-semiconductor layer and a contacting of the n-semiconductor layer are arranged on the same main surface of the semiconductor substrate so that an integration with an integrated capacitor, an integrated resistor and/or an integrated inductor is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Carsten Ahrens, Wolfgang Hartung, Holger Heuermann, Reinhard Losehand, Josef-Paul Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20040095502
    Abstract: A digital camera has a lens, a camera housing, and a semiconductor sensor. The camera housing is primarily formed of a transparent plastic block that encloses a semiconductor sensor only on its underside and has an adapted lens on its top side. Between the two there is provided an opaque layer with an aperture that improves the image quality. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a digital camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Reinhard Losehand, Stefan Paulus, Martin Petz, Josef-Paul Schaffer, Martin Schroeder, Bernd Stadler
  • Patent number: 6664856
    Abstract: An amplifier circuit with a radiofrequency transistor has a circuit for setting the operating point. The setting circuit provides a base current for the radiofrequency transistor depending on the voltage drop across a resistor that is connected into the collector circuit of the radiofrequency transistor. The circuit has a differential element, which is fed by the supply voltage and compares the voltage drop across the resistor with a reference voltage. The base current is generated by a current source in dependence on the voltage difference. The circuit requires only a low supply voltage, with the result that the power consumed in the resistor is also low. The circuit can be implemented with a small number of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Josef-Paul Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20030068271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new method for the preparation of radiopharmaceuticals based on technetium and rhenium. The method involves the reaction of a salt of the formula [M(CO)3(Xm)3](1+3m), wherein M is selected from a radioisotope of rhenium, technetium and any other radioisotope that binds in a similar fashion, X is any suitable ligand and m is the formal charge for ligand X, with a nido-dicarbollide dianion of the formula [nido-(C2B9H11)]2− and functional derivatives thereof. The method has been shown to be applicable to the preparation of radiopharmaceuticals at the tracer level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: John F. Valliant, Pierre Morel, Paul Schaffer, Oyebola O. Sogbein