Patents by Inventor Peter Gerhards
Peter Gerhards 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: 20240078770Abstract: A VR system for vehicles that may implement methods that address problems with vehicles in motion that may result in motion sickness for passengers. The VR system may provide virtual views that match visual cues with the physical motions that a passenger experiences. The VR system may provide immersive VR experiences by replacing the view of the real world with virtual environments. Active vehicle systems and/or vehicle control systems may be integrated with the VR system to provide physical effects with the virtual experiences. The virtual environments may be altered to accommodate a passenger upon determining that the passenger is prone to or is exhibiting signs of motion sickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mark B. Rober, Sawyer I. Cohen, Daniel Kurz, Tobias Holl, Benjamin B. Lyon, Peter Georg Meier, Jeffrey M. Riepling, Holly Gerhard
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Publication number: 20230054162Abstract: The present invention relates to a highly efficient method for producing oil-in-water emulsions, preferably for parenteral administration, which method is characterized in that large parts of the water phase are added only after the energy-intensive homogenization of the pre-emulsion, i.e. an emulsion having low water content is first produced and said emulsion is subsequently “diluted”.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Andreas Heinrich JUNG, Christoph KOTH, Peter Gerhard STADLER
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Publication number: 20210169071Abstract: A medical product including an antibacterial hard material coating, which is applied to a main body and which includes biocide. The hard material coating includes at least one inner layer and one outer layer, wherein the biocide concentration in the outer layer is substantially constant and greater than the biocide concentration in the inner layer and the biocide concentration in the inner layer is greater than or equal to 0.2 at %.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Carmen Leonor Colmenares Mora, Arnd Mueller, Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen
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Patent number: 10945430Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical product, comprising an antibacterial hard material coating, which is applied to a main body and which comprises biocide. Said hard material coating includes at least one inner layer and one outer layer, wherein the biocide concentration in the outer layer is substantially constant and greater than the biocide concentration in the inner layer and the biocide concentration in the inner layer is greater than or equal to 0.2 at %.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKONInventors: Carmen Leonor Colmenares Mora, Arnd Mueller, Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen
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Publication number: 20190124915Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical product, comprising an antibacterial hard material coating, which is applied to a main body and which comprises biocide. Said hard material coating includes at least one inner layer and one outer layer, wherein the biocide concentration in the outer layer is substantially constant and greater than the biocide concentration in the inner layer and the biocide concentration in the inner layer is greater than or equal to 0.2 at %.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Carmen Leonor Colmenares Mora, Arnd Mueller, Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen
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Patent number: 10143196Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical product, comprising an antibacterial hard material coating, which is applied to a main body and which comprises biocide. Said hard material coating includes at least one inner layer and one outer layer, wherein the biocide concentration in the outer layer is substantially constant and greater than the biocide concentration in the inner layer and the biocide concentration in the inner layer is greater than or equal to 0.2 at %.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKONInventors: Carmen Leonor Colmenares Mora, Arnd Mueller, Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen
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Patent number: 9974598Abstract: A coating system comprising at least one layer made at least essentially of ZrO2 which is used for providing insulating properties to parts of medical devices, particularly of electrosurgical devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, PfäffikonInventors: Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen, Volker Derflinger, Canet Acikgoz
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Patent number: 9388682Abstract: A method, apparatus and program product utilize infeasible regions projected onto sets of substantially parallel feasibility planes extending through a subsurface region to perform anti-collision and other types of hazard avoidance analysis. Hazards, e.g., existing well trajectories, that intersect the feasibility planes, as well as any uncertainties associated therewith, may be represented as infeasible regions in the feasibility planes, such that an analysis of the feasibility of a proposed well trajectory may be determined in a computationally efficient manner through a comparison of the locations, within one or more feasibility planes, of the proposed well trajectory and any infeasible regions defined in such feasibility planes.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Peter Gerhard Tilke
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Publication number: 20160109306Abstract: A force measuring device including a crystalline layer with piezoelectric properties. The layer is arranged on at least part of a surface of a solid state actuator (or carrier). The device also includes at least one wear-protection layer with anti-frictional properties. The piezoelectric layer includes crystalline aluminium nitride having a hexagonal crystal structure with a pronounced crystal orientation (002), at least one electrically conductive layer being applied between the surface of the solid-state actuator and the crystalline aluminium nitride layer. The conductive layer is preferably a metal layer consisting of at least one metal, which when oxidized, forms an electrically insulating oxide that is mechanically and thermally more stable than molybdenum(VI) oxide (Mo03).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, TrubbachInventors: Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen, Oliver Gstoehl
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Publication number: 20160074094Abstract: A coating system comprising at least one layer made at least essentially of ZrO2 which is used for providing insulating properties to parts of medical devices, particularly of electrosurgical devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen, Volker Derflinger, Canet Acikgoz
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Publication number: 20150339411Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program product automatically generate a surface network for an oilfield production system, e.g., as a new surface network or as an addition to an existing surface network. Candidate surface networks are generated from control vectors proposed by an optimization engine to optimize based upon an objective function that is based at least upon one or more geographical cost functions and one or more boundary conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Scott Trevor Raphael, Benoit Couet, William J. Bailey, Kashif Rashid, Peter Gerhard Tilke
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Patent number: 9175378Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the wear resistance of dyed surgical instruments having a vacuum-resistant material as the main body which, over the course of a vacuum coating step, is coated with a thin layer of titanium, and the coated surface is subjected to anodic oxidation. The method is characterized in that, over the course of the vacuum coating step, prior to coating with the layer of titanium, at least parts of the main body are coated with a layer of hard material which improves the wear protection.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, TRUBBACHInventors: Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen, Gabriella Sinicco
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Patent number: 8871812Abstract: The present invention relates to antiviral therapies and compositions for treating or preventing Hepatitis C infections in patients and relates to other methods disclosed herein. The invention also relates to kits and pharmaceutical packs comprising compositions and dosage forms.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Inventors: Robert S. Kauffman, Cyril Jean Camille Titeux, Ramon Polo, Rudolf Peter Gerhard Van Heeswijk, Maria Gloria Beumont, Gaston Rafael Picchio
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Publication number: 20140214387Abstract: A method, apparatus and program product utilize a constrained optimization framework to generate a well placement plan based on a reservoir model. Candidate well placement plans are generated from control vectors proposed by an optimization engine to optimize based upon an objective function that generally involves an access to a reservoir simulator. Inexpensive constraints that are not based on computation of the objective function are evaluated prior to accessing the reservoir simulator to avoid unnecessary accesses to the reservoir simulator for candidate well placement plans determined to be infeasible in view of the inexpensive constraints. For candidate well placement plans that are determined to be feasible based upon the inexpensive constraints, the objective function may be calculated and additional expensive constraints may thereafter be evaluated to further determine the feasibility of candidate well placement plans.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: PETER GERHARD TILKE
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Publication number: 20140209300Abstract: A method, apparatus and program product utilize infeasible regions projected onto sets of substantially parallel feasibility planes extending through a subsurface region to perform anti-collision and other types of hazard avoidance analysis. Hazards, e.g., existing well trajectories, that intersect the feasibility planes, as well as any uncertainties associated therewith, may be represented as infeasible regions in the feasibility planes, such that an analysis of the feasibility of a proposed well trajectory may be determined in a computationally efficient manner through a comparison of the locations, within one or more feasibility planes, of the proposed well trajectory and any infeasible regions defined in such feasibility planes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: PETER GERHARD TILKE
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Patent number: 8793111Abstract: A system for automatically optimizing a Field Development Plan (FDP) for an oil or gas field uses a fast analytic reservoir simulator to dynamically model oil or gas production from the entire reservoir over time in an accurate and rapid manner. An objective function defining a Figure of Merit (FoM) for candidate FDPs is maximized, using an optimization algorithm, to determine an optimized FDP in light of physical, engineering, operational, legal and engineering constraints. The objective function for the Figure of Merit, e.g., net present value (NPV) or total production for a given period of time, relies on a production forecast from the fast analytic reservoir simulator for the entire FDP.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Peter Gerhard Tilke, Vijaya Halabe, Raj Banerjee, Tarek M. Habashy, Michael Thambynayagam, Jeffrey Spath, Andrew J. Carnegie, Benoit Couet, William J. Bailey, Michael David Prange
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Publication number: 20140171924Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the wear resistance of dyed surgical instruments having a vacuum-resistant material as the main body which, over the course of a vacuum coating step, is coated with a thin layer of titanium, and the coated surface is subjected to anodic oxidation. The method is characterized in that, over the course of the vacuum coating step, prior to coating with the layer of titanium, at least parts of the main body are coated with a layer of hard material which improves the wear protection.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: OERLIKON TRADING AG, TRUBBACHInventors: Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen, Gabriella Sinicco
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Patent number: 8527248Abstract: A system and method for performing an adaptive drilling operation is provided. The method involves obtaining data prior to drilling, constructing a base model with a base model unit from data obtained prior to drilling, constructing an overburden posterior model with an overburden model unit using the base model and data obtained from overburden drilling, constructing a reservoir posterior model with a reservoir model unit using the overburden posterior model and the data obtained from reservoir drilling and updating drilling operation based on the models.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: WesternGeco L.L.C.Inventors: R. K. Michael Thambynayagam, Cengiz Esmersoy, Peter Gerhard Tilke, Maurice Nessim, Annabelle Kania, Sudhendu Kashikar, Gregory P. Grove, Nader C. Dutta, Raj Banerjee, Jeffrey B. Spath, Christopher Hopkins
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Publication number: 20130224274Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical product, comprising an antibacterial hard material coating, which is applied to a main body and which comprises biocide. Said hard material coating includes at least one inner layer and one outer layer, wherein the biocide concentration in the outer layer is substantially constant and greater than the biocide concentration in the inner layer and the biocide concentration in the inner layer is greater than or equal to 0.2 at %.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: OERLIKON TRADING AG, TRUBBACHInventors: Carmen Leonor Colmenares Mora, Arnd Mueller, Albert Peter Gerhard Janssen
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Patent number: 8205481Abstract: A method of measuring oxygen-containing nitrogen components including nitrogen dioxide in exhaust gases of internal combustion engines, wherein an exhaust gas sample is taken from a removal point 10 at the exhaust gas pipe 1 and is guided to at least one measuring instrument by means of a removal line, wherein, for the purpose of measuring the oxygen-containing nitrogen components, there are provided a separate removal point 10 and a removal line 11 and that the exhaust gas sample for measuring the oxygen-containing nitrogen components is set to a temperature at which a reaction between the nitrogen dioxide and soot is low.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: FEV GmbHInventors: Bernhard Lueers, Juergen Schnitzler, Peter Mauermann, Peter Gerhards