Patents by Inventor Peter Muller

Peter Muller 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).

  • Double trim tab
    Patent number: 8387551
    Abstract: The invention involves a double trim tab for watercraft in which connection the flow interceptor (1) is activated by an actuation cylinder (4) and the flow interceptor (1) activates the bottom tab (2). One of the tabs may have a course correction device (10) or a course correction fin (11). In addition, an electronic steering device (14) can likewise carry out a course correction in the event of a trim change in which connection the steering wheel (17) is kept neutral by means of an uncoupling device (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Inventor: Peter Müller
  • Coated article having diamond-like carbon (DLC) and protective film thereon
    Patent number: 8354178
    Abstract: There is provided a method of making a heat treated (HT) coated article to be used in shower door applications, window applications, or any other suitable applications where transparent coated articles are desired. For example, certain embodiments of this invention relate to a method of making a coated article including a step of heat treating a glass substrate coated with at least a layer of or including diamond-like carbon (DLC) and an overlying protective film thereon. In certain example embodiments, the protective film may be of or include an oxide of zinc. Following and/or during heat treatment (e.g., thermal tempering, or the like) the protective film may be removed. Other embodiments of this invention relate to the pre-HT coated article, or the post-HT coated article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignees: Guardian Industries Corp., Centre Luxembourg de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.)
    Inventors: Nestor P. Murphy, Maximo Frati, Rudolph Hugo Petrmichl, Jiangping Wang, Jens-Peter Muller, Herbert Lage
  • Linking users into live social networking interactions based on the users' actions relative to similar content
    Patent number: 8356077
    Abstract: A system and method that uses interne content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: ADDnCLICK, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack D. Robinson, Peter Muller, Timothy Noke, Teng Lew Lim, Wallace Glausi, James Cluff, Larry Fullerton
  • Fitting system for a vehicle seat
    Patent number: 8348345
    Abstract: A fitting system (9) is provided for a vehicle seat (1), especially motor vehicle seat, which defines a pivot axis (A) of backrest and has a fitting lower part (11) and an associated fitting upper part (12) on both sides of the vehicle seat. Each fitting upper part (12) is pivotable relative to the associated fitting lower part (11) about the pivot axis (A) of the backrest. The system has, on one side of the vehicle seat, a lock (15) and an opposing element (16), which lock the fitting system (9) in a use position by cooperating. A prestressed latch (17), which cooperates with another opposing element (16), especially receives it, in the use position, is provided on the side of the vehicle seat that is located opposite the lock (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: KEIPER GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Müller, Stefan Haber
  • DROPDOWN RAILING FOR WATERCRAFT
    Publication number: 20130000542
    Abstract: The invention comprises of a railing (1) which is foldable or and height adjustable or and extendable lengthwise and has rungs (5) or pivotable safety footsteps (14a) which, if necessary, can be kept in the vertical position (V) or horizontal position (Q) or and when tilting down the railing (1) remain in a stable position. The railing (1) has technical mean (4a,40,43a,45a,51) as well as an emergency mean (10,11) and can if necessary take up a tender (42) and other objects and the footsteps (14) can be transparent for example to improve visibility to the rear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Peter A. Muller
  • System for inserting/overlaying markers, data packets and objects relative to viewable content and enabling live social networking, N-dimensional virtual environments and/or other value derivable from the content
    Patent number: 8316450
    Abstract: A system by which a User can associate selectable Markers, Data Packets and/or Objects with Content. The Content may generally be distributed electronically, and the Markers allow for insertion and/or overlay of Objects when the Content is selected for viewing by a Viewer. Objects and Data Packets are generally provided by a User, Promoter, Host, Service, or other entity to convey information to a Viewer. A Service provides tools and capabilities to both the User and the Promoter to facilitate their respective actions according to embodiments of the invention, including enabling the creation of live social networks (such as those linked to a specific Service provider, a specific User group, activities by a specific Promoter, and/or to specific Data Packets) and the creation of n-dimensional Virtual Environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Addn Click, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Robinson, Peter Muller, Timothy Noke, Teng Lew Lim, Wallace Glausi, Larry Fullerton
  • LINKING USERS INTO LIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTIONS BASED ON THE USERS' ACTIONS RELATIVE TO SIMILAR CONTENT
    Publication number: 20120278740
    Abstract: A system and method that uses interne content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Jack D. Robinson, Peter Muller, Timothy Noke, Teng Lew Lim, Wallace Glausi, James Cluff, Larry Fullerton
  • Lowerable platform with float for a watercraft
    Patent number: 8286574
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lowerable platform (1) for a water craft (10), which can be also horizontally extended and to which a float (2) is fastened that comprises a closed hollow space (43) or an open hollow space (43), a buoyancy (A) acting upon the float (2) being generated by the air volume (L). As a result, the water craft's proper weight or the payload (N) of e.g. a tender boar (27) on the lowerable platform (1) can be compensated by the buoyancy (A). A hydrodynamic design of the float (2) additionally generates a hydrodynamic buoyancy (D1) which can be varied in terms of its height in relation to the current (S) by means (4, 37, 38, 39), depending on the float (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Inventor: Peter A. Müller
  • INDICATOR APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120227660
    Abstract: An indicator apparatus for signaling that a foldable backrest of a seat in a motor vehicle is not locked includes a handle pivoted between a locked position and an unlocked position about a pivot axis, a locking apparatus having a catch that, by working of the handle can be moved between a blocked position and an unblocked position, and an indicator element guided between a non-indication position and an indication position and movable by a transition element. The transmission element comprises a spring element that is fixedly connected both to the handle and to the indicator element. The spring element is resistant to deformation as the indicator element is moved by the handle, but can be deformed in an elastic manner when the handle is located in the unlocked position and the indicator element is moved out of the indication position into the non-indication position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Keiper GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Volker Windecker, Stefan Haber, Denise Schmitt, Kadir Yasaroglu, Bernd Heimann, Tobias Braun, Peter Muller
  • Unified systems and methods for controlling use and operation of a family of different treatment devices
    Patent number: 8257346
    Abstract: Unified systems and methods enable control of the use and operation of a family of different treatment devices, to treat dysfunction in different regions of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Mederi Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Qin, Robin Bek, John Gaiser, Rachel Croft, Peter Muller, David S Utley
  • Ink jet head and its manufacture method
    Patent number: 8251491
    Abstract: An ink jet head is formed with a nozzle surface having a liquid repellent characteristic. The nozzle surface comprises a condensation product made from a hydrolyzable silane compound having a fluorine containing group and a hydrolyzable silane compound having a cationic polymerizable group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norio Ohkuma, Akihiko Shimomura, Etsuko Hino, Hikaru Ueda, Helmut Schmidt, Peter Müller, Steffen Pilotek, Carsten Becker-Willinger, Pamela Kalmes
  • Linking users into live social networking interactions based on the users' actions relative to similar content
    Patent number: 8244830
    Abstract: A system and method that uses interne content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: ADDnCLICK, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack D. Robinson, Peter Muller, Timothy Noke, Teng Lew Lim, Wallace Glausi, James Cluff, Larry Fullerton
  • Method of inserting/overlaying markers, data packets and objects relative to viewable content and enabling live social networking, N-dimensional virtual environments and/or other value derivable from the content
    Patent number: 8234218
    Abstract: A method by which a User can associate selectable Markers, Data Packets and/or Objects with Content. The Content may generally be distributed electronically, and the Markers allow for insertion and/or overlay of Objects when the Content is selected for viewing by a Viewer. Objects and Data Packets are generally provided by a User, Promoter, Host, Service, or other entity to convey information to a Viewer. A Service provides tools and capabilities to both the User and the Promoter to facilitate their respective actions according to embodiments of the invention, including enabling the creation of live social networks (such as those linked to a specific Service provider, a specific User group, activities by a specific Promoter, and/or to specific Data Packets) and the creation of n-dimensional Virtual Environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: AddnClick, Inc
    Inventors: Jack Robinson, Peter Muller, Timothy Noke, Teng Lew Lim, Wallace Glausi, Larry Fullerton
  • Method of making heat treated coated article having carbon layer and utilizing removable zinc oxide inclusive protective film
    Patent number: 8221832
    Abstract: A method of making a heat treated (HT) coated article to be used in shower door applications, window applications, or any other suitable applications where transparent coated articles are desired. For example, certain embodiments of this invention relate to a method of making a coated article including a step of heat treating a glass substrate coated with at least a layer of or including carbon and an overlying protective film including a zinc oxide inclusive layer. Following and/or during heat treatment (e.g., thermal tempering, or the like) the protective film may be removed. Other embodiments of this invention relate to the pre-HT coated article, or the post-HT coated article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignees: Guardian Industries Corp., Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.)
    Inventors: Nestor P. Murphy, Maximo Frati, Rudolph Hugo Petrmichl, Jiangping Wang, Jens-Peter Muller, Herbert Lage
  • Coated article with low-E coating including tin oxide interlayer
    Patent number: 8187713
    Abstract: A coated article is provided which may be heat treated (e.g., thermally tempered) in certain instances. In certain example embodiments, an interlayer of or including a metal oxide such as tin oxide is provided under an infrared (IR) reflecting layer so as to be located between respective layers comprising silicon nitride and zinc oxide. It has been found that the use of such a tin oxide inclusive interlayer results in significantly improved mechanical durability, thermal stability and/or haze characteristics. In certain example embodiments, a zinc oxide inclusive layer is provide over an IR reflecting layer in order to improve thermal stability. A zirconium oxide overcoat may also be provided in certain example instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C)
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Lemmer, Jens-Peter Muller, Jose Ferreira, Pierre Pallotta
  • LINKING USERS INTO LIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTIONS BASED ON THE USERS' ACTIONS RELATIVE TO SIMILAR CONTENT
    Publication number: 20120124486
    Abstract: A system and method that uses interne content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Jack D. Robinson, Peter Muller, Timothy Noke, Teng Lew Lim, Wallace Glausi, James Cluff, Larry Fullerton
  • Water filter
    Patent number: D663379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventor: Peter Muller
  • Wheel rim
    Patent number: D670225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Brabus GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Müller
  • Wheel rim
    Patent number: D670226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Brabus GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Müller
  • Wheel rim
    Patent number: D673492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Brabus GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Müller