Patents by Inventor Ralf Schmitz
Ralf Schmitz 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: 20230270374Abstract: A handheld diagnostic device, specifically for point-of-care applications. The handheld diagnostic device comprises at least one diagnostic measurement unit configured for performing at least one diagnostic measurement, the diagnostic measurement unit comprising at least one test element port for determining at least one diagnostic parameter of at least one patient by using at least one diagnostic test element; at least one camera configured for capturing at least one image of at least one wound of the patient; and at least one control unit, the control unit being configured for controlling the diagnostic measurement and for controlling the capturing of the image of the wound, wherein the control unit is further configured for storing at least one measurement result of the diagnostic measurement and the at least one image in at least one database record of the patient. A diagnostic system and a diagnostic method are further disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventors: Michael Maier, Ulrich Porsch, Ralf Schmitz
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Patent number: 10660521Abstract: The invention provides for a medical system comprising a control unit and a medical appliance. The medical appliance comprises: a first processor and a monitoring system for measuring an analyte concentration subcutaneously. The control unit comprises a second processor and a second memory with a persistent partition and an application partition containing a medical application and application data comprising a medical data entry. The medical application backs up the application data as archived data in the persistent partition. The first processor is programmed to: record the analyte concentration, generate the medical data entry using the analyte concentration, and transfer the medical data entry to the control unit. The second memory further contains an operating system operable for de-installing the medical application without deleting the archived data.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: ROCHE DIABETES CARE, INCInventors: Stefan Riebel, Kai-Oliver Schwenker, Ralf Schmitz, Carsten Mueglitz, Thomas Eissenloeffel
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Patent number: 10577065Abstract: A hand paddle. The hand paddle includes a stem having a handle and a blade, which is attached to the stem on either side of the handle. The handle may be attached for operating gentle, yet strenuous, water sports.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Inventor: Ralf Schmitz
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Patent number: 10420879Abstract: The invention provides for method of operating a medical instrument (100, 200, 400, 500, 600, 700) comprising a battery powered medical appliance (104) and a control unit (102). Both have Bluetooth communication modules. A first memory of the medical appliance contains a onetime password (210) and of a password-authenticated key agreement algorithm (212). The control unit has a second memory (223) with an implementation of the password-authenticated key agreement algorithm (212?). The method comprises entering (300) the onetime password into the data entry interface (140, 221, 504, 604) of the control unit. The method further comprises generating (302) a Bluetooth encryption key (218) by the medical appliance and the control unit with the onetime password by exchanging data across the wireless communication channel by executing the password-authenticated key agreement algorithm. The method further comprises storing (304) the Bluetooth encryption key in the first memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: ROCHE DIABETES CARE, INC.Inventors: Wolfgang Heck, Kai-Oliver Schwenker, Ralf Schmitz, Volker Zeuner, Carsten Mueglitz, Thomas Eissenloeffel, Christian-Alexander Luszick
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Publication number: 20190084660Abstract: A sports device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventor: Ralf Schmitz
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Patent number: 10166333Abstract: The present invention relates to method for generating a monitoring signal by monitoring laboratory values of a patient using a medical app (122). The medical app (122) is executed on a mobile device (102) of the patient, wherein the execution of the medical app (122) on the mobile device (102) of the patient is supervised by a supervising entity or safety module (106, 128), the supervising entity or safety module (106, 128) comprising at least executable program instructions (130). The medical app (122) comprises executable instructions for executing at least one sequence of processes for generating the monitoring signal. The processes comprise safety critical processes. The sequence of processes is triggered by the measurement of the blood glucose level of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Kurt Friedli, Carsten Mueglitz, Ralf Schmitz, Kai-Oliver Schwenker, Thomas Eissenloeffel
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Patent number: 10131084Abstract: Disclosed herein, amongst other things, is a method of transferring a molded article from a moveable mold half of a mold into a receptacle of a post-mold tool. The method includes positioning the moveable mold half relative to the post-mold tool to position the molded article thereon closer to the receptacle and retracting the moveable mold half while simultaneously extending a stripping device to eject the molded article from the moveable mold half and to transfer it into the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: HUSKY INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: John Robert Galt, Bruno Giuseppe Sodaro, Alex Teng, Robin Wade Lovell, Ralf Schmitz
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Publication number: 20180184905Abstract: The invention provides for a medical system comprising a control unit and a medical appliance. The medical appliance comprises: a first processor and a monitoring system for measuring an analyte concentration subcutaneously. The control unit comprises a second processor and a second memory with a persistent partition and an application partition containing a medical application and application data comprising a medical data entry. The medical application backs up the application data as archived data in the persistent partition. The first processor is programmed to: record the analyte concentration, generate the medical data entry using the analyte concentration, and transfer the medical data entry to the control unit. The second memory further contains an operating system operable for de-installing the medical application without deleting the archived data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Stefan Riebel, Kai-Oliver Schwenker, Ralf Schmitz, Carsten Mueglitz, Thomas Eissenloeffel
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Publication number: 20170308665Abstract: The invention provides for method of operating a medical instrument (100, 200, 400, 500, 600, 700) comprising a battery powered medical appliance (104) and a control unit (102). Both have Bluetooth communication modules. A first memory of the medical appliance contains a onetime password (210) and of a password-authenticated key agreement algorithm (212). The control unit has a second memory (223) with an implementation of the password-authenticated key agreement algorithm (212?). The method comprises entering (300) the onetime password into the data entry interface (140, 221, 504, 604) of the control unit. The method further comprises generating (302) a Bluetooth encryption key (218) by the medical appliance and the control unit with the onetime password by exchanging data across the wireless communication channel by executing the password-authenticated key agreement algorithm. The method further comprises storing (304) the Bluetooth encryption key in the first memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Wolfgang Heck, Kai-Oliver Schwenker, Ralf Schmitz, Volker Zeuner, Carsten Mueglitz, Thomas Eissenloeffel, Christian-Alexander Luszick
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Publication number: 20170290980Abstract: The present invention relates to method for generating a monitoring signal by monitoring laboratory values of a patient using a medical app (122). The medical app (122) is executed on a mobile device (102) of the patient, wherein the execution of the medical app (122) on the mobile device (102) of the patient is supervised by a supervising entity or safety module (106, 128), the supervising entity or safety module (106, 128) comprising at least executable program instructions (130). The medical app (122) comprises executable instructions for executing at least one sequence of processes for generating the monitoring signal. The processes comprise safety critical processes. The sequence of processes is triggered by the measurement of the blood glucose level of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Kurt Friedli, Carsten Mueglitz, Ralf Schmitz, Kai-Oliver Schwenker, Thomas Eissenloeffel
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Publication number: 20150130113Abstract: Disclosed herein, amongst other things, is a method of transferring a molded article from a moveable mold half of a mold into a receptacle of a post-mold tool. The method includes positioning the moveable mold half relative to the post-mold tool to position the molded article thereon closer to the receptacle and retracting the moveable mold half while simultaneously extending a stripping device to eject the molded article from the moveable mold half and to transfer it into the receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: John Robert Galt, Bruno Giuseppe Sodaro, Alex Teng, Robin Wade Lovell, Ralf Schmitz
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Publication number: 20140320645Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for detecting and documenting the speeds of a plurality of vehicles in an image document. The plurality of vehicles drive simultaneously through the measurement zone of a radiation-based, multitarget-capable measuring arrangement. Vehicle-specific measurement data are acquired from the measurement results, and measurement data sets are formed from these vehicle-specific measurement data and stored. One of the vehicles driving at a speed above a limiting value causes a camera to be triggered. An image document in which a speed is displayed so as to be assigned to the imaged vehicles is generated from the image data acquired by the camera and from the last stored measurement data set.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: JENOPTIK Robot GmbHInventor: Ralf SCHMITZ
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Publication number: 20140068487Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for visualizing correlations between blood glucose data and events are disclosed. The methods and apparatus can include presenting an event analysis window on a display communicatively coupled to one or more processors. The event analysis window can include an event type control positioned within the event analysis window and a graphical window positioned within the event analysis window. A plurality of continuous glucose monitoring traces can be plotted within the graphical window. Bolus icons each indicative of a bolus amount and a bolus time can be presented within the event analysis window. Each of the bolus icons can include a bolus indication object that is aligned with the bolus ordinate axis within the graphical window, a bolus time indication object that is aligned with the time abscissa axis within in the graphical window, and a bolus symbol that is presented outside of the graphical window.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Bernd Steiger, Ralf Schmitz
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Patent number: 8383056Abstract: A blood glucose test instrument kit having modular component parts capable of being assembled into a plurality of different handheld blood glucose test instruments is disclosed. The kit comprises the combination of an interconnection platform adapted to connect to a collection of interoperable modules. The collection of interoperable modules including: a plurality of different measurement engine modules, at least one user interface module, at least one power supply module. A handheld blood glucose test instrument is assembled by the interconnection to the interconnection platform of at least one measurement engine module, at least one user interface module, and at least one power supply module. The inter-module communication among the modules connected thereto to achieve enhanced glucose test instrument reliability by effecting at least one reliability protocol selected from a group of reliability protocols.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignees: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., Roche Diagnostics GmbHInventors: Blaine E. Ramey, Karl Werner, Richard W. Wilson, Christian Niesporek, Ralf Schmitz, Peter Seelig, Kai-Oliver Schwenker, Ulrich Porsch
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Publication number: 20120094370Abstract: A blood glucose test instrument kit having modular component parts capable of being assembled into a plurality of different handheld blood glucose test instruments is disclosed. The kit comprises the combination of an interconnection platform adapted to connect to a collection of interoperable modules. The collection of interoperable modules including: a plurality of different measurement engine modules, at least one user interface module, at least one power supply module. A handheld blood glucose test instrument is assembled by the interconnection to the interconnection platform of at least one measurement engine module, at least one user interface module, and at least one power supply module. The inter-module communication among the modules connected thereto to achieve enhanced glucose test instrument reliability by effecting at least one reliability protocol selected from a group of reliability protocols.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Blaine E. Ramey, Karl Werner, Richard W. Wilson, Christian Niesporek, Ralf Schmitz, Peter Seelig, Kai-Oliver Schwenker, Ulrich Porsch
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Patent number: 8111173Abstract: According to the present invention, a first measured data packet M1 of a first vehicle 1 at a first measuring time point tM1 and a first image data packet B1 are generated, and measured data packets MX of additional vehicles X are generated at additional measuring time points tMX, to which measured data packets duplicates of the first image data packet B1 are linked to the extent that the additional measuring time points tMX occur within a predetermined time interval ? after the first measuring time point tM1.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: ROBOT Visual Systems GmbHInventor: Ralf Schmitz
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Publication number: 20090167566Abstract: According to the present invention, a first measured data packet M1 of a first vehicle 1 at a first measuring time point tM1 and a first image data packet B1 are generated, and measured data packets MX of additional vehicles X are generated at additional measuring time points tMX, to which measured data packets duplicates of the first image data packet B1 are linked to the extent that the additional measuring time points tMX occur within a predetermined time interval a after the first measuring time point tM1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventor: Ralf Schmitz
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Publication number: 20060221891Abstract: Information is distributed to nodes of a mobile ad hoc network, wherein the nodes dispose of position sensing elements, wherein a predeterminable geographic target area is defined and every information is assigned a pre-determinable lifetime, and wherein an information is distributed during its lifetime to all of the nodes being positioned within the target area and to nodes entering the target area by adding a list of correspondingly neighbored nodes in the target area to the broadcast message by which a node sends the information, and wherein nodes, which receive the message, only re-transmit the message if they have further neighboring nodes in the target area that are not contained in the received list.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Ralf Schmitz, Andreas Festag