Patents by Inventor Reinhard Enders

Reinhard Enders 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 device for computer assisted selection of suction nozzles
    Patent number: 6678947
    Abstract: Components are allocated to pipettes of different pipette types in accordance with an inverse greedy method or in accordance with a sequence of flow methods or a linear program as a result of which, for a given consecutive-ones characteristic of all the possible allocations, an optimun solution is ensured for a number of cycles, which can be predetermined, for the process of population a printed circuit board by means of an automatic placement machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Petra Bauer, Reinhard Enders
  • Method and device for computer assisted graph processing
    Patent number: 6636800
    Abstract: Nodes of a graph are grouped into at least two regions. The following steps are implemented for each region and for at least some of the nodes of the respective region: a) one node is selected as a root node; b) a tree of shortest paths is determined for the root node in the graph having the a root node as root of the tree; c) a node of an edge of the graph is marked for the region when, proceeding from the node to the root node, the edge is contained in a shortest path to the root node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Lauther, Reinhard Enders