Patents by Inventor Stefan Frank

Stefan Frank 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: 12222498
    Abstract: A method for influencing light beams in the interior of a motor vehicle. The light beams come from the direction of a mirror bank associated with a head-up display. Different approaches are provided for providing an enhanced display option and simultaneously reducing a dazzling of a vehicle occupant by unwanted reflections. The light beams are generated in the mirror bank, wherein some of the generated light beams are blocked in the region of the mirror bank in such a way that a particular keep-clear region is created into which reflected light beams can no longer enter, or generated light beams in the region of the mirror bank are directed without reflection onto a particular viewing region, or the generated light beams in the region of the mirror bank are polarised and only such polarised portions of the light beams that cause no or only negligible reflections exit the mirror bank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Franke, Claudia Krefter-De Beer, Klaus Zander
  • Publication number: 20240275751
    Abstract: A computing device is described that receives a notification generated by a notification source. The computing device selects, based at least in part on one or more notification routing rules, one or more computing devices that are to output one or more indications of the notification out of a plurality of computing devices communicably coupled to the computing device. The computing device routes the notification to the one or more computing devices for outputting the one or more indications of the notification by each of the one or more computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Frank, Julia Claire Reynolds, Sung Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 12039215
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method of input to a computer in a vehicle. An electronic communication is formed between a first electronic device and a display of a second electronic device that is viewable by a user from a location in the vehicle, including providing by the first electronic device a first input mode for the second electronic device. A multimodal application is executed that permits the user to interact with the display of the second electronic device by a combination of the first input mode and at least one second input mode for the second electronic device. The combination of the first input mode and the at least one second input mode controls the display of the first electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cerence Operating Company
    Inventors: Quynh Nguyen, Erland Unruh, Donni McCray, Christophe Couvreur, Lior Ben-Gigi, Nils Lenke, Mohammad Mehdi Moniri, Niels Does, Stefan Hamerich, Stefan Frank
  • Publication number: 20240174143
    Abstract: A bracket for a seat assembly includes a bracket body having a receptacle configured to receive at least a portion of an air mover of said seat assembly. The bracket also includes at least one bracket flange extending from the bracket body. The at least one bracket flange connects with said air mover via a connector to connect said air mover with the bracket body. The bracket body and/or the at least one bracket flange connect to a suspension portion of said seat assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Dirk Schroeder, Dinesh Kumar, Mladen Humer, Stefan Frank, Nikhil Sarmokadam, Mrutunjay Bhoite, Delson Devaasir
  • Patent number: 11433805
    Abstract: A lighting unit for a motor vehicle having at least one light guide and at least one circuit board having at least one light-emitting diode. The circuit board and the light guide are attached to one another. The lighting unit is elongate and curved in the manner of a crescent with a light guide extending over the length of the lighting unit and with multiple elongated, rigid circuit boards that are each equipped with multiple light-emitting diodes, wherein the circuit boards are identically constructed and lined up in their longitudinal direction along the light guide in such a manner that the light of the light-emitting diodes can be coupled into the light guide perpendicularly to the longitudinal extent thereof, and wherein the circuit boards are connected to one another electrically and in terms of signaling by cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Stefan Franke
  • Publication number: 20220221678
    Abstract: An optical element held in a holder has a first optical surface which has no rotational symmetry with regard to its imaging axis. The holder has at least one reference element, which defines a position and/or orientation of the holder in a predefined coordinate system which compensates for a difference between an actual pose of the first optical surface and a target pose of the first optical surface in the holder at least in one degree of freedom. The reference element defines at least one specific azimuthal position of the holder. Also provided is a method for adjusting the holder of an optical element that has at least a first optical surface, which has no rotational symmetry with regard to its imaging axis, to a difference between an actual pose of the first optical surface and a target pose of the first optical surface in the holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan FRANK, Michael SCHULZ, Manfred KRESSER, Martin WEISS, Tobias BEIER
  • Patent number: 11145095
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting graphical user interfaces comprising multiple components interrelated such that inputs received in one component of a graphical user interface render automatic and corresponding updates for another component of the graphical user interface. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of presenting a graphical user interface; and receiving user input of one or more parameters, the graphical user interface including a calendar portion and an associated graphical portion, the calendar portion comprising a date box for each date in a range of dates, and the graphical portion specifying non-date parameters for trips beginning on each date of the range of dates. A change in the calendar portion of the graphical user interface automatically renders a corresponding change in the graphical portion of the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Frank, Rodney S. Daughtrey
  • Patent number: 10962359
    Abstract: A measuring assembly for detecting the wall thickness of a pipe, including an ultrasonic probe and a testing head with a main element which receives an ultrasonic probe and the lower face of which defines a main element support surface is provided. The testing head has two wing elements, the lower face of each of which defines a wing element support surface and which are held on the main element in a pivotal manner about pivot axes extending substantially parallel to one another in a longitudinal direction such that the wing element support surfaces can be moved towards each other and away from each other. The wing elements are connected via synchronizing means such that the pivotal movements of the wing elements about the corresponding pivot axes are carried out in a synchronous manner. An associated method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Michael Clossen-von Lanken Schulz, Stefan Frank, Philipp Kahlert, Stefan Nendel, Stefan Obermayr
  • Patent number: 10807525
    Abstract: A lighting device for lighting the interior of a transportation vehicle having an oblong housing by which a belt carrier having light sources is held. The housing is a reflector element having at least one reflector chamber in which light beams, which are emitted from the light sources are reflected in a diffuse state before the light beams arrive at a light emission opening. A lighting device providing an extremely homogeneous light emission with an extremely compact design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Franke, Klaus Zander
  • Publication number: 20200285377
    Abstract: A computerized watch is described that receives, from an application that is currently executing, information about a user controllable operation being performed by the application. The computerized watch automatically generates a dynamic control element associated with the user controllable operations being performed by the application. The dynamic control element includes: a first portion that presents at least a subset of the information about the user controllable operation being performed by the application, and a second portion that obtains user input that controls the user controllable operation. The computerized watch outputs, for display, a user interface that includes: the dynamic control element, and one or more static control elements that control other operations being performed by the computerized watch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Jeffrey Hoefs, Jonathan Kong, Stefan Frank, Kelly McQuighan
  • Publication number: 20200272953
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining alternative trip itineraries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Nick Ke Ning, Stephen Leslie Peters, Yi Wang, Gerhard Wetzel, Stefan Frank, Jose Antonio Martinez
  • Publication number: 20200218488
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method of input to a computer in a vehicle. An electronic communication is formed between a first electronic device and a display of a second electronic device that is viewable by a user from a location in the vehicle, including providing by the first electronic device a first input mode for the second electronic device. A multimodal application is executed that permits the user to interact with the display of the second electronic device by a combination of the first input mode and at least one second input mode for the second electronic device. The combination of the first input mode and the at least one second input mode controls the display of the first electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Quynh Nguyen, Erland Unruh, Donni McCray, Christophe Couvreur, Lior Ben-Gigi, Nils Lenke, Mohammad Mehdi Moniri, Niels Does, Stefan Hamerich, Stefan Frank
  • Publication number: 20200058143
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting graphical user interfaces comprising multiple components interrelated such that inputs received in one component of a graphical user interface render automatic and corresponding updates for another component of the graphical user interface. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of presenting a graphical user interface; and receiving user input of one or more parameters, the graphical user interface including a calendar portion and an associated graphical portion, the calendar portion comprising a date box for each date in a range of dates, and the graphical portion specifying non-date parameters for trips beginning on each date of the range of dates. A change in the calendar portion of the graphical user interface automatically renders a corresponding change in the graphical portion of the graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan Frank, Rodney S. Daughtrey
  • Patent number: 10489944
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting graphical user interfaces comprising multiple components interrelated such that inputs received in one component of a graphical user interface render automatic and corresponding updates for another component of the graphical user interface. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of presenting a graphical user interface; and receiving user input of one or more parameters, the graphical user interface including a calendar portion and an associated graphical portion, the calendar portion comprising a date box for each date in a range of dates, and the graphical portion specifying non-date parameters for trips beginning on each date of the range of dates. A change in the calendar portion of the graphical user interface automatically renders a corresponding change in the graphical portion of the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Frank, Rodney S. Daughtrey
  • Publication number: 20190277631
    Abstract: A measuring assembly for detecting the wall thickness of a pipe, including an ultrasonic probe and a testing head with a main element which receives an ultrasonic probe and the lower face of which defines a main element support surface is provided. The testing head has two wing elements, the lower face of each of which defines a wing element support surface and which are held on the main element in a pivotal manner about pivot axes extending substantially parallel to one another in a longitudinal direction such that the wing element support surfaces can be moved towards each other and away from each other. The wing elements are connected via synchronizing means such that the pivotal movements of the wing elements about the corresponding pivot axes are carried out in a synchronous manner. An associated method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Clossen-von Lanken Schulz, Stefan Frank, Philipp Kahlert, Stefan Nendel, Stefan Obermayr
  • Patent number: 10239543
    Abstract: A vehicle cooling system may include a cooling circuit for cooling at least one main component of a vehicle. The cooling circuit may include at least one cooler through which cooling air is flowable and at least two fan chambers adjoined to an outlet side of the at least one cooler. The at least two fan chambers may each include a respective fan arranged therein, a respective main outlet and a respective ancillary outlet. The vehicle cooling system may also include at least one waste air channel that may be connected to the respective ancillary outlets of the at least two fan chambers. The vehicle cooling system may further include at least one control device configured to control a cross-section of each of the respective ancillary outlets and to enable operation of the vehicle cooling system in a normal operating state and in at least two emergency operating states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Frank
  • Patent number: D843696
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ARA SHOES AG
    Inventor: Stefan Frank
  • Patent number: D845591
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: ARA Shoes AG
    Inventor: Stefan Frank
  • Patent number: D983821
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Rohan Ketan Shah, Stefan Frank, Shan Huang, Selim Cinek, Lucas Dupin Moreira Costa, John Thomas DiMartile, III, James Gundersen
  • Patent number: D985018
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Rohan Ketan Shah, Stefan Frank, Shan Huang, Selim Cinek, Lucas Dupin Moreira Costa, John Thomas DiMartile, III, James Gundersen