Patents by Inventor Stefan Franz

Stefan Franz 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: 10175141
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for determining the position of a test object comprising the following features: an autocollimation telescope having a beam source for emitting a beam; a beam splitter; a detector unit and an objective lens; and an optical element embodied as a focusing device, wherein the test object, the beam source and the focusing device are arranged along a common optical axis (z), and a control device for controlling the focusing device, which is designed in such a way that the beam can be focused onto a center of curvature of a first test surface of the test object with the coordinates (x1, y1) and at least onto a center of curvature of a second test surface of the test object with coordinates (x2, y2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Trioptics GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Franz
  • Patent number: 10164699
    Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) may include memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a communication channel for a multi-carrier signal based on a received reference signal, the multi-carrier signal aggregating a plurality of component carriers. During a transmission time interval of the multi-carrier signal, the UE can perform a global search over a beam search space to obtain a beam index recommendation for a component carrier of the plurality of component carriers. The beam index recommendation corresponds to a maximized channel quality metric of the estimated communication channel and is indicative of a beam grid within the beam search space. The UE can perform a localized search of a subset of the beam search space to obtain a second beam index recommendation for a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Franz, Ziyang Ju, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Ismael Gutierrez
  • Publication number: 20180325997
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds for use in the treatment of telomere related diseases and/or telomere related medical conditions, particularly wherein said telomere related diseases and/or telomere related medical conditions are cancer and cellular ageing. Particularly, herein is disclosed 37 kDa/67 kDa laminin receptor precursor/high affinity laminin receptor (LRP/LR) and/or a fragment thereof for use in the treatment and/or prevention of cellular ageing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Franz Thomas Weiss, Boitelo Theresiah Letsolo, Kerrilyn Naidoo, Tyrone Chad Otgaar
  • Patent number: 10113711
    Abstract: A mirror assembly is provided for producing beam bundles from the beam of a light source, wherein the beam bundles includes a first beam bundle having a first main beam direction, a second beam bundle having a second main beam direction, and preferably further beam bundles having further main beam directions. The assembly includes a first mirror segment having a first focal point, which converts a first partial region of the beam of the light source into the first beam bundle, a second mirror segment having a second focal point, which converts a second partial region of the beam of the light source into the second beam bundle, and preferably further mirror segments having further focal points, which convert further partial regions of the beam of the light source into further beam bundles. The back side of the mirror segments have a curvature which is concentric to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS LTD.
    Inventor: Stefan Franz
  • Patent number: 10075265
    Abstract: Embodiments of an enhanced node B (eNB) and methods for network-assisted interference cancellation with reduced signaling in a 3GPP LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the number of transmission options is reduced by introducing a smaller signaling codebook. In some embodiments, higher-layer feedback from the UE to the eNodeB is established to inform the eNB about certain NA-ICS capabilities of the UE. In some embodiments, the number of signaling options is reduced by providing only certain a priori information. In some embodiments, correlations in the time and/or frequency domain are exploited for reducing the signaling message. In some embodiments, differential information is signaled in the time and/or frequency domain for reducing the signaling message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Sabine Roessel, Bernhard Raaf, Thorsten Clevorn, Stefan Franz, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov
  • Patent number: 10021705
    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to perform carrier measurements in a wireless network is disclosed. The UE can receive, from a network element, switching parameters that indicate possible switching occasions for the UE. The UE can be configured to switch a radio frequency (RF) to another carrier frequency during the possible switching occasions in order to start performing carrier measurements or stop performing carrier measurements. The UE can send, to the network element, a switching notification that indicates an upcoming switching occasion that is selected by the UE. The switching notification can be sent in conjunction with a measurement value that indicates one or more of: selected carriers for which the UE is to start performing carrier measurements after an occurrence of the switching occasion or selected carriers for which the UE is to stop performing carrier measurements after the occurrence of the switching occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Franz, Cecilia Carbonelli, Sabine Roessel
  • Publication number: 20180183507
    Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) may include memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a communication channel for a multi-carrier signal based on a received reference signal, the multi-carrier signal aggregating a plurality of component carriers. During a transmission time interval of the multi-carrier signal, the UE can perform a global search over a beam search space to obtain a beam index recommendation for a component carrier of the plurality of component carriers. The beam index recommendation corresponds to a maximized channel quality metric of the estimated communication channel and is indicative of a beam grid within the beam search space. The UE can perform a localized search of a subset of the beam search space to obtain a second beam index recommendation for a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Franz, Ziyang Ju, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Ismael Gutierrez
  • Publication number: 20180165123
    Abstract: A device and a method for job scheduling at a signal processing component with limited queue availability, in response to a request for one or more new jobs, the method comprising: calculating a metric for each job in the queue and a request metric for the one or more new jobs, wherein each job's metric is based on a difference between an estimate output of executing the job in current conditions and a previous output of the job; determining a minimum metric from the metrics calculated for the jobs in the queue; and comparing the minimum metric to the request metrics to determine whether to schedule to new job for execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Ismael Gutierrez, Stefan Franz, Ziyang Ju, Rohit Bahl
  • Publication number: 20180159704
    Abstract: A channel estimation coefficients generator (200) for generating channel estimation coefficients for channel estimation filtering includes: a parameter acquisition unit (205) configured to acquire a first set of input parameters (208) and to acquire a second set of input parameters (209), wherein a time variability of the first set of input parameters (208) is smaller than a time variability of the second set of input parameters (209); a first channel estimation coefficients generator (201) configured to generate a prototype set of channel estimation coefficients (202) based on the first set of input parameters (208); and a second channel estimation coefficients generator (203) configured to generate a refined set of channel estimation coefficients (204) based on the prototype set of channel estimation coefficients (202) and based on the second set of input parameters (209).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Cecilia Carbonelli, Stefan Franz
  • Publication number: 20180034601
    Abstract: Embodiments of an enhanced node B (eNB) and methods for network-assisted interference cancellation with reduced signaling in a 3GPP LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the number of transmission options is reduced by introducing a smaller signaling codebook. In some embodiments, higher-layer feedback from the UE to the eNodeB is established to inform the eNB about certain NA-ICS capabilities of the UE. In some embodiments, the number of signaling options is reduced by providing only certain a priori information. In some embodiments, correlations in the time and/or frequency domain are exploited for reducing the signaling message. In some embodiments, differential information is signaled in the time and/or frequency domain for reducing the signaling message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Sabine Roessel, Bernhard Raaf, Thorsten Clevorn, Stefan Franz, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov
  • Patent number: 9787444
    Abstract: Embodiments of an enhanced node B (eNB) and methods for network-assisted interference cancellation with reduced signaling in a 3GPP LTE network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the number of transmission options is reduced by introducing a smaller signaling codebook. In some embodiments, higher-layer feedback from the UE to the eNodeB is established to inform the eNB about certain NA-ICS capabilities of the UE. In some embodiments, the number of signaling options is reduced by providing only certain a priori information. In some embodiments, correlations in the time and/or frequency domain are exploited for reducing the signaling message. In some embodiments, differential information is signaled in the time and/or frequency domain for reducing the signaling message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Sabine Roessel, Bernhard Raaf, Thorsten Clevorn, Stefan Franz, Alexei Davydov
  • Patent number: 9742531
    Abstract: Embodiments for providing demodulation reference signals to provide side information for interference cancellation are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a sub-frame is prepared comprising two slots and configuring a physical resource block (PRB) for each slot, wherein each PRB comprises twelve Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers transmitting for a duration of 7 OFDM symbols per slot. In resource elements on each of three of twelve OFDM subcarriers, two pairs of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) are allocated to form three DMRS sets. Symbols are mapped with a first modulation for the two pairs of demodulation reference signals to three of the twelve OFDM subcarriers for transmission. A second modulation is added to a first of the three DMRS sets and a third modulation is added to a second of the three DMRS sets to indicate side information regarding an interfering signal for use in mitigating the interfering signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Bernhard Raaf, Jan Ellenbeck, Stefan Franz, Sabine Roessel
  • Patent number: 9619318
    Abstract: A memory circuit is described comprising a plurality of memory elements, wherein each memory element is configured to store one data element of a plurality of data elements, an error correction information memory configured to store joint error correction information of the plurality of data elements, for each memory element, an error detection information memory storing error detection information for the data element stored in the memory element and a memory access circuit configured to, for an access to a memory element of the plurality of memory elements, check whether the error detection information for the data element stored in the memory element indicates an error of the data element stored in the memory element and, depending on whether the error detection information for the data element stored in the memory element indicates an error of the data element stored in the memory element, to process the error correction information for the access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Leininger, Michael Richter, Stefan Franz
  • Patent number: 9584253
    Abstract: A communication terminal device is provided, including: a transceiver configured to communicate with a communication device in accordance with an uplink resource allocation; a determiner configured to determine a desired power consumption for data transmissions from the communication terminal device to the communication device, and to determine a suitable uplink resource allocation based on the desired power consumption; and a controller configured to determine a communication behavior of the communication terminal device with the communication device based on the suitable uplink resource allocation and to control the transceiver according to the determined communication behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Ralph Hasholzner, Thorsten Clevorn, Sabine Roessel, Stefan Franz, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 9578653
    Abstract: Embodiments provide improved interference classification and parameter estimation at a User Equipment (UE) that uses received scheduling information associated with interfering cells from a network node together with parameters associated with interfering cells generated locally to the UE to generate an interference mapping data set that may be used to adjust subsequent interference classification and parameter estimation processing in the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Cecilia Carbonelli, Stefan Fechtel, Stefan Franz, Sabine Roessel
  • Publication number: 20170041109
    Abstract: Embodiments for providing demodulation reference signals to provide side information for interference cancellation are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a sub-frame is prepared comprising two slots and configuring a physical resource block (PRB) for each slot, wherein each PRB comprises twelve Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers transmitting for a duration of 7 OFDM symbols per slot. In resource elements on each of three of twelve OFDM subcarriers, two pairs of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) are allocated to form three DMRS sets. Symbols are mapped with a first modulation for the two pairs of demodulation reference signals to three of the twelve OFDM subcarriers for transmission. A second modulation is added to a first of the three DMRS sets and a third modulation is added to a second of the three DMRS sets to indicate side information regarding an interfering signal for use in mitigating the interfering signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Bernhard Raaf, Jan Ellenbeck, Stefan Franz, Sabine Roessel
  • Publication number: 20170013630
    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to perform carrier measurements in a wireless network is disclosed. The UE can receive, from a network element, one or more switching parameters that indicate possible switching occasions for the UE. The UE can be configured to switch a radio frequency (RF) to another carrier frequency during the possible switching occasions in order to start performing carrier measurements or stop performing carrier measurements. The can send, to the network element, a switching notification that indicates an upcoming switching occasion that is selected by the UE. The switching notification can be sent in conjunction with a measurement value that indicates one or more of: selected carriers for which the UE is to start performing carrier measurements after an occurrence of the switching occasion or selected carriers for which the UE is to stop performing carrier measurements after the occurrence of the switching occasion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Stefan FRANZ, Cecilia CARBONELLI, Sabine ROESSEL
  • Publication number: 20160361413
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of modulating concentration of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) relevant proteins amyloid precursor protein (APP), beta (?) and gamma (?) secretases and amyloid beta peptide (A?), and also relates to a method of reducing A? shedding. Furthermore, this invention extends to a compound for use in the treatment of AD, and also to a method of treating AD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
    Inventors: Stefan Franz Thomas Weiss, Katarina Jovanovic, Danielle Gonsavles, Bianca Da Costa Dias, Stefan Knackmuss, Uwe Reusch, Melvyn Little, Marc Saul Weinberg
  • Patent number: 9479298
    Abstract: Embodiments for providing demodulation reference signals to provide side information for interference cancellation are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a sub-frame is prepared comprising two slots and configuring a physical resource block (PRB) for each slot, wherein each PRB comprises twelve Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers transmitting for a duration of 7 OFDM symbols per slot. In resource elements on each of three of twelve OFDM subcarriers, two pairs of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) are allocated to form three DMRS sets. Symbols are mapped with a first modulation for the two pairs of demodulation reference signals to three of the twelve OFDM subcarriers for transmission. A second modulation is added to a first of the three DMRS sets and a third modulation is added to a second of the three DMRS sets to indicate side information regarding an interfering signal for use in mitigating the interfering signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Bernhard Raaf, Jan Ellenbeck, Stefan Franz, Sabine Roessel
  • Publication number: 20160295597
    Abstract: Embodiments for providing signaling interference signaling information for UE assistance are generally described herein. In some embodiments, signaling information associated with interfering cells from a network node is received by user equipment (UE). The UE adjusts parameter estimation for mitigating interference based on the received signaling information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Stefan Franz, Cecilia Carbonelli, Sabine Roessel, Stefan Fechtel