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).
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Patent number: 10175141Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Trioptics GmbHInventor: Stefan Franz
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Patent number: 10164699Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Stefan Franz, Ziyang Ju, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Ismael Gutierrez
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Publication number: 20180325997Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Stefan Franz Thomas Weiss, Boitelo Theresiah Letsolo, Kerrilyn Naidoo, Tyrone Chad Otgaar
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Patent number: 10113711Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: NOVA MEASURING INSTRUMENTS LTD.Inventor: Stefan Franz
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Patent number: 10075265Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Sabine Roessel, Bernhard Raaf, Thorsten Clevorn, Stefan Franz, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov
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Patent number: 10021705Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Stefan Franz, Cecilia Carbonelli, Sabine Roessel
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Publication number: 20180183507Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2016Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Stefan Franz, Ziyang Ju, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Ismael Gutierrez
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Publication number: 20180165123Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Ismael Gutierrez, Stefan Franz, Ziyang Ju, Rohit Bahl
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Publication number: 20180159704Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Cecilia Carbonelli, Stefan Franz
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Publication number: 20180034601Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Sabine Roessel, Bernhard Raaf, Thorsten Clevorn, Stefan Franz, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov
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Patent number: 9787444Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Sabine Roessel, Bernhard Raaf, Thorsten Clevorn, Stefan Franz, Alexei Davydov
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Patent number: 9742531Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Bernhard Raaf, Jan Ellenbeck, Stefan Franz, Sabine Roessel
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Patent number: 9619318Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Andreas Leininger, Michael Richter, Stefan Franz
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Mobile communication terminal device and method for operating a mobile communication terminal device
Patent number: 9584253Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATIONInventors: Jan Ellenbeck, Ralph Hasholzner, Thorsten Clevorn, Sabine Roessel, Stefan Franz, Juergen Kreuchauf -
Patent number: 9578653Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Cecilia Carbonelli, Stefan Fechtel, Stefan Franz, Sabine Roessel
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Publication number: 20170041109Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Bernhard Raaf, Jan Ellenbeck, Stefan Franz, Sabine Roessel
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Publication number: 20170013630Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Stefan FRANZ, Cecilia CARBONELLI, Sabine ROESSEL
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Publication number: 20160361413Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURGInventors: Stefan Franz Thomas Weiss, Katarina Jovanovic, Danielle Gonsavles, Bianca Da Costa Dias, Stefan Knackmuss, Uwe Reusch, Melvyn Little, Marc Saul Weinberg
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Patent number: 9479298Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Bernhard Raaf, Jan Ellenbeck, Stefan Franz, Sabine Roessel
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Publication number: 20160295597Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Stefan Franz, Cecilia Carbonelli, Sabine Roessel, Stefan Fechtel