Patents by Inventor Stefan Fritz

Stefan Fritz 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).

  • Publication number: 20240117022
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing CLD18, including tumor-related diseases such as gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, hepatic cancer, head-neck cancer, and cancer of the gallbladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci, Dirk Usener, Stefan Fritz, Christoph Uherek, Gunda Brandenburg, Harald-Gerhard Geppert, Anja Kristina Schröder, Phillippe Thiel
  • Publication number: 20240110613
    Abstract: Drive unit for adjusting an adjustable element between at least a first position and a second position, comprising a drive train having an input shaft and an output shaft, wherein the drive train is split into at least a first drive path and a second drive path, wherein at least one drive element in the drive train comprises an evoloid toothing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Jannick Daniël WIJNTJES, Stefan Fritz BROUWER, Stephen Alexander George Gustavo BOOM
  • Patent number: 11947687
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for securely transferring a secret from a source computing component to a target computing component, wherein the source computing component and the target computing component are part of a secure computing environment is disclosed. The method comprises upon the source computing component receiving from the target computing component a signed attestation document, verifying, by the source computing component, an authenticity and content of the attestation document, and upon a successful verification of the authenticity and the content, transferring, by the source computing component the secret to the target computing system. Thereby, the attestation document is attesting that the target computing component is compliant to an update governance rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Fritz, Timo Kussmaul, Dennis Zeisberg, Angel Nunez Mencias, Dimitrij Pankratz, Stefan Liesche, Sebastian Hense
  • Patent number: 11796036
    Abstract: Actuator provided with a low voltage DC motor which is coupled via a two-stage reduction mechanism with an output gear wheel, wherein the reduction mechanism comprises a first stage with a worm carried on the motor shaft of the DC motor, which worm in a right-angle transmission cooperates with the circumference of an intermediate gear wheel, which intermediate gear wheel is carried on an intermediate shaft which carries along its axis a spiral pinion, and wherein the reduction mechanism furthermore comprises a second stage with the spiral pinion which in a parallel transmission cooperates with the circumference of the output gear wheel, which is implemented as a spiral gear wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Stefan Fritz Brouwer
  • Patent number: 11752980
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image recording device for a body of a motor vehicle. The device comprises a housing part, an optical element having an outer surface, and a driving part for engaging an engaging part of a movable cleaning device. The movable cleaning device comprises furthermore a cleaning part, preferably formed by a wiper part, for at least partly cleaning the outer surface. The driving part is furthermore for driving the movable cleaning device to have the cleaning part at least partly clean the outer surface of the optical element. The image recording device is adjustable between a first condition in which the image recording device allows at least partly introducing or taking out the engaging part of the movable cleaning device and a second condition in which the image recording device prevents the engaging part of the movable cleaning device being taken out or being introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Stefan Fritz Brouwer
  • Patent number: 11739139
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing CLD18, including tumor-related diseases such as gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, hepatic cancer, head-neck cancer, and cancer of the gallbladder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: Astellas Pharma Inc., TRON—TRANSLATIONALE ONKOLOGIE AN DER UNIVERSITÄT
    Inventors: Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci, Dirk Usener, Stefan Fritz, Christoph Uherek, Gunda Brandenburg, Harald-Gerhard Geppert, Anja Kristina Schröder, Phillippe Thiel
  • Publication number: 20230078474
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjustment device for adjusting the position of an adjustable element. The device comprises a base frame for attachment to the adjustable element, an output shaft rotatably coupled to the base frame, an electric motor held by the base frame, and a worm gear assembly for transmitting rotation of the electric motor to the output shaft. The worm gear assembly includes a first worm gear and corresponding first worm. The output shaft is provided with the first worm gear coaxially disposed about a central axis of the output shaft. The first worm gear is substantially rotationally coupled or fixed to the output shaft, is held in the base frame, and is in engagement with the first worm gear. The adjustment device is arranged such that the base frame and the output shaft are rotatable with respect to each other over an angle of at least 120°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Marinus ROOSE, Stefan Fritz BROUWER
  • Patent number: 11590895
    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuator mechanism (1) for adjusting the orientation of a mirror element in an exterior mirror unit of a vehicle. The mechanism comprises an electric motor (9, 10) with a driving shaft (11, 12), a drive train (13, 14), and a movable mirror adjusting element (5, 6) coupled via the drive train to the driving shaft of the electric motor. Also, the actuator mechanism comprises an actuator frame (2) which carries the electric motor, the drive train and the mirror adjusting element. The driving shaft of the electric motor is bearing mounted in the actuator frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Fritz Brouwer, Bastiaan Huijzers
  • Patent number: 11558950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control device for an X-ray tube (2), comprising a housing (29) that is designed as a shield, in which an anode current regulating unit (1) is arranged and which is connected to a cathode power supply unit (18), a plurality of cathode voltage switches (20, 21, 22, 23, 24) which are to be connected to in each case a cathode (4), and a programmable assembly (25), in which the control of the cathodes (4) is determined. The cathode power supply unit (18), the cathode voltage switches (20, 21, 22, 23, 24) and the programmable assembly (18) are also arranged in the housing (29).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Cetteen GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Fritz, Houman Jafari, Jörg Rehrmann
  • Publication number: 20220355766
    Abstract: A cleaning unit for cleaning a sensor window pane of an optical sensing device, in particular for optical distance measurement, more in particular a LiDAR sensor device, of a motor vehicle. The cleaning unit comprises a wiper. Further, the cleaning unit comprises a drive unit which is arranged for wiping the wiper over the sensor window pane. Advantageously, the cleaning unit can be arranged for wiping a first portion of the wiper, such as a first wiper tip, over the sensor window pane from a first position towards a second position to wipe at least a first portion of the sensor window pane located between said first and second positions. The cleaning unit can then also be arranged for moving the wiper back from said second position substantially towards said first position without said first portion of the wiper wiping over said first portion of the sensor window pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Fritz BROUWER, Jannick Daniël WIJNTJES, Meindert Jan SOLKESZ
  • Patent number: 11485294
    Abstract: Image recording device provided with a fixed part for at least partial inclusion in and/or on the body of a motor vehicle, and a movable part which comprises at least one optical element, the optical element comprising at least one optical sensor and/or a lens unit, and an adjustment device provided with a power source, for adjusting the movable part between a first position and a second position, wherein during use in the first position the movable part is wholly or partly included in the body, and in the second position the movable part extends at an angle with respect to the body, such that at least the optical element carried by the movable part extends at least partly outside the body, wherein the movable part pivots from the second position about a, preferably substantially vertical, axis to the first position and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Fritz Brouwer, Rudolf Pieter Hoogenboom
  • Publication number: 20220185187
    Abstract: The invention relates to adjusting means for adjusting the position of a first part, in particular a viewing means holder part for a viewing means, such as a mirror or a camera for example, relative to a second part, in particular a base part, comprising at least one actuator, via which the first part can be moved, in particular pivoted, relative to the second part. The actuator has at least one first toothed ring segment and at least one second toothed ring segment, wherein the first toothed ring segment is force-coupled to at least one first actuator—in particular, a position detector—and the second toothed ring segment is force-coupled to at least one second actuator—in particular, an actuating drive. The invention additionally relates to a view adjusting means comprising such an adjusting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: François Roderik Henri BOUAZIZ, Paulus Gerardus Maria VAN STIPHOUT, Stefan Fritz BROUWER, Bastiaan Bartjan MAAT, Anne Catharina Martha BEKKER, Tom Adriaan JANSEN, Alex LORIER
  • Patent number: 11192502
    Abstract: Fastening construction for fastening an adjustment instrument to a carrying frame of an exterior vision unit of a motor vehicle, comprising first mounting parts on a fixing part of the adjustment instrument and second mounting parts on the carrying frame, wherein the first and second mounting parts comprise blocking parts on the fixing part and the carrying frame respectively, which in a first position can pass each other upon insertion of the parts into each other in an insert direction, and which by movement in a plane transverse to the insert direction are brought to a second position in which the blocking means cooperate and cannot pass each other upon movement opposite to the insert direction, and wherein furthermore there is provided a spring part which in mounted condition biases the first and second mounting parts against each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Paulus Gerardus Maria Van Stiphout, Stephen Alexander George Gustavo Boom, Evelyne Leontine Salters, Hendrik Alfred Simeon De Vries, Stefan Fritz Brouwer
  • Publication number: 20210293306
    Abstract: Actuator provided with a low voltage DC motor which is coupled via a two-stage reduction mechanism with an output gear wheel, wherein the reduction mechanism comprises a first stage with a worm carried on the motor shaft of the DC motor, which worm in a right-angle transmission cooperates with the circumference of an intermediate gear wheel, which intermediate gear wheel is carried on an intermediate shaft which carries along its axis a spiral pinion, and wherein the reduction mechanism furthermore comprises a second stage with the spiral pinion which in a parallel transmission cooperates with the circumference of the output gear wheel, which is implemented as a spiral gear wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Stefan Fritz BROUWER
  • Patent number: 11097669
    Abstract: Image recording device provided with a fixed part for at least partial inclusion in and/or on the body of a motor vehicle, and a movable part which comprises at least one optical element, the optical element comprising at least one optical sensor and/or a lens unit, and an adjustment device provided with a power source, for adjusting the movable part between a first position and a second position, wherein during use in the first position the movable part is wholly or partly included in the body, and in the second position the movable part extends at an angle with respect to the body, such that at least the optical element carried by the movable part extends at least partly outside the body, wherein the movable part pivots from the second position about a, preferably substantially vertical, axis to the first position and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Fritz Brouwer, Rudolf Pieter Hoogenboom
  • Patent number: 11084425
    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuator mechanism for adjusting at least one angular position of a mirror element in an exterior mirror device for a motor vehicle. The actuator mechanism comprises a base element and a mirror element movably coupled with the base element, which comprises a mirror support for supporting a mirror surface. The mirror element is rotatable relative to the base element about at least a first pivoting axis with the aid of a first electric motor provided in the actuator mechanism, which extends in a longitudinal direction that is substantially transverse to a supporting surface of the mirror support. What can be elegantly facilitated by this, for instance also in the case of a relatively small mirror surface that is only a few centimeters wide and/or is only a few centimeters long, is that, as seen from a direction in which during use the mirror surface is being viewed by a driver, such electric motor does not protrude, or hardly protrudes, next to, above and/or below the mirror surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Fritz Brouwer, Paulus Gerardus Maria van Stiphout
  • Publication number: 20210145700
    Abstract: According to the invention, gene products expressed in a tumor-associated manner and the nucleic acids coding therefor were identified. The invention relates to the therapy and diagnosis of diseases wherein said gene products expressed in a tumor-associated manner are aberrantly expressed. The invention also relates to proteins, polypeptides and peptides which are expressed in a tumor associated manner and to nucleic acids coding therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Ozlem Tureci, Ugur Sahin, Michael Koslowski, Stefan Fritz, Harald-Gerhard Geppert
  • Publication number: 20210094481
    Abstract: Image recording device provided with a fixed part for at least partial inclusion in and/or on the body of a motor vehicle, and a movable part which comprises at least one optical element, the optical element comprising at least one optical sensor and/or a lens unit, and an adjustment device provided with a power source, for adjusting the movable part between a first position and a second position, wherein during use in the first position the movable part is wholly or partly included in the body, and in the second position the movable part extends at an angle with respect to the body, such that at least the optical element carried by the movable part extends at least partly outside the body, wherein the movable part pivots from the second position about a, preferably substantially vertical, axis to the first position and vice versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Fritz Brouwer, Rudolf Pieter Hoogenboom
  • Patent number: 10882466
    Abstract: Image recording device provided with a fixed part for at least partial inclusion in and/or on the body of a motor vehicle, and a movable part which comprises at least one optical element, the optical element comprising at least one optical sensor and/or a lens unit, and an adjustment device provided with a power source, for adjusting the movable part between a first position and a second position, wherein during use in the first position the movable part is wholly or partly included in the body, and in the second position the movable part extends at an angle with respect to the body, such that at least the optical element carried by the movable part extends at least partly outside the body, wherein the movable part pivots from the second position about a, preferably substantially vertical, axis to the first position and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Fritz Brouwer, Rudolf Pieter Hoogenboom
  • Publication number: 20200385448
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing CLD18, including tumor-related diseases such as gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, hepatic cancer, head-neck cancer, and cancer of the gallbladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci, Dirk Usener, Stefan Fritz, Christoph Uherek, Gunda Brandenburg, Harald-Gerhard Geppert, Anja Kristina Schröder, Phillippe Thiel