Patents by Inventor Stefan Mueller

Stefan Mueller 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: 20240426076
    Abstract: A material collection container extends in the longitudinal direction of a suction excavator and comprises a container wall which is closed at its two end faces by end walls. A lid is pivotably mounted on a lid shaft so that the material collection container is closed on the upper side and is open in an emptying position. The container has a seal extending between an upper edge and the lid in the closed position so that, in the closed position, the seal seals the container so that negative pressure can be generated in the container. The container wall has a plurality of side segment faces which extend in the longitudinal direction and transition into one another at stiffening edges. The folded upper edge is designed as a hollow profile. The seal is embedded in a groove on the side of the lid directed toward the upper edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Anne GRABER, Patrick RENGER, Stefan MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20240394672
    Abstract: A system and method for handling crypto-asset transactions includes: receiving from a payment processing system an electronic transaction request including: a payment token corresponding to a payment identifier associated with the customer account, and a transaction amount in a fiat currency; determining current price data corresponding to a first crypto-asset and a second crypto-asset associated with the customer account; associating the electronic transaction request with at least one data processing task for executing at least one crypto-asset transaction; and when at least one crypto-asset confidence condition is satisfied based on the current price data of at least one of the first crypto-asset or the second crypto-asset, generating signals for providing, via the payment processing system, an indication that the electronic transaction request is authorized without waiting for confirmation of execution of the at least one crypto-asset transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
    Inventors: Karim Talal HAMASNI, Stefan MUELLER, Atilla Murat FIRAT
  • Publication number: 20240376647
    Abstract: A spacer fabric has a first planar warp-knitted fabric layer, a second planar warp-knitted fabric layer, and spacer threads separating the warp-knitted fabric layers, wherein the first warp-knitted fabric layer is formed from at least a first and a second thread system and has stitch wales that run in the production direction, as well as stitch courses that run in the crosswise direction. The first thread system is formed as a pillar stitch construction, and the threads of the second thread system are guided, without forming loops, along the production direction, in an alternating sequence, offset and alternately over at least two adjacent stitch wales. The threads of the first thread-system have a greater fineness than the spacer threads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Mueller Textil GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan MUELLER, Heide GOECKEL
  • Patent number: 12125112
    Abstract: Computer-based methods and systems are provided for allocating landed costs. A planned landed cost of materials is calculated based on various planned landed costs. Landed costs are separated into an allocation document to generate a permanent record for cost allocation. When actual landed costs are received the allocation is applied based on different sets of accounting rules and one or more journal entries are generated and persisted based on application of the allocation document and the applied different sets of accounting rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Stefan Mueller
  • Publication number: 20240313234
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a membrane electrode assembly, MEA, comprises the steps of: continuous conveying, with a first vacuum conveyor belt, a first MEA component in the form of a web material at a first conveying speed; at least partially arranging, with a first arranging device, a second MEA component on the first MEA component while the first MEA component is continuously conveyed by the first vacuum conveyor belt; cutting, with a first cutting device, the first MEA component provided as web material with the second MEA component at least partially arranged thereon into a plurality of MEA component sections, so that the MEA component sections each comprise at least a part of the first and the second MEA component; and continuously conveying, with a second vacuum conveyor belt, the plurality of MEA component sections at a second conveying speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Sven Hochmann, Stefan Mueller, Joerg Leibiger
  • Patent number: 12079785
    Abstract: A system and method for handling crypto-asset transactions includes: receiving from a payment processing system an electronic transaction request including: a payment token corresponding to a payment identifier associated with the customer account, and a transaction amount in a fiat currency; determining current price data corresponding to a first crypto-asset and a second crypto-asset associated with the customer account; associating the electronic transaction request with at least one data processing task for executing at least one crypto-asset transaction; and when at least one crypto-asset confidence condition is satisfied based on the current price data of at least one of the first crypto-asset or the second crypto-asset, generating signals for providing, via the payment processing system, an indication that the electronic transaction request is authorized without waiting for confirmation of execution of the at least one crypto-asset transaction in the respective distributed ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
    Inventors: Karim Talal Hamasni, Stefan Mueller, Atilla Murat Firat
  • Publication number: 20240287698
    Abstract: The invention is directed to the use of electrolytic bronze deposits as substitutes for the noble metal electroplating of electronic circuits, e.g. for use in electronic payment cards and identity cards. The invention also relates to a novel layer sequence of bronze layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Ziebart, Guenter Wirth, Silvia Neuhaus, Stefan Mueller
  • Publication number: 20240269767
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device which includes a sonotrode arrangement, an anvil, a displacement device, and a force sensor. The sonotrode arrangement has a sonotrode head. The sonotrode arrangement is configured to transmit ultrasonic vibrations, which are generated at the sonotrode arrangement in a region remote from the sonotrode head, to the sonotrode head such that the sonotrode head vibrates in a vibration direction of the sonotrode arrangement and that the sonotrode arrangement vibrates minimally in the vibration direction at a zero-point position which is arranged spaced apart from the sonotrode head, based on the vibration direction. The displacement device is configured to displace the sonotrode arrangement and the anvil relative to one another in a displacement direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan MÜLLER, Daniel GÜNTHER
  • Publication number: 20240262780
    Abstract: A method for preparing a tertiary alcohol having a formula (I) The method includes reacting cyclododecanone with an acrylate having a formula RO—CO—CH?CH2 in a reductive aldol reaction under a metal catalysis. R in the formula (I) is a straight-chain C1-C8-alkyl, a branched C1-C8-alkyl, a straight-chain alkenyl group, a branched alkenyl group, an unsubstituted phenyl group, or a substituted phenyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: MILTITZ AROMATICS GMBH
    Inventors: STEFAN MUELLER, ANDREAS PETRI, JHONNY JIMENEZ-PINTO
  • Patent number: 12043490
    Abstract: A belt conveyor comprises a belt with a drive roller, a deflection roller that can be adjusted relative thereto upwardly and/or downwardly, and an upper run extending therebetween for transporting the food products. The belt conveyor comprises a deflection element arranged between the drive roller and the deflection roller and configured for adjustment in the direction of transport. The upper and/or the associated lower run of the belt transitions from a first longitudinal section running in the direction of transport to a second longitudinal section tilted relative thereto when the deflection roller has been adjusted. The second longitudinal section can be quickly tilted and flexibly adapted to the dimensions of the food products and their transport distances inbetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Mueller, Peter Willburger, Georg Bannert
  • Publication number: 20240226400
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical apparatus designed to receive a detachable fluid-conducting first line portion (3). The medical apparatus comprises a second line portion (2) designed to be connected to the first line portion (3), wherein a movable element (38) is situated in the second line portion (2), by means of which movable element the second line portion (2) is separated into a first sub-portion (2a) and a second sub-portion (2b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan MÜLLER, Martin THYS
  • Publication number: 20240201246
    Abstract: A method for checking a signal path of a sensor circuit for a field device, wherein the signal path includes a transducer for outputting analog raw measured values, an analog-digital converter to convert the analog raw measured values into digital raw measured values, and a digital processor designed to further process the digital raw measured values, includes: interrupting the measuring mode; replacing the analog raw measured values at an output of the transducer by an analog check signal; passing the analog check signal through the signal path so that the digital processor determines a measured value corresponding to the analog check signal; checking the determined measured value with a comparison value determined for the signal path; and, if the measured value determined for the analog check signal is outside a defined tolerance range for the comparison value, identifying a change in the state of the signal path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Müller, Dirk Dohse, Manfred Hammer
  • Patent number: 11999003
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode with a sonotrode surface, a lateral slide with a lateral slide surface, a touching element with a touching surface and an insertion chamber for inserting joining parts. The insertion chamber is defined in a first axial direction (y) on a first side by the sonotrode surface and in a second axial direction (x) on a second side by the lateral slide surface and on a third side opposing the second side by the touching surface. Furthermore, the ultrasonic welding device includes a first receiving element with a first stop edge and a second receiving element with a second stop edge. The first receiving element and the second receiving element are arranged to be movable in relation to each other between a starting position and an end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel Fey, Stefan Müller, Rainer Wagenbach, Waldemar Werner, Daniel Günther, Dariusz Kosecki, Stephan Becker, Eugen Koch
  • Patent number: 11993067
    Abstract: A warp-knitted textile composite has a spacer fabric that extends in a production direction and a transverse direction and has an outer flat warp-knitted fabric layer of predetermined stretchability, an inner flat warp-knitted fabric layer of lesser stretchability in the production and transverse directions than the outer layer, and spacer threads interconnecting the warp-knitted fabric layers. A decorative cover layer is attached to the outer flat warp-knitted fabric layer and is formed with compressed areas where the spacer fabric is permanently at least partially compressed for structuring the decorative cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MUELLER TEXTIL GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Mueller, Sabine Jenewein
  • Patent number: 11980963
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode, an anvil, a touching element, a lateral slide, a stop element and a receiving chamber in which joining partners are received and which is defined by bordering components of the ultrasonic welding device. The receiving chamber is defined on a first side by the sonotrode and on a second side by the anvil. The receiving chamber is further defined on a third side by the touching element and on a fourth side by the lateral slide. The receiving chamber is further defined on a fifth side, extending transverse to the first to fourth sides, by the stop element. The first stop element is electrically conductive on its surface directed toward the receiving chamber in order to form a first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Gassert, Stefan Müller, Rainer Wagenbach, Waldemar Werner, Daniel Günther, Dariusz Kosecki, Stephan Becker, Eugen Koch
  • Patent number: 11975458
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cutting a base web with a separating device as well as a corresponding method, where the separating device can cut a base web into individual bases which can be guided under a fresh product. The separating device comprises a knife device and a counter cutting device, each of which comprise at least two cutting edges. The knife device and/or the counter cutting devices can be moved to and fro in two directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Mueller, Peter Willburger, Michael Heim, Robin Volz
  • Patent number: 11973652
    Abstract: Disclosed is a field detection device designed to be connected to at least one access point of a fieldbus network via at least one interface. The field detection device is designed to initiate or execute, for each of at least two connection protocols, an associated query in at least one fieldbus segment of the fieldbus network and to detect which field devices and fieldbus components in said at least one fieldbus segment can be accessed via the connection protocol in question. Furthermore, the field detection device is designed to provide a connection directory in which at least one connection protocol is specified for each field device and for each fieldbus component of a set of field devices and fieldbus components of the at least one fieldbus segment, by means of which connection protocol the field device in question or the fieldbus component in question can be accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG
    Inventors: Michael Mayer, Werner Luber, Stefan Müller Osolin
  • Publication number: 20240131240
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical apparatus designed to receive a detachable fluid-conducting first line portion (3). The medical apparatus comprises a second line portion (2) designed to be connected to the first line portion (3), wherein a movable element (38) is situated in the second line portion (2), by means of which movable element the second line portion (2) is separated into a first sub-portion (2a) and a second sub-portion (2b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan MÜLLER, Martin THYS
  • Patent number: 11964827
    Abstract: A device and a method for providing a product stream with mutually aligned food products on product substrates are described According thereto, a first conveyor belt for the supply transport and mutual transverse alignment of the food products to each other, a second conveyor belt that adjoins in the direction of transport at a gap-shaped belt transition and can be controlled separately for the discharge transport and mutual longitudinal alignment of the food products to each other, and a substrate placement device for supplying the product substrates from below through the belt transition in front of/under the food products that are respectively transported across the belt transition. This enables the alignment and substrate placement in a particularly compact and reliable configuration at a single belt transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Mueller
  • Publication number: 20240100621
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode with a sonotrode surface, a lateral slide with a lateral slide surface, a touching element with a touching surface and an insertion chamber for inserting joining parts. The insertion chamber is defined in a first axial direction (y) on a first side by the sonotrode surface and in a second axial direction (x) on a second side by the lateral slide surface and on a third side opposing the second side by the touching surface. Furthermore, the ultrasonic welding device includes a first receiving element with a first stop edge and a second receiving element with a second stop edge. The first receiving element and the second receiving element are arranged to be movable in relation to each other between a starting position and an end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel FEY, Stefan MÜLLER, Rainer WAGENBACH, Waldemar WERNER, Daniel GÜNTHER, Dariusz KOSECKI, Stephan BECKER, Eugen KOCH