Patents by Inventor Stefan Muller

Stefan Muller 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).

  • HAND-OPERATED COOLING DEVICE FOR CRYOTHERAPY
    Publication number: 20130103127
    Abstract: A hand-operated cooling device for cryotherapy for treating pain, inflammations, muscle tensions or the like, includes a main body and a receptacle, which can be inserted at least partially into the main body, for the exchangeable accommodation and insertion of a gas pressure vessel. The main body includes a gas outlet actuation arrangement, which can effect, by manual actuation, the outflow of a gas from the gas pressure vessel when the receptacle is inserted, and the receptacle includes a cooling surface, which can be cooled by the outflowing gas and by the gas pressure vessel jacket, wherein the gas can be conducted inside the main body and inside the receptacle by a gas conducting arrangement and can exit at the receptacle adjacent to the cooling surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Stefan Müller, Steffen Ortlib, Ingo Dreher
  • Preparation of nanoscalar UV absorbers
    Patent number: 8393556
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of preparing a composition, comprising a micronized insoluble organic UV absorber, which method comprises grinding the insoluble organic UV absorber, in coarse particle form, in a grinding apparatus comprising yttrium-stabilized zirconium oxide grinding beads, in the presence of alkyl polyglucoside having the formula CnH2n+1O(C6H10O5)xH, in which n is an integer ranging from 8 to 16 and x is the mean polymerisation level of the glucoside moiety (C6H10O5) and ranges from 1.4 to 1.6, or an ester thereof and in the presence of an antifoam agent as dispersingagent auxiliary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Müller, Bernd Herzog
  • Use of benzotriazole derivatives for photostabilisation
    Patent number: 8361446
    Abstract: Use of benzotriazole derivatives of formula (1), wherein R1 is C1-C30alkyl; C1C5alkoxy; C1-C5alkoxycarbonyl; C5-C7cycloalkyl; C6-C10aryl; aralkyl; —SO3M; a radical of formula (1a) R3 is hydrogen; C1C5alkyl; C1C5alkoxy; halogen, preferably Cl; or hydroxy; R4 and R5 are each independently of the other hydrogen; or d-C5alkyl; m is 1 or 2; n is O or 1; if m=1, R2 is hydrogen; unsubstituted or phenyl-substituted d-C1-C12alkyl; or C6-C10aryl; if m=2, R2 is the direct bond; or —(CH2)p—; and p is 1 to 3; for enhancing the photostability of cosmetic or dermatologic compositions comprising at least one further organic UV absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Müller, Jochen Giesinger, Thomas Ehlis, Bernd Herzog, Peter König, Gilbert Kreyer, Katja Quass
  • Carboxylic acid derivatives, their preparation and use
    Patent number: 8349843
    Abstract: Carboxylic acid derivatives where R—R6, X, Y and Z have the meanings stated in the description, and the preparation thereof, are described. The novel compounds are suitable for controlling diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Abbott GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Riechers, Dagmar Klinge, Wilhelm Amberg, Andreas Kling, Stefan Muller, Ernst Baumann, Joachim Rheinheimer, Uwe Vogelbacher, Wolfgang Wernet, Andrea Hager-Wernet, legal representative, Liliane Unger, Manfred Raschack
  • Coated detergent composition and manufacture process
    Patent number: 8334249
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coated detergent composition and a process of manufacturing thereof. More in detail the present invention refers to a coated detergent tablet wherein the coating is applied to the tablet by bringing a powder coating material in direct contact with the tablet and thereafter equalizing the powder particles in a way that a homogenous “fused” coating (film) layer is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignees: Dalli-Werke GmbH & Co. KG, Gelita AG
    Inventors: Sascha Belten-Casteel, Gerard Krist, Stefan Müller, Ralf Pörschke
  • SORTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120261231
    Abstract: A sorter device and sorting apparatus for use in a conveyor line, and a conveyor line including such a sorter device and sorting apparatus. A sorting apparatus may be used in a conveyor line with an inspection device, and may include an infeed device and an outfeed device to move the products to and from a sorter device with a sorting element that can be swiveled downward. The sorter device may be equipped with at least one guide element that is arranged at a vertical distance from the sorting element and acts from above to guide the transport direction of a product that is moved on the sorting element. The guide element may be connected to the sorting element and may be designed to swivel therewith. An optional take-along device may also be present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: METTLER-TOLEDO GARVENS GMBH
    Inventors: Katrin Eiserloh, Stefan Müller
  • Confocal imaging device using spatially modulated illumination with electronic rolling shutter detection
    Patent number: 8237835
    Abstract: A digital imaging device comprising a light source, a pixel array detector having a rolling shutter functionality, a spatial light modulator configured to produce one or more modulation patterns during a frame exposure of the pixel array detector, and at least one timing signal configured to control a spatial-temporal relationship between a rolling shutter of the pixel array detector and the one or more modulation patterns provided by the spatial light modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Aeon Imaging, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Stefan Muller
  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE STRUCTURE OF A TRANSISTOR
    Publication number: 20120161150
    Abstract: A method for determining the structure of a transistor having at least one first layer including GaN, one second layer including AlxGa1-xN disposed on the first layer, and one fourth layer including a metal or an alloy disposed on the second layer. The method includes setting the layer thickness of the second layer, setting the aluminum content x of the second layer, producing at least the second layer and the first layer, determining the surface potential of formula (I) and/or the charge carrier density n, and/or the charge carrier motility ? after producing the second layer and the first layer, and selecting the material of the fourth layer as a function of the at least one measurement result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Klaus Köhler, Stefan Müller, Patrick Waltereit
  • OXAZOLIDINONE-QUINOLONE HYBRID ANTIBIOTICS
    Publication number: 20120142635
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula (I) that are useful antimicrobial agents and effective against a variety of multi-drug resistant bacteria:
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Morphochem Aktiengesellschaft Fur Kombinatorische Chemie
    Inventors: Christian Hubschwerlen, Jean-Luc Specklin, Daniel Baeschlin, Christine Schmitt, Stefan Müller, Michael W. Cappi
  • PHOTO-STABLE COSMETIC OR DERMATOLOGICAL COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20120121524
    Abstract: Disclosed is the use of an effective photo-stabilizing amount of stabilizing agent (a) selected from a diphenylacrylate UV filter (a1), a benzylidene cmphor derivative (a2), an organosiloxane comprising benzalemalonate groups (a3), a fluoren derivative (a4), and a naphthalene dicarboxylic acid derivative (a5) for improving the stability with respect to UV radiation of a cosmetic or dermatological composition comprising a UV filter combination of at least one dibenzoylmethane derivative (b) and of at least one specific amino-substituted 2-hydroxybenzophenone derivative (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Stefan MÜLLER, Bernd HERZOG, Katja QUASS
  • Conductivity Sensor
    Publication number: 20120092025
    Abstract: A conductivity sensor, comprising an electrode structure of four concentric electrodes, which are arranged on an end face of a support body. The electrodes are electrically insulated from one another. The electrodes have an equal, constant area in order to claim a space requirement as small as possible for the electrode structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Endress + Hauser Conducta Gesellschaft fur Mess - und Regeltechnik mbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Marco Volker, Andreas Eberheim, Stefan Muller
  • Oxazolidinone-quinolone hybrid antibiotics
    Patent number: 8158797
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula (I) that are useful antimicrobial agents and effective against a variety of multi-drug resistant bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Morphochem Aktiengesellschaft fur Kombinatorische Chemie
    Inventors: Christian Hubschwerlen, Jean-Luc Specklin, Daniel Baeschlin, Christine Schmitt, Stefan Müller, Michael W. Cappi
  • NOVEL CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVES, THEIR PREPARATION AND USE
    Publication number: 20120088911
    Abstract: where R—R6, X, Y and Z have the meanings stated in the description, and the preparation thereof, are described. The novel compounds are suitable for controlling diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Abbott GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Riechers, Dagmar Klinge, Wilhelm Amberg, Andreas Kling, Stefan Muller, Ernst Baumann, Joachim Rheinheimer, Uwe Vogelbacher, Wolfgang Wernet, Liliane Unger, Manfred Raschack, Andrea Hager-Wernet
  • HEAT TRANSFER UNIT
    Publication number: 20120061060
    Abstract: A heat exchanger unit that includes a plurality of first heat exchanger ducts formed by a plurality of plates configured for a first flow of a coolant, a plurality of second heat exchanger ducts formed by the plurality of plates configured for a second flow to be cooled by the first flow, a first inlet for the first flow, a first outlet for the first flow, a first inlet for the second flow, and a second outlet for the second flow. The heat exchanger unit further includes an inlet chamber for the first flow from which a partial flow of the first flow is branched off, conducted through the plurality of first heat exchanger ducts and circulated within the heat exchanger unit to the first outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Reinhard Stoll, Alfredo Ghidini, Stefan Müller-Lufft, Stefan Laux
  • Transport system for handling multi-width flexible pouches
    Patent number: 8122684
    Abstract: A flexible bag transport system for transporting flexible filling and sealing station which includes a pair of holding clamp assemblies opposed to each other for holding the top end of a bag. The first clamp assembly is supported by a first elongated carrier and a second clamp assembly is supported by a second elongated carrier that is parallel to the first carrier. Clamping assemblies remain apart from each other and the bags are transported and are displaced toward each other to permit the bag to be opened during filling of the bag. One of the elongated carriers supporting the clamping assemblies has an adjustable mechanism so that the clamp assemblies can be adjusted with respect to each other without requiring adjustment of the remaining components of the transport system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: INDAG Gesellschaft für Industriebedarf mbH & Co. Betriebs KG
    Inventors: Michael Kurz, Stefan Muller, Hans-Peter Wild
  • Photo-stable cosmetic or dermatological compositions
    Patent number: 8119107
    Abstract: Disclosed is the use of an effective photo-stabilizing amount of stabilizing agent (a) selected from a diphenylacrylate UV filter (a1), a benzylidene amphor derivative (a2), an organosiloxane comprising benzalemalonate groups (a3), a fluoren derivative (a4), and a naphthalene dicarboxylic acid derivative (a5) for improving the stability with respect to UV radiation of a cosmetic or dermatological composition comprising a UV filter combination of at least one dibenzoylmethane derivative (b) and of at least one specific amino-substituted 2-hydroxybenzophenone derivative (c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Müller, Bernd Herzog, Katja Quass
  • Use of transmission dyes for protecting human skin from browning and ageing
    Patent number: 8097240
    Abstract: Disclosed is the use of an aqueous dispersion comprising (a) a micronized sparingly soluble organic compound which has a UV-Vis spectrum with a maximum from 380 to 420 nm; and (b) an anionic dispersing agent for protecting the human skin from browning and skin aging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Müller, Jürg Haase, Thomas Ehlis, Gilbert Kreyer, Jochen Giesinger, Martin Vogt
  • Heat exchanger
    Patent number: 8033323
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger having a bundle of tubes, which can be inserted into a tubular housing. Exhaust gas can flow through the tubes. A coolant duct can be arranged between the tubes. The bundle of tubes can have at least one grid-like securing structure which supports the bundle in the housing. The behavior of the heat exchanger with respect to vibrations is improved by virtue of the fact that the grid-like metallic securing structure includes integral hook-shaped protrusions which are deformed in the opposite direction to the insertion direction of the bundle into the housing. The spring force is directed against the housing in order to dampen vibrations. The heat exchanger can also include an elastic device for permitting a change in length caused by temperature changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Harald Schatz, Stefan Muller-Lufft, Heitel Ingo, Omur Acar, Jorg Soldner, Michael Daniel, Bjorn Volquardsen
  • Device for the picture-providing diagnosis of tissue using one of at least two diagnosis modes
    Patent number: 8019405
    Abstract: A device for picture-providing diagnosis of tissue is selectively operated in a picture-providing white light diagnosis mode and a picture providing auto-fluorescence mode. A color camera having red, green, and blue sensors provides a monitor which picture signals. A light source emits fluorescence excitation light and additionally emits so much red light that the red light remitted by the tissue dominates the red fluorescence light in the picture providing auto-fluorescence mode. The signal from the red sensor of the camera is damped so that normal time appears green and pre-malignant and early malignant tissue appears red.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Claus Weber, Thomas Goll, Olaf Schmidt, Philipp Eidner, Stefan Müller, Hubert van den Bergh, Didier Goujon, Georges Wagnières
  • Hydroxybenzophenone derivatives
    Patent number: 7999128
    Abstract: Disclosed are hydroxyphenylbenzophenone derivatives of formula (1), wherein R1 and R2 independently from each other are hydrogen; C1-C20alkenyl; C3-C10cycloalkyl; or R1 and R2 together with the linking nitrogen atom form a 5- 6-membered heterocyclic ring; R3, R4 and R5 independently from each other are C1-C4alkyl; C1-C4alkoxy; or a radical of formula (1a) R6 is C1-C6alkyl; and A is a straight-chain or branched C3-C6alkylene, which is optionally interrupted by one or more *—O—*, or *—O—(CO)—* groups; and m is 0; or a number from 1 to 5. The compounds are useful as cosmetic UV filters with outstanding solubility properties in cosmetic oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jürg Haase, Stefan Müller, Thomas Ehlis