Patents by Inventor Stefan Seifert

Stefan Seifert 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: 20240089012
    Abstract: A signal transmission system for transmitting a main process variable and further data between a field device and a superordinate unit, includes a first conversion arrangement, a second conversion arrangement and an optocoupler arrangement. The optocoupler arrangement is connected between the first conversion arrangement and the second conversion arrangement. The first conversion arrangement is configured to convert at least the further data exchanged between the field device and the superordinate unit into a data signal transmittable via the optocoupler arrangement. The optocoupler arrangement transmits the data signal between the first conversion arrangement and the second conversion arrangement. The second conversion arrangement converts the data signal to the further data and transmits it to the field device. A method transmits a main process variable and further data between a field device and a superordinate unit. In the method, at least the further data is transmitted via an optocoupler arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Arthur Bay, Matthias Seifert, Falko Visser, Stefan Pumpe, Klaus Schallenberg, Hans-Christian Weinert
  • Patent number: 11398035
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for partitioning a medical image which encompasses acquiring a medical image of a surface of a patient and a surface of at least one object (embodied by image data), for example, by means of a 3D scanning device. Furthermore, a thermal image of the surface of the patient and the surface of the object is acquired (embodied by thermal data), for example, by means of a thermal camera. The medical image and the thermal image are fused (based on registration data), such that the image data is associated with the thermal data (embodied by association data). By analyzing the association data with regard to a specified condition (embodied by condition data), for example a condition related to a temperature threshold, a subset of the association data which fulfills the condition and describes a part of the medical image is determined (embodied by condition compliance data).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Hagen Kaiser, Stefan Seifert
  • Publication number: 20210407092
    Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for partitioning a medical image which encompasses acquiring a medical image of a surface of a patient and a surface of at least one object (embodied by image data), for example, by means of a 3D scanning device. Furthermore, a thermal image of the surface of the patient and the surface of the object is acquired (embodied by thermal data), for example, by means of a thermal camera. The medical image and the thermal image are fused (based on registration data), such that the image data is associated with the thermal data (embodied by association data). By analyzing the association data with regard to a specified condition (embodied by condition data), for example a condition related to a temperature threshold, a subset of the association data which fulfills the condition and describes a part of the medical image is determined (embodied by condition compliance data).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hagen Kaiser, Stefan Seifert
  • Publication number: 20210145372
    Abstract: The disclosed method encompasses acquiring position data. The position data describes predetermined positions of a treatment device. At each of the predetermined positions, an imaging condition is fulfilled. Such an imaging condition is for a free line of sight of two (stereo-)imaging units at the same time. In a next step, the current position of the treatment device is acquired. Then, the current position is compared with the predetermined positions. In case the current position corresponds to a predetermined position, decision data is determined which describes that an image shall be taken. In a next step, control data is determined which describes a control signal for an imaging device to take an image or not to take an image, depending on the decision data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Kajetan Berlinger, Stefan Seifert
  • Patent number: 9367926
    Abstract: The invention relates to a data processing method of determining a change of an image of an anatomical body part of a patient's body, the method being executed by a computer and comprising the following steps: a) acquiring static medical image data comprising static medical image information describing anatomical body part in a first anatomical spatial state of an anatomical vital spatial change of the anatomical body part; b) acquiring patient model data comprising patient model information describing a model body part corresponding to the anatomical body part, wherein the patient model information describes the model body part in a plurality of model spatial states of a model vital spatial change corresponding to the anatomical vital spatial change; c) determining spatial state mapping data comprising spatial state mapping information describing at least one of a first mapping from the model body part in a first one of the plurality of model spatial states to the model body part in a second, different one o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Stefan Vilsmeier, Andreas Blumhofer, Stefan Seifert
  • Publication number: 20150305987
    Abstract: The invention describes a polymerisable mixture composition containing a liquid or semi-solid component A with at least one monomer portion and one, preferably powdery, solid component B on a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) base with a filler and/or additives, the liquid or semi-solid component A additionally having at least one oligomeric or polymeric compound modifying the monomer portion and which is miscible with the monomer portion. Furthermore, use of the mixture composition and a moulded part, for example a dental prosthesis, produced from the latter, is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Merz Dental Gmbh
    Inventors: Sebastian Pflesser, Stefan Seifert, Ralf Zimehl
  • Publication number: 20150302608
    Abstract: The invention relates to a data processing method of determining a change of an image of an anatomical body part of a patient's body, the method being executed by a computer and comprising the following steps: a) acquiring static medical image data comprising static medical image information describing anatomical body part in a first anatomical spatial state of an anatomical vital spatial change of the anatomical body part; b) acquiring patient model data comprising patient model information describing a model body part corresponding to the anatomical body part, wherein the patient model information describes the model body part in a plurality of model spatial states of a model vital spatial change corresponding to the anatomical vital spatial change; c) determining spatial state mapping data comprising spatial state mapping information describing at least one of a first mapping from the model body part in a first one of the plurality of model spatial states to the model body part in a second, different one o
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Vilsmeier, Andreas Blumhofer, Stefan Seifert