Patents by Inventor Thomas A. SCHNEIDER

Thomas A. SCHNEIDER 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: 20240142112
    Abstract: The present invention is related to an extraction device (14) for removing air from an area above a cooking hob (12). The extraction device (14) comprises a suction arm (26), a fan and an outlet opening (34). The suction arm (26) includes a suction head (28), which comprises a suction opening (32), and a suction base (30), which comprises an air duct for conducting the air. The air duct is arranged downstream of the suction opening (32). The is configured to suck in the air from the area above the cooking hob (12) through the suction opening (32) and the air duct. The outlet opening (34) is configured to exhaust air. According to the invention, the suction arm (26) is centrally arranged or arrangeable in relation to the cooking hob (12) or is arranged or arrangeable midway between the lateral edges of the cooking hob (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Christoph WALTHER, Nikolai SCHNEIDER, Frank BENOLD, Linnéa KARLSSON, Thomas GARDNER, Pravin KUMAR, Ines RADHIMA, Rosolino REZZOLA, Diana RODRIGUES VALERIO
  • Patent number: 11969188
    Abstract: Devices used to deploy transvascular medical device systems and methods for using such devices are described in this document. For example, this document describes dilating introducer devices used for the percutaneous vascular deployment of catheter-based medical devices such as structural heart medical devices. Such dilating introducer devices can facilitate the percutaneous vascular deployment of catheter-based medical devices without an additional introducer sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Laplace Interventional Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Thomas Smith, Gunnar Paul Askegaard, Lucas Tradd Schneider, Ramji Iyer
  • Patent number: 11959436
    Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine which includes a crown having spiral features designed to increase swirl of combustion gases in a cylinder of the engine is provided. The spiral features can be located in a combustion surface or in a combustion bowl of the crown. The increased swirl of the combustion gases is expected to improve mixing of the air and fuel injected into the cylinder, and thus cause the fuel to burn more completely, achieve better efficiency out of the injected fuel, and reduce unburned hydrocarbons in the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Tenneco Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert Schneider, Michael Weinenger, Thomas Harris
  • Publication number: 20240100721
    Abstract: A gripping appliance is disclosed. A head assembly is releasably attached to, and extends distal from, a base member. A plunger actuator moves a plunger along a proximal-distal axis of the gripping appliance. The head assembly includes a carrier with a through opening which receives the plunger and at least two gripping legs. Each of the gripping legs include a tip portion distal of a fixation portion, an actuation portion adjacent to and proximal of the tip portion, and a flex portion between the actuation and fixation portions. The actuation portions contact the plunger when the plunger is in an extended, distal position. The fixation portions are rigidly mounted to the carrier. The actuation and tip portions are distal from the carrier. When no force is transferred from the plunger to the gripping legs, the tip portions converge in a proximal-distal direction of the gripping appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Samuel Schneider, René Weber, Reto Clopath, Thomas Meyer
  • Publication number: 20240093658
    Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine which includes a crown having spiral features designed to increase swirl of combustion gases in a cylinder of the engine is provided. The spiral features can be located in a combustion surface or in a combustion bowl of the crown. The increased swirl of the combustion gases is expected to improve mixing of the air and fuel injected into the cylinder, and thus cause the fuel to burn more completely, achieve better efficiency out of the injected fuel, and reduce unburned hydrocarbons in the exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Norbert Schneider, Michael Weinenger, Thomas Harris
  • Publication number: 20240083161
    Abstract: In some examples, a processing machine for processing a substrate includes at least one shaping unit and/or at least one application unit. The at least one application unit and/or the at least one shaping unit in each case includes at least one forme cylinder and at least one impression cylinder. The at least one forme cylinder of the application unit includes at least one application forme including at least one application surface and/or the at least one shaping unit includes at least one shaping tool including at least one working surface. The application surface and/or the working surface are arranged to cover at least a portion of the outer cylindrical surface of the at least one forme cylinder. A speed of the at least one forme cylinder and a speed of the at least one impression cylinder have a speed ratio with respect to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Bastian DEPPISCH, Torsten MÜLLER, Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20240081371
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing an edible product, in particular a vegan edible product from edible non-animal proteins which comprises the following steps i. to iv.: i.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Wolfgang SCHNEIDER, Alexander GRABER, Andreas HEYL, Radovan SPORKA, Lena-Marie RÄNGER, Thomas GRÜTZNER
  • Publication number: 20240083162
    Abstract: In some examples, a processing machine for processing a substrate includes at least one shaping unit. The at least one shaping unit includes at least one forme cylinder and at least one impression cylinder. A processing point for processing a substrate is arranged between the at least one forme cylinder and the at least one impression cylinder. The processing machine includes a control unit for correcting a processing length of the substrate, and which controls a speed of at least one of the at least one forme cylinder or the at least one impression cylinder. The at least one forme cylinder and the at least one impression cylinder have a speed ratio with respect to one another that is changeable at the processing point as a function of the processing length of the substrate, and the speed ratio differs at least once within a full cylinder revolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Bastian DEPPISCH, Torsten MÜLLER, Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20240075026
    Abstract: The present invention features solid pharmaceutical compositions comprising Compound 1 and Compound 2. In one embodiment, the solid pharmaceutical composition includes (1) a first layer which comprises 100 mg Compound 1, as well as a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrophilic polymer and a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant, all of which are formulated in amorphous solid dispersion; and (2) a second layer which comprises 40 mg Compound 2, as well as a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrophilic polymer and a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant, all of which are formulated in amorphous solid dispersion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: AbbVie Inc.
    Inventors: Nancy E. Sever, Ulrich Westedt, Ute Lander, Katrin Schneider, Benedikt Steitz, Thomas Mueller, Regina Reul, Constanze Obermiller, Adivaraha Jayasankar, Michael Simon, Yi Gao, Harald Hach, Samuel Kyeremateng, Katharina Asmus, Ping Tong, Donghua Zhu, Marius Naris, Colleen Garrett
  • Patent number: 11918989
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for regenerating a catalyst used for the hydrogenation of an aromatic species, consisting of several steps. First the system is purged with nitrogen, then air is metered in stepwise, and the addition of nitrogen is subsequently ended until only air is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Johan Anton, Michael Grass, Johannes Kraft, Thomas Schneider, Grzegorz Ziomek
  • Publication number: 20240073796
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Shahrnaz AZIZI, Biljana BADIC, John BROWNE, Dave CAVALCANTI, Hyung-Nam CHOI, Thorsten CLEVORN, Ajay GUPTA, Maruti GUPTA HYDE, Ralph HASHOLZNER, Nageen HIMAYAT, Simon HUNT, Ingolf KARLS, Thomas KENNEY, Yiting LIAO, Christopher MACNAMARA, Marta MARTINEZ TARRADELL, Markus Dominik MUECK, Venkatesan NALLAMPATTI EKAMBARAM, Niall POWER, Bernhard RAAF, Reinhold SCHNEIDER, Ashish SINGH, Sarabjot SINGH, Srikathyayani SRIKANTESWARA, Shilpa TALWAR, Feng XUE, Zhibin YU, Robert ZAUS, Stefan FRANZ, Uwe KLIEMANN, Christian DREWES, Juergen KREUCHAUF
  • Publication number: 20240059758
    Abstract: The present invention is related to antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies that specifically bind the SARS-CoV-2 glycoprotein S (spike) as well as diagnostic and therapeutic methods of using those antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: André Frenzel, Philipp Kuhn, Jonas Kügler, Michael Hust, Stefan Dübel, Doris Meier, Federico Bertoglio, Maren Schubert, Stephan Steinke, Marlies Becker, Viola Fühner, Maximilian Ruschig, Philip Alexander Heine, Kai-Thomas Schneider, Rico Ballmann, Susanne Zock-Emmenthal, Kristian Daniel Ralph Roth, Nora Langreder
  • Publication number: 20240046397
    Abstract: A system for detecting fraudulent activity using account analytics obtains an interaction record for an interaction between a remote device and a user account via an interaction channel, where the interaction is an attempt to access the user account, obtains historical data relating to the user account and the interaction channel that includes one or more historical interaction records relating to the user account and activity records relating to the interaction channel, calculates a threat score for the user account based on the interaction record and the one or more historical interaction records that indicates a likelihood that the user account is subject to fraudulent activity, generates a database record based on the interaction record that includes the threat score, and initiates corrective action if the threat score exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Tim McCurry, Joshua Tindal Gray, Wade Walker Ezell, Ryan Thomas Schneider, Andrew Jabasa
  • Patent number: 11858255
    Abstract: A processing machine for processing sheets comprises at least one application unit and at least one sheet sensor associated with that application unit. The at least one sheet sensor is arranged upstream of the associated application unit, along a transport path for sheets. The at least one sheet sensor is configured to detect the arrival time of sheets as the position of the sheet sensor. The at least one application unit, in each case, comprises at least one printing couple having a forme cylinder and an individual drive which is associated to that forme cylinder. The at least one sheet sensor is configured to control the position or the rotational speed of the forme cylinder in one of a closed loop or an open loop. The invention also relates to a method for processing sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KOENIG & BAUER AG
    Inventors: Andreas Bernard, Rudolf Geldhauser, Torsten Müller, Thomas Schneider
  • Patent number: 11845849
    Abstract: A process prepares dialkyl 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylates by ring hydrogenation of the corresponding dialkyl terephthalate having a CO value of less than 0.3 mg KOH/g. The dialkyl 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylates thus produced can be used as plasticizers or as a component of a plasticizer composition for plastics, in particular PVC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Kraft, Lena Altmann, Johan Anton, Michael Grass, Thomas Schneider
  • Publication number: 20230388665
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for altering visual media. In some embodiments, user interfaces capturing visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), playing back visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), editing visual media (e.g., that has a synthetic depth-of-field effect applied), and/or managing media capture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Johnnie B. MANZARI, Jeffrey A. BRASKET, Graham R. CLARKE, Saumitro DASGUPTA, Mikko Berggren ETTIENNE, Toke JANSEN, Wayne LOOFBOURROW, Joseph A. MALIA, Seyyedhossein MOUSAVI, Jens Jacob PALLISGAARD, Paul Thomas SCHNEIDER, Joshua Blake SHAGAM, William A. SORRENTINO, III, Andre SOUZA DOS SANTOS, Piotr J. STANCZYK
  • Publication number: 20230313871
    Abstract: An electric transmission (16) for a motor vehicle drive train (12) includes a transmission input shaft (24) for operatively connecting the electric transmission to an electric prime mover (14), a reduction gear (26) for reducing a rotational speed of the electric prime mover, a transmission (28) for establishing gear steps, including a first planetary gear set (RS1) and a second planetary gear set (RS2), a first output shaft (34) and a second output shaft (36) for transmitting drive power from the electric transmission, and a plurality of shift elements (B, C, D) for engaging the gear steps. A planet carrier of the first planetary gear set is drivingly connected to a planet carrier of the second planetary gear set, and a sun gear of the first planetary gear set is drivingly connected to a ring gear of the second planetary gear set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Ziemer, Bernard Hunold, Eckhardt Lübke, Thomas Riedisser, Thomas Schneider, Martin Brehmer, Thomas Martin, Michael Wechs, Fabian Kutter
  • Publication number: 20230270256
    Abstract: A support component (1) for a chair (3) comprises a rigid base element (11), a support structure (12) and a flexible cover (13). The support structure (12) is mounted on the base element (11) such that there is a space (121) between the base element (11) and the support structure (12) when the support structure (12) is without load. The cover (13) is mounted directly on the support structure (12) so that the cover (13) rests on the support structure (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Maik FISCHER, Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20230215179
    Abstract: A surveillance system for detecting and/or characterizing movement of a monitored infrastructure. An improved compromise between tight zone surveillance and number of false alarms is provided by an improved control of a 3D surveillance device. An input functionality is provided for a user to define a 3D subzone within a 3D environment model. A change functionality allows the user to generate a redefined subzone by dragging one of the corner points of the 3D subzone to a different position within a 3D visualization of the 3D environment model, whereby the shape of the 3D subzone is distorted. The input functionality and the change functionality are used to provide to the 3D surveillance device spatial parameters associated with the redefined subzone and the 3D surveillance device is caused to generate an action in case a movement within the redefined subzone is detected by means of the 3D measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Markus RIBI, Sandra TOBLER, Adam BAJRIC, Carl-Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20230183918
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for creating different bio-based, natural composite textile materials. In the system and method described herein, a non-woven fabric is used as a backing material upon which the bio-based, natural composite materials are applied in one or more coating layers, resulting in a bio-based and substantially biodegradable textile material that provides high performance in consumer industries, such as the footwear industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: ISA TanTech Limited
    Inventors: Thomas SCHNEIDER, Reiner Hengstmann