Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Sturm

Thomas A. Sturm 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).

  • Patent number: 11940777
    Abstract: A sensor control assembly and method providing a secured sensor data and an optimized handling of the sensor including a sensor, a first processing unit adapted to provide a cryptographic checksum of sensor data, a distributed database, a second processing unit adapted to verify the sensor data, and a third processing unit adapted to determine the demand for calibration. A manufacturing device contains at least a part of the sensor control assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jerry Fornander, Andreas Graichen, Thomas Jetzfellner, Johan Lindstam, Markus Sauer, Monika Sturm
  • Publication number: 20220188878
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficient execution of modules are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan O'Hearn, Thomas Sturm, Jeremy Bennett
  • Patent number: 11349942
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify sponsored media in a Document Object Model. An example method includes in response to initiation of a search for sponsored media in a first branch of a document object model for a webpage, initiating a first timer having a first search time period and a second timer having a second search time period, the first search time period and the second search time period overlap, the search to be terminated upon completion of traversing the first branch when the search reaches a document node that is at a root of the first branch, the first branch including a candidate node. The example method also includes in response to identifying the candidate node as sponsored media, parsing the sponsored media to generate monitoring information, and modifying a user agent setting to include a unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Sturm, Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan J. O'Hearn, Jeremy Wade Bennett
  • Publication number: 20220124163
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify sponsored media in a Document Object Model. An example method includes determining if a first child node in a document object model is a sponsored media node, including to identify if the first child node is an element node, detecting if the first child node is of a valid element node type, and comparing the first child node to one or more geometric thresholds corresponding to the sponsored media node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Sturm, Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan J. O'Hearn, Jeremy Wade Bennett
  • Patent number: 11270356
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficient execution of modules are disclosed. An example method includes generating, by a first module, a first module identifier, the first module having been instantiated by an advertisement on a webpage, loading, by the first module, a component, communicating the module identifier to the component, determining that a second module having a second module identifier has been loaded, and, in response to determining that the second module has been loaded, communicating, by the first module, the second module identifier to the component to instruct the component to communicate with the second module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan O'Hearn, Thomas Sturm, Jeremy Bennett
  • Patent number: 11149153
    Abstract: Described is a method of preparing a product comprising an amount of surface modified silver nanowires, the method comprising the following steps: preparing or providing a first surface agent compound having one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of thiol and amine, for attaching the first surface agent compound to the surface of a silver nanowire, preparing or providing an amount of silver nanowires, attaching said first surface agent compound prepared or provided in step (a) to the surface of said silver nanowires prepared or provided in step (b), so that surface modified silver nanowires result, and optionally (d) adding one or more further constituents and/or conducting one or more further steps so that said product results. Also described are a corresponding product, corresponding uses and a method of coating the surface of an article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Fangfang Chu, Herve Dietsch, Thomas Sturm, Danny Seyfried
  • Patent number: 11000877
    Abstract: An applicator for application onto and embossing microprofiling of a fluidic medium on a substrate, in particular in the aerospace sector, and a corresponding application device having such an applicator. The applicator has a circumferentially moving die that has an embossing profile, a press for the die and a stabilizing device, in particular a hardening device, for the applied medium. In addition, the applicator has a hollow support body, surrounded by the die at a distance forming a gap, the press being arranged in the gap. The application device has, in addition to the applicator, a handling device for a relative movement between the applicator and a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Sturm, Helmut Huber
  • Publication number: 20210035168
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficient execution of modules are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan O'Hearn, Thomas Sturm, Jeremy Bennett
  • Patent number: 10810634
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficient execution of modules are disclosed. An example method includes generating, by a first module, a first module identifier, the first module having been instantiated by an advertisement on a webpage, loading, by the first module, a component, communicating the module identifier to the component, determining that a second module having a second module identifier has been loaded, and, in response to determining that the second module has been loaded, communicating, by the first module, the second module identifier to the component to instruct the component to communicate with the second module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan O'Hearn, Thomas Sturm, Jeremy Bennett
  • Patent number: 10690985
    Abstract: A vehicle device, in particular an aircraft device, comprises at least one window unit and comprises at least one transparency switching unit that is, in at least one first operating state, configured to enable a through-view through the window unit, wherein the transparency switching unit comprises at least one illuminating unit that is configured to at least partly prevent a view through the window unit in at least one second operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: E.I.S. AIRCRAFT PRODUCTS AND SERVICES GMBH
    Inventors: Gerold Karl Hupperich, Sven Achilles, Thomas Sturm
  • Publication number: 20200191628
    Abstract: A measuring device determines a fluid variable via a control device. A measuring tube serves to guide the fluid, and a first vibration transducer is arranged at the measuring tube. The first vibration transducer has a supporting device and two vibration elements spaced apart from one another. A spring element is clamped between a side face of the vibration elements averted from the measuring tube, which presses the respective vibration element against the measuring tube. The control device drives the vibration elements such that they excite a guided wave in a side wall of the measuring tube guided directly in the side wall or indirectly via the fluid to a second vibration transducer arranged at the measuring tube or back to the first vibration transducer, to be detected there by the control device resulting in measurement data. The control device determines the fluid variable depending on the measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: ANDREAS BENKERT, THOMAS STURM, MICHAEL MAYLE, PETER PLOSS
  • Publication number: 20200191627
    Abstract: A measuring device determines a fluid variable with a control device, a measuring tube and a first vibration transducer arranged at the measuring tube. The first vibration transducer contains a vibration element. The vibration element has a vibration body, a first electrode on the measuring tube side and a second electrode averted from the measuring tube. The first electrode extends over a first end face of the vibration body. The second electrode extends to a second end face that lies opposite the first end face. A respective conductive contact element contacts the first electrode at a first end face and the second electrode at a second end face electrically and mechanically such that the vibration element is supported by the contact elements. A voltage between the first and second electrodes can be varied through the vibration element to excite a guided wave in a side wall of the measuring tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: PETER PLOSS, Thomas Sturm, Michael Mayle, Andreas Benkert
  • Patent number: 10526501
    Abstract: Described is a composition suitable for the preparation of an electroconductive transparent layer, said composition comprising a mixture of water and one or more alcohols, electroconductive nanoobjects and one or more dissolved styrene/(meth)acrylic copolymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Herve Dietsch, Thomas Sturm, Danny Seyfried, Rui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200007637
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify sponsored media in a Document Object Model. An example method includes in response to initiation of a search for sponsored media in a first branch of a document object model for a webpage, initiating a first timer having a first search time period and a second timer having a second search time period, the first search time period and the second search time period overlap, the search to be terminated upon completion of traversing the first branch when the search reaches a document node that is at a root of the first branch, the first branch including a candidate node. The example method also includes in response to identifying the candidate node as sponsored media, parsing the sponsored media to generate monitoring information, and modifying a user agent setting to include a unique identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Sturm, Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan J. O'Hearn, Jeremy Wade Bennett
  • Publication number: 20190331943
    Abstract: A vehicle device, in particular an aircraft device, comprises at least one window unit and comprises at least one transparency switching unit that is, in at least one first operating state, configured to enable a through-view through the window unit, wherein the transparency switching unit comprises at least one illuminating unit that is configured to at least partly prevent a view through the window unit in at least one second operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Gerold Karl HUPPERICH, Sven ACHILLES, Thomas STURM
  • Patent number: 10409884
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to identify sponsored media in a Document Object Model. An example method includes in response to determining that a first node is not a candidate node, determining, via a processor, whether a child node of the first node is the candidate node based on determining that the child node has a characteristic common to sponsored media nodes, identifying, via the processor, the candidate node as sponsored media when dimensions of the candidate node match dimensions of replacement media, and modifying the document to cause the replacement media to be presented in place of the sponsored media during presentation of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Sturm, Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan J. O'Hearn, Jeremy Wade Bennett
  • Patent number: 10392519
    Abstract: Described is a composition suitable for the preparation of an electroconductive transparent layer, said composition comprising silver nanowires and fibers of crystalline cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Herve Dietsch, Thomas Sturm, Danny Seyfried
  • Publication number: 20190126852
    Abstract: A separating wall device, in particular for a vehicle, comprises at least one frame unit defining, at least in a mounted state, at least one separating unit accommodation region, and comprising at least one frame section. Viewed along a frame middle line that extends in the frame section and along the frame section, the frame section has at least two frame cross sections, which are substantially different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Gerold Karl HUPPERICH, Sven ACHILLES, Thomas STURM
  • Publication number: 20190085179
    Abstract: Described is a method of preparing a product comprising an amount of surface modified silver nanowires, the method comprising the following steps: preparing or providing a first surface agent compound having one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of thiol and amine, for attaching the first surface agent compound to the surface of a silver nanowire, preparing or providing an amount of silver nanowires, attaching said first surface agent compound prepared or provided in step (a) to the surface of said silver nanowires prepared or provided in step (b), so that surface modified silver nanowires result, and optionally (d) adding one or more further constituents and/or conducting one or more further steps so that said product results. Also described are a corresponding product, corresponding uses and a method of coating the surface of an article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Fangfang CHU, Herve DIETSCH, Thomas STURM, Danny SEYFRIED
  • Publication number: 20190009297
    Abstract: An applicator for application onto and embossing microprofiling of a fluidic medium on a substrate, in particular in the aerospace sector, and a corresponding application device having such an applicator. The applicator has a circumferentially moving die that has an embossing profile, a press for the die and a stabilizing device, in particular a hardening device, for the applied medium. In addition, the applicator has a hollow support body, surrounded by the die at a distance forming a gap, the press being arranged in the gap. The application device has, in addition to the applicator, a handling device for a relative movement between the applicator and a workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Sturm, Helmut Huber