Patents by Inventor Thomas Beck

Thomas Beck 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: 20250124143
    Abstract: Method for transmitting encrypted data from a medical technology system, including: generating the encrypted data by applying a DK to data generated by the MTS; transmitting a first user-specific DK for decrypting the encrypted data to a first data user authorized by a central data transfer authorization entity; transmitting the encrypted data from the MTS to the first data user; decrypting the encrypted data by the first data user by applying the first user-specific DK; transmitting a second user-specific DK, which is different from the first user-specific DK, by the central data transfer authorization entity to a second data user authorized by the central data transfer authorization entity for decrypting the encrypted data; transmitting the encrypted data by the MTS or by the first data user to the second data user; and decrypting the encrypted data by the second data user by applying the second user-specific DK.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Swen Campagna, Thomas Beck
  • Publication number: 20250084897
    Abstract: A pivot bearing supports a pivot lever of an application apparatus of a disc brake, wherein the pivot bearing has a curved bearing shell and a roller bearing cage which is pivotably guided thereon, wherein the roller bearing cage has at least one guiding vane which protrudes axially with respect to the pivot axis and which has at only one side an axially extending stop face for returning the roller member cage. A pivot lever arrangement and an application apparatus include the pivot bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Michael HIDRINGER, Thomas BECK, Andreas PETSCHKE, Christian STOEGER, Maximilian HAUSER, Wolfgang PRITZ, Ralf WEBER
  • Patent number: 12241951
    Abstract: A trustworthy component for a control path of a magnetic resonance apparatus and a magnetic resonance apparatus with at least one trustworthy component are provided. The trustworthy component is configured to be arranged in a control path of a safety-relevant function of a magnetic resonance apparatus, so that when the trustworthy component is arranged in the control path, the control path is, at least in parts, non-trustworthy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Thomas Beck, Swen Campagna
  • Publication number: 20250012882
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining an optimal energy-saving state of a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The method includes receiving a set of rules with a central controller, and receiving at least one state of at least one component with the central controller. The at least one component is a component of the magnetic resonance imaging system and/or an environment of the magnetic resonance imaging system. The set of rules includes at least one rule by which the optimal energy-saving state may be determined based on the at least one state of the at least one component. The method also includes determining the optimal energy-saving state based on the set of rules and the at least one state of the at least one component. The method also includes providing information regarding the optimal energy-saving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Beck, Swen Campagna
  • Patent number: 12178931
    Abstract: Method for the operation of a cleaning system of a medical imaging facility, wherein the imaging facility has an outer useful surface exposed to contaminating effects of patients and/or operators. During a utilization phase for an examination procedure of a patient, sensor data of a sensor arrangement detecting at least a portion of the useful surface is acquired and by evaluation of the sensor data, a surface map having potentially contaminated regions of the useful surface is determined. During a cleaning phase following the utilization phase, cleaning information of the potentially contaminated regions are output to a cleaner and/or used for actuation of at least one cleaning apparatus of the imaging facility for targeted cleaning of the potentially contaminated regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Thomas Beck, Stefanie Gügel-Wild, Marianne Köferl, Bernd Maciejewski, Michael Schneider, Annette Stein, Philipp Höcht, Sushant Mainali, Carina Moratz, Tim Richter, Martin Seifert
  • Publication number: 20240420839
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for producing compatibility of a patient table and of a medical imaging system. The patient table is designed to mount a patient during an examination with the medical imaging system. The method includes receiving a functional scope of the patient table, wherein the functional scope of the patient table (15) includes at least one function; receiving a functional scope of the medical imaging system, wherein the functional scope of the medical imaging system includes at least one function; comparing the functional scope of the patient table with the functional scope of the medical imaging system; and if at least one function is included only in the functional scope of the patient table and/or only in the functional scope of the medical imaging system, locking the at least one function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Thomas Beck, Christian Hetz
  • Publication number: 20240401657
    Abstract: A brake application device of a disc brake for a commercial vehicle has a brake lever that acts on a brake plunger, wherein the brake plunger has an adjusting spindle provided with an external thread and a pressure piece, which bears against a radially aligned support surface of the adjusting spindle facing a brake pad. The outer diameter of the support surface is at least 60% of the diameter of the pressure surface of the pressure piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Michael HIDRINGER, Andreas PETSCHKE, Thomas BECK
  • Patent number: 12153696
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically generating a partially-editable dataset copy. One example method includes receiving an edit request from a user to edit a data set. A filter for the data set is determined, based on a context of the edit request. The filter is used to generate a partially-editable copy of the data set that includes the editable portion of the data set. An exposed view of the data set is generated that exposes the partially-editable copy of the data set and a non-editable portion of the data set. The exposed view of the data set is provided to the user and a change to a data item in the editable portion of the data set is received. The data item in the partially-editable copy of the data set is updated based on the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Jan Rittinger, Thomas Beck, Sead Pozderac, Gregor Hackenbroich, Anja Jugel, Adrian Mocan, Richard Pilz, Julian Harttung, Franz Josef Grueneberger, Johannes Meinecke, Jan Schole
  • Patent number: 12104512
    Abstract: A muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a muffler housing with a peripheral wall which extends longitudinally in the direction of a housing longitudinal axis. At least one base wall is surrounded by the peripheral wall or/and retained on the peripheral wall and delimits a chamber in the muffler housing. At least one base wall opening is surrounded by an opening edge region which is bent at an essentially plane base wall region of the base wall essentially in the direction of the housing longitudinal axis. The at least one base wall opening receives an exhaust pipe with a press fit in at least one base wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Purem GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Hutschenreuther, Rolf Baldes, Thomas Beck
  • Patent number: 12038490
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method for recording diagnostic measurement data of a knee of an examination object in knee imaging by a magnetic resonance device, includes performing an overview scan of the knee of the examination object, wherein overview measurement data is acquired in the overview scan, and performing diagnostic scans of the knee of the examination object based on the acquired overview measurement data, wherein two-dimensional diagnostic measurement data is acquired in the diagnostic scans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG, THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jan Fritz, Dingxin Wang, Esther Raithel, Thomas Beck, Flavio Carinci, Mario Zeller
  • Publication number: 20240183920
    Abstract: A method for generating a modified magnetic resonance sequence, a magnetic resonance device, and a computer program product are provided. In accordance with the method, an original magnetic resonance sequence is provided for the acquisition of magnetic resonance signals. The magnetic resonance sequence includes multiple gradient pulses. Further, at least one limit value is provided. At least one modification gradient pulse of the multiple gradient pulses is modified as a function of the at least one limit value, and thus, a modified magnetic resonance sequence is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Beck
  • Patent number: 11988544
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for weighing pharmaceutical containers (10) nested in a carrier (11), in which at least one of the nested containers (10) is weighed by means of a weighing device (1), wherein a relative movement between the at least one pharmaceutical container (10) and the carrier (11) is brought about in order to release the pharmaceutical containers (10) from the carrier (11) in order to increase the weighing accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: Syntegon Technology GmbH, Syntegon Packaging Systems AG, Syntegon Packaging Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Roth, Ulrich Krauß, Klaus Ullherr, Tim Fleckenstein, Rolf Barthelmess, Martin Maerz, Thomas Beck, Ralf Riebeling, Heiko Wild, Joachim Radtke, Jochen Peters, Oliver Gerundt, Harald Ott, Olaf Eistert, Frank Scholl, Herbert Schaffert, Jochen Lautenschlager, Paul Mehringer, Faruk Civelek
  • Publication number: 20240062989
    Abstract: The present application relates to a device for imaging and processing a sample using a focused particle beam, comprising: (a) at least one particle source which is configured to create a particle beam in an ultrahigh vacuum environment; (b) at least one sample chamber which serves to accommodate the sample and which is configured to image the sample in a high vacuum environment and process the sample in a medium vacuum environment; (c) at least one column which is arranged in a high vacuum environment and which has at least one particle-optical component configured to shape a focused particle beam from the particle beam and direct said focused particle beam at the sample; (d) at least one detection unit which is arranged within the at least one column and which is configured to detect particles emanating from the sample; (e) at least one gas line system which terminates at the outlet of the focused particle beam from the column and which is configured to locally provide at least one process gas at the sample
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Schwarz, David Laemmle, Michael Schnell, Thomas Beck, Florian Neuberger
  • Patent number: 11898237
    Abstract: A method and device for coating a component wherein the cooling fluid ducts contained in the component have to be reopened following the coating step. The component has a first region and a second region, where the first region includes at least one cooling fluid opening having an adjoining cooling fluid channel and where the first region is to be coated with a coating material which is not to be applied in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Beck, Jens Dietrich, Oliver Katzurke, Sven Kreuziger, Marcel Krügerke, Andrea Massa, Richard Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11900072
    Abstract: Offered is a system that presents on a display screen a translation of a sentence together with an untranslated version of the sentence, and that can cause both of the displayed sentences to break apart into component parts in response to a simple user action, e.g., double-tapping on one of them. When the user selects (e.g., taps on) any portion of either version of the sentence, the system can identify a corresponding portion of the other version (in the other language). In some implementations, a user device can include both a microphone and a display screen, and an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine can be used to transcribe the user's speech in one language (e.g., English) into text. The system can translate the resulting text into another language (e.g., Spanish) and display the translated text on the display screen along with the untranslated text. When a user selects a portion of a sentence, the system can also present information about the selected portion (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Michael Bossio, Kartik Suchindra Babu, John Thomas Beck
  • Publication number: 20240041409
    Abstract: Magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus and a monitoring unit, wherein the MR apparatus includes: a scanner unit to acquire medical MR data; a patient receiving region surrounded at least in part by the scanner unit; a patient positioning apparatus having a patient table designed to be movable into the patient receiving region; a position acquisition unit to acquire position data of a position of the patient table and/or of an object positioned on the patient table, wherein the position acquisition unit comprises a camera; and a setting unit operable, based on a provided setting parameter, to set the position of the patient table and/or of the object on the patient table, wherein the monitoring unit is designed so as, with the acquired position data, to provide the setting parameter for setting a position of the patient table and/or of the object on the patient table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Beck, Sven Helmecke
  • Publication number: 20240027557
    Abstract: A method for operating a magnetic resonance tomography system and a magnetic resonance tomography system for executing the method are provided. The magnetic resonance tomography system captures a change in state using a control system, assesses the change in state with respect to a possible operating interruption, and determines possible energy-saving scenarios for the possible imminent interruption of the image recording. The magnetic resonance tomography system captures a selection made by a user and implements the selected energy-saving scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Beck, Sven Helmecke
  • Publication number: 20230375050
    Abstract: Disclosed is a brake application mechanism for a disc brake in a utility vehicle, having a pivotable brake lever that is supported on an inner wall of a brake caliper and, indirectly, on a bridge which is movably disposed in the brake caliper and which supports at least one brake pad, wherefor an axially and radially secured antifriction roller is disposed between the brake lever and the bridge. The disclosed brake application mechanism is designed such that the antifriction roller rests on the bridge in such a way as to be prevented from rotating and sliding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Julian DAHLENBURG, Christian STOEGER, Andreas PETSCHKE, Natalie ROTH, Maximilian HAUSER, Michael HIDRINGER, Thomas BECK, Martin HEINDL, Dimitrij HABERMANN, Thomas THALER, Frederic SCHROEPF, Thomas EICHLER
  • Patent number: D1049552
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: Kevin Thomas Beck
  • Patent number: D1053508
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Inventor: Kevin Thomas Beck