Patents by Inventor Thomas Huber

Thomas Huber 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: 20230388828
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to mapping signal propagation using idle mode user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include, facilitating receiving, a message from a user equipment, with the message including signal information describing detection of a signal of a carrier of base station equipment while the user equipment was in an idle mode at a first location. The method can further include identifying a second location of the base station equipment corresponding to a time when the signal was transmitted, wherein the second location is different from the first location. Further, the method can include based on the first location, the second location, and the signal information, estimating a path loss of the carrier at the first location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Henderson, Kurt Huber, Daniel Vivanco, Julius Fodje
  • Publication number: 20230387980
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to preparing for a connection with a user equipment while the user equipment is in an idle state in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include facilitating transmitting a signal directed by an antenna of base station equipment. The method can further include, facilitating receiving, from a user equipment, a message, wherein the message comprises feedback information describing receipt of the signal while the user equipment was in an idle mode at a location. Further, the method can comprise, based on the feedback information and the location, generating a model of signal propagation applicable to signals at the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Henderson, Kurt Huber, Daniel Vivanco, Julius Fodje
  • Publication number: 20230389116
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to providing radio resources to facilitate a predicted transition to active mode by idle user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include predicting that a user equipment of a group of user equipment in an idle mode will transition to an active mode after passage of a time duration, starting from the predicting, that is lower than a time threshold. The method can further include identifying base station equipment that is able to provide coverage to the user equipment during the passage of the time duration before the user equipment transitions to the active mode. Further, the method can include prioritizing allocation of, within the group of user equipment, an antenna resource of the base station equipment to provide the coverage to facilitate an active mode connection by the user equipment to the base station equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kurt Huber, Thomas Henderson, Daniel Vivanco, Julius Fodje
  • Publication number: 20230388939
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to generating a propagation model based on sampling by user equipment in idle mode in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include, based on a first location in a geographic area of a signal measurement measured by a user equipment in an idle mode, and a transmission location of the signal, estimating an estimated first path loss value. The method can further include, based on the estimated first path loss value and a second path loss value of a second carrier signal received from the carrier signal source, determining an antenna pattern of the carrier signal source. Further, the method can include based on the antenna pattern, generating a propagation model for the carrier signal source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kurt Huber, Thomas Henderson, Daniel Vivanco, Julius Fodje
  • Publication number: 20230387977
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to providing, based on a paging message, radio resources to facilitate a transition to active mode by idle user equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method can include identifying an idle mode activation message. The method can further include, based on the activation message, predicting that the user device is going to request an active connection. Further, the method can include prioritizing allocation of antenna resources to the user device over different user devices in an idle state, based on a prediction that the user device will transition to an active state before the different user devices. Further, the method can include, based on the prioritizing, directing a base station to cause a beamformed signal to a predicted location of the user device to accept the active connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Vivanco, Kurt Huber, Thomas Henderson, Julius Fodje
  • Patent number: 11817927
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to preparing for a connection with a user equipment while the user equipment is in an idle state in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include facilitating transmitting a signal directed by an antenna of base station equipment. The method can further include, facilitating receiving, from a user equipment, a message, wherein the message comprises feedback information describing receipt of the signal while the user equipment was in an idle mode at a location. Further, the method can comprise, based on the feedback information and the location, generating a model of signal propagation applicable to signals at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P., AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Henderson, Kurt Huber, Daniel Vivanco, Julius Fodje
  • Patent number: 11792459
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for Content On Demand (COD) asset insertion. A COD asset insertion decision system (CODAID) is communicatively coupled to a content distributer to process information about COD content selections by Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs). An auction system is communicatively coupled to the CODAID and to a plurality of asset providers to process information about assets of the providers, to provide an auction for asset opportunities in the COD content selections, to receive bids for the asset opportunities, and to rank the auctioned assets according to bid. The CODAID further ranks the auctioned assets based in part on the COD content selection information and the asset information, identifies one or more of the further ranked assets for insertion into the COD content selection, and directs the content distributer to insert the identified one or more further ranked assets into the COD content selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: canoe Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Canney, Joel Hassell, Sid Gregory, Tom Huber, Chris Pizzurro, Steve Markel, Jonathan E Farb, Thomas M Moretto, Bruce C Dilger, Timothy R Whitton, Christopher M Rippe
  • Patent number: 11788792
    Abstract: A large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser. A bottom bonnet runs along the bottom length of the heat exchanger bundle for delivering steam to the bottom end of the condenser tubes and for receiving condensate formed in those same tubes. The tops of the tubes are connected to a top bonnet. Uncondensed steam and non-condensables flow into the top bonnet from the condenser tubes. Each cell of the ACC is fed by steam distribution manifold suspended from and directly below the bundle support framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Evapco, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas W. Bugler, Jean-Pierre Libert, Mark Huber
  • Patent number: 11784278
    Abstract: Embodiments of a photovoltaic device are provided herein. The photovoltaic device can include a layer stack and an absorber layer disposed on the layer stack. The absorber layer can include a first region and a second region. Each of the first region of the absorber layer and the second region of the absorber layer can include a compound comprising cadmium, selenium, and tellurium. An atomic concentration of selenium can vary across the absorber layer. The first region of the absorber layer can have a thickness between 100 nanometers to 3000 nanometers. The second region of the absorber layer can have a thickness between 100 nanometers to 3000 nanometers. A ratio of an average atomic concentration of selenium in the first region of the absorber layer to an average atomic concentration of selenium in the second region of the absorber layer can be greater than 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristian William Andreini, Holly Ann Blaydes, Jongwoo Choi, Adam Fraser Halverson, Eugene Thomas Hinners, William Hullinger Huber, Yong Liang, Joseph John Shiang
  • Patent number: 11767973
    Abstract: Spray heads for use with desuperheaters and desuperheaters including such spray heads. One example of a spray head includes a main body having an exterior surface and defining a central passage, the main body adapted for connection to a source of fluid, at least one entrance port formed in the main body along the central passage, and at least one spray nozzle arranged adjacent the exterior surface of the main body. The spray head also includes a plurality of flow passages, each of the plurality of flow passages providing fluid communication between the entrance port and an exit opening of the spray nozzle. A first one of the plurality of flow passages follows a first non-linear path and has a first distance, and a second one of the plurality of flow passages follows a second non-linear path and has a second distance different from the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FISHER CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL LLC
    Inventors: Marc Huber, Kaspar Loffel, Thomas Duda
  • Publication number: 20230275033
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate includes a semiconductor base substrate. An alignment structure is formed on a surface of the semiconductor base substrate. An epitaxial layer is deposited on the surface of the semiconductor base substrate. The alignment structure includes an area of the surface of the semiconductor base substrate that is formed as a groove pattern. Grooves of the groove pattern are aligned with a specific crystallographic direction of the semiconductor base substrate. The specific crystallographic direction provides for a slower epitaxial growth rate on such a groove-patterned base substrate surface area compared to epitaxial growth on a surface of the semiconductor base substrate adjacent to the groove-patterned area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Huber, Matthias Kuenle, Iris Moder, Joerg Ortner
  • Publication number: 20230275420
    Abstract: To provide improved overvoltage protection for a voltage converter for converting an input voltage into a DC output voltage, a first switch-off unit is provided, which is configured to effect a switch-off of at least a part of the voltage converter if the DC output voltage reaches or exceeds a first voltage threshold, in order to reduce the DC output voltage. Furthermore, a second switch-off unit is provided, which is configured to check whether a mean value of the DC output voltage reaches or exceeds a mean value threshold and, if the mean value threshold is reached or exceeded, to effect a switch-off of at least a part of the voltage converter in order to reduce the DC output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian BLUME, Thomas SCHIEMER, Tim HUBER, Djordje VUKOVIC
  • Publication number: 20230251038
    Abstract: Large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser having heat exchanger bundles constructed with an integral secondary section positioned in the center of the heat exchanger, flanked by identical primary condenser sections. A bottom bonnet runs along the bottom length of the heat exchanger bundle, connected to the bottom side of the bottom tube sheet, for delivering steam to the bottom end of the primary condenser tubes and for receiving condensate formed in those same tubes. The tops of the tubes are connected to a top bonnet. Uncondensed steam and non-condensables flow into the top bonnet from the primary condenser tubes and flow toward the center of the heat exchanger bundle where they enter the top of the secondary condenser section tubes. Non-condensables and condensate formed in the secondary section tubes enter a secondary bottom bonnet inside the primary bottom bonnet and are withdrawn from the secondary bottom bonnet via outlet nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas W. Bugler, Jean-Pierre Libert, Mark Huber
  • Patent number: 11719494
    Abstract: A new heat exchange tube fin design in which a plurality of arrowhead shapes are pressed into or embossed onto each fin, the arrowhead shape defined by two intersecting wedge sections. The pressed arrowhead shapes are grouped into nested pairs, and one of the arrowheads in a pair is pressed as a positive relative to the fin plane and the other of the pair is pressed as a negative relative to the fin plane. The arrowhead pairs are placed in rows parallel to the air flow direction and arrowhead pairs in one row are preferably staggered relative to the arrowhead pairs in the adjacent row along the fin in the air flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Evapco Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas W. Bugler, Jean-Pierre Libert, Mark Huber, Aaron Reilly
  • Publication number: 20230243592
    Abstract: Large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser having heat exchanger panels independently loaded into and supported in a heat exchange frame section. A bottom bonnet runs along the bottom length of each heat exchanger panel for delivering steam to the bottom end of condenser tubes in the heat exchange panel and for receiving condensate formed in those same tubes. The tops of the tubes are connected to a top bonnet. Uncondensed steam and non-condensables are drawn into the top bonnet from the condenser tubes. A steam distribution manifold is suspended from the heat exchange section frame perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the heat exchange panels and beneath a center point of the heat exchange panels and delivers steam to each heat exchange panel via a single steam inlet located at a center point of each bottom bonnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas W. Bugler, Jean-Pierre Libert, Mark Huber, Toby Athron, Wayne Sexton, Ben Hildebrandt
  • Publication number: 20230235040
    Abstract: The present invention provides binding proteins, such as antibodies and antigen-binding fragments, which specifically bind to human IL-36 cytokines, IL-36?, IL-36?, and/or IL-36?, and block the IL-36 stimulated signaling pathways. Compositions comprising such binding proteins and methods of making and using such binding proteins are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Huber, Vicente Marco Garcia Gonzalez, Bernat Vidal Juan, Germaine Fuh-Kelly, Yao-ming Huang
  • Publication number: 20230228492
    Abstract: Large scale field erected air cooled industrial steam condenser having heat exchanger panels independently loaded into and supported in a heat exchange frame section. A bottom bonnet runs along the bottom length of each heat exchanger panel for delivering steam to the bottom end of condenser tubes in the heat exchange panel and for receiving condensate formed in those same tubes. The tops of the tubes are connected to a top bonnet. Uncondensed steam and non-condensables are drawn into the top bonnet from the condenser tubes. A steam distribution manifold is suspended from the heat exchange section frame perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the heat exchange panels and beneath a center point of the heat exchange panels and delivers steam to each heat exchange panel via a single steam inlet located at a center point of each bottom bonnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas W. Bugler, Jean-Pierre Libert, Mark Huber, Toby Athron, Wayne Sexton, Ben Hildebrandt
  • Publication number: 20230190603
    Abstract: Described herein are oral care compositions, and in particular to oral care mouth rinse compositions comprising a single source of stannous, wherein the single source of stannous is stannous oxalate; a tertiary amine fluoride; and at least one of a monocarboxylic acid, dicarboxylic, or a tricarboxylic acid, as well as to methods of using and of making these compositions. The present compositions are formulated to present stable, non-turbid compositions and are useful for preventing and treating diseases or conditions of the oral cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Ruth HINRICHS, Turan MATUR, Norbert HUBER, Thomas SCHOLLBACH
  • Publication number: 20230143663
    Abstract: A bearing assembly includes a shaft, a first bearing, and a nut. The nut has a thread, which is screwed onto a threaded region formed on the shaft, and a bearing seat formed on the shaft adjoins the threaded region. The inner ring of the first bearing contacts the bearing seat, and the nut contacts the inner ring of the first bearing. The inner ring of the first bearing is arranged spaced apart from the threaded region of the shaft. A runout region of a thread cut into the threaded region of the shaft is arranged in a subsection of the bearing seat adjoining the threaded region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ermalt LAMAJ, Jens BLĂ–MEKE, Norbert SCHNEIDER, Thomas HUBER, Markus LUTZ, Sven WURZER
  • Publication number: 20230052970
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of a tumor antigen as described herein. The invention also relates to nucleic acids comprising a truncated PGK promoter operably linked to a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to a tumor antigen as described herein, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant T cells comprising the CARs of the present invention. The invention also includes methods of administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR that comprises an antigen binding domain that binds to a tumor antigen as described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jennifer Brogdon, Hilmar Erhard Ebersbach, David Glass, Thomas Huber, Julia Jascur, Carl H. June, Jihyun Lee, Joan Mannick, Michael C. Milone, Leon Murphy, Avery D. Posey, Huijuan Song, Yongqiang Wang, Lai Wei, Qilong Wu, Qiumei Yang, Jiquan Zhang