Patents by Inventor Thomas Kessler

Thomas Kessler 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: 12142367
    Abstract: A surgery visualization system is described herein. The surgery visualization system includes a display monitor positioned in view of a surgeon and a support arm system including a first support arm and a second support arm. The first and second support arms are orientated such that the display monitor is visible to the surgeon between the first and second support arms. A 3D digital viewport coupled to the first support arm. A 3D digital microscope coupled to the second support arm. A computer system including a processor programmed to receive and process images from the 3D digital microscope and display the processed images on the 3D digital viewport and the display monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: RAYTRX, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hayes Freeman, Mitchael C. Freeman, Jordan Boss, Montgomery H. F. Freeman, Thomas A. Finley, Linda Lam, Victoria M. McArtor, Steven Yeager, David Kessler, Ian Oswald
  • Patent number: 12134865
    Abstract: The disclosure refers to a road construction machine, adapted in particular in the form of a road paver or a feeder vehicle for a road paver. According to the disclosure, the road construction machine comprises a first and/or a second air barrier device adapted to shield a driver and/or an operator of the road construction machine. Furthermore, the disclosure refers to a corresponding method for generating an air flow during operation of a road construction machine in order to shield a driver and/or an operator from vapors and/or aerosols rising during operation of the road construction machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Joseph Voegele AG
    Inventors: Klaus Oettinger, Bastian Fleischer, Tobias Boellert, Daniel Draxler, Ingo Herzberg, Maximilian Theobald, Thomas Seither, Frank Grimm, Helmut Kessler, Johannes Pontius, Stefan Weber, Bernhard Erdtmann
  • Patent number: 12123640
    Abstract: An interior compartment or container for a domestic refrigeration appliance has a side wall on which an elongate bearing rib for a bearing panel is integrated. The bearing rib extends in the depthwise direction of the interior compartment and extends over at least half the depth of the side wall. The bearing rib has an upper bearing side, which merges with the side wall by way of a first rounding and merges with an underside of the bearing rib by way of a second rounding, which is located opposite the first as seen in the widthwise direction. The underside merges at its lower end with the side wall. In a cross section of the bearing rib taken in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, a vertical-dimension ratio, measured in the heightwise direction, between an underside vertical dimension and an upper-side vertical dimension is between 3.5 and 4.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Heidenfelder, Andreas Kessler, Andreas Korte, Andreas Lindel, Daniel Naumburger, Ulrich Schlander, Ralph Staud, Thomas Tischer, Herbert Weibl, Georg Kapfer
  • Patent number: 12116718
    Abstract: Among other things, a procedure is revealed which comprises the following: Detecting one or more pieces of air humidity information indicative of a relative humidity within a treatment room of an air-conducting domestic appliance, wherein the one or more pieces of air humidity information are detected by means of at least one air humidity sensor; and determining drying information indicative of a time of an end of a drying process performed by the air-conducting domestic appliance, wherein the drying information is determined based on the one or more pieces of air humidity information. Also disclosed are a device for executing and/or controlling this process, a system with one or more devices for executing and/or controlling this process and a computer program for executing and/or controlling this process by a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Arnd Kessler, Lars Zuechner, Robert Ruiz Hernandez, Slavoljub Barackov, Thomas Juckel
  • Patent number: 12062430
    Abstract: A surgery visualization theatre comprising: an augmented/extended reality (AXR) headset; a digital viewport mounted on a cobotic arm; a monitor mounted on a monitor cobotic arm; a camera subsystem mounted on a camera cobotic arm; and a frame with cobotic arms featuring intelligence and command and control for the system and visualization methodologies, where the digital viewport cobotic arm, the monitor cobotic arm, and the camera cobotic arm are mounted on the frame and the AXR headset is connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: RAYTRX, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Riggs, Michael Hayes Freeman, Mitchael C. Freeman, Jordan Boss, Brian Santee, Montgomery H. F. Freeman, Thomas A. Finley, Linda Lam, Victoria M. McArtor, Steven Yeager, David Kessler, Ian Oswald
  • Publication number: 20240266033
    Abstract: An augmented/extended reality (AXR) headset for use with a surgery visualization system is described herein. The AXR headset includes a wearable support frame, one or more forward-facing cameras pivotably mounted to the wearable support frame, an imaging system mounted to the wearable support frame, and a control logic processor coupled to the one or more front facing cameras and the image generator, and programmed to execute an algorithm including the steps of receiving image data from the one or more forward-facing cameras and operating the image generator to display the received image data onto the curved mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Hayes Freeman, Mitchael C. Freeman, Jordan Boss, Brian Santee, Montgomery H.F. Freeman, Thomas A. Finley, Linda Lam, Victoria M. McArtor, Steven Yeager, David Kessler, Ian Oswald
  • Publication number: 20240247809
    Abstract: An electric grill includes a firebox divided into a plurality of zones. Each zones has an electric heating element, and a temperature probe. A controller having operative control to detect temperatures using the temperature probes adjusts power to the electric heating element for each of the plurality of zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: JAMES D. KRING, RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI, Seth Sawyer, Thomas Kessler
  • Publication number: 20240237160
    Abstract: An outdoor cooking grill has a cooking surface and at least one induction coil below the cooking surface. A power supply provides current to the at least one induction coil heating the cooking surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: JAMES D. KRING, RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI, SLEIMAN ABDALLAH, Thomas Kessler, Jonathan Whitten
  • Publication number: 20240196914
    Abstract: A cold smoke system having a smoke chamber member mounted to a frame. The chamber member defines a receptacle for receiving a combustible fuel source for producing smoke. An ignitor ignites the fuel source. A fan moves air and smoke through the receptacle and into, e.g., a grill cooking chamber. A floor of the chamber member defines an ignitor slot for receiving the ignitor and defines ash openings for allowing to fall out of the receptacle into a tray. The smoke chamber member may be rotationally mounted to the frame. The receptacle has an increasing cross-sectional area in a direction of air flow through the receptacle. A fuel container containing the fuel source is received in the receptacle of the chamber member. The fuel container may have a shape that corresponds to the shape of the receptacle and may be constructed of the same material as the fuel source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: JAMES D. KRING, RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI, Thomas Kessler, DANIEL DEMARS, Dylan Horton, Seth Sawyer
  • Publication number: 20240179809
    Abstract: A coil system for inductive heating of a cooking surface including at least one coil having a continuous winding from a center region to an outer region. A spacing within adjacent wires in the winding varies between a center of the winding and an outer portion of the winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: JAMES D. KRING, RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI, Thomas Kessler, Jonathan Whitten, Bryan Solomon
  • Publication number: 20240138036
    Abstract: An outdoor cooking grill has a cooking surface and at least one induction coil below the cooking surface. A power supply provides current to the at least one induction coil heating the cooking surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: JAMES D. KRING, RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI, SLEIMAN ABDALLAH, Thomas Kessler, Jonathan Whitten
  • Publication number: 20230375183
    Abstract: A cooking system including a cooking chamber with a cooking surface therein, at least one resistive heating element providing heat to the cooking surface, an alternating current connection for powering the resistive heating element, and a direct current source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: JAMES D. KRING, RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI, SLEIMAN ABDALLAH, Thomas Kessler
  • Publication number: 20230280038
    Abstract: A burner system for use in a gas cooking grill has a primary burner in a firebox providing heat to a cooking surface above the primary burner and a secondary burner in the firebox selectively providing heat to a cooking grate such that ignition of the secondary burner provides an additional degree of heat to the cooking surface above the primary burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher J. Bennett, SLEIMAN ABDALLAH, RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI, Thomas Kessler, BRUCE ROBERTS
  • Patent number: 11739472
    Abstract: A laundry appliance includes a drum for processing laundry. A blower delivers process air through an airflow path that includes the drum. A lint filter is positioned within the airflow path that separates particulate matter from the process air. A lint disposal mechanism removes entrapped lint particles from a surface of the lint filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Jordan Grider, Alexander Halbleib, Christopher A. Jones, Roy E. Masters, Jr., Rodney M. Welch, Anthony B. Welsh, Erica L. Roberts, Thomas Kessler
  • Patent number: 11708656
    Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treating appliance, such as a washing machine, having a cabinet defining an interior and defining an access opening. A lid can be movably mounted relative to the cabinet to selectively open or close the access opening. A tub can be located within the interior and the tub can contain a rotatably mounted drum, such as a horizontally rotatable drum, including a flexible fabric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Erickson, Steven Fricke, Christian Gianni, Thomas Kessler, Praveen Poojary, Erica Roberts, Jaime Rodriguez, Peter Wagoner
  • Publication number: 20230104726
    Abstract: A cooking grill utilizes at least one resistive heating element below a cooking grate and radiating heat to the cooking grate when a voltage is applied thereto. A first power source provides an alternating current, and a second power source provides a direct current. First and second power sources provide voltage to the at least one resistive heating element individually or simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: JAMES D. KRING, RAMIN KHOSRAVI RAHMANI, Thomas Kessler
  • Publication number: 20230073346
    Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treating appliance, such as a washing machine, having a cabinet defining an interior and defining an access opening. A lid can be movably mounted relative to the cabinet to selectively open or close the access opening. A tub can be located within the interior and the tub can contain a rotatably mounted drum, such as a horizontally rotatable drum, including a flexible fabric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: DONALD ERICKSON, STEVEN FRICKE, CHRISTIAN GIANNI, THOMAS KESSLER, PRAVEEN POOJARY, ERICA ROBERTS, JAIME RODRIGUEZ, PETER WAGONER
  • Patent number: 11585258
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a loading of a soot filter with soot particles from an exhaust gas mass flow of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, a control device for an internal combustion engine having a soot filter, and a computer program product for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, ROBERT BOSCH GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Schwarzmann, Thomas Binnewies, Thomas Kessler, Florian Brunner
  • Patent number: 11512421
    Abstract: A laundry treating appliance, such as a washing machine, having a cabinet defining an interior and defining an access opening. A lid can be movably mounted relative to the cabinet to selectively open or close the access opening. A tub can be located within the interior and the tub can contain a rotatably mounted drum, such as a horizontally rotatable drum, including a flexible fabric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Donald Erickson, Steven Fricke, Christian Gianni, Thomas Kessler, Praveen Poojary, Erica Roberts, Jaime Rodriguez, Peter Wagoner
  • Patent number: 11386372
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a system for monitoring the usage of a functional facility, the system comprising (i) a plurality of detectors for detecting the presence of at least one client device in the functional facility and which detectors are geographically mapped in the functional facility; and (ii) a client device mapping module for determining the location of the at least one client device detected by one or more of the plurality of detectors. Moreover, the invention is directed to a method for monitoring the usage of a functional facility including one or more detectors, comprising the steps (1) detecting an operable engagement made between a detector deployed in the functional facility and a computerized client device; (2) determining a location point of the computerized client device; and (3) providing an output which is descriptive of the detected operable engagement along with information relating to the determined location point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: LOCATEE AG
    Inventors: Benedikt Andreas Koppel, Thomas Kessler, Alexander Fabian Mulli, Georg Nebehay