Patents by Inventor Thomas Link

Thomas Link 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: 20250219761
    Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of operating processors (108) for decoding forward error correction, FEC, codewords. Activation of a processor (108) for decoding FEC codewords is inhibited when a rate of an increment in processors (108) that are active for decoding FEC codewords is larger than a first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Giancarlo GAVIOLI, Luca Gabriele RAZZETTI, Carlo COSTANTINI, Davide CATTANEO, Daniele CUCCHI, Thomas LINK
  • Publication number: 20220380827
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicants: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20220282298
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicants: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11377678
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: Hoffman-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20210381020
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicants: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11136610
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20210246478
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicants: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11021728
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignees: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20200385673
    Abstract: Processes for culturing mammalian cells, and for producing recombinant products expressed by mammalian cells, involving a pH up-shift are provided. The processes are particularly suitable for industrial-scale cell culture, and for culture of cells that produce therapeutic products. The processes comprise a first culture stage, carried out at a first pH, and a second culture stage, carried out at a second pH that is higher than the first pH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Katrin GREPPMAIR, Thomas LINK, Zhixin SHAO
  • Publication number: 20200181669
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicants: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20200080125
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicants: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10501769
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 9442033
    Abstract: A pressure difference sensor includes a measuring membrane, which is arranged between two platforms and connected pressure-tightly with the platforms, in each case, via a first insulating layer for forming pressure chambers between the platforms and the measuring membrane. The insulating layer is especially silicon oxide, wherein the pressure difference sensor further includes an electrical transducer for registering a pressure dependent deflection of the measuring membrane. The platforms have support positions, against which the measuring membrane lies at least partially in the case of overload, wherein the support positions have position dependent heights, characterized in that the support positions are formed in the first insulating layer by isotropic etching, and the particular height h of a support position, in each case, is a function of a distance from a base of the support position in the reference plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Endress + GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Igor Getman, Rafael Teipen, Thomas Link, Peter Nommensen
  • Publication number: 20160186228
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicants: CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Reinhard Franze, Chikashi Hirashima, Thomas Link, Yoshinori Takagi, Shinya Takuma, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20150260598
    Abstract: A pressure difference sensor includes a measuring membrane, which is arranged between two platforms and connected pressure-tightly with the platforms, in each case, via a first insulating layer for forming pressure chambers between the platforms and the measuring membrane. The insulating layer is especially silicon oxide, wherein the pressure difference sensor further includes an electrical transducer for registering a pressure dependent deflection of the measuring membrane. The platforms have support positions, against which the measuring membrane lies at least partially in the case of overload, wherein the support positions have position dependent heights, characterized in that the support positions are formed in the first insulating layer by isotropic etching, and the particular height h of a support position, in each case, is a function of a distance from a base of the support position in the reference plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Igor Getman, Rafael Teipen, Thomas Link, Peter Nommensen
  • Publication number: 20140329277
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for culturing cells in order to produce substances. According to the invention a cell line producing substances is cultured while feeding a nutrient medium in such a manner that glucose limitation occurs in the culture solution. The degree of glucose limitation DGL=qGlc/qGlcmax (qGlc=observed current specific glucose consumption rate; qGlcmax=maximum known specific glucose consumption rate for these cells). DGL is between the limits 0 and 1, where 0 means complete limitation and 1 means no limitations or complete glucose excess. According to the invention DGL is larger or equal to the DGL which only leads to the maintenance of the cell and ?0.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Link, Ruth Essers, Kerstin Zorner, Jochen Gatgens, Thomas Noll, Christian Wandrey
  • Publication number: 20110117087
    Abstract: Herein is reported a method for the production of an immunoglobulin comprising the following steps: a) providing a eukaryotic cell comprising a nucleic acid encoding the immunoglobulin, b) cultivating the eukaryotic cell in a cultivation medium wherein the amount of glucose available in the cultivation medium per time unit is kept constant and limited to less than 80% of the amount that could maximally be utilized by the cells in the cultivation medium per time unit, and c) recovering the immunoglobulin from the culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: REINHARD FRANZE, Thomas Link, Shinya Takuma, Yoshinori Takagi, Chikashi Hirashima, Yuriko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 7702477
    Abstract: A calibration method and also a calibration device are proposed to enable a spatial position and/or orientation of a surgical referencing unit of a surgical navigation system fitted with at least one inertial sensor to be specified in relation to a spatial coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Hanns-Peter Tuemmler, Andreas Goeggelmann, Dieter Mintenbeck, Thomas Link
  • Patent number: 7467335
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and apparatus for aligning a plurality of data channels using a deskew bitstream. The method includes receiving the deskew bitstream, identifying an aligned deskew frame by processing the deskew bitstream, identifying a data channel alignment position associated with each of the plurality of data channels by comparing a deskew channel comparison bit from the aligned deskew frame to a data channel comparison bit from each of the plurality of data channels, and selecting the plurality of data channel alignment positions associated with the respective plurality of data channels for aligning the plurality of data channels. The plurality of data channels are aligned in a manner for substantially reducing skew associated with the data channels. The deskew bitstream comprises a plurality of data bits associated with the data channels and a plurality of parity bits generated using at least a portion of the data bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus-Holger Otto, Thomas Link
  • Publication number: 20080039868
    Abstract: A calibration method and also a calibration device are proposed to enable a spatial position and/or orientation of a surgical referencing unit of a surgical navigation system fitted with at least one inertial sensor to be specified in relation to a spatial coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: AESCULAP AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hanns-Peter Tuemmler, Andreas Goeggelmann, Dieter Mintenbeck, Thomas Link