Patents by Inventor Thomas Meyer

Thomas Meyer 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: 20240417059
    Abstract: An aircraft wing is provided having a fixed wing with a gulled wing tip rotatably mounted at the tip thereof, the gulled wing tip extending below a wing plane defined by the end of the fixed wing such that the centre of gravity of the gulled wing tip is located below the wing plane. Lowering the centre of gravity of the gulled wing tip has been found to reduce the onset of flutter. The gulled wing tip may be gulled about a hinge axis where it meets the fixed wing, or may be otherwise folded or curved to lower the centre of gravity of the gulled wing tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas WILSON, Theo MEYER, Michael WRIGHTSON
  • Publication number: 20240415345
    Abstract: A surface cleaning head includes dual rotating agitators (e.g., a leading roller and a brush roll) and a removable cover for covering a top of the agitators and allowing access to the agitators from a top of the surface cleaning head. The dual agitators may be used to facilitate capturing of debris in the air flow into a suction conduit on the underside of the surface cleaning head. The brush roll may be located in a brush roll chamber and at least partially in an opening to the suction conduit. The leading roller may be positioned adjacent to and in advance of the suction conduit opening such that the leading roller engages debris and moves the debris toward the brush roll and the opening. The leading roller may be removable from the housing and held in place by the removable cover. The cover may be coupled using isolated latching mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Adam UDY, Andre David BROWN, John FREESE, Patrick CLEARY, Daniel MEYER, Daniel John INNES, Jason THORNE, Peter HUTCHINSON, Gordon HOWES, Wenxiu GAO, Daniel R. DER MARDEROSIAN, Thomas FORD, Owen R. JOHNSON
  • Publication number: 20240413975
    Abstract: A tracking device can use a permanent encryption key pair to encrypt a temporary private key that corresponds to a set of diversified temporary public keys. When a community mobile device subsequently detects the tracking device, the central tracking system provides a diversified temporary public key to the community mobile device. The community mobile device uses the diversified temporary public key to encrypt location data representative of a location of the community mobile device, and provides the encrypted location data to the central tracking system. When a user subsequently requests a location of the tracking device from the central tracking system, the central tracking system provides the encrypted temporary private key and the encrypted location data to a device of the user, and the device can decrypt the encrypted temporary private key using the permanent encryption key pair, and decrypt the encrypted location data using the decrypted temporary private key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Steven R. Klinkner, Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer
  • Patent number: 12161737
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, a formulation in a package. The formulation comprises one or more active agents and is co-mingled with a whipping agent prior to being filled under pressure into the package. The whipping agent is added in sufficient amounts to be dispersed in the formulation. The pressurized package is under sufficient pressure suitable to maintain the whipping agent dispersed in the formulation; and the pressurized package is under sufficient pressure to expel the formulation as a whipped formulation upon application of external force on the formulation in the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: FORMULATED SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Baldwin, Scott Carpenter, Heidi Graham, Nanhye Kim, Tom Meyer, David Reynolds, Jerry Vancleave, Eric Dann, Thomas Dann, Renee Nelson, Brian Dann
  • Patent number: 12166514
    Abstract: A method improves antenna matching for a node, in particular a sensor apparatus and/or actuator apparatus, of a communications network. The node is capable of radio communication and has a radio module equipped with an antenna and a transmit path and/or receive path for radio signals to be emitted and/or received. The node has a power supply apparatus, which is preferably energy self-sufficient, in particular a battery. The antenna has an impedance and in the receive situation and/or in the transmit situation in the case of adjustable matchings, preferably by use of adjustable matching networks, the signal to noise ratio associated with each matching is estimated, and a matching is selected from the different matchings for the receive mode and/or the transmit mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Diehl Metering Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Hristo Petkov, Christoph Schmidt, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk, Simon Schroeter, Benjamin Meyer
  • Patent number: 12151009
    Abstract: Compositions comprising UV blocking agents, a film forming polymer containing acid groups and a neutralizing agent; compositions and methods for increasing the SPF of a composition by neutralizing at least a portion of the acid groups of the film forming agent with the neutralizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: Beiersdorf AG, Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.V
    Inventors: Qiwei He, Michael Timothy Philbin, Gary Theodore Martino, Thomas A. Meyer, Donathan G. Beasley, John H. Wagner
  • Patent number: 12148544
    Abstract: In order to improve the mechanical stability of an X-ray grating with top bridges for X-ray dark field imaging and/or X-ray phase contrast imaging, it is proposed to reduce or prevent the undesired high stress on the top bridges by a change in the manufacturing process. Specifically, it is proposed to electroplate the top bridges after the bending. In other words, the electroplating of the top bridges is performed on the bent geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Koehler, Andriy Yaroshenko, Gereon Vogtmeier, Bernd Rudi David, Juergen Mohr, Paulus René Maria Van Beers, Pascal Meyer, Michael Richter, Joachim Schulz
  • Patent number: 12138332
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, a formulation in a package, the formulation comprises one or more active agents and is co-mingled with a whipping agent prior to being filled under pressure into the package. The whipping agent is added in sufficient amounts to be dispersed in the formulation. The pressurized package is under sufficient pressure suitable to maintain the whipping agent dispersed in the formulation; and the pressurized package is under sufficient pressure to expel the formulation as a whipped formulation upon application of external force on the formulation in the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: FORMULATED SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Baldwin, Scott Carpenter, Heidi Graham, Nanhye Kim, Tom Meyer, David S. Reynolds, Jr., Jerry Glen Vancleave, Eric Dann, Thomas Dann, Renee Nelson, Brian Dann
  • Patent number: 12138903
    Abstract: A web of film material wound about a central longitudinal axis to provide a roll, the film material including a conformable base film comprising a first surface and an opposite second surface. The web of film material further includes an adhesive layer including a first surface bonded to the second surface of the base film and an opposite second surface, a release liner releasably attached to the second surface of the adhesive layer, and a protective film layer releasably attached to the first surface of the conformable base film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Viktor Dannewitz, Ralf Burmeister, Thomas Meyer, Hubert Werner
  • Patent number: 12142897
    Abstract: A multi-spark gap having both a high power-follow current extinguishing capacity as well as a relatively low protective level in which a distance x1 between a first electrode and an adjacent second electrode, which together form a first individual spark gap, is larger than respective distances x2 between other adjacent electrode pairs of additional individual spark gaps. The distance x1 is at least 0.5 mm and the distances x2 of the additional individual spark gaps are at most 0.2 mm. Additionally, an ignition aid for igniting the first individual spark gap is provided, which aid has at least a resistive ignition element and a voltage-limiting element, wherein the ignition element is connected to an electric-arc combustion chamber of the first individual spark gap and is electrically connected on the one side to the first electrode and on the other side via the voltage-limiting element to the second contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Meyer, Rainer Durth
  • Publication number: 20240358413
    Abstract: A revision connector that is configured to couple a new spine fixation rod to a previously implanted spine fixation rod that is secured to a plurality of vertebrae. The previously implanted spine fixation rod may be received in a first rod receiving channel of the revision connector. The revision connector may include a linkage that is received in a second rod receiving channel of another revision connector. For example, the another revision connector may couple to the new spine fixation rod such that the revision connector is coupled to the new fixation rod. A bone anchor may not directly connect either of the revision connector or the another revision connector to underlying vertebra. Also, the new spine fixation rod can be implanted and secured to vertebra that are caudal and/or cranial with respect to the previously secured vertebrae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Keyer, Eric McDivitt, Joseph Capozzoli, Christoph Meyer, Nicholas Theodore, Charles Kuntz
  • Publication number: 20240358288
    Abstract: An assembly for delivering an analyte sensor comprising a sensor control device. The sensor control device comprises an electronics housing with a shell having a first aperture and a first interface, and a mount having a second aperture and second interface, wherein the housing has an interior space. The two interfaces define a first sterile barrier. The housing also comprises a first mating member, a circuit board, and an analyte sensor. The assembly also comprises an applicator to deliver the sensor, and comprising a housing and a cap removably coupled to the housing to seal the applicator's interior, a sharp hub, and a second mating member extending within the first or second aperture, which mates with the first mating member to define a second sterile barrier. The sensor control device also comprises a collimator, a third sterile barrier, and a fourth sterile barrier which define a sterilization zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Peter M. Voit, Thomas Meyer, Steven T. Mitchell, Louis Pace, Stephen T. Pudjijanto, Vivek S. Rao, Matthew Simmons, Dharmendra S. Patel, Namvar Kiaie
  • Patent number: 12126738
    Abstract: A method for providing challenges to a device comprising (i) compiling a first challenge based on a first random value and a parameter; (ii) compiling a second challenge based on a second random value, the parameter and based on the first challenge or any intermediate result thereof; and (iii) providing the first challenge and the second challenge to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Thomas Poeppelmann, Wieland Fischer, Bernd Meyer
  • Patent number: 12117562
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system (200, 300, 400) for a motor vehicle, comprising a sensor housing and an active or passive sensor (102) arranged therein and held on a movable sensor holder (201, 401), having a sensor technology based on radiation detection and a measurement apparatus assigned to the sensor (102) and a control apparatus, coupled to said measurement apparatus, for the sensor holder (201, 401), wherein the sensor housing has a cover (106, 301) that is signal-transmissive for the sensor (102) on its side located in the detection direction of the sensor (102), and wherein the detection range (108, 109) of the sensor (102) in the region of the signal-transmissive cover (106, 301) has a lower extent than the signal-transmissive cover (106, 301), wherein the sensor system (200, 300, 400) is characterized in that the measurement apparatus is designed such that it is suitable for checking, in the detection range of the sensor (102), whether and in which section the signal-transmissive cover (10
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Hagen, Thomas Grimm, Ulrich Grosser, Alexander Meyer, Andreas Klein, Dirk Hinzmann, Peter Capellen, Rafael Oser
  • Publication number: 20240329735
    Abstract: A method for determining a direction of gaze of an eye for data glasses. The method includes: reading distance values and speed values, which represent a distance between laser sensors for emitting laser beams and surface intersection points of the laser beams on the eye and also surface speeds at the surface intersection points; classifying the distance values and the speed values in order to obtain classification values which indicate the parts of the eye associated with the surface intersection points; estimating position values which represent positions of the laser sensors using the distance values, the speed values, and the classification values; and ascertaining a gaze direction value which represents the gaze direction using the position values, the distance values, and the speed values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Gering, Johannes Meyer, Thomas Alexander Schlebusch
  • Patent number: 12107949
    Abstract: A tracking device can use a permanent encryption key pair to encrypt a temporary private key that corresponds to a set of diversified temporary public keys. When a community mobile device subsequently detects the tracking device, the central tracking system provides a diversified temporary public key to the community mobile device. The community mobile device uses the diversified temporary public key to encrypt location data representative of a location of the community mobile device, and provides the encrypted location data to the central tracking system. When a user subsequently requests a location of the tracking device from the central tracking system, the central tracking system provides the encrypted temporary private key and the encrypted location data to a device of the user, and the device can decrypt the encrypted temporary private key using the permanent encryption key pair, and decrypt the encrypted location data using the decrypted temporary private key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Klinkner, Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer
  • Patent number: 12092150
    Abstract: A connecting joint for adjustably connecting at least two components of a laboratory automation system is disclosed. The connecting joint comprises a horizontal bearing unit connectable to a first component of the at least two components of the laboratory automation system; a vertical bearing unit connectable to a second component of the at least two components of the laboratory automation system; and a slider bar connecting the horizontal bearing unit with the vertical bearing unit, wherein the slider bar is movably mounted along a vertical axis within the vertical bearing unit; and wherein the slider bar is adjustably mounted in the horizontal bearing unit, wherein the slider bar is adjustable in at least one dimension essentially perpendicular to the vertical axis by the horizontal bearing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Eugen Lusser, Thomas Meyer, Leon Felipe Apodaca Lujan, Timo Gutmann, Avinash Addihalli Narayana
  • Patent number: 12070177
    Abstract: A surface cleaning head includes dual rotating agitators (e.g., a leading roller and a brush roll) and a removable cover for covering a top of the agitators and allowing access to the agitators from a top of the surface cleaning head. The dual agitators may be used to facilitate capturing of debris in the air flow into a suction conduit on the underside of the surface cleaning head. The brush roll may be located in a brush roll chamber and at least partially in an opening to the suction conduit. The leading roller may be positioned adjacent to and in advance of the suction conduit opening such that the leading roller engages debris and moves the debris toward the brush roll and the opening. The leading roller may be removable from the housing and held in place by the removable cover. The cover may be coupled using isolated latching mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Adam Udy, Andre David Brown, John Freese, Patrick Cleary, Daniel Meyer, Daniel John Innes, Jason Thorne, Peter Hutchinson, Gordon Howes, Wenxiu Gao, Daniel R. Der Marderosian, Thomas Ford, Owen R. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12065012
    Abstract: A chassis link has a link body, a ball joint socket being arranged at one link end of the link body. The ball joint socket has a cylindrical portion and an outwardly directed flange which is formed from the same material as and in one piece with the cylindrical portion. The ball joint socket is joined by way of the flange to a first web of the link body. A second lower web of the link body is joined to the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Abram, Olga Kasper, Stephan Meyer, Vojtech Drtina
  • Patent number: D1047136
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Fick, Michael D. Eggen, Jeffrey A. Swanson, David B. Engmark, Lisa A. Meyer