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).

  • Patent number: 12263412
    Abstract: A centralized gaming system is provided. The centralized gaming system includes a thin gaming device providing game play in a communal game and a central gaming server configured to: store a ball call for the communal game on behalf of the thin gaming device and at least one legacy gaming device; receive an outcome request message from the thin gaming device; allocate a bingo card to the game instance associated with the outcome request message from a card pool of predetermined bingo cards; evaluate the allocated bingo card based on a current state of the ball call of the communal game; determine a reward value based on the evaluation of the allocated bingo card; and transmit an outcome results message to the thin gaming device in response to the outcome request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Donovan Meyer, Jeremiah O'Hara, Thomas Rizos, Jennifer Pinder, James Urbaniak
  • Patent number: 12265888
    Abstract: A system and method for performing machine learning in a mobile computing device which is configured to be coupled with a cloud computing system is disclosed. The method may include activating, on the mobile computing device, a machine learning application, which accesses a local machine learning system including a local machine learning model, periodically updating the local machine learning system based upon updates for the local machine learning system received from a global machine learning system hosted by the cloud computing system, performing machine learning based on received training data, and periodically transmitting changes to the local machine learning system from the mobile computing device to the global machine learning system hosted by the cloud computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Gregory Brian Meyer, Mark Anthony Lopez, Ravi Durairaj, Nolan Serrao, Victor Kwak, Ryan Thomas Russell, Christopher Russell, Ruthie D. Lyle
  • Patent number: 12256772
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating article for an aerosol-generating device including a heating element is provided, the aerosol-generating article including: an aerosol-forming substrate including homogenised tobacco material; a support element disposed immediately downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate; an aerosol-cooling element disposed downstream of the support element; and an outer wrapper circumscribing the aerosol-forming substrate, the support element, and the aerosol-cooling element, the support element abutting the aerosol-forming substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Gerard Zuber, Cedric Meyer, Alexis Louvet, Marine Jarriault, Thomas Badertscher, Pierre-Yves Gindrat, Daniele Sanna
  • Patent number: 12244123
    Abstract: A spark gap arrangement with at least three electrodes and with at least two holding frames, which are arranged flat one on top of the other, wherein each of the holding frames has an edge that surrounds a recess for accommodating at least one electrode, wherein at least one receptacle opening is made in the edge of at least one holding frame, in which opening a control element is arranged, and wherein the holding frames are arranged offset relative to one another around their central axis perpendicular to the plane of the holding frame, in such a way that the receptacle opening of a first holding frame is located above an electrode which is accommodated in a second holding frame arranged underneath, so that the control element arranged in the receptacle opening of the first holding frame makes contact with the electrode accommodated in the second holding frame arranged underneath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO KG
    Inventors: Thomas Meyer, Viktor Okel
  • Patent number: 12241741
    Abstract: A laser sensor includes a laser source configured to emit a laser beam, and optics configured to project the laser beam as a one- or two-dimensional patterned laser beam onto an object to be examined, such that a distance of the patterned laser beam from the laser source varies along the patterned laser beam projected on the object. The laser sensor further includes a detector configured to determine a self-mixing interference signal generated by laser light of the patterned laser beam reflected from the object back into the laser source, and circuitry configured to analyze a spectrum of the self-mixing interference signal and extract from the spectrum of the self-mixing interference signal multiple frequencies that are indicative of at least one of the following: multiple distances along the patterned laser beam from the laser source, or multiple velocities along the patterned laser beam with respect to the laser source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: TRUMPF PHOTONIC COMPONENTS GMBH, ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hans Spruit, Jochen Hellmig, Stephan Gronenborn, Johannes Meyer, Andreas Petersen, Thomas Schlebusch
  • Patent number: 12242543
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques relating to development of data flow pipelines. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes accessing, by a computing system, metadata identifying characteristics of a data flow pipeline; generating, by the computing system and based on the metadata, the data flow pipeline, wherein the data flow pipeline includes a plurality of stages, and wherein the plurality of stages includes a multi-sourced stage in which data output by each of a subset of stages in the plurality of stages are used as input to the multi-sourced stage; executing, by the computing system, the data flow pipeline; detecting, by the computing system, modifications to the metadata; generating, based on the modifications, an updated data flow pipeline; and executing, by the computing system, the updated data flow pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Gurudatta Pai, Menglin Cao, Prahalad Thota, Thomas Mann, Braxton Meyer, Ravindra Reddy Pathakota
  • Publication number: 20250063233
    Abstract: The present technology provides systems and methods to facilitate seek functionality in real-time streaming and playback of digital media. In particular, the present technology provides for generating an index for a digital media file encoded in a non-streaming format, determining a portion of the digital media file to transcode, and transcoding the portion of the digital media file to a proxy format based on the index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Signiant Inc.
    Inventors: Jochen STRUNK, Robert Martin KRÜGER, Thomas MEYER
  • Publication number: 20250050277
    Abstract: A potting material as for use in membrane separation modules maybe provided consisting of a tin alloy having a melting point of from 210 to 230° C., wherein the tin alloy consists, on a metals basis, of: from 95 to 97 wt. %; and from 3 to 5 wt. % of the combination of Silver (Ag) with at least one of Nickel (Ni), Copper (Cu), or Germanium (Ge).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Whitefox Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Thomas MEYER, Helmut SCHOLAND
  • Publication number: 20250050614
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fire protection layer composite for use as preventive fire protection material, and to a method for producing a fire protection layer composite. The invention relates to non-flammable and fire-retardant materials, in particular film composites which are intumescent in the event of a fire. The fire protection layer composite comprises at least one plastics layer, which surrounds a transparent fire protection layer, wherein the fire protection layer comprises an intumescent material. The fire protection layer composite makes it possible to achieve effective fire protection in a compact design. The fire protection layer composite does not produce soot or release toxic flue gases, even under the influence of very high temperatures. This prevents danger to the health of a user of the fire protection layer composite in the event of a fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Gerhard MEYER, Thomas HOYER, Annett GÜNTHER
  • Publication number: 20250047166
    Abstract: Drive unit for a protection device in a vehicle interior, having an electric motor and control electronics for the electric motor arranged on a printed circuit board. The electric motor and the printed circuit board with the control electronics are incorporated into a common plastics casing. The plastics casing is constructed from a plurality of casing parts, connected together without the use of tools, and the control electronics arranged on the printed circuit board are arranged in the plastics casing adjacent to the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas SCHNEIDER, Jörg MEYER, Max VON LÜTTICHAU
  • Publication number: 20250027021
    Abstract: A fixed bed bioreactor assembly for culturing cells is provided and methods for sampling cell culture substrates from such assemblies. The assembly includes a bioreactor vessel having an interior space for culturing cells and a sidewall at least partly defining the interior space; and a plurality of cell culture substrate layers in the interior space, each layer having a structurally defined surface for culturing cells thereon. The structurally defined surface defines an ordered and regular array of openings through a thickness of the layer. The assembly further includes a sleeve at least partially surrounding the plurality of cell culture substrate layers and having at least one sample access window. The sample access window includes an opening in the sleeve to allow one or more layers of the cell culture substrate to be removed from the sleeve through the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Tristan Yale Brawn, Michael Francis Finnegan, Jacob Dylan Freake, Daniel Thomas Manning, Steven Eric Meyer, Douglas Grosvenor Sabin, Joel Andrew Schultes
  • Publication number: 20250023591
    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: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Hristo Petkov, Christoph Schmidt, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk, Simon Schroeter, Benjamin Meyer
  • Patent number: 12181075
    Abstract: According to various aspects of the disclosure, a valve assembly for a vacuum chamber housing may have: a valve housing, which has a substrate transfer gap; a valve flap, which is mounted so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation, thus enabling said flap to be rotated into a first position and into a second position, wherein the axis of rotation is arranged in the substrate transfer gap, and wherein the substrate transfer gap is extended longitudinally along the axis of rotation; wherein the valve flap closes the substrate transfer gap in the first position and is arranged adjacent to the substrate transfer gap in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: VON ARDENNE Asset GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Torsten Dsaak, Michael Hofmann, Thomas Meyer
  • Patent number: 12176686
    Abstract: A multi-spark gap for an overvoltage protector, having multiple electrodes and insulation elements arranged between the electrodes, a holding arrangement for mechanical holding and for making electrical contact with the electrodes of the multi-spark gap, wherein the holding arrangement has at least a first electrically conductive clamping element, a second electrically conductive clamping element, and a first electrically conductive connecting element, wherein the electrodes are arranged between the first clamping element and the second clamping element, wherein the first clamping element makes electrical contact with the first electrode of the multi-spark gap, and wherein the second clamping element makes electrical contact with the last electrode of the multi-spark gap, and wherein the at least first connecting element mechanically connects the first clamping element and the second clamping element to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Meyer, Viktor Okel, Hannes Sagebiel
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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