Patents by Inventor Thomas Müller

Thomas Müller 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: 12380143
    Abstract: Systems and methods for pre-training and fine-tuning of neural-network-based language models to reason directly over tables without generating logical forms. In some examples, a language model can be pre-trained using masked-language modeling tasks synthetically generated from tables pulled from a knowledge corpus. In some examples, the language model may be further pre-trained using pairs of counterfactual statements generated from those tables, and/or one or more statements that compare selected data from those tables. The language model may then be fine-tuned using examples that include only a question, an answer, and a table, allowing fine-tuning examples to be harvested directly from existing benchmark datasets or synthetically generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Jonathan Herzig, Paweł Nowak, Julian Eisenschlos, Francesco Piccinno, Syrine Krichene
  • Publication number: 20250179466
    Abstract: A chromatographic purification method for the isolation of a product from a feed mixture using two columns, wherein in one step b) the first upstream column is loaded with feed, followed by at least one interconnected step c), wherein in the interconnected step c) the first column is fed with eluent with a gradient, wherein the stream exiting the first column is adjusted inline with inline adjustment eluent before entering the second column during the period of gradient elution, and wherein the inline adjustment eluent is as the eluent fed at the first column inlet but controlled to have a higher or lower modifier concentration than the eluent exiting at the first column, and wherein the modifier difference of the inline adjustment eluent is chosen such that the adherence of the product to the stationary phase of the second column is higher than without that difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: ChromaCon AG
    Inventors: Lars AUMANN, Richard WELDON, Sebastian VOGG, Thomas MÜLLER-SPÄTH
  • Patent number: 12317928
    Abstract: A vaporizer cartridge, as a component of an inhaler, has a hollow body with a continuous flow channel and a storage tank for storing liquid. The storage tank has at least one access opening to the flow channel and a vaporizer unit arranged in the region of the access opening and extending over the entire access opening. The vaporizer unit has a wick member and a heating member. The vaporizer unit is formed to be liquid-permeable such that liquid can be conveyed at least initially in a capillary manner out of the storage tank through the vaporizer unit in the direction of the flow channel. The wick member is formed from a plurality of granular grains which form microchannels as a result of their fill and/or formation. An inhaler is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: KÖRBER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Max Bergmann, Lasse Cornils, Matthias Giese, Christian Hanneken, Jan Jaklin, Marc Kessler, Michael Kleine Wächter, Thomas Müller, Niklas Romming, Christof Schuster, Tobias Wuttke, Rene Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20250154175
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel diazabicyclically substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidine derivatives, to methods for producing the same, to the use thereof either alone or in combinations for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases, as well as to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases, especially for treatment and/or prevention of breathing disorders, including sleep-related breathing disorders such as obstructive and central sleep apnoea and snoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicants: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martina DELBECK, Michael Hahn, Thomas Müller, Klemens Lustig, Karl Collins, Niels Lindner, Janine Nicolai, Moritz Beck-Broichsitter, Udo Albus, Doris Gehring, BjÖrn Rosenstein
  • Patent number: 12292461
    Abstract: At a switch terminal of a flyback converter in a discontinuous conduction mode in a power meter, an apparatus determines a resonant frequency of the flyback converter. The apparatus determines whether the resonant frequency satisfies a condition. Through a controller, the apparatus triggers an event responsive to determining that the resonant frequency satisfies the condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Florian Thomas Müller
  • Publication number: 20250121300
    Abstract: A cyclic chromatographic purification method for the isolation of a product from a feed mixture comprising the product and at least two further components representing weakly adsorbing impurities and strongly adsorbing impurities, the method using only two chromatographic adsorber sections as chromatographic stationary phase. The method comprises at least one base sequence having at least one Recycling Phase followed by only one Purification Phase, wherein preferably base sequences repeat in a cyclic manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: ChromaCon AG
    Inventors: Lars AUMANN, Richard WELDON, Sebastian VOGG, Thomas MÜLLER-SPÄTH
  • Patent number: 12275549
    Abstract: A feeding device for feeding a lid to a sealer includes a lid guide for guiding the lid along a guide plane to the sealer, a lid feed for introducing a lid into the lid guide and a movement device arranged at the lid guide. The movement device movably arranged in such a way that the lid can be moved along the guide plane by the movement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: FERRUM PACKAGING AG
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Roger Gisler
  • Patent number: 12262740
    Abstract: An inhaler vaporizer cartridge includes a housing body with a flow channel, a liquid storage tank, and a vaporizer unit. The vaporizer unit has a wick member and heating member and is liquid-permeable such that liquid is conveyed from the tank through the vaporizer unit to the flow channel. The housing body has a cavity forming the tank and a wick member receiving chamber, and housing is divided by an intermediate wall and a flow channel section. An access opening from the receiving chamber to the flow channel is formed in the intermediate wall and covered by the heating member. Granular grains in the receiving chamber form the wick member and bear against the heating member. The grains form microchannels and are retained by a cover element. An access opening, covered with a liquid-permeable grid structure, establishes a liquid connection from the tank to receiving chamber in the intermediate wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KÖRBER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Max Bergmann, Lasse Cornils, Matthias Giese, Christian Hanneken, Jan Jaklin, Marc Kessler, Michael Kleine Wächter, Thomas Müller, Niklas Romming, Rene Schmidt, Christof Schuster, Tobias Wuttke
  • Publication number: 20250089706
    Abstract: The present invention relates to crop protection compounds and to compositions which comprise specific compounds as safeners for reducing phytotoxic effects of agrochemicals, especially herbicides. The invention relates more particularly to certain [5-(phenyl)-5-(heteroaryl)-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy]acetic acid derivatives of the general formula (I) and their salts, to processes for preparing them and to their use as plant protection compounds (safeners).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas MÜLLER, Hendrik HELMKE, Harald JAKOBI, Jan DITTGEN
  • Publication number: 20250095275
    Abstract: In various examples, images (e.g., novel views) of an object may be rendered using an optimized number of samples of a 3D representation of the object. The optimized number of the samples may be determined based at least on casting rays into a scene that includes the 3D representation of the object and/or an acceleration data structure corresponding to the object. The acceleration data structure may include features corresponding to characteristics of the object, and the features may be indicative of the number of samples to be obtained from various portions of the 3D representation of the object to render the images. In some examples, the 3D representation may be a neural radiance field that includes, as a neural output, a spatially varying kernel size predicting the characteristics of the object, and the features of the acceleration data structure may be related to the spatially varying kernel size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Zian Wang, Tianchang Shen, Jun Gao, Merlin Nimier-David, Thomas Müller-Höhne, Alexander Keller, Sanja Fidler, Zan Gojcic, Nicholas Mark Worth Sharp
  • Patent number: 12240553
    Abstract: A frame lock for a two-wheeler comprises a lock body, which comprises a latch and a rotary hoop arrangement having a rotary hoop and a strip. The rotary hoop extends along a circular path, has a blocking structure comprising an abutment section, and is adjustable relative to the lock body along the circular path between an open position, in which the rotary hoop releases a wheel of the two-wheeler for a rotation, and a closed position in which the rotary hoop blocks the wheel against rotation. The latch is adjustable between an unlocked position and a locked position and, when the rotary hoop is in its closed position and the latch is in its locked position, the latch engages behind the abutment section, whereby it blocks the rotary hoop against an adjustment into the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
    Inventor: Thomas Müller
  • Patent number: 12227717
    Abstract: A solid block detergent composition is described which can be dispensed with a water spray to form an aqueous detergent for cutting and removing grease, removing and suspending soils and rinsing easily leaving cleaned ware. The solid block detergent contains a neutralized sulfonated anionic surfactant in combination with various processing aids to optimize soil removal in a formulation that can be pressed for form a solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Wendy Lo, Erik C. Olson, Thomas Muller, Jeffrey John Biggs, Angela Sivanich, Katherine Molinaro, Kelsey West, Matthew Paul Molinaro
  • Patent number: 12219995
    Abstract: A vaporizer cartridge for an inhaler has a hollow body with a continuous flow channel and liquid storage tank. The tank has an access opening to the channel and a vaporizer unit extending over the entire access opening. The vaporizer unit has a wick member and a heating member. The vaporizer unit is liquid-permeable such that liquid is conveyed at least initially in a capillary manner from the storage tank through the vaporizer unit in the direction of the flow channel. The wick member is formed from a plurality of granular grains which, as a result of their fill and/or formation, form microchannels which establish a fluid connection between the storage tank and the flow channel, continuously from an entry side to an exit side of the wick member. An additional securing means is provided which is holds the granular wick member in position. A corresponding inhaler is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: KÖRBER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Max Bergmann, Lasse Cornils, Matthias Giese, Christian Hanneken, Jan Jaklin, Marc Kessler, Michael Kleine Wächter, Thomas Müller, Niklas Romming, Rene Schmidt, Christof Schuster, Tobias Wuttke
  • Publication number: 20250026724
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel, herbicidally active (1,4,5-trisubstituted 1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy-2-alkoxyalkyl acids and their derivatives of the general formula (I) and their agrochemically compatible/acceptable salts, N-oxides, hydrates, and hydrates of the salts and N-oxides, to processes for preparation thereof and to the use thereof for control of broadleaved weeds and weed grasses in crops of useful plants, and for general control of broadleaved weeds and weed grasses in areas of the environment where plant growth is troublesome. The derivatives of the (1,4,5-trisubstituted 1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy-2-alkoxyalkyl acids include in particular their esters and/or amides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Estella BUSCATO, Thomas MÜLLER, Harald JAKOBI, Hendrik HELMKE, Birgit BOLLENBACH-WAHL, Guido BOJACK, Elmar GATZWEILER, Elisabeth ASMUS
  • Patent number: 12190667
    Abstract: The application relates to a fixedly mounted ticket detection device (100, 200, 400, 500, 600) of an access control system (560, 660) comprising at least one camera-based detection equipment (102, 202, 402, 502, 602) configured to detect images of a graphical ticket code of a ticket medium (452, 552) in a detection area (108, 208, 408) of the camera-based detection equipment (102, 202, 402, 502, 602) and to generate detected image data from the detected images, at least one evaluation equipment (104, 204) configured at least to obtain the detected image data from the camera-based detection equipment (102, 202, 402, 502, 602) and to extract a data content of the graphical ticket code from the obtained detected image data, and at least one evaluation equipment (104, 204) communicatively coupled to the camera-based detection equipment (102, 202, 402, 502, 602) and configured to obtain the detected image data from the camera-based detection equipment (102, 202, 402, 502, 602) and to display obtained detected imag
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Müller
  • Patent number: 12180227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel diazabicyclically substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidine derivatives, such as compounds of the general formula (I): to methods for producing the same, to the use thereof either alone or in combinations for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases, as well as to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases, especially for treatment and/or prevention of breathing disorders, including sleep-related breathing disorders such as obstructive and central sleep apnoea and snoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martina Delbeck, Michael Hahn, Thomas Müller, Klemens Lustig, Karl Collins, Niels Lindner, Janine Nicolai, Moritz Beck-Broichsitter, Udo Albus, Doris Gehring, Björn Rosenstein
  • Patent number: 12179868
    Abstract: A frame lock for a two-wheeler comprises a housing; a locking apparatus that is received in the housing; and a closing hoop that is movably supported at the housing between an open position and a closed position and that can be blocked in the closed position by means of the locking apparatus. The frame lock in this respect has two fastening sections having at least one respective hole and is configured to be fastened to the two-wheeler by screwing screws in a screw-in direction through the holes into threaded bushings provided at the two-wheeler. Each of the two fastening sections is configured as a fastening piece which is formed separately from the housing, in which the respective hole is formed, and which is displaceably supported at the housing linearly guided along a displacement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
    Inventors: Bernd Weiershausen, Thomas Müller
  • Publication number: 20240391862
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel, herbicidally active (1,4,5-trisubstituted 1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy-2-alkoxyalkyl acids and their derivatives of the general formula (I) and their agrochemically compatible salts, N-oxides, hydrates, and hydrates of the salts and N-oxides, to processes for preparation thereof and to the use thereof for control of broadleaved weeds and weed grasses in crops of useful plants, and for general control of broadleaved weeds and weed grasses in areas of the environment where plant growth is troublesome. The derivatives of the (1,4,5-trisubstituted 1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy-2-alkoxyalkyl acids include in particular their esters and/or amides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Estella BUSCATO, Hendrik HELMKE, Harald JAKOBI, Thomas MÜLLER, Birgit BOLLENBACH-WAHL, Jan DITTGEN, Elmar GATZWEILER, Guido BOJACK
  • Publication number: 20240391831
    Abstract: The use of a grinding additive during the dry grinding of mineral materials, especially limestone, characterized in that the grinding additive is selected from the group made of alkanolamines, glycols, glycerol, sugars, sugar acids, carboxylic acids or their salts, superplasticizers, superabsorbent polymers, or mixtures thereof. Also, ground mineral materials, especially ground limestone, including the additives and the use of the ground mineral materials, especially ground limestone, in cement and/or construction materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Thomas HELLER, Thomas MÜLLER, Johannes UNSELD
  • Patent number: D1066446
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BATTLEMAX (PTY) LTD
    Inventors: Marthinus Jacobus Buitendag, Johannes Theodorus Pienaar, Thomas Muller