Patents by Inventor Thomas Neff
Thomas Neff 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).
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Publication number: 20240075135Abstract: This invention relates methods of using a non-fucosylated anti-CD40 antibody for treatment of cancer and chronic infectious diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Shyra Gardai, Che-Leung Law, Stanford Peng, Jing Yang, Haley Neff-LaFord, Thomas John Manley
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Patent number: 11801652Abstract: A spindle drive having a spindle, a spindle nut which is arranged on the spindle, a housing which surrounds the spindle nut, and an overload clutch which is arranged in the housing. The spindle nut and the housing are connected to one another via the overload clutch. The overload clutch is set up to disconnect the spindle nut from the housing in a torque-free manner if a defined overload torque which acts between the spindle nut and the housing is exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: GEBR. SCHMIDT FABRIK FÜR FEINMECHANIK GMBH & CO.KGInventors: Andreas Leo Meyer, Thomas Neff
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Publication number: 20230173677Abstract: A method, a robot, and a robot controller for automatically scheduling the timing of a plurality of brake tests, that succeed one another at time intervals, at a plurality of brakes of a robot arm equipped with a plurality of joints and a plurality of links connecting the joints to one another and is connected to a robot controller which is designed and configured to control the joints and the brakes, in order to move the robot arm. At least one individual parameter is configured for each of the brakes. A brake test method associated with the robot arm is automatically initialized, and the initialized brake test method is automatically carried out in accordance with the configured parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Markus Finke, Thomas Neff
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Publication number: 20230101978Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may divide at least one scene into a plurality of meshlets, each of the meshlets including a plurality of primitives, and each of the primitives including plurality of vertices. The apparatus may also calculate a pair of texture coordinates for each of the plurality of vertices. Further, the apparatus may select a size of each of the plurality of meshlets in the at least one scene based on the pair of the texture coordinates and based on a perspective projection of each of the plurality of meshlets. The apparatus may also calculate layout information in a meshlet atlas for each of the meshlets in the at least one scene. Moreover, the apparatus may shade each of a plurality of pixels in the meshlet atlas based on the calculated layout information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Thomas NEFF, Jörg Hermann MÜLLER, Markus STEINBERGER, Dieter SCHMALSTIEG
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Publication number: 20230018351Abstract: A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using automated scanning of chestwardly compressed breasts with ultrasound. Enhanced, whole-breast navigator overview images are produced from scanning breasts with ultrasound that emphasize abnormalities in the breast while excluding obscuring influences of non-breast structures, particularly those external to the breast such as ribs and chest wall, and differentiating between likely malignant and likely benign abnormalities and otherwise enhancing the navigator overview image and other images, thereby reducing the time to read, screen, and/or diagnose to practical time limits and also reduce screening or diagnostic errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Alexander Schneider, Harian Romsdahl, Thomas Neff
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Patent number: 11439362Abstract: A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using automated scanning of chestwardly compressed breasts with ultrasound. Enhanced, whole-breast navigator overview images are produced from scanning breasts with ultrasound that emphasize abnormalities in the breast while excluding obscuring influences of non-breast structures, particularly those external to the breast such as ribs and chest wall, and differentiating between likely malignant and likely benign abnormalities and otherwise enhancing the navigator overview image and other images, thereby reducing the time to read, screen, and/or diagnose to practical time limits and also reduce screening or diagnostic errors.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: QView Medical, Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Alexander Schneider, Harlan Romsdahl, Thomas Neff
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Publication number: 20200364926Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for operation of a graphics processing unit (GPU). The device can determine a first shading value for each primitive in a first set of primitives associated with objects in a first frame. The device can also determine a second shading value for each primitive in a second set of primitives associated with objects in a second frame. Additionally, the device can calculate a shading difference for each primitive in both the first set of primitives and the second set of primitives. In some aspects, the shading difference is the difference between the first shading value and the second shading value for the primitive. Moreover, the device can shade each primitive in response to determining the shading difference is greater than a threshold, where each shaded primitive is in a third set of primitives.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Joerg Hermann MUELLER, Thomas NEFF, Dieter SCHMALSTIEG
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Patent number: 10716958Abstract: A method for operating a medical robot, a medical robot, and a medical work station. The invention relates to a method for operating a medical robot (2). The robot (2) includes a robot arm (5) having a plurality of members (7), drives (15) provided for moving the members (7), and an attaching device (9). The robot (2) also has a control device (6) for activating the drives (15), and a sound generating device (3) attached to the attaching device (9), which is provided to apply sound to a living organism (10), in particular a high-intensity focused ultrasound.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: KUKA Deutschland GmbHInventor: Thomas Neff
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Publication number: 20200147914Abstract: A spindle drive having a spindle, a spindle nut which is arranged on the spindle, a housing which surrounds the spindle nut, and an overload clutch which is arranged in the housing. The spindle nut and the housing are connected to one another via the overload clutch. The overload clutch is set up to disconnect the spindle nut from the housing in a torque-free manner if a defined overload torque which acts between the spindle nut and the housing is exceeded.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Andreas Leo Meyer, Thomas Neff
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Patent number: 10603007Abstract: A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using automated scanning of chestwardly compressed breasts with ultrasound. Enhanced, whole-breast navigator overview images are produced from scanning breasts with ultrasound that emphasize abnormalities in the breast while excluding obscuring influences of non-breast structures, particularly those external to the breast such as ribs and chest wall, and differentiating between likely malignant and likely benign abnormalities and otherwise enhancing the navigator overview image and other images, thereby reducing the time to read, screen, and/or diagnose to practical time limits and also reduce screening or diagnostic errors.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: QVIEW MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Alexander Schneider, Harlan Romsdahl, Thomas Neff
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Publication number: 20200069282Abstract: A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using automated scanning of chestwardly compressed breasts with ultrasound. Enhanced, whole-breast navigator overview images are produced from scanning breasts with ultrasound that emphasize abnormalities in the breast while excluding obscuring influences of non-breast structures, particularly those external to the breast such as ribs and chest wall, and differentiating between likely malignant and likely benign abnormalities and otherwise enhancing the navigator overview image and other images, thereby reducing the time to read, screen, and/or diagnose to practical time limits and also reduce screening or diagnostic errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: QVIEW MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Alexander Schneider, Harlan Romsdahl, Thomas Neff
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Patent number: 10518415Abstract: A packaging technique for applying an insulating pack to the housing of a battery cell. The insulating pack is formed from a self-adhesive cutout of insulating material by folding the cutout onto the sides of the housing that are to be covered. The packaging technique involves a packaging method for automatically applying an insulating pack, a battery cell including an insulating pack, a packaging station for carrying out the method, and a preparation device for preparing one or more cutouts of insulating material.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: KUKA Deutschland GmbHInventors: Henrik Keller, Markus Finke, Anja Werling, Maximilian Heinig, Horacio Martinez, Christian Meissner, Mario Miller, Holger Moennich, Thomas Neff, Tobias Reichl, Nina Sauthoff, Osama Shahin, Oliver Thilmann, Olaf Wegener
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Patent number: 10384356Abstract: One aspect of the robotic surgery system according to the invention relates to a robot assembly comprising at least one robot and an instrument assembly comprising at least one instrument that is guided by said robot assembly. Said instrument assembly comprises at least one instrument housing having at least one drive unit housing part containing a cavity designed to hold the drive unit, said drive unit housing part having a seal for the sterile sealing of an insertion opening of the cavity in addition to a dynamic sterile barrier which delimits the cavity in a sterile manner and across which the drive train arrangement can be actuated; and/or the drive unit is offset laterally in relation to a longitudinal axis of the instrument shaft towards a connection between the instrument housing and the robot assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: KUKA Deutschland GmbHInventors: Sebastian Lohmeier, Cuong Nguyen-Xuan, Thomas Neff, Wolfgang Schober
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Publication number: 20190117185Abstract: A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using automated scanning of chestwardly compressed breasts with ultrasound. Enhanced, whole-breast navigator overview images are produced from scanning breasts with ultrasound that emphasize abnormalities in the breast while excluding obscuring influences of non-breast structures, particularly those external to the breast such as ribs and chest wall, and differentiating between likely malignant and likely benign abnormalities and otherwise enhancing the navigator overview image and other images, thereby reducing the time to read, screen, and/or diagnose to practical time limits and also reduce screening or diagnostic errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: QView Medical Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Alexander Schneider, Harlan Romsdahl, Thomas Neff
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Patent number: 10265869Abstract: An instrument assembly for a surgical robot system having at least one robot assembly includes at least one instrument having an instrument shaft configured for partial insertion into a patient and an instrument interface configured to attach the instrument to the robot assembly. The instrument assembly further includes a drive unit that actuates at least one degree of freedom of the instrument shaft. The drive unit includes a drive part with at least one drive and an electronic part. A manual operating unit is selectively replaceable with the drive unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: KUKA DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Sebastian Lohmeier, Cuong Nguyen-Xuan, Thomas Neff, Wolfgang Schober
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Patent number: 10251621Abstract: A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using automated scanning of chestwardly compressed breasts with ultrasound. Enhanced, whole-breast navigator overview images are produced from scanning breasts with ultrasound that emphasize abnormalities in the breast while excluding obscuring influences of non-breast structures, particularly those external to the breast such as ribs and chest wall, and differentiating between likely malignant and likely benign abnormalities and otherwise enhancing the navigator overview image and other images, thereby reducing the time to read, screen, and/or diagnose to practical time limits and also reduce screening or diagnostic errors.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: QVIEW MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Alexander Schneider, Harlan Romsdahl, Thomas Neff
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Patent number: 10005185Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for controlling a robot, which non-simultaneously shares a working space with another robot. On the basis of a determined residual period, in which the working space remains occupied, the path planning of a robot is adjusted in a cycle time-optimized manner, in order to avoid a deceleration at the working space limit and a wait for the working space to be vacated.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbHInventors: Bettina Pfaff, Thomas Neff, Marcus Hansen, Michael Wolf, Christian Fremuth-Paeger, Thomas Heinrich
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Patent number: 9902072Abstract: A telepresence system includes a man-machine interface and a teleoperator configured to communicate bidirectionally with the man-machine interface via a communications channel. The teleoperator performs actions based on first signals generated due to a manual operation of the man-machine interface and transmitted over the communication channel, and sends second signals to the man-machine interface over a second communication channel. At least one buffer device buffers signals transferred through the communication channel and releases the signals delayed so that the signals coming from the man-machine interface and the signals coming from the teleoperator each are transmitted through the communication channel with an effective constant time delay.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbHInventors: Dirk Jacob, Marc-Walter Ueberle, Thomas Neff, Martin Kuschel, Tobias Ortmaier
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Publication number: 20180028146Abstract: A method and system acquiring, processing and displaying breast ultrasound images in a way that makes breast ultrasound screening more practical and thus more widely used, and reduces the occurrence of missing cancers in screening and diagnosis, using automated scanning of chestwardly compressed breasts with ultrasound. Enhanced, whole-breast navigator overview images are produced from scanning breasts with ultrasound that emphasize abnormalities in the breast while excluding obscuring influences of non-breast structures, particularly those external to the breast such as ribs and chest wall, and differentiating between likely malignant and likely benign abnormalities and otherwise enhancing the navigator overview image and other images, thereby reducing the time to read, screen, and/or diagnose to practical time limits and also reduce screening or diagnostic errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Alexander Schneider, Harlan Romsdahl, Thomas Neff
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Publication number: 20170341233Abstract: A packaging technique for applying an insulating pack to the housing of a battery cell. The insulating pack is formed from a self-adhesive cutout of insulating material by folding the cutout onto the sides of the housing that are to be covered. The packaging technique involves a packaging method for automatically applying an insulating pack, a battery cell including an insulating pack, a packaging station for carrying out the method, and a preparation device for preparing one or more cutouts of insulating material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Henrik Keller, Markus Finke, Anja Groch, Maximilian Heinig, Horacio Martinez, Christian Meissner, Mario Miller, Holger Moennich, Thomas Neff, Tobias Reichl, Nina Sauthoff, Osama Shahin, Oliver Thilmann, Olaf Wegener