Patents by Inventor Thomas Peter

Thomas Peter 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: 12267944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a support assembly for an electronic component, at least including a metallic heat sink, and a plastic element with a receiving section for accommodating the electronic component. The plastic element is connected to the heat sink in a form-fit manner. The receiving section of the plastic element covers a heat input side of the heat sink. The plastic element includes a thermosetting plastic with fillers for increasing the thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Sebastian Bartscher, Fabian Evers, Heinz-Peter Kleeschulte, Werner Koesters, Michael Lakenbrink, Konrad Schuerhoff, Thomas Wiese
  • Patent number: 12266694
    Abstract: A silicon carbide device includes: a transistor cell having a stripe-shaped trench gate structure extending from a first surface into a silicon carbide body, the gate structure having a gate length along a lateral first direction, a bottom surface and a first gate sidewall of the gate structure being connected via a first bottom edge of the gate structure; at least one source region of a first conductivity type in contact with the first gate sidewall; and a shielding region of a second conductivity type in contact with the first bottom edge of the gate structure across at least 20% of the gate length. No source regions of the first conductivity type are in contact with a second gate sidewall of the gate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Caspar Leendertz, Thomas Basler, Paul Ellinghaus, Rudolf Elpelt, Michael Hell, Jens Peter Konrath, Shiqin Niu, Dethard Peters, Konrad Schraml, Bernd Leonhard Zippelius
  • Patent number: 12263637
    Abstract: A device for producing a 3D-printed active substance-releasing system with active substance depots, such that a radiation source in operation causes a polymerisation of a layer of the base material on the construction platform and that an inkjet printhead incorporates an active substance mixture, which has at least one active substance, into the base material in a locationally selective manner. A trough is provided, in which a base material and a construction platform are arranged, and polymerising selected regions of a layer of the base material on the construction platform and introducing, by means of an inkjet printing method, an active substance mixture, which has at least one active substance, into the base material and/or polymerised base material in a locationally selective manner in order to thereby create active ingredient depots in the active ingredient-releasing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Universitaet Rostock
    Inventors: Hermann Seitz, Roland Matzmohr, Niels Grabow, Michael Teske, Thomas Eickner, Robert Mau, Alexander Riess, Klaus-Peter Schmitz
  • Patent number: 12264055
    Abstract: The invention relates inter alia to a device for filling a container. The device comprises a filling valve for discharging a filling material into the container. The device further comprises a throttle valve for adjusting a flow rate of the filling material. The throttle valve comprises a valve member for adjusting a flow cross-section. The throttle valve has a pneumatic drive that is operatively connected to the valve member for moving the valve member, and an electric drive that is operatively connected to the valve member for moving the valve member. Advantageously, the device can combine the advantages of a pneumatic throttle control and the advantages of an electric throttle control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Michael Peter, Thomas Gren
  • Patent number: 12264946
    Abstract: A position sensor, wherein the position sensor detects the movement of a target relative to a sine receiver coil and a cosine receiver coil and generates a corresponding sine signal and a corresponding cosine signal, and a method for error detection of a position sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics America Inc.
    Inventors: Gentjan Qama, Jürgen Peter Kernhof, Angel Karachomakov, Andreas Leo Buchinger, Thomas Oswald
  • Publication number: 20250100226
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a 3D printer includes the steps of providing information obtained in a factory calibration indicating a center of an inner diameter of a tip orifice in a metal extrusion nozzle and a center of a tip surface for the nozzle and inductively sensing the nozzle with an eddy current sensor when secured to a print head on a gantry or robotic arm of the 3D printer to identify a sensed location of the center of the tip surface of the nozzle. The method includes determining a location of the center of the inner diameter of the tip orifice on the nozzle on the print head and utilizing the provided information to locate the center of the inner diameter of the tip orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Bosveld, Thomas Peter Paul
  • Publication number: 20250104017
    Abstract: This disclosure describes visual interfaces as well as underlying methods and systems for bringing generative customer experience automation to the enterprises and their end-users. A visual workflow builder is part of a micro-engagement system that allows for creation of workflows without writing any code. The micro-engagement platform is enhanced to support an environment where the content of the micro-engagement can be generated, presented and selected by an enterprise persona and launched to the end-users. The generated content is more dialog-friendly and is based on a set of parameters around specific workflows and prior practices as learned by Large Language Models or other relatively smaller but more domain-specific fine-tuned language models. End-users can also input their descriptions through which apt workflows can be dynamically generated at runtime, thereby personalizing the end-user's engagement experience further.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Henry Thomas Peter, Vijayendra Mysore Shamanna, Simha Sadasiva, Kashif Mahbub, Mayank Choubey, Ravil Kashyap
  • Patent number: 12251703
    Abstract: An agitator mill including a grinding chamber containing grinding bodies and an agitator shaft, which revolves therein around a horizontal axis and which supports several grinding disks, which are connected thereto and which are spaced apart from one another in the direction of the horizontal axis and which move the grinding bodies, wherein grinding disks preferably in each case have slits or apertures, wherein adjacent grinding disks are arranged on the agitator shaft so that the ratio of the grinding chamber length to the radial grinding chamber height is greater than or equal to 2:3, and that the radial distance between the outer jacket surface of the grinding disks and the inner wall of the grinding container limiting the grinding chamber is more than 20% of the radial grinding chamber height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NETZCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Enderle, Thomas Goller, Holger Möschl, Witali Sudermann, Lars-Peter Weiland
  • Publication number: 20250083015
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for a standalone and multi-game miniature golf structure. A sensor assembly located at an end of a putting surface of a putting structure includes a panel and a sensor. The panel is positioned adjacent to and below the end of the putting surface. The panel defines an upper surface along which a golf ball is to travel after dropping from the end of the putting surface. The upper surface includes a rear edge and a front edge. The sensor is positioned adjacent the panel to detect at which of a plurality of lateral positions the golf ball travels along the upper surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Samuel Nicolas Jones, Thomas Stephen David Hopkinson, Stephen Peter Slade, Adam Camies
  • Publication number: 20250089323
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device is proposed. The vertical power semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The SiC semiconductor body includes a transistor cell area comprising gate structures, a gate pad area, and an interconnection area electrically coupling a gate electrode of the gate structures and a gate pad of the gate pad area via a gate interconnection. The vertical power semiconductor device further includes a source or emitter electrode. The vertical power semiconductor device further includes a first interlayer dielectric comprising a first interface to the source or emitter electrode and a second interface to at least one of the gate electrode, or the gate interconnection, or the gate pad, and wherein a conduction band offset at the first interface ranges from 1 eV to 2.5 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas AICHINGER, Dethard PETERS, Michael HELL, Andreas HÜRNER
  • Publication number: 20250084074
    Abstract: The invention relates to substituted heterocycles of the general formula I, and the use of the compounds of the present invention for the treatment and/or prevention of hyperproliferative diseases and disorders in mammals, especially humans, and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: MERCK PATENT GMBH, THE INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH, CANCER RESEARCH HORIZONS
    Inventors: Hans-Peter BUCHSTALLER, Daniel KUHN, Ian COLLINS, Thomas MATTHEWS, Jan LANZ, John CALDWELL, Giampiero COLOMBANO
  • Patent number: 12248878
    Abstract: A method for training a neural network. The neural network comprises a first layer which includes a plurality of filters to provide a first layer output comprising a plurality of feature maps. Training of the classifier includes: receiving, by a preceding layer, a first layer input in the first layer, wherein the first layer input is based on the input signal; determining the first layer output based on the first layer input and a plurality of parameters of the first layer; determining a first layer loss value based on the first layer output, wherein the first layer loss value characterizes a degree of dependency between the feature maps, the first layer loss value being obtained in an unsupervised fashion; and training the neural network. The training includes an adaption of the parameters of the first layer, the adaption being based on the first layer loss value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jorn Peters, Thomas Andy Keller, Anna Khoreva, Max Welling, Priyank Jaini
  • Patent number: 12248530
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving an updated data set from a backend server system, determining a visible set of data in a user interface displayed on a computing device, and processing, based on the updated data set from the backend server system, each row tuple in the visible set of data in the user interface to generate updated row tuples. The systems and methods further provide for determining one or more data cell that has been changed in the visible set of data corresponding to the updated row tuples, and rendering, in the user interface, only the one or more data cell that has been changed corresponding to the one or more row tuple to update the one or more data cell in the user interface displayed on the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Yaopeng Ding, Senyun Yao, Thorsten Peter Petri, Xiaoxia Shen, Thomas Brodkorb
  • Publication number: 20250077523
    Abstract: Methods for capturing temporary database tables for analyzing a database query are provided. Aspects include obtaining a capture pattern and the database query having a sequence of statements. Aspects also include determining that a first statement of the sequence of statements matches the capture pattern, creating a list of temporary tables based on the first statement, and determining that a second statement of the sequence of statements includes one of a drop, commit, and truncate commands that correspond to a table in the list of temporary tables. Aspects further include creating a copy of the table in the list of temporary tables, generating an updated first statement by replacing a reference to the table in the list of temporary tables with a reference to the copy of the table, removing the table from the list of temporary tables, and executing the database query by performing the sequence of statements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Dirk Nakott, Hans-Jürgen Zeltwanger, Jens Peter Seifert, Holger Hellmuth, Jörn Klauke, Martin Jungfer, Thomas Rech, Malte Schünemann
  • Publication number: 20250076279
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing information dealing with a medical test for assessing a predetermined medical condition by means of a distributed system (100) comprising a plurality of communication devices (210, 312, 322, 410), the method comprising obtaining by a user communication device (210) information on an access code provided in a test-kit for assessing a predetermined medical condition, the user communication device (210) being configured for receiving and displaying messages addressed to a unique identifier. Further, the method comprises providing instructions relating to analysis of the medical sample. A negative analysis result is communicated to the user communication device (210) of the user. In case of a positive analysis result, consultation by a medical entity is established. Further aspects relate to a user communication device, a computer program product, a central server and a medical test-kit for use with the proposed method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Patricia Blank, Fabrice Jean Barthelemy Bouniort, Lorenzo Milo Franco Colombo, Thomas Deufel, Stefan ERB, Mikael Gencay, Beverly Goede, Alison Kuchta, Asad Preuss-Dodhy, Hans Peter Ramge, Hans Martin Hendrick Schaefer, Warren Young
  • Publication number: 20250081844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a charge generation layer comprising a compound of formula (I). The invention further relates to organic electronic devices and display devices comprising the charge generation layer as well as compounds of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Max Peter Nuellen, Benjamin Schulze, Jakob Jacek Wudarczyk, Steffen Runge, Thomas Rosenow, Peter Robaschik
  • Patent number: 12243529
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Johnny Chen, Thomas L. Dean, Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Sudeep Gandhe, Gabriel Schine
  • Patent number: 12243644
    Abstract: A medical diagnosis assistance system, a medical diagnosis assistance method, and a training method for training an artificial intelligence entity are disclosed. The medical diagnosis assistance system includes: an input interface configured to receive medical image data of a patient; a computing device configured to implement: a classification module configured to classify parts of interest, POI, comprising objects of interest, OOI, and/or regions of interest, ROI, within the received medical image data, and to assign a corresponding reliability metric to each of the classified POI; and an analysis module configured to determine, based on the POI and the assigned reliability metric, an analysis of the medical image data; and an output interface configured to output an output signal indicating the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Engel, Gaby Marquardt, Jens-Peter Brock
  • Patent number: 12233593
    Abstract: An additively manufactured article is assembled from a plurality of printed voxels. The article includes a lattice of unit cells of a composite lattice material and an encasing matrix of structural material arranged between adjacent unit cells of the lattice. The structural material has greater mechanical strength than the composite lattice material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: VADIENT OPTICS, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Leonard Allen, John Paul Harmon, Samuel Peter Grimm, George Williams, Peter George Hugger
  • Patent number: 12227157
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to extend brake life cycle are disclosed herein. An example vehicle includes a first brake associated with a first wheel of the vehicle, a second brake associated with a second wheel of the vehicle, memory, and a brake controller to execute instructions to detect a first parking event, determine, via a first sensor, a condition of the vehicle, access, from the memory, a record of a second parking event including an activation of the first brake, the second parking event preceding the first parking event, and in response to determining the condition satisfies a threshold, engage the second brake without engaging the first brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Michael Korte, John P. Joyce, Karl-Peter Hesseler, Thomas Svensson, Harold John Felch