Patents by Inventor Thomas Ritter
Thomas Ritter 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: 20210186999Abstract: A method of treating cancer is provided wherein the method comprises inhibiting or reducing sialylation of specifically Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) to inhibit MSC immunosuppression and restore T cell proliferation in cancer. The method may comprise administering a sialyltransferase inhibitor (e.g. 3Fax-Peracetyl Neu5Ac) or sialidase. Also described is administration of MSCs which have been manipulated prior to administration to remove sialic acids and use of a small molecule or blocking antibody which blocks interactions between MSC-sialic acid and lectins, such as Siglec 7, and/or blocks interactions between MSC-lectins and sialic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Michael O'Dwyer, Thomas Ritter, Aideen Ryan, Kevin Lynch
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Patent number: 11029155Abstract: A method for high-precision position determination for vehicles, wherein the vehicles include devices for wireless communication with intelligent infrastructure devices, the precise position of the intelligent infrastructure device being known and the vehicles exchange status information with the intelligent infrastructure devices at predefined time intervals, and wherein the intelligent infrastructure devices have devices for determining the direction of the received signals carrying the status information, in which the status information sent from the vehicles to the intelligent infrastructure devices includes at least the vehicle identifier and information about the speed and the direction of the vehicle, and in which the position of the vehicles is determined via trigonometric methods from consecutive sets of status information, the associated known time intervals, the direction of the signals carrying the status information and the position of the intelligent infrastructure devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBHInventors: Fritz Kasslatter, Thomas Ritter, Roland Wunder
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Publication number: 20200214546Abstract: Methods and devices for visualizing and accessing a region inside a body are described. One embodiment of a device includes a working catheter which slides along an open track in a visualization catheter. The visualization catheter is inserted into the body to locate a region of the body with the aid of the visualization element. The working catheter then slides along the track to reach the region, and a working element is inserted through the working catheter to access the region, again with the aid of the visualization element. The methods and devices may also be used to access a variety of internal cavities, soft tissues and organs, and the mediastinal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Kabir GAMBHIR, Thomas A. RITTER
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Publication number: 20180328734Abstract: A method for high-precision position determination for vehicles, wherein the vehicles include devices for wireless communication with intelligent infrastructure devices, the precise position of the intelligent infrastructure device being known and the vehicles exchange status information with the intelligent infrastructure devices at predefined time intervals, and wherein the intelligent infrastructure devices have devices for determining the direction of the received signals carrying the status information, in which the status information sent from the vehicles to the intelligent infrastructure devices includes at least the vehicle identifier and information about the speed and the direction of the vehicle, and in which the position of the vehicles is determined via trigonometric methods from consecutive sets of status information, the associated known time intervals, the direction of the signals carrying the status information and the position of the intelligent infrastructure devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Fritz Kasslatter, Thomas Ritter, Roland Wunder
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Patent number: 9893869Abstract: The invention relates to a radio transmission/radio reception device and to a method for communication within a, in particular wireless, motor vehicle communication system interacting in ad-hoc fashion which are configured such that the radio transmission/radio reception device emits a piece of information about the scope of envisaged reports, at least one further radio transmission/radio reception device receives the information, and the further radio transmission/radio reception device takes the received information as a basis for stipulating a frequency for the emission of chronologically successive reports.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Fritz Kasslatter, Thomas Ritter
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Publication number: 20170340193Abstract: Methods and devices for visualizing and accessing a region inside a body are described. One embodiment of a device includes a working catheter which slides along an open track in a visualization catheter. The visualization catheter is inserted into the body to locate a region of the body with the aid of the visualization element. The working catheter then slides along the track to reach the region, and a working element is inserted through the working catheter to access the region, again with the aid of the visualization element. The methods and devices may also be used to access a variety of internal cavities, soft tissues and organs, and the mediastinal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Kabir GAMBHIR, Thomas A. RITTER
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Patent number: 9797665Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a stack of plates which form ducts. Each of the plates can have at least two openings which, in the plate stack, form at least one collecting duct and one distributor duct which connect the ducts in terms of flow. A base plate can be arranged on the plate stack and can have a seal for sealing off the heat exchanger and a flow deflector for manipulating flow through the heat exchanger. The seal and the flow deflector can form a common component.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2008Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Stefan Müller-Lufft, Wolfgang Münz, Thomas Ritter
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Patent number: 9746165Abstract: The invention is illumination gear that has a strap pad slidably mounted on a strap. A battery-operated lamp is mounted on the strap pad. The strap pad with lamp may be adjusted anywhere along the strap, so as to adjust the position of the lamp to a desired height. The illumination gear may be constructed as a harness, as a vest, or as a set of suspenders. Anchor straps may be provided on the vest or the harness, to secure the straps to belt loops on a trouser waistband or to another garment, to prevent the illumination gear from riding up or shifting position.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Inventors: Thomas Ritter, Christopher Ritter
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Publication number: 20140126557Abstract: The invention relates to a radio transmission/radio reception device and to a method for communication within a, in particular wireless, motor vehicle communication system interacting in ad-hoc fashion which are configured such that the radio transmission/radio reception device emits a piece of information about the scope of envisaged reports, at least one further radio transmission/radio reception device receives the information, and the further radio transmission/radio reception device takes the received information as a basis for stipulating a frequency for the emission of chronologically successive reports.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2011Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Fritz Kasslatter, Thomas Ritter
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Publication number: 20140081082Abstract: Methods and devices for visualizing and accessing a region inside a body are described. One embodiment of a device includes a working catheter which slides along an open track in a visualization catheter. The visualization catheter is inserted into the body to locate a region of the body with the aid of the visualization element. The working catheter then slides along the track to reach the region, and a working element is inserted through the working catheter to access the region, again with the aid of the visualization element. The methods and devices may also be used to access a variety of internal cavities, soft tissues and organs, and the mediastinal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Inventors: Kabir GAMBHIR, Thomas A. RITTER
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Patent number: 8626717Abstract: A mechanism is provided for reorganizing a source index tree of a database table resulting in a target index tree of the database table is provided. A backup process reads source leaf pages of the source index tree in a logical order defined by a sequence of index keys. The logical order can be different from a physical order of the source leaf pages defined by a sequence of respective storage locations. The backup process constructs target leaf pages of the target index tree maintaining the logical order. A restore process constructs target non-leaf pages of the target index tree based on the distribution of the index keys among the constructed leaf pages and stores the target leaf and non-leaf pages.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amit Bendakovsky, Namik Hrle, Thomas Ritter
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Patent number: 8424984Abstract: An apparatus is provided for releasably coupling a drawer to a rail, which can be pulled out in a longitudinal direction, of a drawer pull-out guide. The apparatus has a holding part which interacts with a mating holding part in the coupled state in order to establish the releasable connection. At least that region of the holding part which comes into contact with the mating holding part is made flexible, preferably by attaching a flexible piece of material, so that any longitudinal play of the drawer which may occur in relation to the rail can be compensated.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Julius Blum GmbHInventor: Thomas Ritter
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Publication number: 20120221523Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for reorganizing a source index tree of a database table resulting in a target index tree of the database table is provided. A backup process reads source leaf pages of the source index tree in a logical order defined by a sequence of index keys. The logical order can be different from a physical order of the source leaf pages defined by a sequence of respective storage locations. The backup process constructs target leaf pages of the target index tree maintaining the logical order. A restore process constructs target non-leaf pages of the target index tree based on the distribution of the index keys among the constructed leaf pages and stores the target leaf and non-leaf pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amit Bendakovsky, Namik Hrle, Thomas Ritter
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Patent number: 8200633Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for reorganizing a source index tree of a database table resulting in a target index tree of the database table is provided. A backup process reads source leaf pages of the source index tree in a logical order defined by a sequence of index keys. The logical order can be different from a physical order of the source leaf pages defined by a sequence of respective storage locations. The backup process constructs target leaf pages of the target index tree maintaining the logical order. A restore process constructs target non-leaf pages of the target index tree based on the distribution of the index keys among the constructed leaf pages and stores the target leaf and non-leaf pages.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amit Bendakovsky, Namik Hrle, Thomas Ritter
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Publication number: 20120139924Abstract: The dynamic adaption of animation timeframes includes selecting animations to be displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) and aligning the selected animations in a queue. An overall duration of time needed to display the selected animations in the queue is determined based on timeframes associated with the selected animations in the queue. The overall duration of time is compared with a predefined time value. If the overall duration of time is greater than the predefined time, a timeframe associated with at least one of the selected animations in the queue is reduced until the overall duration of time is less than or equal to the predefined time value. Each of the selected animations in the queue are sequentially displayed on the GUI for an amount of time that is based on the timeframes associated with the selected animations in the queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Hans-Ulrich Oldengott, Thomas Ritter, Hans-Christian Sperker
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Publication number: 20120088968Abstract: Methods and devices for visualizing and accessing a region inside a body are described. One embodiment of a device includes a working catheter which slides along an open track in a visualization catheter. The visualization catheter is inserted into the body to locate a region of the body with the aid of the visualization element. The working catheter then slides along the track to reach the region, and a working element is inserted through the working catheter to access the region, again with the aid of the visualization element. The methods and devices may also be used to access a variety of internal cavities, soft tissues and organs, and the mediastinal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: EPIC MEDICAL INC.Inventors: Kabir GAMBHIR, Thomas A. RITTER
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Publication number: 20120088964Abstract: Methods and devices for pericardial access are described. One embodiment of a device includes a distal portion with a visualization element, along with a retractable access element. The distal portion is inserted into and navigates through the body to locate the pericardium with the aid of the visualization element. The access element is then extended and used to create an access site in the pericardium, again with the aid of the visualization element. The methods and devices may also be used to access other internal cavities, other soft tissues and organs, and the mediastinal space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: EPICARDIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kabir GAMBHIR, Thomas A. RITTER
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Patent number: 8055646Abstract: A method and system for preventing redundant indexes in a database management system (DBMS). A received create-index command specifies a new index to be created for retrieving data from a table created by the DBMS and a redundancy check to be performed for the new index in conjunction with an action parameter in the create-index command. If the action parameter includes a REPORT value, each redundant index is stored and/or displayed and the new index is created. If the action parameter includes a PREVENT value and an existing index is redundant in view of the new index and the new index is not redundant in view of the existing index, the existing index is deleted and the new index is created. If the action parameter includes a PREVENT value and the new index is redundant in view of an existing index, the new index is not created.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Oliver Augenstein, Namik Hrle, Thomas Ritter, Andreas Uhl
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Patent number: 7926891Abstract: A support construction is provided for fixing at least one furniture drive for a movable furniture part in a furniture body. The support construction includes two lateral holding portions and a transverse bearer extending between the holding portions. The holding portions have fixing means for preferably releasably fixing the holding portions to a respective pull-out-guide assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Julius Blum GmbHInventor: Thomas Ritter
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Publication number: 20110068670Abstract: Apparatus for releasably coupling a drawer to a rail, which can be pulled out in a longitudinal direction, of a drawer pull-out guide, having a holding part which interacts with a mating holding part in the coupled state in order to establish the releasable connection, wherein at least that region of the holding part which comes into contact with the mating holding part is made flexible, preferably by attaching a flexible piece of material, so that any longitudinal play of the drawer which may occur in relation to the rail can be compensated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventor: Thomas RITTER