Patents by Inventor Thomas Russ

Thomas Russ 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).

  • Publication number: 20240104998
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming system, device, and method supportive of a self-evolving, AI-based playstyle models. A gaming system, device, and method are provided that identify data associated with a gameplay session at a gaming device, provide the data to a machine learning network; receive an output from the machine learning network in response to the machine learning network processing the data using a playstyle model, the output including an indication associated with modifying the playstyle model; and modify the playstyle model based on the indication. The data includes at least one of: a gameplay decision received during the gameplay session; and an emotional state of a user in association with the gameplay decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: David Froy, Thomas Trenkler, Karen Van Niekerk, Michael Russ, David Small
  • Publication number: 20240049734
    Abstract: An apparatus for saddling fish on holding apparatuses for further processing comprises: a frame structure; a transport device on the frame structure, for transporting fish tail first and abdominal cavity downwards in a direction T along a transport path, wherein the transport device comprises: a transport unit that is driven rotatingly, and a holding apparatus on the transport unit comprising a fastening element and a holding plate for holding the fish during processing; a feed device for feeding the fish into a region of the transport device; a catching and centring device to catch and centre the fish parallel to the transport direction T; and a take-over device for taking the fish from the catching and centring device, holding the fish, and releasing the fish as soon as a holding apparatus transported through the fish captures the fish and pulls them from the take-over device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Carsten Paulsohn, Roland Pein, Arne Pfuhl, Simon Reincke, Thomas Russ, Felix Strangmann
  • Patent number: 11486973
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor is provided having a light receiver, a reception optics arranged upstream of the light receiver, and a control and evaluation unit, wherein the reception optics has a beam deflection device having a plurality of switchable blaze gratings of different grating constants arranged behind one another, and wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to switch a blaze grating on and off in accordance with a desired deflection angle of the beam deflection device have the same grating constants, but a mutually different blaze angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Hartmut Gimpel, Thomas Russ
  • Publication number: 20210141094
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor for detecting objects in a monitored zone is provided, wherein the sensor comprises a laser scanner having a deflection unit rotatable about an axis of rotation for scanning the monitored zone with at least one scanning beam; a first distance measurement unit for determining 3D measurement points of the respective objects impacted by the scanning beam using a time-of-flight method; a panorama camera having a panorama optics and having an image sensor with a plurality of light reception elements for detecting picture elements; and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to fuse the 3D measurement points and the picture elements. In this respect, the optical axis of the panorama camera and the rotation axis coincide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas RUSS, Sebastian TSCHUCH, Romain MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20210103035
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor for detecting objects in a monitored zone is provided that has at least one light transmitter for transmitting a plurality of mutually separated light beams, a transmission optics for the transmitted light beams, at least one light receiver for generating a respective reception signal from light beams remitted by objects, a reception optics for the remitted light beams, and a control and evaluation unit for obtaining information on the objects from the reception signals, wherein the transmission optics and/or the reception optics has/have a first optical system. In this respect, the transmission optics and/or the reception optics has/have a second optical system for correcting aberrations comprising a plurality of optical correction elements that are each associated with a light beam and the second optical system is arranged between a beam separation plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas RUSS
  • Publication number: 20200088849
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor is provided having a light receiver, a reception optics arranged upstream of the light receiver, and a control and evaluation unit, wherein the reception optics has a beam deflection device having a plurality of switchable blaze gratings of different grating constants arranged behind one another, and wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to switch a blaze grating on and off in accordance with a desired deflection angle of the beam deflection device have the same grating constants, but a mutually different blaze angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hartmut GIMPEL, Thomas Russ
  • Publication number: 20070196167
    Abstract: A combination thrust-washer & pin configured unit that is inserted from the flywheel side of the joining crankshaft and flywheel. Bolted together with a step cut gland nut, the dowel pins are held at a right angle to the crankshaft torque direction thus eliminating deflection forces created by leaning pins. The dowels are held in proper right-angle shear configuration producing a strength gain over the standard dowels that are in the crankshaft only. Hole elongation of the crank is greatly reduced in hi-powered engine application that use dowel pin coupling. The thick thrust washer provides a press fit retainer for the pins and as a secondary benefit provides a superior clamping over the previous passive flatwasher methods where the pins are in the crank only.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventor: Thomas Russ