Patents by Inventor Thomas Schmidt

Thomas Schmidt 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: 12606352
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt. The application of heat may deform the band inwardly to create a lip for engaging a flange on the container neck, or it may weld the tamper evidence feature to the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Jöel Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira
  • Patent number: 12600330
    Abstract: A sensor assembly for a vehicle includes control devices having respective evaluation and control units, and sensor elements assigned to a respective brakeable wheel and one of the ECUs and record a physical variable of the associated wheel and output same as an output signal to the associated ECU. The control devices execute a brake function based on the recorded physical variables. A respective sensor element is arranged on the brakeable wheels of a first axle. The output signals thereof are output to different ECUs of a single control device. Two respective sensor elements are arranged on brakeable wheels of a second axle. The output signals thereof are output to other ECUs in different control devices. The ECUs of the first axle output the respective received output signal to an ECU of another control device, such that each control device receives the corresponding recorded physical variable from all wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Fei Xie, Bernd Stoehr, Sebastian Frey
  • Patent number: 12589917
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt. The application of heat may deform the band inwardly to create a lip for engaging a flange on the container neck, or it may weld the tamper evidence feature to the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Jöel Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira
  • Patent number: 12570441
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt. The application of heat may deform the band inwardly to create a lip for engaging a flange on the container neck, or it may weld the tamper evidence feature to the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Jöel Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira
  • Patent number: 12522660
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for selecting and stimulating a plurality of cells in a sample of cells using column chromatography, and collecting the cells without using additional steps or reagents to facilitate detachment of the cells from the column. In some aspects, the methods provided herein reduce the time needed to generate a population of selected and stimulated cells useful for genetic engineering, and ultimately, cell therapy, compared to existing methods. Also provided are articles of manufacture and apparatus thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: C3S2 GMBH
    Inventors: Lothar Germeroth, Christian Stemberger, Mateusz Pawel Poltorak, Thomas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12479630
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt. The application of heat may deform the band inwardly to create a lip for engaging a flange on the container neck, or it may weld the tamper evidence feature to the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Joël Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira
  • Patent number: 12473515
    Abstract: Process for manufacturing granules or powders comprising the steps of (a) providing an aqueous solution or slurry of (A) at least one chelating agent according to general formula (I a) [CH3—CH(COO)—N(CH2—COO)2]M3-XHX (I a) wherein M is selected from alkali metal cations and ammonium, same or different, and x is in the range of from 0.01 to 1.0 or (I b) [OOC—CH2CH2—CH(COO)—N(CH2—COO)2]M4-XHX (I b) wherein M is as defined above, and x in formula (I b) is in the range of from 0.01 to 2.0, and (B) at least one polymer selected from (B1) polyaspartates with an average molecular weight Mw in the range of from 1,000 to 20,000 g/mole, and (B2) copolymers comprising, in copolymerized form, (?) at least one ester of an ethylenically unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acid, and (?) at least one ethylenically unsaturated N-containing monomer, and (b) spray drying or granulating said solution or slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marta Reinoso Garcia, Juergen Detering, Carsten Sueling, Kati Schmidt, Michael Klemens Mueller, Gazi Tuerkoglu, Thomas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20250346406
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2025
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Applicant: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Jöel Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira
  • Publication number: 20250290256
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a road paver for producing a paving layer from a paving material. The road paver comprises a screed, a longitudinal conveying device adapted to transport the paving material to the screed against a drive direction of the road paver, a transverse distribution arrangement, which is adapted to distribute the paving material transversely to the drive direction in front of the screed, and a deflector plate arrangement, which is arranged in front of the transverse distribution arrangement in the drive direction. The deflector plate arrangement has a height-adjustable deflector plate. The disclosure further relates to a method for operating a road paver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2025
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Applicant: JOSEPH VÖGELE AG
    Inventor: Thomas SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20250290257
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a road paver for producing a paving layer from a paving material. The road paver comprises a screed, a transverse distribution arrangement and a pre-scraper arrangement. The screed comprises at least one base screed. The transverse distribution arrangement is adapted to distribute the paving material transversely to a drive direction of the road paver in front of the screed. The pre-scraper arrangement is arranged behind the transverse distribution arrangement in the drive direction. The pre-scraper arrangement has a height-adjustable pre-scraper blade arranged in the region of the base screed. The disclosure also relates to a method for operating a road paver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2025
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Applicant: JOSEPH VÖGELE AG
    Inventors: Thomas SCHMIDT, Alessandro DE SANTIS
  • Publication number: 20250277344
    Abstract: A road paver includes a material hopper for receiving production material, wherein the material hopper includes an outer boundary that at least partially separates an interior space of the material hopper from the surroundings. The material hopper may be loaded with production material, for example by a feeder vehicle. The boundary includes a multi-component flap for closing the material hopper, wherein a first movable component of the flap in an open position is positioned lower than a second movable component of the flap in an open position, and wherein a movement of the first component and the second component from the open position into a closed position, in which the material hopper is closed, is at least partially motion-coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: September 4, 2025
    Applicant: JOSEPH VÖGELE AG
    Inventor: Thomas SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20250233104
    Abstract: A method for low temperature bonding of substrates involves the following steps: A first substrate and a second substrate are provided; the first substrate and the second substrate are aligned; the first substrate and the second substrate are prebonded by a fusion prebonding process; and the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded by applying an electric voltage between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein said voltage comprises a pulsed or AC component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventor: Thomas SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 12351148
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for securing a vehicle, preferably a commercial vehicle, in an emergency braking situation, wherein the vehicle has a vehicle bus system and a braking system, the method having the following steps: monitoring signals on the vehicle bus system; detecting an emergency brake signal provided by a driver assistance system on the vehicle bus system; ascertaining whether the vehicle is at a standstill; bringing a braking device of the braking system into a braking position if a standstill of the vehicle is ascertained. The disclosure also relates to a control unit for a vehicle, a computer program, a braking system for a vehicle, and a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZF CV Systems Global GmbH
    Inventors: Thilo Klostermann, Ruediger Meyer, Gerd Roters, Thomas Schmidt, Alexander Wendlandt
  • Patent number: 12351776
    Abstract: Process for making a powder or granule containing (A) at least one chelating agent selected from alkali metal salts of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA) and of iminodisuccinic acid (IDS), (B) at least one compound of general formula (I a) or (I b) wherein A1 is selected from (CH2)a wherein the variable a is in the range of from 4 to 20, e is selected from zero and 1, and R1 being the same or different and selected from O—C1-C10-alkyl and C1-C10-alkyl, and, optionally, (C) at least one homo- or copolymer of (meth)acrylic acid, partially or fully neutralized with alkali, said process comprising the steps of (a) providing an aqueous solution or slurry containing chelating agent (A) and said compound (B) and, if applicable, (co)polymer (C), with a pH value in the range of from 10 to 12, (b) removing most of said water by spray drying or spray granulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marta Reinoso Garcia, Sylke Haremza, Tile Gieshoff, Dan-Tam Daniel Tang, Thomas Schmidt, Michael Klemens Mueller
  • Patent number: 12319021
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing compacts and an arrangement for manufacturing compacts, in which the disadvantages of the state of the art are overcome and an efficient method and at the same time a simple construction and a simple implementation are achieved. This involves a method for manufacturing compacts, wherein after feeding the feedstock, pre-pressing into a pre-agglomerate using at least one pre-pressing punch or at least one stuffing screw and subsequently main pressing of the pre-agglomerate into a compact in at least one pressing die using at least one main pressing punch and subsequently ejection of the compact from the at least one pressing die are performed, pre-pressing, main pressing and ejection being performed in a mutually parallel working direction. This also involves an arrangement for manufacturing compacts, wherein at least one pressing die is provided in die tool receptacle with a feed for feedstock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: TU Bergakademie Freiberg
    Inventors: Andre Schmidt, Franz Fehse, Hans-Werner Schröder, Felix Stöhr, Gerd Kohlhase, Thomas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12297011
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt. The application of heat may deform the band inwardly to create a lip for engaging a flange on the container neck, or it may weld the tamper evidence feature to the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Jöel Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira
  • Patent number: 12285593
    Abstract: A device for administering a fluid is provided, with a cylinder (16, 116) which has an open dispensing end (17), a piston (36) which is displaceable between a front end position and a rear end position in the cylinder (16, 116) and is connected to a piston rod (35, 135) that protrudes along a first direction beyond a rear end of the cylinder (16, 116) opposite the open dispensing end (17) and is guided in a receiving block (10), a nonreturn valve (18) closing the open dispensing end (17), and a tensioning device (S) which is connected to the piston rod (35, 135) and is arranged in the receiving block (10), wherein the tensioning device (S), when the piston (36) is in the front end position, can move the piston rod (35, 135) in a tensioning operation along the first direction until the piston (36) is in the rear end position in order thereby to fill the cylinder (16, 116) with the fluid to be administered and in order to pretension the piston rod (35, 135) toward the open dispensing end (17), and wherein th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Intervet Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Altermann, Dominic Kamenzin, Manuel Mattes, Robin Sauter, Thomas Schmidt, Daniel Seeh
  • Publication number: 20250058939
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Joël Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira
  • Publication number: 20250058940
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Joël Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira
  • Publication number: 20250033812
    Abstract: Closures with a tamper evidence feature that is reshaped to connect it to the container neck are disclosed. Methods and systems for carrying out the methods, and to mold stacks for making the closures are also disclosed. The tamper evidence feature can be a band, a portion of a cylindrical skirt or a panel formed in the cylindrical skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Tobias Naumann, Stephan Scherer, Ingo Willems, Christophe Halter, Sebastian Rasche, Cedric Boulay, Jean-Michel Raymond Pierre Cunche, Günter Blesius, Thomas Ara, James Rodrigues, Geoffrey Andrew Gow, Douglas James Weatherall, Thibaud Jöel Philippe Brill, Thomas Schmidt, Gilles Lacome, Joaquim Martins Nogueira