Patents by Inventor Thomas Walter

Thomas Walter 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: 12377225
    Abstract: Disclosed is an injection device including: —a needle support; —an injection needle integral with the needle support and having a free end arranged away from the needle support; and —a needle extraction mechanism including a base connected to the needle support and a plunger movable relative to the base between a needle use position and a needle extraction position. The base is movable relative to the needle support between an inactive position of the extraction mechanism and an active position of the extraction mechanism. The plunger includes an outer member and an inner member, movable relative to the outer member, from a retracted plunger configuration to a deployed plunger configuration wherein the plunger length is greater than in the retracted configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: VYGON
    Inventors: Thomas Walter, Léa Carpentier
  • Publication number: 20250158875
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products for recovery procedures on a multiple availability zone cloud platform include: executing requests from a red button agent to a red button service to obtain red flag statuses that are relevant for outages of components defined for a cloud platform, wherein the red button agent is installed at a first cloud component instance running at a first zone of the cloud platform including multiple availability zones; in response to receiving a red flag status from the red button service for the first cloud component instance, determining that the first cloud component instance is associated with an outage; and executing a recovery procedure for the first cloud component instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Shenol Hulmi Yousouf, Thomas Walter, Stoyan Zhivkov Boshev, Eduard Bartsch, Antoan Nikolaev Andonov, Nikolai Veselinov Neichev
  • Patent number: 12296817
    Abstract: An embodiment method for active and selective preventive cross-force and noise control in a first vehicle includes determining current driving parameters of a second vehicle that will foreseeably drive by the first vehicle, wherein a prognostic time-dependent path of the second vehicle is estimated based on the current driving parameters of the second vehicle, determining cross-force or noise characteristics caused by the second vehicle, calculating a time window for a drive-by of the second vehicle based on the current driving parameters, determining compensating measures to be taken by the first vehicle to reduce cross-forces or noise expected during the drive-by of the second vehicle based on the determined cross-force or noise characteristics, and executing the determined compensating measures by the first vehicle in the estimated time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Michele Rondinone, Daniel Kaszner, Dominik Matheis, Thomas Walter
  • Publication number: 20250071014
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products for recovery procedures on a multiple availability zone cloud platform include: identifying a selection of a flag from a set of flags defined at a cloud platform including multiple availability zones, wherein the flag is selected to identify an outage at a first zone of the cloud platform, and wherein each flag of the set of flags is mapped to an entity from a plurality of entities defined for the cloud platform; determining one or more entities from the plurality of entities defined for the cloud platform associated with recovering the outage based on identifying an entity corresponding to the selected flag; and in response to determining the one or more entities associated with recovering the outage, initiating a recovery procedure to reconfigure communication flows at the cloud platform associated with the determined one or more entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Shenol Hulmi Yousouf, Thomas Walter, Stoyan Zhivkov Boshev, Eduard Bartsch, Antoan Nikolaev Andonov, Nikolai Veselinov Neichev
  • Patent number: 12218551
    Abstract: A rotor carrier for an electric machine having a sleeve-shaped receiving region and at least one flange-like carrier region connected to a hub or shaft. The receiving region has on its outer circumferential surface at least one driving groove extending in axial direction, and a plurality of radial oil bore holes are provided in the receiving region so as to be distributed over the circumference. An encoder wheel having a nonmagnetic material is provided at an axial end of the rotor carrier, and in that the encoder wheel protrudes over the receiving region in radial direction to serve as an axial limit for a rotor lamination stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Steffen Matschas, Steffen Einenkel, Thomas Walter, Gerald Viernekes, Günter Fahl
  • Publication number: 20240371520
    Abstract: The present application relates to a computer-implemented method for identifying at least one class of at least one biological image, notably to predict the genomic signature from biological image(s), in particular to predict Homologous Recombination DNA-repair deficiency (HRD) from biological images of tissues. The present application further proposes a computer-implemented method for visualizing clusters of sub-images or tiles of at least one biological image, in particular to predict the phenotypic feature or combination of phenotypic features (or phenotypic patterns) associated with the genomic signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicants: INSTITUT CURIE, INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale), ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES MINES DE PARIS
    Inventors: Anne VINCENT SALOMON, Thomas WALTER, Etienne DECENCIÈRE, Tristan LAZARD, Guillaume BATAILLON
  • Publication number: 20240242346
    Abstract: A method for identifying medical devices, referred to as medical devices of interest, the method including: collecting images of the outer portions of the medical devices of interest, each image being labeled with an identifier of the medical device of interest, the images collected forming a training image database; training an identification model from the training image database in order to obtain an identification model trained to assign an identifier to a medical device of interest to be identified according to an image of the outer portion of the medical device; c. receiving an image of the outer portion of a medical device of interest to be identified; assigning, by the trained classification model, of an identifier to the medical device of interest captured on the received image; and characterizing the medical device of interest according to the assigned identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas WALTER, Tiphaine TENAILLEAU, Marie LAFOESTE, Emi DAILLY
  • Patent number: 12036022
    Abstract: A sensor plaster (116) for the transcutaneous measurement of an organ function, more particularly of a kidney function, is proposed. The sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one flexible carrier element (134) having at least one adhesive surface (138) which can be stuck onto a body surface. Furthermore, the sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one radiation source, more particularly a light source (142), wherein the radiation source is designed to irradiate the body surface with at least one interrogation light (162). Furthermore, the sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one detector (146) designed to detect at least one response light (176) incident from the direction of the body surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIBEACON INC.
    Inventors: Norbert Gretz, Johannes Pill, Daniel Schock-Kusch, Thomas Walter, Jürgen Hesser, Maliha Sadick, Felix Eickemeyer, Jae Hyung Hwang, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Wolfgang Wach, Thomas Rose
  • Publication number: 20230311851
    Abstract: An embodiment method for active and selective preventive cross-force and noise control in a first vehicle includes determining current driving parameters of a second vehicle that will foreseeably drive by the first vehicle, wherein a prognostic time-dependent path of the second vehicle is estimated based on the current driving parameters of the second vehicle, determining cross-force or noise characteristics caused by the second vehicle, calculating a time window for a drive-by of the second vehicle based on the current driving parameters, determining compensating measures to be taken by the first vehicle to reduce cross-forces or noise expected during the drive-by of the second vehicle based on the determined cross-force or noise characteristics, and executing the determined compensating measures by the first vehicle in the estimated time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Michele Rondinone, Daniel Kaszner, Dominik Matheis, Thomas Walter
  • Publication number: 20220360146
    Abstract: A rotor carrier for an electric machine having a sleeve-shaped receiving region and at least one flange-like carrier region connected to a hub or shaft. The receiving region has on its outer circumferential surface at least one driving groove extending in axial direction, and a plurality of radial oil bore holes are provided in the receiving region so as to be distributed over the circumference. An encoder wheel having a nonmagnetic material is provided at an axial end of the rotor carrier, and in that the encoder wheel protrudes over the receiving region in radial direction to serve as an axial limit for a rotor lamination stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Steffen MATSCHAS, Steffen EINENKEL, Thomas WALTER, Gerald VIERNEKES, Günter FAHL
  • Patent number: 11478727
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the determination of analytes in a sample using chromatography. The present disclosure provides methods of separating an analyte from a sample. A mobile phase is flowed through a chromatography column. The mobile phase includes about 0.005% (v/v) to about 2.50% (v/v) difluoroacetic acid and less than about 100 ppb of any individual impurity, especially metal impurities. A sample including the analyte is injected into the mobile phase. The analyte is separated from the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Lauber, Jennifer M. Nguyen, Ximo Zhang, Nilini Ranbaduge, Robert Birdsall, Henry Shion, Melvin Blaze Muttikal Thomas, Thomas Walter
  • Publication number: 20220296820
    Abstract: Disclosed is an injection device including: —a needle support; —an injection needle integral with the needle support and having a free end arranged away from the needle support; and—a needle extraction mechanism including a base connected to the needle support and a plunger movable relative to the base between a needle use position and a needle extraction position. The base is movable relative to the needle support between an inactive position of the extraction mechanism and an active position of the extraction mechanism. The plunger includes an outer member and an inner member, movable relative to the outer member, from a retracted plunger configuration to a deployed plunger configuration wherein the plunger length is greater than in the retracted configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas WALTER, Léa CARPENTIER
  • Patent number: 11268757
    Abstract: A process and plant for natural gas liquids (NGL) recovery includes a main heat exchanger, a cold gas/liquid separator, a separation or distillation column, and an overhead gas heat exchanger. A pressurized residue gas generated from an overhead gas stream removed the top of the separation or distillation column is expanded and used as a cooling medium in the overhead gas heat exchanger and the main heat exchanger. The expanded residue gas, used as a cooling medium, is then compressed up to a pressure to be combined with the overhead stream from the separation or distillation column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Linde Engineering North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Grant McCool, Thomas Walter, Arturo Puigbo
  • Patent number: 10988758
    Abstract: The present invention relates to monodisperse silanized ferrimagnetic iron oxide particles, a method for producing the same and a method for independent generic binding of nucleic acid molecules to the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jens Christian Bolle, Thomas Walter, Peter Wenzig
  • Publication number: 20210052207
    Abstract: A sensor plaster (116) for the transcutaneous measurement of an organ function, more particularly of a kidney function, is proposed. The sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one flexible carrier element (134) having at least one adhesive surface (138) which can be stuck onto a body surface. Furthermore, the sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one radiation source, more particularly a light source (142), wherein the radiation source is designed to irradiate the body surface with at least one interrogation light (162). Furthermore, the sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one detector (146) designed to detect at least one response light (176) incident from the direction of the body surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Norbert Gretz, Johannes Pill, Daniel Schock-Kusch, Thomas Walter, Jürgen Hesser, Maliha Sadick, Felix Eickemeyer, Jae Hyung Hwang, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Wolfgang Wach, Thomas Rose
  • Publication number: 20200284507
    Abstract: A process and plant for natural gas liquids (NGL) recovery includes a main heat exchanger, a cold gas/liquid separator, a separation or distillation column, and an overhead gas heat exchanger. A pressurized residue gas generated from an overhead gas stream removed the top of the separation or distillation column is expanded and used as a cooling medium in the overhead gas heat exchanger and the main heat exchanger. The expanded residue gas, used as a cooling medium, is then compressed up to a pressure to be combined with the overhead stream from the separation or distillation column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Grant MCCOOL, Thomas WALTER, Arturo PUIGBO
  • Patent number: 10765354
    Abstract: A sensor plaster (116) for the transcutaneous measurement of an organ function, more particularly of a kidney function, is proposed. The sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one flexible carrier element (134) having at least one adhesive surface (138) which can be stuck onto a body surface. Furthermore, the sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one radiation source, more particularly a light source (142), wherein the radiation source is designed to irradiate the body surface with at least one interrogation light (162). Furthermore, the sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one detector (146) designed to detect at least one response light (176) incident from the direction of the body surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MediBeacon Inc.
    Inventors: Norbert Gretz, Johannes Pill, Daniel Schock-Kusch, Thomas Walter, Jürgen Hesser, Maliha Sadick, Felix Eickemeyer, Jae Hyung Hwang, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Wolfgang Wach, Thomas Rose
  • Patent number: 10758711
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a treatment kit comprising: a guide having a distal end and a proximal end; a position determination device for determining the position of the distal end of the guide in the body of a patient; and a catheter intended to be inserted into the body of the patient. The guide is graduated between its distal end and its proximal end, the graduations of the guide making it possible to measure a length of insertion of the guide into the body of the patient, and the catheter is adapted so as to be cut to a predetermined length that is determined based on the length of insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: PEROUSE MEDICAL
    Inventors: Laëtitia Vin, Thomas Walter
  • Publication number: 20200261826
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the determination of analytes in a sample using chromatography. The present disclosure provides methods of separating an analyte from a sample. A mobile phase is flowed through a chromatography column. The mobile phase includes about 0.005% (v/v) to about 2.50% (v/v) difluoroacetic acid and less than about 100 ppb of any individual impurity, especially metal impurities. A sample including the analyte is injected into the mobile phase. The analyte is separated from the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Lauber, Jennifer M. Nguyen, Ximo Zhang, Nilini Ranbaduge, Robert Birdsall, Henry Shion, Melvin Blaze Muttikal Thomas, Thomas Walter
  • Patent number: 10493376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a column (1) for thermal treatment of fluid mixtures, having a cylindrical, vertically aligned column body (2) which forms a column cavity (3), having a sequence of vertically spaced-apart dual-flow mass transfer trays (8) which are mounted in the column cavity (3) and which have orifices for passage of liquid and gas in countercurrent, and having at least one gas entry orifice (5) disposed below the lowermost of the sequence of dual-flow mass transfer trays (8). It is a characteristic feature of the column of the invention that a gas distribution tray (9) which is disposed between the lowermost of the sequence of dual-flow mass transfer trays (8) and the gas entry orifice (5) has orifices (32) for vertical passage of gas which can be introduced into the column cavity (3) via the gas entry orifice (5), the orifices (32) being formed so as to bring about equal gas distribution over the column cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Hammon, Thomas Walter