Siemens Assigned Two Patents

Arrangement, substrate and method for preparing cell sample
Siemens Aktiengesellschat, Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (10,739,235) developed by Hayden, Oliver, Herzogenaurach, Germany, and Tedde, Sandro Francesco, Erlangen, Germany, for “arrangement, substrate and method for preparing cell sample.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A flexible, thin, elongated band is used as a substrate. Similarly to a magnetic tape, the band is unwound from a feed reel and is transported past an outlet opening of a receptacle containing the cells such that the cells are poured onto the band. Subsequently, the band containing the cells applied thereon is wound onto a take-up reel. The take-up reel is fixed on a drive shaft which can be rotated by a drive mechanism. The rotation thus achieved has the effect that the band is unwound, transported past the outlet opening and finally wound up. In addition, spacers are provided at the upper surface of the band in order to prevent the contacting of radially adjacent sections of the band containing the cells in a wound-up state.”

The patent application was filed on May 14, 2010 (13/383,072).

Storing data
Siemens Aktiengesellschat, Munich, Germany, has been assigned a patent (10,740,289) developed by Qiu, Wei, Beijing, China, Yu, Chen, Zhang, Jia Jie, and Zhang, Rui Guo, Wuhan, China, for “method and apparatus for storing data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method includes receiving Resource Description Framework (RDF) data to be stored, obtaining triplet information including at least a resource name of the resource, attribute of the resource, and attribute value of the resource represented by the RDF data, obtaining from the RDF data a first namespace usable in a resource name of the resource, searching for a resource identification corresponding to a resource name and first namespace of the resource, obtaining from the RDF data a second namespace usable by the attribute of the resource, searching for the attribute identification corresponding to the attribute of the resource and the second namespace, and storing the triplet information, the resource name of a specific resource being represented by a resource identification and the attribute of the specific resource being represented by an attribute identification. Using an embodiment, it is possible to reduce the storage of redundant data, thereby saving storage space.”

The patent application was filed on August 2, 2017 (15/666,617).