Patents by Inventor Eric Jonathan Snyder

Eric Jonathan Snyder 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).

  • Assembly comprising functional block deposited therein
    Patent number: 7615479
    Abstract: An electronic assembly. The assembly includes a substrate, a plurality of recessed regions, and a plurality of functional blocks. Each functional block is deposited in one of the recessed regions. A substantial amount of the plurality of functional blocks is recessed below a top surface of the substrate. Substantial amount is defined by any one of less than 10% of said functional blocks protrudes above the top surface of the substrate; less than 1% of the functional blocks protrudes above the top surface of the substrate; more than 90% of the functional blocks are recessed below the top surface of the substrate; or more than 99% of the functional blocks are recessed below the top surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon S. W. Craig, Mark A. Hadley, Susan Swindlehurst, Ali A. Tootoonchi, Eric Kanemoto, Eric Jonathan Snyder, Scott Herrmann, Glenn Gengel, Lily Liong
  • Methods and apparatuses relating to block configurations and fluidic self-assembly processes
    Patent number: 6919225
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods of making an electronic assembly. The electronic assembly comprises a functional block having at least one asymmetric feature. The functional block comprises an integrated circuitry to perform a function pertaining to the electronic assembly. The electronic assembly further comprises a substrate having a receptor site to mate with the functional block using a fluidic self-assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon S. W. Craig, Eric Jonathan Snyder, Jay Kuang-Jieh Tu
  • Apparatus relating to block configurations and fluidic self-assembly processes
    Patent number: 6657289
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods of making an electronic assembly. The electronic assembly comprises a functional block having at least one asymmetric feature. The functional block comprises an integrated circuitry to perform a function pertaining to the electronic assembly. The electronic assembly further comprises a substrate having a receptor site to mate with the functional block using a fluidic self-assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon S. W. Craig, Eric Jonathan Snyder, Jay Kuang-Jieh Tu