Patents by Inventor Patrick Heffernan
Patrick Heffernan 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).
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Publication number: 20230366924Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Patent number: 11686763Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited CompanyInventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Publication number: 20220252664Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Patent number: 11269006Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited CompanyInventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Publication number: 20210088580Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Publication number: 20210072304Abstract: The disclosed technology relates generally to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor devices including a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor and are configured for accelerating and monitoring degradation of the gate dielectric of the MOS transistor. In one aspect, a semiconductor device configured with gate dielectric monitoring capability comprises a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor including a source, a drain, a gate, and a backgate region formed in a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device additionally comprises a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) including a collector, a base, and an emitter formed in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the backgate region of the MOS transistor serves as the base of the BJT and is independently accessible for activating the BJT.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Edward John Coyne, John P. Meskell, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Mark Forde, Shane Geary
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Patent number: 10794950Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Analog Devices GlobalInventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Publication number: 20190361071Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Patent number: 10365322Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: ANALOG DEVICES GLOBALInventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Patent number: 10338132Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring. An integrated circuit device includes a core circuit and a wear-out monitor device. The wear-out monitor device configured to adjust an indication of wear out of the core circuit regardless of whether the core circuit is activated The integrated circuit further includes a sensing circuit coupled to the wear-out monitor device and configured to detect an electrical property of the wear-out monitor device that is indicative of a wear-out level of the core-circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Analog Devices GlobalInventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, David Aherne, Michael A. Looby
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Publication number: 20170299649Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring. An integrated circuit device includes a core circuit and a wear-out monitor device. The wear-out monitor device configured to adjust an indication of wear out of the core circuit regardless of whether the core circuit is activated The integrated circuit further includes a sensing circuit coupled to the wear-out monitor device and configured to detect an electrical property of the wear-out monitor device that is indicative of a wear-out level of the core-circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2016Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, David Aherne, Michael A. Looby
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Publication number: 20170299650Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices with wear out monitoring capability. An integrated circuit device includes a wear-out monitor device configured to record an indication of wear-out of a core circuit separated from the wear-out monitor device, wherein the indication is associated with localized diffusion of a diffusant within the wear-out monitor device in response to a wear-out stress that causes the wear-out of the core circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Edward John Coyne, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, David Aherne, David Boland, Thomas G. O'Dwyer, Colm Patrick Heffernan, Kevin B. Manning, Mark Forde, David J. Clarke, Michael A. Looby
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Publication number: 20110222752Abstract: The present invention provides a method for enhancing microcalcifications for computer-aided lesion detection, review and diagnosis. The method includes two steps: partitioning of the breast tissue area and filtering with a convolution kernel. The partitioning process delineates: breast glandular tissue area; fat tissue sub-area and dense tissue sub-area. The 2D or 3D convolution kernels are designed to highlight small spot regions of rapid intensity changes on 2D mammograms or 3D tomosynthesis mammography images. The size of such a kernel is calculated based on the resolution of the mammographic images that are produced from each manufacturer's digital radiography device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2008Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: Three Palm SoftwareInventors: Heidi Zhang, Patrick Heffernan
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Publication number: 20100166267Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system using computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithms to aid diagnosis and visualization of tomosynthesis mammography data. The proposed CAD algorithms process two-dimensional and three-dimensional tomosynthesis mammography images and identify regions of interest in breasts. The CAD algorithms include the steps of preprocessing; candidate detection of potential regions of interest; and classification of each region of interest to aid reading by radiologists. The detection of potential regions of interest utilizes two dimensional projection images for generating candidates. The resultant candidates in two dimensional images are back-projected into the three dimensional volume images. The feature extraction for classification operates in the three dimensional image in the neighborhood of the back-projected candidate location.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: THREE PALM SOFTWAREInventors: Heidi Zhang, Patrick Heffernan
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Publication number: 20090238422Abstract: This invention provides a computational intelligence method and system that can be used interactively by a radiologist in a “concurrent read” model to aid diagnosis from medical images. In particular, the invention operates more like a very patient, indefatigable knowledge accumulating and communicating companion for the radiologist, rather than a second “expert” whose advice is sought after a normal review. The system works interactively with the radiologist during image reading, prompting areas to review in more detail, providing computer generated features and interpretation, and suggesting potential diagnoses for areas of suspicion that are identified either by the machine or the human. In addition, the human can obtain more information from the system—the radiologist can query as to why a particular region is highlighted, or why a particular diagnosis is postulated for an area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: Three Palm SoftwareInventors: Heidi Zhang, Patrick Heffernan
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Publication number: 20090220138Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for an image preprocessing device that automatically detects chestwall laterality; removes border artifacts; and segments breast tissue and pectoral muscle from digital mammograms. The algorithms in the preprocessing device utilize the computer cache, a vertical Sobel filter and a probabilistic Hough transform to detect curved edges. The preprocessing result, along with a pseudo-modality normalized image, can be used as input to a CAD (computer-aided detection) server or to a mammography image review workstation. In the case of workstation input, the preprocessing results improve the protocol for chestwall-to-chestwall image hanging, and support optimal image contrast display of each segmented region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2008Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: Three Palm SoftwareInventors: Heidi Zhang, Patrick Heffernan
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Publication number: 20090185732Abstract: This invention provides a simple user interface and sequencing viewing method for a mammography interpretation workstation. In particular, the invention includes the method and apparatus that moves the source images and the associated data using two-level of pre-fetching and caching mechanism, sequences the reading workflow (including worklist, hanging protocol, viewing sequencing), draws markup using electronic grease pan, and automatically generates the recall forms and screening reports. The user interface operates on single button and mouse wheel style to maximize the radiologists' efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: Three Palm SoftwareInventors: Heidi Zhang, Patrick Heffernan, László Tabár
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Publication number: 20090171871Abstract: This invention utilizes a number of Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques with different learning methods in a computer-aided detection, review and diagnosis (CAD) device. Specifically, an unsupervised learning method is used for clustering of types of abnormal findings. Then a number of classifiers for each type of findings are trained with appropriate learning algorithms; and combined in three different manners to produce one classifier that can be operated at three different operating points. A fuzzy system is used for mapping the findings to diagnostic reports constructed using a formal language. Finally, the finding statistics is calculated based on Bayesian probability. During image review, the device provides the readers some insight as to how it derives its outputs. The output of the device can be updated in an interactive and progressive manner by a human reader (radiologist). The output from classification can be updated by the human, and is fed as input to the assessment task.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: Three Palm SoftwareInventors: Heidi Zhang, Patrick Heffernan
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Patent number: 7237199Abstract: The present invention discloses a framework for monitoring workflow within an application having multiple levels of functionality, the framework being capable of combining a plurality of components from different sources and comprising a process level for selecting a set of defined process steps to be applied to a data set associated with a set of activities, a sub-process level including an aggregation of selected activities from the set of activities and facilitating navigation between the selected activities, and an activity level wherein an activity's property in the data set is modified as a result of the applied processing of the activity level to produce an output data set.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2000Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Cedara Software Corp.Inventors: Wido Menhardt, Patrick Heffernan
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Patent number: 7104421Abstract: A golf ball teeing device comprising, a platform having an upper surface, an opening in the platform, a tee for a golf ball the tee being arranged for reciprocal movement with respect to the opening between a lower position where the top of the tee is at a level below the upper surface of the platform to an upper position where the top of the tee is above upper surface of the platform, and golf ball deliver means arranged to load a golf ball on top of the tee when it is in the lower position, wherein the golf ball is at a level below the upper surface of the platform when it is loaded onto the tee by the golf ball delivery means.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2004Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Tee Up Pty Ltd.Inventors: Franz Charles Eckhardt, Jr., Christopher Patrick Heffernan, James Francis Howe