Patents by Inventor Richard A. Cooke
Richard A. Cooke 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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Patent number: 10175133Abstract: A sensor comprises a sensor layer comprising a ceramic material; an adhesion layer comprising chromium, the adhesion layer adhered to one or more portions of a liquid facing surface of the sensor layer; and an isolator film comprising a polymer, the isolator film overlaying a liquid facing surface of the adhesion layer. The isolator film may be used to protect the sensor from corrosive and high temperature fluids, for example to protect the sensor from long term exposure to hot water between 85° C. and 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Cooke, George Gonnella, Sung In Moon, Charles W. Extrand, John E. Pillion
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Publication number: 20180324301Abstract: Embodiments of the invention involve providing automated assistance to an agent operating an agent terminal. A database stores an automated assistance session comprising communications between at least one client terminal and at least one agent terminal during a communication session. The automated assistance session is restored in response to a connection being reestablished with the client terminal after the client terminal disconnects during the communication session. A client communication is received from the client terminal, and a plurality of statements is determined based on the client communication and the communications of the automated assistance session stored in the database. The statements are configured to be manually selected by an agent or automatically selected by an automated agent. The automated agent is engaged for automatically selecting one of the statements in response to a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Stephen J. GRIESMER, James Gordon BEATTIE, JR., Charles Richard COOKE, Monowar HOSSAIN, Steven H. LEWIS, Benjamin RUDMAN
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Publication number: 20180236280Abstract: There is provided a fire collar comprising a casing defining a service conduit passage therethrough, the casing having an activation side and an installation side, wherein the casing defines an activation side located activation chamber. The fire collar has an opposing pair of shutters located within the activation chamber defining operative leading edges. In use, the shutters are configurable in a non-activated configuration wherein the leading edges are spaced apart so as to make allowance for the service conduit therebetween and when the fire collar is exposed to heat on the activation side in use, the shutters transition to an activated configuration wherein the respective leading edges of the shutters close in the passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Arlenko Pty LtdInventor: Richard Cooke
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Patent number: 10051123Abstract: Embodiments of the invention involve providing automated assistance to an agent operating an agent terminal. A database stores an automated assistance session comprising communications between at least one client terminal and at least one agent terminal during a communication session. The automated assistance session is restored in response to a connection being reestablished with the client terminal after the client terminal disconnects during the communication session. A client communication is received from the client terminal, and a plurality of statements is determined based on the client communication and the communications of the automated assistance session stored in the database. The statements are configured to be manually selected by an agent or automatically selected by an automated agent. The automated agent is engaged for automatically selecting one of the statements in response to a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: [27]7.ai, Inc.Inventors: Stephen J. Griesmer, James Gordon Beattie, Charles Richard Cooke, Monowar Hossain, Steven H. Lewis, Benjamin Rudman
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Publication number: 20180044800Abstract: Coatings applicable to a variety of substrate articles, structures, materials, and equipment are described. In various applications, the substrate includes metal surface susceptible to formation of oxide, nitride, fluoride, or chloride of such metal thereon, wherein the metal surface is configured to be contacted in use with gas, solid, or liquid that is reactive therewith to form a reaction product that is deleterious to the substrate article, structure, material, or equipment. The metal surface is coated with a protective coating preventing reaction of the coated surface with the reactive gas, and/or otherwise improving the electrical, chemical, thermal, or structural properties of the substrate article or equipment. Various methods of coating the metal surface are described, and for selecting the coating material that is utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Bryan C. Hendrix, David W. Peters, Weimin Li, Carlo Waldfried, Richard A. Cooke, Nilesh Gunda, I-Kuan Lin
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Patent number: 9886360Abstract: A device may provision two or more servers, each of the servers including a network interface. In addition, the device may enable the network interface in each of the provisioned servers, create a shared volume, assign the shared volume to each of the provisioned servers, and enable a clustering application on each of the provisioned servers to form a cluster comprising the provisioned servers, the cluster having a heartbeat via the network interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.Inventors: Emily Katherine Witt, Richard Cooke, William Thomas Everhart, Jr., Jinendrakumar J. Patel, Vijay Kumar
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Publication number: 20170335460Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of fabricating an electrostatic clamp includes forming an insulator body, forming an electrode on the insulator body, and depositing a layer stack on the electrode, the layer stack comprising an aluminum oxide layer that is deposited using atomic layer deposition (ALD).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Dale K. Stone, Richard Cooke, I-Kuan Lin, Julian G. Blake, Lyudmila Stone
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Patent number: 9721821Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a soft protrusion structure for an electrostatic chuck, which offers a non-abrasive contact surface for wafers, workpieces or other substrates, while also having improved manufacturability and compatibility with grounded surface platen designs. The soft protrusion structure comprises a photo-patternable polymer.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: I-Kuan Lin, Richard A. Cooke, Jakub Rybczynski
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Patent number: 9692325Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an electrostatic chuck comprising a conductive path covering at least a portion of a workpiece-contacting surface of a gas seal ring of the electrostatic chuck, the conductive path comprising at least a portion of an electrical path to ground; and a main field area of a workpiece-contacting surface of the electrostatic chuck comprising a surface resistivity in the range of from about 108 to about 1012 ohms per square.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignees: Entegris, Inc., Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc.Inventors: David Suuronen, Lyudmila Stone, Julian Blake, Dale K. Stone, Richard A. Cooke, Steven Donnell, Chandra Venkatraman
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Publication number: 20170149973Abstract: Embodiments of the invention involve providing automated assistance to an agent operating an agent terminal. A database stores an automated assistance session comprising communications between at least one client terminal and at least one agent terminal during a communication session. The automated assistance session is restored in response to a connection being reestablished with the client terminal after the client terminal disconnects during the communication session. A client communication is received from the client terminal, and a plurality of statements is determined based on the client communication and the communications of the automated assistance session stored in the database. The statements are configured to be manually selected by an agent or automatically selected by an automated agent. The automated agent is engaged for automatically selecting one of the statements in response to a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Stephen J. GRIESMER, James Gordon BEATTIE, JR., Charles Richard COOKE, Monowar HOSSAIN, Steven H. LEWIS, Benjamin RUDMAN
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Patent number: 9644269Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of fabricating an electrostatic clamp includes forming an insulator body, forming an electrode on the insulator body, and depositing a layer stack on the electrode, the layer stack comprising an aluminum oxide layer that is deposited using atomic layer deposition (ALD).Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, IncInventors: Dale K. Stone, Richard Cooke, I-Kuan Lin, Julian G. Blake, Lyudmila Stone
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Patent number: 9635176Abstract: A system for providing automated assistance to an agent includes a database that stores an automated assistance session in association with a client terminal. The automated assistance session comprises communications between the client terminal and an agent terminal during a communication session. The automated assistance session is restored in response to a connection being reestablished with the client terminal after the client terminal disconnects during the communication session. A client communication is received from the client terminal, and a plurality of statements is determined based on the client communication and the communications of the automated assistance session stored in the database. The statements are configured to be manually selected by an agent or automatically selected by an automated agent. The automated agent is engaged for automatically selecting one of the statements in response to a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: 24/7 Customer, Inc.Inventors: Stephen J. Griesmer, James Gordon Beattie, Jr., Charles Richard Cooke, Monowar Hossain, Steven H. Lewis, Benjamin Rudman
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Publication number: 20170098568Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an electrostatic chuck comprising an electrode, and a surface layer activated by a voltage in the electrode to form an electric charge to electrostatically clamp a substrate to the electrostatic chuck. The surface layer includes a plurality of protrusions extending to a height above portions of the surface layer surrounding the protrusions to support the substrate upon the protrusions during electrostatic clamping of the substrate. The protrusions are substantially equally spaced across the surface layer as measured by a center to center distance between pairs of neighboring protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2016Publication date: April 6, 2017Inventor: Richard A. Cooke
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Patent number: 9543187Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an electrostatic chuck comprising an electrode, and a surface layer activated by a voltage in the electrode to form an electric charge to electrostatically clamp a substrate to the electrostatic chuck. The surface layer includes a plurality of protrusions extending to a height above portions of the surface layer surrounding the protrusions to support the substrate upon the protrusions during electrostatic clamping of the substrate. The protrusions are substantially equally spaced across the surface layer as measured by a center to center distance between pairs of neighboring protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventor: Richard A. Cooke
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Publication number: 20160336210Abstract: An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic structural element, at least one electrode disposed on the ceramic structural element, and a surface dielectric layer disposed over the at least one electrode, the surface layer activated by a voltage in the electrode to form an electric charge to electrostatically clamp a substrate to the electrostatic chuck. The surface dielectric layer comprises: (i) an insulator layer of amorphous alumina, of a thickness of less than about 5 microns, disposed over the at least one electrode; and (ii) a stack of dielectric layers disposed over the insulator layer. The stack of dielectric layers includes: (a) at least one dielectric layer including aluminum oxynitride; and (b) at least one dielectric layer including at least one of silicon oxide and silicon oxynitride.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2015Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Richard A. Cooke, Wolfram Neff, Carlo Waldfried, Jakub Rybczynski, Michael Hanagan, Wade Krull
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Patent number: 9493295Abstract: A reusable pallet container is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a pallet container for holding vehicle windshields for storage, transportation or otherwise is disclosed. The pallet container includes a frame structure defining a base, and a periphery, wherein one or more side restraints are provided to be mounted on-board the pallet container to inhibit movement of windshields internally of the pallet container, wherein at least one of said one or more side restraints comprises a flexible fluid containing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Safelite Group, Inc.Inventors: Rich Glover, Al Hoag, Richard Rudyk, Dino Lanno, Bill Howard, Richard Cooke, Ronald Price, Andy Scott, Markus Schmidt, Evan Taylor
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Publication number: 20160325920Abstract: A pallet container for holding vehicle windshields for storage, transportation or otherwise, the pallet container comprising a frame structure defining a base, and a periphery, wherein one or more aide restraints are provided to be mounted on-board the pallet to inhibit movement of windshields internally of the pallet container, wherein a said side restraint comprises a flexible fluid containing device. In an alternative realisation the pallet container is expandable in height and length and/or collapsible by means of opposed pivoted side frames and a connecting frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Richard Glover, Dino Lanno, Ronald Price, Evan Taylor, Al Hoag, William F. Howard, Andrew P. Scott, Richard Rudyk, Richard Cooke, Markus Schmidt
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Patent number: 9394100Abstract: A pallet container for holding vehicle windshields for storage, transportation or otherwise, the pallet container comprising a frame structure defining a base, and a periphery, wherein one or more side restraints are provided to be mounted on-board the pallet to inhibit movement of windshields internally of the pallet container, wherein a said side restraint comprises a flexible fluid containing device. In an alternative realization the pallet container is expandable in height and length and/or collapsible by means of opposed pivoted side frames and a connecting frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Belron Hungary Kft—Zug BranchInventors: Richard Glover, Dino Lanno, Ronald Price, Evan Taylor, Al Hoag, William F Howard, Andrew P Scott, Richard Rudyk, Richard Cooke, Markus Schmidt
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Publication number: 20160103033Abstract: A sensor comprises a sensor layer comprising a ceramic material; an adhesion layer comprising chromium, the adhesion layer adhered to one or more portions of a liquid facing surface of the sensor layer; and an isolator film comprising a polymer, the isolator film overlaying a liquid facing surface of the adhesion layer. The isolator film may be used to protect the sensor from corrosive and high temperature fluids, for example to protect the sensor from long term exposure to hot water between 85° C. and 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Richard A. Cooke, George Gonnella, Sung In Moon, Charles W. Extrand, John E. Pillion
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Publication number: 20150380294Abstract: A vacuum chuck with polymeric embossments is disclosed. The polymeric embossments are formed on the surface of a base substrate and are lapped to a flatness such that a wafer substrate clamped by the vacuum chuck has a peak to valley flatness that is less than a peak to valley flatness across the base substrate. Lapping of the polymeric embossments accommodates for variations in the flatness of the base substrate so long as the embossments are tall enough to stand over the peak to valley height variations in the base substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: John Glasko, Richard A. Cooke, I-Kuan Lin