Patents by Inventor Richard Gould
Richard Gould 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: 11988552Abstract: A device includes at least one array of photoconductors, at least one bias voltage source, and at least one photoconductor readout circuit. Each photoconductor is configured for exhibiting an electrical resistance dependent on an illumination of its light-sensitive region, and at least one photoconductor of the array is designed as characterizing photoconductor. The bias voltage source is configured for applying at least one alternating bias voltage to the characterizing photoconductor or at least one direct current (DC) bias voltage to the characterizing photoconductor. The photoconductor readout circuit is configured for determining of a response voltage of the characterizing photoconductor generated in response to the bias voltage. The response voltage is proportional to a variable characterizing the array of photoconductors. The photoconductor readout circuit configured for determining of the response voltage of the characterizing photoconductor during operation of the array of photoconductors.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: TRINAMIX GMBHInventors: Bertram Feuerstein, Sebastian Valouch, Robert Gust, Stefan Klueh, Robert Send, Darren Richard Gould
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Publication number: 20240116168Abstract: Various embodiments of layout tool devices and systems are provided. In various embodiments, the layout tool devices and systems improve layout work flow using layout tools, such as via using lasers and/or customized flexible elongate structures to facilitate marking points along a line, including systems with multiple devices, such as mobile devices, that emit lasers in combination with the other devices in the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Samuel A. Gould, Danielle K. Quan, Todd P. Kusik, John J. Rymsza, John S. Scott, Gareth J. Mueckl, Richard M. Schieber, Samuel B. Petre
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Patent number: 11754443Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device including at least one photoconductor configured for exhibiting an electrical resistance dependent on an illumination of a light-sensitive region of the photoconductor; and at least one photoconductor readout circuit, where the photoconductor readout circuit includes at least one voltage divider circuit, where the voltage divider circuit includes at least one reference resistor Rref being arranged in series with the photoconductor, where the photoconductor readout circuit includes at least one amplifier device, where the photoconductor readout circuit includes at least one capacitor arranged between an input of the amplifier device and an output of the voltage divider circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TRINAMIX GMBHInventors: Bertram Feuerstein, Robert Gust, Darren Richard Gould, Sebastian Valouch
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Publication number: 20220397454Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device including at least one photoconductor configured for exhibiting an electrical resistance dependent on an illumination of a light-sensitive region of the photoconductor; and at least one photoconductor readout circuit, where the photoconductor readout circuit includes at least one voltage divider circuit, where the voltage divider circuit includes at least one reference resistor Rref being arranged in series with the photoconductor, where the photoconductor readout circuit includes at least one amplifier device, where the photoconductor readout circuit includes at least one capacitor arranged between an input of the amplifier device and an output of the voltage divider circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Bertram FEUERSTEIN, Robert GUST, Darren Richard GOULD, Sebastian VALOUCH
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Publication number: 20220333981Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device including: at least one array of photoconductors, where each photoconductor is configured for exhibiting an electrical resistance dependent on an illumination of its light-sensitive region, where at least one photoconductor of the array is designed as characterizing photoconductor; at least one bias voltage source, where the bias voltage source is configured for applying at least one alternating bias voltage to the characterizing photoconductor or at least one direct current (DC) bias voltage to the characterizing photoconductor; at least one photoconductor readout circuit, where the photoconductor readout circuit is configured for determining of a response voltage of the characterizing photoconductor generated in response to the bias voltage, where the response voltage is proportional to a variable characterizing the array of photoconductors, where the photoconductor readout circuit is configured for determining of the response voltage of the characterizing photoconductor duriType: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Bertram FEUERSTEIN, Sebastian VALOUCH, Robert GUST, Stefan KLUEH, Robert SEND, Darren Richard GOULD
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Patent number: 11144741Abstract: An arrangement for tracking and recording movement of articles between a security enclosure and remote locations which includes releasably retaining the articles in a panel assembly, an electronics panel having a reader for tracking and recording movement of at least one article when the at least one article is moved relative to the panel assembly, taking an article having a unique article identifier and placing the article in a home location via a field of detection of the reader, storing the identity of the article and data indicative of the history and location of the article, allowing authorised users to initiate communications with the security enclosure to determine and track the location and history of movement of the article via an electronic user initiated input device application and creating a record indicative of the movements of the article between a location in said enclosure and remote locations.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: LOCKIT SYSTEMS PTY. LTDInventor: Richard Gould
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Publication number: 20190213366Abstract: An arrangement for tracking and recording movement of articles between a security enclosure and remote locations which includes releasably retaining the articles in a panel assembly, an electronics panel having a reader for tracking and recording movement of at least one article when the at least one article is moved relative to the panel assembly, taking an article having a unique article identifier and placing the article in a home location via a field of detection of the reader, storing the identity of the article and data indicative of the history and location of the article, allowing authorised users to initiate communications with the security enclosure to determine and track the location and history of movement of the article via an electronic user initiated input device application and creating a record indicative of the movements of the article between a location in said enclosure and remote locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventor: Richard GOULD
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Patent number: 10304707Abstract: A load lock assembly includes a first load lock connected between an equipment front end module (EFEM) and a wafer transport module, the EFEM being at a lab ambient condition, the wafer transport module being at a vacuum condition, the wafer transport module being part of a wafer transport assembly that is configured to transport wafers to and from one or more process modules that are connected to the wafer transport assembly; a second load lock disposed over the first load lock, the second load lock connected between the EFEM and the wafer transport module; a post-processing module disposed over the second load lock, the post-processing module configured for performing a post-processing operation on a processed wafer that has been processed in at least one of the process modules that are connected to the wafer transport assembly, the post-processing module being configured for connection to the wafer transport module.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: David Trussell, Richard Gould, John Daugherty
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Patent number: 10153282Abstract: An apparatus for transporting or storing at least one semiconductor wafer in an ultra-high vacuum is provided. A portable vacuum transfer pod is provided comprising an internal wafer storage chamber for storing one or more wafers and a wafer support for supporting at least one wafer within the internal wafer storage chamber. A passively capable vacuum pump capable of passive vacuum pumping is in fluid connection with the internal wafer storage chamber and is mechanically connected to the portable vacuum transfer pod. A shut off valve for opening and closing the fluid connection is between the passively capable vacuum pump and the internal wafer storage chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Theodoros Panagopoulos, Richard Gould, Edmundo Reyes, John Boniface, Ivan Berry, Alexander Dulkin, Bart van Schravendijk
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Patent number: 10014196Abstract: A wafer transport assembly includes first and second wafer transport modules, and a buffer module coupled between the first and second wafer transport modules. The first and second wafer transport modules and the buffer module are aligned in a single directional axis. The buffer module includes a first buffer stack positioned at a first lateral end of the buffer module, and a second buffer stack positioned at a second lateral end of the buffer module. The first lateral end of the buffer module defines a first side protrusion nested between the first and second wafer transport modules and first and second process modules. The second lateral end of the buffer module defines a second side protrusion that is nested between the first and second wafer transport modules and third and fourth process modules. The first and second wafer transport modules and the buffer module define a continuous controlled environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: John Daugherty, David Trussell, Michael Kellogg, Christopher Pena, Richard Gould, Klay Kunkel
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Patent number: 9929028Abstract: A system for processing substrates is provided, comprising: a wafer transport assembly that is configured to transport wafers to and from one or more process modules, the wafer transport assembly having at least one wafer transport module, wherein lateral sides of the at least one wafer transport module are configured to couple to the one or more process modules; a service floor defined below the wafer transport assembly, the service floor being defined at a height that is less than a height of a fabrication facility floor in which the system is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: David Trussell, John Daugherty, Michael Kellogg, Christopher Pena, Richard Gould, Klay Kunkel
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Publication number: 20170110354Abstract: A wafer transport assembly includes first and second wafer transport modules, and a buffer module coupled between the first and second wafer transport modules. The first and second wafer transport modules and the buffer module are aligned in a single directional axis. The buffer module includes a first buffer stack positioned at a first lateral end of the buffer module, and a second buffer stack positioned at a second lateral end of the buffer module. The first lateral end of the buffer module defines a first side protrusion nested between the first and second wafer transport modules and first and second process modules. The second lateral end of the buffer module defines a second side protrusion that is nested between the first and second wafer transport modules and third and fourth process modules. The first and second wafer transport modules and the buffer module define a continuous controlled environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: John Daugherty, David Trussell, Michael Kellogg, Christopher Pena, Richard Gould, Klay Kunkel
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Publication number: 20170110351Abstract: A load lock assembly includes a first load lock connected between an equipment front end module (EFEM) and a wafer transport module, the EFEM being at a lab ambient condition, the wafer transport module being at a vacuum condition, the wafer transport module being part of a wafer transport assembly that is configured to transport wafers to and from one or more process modules that are connected to the wafer transport assembly; a second load lock disposed over the first load lock, the second load lock connected between the EFEM and the wafer transport module; a post-processing module disposed over the second load lock, the post-processing module configured for performing a post-processing operation on a processed wafer that has been processed in at least one of the process modules that are connected to the wafer transport assembly, the post-processing module being configured for connection to the wafer transport module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: David Trussell, Richard Gould, John Daugherty
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Publication number: 20170110350Abstract: A system for processing substrates is provided, comprising: a wafer transport assembly that is configured to transport wafers to and from one or more process modules, the wafer transport assembly having at least one wafer transport module, wherein lateral sides of the at least one wafer transport module are configured to couple to the one or more process modules; a service floor defined below the wafer transport assembly, the service floor being defined at a height that is less than a height of a fabrication facility floor in which the system is disposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Inventors: David Trussell, John Daugherty, Michael Kellogg, Christopher Pena, Richard Gould, Klay Kunkel
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Patent number: 9502275Abstract: A system for processing substrates is provided, comprising: a wafer transport assembly that is configured to transport wafers to and from one or more process modules, the wafer transport assembly having at least one wafer transport module, wherein lateral sides of the at least one wafer transport module are configured to couple to the one or more process modules; a service floor defined below the wafer transport assembly, the service floor being defined at a height that is less than a height of a fabrication facility floor in which the system is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: David Trussell, John Daugherty, Michael Kellogg, Christopher Pena, Richard Gould, Klay Kunkel
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Patent number: 8951784Abstract: A cell culture bioreactor having a culture chamber for cell growth, a culture medium reservoir mounted externally to the culture chamber, a fluid circulation mechanism for moving culture medium from the reservoir through the culture chamber, and an aerating mechanism for introducing air into and removing air from the culture chamber is provided. The cell culture bioreactor comprises a manifold mechanism mounted at the top end of the culture chamber, a fluid circulation mechanism fluidly connected to the culture medium reservoir, for receiving culture medium from the culture medium reservoir and distributing culture medium into the culture chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2006Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Sepragen CorporationInventors: Dennis Richard Gould, Hrair Kirakossian
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Patent number: 8579444Abstract: The invention is related to a rear view mirror assembly with a least two parts out of the group of part as: mirror frame, mirror base, mirror housing, mirror bezel, mirror glass, mirror lighting means, actuator, that must be connected during assembly process with at least one retention latch. This retention latch comprises a circular hood and a rectangular arm formed in a first part and to be inserted into an opening and shifted along a slot in a second part.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: SMR Patents S.a.r.l.Inventors: Andrew Lettis, Charlie Spencer, Richard Gould
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Patent number: 8472879Abstract: A terrestrial radio system for delivering to consumers data transmission services, Internet services, two-way capabilities and single-channel or multi-channel video programming, including national, regional and local television broadcast signals, as well as an apparatus and method thereof. The terrestrial radio system transmits terrestrial signals at satellite-allocated frequencies while mitigating interference with satellite signals to reuse satellite-allocated frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2007Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Xanadoo CompanyInventors: John Hane, Richard Gould
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Publication number: 20110131126Abstract: A computer implemented method and system is provided for reducing the number of securities positions of multiple counterparties. Securities positions are acquired from the counterparties. A price is obtained for each of the acquired securities positions from each of the counterparties. A consensus price is created for each of the acquired securities positions based on the obtained price of each of the acquired securities positions. The created consensus price for each of the acquired securities positions is displayed to the counterparties. The counterparties perform acceptance or rejection of the created consensus price of each of the acquired securities positions. The acquired securities positions are allocated at the created consensus price to one or more counterparties who accept the consensus price, using a sorting algorithm. The number of securities positions of the counterparties is reduced by trading the allocated securities positions to the associated counterparties.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Vinayek K. Singh, Ashok H. Mital, Malcom P. Walley, Stephen Richard Gould
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Publication number: 20110131127Abstract: A computer implemented method and system is provided for distributing aggregated financial instruments among counterparties. The counterparties' financial instrument positions are acquired along with risk measures. The financial instrument positions are weighted using the risk measures to obtain risk weighted positions. An aggregate risk is computed by aggregating the risk weighted positions of the financial instruments. A position risk is computed by aggregating the risk weighted positions of the counterparties. A financial instrument with highest aggregate risk is allocated to a counterparty with highest position risk based on predefined rules. The position risks are recomputed by aggregating the risk weighted positions modified due to the allocation. An unallocated financial instrument with highest aggregate risk is allocated to a counterparty with highest change in position risk after the recomputation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Vinayek K. Singh, Ashok H. Mittal, Malcom P. Walley, Stephen Richard Gould