Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Brown

Thomas C. Brown 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).

  • Patent number: 11964456
    Abstract: A decorative laminate including a decorative layered structure defining a first surface and a second surface opposed from the first surface, and a gas permeable layer underlying the decorative layered structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John C. Wilde, Thomas L Brown, Jr., Jason W. Drexler
  • Patent number: 11931853
    Abstract: Generating a recipe for controlling a polishing system includes receiving a target removal profile that includes a target thickness to remove for a plurality of locations on a substrate that are angularly distributed around the substrate, and storing a first function defining a polishing rate for a zone from a plurality of pressurizable zones of a carrier head that are angularly distributed around a the carrier head. The first function defines polishing rates as a function of pressures. For each particular zone of the plurality of zones a recipe defining a pressure for the particular zone over time is calculated by calculating an expected thickness profile after polishing using the first function, and minimizing a cost function that incorporates a first term representing a difference between the expected thickness profile and a target thickness profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian, Brian J. Brown, Thomas H. Osterheld
  • Patent number: 9141469
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for cyclic redundancy check circuits using Galois-field arithmetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Mark A. Schmisseur, Sin S. Tan, Kenneth C. Haren, Thomas C. Brown, Pankaj Kumar, Vinodh Gopal, Wajdi K. Feghali
  • Publication number: 20140082451
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for cyclic redundancy check circuits using Galois-field arithmetic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Mark A. Schmisseur, Sin S. Tan, Kenneth C. Haren, Thomas C. Brown, Pankaj Kumar, Vinodh Gopal, Wajdi K. Feghali
  • Patent number: 8607129
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for cyclic redundancy check circuits using Galois-field arithmetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Mark A. Schmisseur, Sin S. Tan, Kenneth C. Haren, Thomas C. Brown, Pankaj Kumar, Vinodh Gopal, Wajdi K. Feghali
  • Publication number: 20130007573
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for cyclic redundancy check circuits using Galois-field arithmetic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Sivakumar Radhakrishnan, Mark A. Schmisseur, Sin S. Tan, Kenneth C. Haren, Thomas C. Brown, Pankaj Kumar, Vinodh Gopal, Wajdi K. Feghali
  • Patent number: 7562841
    Abstract: A spirally wound tube for wrapping textiles or other materials thereon. The tube has an identification feature. The tube is made by spirally winding a number of plies together. The outermost ply defines a groove that substantially extends spirally along the length of the tube. The groove is for containing an identification marking for identifying the textile or other material wrapped onto the tube. In particular, the tube may include an identification stripe that extends along the groove. The identification stripe contains a marking system or identification markings to indicate the type or nature of the textile material wrapped on the tube. The marking system may include the color or colors of the stripe, or patterns, codes, readable indicia, or any combination of markings on the stripe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold A. Holden, Thomas C. Brown, David E. Hungerpiller
  • Patent number: 7032946
    Abstract: The present invention is a barrier shield having selective transparent areas therein that incorporates particular optical glare and reflection reduction methods utilizing diffractive and grating techniques within a tilted planar surface having selective openings therethrough. This barrier shield is mounted within the closure door for correcting the transmissive optical imagery enabling the driver/operator to view the passengers through the closure door barrier shield using, typically, the inside rear-view mirror without compromise to safety or security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Inventor: Thomas C. Brown
  • Patent number: 6738869
    Abstract: Arrangements for maintaining out-of-order queue cache coherency and for prevention of memory write starvation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas R. Moran, Thomas C. Brown, Kenneth B. Oliver
  • Patent number: 5748867
    Abstract: An image texturing system utilizes theme cells to generate terrain image data area-by-area for a dynamic terrain display. The system is effective in flight simulation apparatus, as for training pilots. A memory stores theme maps representing areas of specific terrains, e.g. terrains lying below a flight path. The theme maps are indexed on a square grid pattern and include a feature identification code (FIC) for each grid point to indicate terrain, e.g. forest, water, etc. A selection device controlled by an image generator selects a current theme map and dissects it cell-by-cell as defined by grid points to provide corner-referenced representations for each theme cell. A terrain storage device stores a library of terrain treatment pattern arrays that are derived, for example, from photo data of forest, ocean, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Cosman, Thomas C. Brown
  • Patent number: 5364124
    Abstract: An air bag assembly is mounted in a vehicle instrument panel recess located below an opening in the instrument panel upper surface which has a removable cover door normally closing the opening. The air bag assembly comprises an inflator, an air bag, a container mounting the inflator at its bottom and housing the folded air bag atop the inflator, and an air bag deployment chute. The deployment chute is a fabric rectangular tube having one end attached to the container around its deployment opening. The deployment chute is folded atop the air bag. A fabric tether connects the lower edge of the chute outer end to the container and is shorter than the tube. Upon actuation of the inflator, the deployment chute forces open the instrument panel door and extends outwardly of the instrument panel opening. The tether forces the chute to arch rearwardly and downwardly of the instrument panel opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Donegan, John L. Volz, Thomas C. Brown
  • Patent number: 4420018
    Abstract: A reinforced hose structure is illustrated as including a length of tubing 20 having a first course A of reinforcement braided about the tubing and comprising a conventional braided structure and a second course B of reinforcement braided about the tubing and about the said first course and comprising a conventional braided structure. First course A includes a first group 10 of reinforcing strands applied about the tube in a first helical direction and a second group 12 of reinforcing strands applied concurrently about the tube in a second, helically opposite direction in such a manner as to interlace the strands of the said two groups into a conventional braided structure. Adjacent windings 10, 12 of the first and second groups are spaced apart to provide widened braid spaces which reduce crimping of the edge wires in each group as the groups of wires intersect each other. A plurality of empty unoccupied spaces C are formed in braided course A along the length of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Inventor: Thomas C. Brown, Jr.