Patents Examined by Cory W Eskridge
  • Patent number: 11957037
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device comprises: performing first light irradiation; subsequent to the performing first application, that involves irradiating with light using a first photomask, from above the substrate, the position where the first solution is applied, and forming a first exposure region exposed by the first light irradiation in which the first ligand melts and the first solvent vaporizes, and a first non-exposure region at a position different from a position exposed by the first light irradiation, performing first cooling, subsequent to the performing first light irradiation, that involves lowering a temperature of the first quantum dot to a temperature equal to or lower than a melting point of the first ligand and solidifying the first ligand; and performing first removal, subsequent to the performing first cooling, that involves washing an upper layer relative to the substrate to remove the first solution in the first non-exposure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masumi Kubo
  • Patent number: 11948104
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for identifying and recommending team members for target users from a content management system utilizing a machine learning approach. In particular, the disclosed systems can generate a set of candidate team members from among users of the content management system based on various factors such as access to a common digital content item. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems further determine recommended team members from among the set of candidate team members. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a machine learning approach to generate or predict recommended team members based on particular features extracted or determined for, or with respect to, the various candidate team members. In certain implementations, the disclosed systems further provide a recommended-team-member notification to notify a target user of a recommended team member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventor: Jiarui Ding
  • Patent number: 11929303
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device having excellent heat dissipation capacity and electromagnetic wave suppression effect. A semiconductor device 1 includes a semiconductor element 30; a conductive cooling member 40 provided above the semiconductor element 30, a conductive thermally conductive member 10 that is provided between the semiconductor element 30 and the cooling member 40 and contains a cured resin. The conductive thermally conductive member 10 is connected to a ground 60 in the substrate 50 to electrically connect the cooling member 40 and the ground 60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kubo, Sergey Bolotov
  • Patent number: 11923266
    Abstract: A semiconductor module circuit structure, including an insulating circuit substrate having an insulating plate, and a circuit pattern formed on a top face of the insulating plate, and a semiconductor element disposed on a top face of the circuit pattern. The circuit pattern includes a first straight part extending in a first direction, a second straight part extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and a corner part connecting the first and second straight parts. A wiring member is formed on a top surface of the first straight part along the first direction, the wiring member being formed off-center at the first straight part to be closer to an outer periphery of the circuit pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Isozaki, Seiichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11899427
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing customized ceramic labial/lingual orthodontic brackets by digital light processing, said method comprises measuring dentition data of a profile of teeth of a patient, wherein measuring dentition data is performed using a CT scanner or intra-oral scanner, based on the dentition data, creating a three dimensional computer-assisted design (3D CAD) model of the patient's teeth using reverse engineering, and saving the 3D CAD model on a computer, designing a 3D CAD bracket structure model for a single labial or lingual bracket structure, importing the 3D CAD bracket structure model into a Digital Light Processing (DLP) machine, directly producing the bracket by layer manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LightForce Orthodontics, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfred Charles Griffin, III
  • Patent number: 11898246
    Abstract: A vapor deposition device is provided that can ameliorate or improve the LPD quality. A vapor deposition device includes a first holder that supports a carrier at a topmost-level and a second holder that supports the carrier under the first holder in a load-lock chamber, and a second robot mounts a before-treatment wafer extracted from a wafer storage container on the carrier standing by at the first holder in the load-lock chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Wada, Yu Minamide
  • Patent number: 11888949
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining an engagement profile of a participant by associating electronic activities to a profile. It may generate the engagement profile based on analysis of the electronic activity level. An example implementation may contain the following steps. The system may access for a first record object a plurality of electronic activities linked with the first record object. The system may identify for a participant from the plurality of electronic activities a set of electronic activities including the participant. The system may determine an engagement profile of the participant based on a first number of electronic activities of the set of electronic activities sent by the participant, a second number of the set of electronic activities received by the participant and a temporal distribution of the set of electronic activities. The system may store the engagement profile in one or more data structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: People.ai, Inc.
    Inventors: Oleg Rogynskyy, Yurii Brunets, Stefan Hermanek, Dylan Halladay
  • Patent number: 11887853
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises: forming a doped region having a first conductive type in a semiconductor substrate, and forming a gate structure on the doped region; implanting doping ions having a second conductive type to a second region of the doped region along a vertical direction, so as to form a source/drain region having the second conductive type; implanting doping ions having the first conductive type to a first region of the doped region along a tilt direction inclining toward the gate structure, and then annealing, so as to form a Halo region extending to the gate structure from the source/drain region, wherein the first region is adjacent to the gate structure and the second region is located on the side of the first region facing away from the gate structure, and the first region and the second region have no overlap region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Kejun Mu
  • Patent number: 11880789
    Abstract: A method for providing candidate recommendations for an open position based on problem solving proficiency and culture matching includes: receiving job posting data from a first computing system, the job posting data including employer culture markers and job criteria values; receiving candidate information for a candidate, the candidate information including candidate culture markers, text submissions, and candidate values; determining a culture match score by comparing the employer culture markers against the candidate culture markers; determining a problem solving proficiency level for the candidate by applying a problem solving algorithm to the text submissions; and transmitting a hiring recommendation for the candidate to the first computing system based on the determined culture match score and problem solving proficiency level for the candidate and the criteria values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: CELECTIV LLC
    Inventors: Gregory T. Carrott, Christine Virginia Wood, Anne Lisbet Ozaksut
  • Patent number: 11875291
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided for a direct to store supply chain to bring high volume, bulk space products directly from suppliers, manufacturers, and vendors to retail locations, thereby bypassing retailer distribution centers. The system comprises an order management and invoicing system configured to facilitate demand signals from retail locations to manufacturers and vendors of desired products. A routing optimization system is configured to continually optimize an aggregate of orders so as to produce lowest-cost shipping solutions. A tracking and notification system is configured to provide manufacturers with clear tracking visibility of en-route deliveries once they leave manufacturing facilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Niagara Bottling, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Dwain Reed, Canaan Orion Reich, Alyssa Anne Correale
  • Patent number: 11862519
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit device is provided. The method includes forming first, second, and third semiconductor fins over a semiconductor substrate, in which the second semiconductor fin is between the first and third semiconductor fins; forming first and second fin sidewall spacers respectively on a sidewall of a first portion of the first semiconductor fin and a sidewall of a first portion of the second semiconductor fin, wherein the first and second fin sidewall spacers are between the first and second semiconductor fins; recessing the first portions of the first and second semiconductor fins and a first portion of the third semiconductor fin; and forming first to third epitaxial features respectively on the recessed portions of the first to third semiconductor fins, wherein the second epitaxial feature is spaced apart from the first epitaxial feature and merged with the third epitaxial feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Hsien Tu, Dong-Jie Ke
  • Patent number: 11843060
    Abstract: Provided is a thin film transistor including an active layer including a first silicon active layer, a second silicon active layer, and an oxide active layer in a space between the first silicon active layer and the second silicon active layer, a gate electrode on the active layer with a gate insulating layer disposed therebetween, and a source electrode and a drain electrode with an interlayer insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes, the source and drain electrodes being in contact with the first silicon active layer and the second silicon active layer, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung-Bae Kim
  • Patent number: 11836651
    Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may include obtaining a first fixed temperature and a second fixed temperature of a replica exchange Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) process used to solve an optimization problem associated with a system, and obtaining a plurality of replicas of the system. The operations may also include obtaining a target swap acceptance probability with respect to swapping, during the replica exchange MCMC process, between replicas that correspond to adjacently ordered temperatures of a set of temperatures between the first fixed temperature and the second fixed temperature. The operations may include determining a respective average swap acceptance probability with respect to one or more respective adjacent pairs of temperatures. Further, the operations may include adjusting one or more of the variable temperatures based on a relationship between the target swap acceptance probability and each of one or more of the respective swap acceptance probabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: FUJITSU LIMITED, THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
    Inventors: Keivan Dabiri, Ali Sheikholeslami, Mehrdad Malekmohammadi, Hirotaka Tamura
  • Patent number: 11836786
    Abstract: A network based order fulfillment systems having an improved user interface at both a customer device and at an order fulfillment location employee device. Both customer and employee devices scan collect user input and other information using one or more sensors of the user devices to provide proper notifications to both the customer and the employee based on the actions of each. Location information for a customer computing device can be used to continually update ETA and time since arrival information displayed at the employee's computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Ted Nelson, Jathin Jayan, Roy Tewalt, Andy Rudge, Adam May, Josiah Gulden, Dan Carlson
  • Patent number: 11824057
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of making same. The semiconductor device includes: a first conductivity type transistor and a second conductivity type transistor, wherein each of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type includes a gate insulating film formed on a base, a metal gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and side wall spacers formed at side walls of the metal gate electrode, wherein the gate insulating film is made of a high dielectric constant material, and wherein offset spacers are formed between the side walls of the metal gate electrode and the inner walls of the side wall spacers in any one of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor, or offset spacers having different thicknesses are formed in the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11817501
    Abstract: A semiconductor device fabrication method is provided. The semiconductor device fabrication method includes frontside semiconductor device processing on a frontside of a wafer, flipping the wafer, backside semiconductor device processing on a backside of the wafer and backside and frontside contact formation processing on the backside and frontside of the wafer, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Dae Suk, Somnath Ghosh, Chen Zhang, Junli Wang, Devendra K. Sadana, Dechao Guo
  • Patent number: 11810066
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to facilitate implementation of an interface, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that implements specialized logic to facilitate distribution of items in accordance with an automatically adaptive schedule, for example, via an interface. In some examples, a method may include predicting data representing, for example, a zone of time in which depletion of an item is predicted. The method may monitor whether to replenish the item, and transmit via a network an electronic message including one or more item characteristics associated with the item to be replenished. The method may also include receiving another electronic message, and transmitting a control message to a merchant computing system to initiate adaptive distribution to replenish the item, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: OrderGroove, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Fredrich, Michael Bifolco, Eugene Vasilchenko, Greg E. Alvo, Ofir Shalom, Federico Alvarez, Bradley Williams Groff, Eugene Kozhukalo
  • Patent number: 11784249
    Abstract: An antenna device according to an example embodiment includes a silicon substrate of first type doping, at least two first doped regions formed by second type doping different from the first type doping, a second doped region formed by the second type doping outside a channel region surrounding the at least two first doped regions, and at least two gates disposed on a dielectric layer. In the antenna device, a resonant frequency is adjusted according to an external voltage individually applied to the at least two gates, and polarization information of a terahertz (THz) light source is obtained based on a pattern and an amount of an electric field measured at the at least two gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kyung Rok Kim, E San Jang, Min Woo Ryu, Sang Hyo Ahn
  • Patent number: 11783242
    Abstract: A computer-based system for improving a process for synchronizing an asset management system with a work order management system is disclosed. The computer-based system determines whether report data has been received from an asset management system. In response to determining that report data has been received, the report data is parsed to determine one or more keywords that describe an issue reported by the asset management system. The keywords are used to determine whether one or more instructions are available for handling the issue. If the instructions are available, then the instructions are obtained and used to generate one or more messages. The messages are transmitted to a work order management system to cause the work order management system to generate a work order and to dispatch the work order to a service provider to cause the service provider to resolve the issue reported by the asset management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, LTD
    Inventor: Richard C. Blank
  • Patent number: 11778919
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive stack/structure comprising (a) etching through a second magnetic region to (i) provide sidewalls of the second magnetic region and (ii) expose a surface of a dielectric layer, (b) depositing a first encapsulation layer on the sidewalls of the second magnetic region and over a surface of the dielectric layer, (c) thereafter: (i) etching the first encapsulation layer which is disposed over the dielectric layer using a first etch process, and (ii) etching re-deposited material using a second etch process, wherein, after such etching, a portion of the first encapsulation layer remains on the sidewalls of the second magnetic region, (d) etching (i) through the dielectric layer to form a tunnel barrier and provide sidewalls thereof and (ii) etching the first magnetic region to provide sidewalls thereof, and (e) depositing a second encapsulation layer on the sidewalls of the tunnel barrier and first magnetic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: EVERSPIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sarin A. Deshpande, Kerry Joseph Nagel, Chaitanya Mudivarthi, Sanjeev Aggarwal