Patents by Inventor A. Dean Thompson
A. Dean Thompson 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: 11353364Abstract: IR radiation may be used to examine substrates prior to a fabrication operation in order to adjust processing parameters of the fabrication operation, or to determine features of the substrate. A thermographic image may be collected and provided to a transfer function or machine learning model to determine processing parameters or features. The processing parameters may improve the uniformity of the wafer and/or achieve a desired target feature value.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventor: William Dean Thompson
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Patent number: 11181489Abstract: Provided herein are methods and apparatus for characterizing high aspect ratio (HAR) structures of fabricated or partially fabricated semiconductor devices. The methods involve using small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to determine average parameters of an array of HAR structures. In some implementations, SAXS is used to analyze symmetry of HAR structures in a sample and may be referred to as tilted structural symmetry analysis-SAXS (TSSA-SAXS) or TSSA. Analysis of parameters such as tilt, sidewall angle, bowing, and the presence of multiple tilts in HAR structures may be performed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignees: Lam Research Corporation, The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and TechnologyInventors: William Dean Thompson, Regis Joseph Kline, Daniel F. Sunday, Wenli Wu, Osman Sorkhabi, Jin Zhang, Xiaoshu Chen
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Publication number: 20210270673Abstract: IR radiation may be used to examine substrates prior to a fabrication operation in order to adjust processing parameters of the fabrication operation, or to determine features of the substrate. A thermographic image may be collected and provided to a transfer function or machine learning model to determine processing parameters or features. The processing parameters may improve the uniformity of the wafer and/or achieve a desired target feature value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Lam Research CorporationInventor: William Dean Thompson
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Publication number: 20200041426Abstract: Provided herein are methods and apparatus for characterizing high aspect ratio (HAR) structures of fabricated or partially fabricated semiconductor devices. The methods involve using small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to determine average parameters of an array of HAR structures. In some implementations, SAXS is used to analyze symmetry of HAR structures in a sample and may be referred to as tilted structural symmetry analysis-SAXS (TSSA-SAXS) or TSSA. Analysis of parameters such as tilt, sidewall angle, bowing, and the presence of multiple tilts in HAR structures may be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: William Dean Thompson, Regis Joseph Kline, Daniel F. Sunday, Wenli Wu, Osman Sorkhabi, Jin Zhang, Xiaoshu Chen
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Patent number: 10362815Abstract: Provided herein is a kimono jacket that has three or more anti-grip reinforcement panels, wherein the anti-grip reinforcement panels are capable of popping and/or releasing a grip of an opponent when the reinforced kimono is gripped. Also provided herein is a kit including a kimono that has anti-grip reinforcement panels and kimono pants.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Lime Enterprises LimitedInventor: Dean Thompson
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Publication number: 20160143374Abstract: Provided herein is a kimono jacket comprising three or more anti-grip reinforcement panels, wherein the anti-grip reinforcement panels are capable of popping and/or releasing a grip of an opponent when the reinforced kimono is gripped. Also provided herein is a kit comprising a kimono jacket comprising reinforcement panels and kimono pants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: LIME ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventor: Dean Thompson
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Patent number: 8876560Abstract: A cable reel assembly comprises a hub configured to house a field communication distribution box with front and rear flanges projecting radially outward from front and rear edges of the hub. A cable receiving trough is formed between the flanges in which a communications cable may be wound. A nesting ring which is smaller in diameter that the front and rear flanges projects outward from the second flange. The nesting ring of a first cable reel assembly is positionable within an area surrounded by the first flange of a second cable reel to facilitate stacking of the cable reels.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: DT Search and Designs, LLCInventors: Alvin Dean Thompson, Cecil Donald Comley, John Jeffrey Comley, James Michael Comley
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Patent number: 8829343Abstract: A seal kit with torque limiting spacers for use with a field communication cable connector having a housing containing a cable contact circuit board includes a plurality of seals and spacers. Inner and outer seals are provided. The inner seal is sized for reception in an inner channel of the cable connector housing. The outer seal, having a plurality of compressible ribs, is sized for reception in an outer channel in the cable connector housing. The spacers provide space between the cable contact circuit board and the cable connector housing. Each spacer has a bore for receiving a fastener therethrough. The spacers are sized in accordance with the size of the cable connector unit and the cable connected to the cable connector unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: DT Search and Designs, LLCInventors: Alvin Dean Thompson, Cecil Donald Comley, John Jeffrey Comley, James Michael Comley
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Patent number: 8616274Abstract: A method of servicing a wellbore is provided. The method comprises establishing a communication link between a wellsite and a central control site, wherein the communication link carries sensor, audio, and video data to the central control site and carries command parameters to the wellsite to command wellbore servicing equipment on the wellsite. The data transmitted by the wellsite is analyzed at the central control site, stored in a data store at the central control site, and the results of analysis displayed on a display at the central control site.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Donald A. Belcher, Robert L. Toellner, Ronald E. Dant, Dean A. Thompson, Kenny L. McConnell
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Publication number: 20130076217Abstract: A cable reel assembly comprises a hub configured to house a field communication distribution box with front and rear flanges projecting radially outward from front and rear edges of the hub. A cable receiving trough is formed between the flanges in which a communications cable may be wound. A nesting ring which is smaller in diameter that the front and rear flanges projects outward from the second flange. The nesting ring of a first cable reel assembly is positionable within an area surrounded by the first flange of a second cable reel to facilitate stacking of the cable reels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: Alvin Dean Thompson, Cecil Donald Comley, John Jeffrey Comley, James Michael Comley
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Patent number: 8375251Abstract: A method, system, and media for monitoring and healing a computing system. Monitoring agents are deployed to a computing system to be monitored. The monitoring agents collect performance and non-performance counter data of computing devices in the computing system. The data include any recordable information about the monitored computing system. The data is stored in a performance database. A master controller monitors the data for an occurrence of an alert condition that indicates degradation in the health of the computing system. The health of the computing system includes the health of the system, individual components therein, and interactions with other systems. The master controller performs a resolution process to resolve issues causing degradation of the computing system. The collection of data and the monitoring thereof is customizable for an individual computing device, for a cluster of computing devices, or for the computing system as a whole.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2009Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Lawrence Ness, Brad Dean Thompson
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Publication number: 20120327313Abstract: A wall projection system for a room comprising a projector, where the projector is mounting on the ceiling of a four-walled room; at least one projection lens directed from the projector to each wall of the room, where the projection lens projects an image; and a screen type covering for each wall, where the screen type covering receives the image projected from the projection lens. The projector is mounted to a center point of the ceiling, to allow the projection lenses to project the images onto a screen-type wallpaper on the walls. The image projected is a single panoramic image projected onto each of the walls of the room.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Dean Thompson, Holly Markland
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Publication number: 20110272144Abstract: A method of servicing a wellbore is provided. The method comprises establishing a communication link between a wellsite and a central control site, wherein the communication link carries sensor, audio, and video data to the central control site and carries command parameters to the wellsite to command wellbore servicing equipment on the wellsite. The data transmitted by the wellsite is analyzed at the central control site, stored in a data store at the central control site, and the results of analysis displayed on a display at the central control site.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Donald A. Belcher, Robert L. Toellner, Ronald E. Dant, Dean A. Thompson, Kenny L. McConnell
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Patent number: 8017019Abstract: Improved fluidized bed precipitators (20, 46, 62, 74, 108, 112, 134, 168) especially useful for the treatment of waste waters containing soluble phosphorus are provided, having upright, primary fluidized bed sections (22, 48, 64, 76, 110, 114, 136) and obliquely oriented solids settling sections (28, 54, 68, 120, 144) which enhance the settling of small particles (166) and return thereof to the fluidized bed sections (22, 48, 64, 76, 110, 114, 136). The precipitators (20, 46, 62, 74, 108, 112, 134, 168) may also be equipped with a solids detection/withdrawal assembly (178) made up of one or more pressure transducers (180, 182) operable to determine the pressures within the fluidized bed sections 22, 48, 64, 76, 110, 114, 136) as a measure of bed densities, along with a selectively operable valve (172) which may be opened to periodically remove solids without clogging.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignees: Kansas State University Research Foundation, Kansas Environmental Management Associates, LLCInventors: Gina Young Becker, Sigifredo Castro Diaz, Michael Hanson, Kylo Martin Heller, Dean Thompson
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Publication number: 20100318836Abstract: A method, system, and media for monitoring and healing a computing system. Monitoring agents are deployed to a computing system to be monitored. The monitoring agents collect performance and non-performance counter data of computing devices in the computing system. The data include any recordable information about the monitored computing system. The data is stored in a performance database. A master controller monitors the data for an occurrence of an alert condition that indicates degradation in the health of the computing system. The health of the computing system includes the health of the system, individual components therein, and interactions with other systems. The master controller performs a resolution process to resolve issues causing degradation of the computing system. The collection of data and the monitoring thereof is customizable for an individual computing device, for a cluster of computing devices, or for the computing system as a whole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2009Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: ANDREW LAWRENCE NESS, BRAD DEAN THOMPSON
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Publication number: 20100121855Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for accessing and managing an online storage system is disclosed. Access to a storage resource in a multiple server storage system is provided by sending to a lookup partitioning service server a resource identifier that is associated with a storage resource stored in a particular storage partition of a storage server. The LPS returns the looked-up partition that stores the storage resource associated with the resource identifier. Access to the storage resource is then enabled to the looked-up storage partition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2010Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Apurva F. Dalia, Craig Allen Harry, Nishant Dani, Shan Jiang, Brad Dean Thompson, Bradley J. Barrows, David R. Shutt
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Patent number: 7676551Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for accessing and managing an online storage system is disclosed. Access to a storage resource in a multiple server storage system is provided by sending to a lookup partitioning service server a resource identifier that is associated with a storage resource stored in a particular storage partition of a storage server. The LPS returns the looked-up partition that stores the storage resource associated with the resource identifier. Access to the storage resource is then enabled to the looked-up storage partition.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2003Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Apurva F. Dalia, Craig Allen Harry, Nishant Dani, Shan Jiang, Brad Dean Thompson, Bradley J. Barrows, David R. Shutt
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Patent number: 7661634Abstract: A keyed channel strut mounted connector device includes channel engagement structure connected to attachment structure. The channel engagement structure includes a key for engaging the channel, and an octagonal neck connecting the key to a boss surmounting the attachment structure. The neck includes clearance facets permitting the key to pass into the longitudinal channel, and relief facets defining support shoulders on the key for supporting the key on the inwardly turned sidewalls of a channel strut. Two pairs of opposed support shoulders permit installation of the device for supporting a run of cables or pipes parallel with the longitudinal axis of the strut, or rotation of the device 90° for supporting the cables or pipes transverse to the strut. By rotating the device 180° in either direction, the head and tail ends of the attachment structure can be reversed without changing the parallel or transverse orientation of the attachment structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: DT Search & Designs, LLCInventor: Alvin Dean Thompson
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Patent number: 7628659Abstract: An enhanced cable assembly for field data distribution system includes a cable member formed by a plurality of twisted conductor pairs bundled within a conductive shield and an insulative sheath. The cable assembly is terminated by a pair of multi-contact cable connectors, each including a conductive shell, a contact array board supported in the shell, and a weather seal. The cable connectors are of a standard configuration for use with standardized field data distribution boxes. The contact board array is of such a configuration as to enable two cable connectors to be joined to thereby interconnect two such cables. The enhanced cable assembly is constructed to comply with Category 5E specifications.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: DT Search & Designs LLCInventor: Alvin Dean Thompson
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Patent number: D632547Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: DT Search & Designs, LLCInventor: Alvin Dean Thompson