Patents by Inventor Alan King
Alan King 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: 11973093Abstract: A single photon avalanche (SPAD) device configured to detect visible to infrared light includes a substrate and a trench coupled to the substrate. The trench has a lattice mismatch with the substrate and has a height equal to or greater than its width. The device further includes a substantially defect-free semiconductor region that includes photosensitive material. The semiconductor region includes a well coupled to the trench and doped a first type. The well is configured to detect a photon and generate a current. The semiconductor region also includes a region formed in the well and doped a second type opposite to the first type. The well is configured to cause an avalanche multiplication of the current. The trench and the well form a first electrode and the region forms a second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SEMIKING LLCInventors: Clifford Alan King, Anders Ingvar Aberg
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Patent number: 11953462Abstract: A method of forming a glass electrochemical sensor is described. In some embodiments, the method may include forming a plurality of electrical through glass vias (TGVs) in an electrode substrate; filling each of the plurality of electrical TGVs with an electrode material; forming a plurality of contact TGVs in the electrode substrate; filling each of the plurality of contact TGVs with a conductive material; patterning the conductive material to connect the electrical TGVs with the contact TGVs; forming a cavity in a first glass layer; and bonding a first side of the first glass layer to the electrode substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Robert Alan Bellman, Jeffrey Stapleton King, Scott Christopher Pollard
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Publication number: 20230233384Abstract: A composite includes a first substrate and a second substrate joined in a bonding region, wherein the first substrate comprises a first Peak Force Tensile Strength and the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The first Peak Force Tensile Strength is greater than or equal to the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The bonding region has a Bond Density of about 10% to about 22%; and a Composite Tensile Strength at Peak Force that is within about 15% of the second Peak Force Tensile Strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Ray Dennis DRIA, Michael Joseph PAGE, Joseph Leslie GROLMES, Scott Alan KING, Matthew Steven RITTER, Christopher Colin ARP
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Patent number: 11642255Abstract: A composite includes a first substrate and a second substrate joined in a bonding region, wherein the first substrate comprises a first Peak Force Tensile Strength and the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The first Peak Force Tensile Strength is greater than or equal to the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The bonding region has a Bond Density of about 10% to about 22%; and a Composite Tensile Strength at Peak Force that is within about 15% of the second Peak Force Tensile Strength.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANYInventors: Ray Dennis Dria, Michael Joseph Page, Joseph Leslie Grolmes, Scott Alan King, Matthew Steven Ritter, Christopher Colin Arp
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Patent number: 11554391Abstract: A point of use air wand with a built in filtration system may include a wand including a filter body; a filter housed within the filter body; an input endcap attached to a first end of the filter body, the input endcap operatively attached to an air source; and an accumulator endcap attached to a second end of the filter body. Forced air may enter the wand through the input endcap, flow through the filter, and then out of the wand through the accumulator endcap.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Inventor: James Alan King
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Publication number: 20220160557Abstract: A cot includes a patient platform that supports a frame, a patient support assembly, and a pad. The cot further includes a lift system that is coupled to a transport system that includes a cot retainer. The patient support assembly includes a headrest, backrest, seat, and leg rest. In some forms, a child restraint assembly is incorporated into the various parts of the patient support assembly to allow safe transport of children in an ambulance. The child restraint assembly is adjustable to accommodate the size of the child being transported. In other forms, the child restraint assembly is incorporated into the pad. The various embodiments envision a child restraint assembly that is easily accessible to emergency medical professionals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Alan King, Christopher Geist, Amie Barnes, Soren Balzer Sibbesen, Douglas Wayne Bittner, Chris P. Jessup
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Patent number: 11241344Abstract: A cot includes a patient platform that supports a frame, a patient support assembly, and a pad. The cot further includes a lift system that is coupled to a transport system that includes a cot retainer. The patient support assembly includes a headrest, backrest, seat, and leg rest. In some forms, a child restraint assembly is incorporated into the various parts of the patient support assembly to allow safe transport of children in an ambulance. The child restraint assembly is adjustable to accommodate the size of the child being transported. In other forms, the child restraint assembly is incorporated into the pad. The various embodiments envision a child restraint assembly that is easily accessible to emergency medical professionals.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Alan King, Christopher Geist, Amie Barnes, Soren Balzer Sibbesen, Douglas Wayne Bittner, Chris P. Jessup
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Publication number: 20220026291Abstract: One aspect of this disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for determining a force acting on at least part of a structure, for example a biological structure, such as a DNA molecule. The method comprises controlling a light-sensitive system, e.g. of a microscope, to determine light information based on light from the structure. The light is incident on at least a part of the light sensitive system. The light-sensitive system may be said to capture the light from the structure. The at least part of the structure comprises one or more optically active entities, such as DNA intercalator molecules and donor/acceptor fluorophores. At least one of (i) an optical activity of the entities and (ii) a quantity of the entities depends on the force acting on the at least part of the structure. Furthermore, the light information defines a light property value associated with said at least part of the structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: LUMICKS CA HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Graeme Alan KING, Andreas Sebastian BIEBRICHER, Iddo HELLER, Erwin Johannes Gerard PETERMAN, Gijs Jan Lodewijk WUITE
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Publication number: 20210341619Abstract: An image sensor array includes a substrate and a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a single photon avalanche detector (SPAD), a quench device coupled to a respective SPAD and configured to quench an avalanche current, and time measurement circuitry configured to measure a time-of-flight of a photon. The SPAD has a trench coupled to the substrate and having a lattice mismatch with the substrate, and a substantially defect-free region coupled to the trench and configured to generate the avalanche current when the photon is detected in the defect-free region, wherein the trench and the defect-free region form an electrode. An imaging system includes an infrared laser configured to provide a pulse of light, and the image sensor array configured to receive the pulse from the infrared laser.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Clifford Alan King, Anders Ingvar Aberg
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Publication number: 20210343762Abstract: A single photon avalanche (SPAD) device configured to detect visible to infrared light includes a substrate and a trench coupled to the substrate. The trench has a lattice mismatch with the substrate and has a height equal to or greater than its width. The device further includes a substantially defect-free semiconductor region that includes photosensitive material. The semiconductor region includes a well coupled to the trench and doped a first type. The well is configured to detect a photon and generate a current. The semiconductor region also includes a region formed in the well and doped a second type opposite to the first type. The well is configured to cause an avalanche multiplication of the current. The trench and the well form a first electrode and the region forms a second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Clifford Alan King, Anders Ingvar Aberg
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Patent number: 11156513Abstract: One aspect of this disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for determining a force acting on at least part of a structure, for example a biological structure, such as a DNA molecule. The method comprises controlling a light-sensitive system, e.g. of a microscope, to determine light information based on light from the structure. The light is incident on at least a part of the light sensitive system. The light-sensitive system may be said to capture the light from the structure. The at least part of the structure comprises one or more optically active entities, such as DNA intercalator molecules and donor/acceptor fluorophores. At least one of (i) an optical activity of the entities and (ii) a quantity of the entities depends on the force acting on the at least part of the structure. Furthermore, the light information defines a light property value associated with said at least part of the structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Inventors: Graeme Alan King, Andreas Sebastian Biebricher, Iddo Heller, Erwin Johannes Gerard Peterman, Gijs Jan Lodewijk Wuite
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Publication number: 20200399688Abstract: A method for supercoiling DNA, e.g. negatively supercoiling DNA, is disclosed. In an initial state, at least part of a DNA molecule is torsionally constrained and associated with a first linking number. The at least part of the DNA molecule has a first end connected to a first body and a second end connected to a second body. The method comprises increasing a distance between the first body and the second body for inducing a torque in the at least part of the DNA molecule and for bringing the at least part of the DNA molecule from the initial state into an intermediate state. In the intermediate state the at least part of the DNA molecule is temporarily torsionally unconstrained for at least partially releasing the induced torque for changing, e.g. decreasing, the first linking number.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: STICHTING VUInventors: Graeme Alan KING, Federica BURLA, Gijs Jan Lodewijk WUITE, Erwin Johannes Gerard PETERMAN
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Publication number: 20200370974Abstract: One aspect of this disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for determining a force acting on at least part of a structure, for example a biological structure, such as a DNA molecule. The method comprises controlling a light-sensitive system, e.g. of a microscope, to determine light information based on light from the structure. The light is incident on at least a part of the light sensitive system. The light-sensitive system may be said to capture the light from the structure. The at least part of the structure comprises one or more optically active entities, such as DNA intercalator molecules and donor/acceptor fluorophores. At least one of (i) an optical activity of the entities and (ii) a quantity of the entities depends on the force acting on the at least part of the structure. Furthermore, the light information defines a light property value associated with said at least part of the structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: STICHTING VUInventors: Graeme Alan KING, Andreas Sebastian BIEBRICHER, Iddo HELLER, Erwin Johannes Gerard PETERMAN, Gijs Jan Lodewijk WUITE
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Patent number: 10795991Abstract: A method performed by an enterprise search system to conduct an automated, computerized search for select operational attributes of a plurality of network devices is shown. The method comprises initiating the search via a user interface based on receipt of input information, which is used to form a query. The method then determines based on the query, one or more audits each specifying one or more tasks to be performed by at least a first network device to search for the select operational attributes. Subsequently, the method makes the one or more audits available to the first network device via a network, and receives, from the first network device, one or more responses to the query. The method may include generating one or more filter conditions to apply to results of executing the one or more tasks to yield the select operational attributes when included in the results.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: FireEye, Inc.Inventors: Steven Antonio Ross, Ai Quoc Duong, Larry Alan King, John Patrick Young
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Publication number: 20200046583Abstract: A cot includes a patient platform that supports a frame, a patient support assembly, and a pad. The cot further includes a lift system that is coupled to a transport system that includes a cot retainer. The patient support assembly includes a headrest, backrest, seat, and leg rest. In some forms, a child restraint assembly is incorporated into the various parts of the patient support assembly to allow safe transport of children in an ambulance. The child restraint assembly is adjustable to accommodate the size of the child being transported. In other forms, the child restraint assembly is incorporated into the pad. The various embodiments envision a child restraint assembly that is easily accessible to emergency medical professionals.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Alan King, Christopher Geist, Amie Barnes, Soren Balzer Sibbesen, Douglas Wayne Bittner, Chris P. Jessup
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Publication number: 20190309451Abstract: A fabric for use in safety apparel is taught. The fabric comprises a first yarn comprising modacrylic run in a weft direction of said fabric and a second yarn comprising polyester run in a warp direction of said fabric. The fabric meets visibility requirements governed by CSA Z96 in Canada and by ANSI/ISEA 107 in the US and applicable international standards; and meets requirements for flame resistance governed in Canada by CAN/CGSB-155.20, CAN/CGSB 155.22, and CSA Z462; and in the US by NFPA 2112, NFPA 1971, NFPA 1975, NFPA 1977 and NFPA 70E and applicable international standards. A method of manufacturing a fabric is further taught, said method comprising the steps of running a first yarn in a weft direction, said first yarn comprising modacrylic and running a second yarn in a warp direction, said second yarn comprising polyester, wherein said method produces a fabric meeting visibility requirements and meeting requirements for flame resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Daniel Alan King, Lelia Kathryn Lawson
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Publication number: 20190290504Abstract: A composite includes a first substrate and a second substrate joined in a bonding region, wherein the first substrate comprises a first Peak Force Tensile Strength and the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The first Peak Force Tensile Strength is greater than or equal to the second Peak Force Tensile Strength. The bonding region has a Bond Density of about 10% to about 22%; and a Composite Tensile Strength at Peak Force that is within about 15% of the second Peak Force Tensile Strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Ray Dennis DRIA, Michael Joseph Page, Joseph Leslie Grolmes, Scott Alan King, Matthew Steven Ritter, Christopher Colin Arp
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Patent number: 10065180Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising a mixed oxide of vanadium, titanium, and phosphorus modified with alkali metal. The titanium component is derived from a water-soluble, redox-active organo-titanium compound. The catalyst composition is highly effective at facilitating the vapor-phase condensation of formaldehyde with acetic acid to generate acrylic acid, particularly using an industrially relevant aqueous liquid feed.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: David William Norman, Greg Alan King
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Publication number: 20180085741Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising a mixed oxide of vanadium, titanium, and phosphorus modified with alkali metal. The titanium component is derived from a water-soluble, redox-active organo-titanium compound. The catalyst composition is highly effective at facilitating the vapor-phase condensation of formaldehyde with acetic acid to generate acrylic acid, particularly using an industrially relevant aqueous liquid feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: David William Norman, Greg Alan King
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Patent number: D973200Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ray Dennis Dria, Michael Joseph Page, Joseph Leslie Grolmes, Scott Alan King, Matthew Steven Ritter, Christopher Colin Arp