Patents by Inventor Allen Hanson
Allen Hanson 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: 8277768Abstract: Systems and methods and resulting compositions of matter including silicon solids from a mixture of silicon and water. The mixture is collected at a collection stage from at least one wafer abrasion process performed on a silicon surface having an impurity concentration ?0.1 ppb and extracting one portion of the water from the mixture using at least one dryer stage to form a dry cake. The dry cake includes at least 99.99% silicon by weight excluding water and non-silicon species, where a concentration of water in the dry cake is between 0.05% and 1% by weight, and where a concentration of non-silicon species in the dry cake is between 0.05% and 1% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Michael Louis Hayden, Jeffrey Allen Hanson, Keith Melcher, Robert Mark Reynolds, Patricia Ann Constandine
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Patent number: 8095072Abstract: A Wireless Connection Utility (WCU) provides a unified user experience for managing various types of wireless connections, including Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Bluetooth networks. The WCU functions as a gateway for a user of a computer to monitor the computer's wireless network status, to switch wireless connections, to configure wireless connection settings, and to diagnose wireless connection problems through a Wireless Helper Utility (WHU). The WCU thus provides a unified U/I layer on the top of the existing operating system components for ease of use.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jianyu Roy Zheng, Mark Allen Hanson, Djung Nguyen
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Publication number: 20110172202Abstract: Compounds that selectively modulate the sphingosine 1 phosphate receptor are provided including compounds which modulate subtype 1 of the S1P receptor. Methods of chiral synthesis of such compounds is provided. Uses, methods of treatment or prevention and methods of preparing inventive compositions including inventive compounds are provided in connection with the treatment or prevention of diseases, malconditions, and disorders for which modulation of the sphingosine 1 phosphate receptor is medically indicated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Esther Martinborough, Marcus F. Boehm, Adam Richard Yeager, Junko Tamiya, Liming Huang, Enugurthi Brahmachary, Manisha Moorjani, Gregg Alan Timony, Jennifer L. Brooks, Robert Peach, Fiona Lorraine Scott, Michael Allen Hanson
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Publication number: 20110078627Abstract: A Wireless Connection Utility (WCU) provides a unified user experience for managing various types of wireless connections, including Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Bluetooth networks. The WCU functions as a gateway for a user of a computer to monitor the computer's wireless network status, to switch wireless connections, to configure wireless connection settings, and to diagnose wireless connection problems through a Wireless Helper Utility (WHU). The WCU thus provides a unified U/I layer on the top of the existing operating system components for ease of use.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventors: JIANYU ROY ZHENG, Mark Allen Hanson, Djung Nguyen
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Patent number: 7917089Abstract: A Wireless Connection Utility (WCU) provides a unified user experience for managing various types of wireless connections, including Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Bluetooth networks. The WCU functions as a gateway for a user of a computer to monitor the computer's wireless network status, to switch wireless connections, to configure wireless connection settings, and to diagnose wireless connection problems through a Wireless Helper Utility (WHU). The WCU thus provides a unified U/I layer on the top of the existing operating system components for ease of use.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jianyu Roy Zheng, Mark Allen Hanson, Djung Nguyen
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Patent number: 7732225Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes placing a sample of a liquid chemical containing a contaminant on a substantially impurity-free surface of a substrate. The liquid chemical is evaporated, leaving the contaminant on the surface. The contaminant is concentrated in a scanning solution, which is then evaporated to form a residue. A concentration of the contaminant in the residue is determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Jeffrey Allen Hanson, Lee M. Loewenstein, Monte Allan Douglas
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Publication number: 20100124527Abstract: Systems and methods and resulting compositions of matter including silicon solids from a mixture of silicon and water. The mixture is collected at a collection stage from at least one wafer abrasion process performed on a silicon surface having an impurity concentration ?0.1 ppb and extracting one portion of the water from the mixture using at least one dryer stage to form a dry cake. The dry cake includes at least 99.99% silicon by weight excluding water and non-silicon species, where a concentration of water in the dry cake is between 0.05% and 1% by weight, and where a concentration of non-silicon species in the dry cake is between 0.05% and 1% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2008Publication date: May 20, 2010Inventors: Michael Louis Hayden, Jeffrey Allen Hanson, Keith Melcher, Robert Mark Reynolds, Patricia Ann Constandine
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Publication number: 20100100642Abstract: A Wireless Connection Utility (WCU) provides a unified user experience for managing various types of wireless connections, including Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Bluetooth networks. The WCU functions as a gateway for a user of a computer to monitor the computer's wireless network status, to switch wireless connections, to configure wireless connection settings, and to diagnose wireless connection problems through a Wireless Helper Utility (WHU). The WCU thus provides a unified U/I layer on the top of the existing operating system components for ease of use.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Inventors: JIANYU ROY ZHENG, MARK ALLEN HANSON, DJUNG NGUYEN
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Patent number: 7668508Abstract: A Wireless Connection Utility (WCU) provides a unified user experience for managing various types of wireless connections, including Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Bluetooth networks. The WCU functions as a gateway for a user of a computer to monitor the computer's wireless network status, to switch wireless connections, to configure wireless connection settings, and to diagnose wireless connection problems through a Wireless Helper Utility (WHU). The WCU thus provides a unified U/I layer on the top of the existing operating system components for ease of use.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jianyu Roy Zheng, Mark Allen Hanson, Djung Nguyen
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Publication number: 20080121027Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes placing a sample of a liquid chemical containing a contaminant on a substantially impurity-free surface of a substrate. The liquid chemical is evaporated, leaving the contaminant on the surface. The contaminant is concentrated in a scanning solution, which is then evaporated to form a residue. A concentration of the contaminant in the residue is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Jeffrey Allen Hanson, Lee M. Loewenstein, Monte Allan Douglas
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Publication number: 20080046943Abstract: A TV communicates with an Internet video system providing video content to the TV for display of the content on the TV. The Internet video system also provides information to the TV for rendering into a user interface (UI) screen on the TV and presenting icons representing respective Internet video providers, the icons being arranged on the screen in accordance with respective remunerations remitted by each provider. Parental controls entered into the V-chip of the TV can be automatically provided to the Internet video system for implementation in the Internet video system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Nick Colsey, Mark Allen Hanson, Jason R. Meerbergen, Lee Pedlow, Gen Tsuchikawa
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Publication number: 20070284866Abstract: An outrigger is configured for use in stabilizing a work vehicle. The outrigger comprises a foldable stabilizer arm that folds and unfolds upon movement between stowage and deployed positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2006Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventor: Rex Allen Hanson
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Publication number: 20070272957Abstract: Gallium nitride material devices and methods associated with the same. In some embodiments, the devices may be transistors which include a conductive structure connected to a source electrode. The conductive structure may form a source field plate which can be formed over a dielectric material and can extend in the direction of the gate electrode of the transistor. The source field plate may reduce the electrical field (e.g., peak electrical field and/or integrated electrical field) in the region of the device between the gate electrode and the drain electrode which can lead to a number of advantages including reduced gate-drain feedback capacitance, reduced surface electron concentration, increased breakdown voltage, and improved device reliability. These advantages enable the gallium nitride material transistors to operate at high drain efficiencies and/or high output powers. The devices can be used in RF power applications, amongst others.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2006Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicant: Nitronex CorporationInventors: Jerry Johnson, Sameer Singhal, Allen Hanson, Robert Therrien
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Publication number: 20070200134Abstract: Semiconductor structures comprising a III-nitride (e.g., gallium nitride) material region and methods associated with such structures are provided. In some embodiments, the structures include an electrically conductive material (e.g., gold) separated from certain other region(s) of the structure (e.g., a silicon substrate) by a barrier material in order to limit, or prevent, undesirable reactions between the electrically conductive material and the other component(s) which can impair device performance. In certain embodiments, the electrically conductive material may be formed in a via. For example, the via can extend from a topside of the device to a backside so that the electrically conductive material connects a topside contact to a backside contact. The structures described herein may form the basis of a number of semiconductor devices including transistors (e.g., FET), Schottky diodes, light-emitting diodes and laser diodes, amongst others.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2006Publication date: August 30, 2007Applicant: Nitronex CorporationInventors: Robert Therrien, Jerry Johnson, Allen Hanson
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Publication number: 20070120147Abstract: Gallium nitride material transistors and methods associated with the same are provided. The transistors may be used in power applications by amplifying an input signal to produce an output signal having increased power. The transistors may be designed to transmit the majority of the output signal within a specific transmission channel (defined in terms of frequency), while minimizing transmission in adjacent channels. This ability gives the transistors excellent linearity which results in high signal quality and limits errors in transmitted data. The transistors may be designed to achieve low ACPR values (a measure of excellent linearity), while still operating at high drain efficiencies and/or high output powers. Such properties enable the transistors to be used in RF power applications including third generation (3G) power applications based on W-CDMA modulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2006Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicant: Nitronex CorporationInventors: Walter Nagy, Ricardo Borges, Jeffrey Brown, Apurva Chaudhari, James Cook, Allen Hanson, Jerry Johnson, Kevin Linthicum, Edwin Piner, Pradeep Rajagopal, John Roberts, Sameer Singhal, Robert Therrien, Andrei Vescan
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Publication number: 20060118819Abstract: III-nitride material structures including silicon substrates, as well as methods associated with the same, are described. Parasitic losses in the structures may be significantly reduced which is reflected in performance improvements. Devices (such as RF devices) formed of structures of the invention may have higher output power, power gain and efficiency, amongst other advantages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2004Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicant: Nitronex CorporationInventors: Allen Hanson, John Roberts, Edwin Piner, Pradeep Rajagopal
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Publication number: 20050167775Abstract: Gallium nitride material transistors and methods associated with the same are provided. The transistors may be used in power applications by amplifying an input signal to produce an output signal having increased power. The transistors may be designed to transmit the majority of the output signal within a specific transmission channel (defined in terms of frequency), while minimizing transmission in adjacent channels. This ability gives the transistors excellent linearity which results in high signal quality and limits errors in transmitted data. The transistors may be designed to achieve low ACPR values (a measure of excellent linearity), while still operating at high drain efficiencies and/or high output powers. Such properties enable the transistors to be used in RF power applications including third generation (3G) power applications based on W-CDMA modulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2004Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: Nitronex CorporationInventors: Walter Nagy, Ricardo Borges, Jeffrey Brown, Apurva Chaudhari, James Cook, Allen Hanson, Jerry Johnson, Kevin Linthicum, Edwin Piner, Pradeep Rajagopal, John Roberts, Sameer Singhal, Robert Therrien, Andrei Vescan
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Publication number: 20050145851Abstract: Gallium nitride material structures, including devices, and methods associated with the same are provided. In some embodiments, the structures include one or more isolation regions which electrically isolate adjacent devices. One aspect of the invention is the discovery that the isolation regions also can significantly reduce the leakage current of devices (e.g., transistors) made from the structures, particularly devices that also include a passivating layer formed on a surface of the gallium nitride material. Lower leakage currents can result in increased power densities and operating voltages, amongst other advantages.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2004Publication date: July 7, 2005Applicant: Nitronex CorporationInventors: Jerry Johnson, Ricardo Borges, Jeffrey Brown, James Cook, Allen Hanson, Edwin Piner, Pradeep Rajagopal, John Roberts, Sameer Singhal, Robert Therrien, Andrei Vescan
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Patent number: 6642559Abstract: An isolation structure for high frequency integrated circuits is a conductive material disposed over a region of active gallium arsenide substrate. The conductive material over the active region creates a lossy RF path to reduce undesired coupling between adjacent conductors. In one case, two RF signal lines (1,2) terminated at the same via pad (3) have weaker coupling than in prior art via structures due to the lossy RF structure disposed on isolating fractional portions (10,11) of the via pad (3). The isolating fractional portion (10,11) are intermediate terminating fractional portions (8,9) of the via pad (3) to which the signal lines (1,2) are connected. In another case, two parallel bias lines (12,13) are disposed over an active layer region (6) increasing the RF loss between them and advantageously reducing the RF coupling. The reduced RF coupling improves RF isolation and permits increased miniaturization.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1999Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: The Whitaker CorporationInventors: Kenneth Vern Buer, Anthony Francis Quaglietta, Allen Hanson
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Patent number: 6460644Abstract: The front of a hood for a work vehicle is pivotally mounted to the front of the supporting structure. The rear of the hood is located adjacent to a mast. The mast extends vertically upward from the supporting structure of the work vehicle. A work implement having lift arms is operatively coupled to the mast and extends forwardly therefrom about the hood. The work implement has a raised position and a lowered position. The hood has a closed position enclosing the internal combustion engine, an intermediate open position making a portion of the internal combustion engine accessible and a fully opened position wherein the internal combustion engine is more fully accessible. The hood can be opened into its intermediate opened position when the work implement is in its lowered position. The hood can be moved to its fully opened position when the work implement is in its raised position.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2000Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Richard Jon Smith, Rex Allen Hanson, Peter John Mayer