Patents by Inventor Andrew Kim

Andrew Kim 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).

  • Publication number: 20170018756
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; an electrode tab extending from the electrode assembly; a sealing part for insulating the electrode tab from the case; and an insulation film around the electrode tab and between the sealing part and the electrode assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Taegon Kim, Andrew Kim, Youngkwang Yun, Joonsup Kim, Jaehyung Kim, Hoseong Kim, Kichul Ham, Minhee Lee, Daesung Ro, Jaehee Ha, Junhyung Lee, Jungmin Kang, Junggun Lim, Jaehee Kyoung, Jinwoo Kim
  • Publication number: 20150186817
    Abstract: During an analysis technique, organization data for an organization (such as a company) and/or external data are used to calculate a performance metric and to determine retention risk for an employee. For example, the performance metric may be calculated based on revenue or productivity, and the retention risk may be determined based on an unemployment rate in a region that includes the organization or hiring trends in the region. The calculated performance metric and the determined retention risk are provided to the organization. In addition, a retention suggestion and an associated cost-benefit analysis are provided for the employee. This information may allow the organization to manage its employees, and to effectively apply limited resources to reduce retention expense and while increasing the likelihood of retaining employees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Andrew Kim, Michael G. Housman
  • Publication number: 20140264731
    Abstract: One illustrative e-fuse device disclosed herein includes first and second conductive structures, a first electrically conductive heat cage element that is conductively coupled to the first conductive structure, wherein the first heat cage element is adapted to carry an electrical current, a second electrically conductive heat cage element that is conductively coupled to the second conductive structure, wherein the second heat cage element is adapted to carry the electrical current, and a programmable, electrically conductive e-fuse element that is conductively coupled to each of the first and second electrically conductive heat cage elements and adapted to carry the electrical current, wherein the e-fuse element is positioned adjacent to each of the first and second electrically conductive heat cage elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Kim, O Sung Kwon, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Seung-Hyun Rhee, Anurag Mittal
  • Publication number: 20100298847
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic suturing instrument, comprises a elongated cannulated suturing needle having a distal end configured to carry a suture through tissue and a proximal end adapted to connect to a syringe barrel and a lumen extending from said proximal end to an opening at the distal end for having a size for the passage of a suture, and the opening at the distal end configured to receive a suture extending from the lumen along an outer surface of the needle wherein a sharp point extends forward of the suture. A companion instrument includes forceps having a distal end with jaws and a proximal end with a lumen extending from the proximal end to the distal end for passage of the needle, and the jaws having an opening enabling passage of the needle through tissue grasped in the jaws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Andrew Kim
  • Patent number: 7828832
    Abstract: An intravascular delivery catheter includes a middle member or manipulator to ameliorate the effect of buckling of the graft cover during the tracking or positioning of the delivery device within a body flow lumen to deploy an exclusion device, such a stent graft. The delivery device/catheter includes a region or regions of lower resistance to bending than other portions of the delivery device, which are positioned, within the delivery device, to preferentially bend the delivery system at locations where buckling will have minimal effect upon the deployment of the exclusion device from the delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrance D. Belluche, Scott Doig, Hillary K. Huszar, Andrew Kim, Stephen Clark Meier
  • Patent number: 7699857
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic suturing instrument, comprises a elongated cannulated suturing needle having a distal end configured to carry a suture through tissue and a proximal end adapted to connect to a syringe barrel and a lumen extending from said proximal end to an opening at the distal end for having a size for the passage of a suture, and the opening at the distal end configured to receive a suture extending from the lumen along an outer surface of the needle wherein a sharp point extends forward of the suture. A companion instrument includes forceps having a distal end with jaws and a proximal end with a lumen extending from the proximal end to the distal end for passage of the needle, and the jaws having an opening enabling passage of the needle through tissue grasped in the jaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Inventor: Andrew Kim
  • Patent number: 7430186
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer readable device for providing spatial information in a sensor network. The sensor network comprises a plurality of sensors and a plurality of actuators, each sensors and actuators have a unique id and a known spatial location within a spatially-bounded zone and a database is provided for storing the location each sensor and actuator. A spatial-processor generates a plurality of context zones based upon the information contained in the location database to provide actuator coverage for the spatially-bounded zone. Each context zone is generated by assigning a subset of the plurality of sensors as a spatial boundary of each context zone and by deploying a subset of the plurality of actuators into one or more context zones. In operation, the spatial-processor determines if an actuator has failed in context zone and redeploys one or more actuators from another intersecting context zone to the context zone containing the non-operational actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Institute For Information Technology Advancement
    Inventor: Andrew Kim
  • Publication number: 20070173845
    Abstract: A self-locking suture anchor comprises a shank with an unthreaded portion between a first, proximal thread flight and a second flight axially displaced therefrom. A suture retainer collar through which a suture can be pulled surrounds the unthreaded portion. When the self-locking suture anchor is threaded into bone, the suture is compressed between the suture retainer collar and the screw and between the bone and the screw. A drive socket is in a central cavity of the shank. A driver includes a driver head. Additional sutures may also be supported to a holding suture retainer in the central cavity. A method includes securing a suture to position sutured tissue with respect to the self-locking suture anchor or to establish a particular tension in the suture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventor: Andrew Kim
  • Publication number: 20070171998
    Abstract: A multilevel optical receiver can comprise a plurality of comparators that generally correspond with the number of levels in a multilevel data stream. Each comparator can be individually controlled and fed a decision threshold in order to decode a multilevel signal. The multilevel optical receiver can generate a statistical characterization of the received symbols in the form of a marginal cumulative distribution function (CDF) or probability density function (pdf). This characterization can be used to produce a set of ?-support estimates from which conditional pdfs are derived for each of the transmission symbols. These conditional pdfs may then be used to determine decision thresholds for decoding the received signal. The conditional pdfs may further be used to continuously estimate the fidelity or error rate of the received signal without the transmission of a testing sequence. The ?-supports may further be used to automatically control the gain on the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Quellan, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Hietala, Andrew Kim
  • Patent number: 7209126
    Abstract: A display assembly for a point-of-sale terminal is provided. The display assembly has a liquid crystal display and a touch screen disposed overlying the liquid crystal display. The display assembly also has a viewing angle-controlled device disposed proximate to the touch screen. The viewing angle-controlled device is configured to limit the viewing angles at which said liquid crystal display may be viewed to a restricted range of viewing angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Kim
  • Publication number: 20070064923
    Abstract: A circuit can process a sample of a signal to emulate, simulate, or model an effect on the signal. Thus, an emulation circuit can produce a representation of a real-world signal transformation by processing the signal according to one or more signal processing parameters that are characteristic of the real-world signal transformation. The emulation circuit can apply analog signal processing and/or mixed signal processing to the signal. The signal processing can comprise feeding the signal through two signal paths, each having a different delay, and creating a weighted sum of the outputs of the two signal paths. The signal processing can also (or alternatively) comprise routing the signal through a network of delay elements, wherein a bank of switching or routing elements determines the route and thus the resulting delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Quellan, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Schmukler, Arvind Raghavan, Ziba Nami, Jyothi Peddi, Andrew Kim, Michael Vrazel, Charles Summers
  • Publication number: 20070060059
    Abstract: Signals propagating on an aggressor communication channel can cause detrimental interference in a victim communication channel. A signal processing circuit can generate an interference cancellation signal that, when applied to the victim communication channel, cancels the detrimental interference. The signal processing circuit can dynamically adjust or update two or more aspects of the interference cancellation signal, such as an amplitude or gain parameter and a phase or delay parameter. Via the dynamic adjustments, the signal processing circuit can adapt to changing conditions, thereby maintaining an acceptable level of interference cancellation in a fluctuating operating environment. A control circuit that implements the parametric adjustments can have at least two modes of operation, one for adjusting the amplitude parameter and one for adjusting the phase parameter. The modes can be selectable or can be intermittently available, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: Quellan, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kim, Edward Gebara, Bruce Schmukler, Mark Dickmann, Michael Farrell, Michael Vrazel, David Stelliga, Joy Laskar, Charles Summers
  • Publication number: 20060239390
    Abstract: A Signal Conditioning Filter (SCF) and a Signal Integrity Unit (SIU) address the coupled problem of equalization and noise filtering in order to improve signal fidelity for decoding. Specifically, a received signal can be filtered in a manner to optimize the signal fidelity even in the presence of both significant (large magnitudes of) ISI and noise. The present invention can provide an adaptive method that continuously monitors a signal fidelity measure. Monitoring the fidelity of a multilevel signal can be performed by external means such as by the SIU. A received signal y(t) can be “conditioned” by application of a filter with an electronically adjustable impulse response g(t). A resulting output z(t) can then be interrogated to characterize the quality of the conditioned signal. This fidelity measure q(t) can be used to adjust the filter response to maximize the fidelity measure of the conditioned signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: Quellan, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kim, Vincent Hietala, Sanjay Bajekal
  • Patent number: D774596
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Kujawski, Kenneth Jasinski, Carl J. Ledbetter, Andrew Kim
  • Patent number: D805067
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan A. Sparks, Nicolas Denhez, YeongKyu Yoo, Andrew Kim, Young Duk Song, Gregory G. Jones, Carl J. Ledbetter
  • Patent number: D805086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan A. Sparks, Nicolas Denhez, YeongKyu Yoo, Andrew Kim, Young Duk Song, Gregory G. Jones, Carl J. Ledbetter
  • Patent number: D805130
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan A. Sparks, Nicolas Denhez, YeongKyu Yoo, Andrew Kim, Young Duk Song, Gregory G. Jones, Carl J. Ledbetter
  • Patent number: D805131
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan A. Sparks, Nicolas Denhez, YeongKyu Yoo, Andrew Kim, Young Duk Song, Gregory G. Jones, Carl J. Ledbetter
  • Patent number: D805132
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan A. Sparks, Nicolas Denhez, YeongKyu Yoo, Andrew Kim, Young Duk Song, Gregory G. Jones, Carl J. Ledbetter
  • Patent number: D805133
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan A. Sparks, Nicolas Denhez, YeongKyu Yoo, Andrew Kim, Young Duk Song, Gregory G. Jones, Carl J. Ledbetter