Patents by Inventor Andrew Nguyen

Andrew Nguyen 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).

  • Patent number: 12291965
    Abstract: A method for preparing a geothermal system involves preparing a wellbore that extends into an underground magma reservoir. Characteristics of the drilling process and the borehole are monitored to detect when the magma reservoir is reached, such that specially configured drilling operations can be performed to drill to a target depth within the magma reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: EnhancedGEO Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Chris Smith, James Michael Browning, Randall Howard Hornbaker, Kevin Martin Stone, Georgios Evangelatos, Shamsul Abedin Al-Tomal, Andrew Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12258224
    Abstract: Data indicating a corresponding safety state information indicating an extent to which that operating zone currently is or is not available to the robotic system to perform tasks using one or more robotic instrumentalities associated with a robotic system is used, for each of a plurality of operating zones, to dynamically schedule and perform tasks associated with a higher level objective. The corresponding safety state information associated with the first operating zone indicating one of a plurality of safety states associated with a presence of a human worker in the first operating zone is received from one or more sensors associated with a first operating zone of the plurality of operating zones. Autonomous behavior of the one or more robotic instrumentalities is altered based on the one of the plurality of safety states associated with the presence of the human worker in the first operating zone indicated by the corresponding safety state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Dexterity, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhouwen Sun, Cuthbert Sun, Andrew Nguyen, Samuel Tay, Emilie Peck, Kevin Jose Chavez, Robert Holmberg
  • Publication number: 20250092491
    Abstract: Described herein is a chamber component having a body comprising one or more aluminum alloy compositions. A surface of the chamber component has an aluminum alloy composition comprising aluminum (Al), wherein the Al is included in an amount of about 85 wt % to about 98 wt %, based on total weight of the alloy composition, and magnesium (Mg), wherein the Mg is included in an amount of about 1 wt % to about 5 wt %, based on total weight of the alloy composition. The aluminum alloy composition further includes one or more additional chemical elements that form an equiaxed grain structure of an aluminum matrix of the alloy composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Chien-Min Liao, Chao Liu, Tom Cho, Hyeon Geu Kim, Andrew Nguyen, Hari Ponnekanti, Mingdong Li, Changgong Wang, Bruce Alger
  • Publication number: 20250084702
    Abstract: A method for preparing a geothermal system involves preparing a wellbore that extends into an underground magma reservoir. Characteristics of the drilling process and the borehole are monitored to detect when the magma reservoir is reached, such that specially configured drilling operations can be performed to drill to a target depth within the magma reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin Chris Smith, James Michael Browning, Randall Howard Hornbaker, Kevin Martin Stone, Georgios Evangelatos, Shamsul Abedin Al-Tomal, Andrew Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20250069921
    Abstract: Methods and systems for in-situ temperature control are provided. The system includes a temperature-sensing dis. The temperature-sensing disc has a body, a front surface and a back surface opposing the front surface. One or more cameras are positioned on the front surface, the back surface, or both the front surface and the back surface. The one or more cameras are configured for performing infrared-based imaging of a surface of a processing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew NGUYEN, Yogananda SARODE, Xue CHANG, Kartik RAMASWAMY
  • Publication number: 20250033900
    Abstract: A robotic line kitting system is disclosed. In various embodiments, a sensor reading associated with a force sensor associated with a robotic instrumentality comprising the robotic line kitting system is received. It is determined based at least in part on the sensor reading that a condition requiring human intervention has been detected. A task to be performed by a human worker to correct the condition is scheduled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Zhouwen Sun, Cuthbert Sun, Andrew Nguyen, Samuel Tay, Emilie Peck, Kevin Jose Chavez, Robert Holmberg
  • Publication number: 20250035343
    Abstract: A tubing is anchored in a boiler casing positioned in a borehole that extends into a magma reservoir. The tubing may include a notch that is secured to a tubing anchor receptacle of the boiler casing. The boiler casing may include a float shoe that helps to prevent or restrict the flow of magma from the magma reservoir into the boiler casing and tubing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Martin Stone, Benjamin Chris Smith, James Michael Browning, Shamsul Abedin Al-Tomal, Andrew Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20250034954
    Abstract: A tubing is anchored in a boiler casing positioned in a borehole that extends into a magma reservoir. The tubing may include a notch that is secured to a tubing anchor receptacle of the boiler casing. The boiler casing may include a float shoe that helps to prevent or restrict the flow of magma from the magma reservoir into the boiler casing and tubing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Martin Stone, Benjamin Chris Smith, James Michael Browning, Shamsul Abedin Al-Tomal, Andrew Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12180820
    Abstract: A method for preparing a geothermal system involves preparing a wellbore that extends into an underground magma reservoir. Characteristics of the drilling process and the borehole are monitored to detect when the magma reservoir is reached, such that specially configured drilling operations can be performed to drill to a target depth within the magma reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: EnhancedGEO Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Chris Smith, James Michael Browning, Randall Howard Hornbaker, Kevin Martin Stone, Georgios Evangelatos, Shamsul Abedin Al-Tomal, Andrew Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12183605
    Abstract: Methods and systems for in-situ temperature control are provided. The method includes delivering a temperature-sensing disc into a processing region of a processing chamber without breaking vacuum. The temperature-sensing disc includes one or more cameras configured to perform IR-based imaging. The method further includes measuring a temperature of at least one region of at least one chamber surface in the processing region of the processing chamber by imaging the at least one surface using the temperature-sensing disc. The method further includes comparing the measured temperature to a desired temperature to determine a temperature difference. The method further includes adjusting a temperature of the at least one chamber surface to compensate for the temperature difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Nguyen, Yogananda Sarode, Xue Chang, Kartik Ramaswamy
  • Publication number: 20240420984
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck (ESC) including a ceramic body having a first surface with two or more regions defined on the first surface arranged concentrically with respect to each other on the first surface. Each region includes a retaining ring arranged on the first surface and defining an outer edge of the region, and structures arranged on the first surface and within the region configured to support a surface of a substrate when the substrate is retained by the electrostatic chuck. The ESC includes gas conduits configured to introduce a gas into the two or more regions through the ceramic body and to the first surface, and embedded electrodes within the ceramic body and arranged with respect to the first surface and configured to generate a retaining force on the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Nguyen, Yogananda Sarode Vishwanath, Tom K. Cho, Jennifer Y. Sun, Xue Yang Chang
  • Publication number: 20240408751
    Abstract: A velocity control-based robotic system is disclosed. In various embodiments, sensor data is received from one or more sensors deployed in a physical space in which a robot is located. A processor is used to determine based at least in part on the sensor data an at least partly velocity-based trajectory along which to move an element comprising the robot. A command to implement the velocity-based trajectory is sent to the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Zhouwen Sun, Samir Menon, Kevin Jose Chavez, Toby Leonard Baker, David Leo Tondreau, III, Andrew Nguyen, Cuthbert Sun
  • Patent number: 12157644
    Abstract: A robotic line kitting system is disclosed. In various embodiments, a sensor reading associated with a force sensor associated with a robotic instrumentality comprising the robotic line kitting system is received. It is determined based at least in part on the sensor reading that a condition requiring human intervention has been detected. A task to be performed by a human worker to correct the condition is scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Dexterity, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhouwen Sun, Cuthbert Sun, Andrew Nguyen, Samuel Tay, Emilie Peck, Kevin Jose Chavez, Robert Holmberg
  • Patent number: 12142468
    Abstract: Exemplary methods of manufacturing a semiconductor cover wafer may include sintering aluminum nitride particles into a substrate characterized by a thickness and characterized by a disc shape. The methods may include grinding a surface of the substrate to reduce the thickness to less than or about 2 mm. The methods may include polishing the surface of the substrate to reduce a roughness. The methods may include annealing the substrate at a temperature of greater than or about 800° C. for a time period of greater than or about 60 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinayak Vishwanath Hassan, Bhaskar Kumar, Meng Cai, Sowjanya Musunuru, Kaushik Alayavalli, Andrew Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20240363315
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus and methods for an adjustable de-chucking voltage associated with an electrostatically charged substrate in a processing chamber. An example method of de-chucking a substrate disposed in a process chamber includes processing a substrate in a chamber body, the substrate being coupled to a substrate support comprising a chucking electrode. The method further includes monitoring a property associated with a lift pin assembly movable relative to the chucking electrode via an actuator. The method further includes adjusting a first voltage level applied to the chucking electrode in response to the property associated with the lift pin assembly satisfying one or more criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew NGUYEN, Lu LIU, Toan Q. TRAN, Daniel NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20240351055
    Abstract: Example structures, methods, and systems for additive manufacturing of a gas hub and delivery nozzle are disclosed. One example structure includes a unitary gas hub and distribution nozzle that includes a gas hub portion and a gas delivery nozzle portion. The gas hub portion includes multiple gas inlet paths and one or more plenum chambers. The multiple gas inlet paths and the one or more plenum chambers form fully recursive gas paths. Each of the one or more plenum chambers has one or more output holes. The gas delivery nozzle portion includes multiple gas flow paths, where each gas flow path is coupled to one of the one or more output holes in each of the one or more plenum chambers, and each gas flow path has a respective output at an outer surface of the gas delivery nozzle portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Yogananda Sarode Vishwanath, Andrew Nguyen, Tom K. Cho
  • Patent number: 12125689
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for forming plasma in a process chamber use an annular exciter formed of a first conductive material with a first end electrically connected to an RF power source that provides RF current and a second end connected to a ground and an annular applicator, physically separated from the annular exciter, formed of a second conductive material with at least one angular split with an angle forming an upper overlap portion and a lower overlap portion separated by a high K dielectric material which is configured to provide capacitance in conjunction with an inductance of the annular applicator to form a resonant circuit that is configured to resonate when the annular exciter flows RF current that inductively excites the annular applicator to a resonant frequency which forms azimuthal plasma from the annular applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kartik Ramaswamy, Andrew Nguyen, Yang Yang, Sathya Ganta, Fernando Silveira, Yue Guo, Lu Liu
  • Patent number: 12121354
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tubing system for use in a blood sampling-blood pressure monitoring system. The blood sampling-blood pressure monitoring system may include a control valve, a reservoir with a plunger, a sampling site, and a blood pressure transducer for measuring the blood pressure of a patient. The tubing system may comprise: a plurality of flexible tubing sections and a plurality of rigid tubing sections. The plurality of rigid tubing sections and flexible tubing sections may be interlinked with one another between the patient and the blood pressure transducer for the blood pressure measurement of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Nguyen Hoan
  • Publication number: 20240339301
    Abstract: Example structures, methods, and systems for additive manufacturing of components of source and gas delivery nozzle assembly are disclosed. One example structure includes a unitary gas distribution nozzle assembly that includes an upper electrode portion and a lower electrode portion joined by multiple joining structures, and one or more gas zone divider walls positioned between the upper electrode portion and the lower electrode portion. The unitary gas distribution nozzle assembly is of a single material. Each of the multiple joining structures is positioned between the upper electrode portion and the lower electrode portion. Each of the multiple joining structures is configured to transfer radio-frequency (RF) energy and thermal energy between the upper electrode portion and the lower electrode portion. The one or more gas zone divider walls are configured to separate a region between the upper electrode portion and the lower electrode portion into two or more plenum chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Yogananda Sarode Vishwanath, Andrew Nguyen, Tom K. Cho
  • Publication number: 20240339302
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus including designs embodied in machine-readable media for a gas break used in semiconductor processing systems. The apparatus includes a gas break structure comprising an insulating material and having one or more gas flow paths formed within a body of the gas break structure, the gas break structure configured to provide a specified impedance when coupled between a grounded gas distribution manifold and an electrically charged gas delivery nozzle, the gas break structure further comprising an internal structure having a specified geometry comprising a repeating structure and one or more empty gaps between elements of the repeating structure. The gas break can be formed using additive manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Yogananda Sarode Vishwanath, Andrew Nguyen, Tom K. Cho