Patents by Inventor Anne Hughes

Anne Hughes 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: 20210128033
    Abstract: A laryngoscope system includes a monitor having communication circuitry and that communicates physiological parameter information to communication circuitry of a paired laryngoscope. The paired laryngoscope includes a camera and a display configured to display image data from the camera. A processor of the laryngoscope is programmed to generate instructions to provide a physiological parameter indicator via the laryngoscope based on the received physiological parameter information from the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Derek Scot Tata, Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Craig Allen Patton, Michael Ng, George R. Winski, Caitlyn Anne Hughes
  • Patent number: 10956342
    Abstract: A multi-controller memory system includes a flexible channel memory controller coupled to at least first and second physical interfaces. The second physical interface is also coupled to an auxiliary memory controller. The physical interfaces may be coupled to separate memory modules. In a single-channel control mode, the memory controllers respectively control the memory modules coupled to the first and second physical interface. In a multi-channel control mode, the flexible channel memory controller controls both memory modules while the auxiliary memory controller is inactive. In a single-channel control mode, the memory controllers coordinate restricted memory control commands which access a resource shared by both modules, by one controller transmitting a request signal for the resource to the other controller, awaiting an acknowledgment signal from the other controller, and maintaining transmission of the request signal until the use of the resource is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: John MacLaren, Jerome J. Johnson, Landon Laws, Anne Hughes
  • Patent number: 10642538
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide for a multi-channel memory interface capable of supporting a multi-channel memory module (e.g., DIMM) that combines different memory types, such as DDR4/DDR5, DDR5/LPDDR5, or LPDDR4/LPDDR5, through a single physical layer (PHY) interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. MacLaren, Jeffrey S. Earl, Anne Hughes
  • Patent number: 10642684
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein provide for grouping read-modify-writes (RMWs) such that multiple RMW command sequences can be executed (or rearranged in the command queue) in an interleaved manner rather than being executed in order. In particular, various embodiments described herein split the read and write components (commands) of multiple RMW command sequences, group the read components in the command queue to execute consecutively, and group the write components in the command queue to execute consecutively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. MacLaren, Anne Hughes, Thomas J. Shepherd, Carl Nels Olson
  • Patent number: 10534565
    Abstract: A device including an address extraction for a data burst associated with a host processor and to map the data burst to a memory according to a rotation is provided. The device includes a splitter to separate a first command that associates the data burst with a first round in the rotation, and a selection logic to select, from the first round in the rotation, a first bank group at the address in the memory to execute the first command, and execution logic to receive the data burst and the address in the memory to activate the first bank group at the address in the memory, and to schedule an execution of the first command based on an availability of a second bank group from the first round in the rotation. A system and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions to use the device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Bikram Banerjee, Anne Hughes, John M. MacLaren
  • Patent number: 10446215
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for system for adaptive refresh of a memory device having multiple integrated circuit chips. A command generation portion generates commands for actuating a plurality of operational tasks on the memory device, including at least read, write, and refresh operations for selectively addressed storage cells of the memory device. A command management portion stores the commands and selects from the commands for timely execution of corresponding operational tasks on the memory device. A refresh management portion coupled to the command generation and command management portions actuates a plurality of refresh operations adaptively interleaved with other operational tasks, such that recursive refresh of the storage cells is carried out for the memory device within a predetermined refresh window of time. The refresh management portion selectively actuates each refresh operation for a chip-based selection of storage cells, whereby the storage cells of a selected chip are refreshed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Anne Hughes, John MacLaren, Devika Raghu
  • Patent number: 10037246
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for controlling access to memory to support processing of a master control operation. A data control portion is configured to carry out a plurality of data access operations on the memory device, including read, write, and read-modify-write operations for selectively addressed storage locations defined in the memory. An error control portion executes to detect error in a data segment as stored in the memory. The error control portion corrects a data segment read from the memory device for at least one type of detected error. A command control portion generates commands for actuating the data access operations of the data control portion. The command control portion includes a corrective writeback unit executable responsive to detection of correctable error in a data segment to actuate a read-modify-write operation to the data segment's storage locations. The corresponding storage locations of the memory are thereby adaptively scrubbed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Landon Laws, Anne Hughes, John MacLaren
  • Patent number: 9940260
    Abstract: A memory controller system optimally controls access to a memory device having a plurality of integrated circuit (IC) chips disposed in a non-uniform stack configuration within a three-dimensional stacked (3DS) structure. A memory profiling portion executes to determine the non-uniform stack configuration. A virtual rank mapping portion configured to assign virtual ranks to chip locations actually defined by the non-uniform stack configuration. An address conversion portion executes to convert an unoptimized address definable with reference to a uniform stack configuration to an optimized address defined with reference to the non-uniform stack configuration. The addressing overhead during monitoring of data access operations to the memory device is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Anne Hughes, Bikram Banerjee
  • Patent number: 7700703
    Abstract: New polymeric additive including one or more ethylenically unsaturated surfactant monomers are described having a number average molecular weight less than 40,000 and having an improved balance of tack, adhesion, plasticity and peel strength and water whitening resistance as compared to other polymer additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Katherine Anne Hughes, Alfred Karl Schultz
  • Patent number: 6251213
    Abstract: Aqueous laminating construction adhesive compositions incorporating a one-part adhesive copolymer, the copolymer being a vinyl ester/acrylic copolymer containing from about 0.1% to about 20%, by weight based on copolymer weight, of a copolymerized polar monomer, the copolymer having a Tg from about 10° C. to about −35 C. are provided which exhibit a good balance of high temperature and ambient temperature adhesion performance in a one-part adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Bartman, Kathleen Anne Hughes, Eric Karl Eisenhart, Joann Marie Eisenhart
  • Patent number: 6215119
    Abstract: A low-cost, high precision encoder system includes a codewheel and two encoder sensors mounted at opposite sides of the codewheel to form a dual sensor system having a corrected output that corrects for eccentricity in the mounting of the codewheel and the sensors. The encoder system has a correction circuit that provides a corrected output based on inputs received from the two encoder sensors, which can be single or multiple channel encoders. Methods for achieving the corrected output signal include measuring a time between a signal from the first encoder and a signal from the second encoder and halving this time. Methods for identifying a leading signal from the two sensors are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Guy Markham, Anthony Edward Audi, Kristin Anne Hughes
  • Patent number: 5881594
    Abstract: A method of enhancing the strength of metals by affecting subsurface zones developed during the application of large sliding loads. Stresses which develop locally within the near surface zone can be many times larger than those predicted from the applied load and the friction coefficient. These stress concentrations arise from two sources: 1) asperity interactions and 2) local and momentary bonding between the two surfaces. By controlling these parameters more desirable strength characteristics can be developed in weaker metals to provide much greater strength to rival that of steel, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation
    Inventors: Darcy Anne Hughes, Daniel B. Dawson, John S. Korellis