Patents by Inventor Benjamin Ash
Benjamin Ash 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: 11067964Abstract: System and methods are disclosed for improving manufacturing processes, improving manufactured products, and improving deployed devices. The devices can be reconfigurable holographic antennas (“antennas”). Manufacturing test results for a plurality of antennas is collected. Field performance data and antenna management information is collected for a plurality of deployed antennas. Query selection criteria, machine learning correlation criteria and a minimum correlation threshold are passed to a server to query for matching records from a data store and to perform machine learning on the query results to generate improvements to processes, manufactured antenna performance and deployed antenna performance.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Klassen, Jonas Nicholson, Benjamin Ash, Mark Johnson
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Patent number: 10707585Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for a free space segment tester (FSST). In one example, an apparatus includes a frame, a first horn antenna, a second horn antenna, a controller, and an analyzer. The frame has a platform to support a thin film transistor (TFT) segment of a flat panel antenna. The first horn antenna transmits microwave energy to the TFT segment and receives reflected energy from the TFT segment. The second horn antenna receives microwave energy transmitted through the TFT segment. The controller is coupled to the TFT segment and provides at least one stimulus or condition to the TFT segment. The analyzer measures a characteristic of the TFT segment using the first horn antenna and the second horn antenna. Examples of a measured characteristic includes a measured microwave frequency response, transmission response, or reflection response for the TFT segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Tom Hower, Lamin Ceesay, Benjamin Ash, Matthew Fornes, William Pedler, Mohsen Sazegar, Jacob Tyler Repp
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Publication number: 20200044326Abstract: A composite stack-up for an antenna is described. In one embodiment, the antenna is a flat panel metamaterial antenna. In one embodiment, an antenna assembly comprises an antenna element layer having an upper side and a lower side; a first set of one or more layers forming an upper stack bonded to the upper side of the antenna element layer and being are at least partially transparent to radio frequency (RF) radiation; and a second set of one or more layers forming a lower stack bonded to the lower side of the antenna element layer, where the antenna element layer, upper stack and lower stack are bonded together to form a composite stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Stephen OLFERT, David LEVESQUE, Brad LAIRD, Steven LINN, Benjamin ASH, Ryan A. STEVENSON, Ken HARP, Hamid TORABI, Mohsen SAZEGAR, Chris EYLANDER, Mike SLOTA, Robert MOREY, Andrew TURNER, Robert Thomas HOWER
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Publication number: 20190229434Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for a free space segment tester (FSST). In one example, an apparatus includes a frame, a first horn antenna, a second horn antenna, a controller, and an analyzer. The frame has a platform to support a thin film transistor (TFT) segment of a flat panel antenna. The first horn antenna transmits microwave energy to the TFT segment and receives reflected energy from the TFT segment. The second horn antenna receives microwave energy transmitted through the TFT segment. The controller is coupled to the TFT segment and provides at least one stimulus or condition to the TFT segment. The analyzer measures a characteristic of the TFT segment using the first horn antenna and the second horn antenna. Examples of a measured characteristic includes a measured microwave frequency response, transmission response, or reflection response for the TFT segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Tom Hower, Lamin Ceesay, Benjamin Ash, Matthew Fornes, William Pedler, Mohsen Sazegar, Jacob Tyler Repp
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Publication number: 20190219982Abstract: System and methods are disclosed for improving manufacturing processes, improving manufactured products, and improving deployed devices. The devices can be reconfigurable holographic antennas (“antennas”). Manufacturing test results for a plurality of antennas is collected. Field performance data and antenna management information is collected for a plurality of deployed antennas. Query selection criteria, machine learning correlation criteria and a minimum correlation threshold are passed to a server to query for matching records from a data store and to perform machine learning on the query results to generate improvements to processes, manufactured antenna performance and deployed antenna performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Paul Klassen, Jonas Nicholson, Benjamin Ash, Mark Johnson
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Patent number: 10312600Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for a free space segment tester (FSST). In one example, an apparatus includes a frame, a first horn antenna, a second horn antenna, a controller, and an analyzer. The frame has a platform to support a thin film transistor (TFT) segment of a flat panel antenna. The first horn antenna transmits microwave energy to the TFT segment and receives reflected energy from the TFT segment. The second horn antenna receives microwave energy transmitted through the TFT segment. The controller is coupled to the TFT segment and provides at least one stimulus or condition to the TFT segment. The analyzer measures a characteristic of the TFT segment using the first horn antenna and the second horn antenna. Examples of a measured characteristic includes a measured microwave frequency response, transmission response, or reflection response for the TFT segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Tom Hower, Lamin Ceesay, Benjamin Ash, Matthew Fornes, William Pedler, Mohsen Sazegar, Jacob Tyler Repp
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Publication number: 20190103681Abstract: Embodiments of a tool are described. The tool includes an assembly plate having a top surface and a bottom surface. The assembly plate also includes a raised area on the top surface, the raised area centered on a central alignment hole extending from the top surface to the bottom surface through the entire thickness of the raised area. An alignment ring is formed in the top surface of the raised area, wherein the alignment ring surrounds the central alignment hole and is concentric with the central alignment hole. A fitting including a base tier, a plurality of stacked concentric tiers of different radii on a first side of the base tier, and a retainer on a second side of the base tier, wherein an axis of the fitting is adapted to be aligned with the center of the central alignment hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Mike Slota, Alex Truesdale Perry, Andrew Turner, Bryan McCrary, Stephen Olfert, Benjamin Ash
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Publication number: 20180115086Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for supporting an antenna and its components. In one embodiment, a retention apparatus for use in coupling to an antenna aperture during manufacturing comprises: a base plate; a plurality of clamps coupled to the base plate, each clamp of the plurality of clamps being rotatable to couple the antenna aperture to the base plate; and one or more component holders coupled to the base plate, each of the one or more component holders to securely hold at least one component that is coupled to the antenna aperture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Stephen Olfert, Benjamin Ash, Andrew Turner, Mehdi Afkahmi
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Publication number: 20170338569Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for a free space segment tester (FSST). In one example, an apparatus includes a frame, a first horn antenna, a second horn antenna, a controller, and an analyzer. The frame has a platform to support a thin film transistor (TFT) segment of a flat panel antenna. The first horn antenna transmits microwave energy to the TFT segment and receives reflected energy from the TFT segment. The second horn antenna receives microwave energy transmitted through the TFT segment. The controller is coupled to the TFT segment and provides at least one stimulus or condition to the TFT segment. The analyzer measures a characteristic of the TFT segment using the first horn antenna and the second horn antenna. Examples of a measured characteristic includes a measured microwave frequency response, transmission response, or reflection response for the TFT segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Tom Hower, Lamin Ceesay, Benjamin Ash, Matthew Fornes, William Pedler, Mohsen Sazegar, Jacob Tyler Repp
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Patent number: D843356Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryan Stevenson, Steven Linn, Robert Morey, Mohsen Sazegar, Stephen Olfert, Benjamin Ash, Matthew Fornes, Ken Harp, Tom Hower, David Levesque, Mike Slota, Alex Truesdale Perry, Colin Stuart Short, Tung Pham, Andrew Turner, Mohamed Sabri
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Patent number: D923612Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: KYMETA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryan Stevenson, Steven Linn, Robert E. Morey, Mohsen Sazegar, Stephen Olfert, Benjamin Ash, Matthew Fornes, Ken Harp, Tom Hower, David Levesque, Michael W. Slota, Alex Truesdale Perry, Colin Stuart Short, Tung Pham, Andrew Turner, Mohamed Sabri