Patents by Inventor Benjamin S. Cook
Benjamin S. Cook 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: 11937037Abstract: A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zachary C. Rich, Kurt R. Stiehl, Arun D. Chawan, Michael B. Howes, Jonathan S. Aase, Esge B. Andersen, Yacine Azmi, Jahan C. Minoo, David J. Shaw, Aarti Kumar, Augustin Prats, Robert D. Watson, Baptiste P. Paquier, Axel D. Berny, Benjamin W. Cook, Jerzy S. Guterman, Benjamin Adair Cousins
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Patent number: 10605986Abstract: A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and a transition region, with a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. The body portion of the core member has a first dielectric constant. The transition region of the core member has a graduated dielectric constant value that gradually changes from the first dielectric constant value adjacent the body portion to a third dielectric constant.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook
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Patent number: 10390433Abstract: Described examples include methods of fabricating conductive and resistive structures by direct-write variable impedance patterning using nanoparticle-based metallization layers or chemical reaction-based deposition. In some examples, a low conductivity nanoparticle material is deposited over a surface. The nanoparticle material is selectively illuminated at different applied energy levels via illumination source power adjustments and/or scan rate adjustments for selective patterned sintering to create conductive circuit structures as well as resistive circuit structures including gradient resistive circuit structures having an electrical resistivity profile that varies along the structure length. Further examples include methods in which a non-conductive reactant layer is deposited or patterned, and a second solution is deposited in varying amounts using an additive deposition for reaction with the reactant layer to form controllably conductive structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Benjamin S. Cook, Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
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Publication number: 20190243065Abstract: A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and a transition region, with a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. The body portion of the core member has a first dielectric constant. The transition region of the core member has a graduated dielectric constant value that gradually changes from the first dielectric constant value adjacent the body portion to a third dielectric constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook
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Patent number: 10302860Abstract: A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and a transition region, with a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. The body portion of the core member has a first dielectric constant. The transition region of the core member has a graduated dielectric constant value that gradually changes from the first dielectric constant value adjacent the body portion to a third dielectric constant.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook
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Patent number: 10128555Abstract: A digital system has a substrate having a top surface on which a waveguide is formed on the top surface of the substrate. The waveguide is formed by a conformal base layer formed on the top surface of the substrate, two spaced apart sidewalls, and a top conformal layer connected to the base layer to form a longitudinal core region. The waveguide may be a metallic or otherwise conductive waveguide, a dielectric waveguide, a micro-coax, etc.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Benjamin S. Cook, Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
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Publication number: 20170261687Abstract: A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and a transition region, with a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. The body portion of the core member has a first dielectric constant. The transition region of the core member has a graduated dielectric constant value that gradually changes from the first dielectric constant value adjacent the body portion to a third dielectric constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook
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Patent number: 9761950Abstract: A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and may have a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. A radiated radio frequency (RF) signal may be received on a first portion of a radiating structure embedded in the end of a dielectric waveguide (DWG). Simultaneously, a derivative RF signal may be launched into the DWG from a second portion of the radiating structure embedded in the DWG.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Benjamin S. Cook, Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
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Patent number: 9696490Abstract: A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and a transition region, with a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. The body portion of the core member has a first dielectric constant. The transition region of the core member has a graduated dielectric constant value that gradually changes from the first dielectric constant value adjacent the body portion to a third dielectric constant.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook
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Publication number: 20170093011Abstract: A digital system has a substrate having a top surface on which a waveguide is formed on the top surface of the substrate. The waveguide is formed by a conformal base layer formed on the top surface of the substrate, two spaced apart sidewalls, and a top conformal layer connected to the base layer to form a longitudinal core region. The waveguide may be a metallic or otherwise conductive waveguide, a dielectric waveguide, a micro-coax, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Benjamin S. Cook, Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
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Patent number: 9601820Abstract: A dielectric waveguide interconnect system has a dielectric waveguide (DWG) a core surrounded by a cladding along the length of the DWG. One or more periodic structures are embedded along the length of the DWG such that the core of the DWG is integral to each of the one or more periodic structures.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook
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Patent number: 9548523Abstract: A digital system has a substrate having a top surface on which a waveguide is formed on the top surface of the substrate. The waveguide is formed by a conformal base layer formed on the top surface of the substrate, two spaced apart sidewalls, and a top conformal layer connected to the base layer to form a longitudinal core region. The waveguide may be a metallic or otherwise conductive waveguide, a dielectric waveguide, a micro-coax, etc.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Benjamin S. Cook, Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
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Patent number: 9529334Abstract: Described examples include a millimeter wave atomic clock apparatus, chip scale vapor cell, and fabrication method in which a low pressure dipolar molecule gas is provided in a sealed cavity with a conductive interior surface forming a waveguide. Non-conductive apertures provide electromagnetic entrance to, and exit from, the cavity. Conductive coupling structures formed on an outer surface of the vapor cell near the respective non-conductive apertures couple an electromagnetic field to the interior of the cavity for interrogating the vapor cell using a transceiver circuit at a frequency that maximizes the rotational transition absorption of the dipolar molecule gas in the cavity to provide a reference clock signal for atomic clock or other applications.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook, Phillip Nadeau, Simon Joshua Jacobs, Django Earl Trombley
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Publication number: 20160295696Abstract: Described examples include methods of fabricating conductive and resistive structures by direct-write variable impedance patterning using nanoparticle-based metallization layers or chemical reaction-based deposition. In some examples, a low conductivity nanoparticle material is deposited over a surface. The nanoparticle material is selectively illuminated at different applied energy levels via illumination source power adjustments and/or scan rate adjustments for selective patterned sintering to create conductive circuit structures as well as resistive circuit structures including gradient resistive circuit structures having an electrical resistivity profile that varies along the structure length. Further examples include methods in which a non-conductive reactant layer is deposited or patterned, and a second solution is deposited in varying amounts using an additive deposition for reaction with the reactant layer to form controllably conductive structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Benjamin S. Cook, Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
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Publication number: 20160291549Abstract: Described examples include a millimeter wave atomic clock apparatus, chip scale vapor cell, and fabrication method in which a low pressure dipolar molecule gas is provided in a sealed cavity with a conductive interior surface forming a waveguide. Non-conductive apertures provide electromagnetic entrance to, and exit from, the cavity. Conductive coupling structures formed on an outer surface of the vapor cell near the respective non-conductive apertures couple an electromagnetic field to the interior of the cavity for interrogating the vapor cell using a transceiver circuit at a frequency that maximizes the rotational transition absorption of the dipolar molecule gas in the cavity to provide a reference clock signal for atomic clock or other applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook, Phillip Nadeau, Simon Joshua Jacobs, Django Earl Trombley
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Publication number: 20150295307Abstract: A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and may have a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. A radiated radio frequency (RF) signal may be received on a first portion of a radiating structure embedded in the end of a dielectric waveguide (DWG). Simultaneously, a derivative RF signal may be launched into the DWG from a second portion of the radiating structure embedded in the DWG.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Benjamin S. Cook, Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
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Publication number: 20150295297Abstract: A digital system has a substrate having a top surface on which a waveguide is formed on the top surface of the substrate. The waveguide is formed by a conformal base layer formed on the top surface of the substrate, two spaced apart sidewalls, and a top conformal layer connected to the base layer to form a longitudinal core region. The waveguide may be a metallic or otherwise conductive waveguide, a dielectric waveguide, a micro-coax, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Benjamin S. Cook, Juan Alejandro Herbsommer
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Publication number: 20150295300Abstract: A dielectric waveguide interconnect system has a dielectric waveguide (DWG) a core surrounded by a cladding along the length of the DWG. One or more periodic structures are embedded along the length of the DWG such that the core of the DWG is integral to each of the one or more periodic structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook
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Publication number: 20150295651Abstract: A digital system has a dielectric core waveguide that has a longitudinal dielectric core member. The core member has a body portion and a transition region, with a cladding surrounding the dielectric core member. The body portion of the core member has a first dielectric constant. The transition region of the core member has a graduated dielectric constant value that gradually changes from the first dielectric constant value adjacent the body portion to a third dielectric constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Juan Alejandro Herbsommer, Benjamin S. Cook