Patents by Inventor by William Muir

by William Muir 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: 20240021167
    Abstract: An electronic display includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a data line, first and second selection lines and a common electrode. A control circuit element includes first and second diode-like elements coupled between the first and second selection lines and a charging node. A charging capacitive element is coupled between the charging node and the date line. An active pixel element is coupled between the charging node and the common electrode. The common electrode can overly the entire electronic display and is a suitable transparent conductive material. Each of the first and second diode-like elements includes an amorphous metal non-linear resistor. The active pixel element may include one of liquid crystal display circuitry, light emitting diode circuitry, and electrophoretic circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean William MUIR, Christopher Harold KOCH
  • Publication number: 20230369507
    Abstract: A thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode formed on a non-conducting substrate. A top surface of the gate electrode has an RMS roughness less than 2 nm. A gate insulator having a thickness less than 25 nm is formed on the gate electrode. A semiconductor material having a thickness less than 50 nm is formed on the gate insulator. The smooth top surface of the gate insulator promotes smooth surfaces of the semiconductor material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean William MUIR
  • Patent number: 11741913
    Abstract: An electronic display includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a data line, first and second selection lines and a common electrode. A control circuit element includes first and second diode-like elements coupled between the first and second selection lines and a charging node. A charging capacitive element is coupled between the charging node and the date line. An active pixel element is coupled between the charging node and the common electrode. The common electrode can overly the entire electronic display and is a suitable transparent conductive material. Each of the first and second diode-like elements includes an amorphous metal non-linear resistor. The active pixel element may include one of liquid crystal display circuitry, light emitting diode circuitry, and electrophoretic circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean William Muir, Christopher Harold Koch
  • Publication number: 20230232663
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to display circuitry that can be formed on a flexible substrate. The circuitry includes a voltage divider formed from a first and second non-linear resistor device or a first and second transistor coupled in a diode configuration. The circuitry includes a driving thin film transistor coupled to the voltage divider. The non-linear resistor devices may include a lower electrode that is amorphous metal or a crystalline metal. The first and second transistor coupled in a diode configuration may have a lower electrode that is amorphous metal. Upper electrodes may be crystalline metal. The driving thin film transistors may have the lower electrode as amorphous or crystalline metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean William Muir
  • Patent number: 11634390
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds which are of use in the field of agriculture as herbicides. The invention also relates to methods of using said compounds and compositions comprising said compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: GLOBACHEM NV
    Inventors: Christopher John Urch, Victoria Elizabeth Jackson, Calum William Muir
  • Patent number: 11610809
    Abstract: Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic components such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. Interfacial properties of AMMFs are superior to those of crystalline metal films, and therefore electric fields at the interface of an AMMF and an oxide film are more uniform. An AMMF resistor (AMNR) can be constructed as a three-layer structure including an amorphous metal, a tunneling insulator, and a crystalline metal layer. By modifying the order of the materials, the patterns of the electrodes, and the size and number of overlap areas, the I-V performance characteristics of the AMNR are adjusted. A non-coplanar AMNR has a five-layer structure that includes three metal layers separated by metal oxide tunneling insulator layers, wherein an amorphous metal thin film material is used to fabricate the middle electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean William Muir
  • Patent number: 11585052
    Abstract: A milling machine may have a frame, first and second ground engagement members connected through respective, vertically adjustable leg columns to a front end of the frame, and third and fourth ground engagement members connected through respective, vertically adjustable leg columns to a rear end of the frame. Each vertically adjustable leg column includes a hydraulic cylinder connecting the frame and the associated ground engagement member. A milling drum is attached to the frame between the front and rear ends. At least one pair of the leg columns connected to the front end of the frame or the leg columns connected to the rear end of the frame includes an accumulator associated with each of the at least one pair of leg columns, a fluid conduit fluidly connecting a bore end of each of the hydraulic cylinders to the associated accumulator, and a control valve disposed in the fluid conduit and configured to control a flow of fluid between the hydraulic cylinders and the associated accumulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Peter Nieuwsma, Nicholas James Argenziano, Jason William Muir, Timothy Jay Lindholm
  • Publication number: 20220262932
    Abstract: Described herein are various amorphous metal thin film transistors. Embodiments of such transistors include an amorphous metal gate electrode and a channel conductor formed on a non-conducting substrate. Further embodiments of such transistors include an amorphous metal source electrode, an amorphous metal drain electrode, and a channel conductor formed on a non-conducting substrate. Methods of forming such transistors are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean William MUIR
  • Patent number: 11261177
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds which are of use in the field of agriculture as herbicides. The compounds in question are of formula II and comprise a spirofused tricycle core: wherein R4 and R5 together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a cyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: REDAG CROP PROTECTION LTD
    Inventors: Christopher John Urch, Victoria Elizabeth Jackson, Calum William Muir
  • Publication number: 20220028345
    Abstract: An electronic display includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a data line, first and second selection lines and a common electrode. A control circuit element includes first and second diode-like elements coupled between the first and second selection lines and a charging node. A charging capacitive element is coupled between the charging node and the date line. An active pixel element is coupled between the charging node and the common electrode. The common electrode can overly the entire electronic display and is a suitable transparent conductive material. Each of the first and second diode-like elements includes an amorphous metal non-linear resistor. The active pixel element may include one of liquid crystal display circuitry, light emitting diode circuitry, and electrophoretic circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean William MUIR, Christopher Harold KOCH
  • Patent number: 11183585
    Abstract: Described herein are various amorphous metal thin film transistors. Embodiments of such transistors include an amorphous metal gate electrode and a channel conductor formed on a non-conducting substrate. Further embodiments of such transistors include an amorphous metal source electrode, an amorphous metal drain electrode, and a channel conductor formed on a non-conducting substrate. Methods of forming such transistors are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: AMORPHYX, INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Sean William Muir
  • Publication number: 20210301481
    Abstract: A milling machine may have a frame, first and second ground engagement members connected through respective, vertically adjustable leg columns to a front end of the frame, and third and fourth ground engagement members connected through respective, vertically adjustable leg columns to a rear end of the frame. Each vertically adjustable leg column includes a hydraulic cylinder connecting the frame and the associated ground engagement member. A milling drum is attached to the frame between the front and rear ends. At least one pair of the leg columns connected to the front end of the frame or the leg columns connected to the rear end of the frame includes an accumulator associated with each of the at least one pair of leg columns, a fluid conduit fluidly connecting a bore end of each of the hydraulic cylinders to the associated accumulator, and a control valve disposed in the fluid conduit and configured to control a flow of fluid between the hydraulic cylinders and the associated accumulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR PAVING PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventors: Derek Peter NIEUWSMA, Nicholas James ARGENZIANO, Jason William MUIR, Timothy Jay LINDHOLM
  • Patent number: 11069799
    Abstract: Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic devices such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. An amorphous hot electron transistor (HET) having co-planar emitter and base electrodes provides electrical properties and performance advantages over existing vertical HET structures. Emitter and the base terminals of the transistor are both formed in an upper crystalline metal layer of an amorphous nonlinear resistor. The emitter and the base are adjacent to one another and spaced apart by a gap. The presence of the gap results in two-way Fowler-Nordheim tunneling between the crystalline metal layer and the amorphous metal layer, and symmetric I-V performance. Meanwhile, forming the emitter and base terminals in the same layer simplifies the HET fabrication process by reducing the number of patterning steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Amorphyx, Incorporated
    Inventor: Sean William Muir
  • Publication number: 20210186010
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions comprising Quorum-Sensing (QS) modulating molecules attached to a surface via a linker. This QS modulator attached surface can then be used to modulate QS, biofilm production, biofilm streamer production and/or virulence factor production. The length of the linker that attaches the QS modulating molecule to the surface as well as the surface coverage density impact QS modulation on surfaces. These QS modulator attached surfaces can be used to treat areas known to contain human pathogens notorious for causing hospital-acquired infections as well as fatal infections that occur outside of health care settings. Other surfaces that can be coated according to embodiments of the invention include abiotic materials, such as intravenous catheters, implants, medical devices, and cooling towers. Preferred microorganisms that can be treated with the compositions of the invention include, but are not limited to S. aureus and/or P. aeruginosa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Bonnie L. Bassler, Howard A. Stone, Min Young Kim, Thomas William Muir, Aishan Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210151346
    Abstract: Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic components such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. Interfacial properties of AMMFs are superior to those of crystalline metal films, and therefore electric fields at the interface of an AMMF and an oxide film are more uniform. An AMMF resistor (AMNR) can be constructed as a three-layer structure including an amorphous metal, a tunneling insulator, and a crystalline metal layer. By modifying the order of the materials, the patterns of the electrodes, and the size and number of overlap areas, the I-V performance characteristics of the AMNR are adjusted. A non-coplanar AMNR has a five-layer structure that includes three metal layers separated by metal oxide tunneling insulator layers, wherein an amorphous metal thin film material is used to fabricate the middle electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Sean William Muir
  • Patent number: 10971392
    Abstract: Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic components such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. Interfacial properties of AMMFs are superior to those of crystalline metal films, and therefore electric fields at the interface of an AMMF and an oxide film are more uniform. An AMMF resistor (AMNR) can be constructed as a three-layer structure including an amorphous metal, a tunneling insulator, and a crystalline metal layer. By modifying the order of the materials, the patterns of the electrodes, and the size and number of overlap areas, the I-V performance characteristics of the AMNR are adjusted. A non-coplanar AMNR has a five-layer structure that includes three metal layers separated by metal oxide tunneling insulator layers, wherein an amorphous metal thin film material is used to fabricate the middle electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Amorphyx, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean William Muir
  • Patent number: 10937687
    Abstract: Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic components such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. Interfacial properties of AMMFs are superior to those of crystalline metal films, and therefore electric fields at the interface of an AMMF and an oxide film are more uniform. An AMMF resistor (AMNR) can be constructed as a three-layer structure including an amorphous metal, a tunneling insulator, and a crystalline metal layer. By modifying the order of the materials, the patterns of the electrodes, and the size and number of overlap areas, the I-V performance characteristics of the AMNR are adjusted. A non-coplanar AMNR has a five-layer structure that includes three metal layers separated by metal oxide tunneling insulator layers, wherein an amorphous metal thin film material is used to fabricate the middle electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amorphyx, Inc.
    Inventor: Sean William Muir
  • Patent number: 10844558
    Abstract: A method for operating a milling machine is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input identifying a leg of a plurality of legs of the milling machine. Further, the method includes determining a height of the leg based on the receiving of the input identifying the leg. The height of the leg being determined based on position data of the leg. The position data being obtained by a first sensor. Further, the method includes determining, by the controller and based on the determining the height of the leg, that a height of other legs of the plurality of legs is to be adjusted. Thereafter, the method includes adjusting the height of the other legs of the plurality of legs to the height of the leg. The height of the other legs being adjusted based on the determined height of the leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Lee M. Hogan, Matthew-David S. Frantz, Jason William Muir, Kristen Ann Gerstner, Timothy Michael O'Donnell, Hyppolite Kuissi
  • Patent number: 10777448
    Abstract: Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic components such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. Interfacial properties of AMMFs are superior to those of crystalline metal films, and therefore electric fields at the interface of an AMMF and an oxide film are more uniform. An AMMF resistor (AMNR) can be constructed as a three-layer structure including an amorphous metal, a tunneling insulator, and a crystalline metal layer. By modifying the order of the materials, the patterns of the electrodes, and the size and number of overlap areas, the I-V performance characteristics of the AMNR are adjusted. A non-coplanar AMNR has a five-layer structure that includes three metal layers separated by metal oxide tunneling insulator layers, wherein an amorphous metal thin film material is used to fabricate the middle electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: AMORPHYX, INC.
    Inventor: Sean William Muir
  • Publication number: 20200259008
    Abstract: Amorphous multi-component metallic films can be used to improve the performance of electronic devices such as resistors, diodes, and thin film transistors. An amorphous hot electron transistor (HET) having co-planar emitter and base electrodes provides electrical properties and performance advantages over existing vertical HET structures. Emitter and the base terminals of the transistor are both formed in an upper crystalline metal layer of an amorphous nonlinear resistor. The emitter and the base are adjacent to one another and spaced apart by a gap. The presence of the gap results in two-way Fowler-Nordheim tunneling between the crystalline metal layer and the amorphous metal layer, and symmetric I-V performance. Meanwhile, forming the emitter and base terminals in the same layer simplifies the HET fabrication process by reducing the number of patterning steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Sean William MUIR