Patents by Inventor CHARLES GREGORY POTTER, SR.

CHARLES GREGORY POTTER, SR. 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: 20210172728
    Abstract: Implementations disclosed describe an inspection device capable of being transferred by a robot blade into a processing chamber of a manufacturing machine, the inspection device comprising an optical sensor to detect light reflected from a target located within the processing chamber, wherein the optical sensor is to output, to a processing device, a signal representative of a state of a region of a surface of the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Mohsin Waqar, Paul Zachary Wirth, Todd James Brill, Paul Edward Fisher, Ilias Iliopoulos, Charles Gregory Potter, SR.
  • Patent number: 10522380
    Abstract: Methods for determining substrate placement in a process chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for determining substrate placement in a process chamber includes receiving sensor readings from a plurality of sensor arrays attached to the calibration substrate, calculating locations of a plurality of edge locations of a support member beneath the sensors based on the sensor readings, calculating a center point location of the support member based on the locations of the plurality of edge locations of the support member and determining an offset between the center point location and a location of the center of the calibration substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventor: Charles Gregory Potter, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20150369583
    Abstract: Methods for determining substrate placement in a process chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for determining substrate placement in a process chamber includes receiving sensor readings from a plurality of sensor arrays attached to the calibration substrate, calculating locations of a plurality of edge locations of a support member beneath the sensors based on the sensor readings, calculating a center point location of the support member based on the locations of the plurality of edge locations of the support member and determining an offset between the center point location and a location of the center of the calibration substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: CHARLES GREGORY POTTER, SR.