Patents by Inventor Christine Nelson

Christine Nelson 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).

  • Patent number: 7007952
    Abstract: An educational game comprises a planar game board having printed thereon a plurality of images of postal stamps. The educational game further comprises a plurality of player placeholders. The educational game further comprises a plurality of question cards. A first portion of the question cards contain questions of reduced difficulty having associated therewith a first quantity of points. A second portion of the question cards contain questions of intermediate difficulty having associated therewith a second quantity of points. A third portion of the question cards contain questions of increased difficulty having associated therewith a third quantity of points. A portion of the question cards contain questions having subjective answers. A portion of the question cards contain an image of a postal stamp. When a player answers a question correctly, the player's score is incremented by the quantity of points associated with that question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Inventor: Christine Nelson
  • Publication number: 20030218302
    Abstract: An educational game comprises a planar game board having printed thereon a plurality of images of postal stamps. At least a portion of the postal stamps bear a number. The educational game further comprises a plurality of player placeholders. Each placeholder is configured to be positioned on the numbered stamps. When a player's placeholder is positioned on a numbered stamp, the number corresponds to the player's score. The educational game further comprises a plurality of question cards. A first portion of the question cards contain questions of reduced difficulty having associated therewith a first quantity of points. A second portion of the question cards contain questions of intermediate difficulty having associated therewith a second quantity of points. A third portion of the question cards contain questions of increased difficulty having associated therewith a third quantity of points. A portion of the question cards contain questions having subjective answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventor: Christine Nelson
  • Publication number: 20020142610
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing process wherein a dielectric layer is plasma etched with selectivity to an underlying and/or overlying stop layer such as a silicon nitride layer. The etchant gas includes a hydrogen-free fluorocarbon reactant such as CxFy gas wherein y/x ≦1.5, an oxygen-containing gas such as O2 and a carrier gas such as Ar. The etch rate of the dielectric layer can be at least 10 times higher than that of the stop layer. Using a combination of C4F6, O2 and Ar, it is possible to obtain dielectric: nitride etch selectivity of greater than 30:1 and nitride cornering etch selectivity of greater than 20:1. The process is useful for etching vias, contacts, and/or trenches of a self-aligned contact (SAC) or self-aligned trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Ting Chien, Christine Nelson, Douglas Keil