Patents by Inventor Christopher E. Hillman

Christopher E. Hillman 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: 8697499
    Abstract: A dynamic and end-user configurable controlled impedance interconnect line includes a plurality of conductive pixels, a plurality of thin-film transition material interconnects to electrically connect adjacent conductive pixels in the plurality of conductive pixels, and a plurality of addressable pixel interconnect actuators to selectively heat a respective plurality of the thin-film transition material interconnects. The plurality of addressable pixel interconnect actuators is operable to selectively heat a respective plurality of the thin-film transition material interconnects to form an interconnect line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Hacker, Christopher E. Hillman
  • Publication number: 20130260514
    Abstract: A dynamic and end-user configurable controlled impedance interconnect line includes a plurality of conductive pixels, a plurality of thin-film transition material interconnects to electrically connect adjacent conductive pixels in the plurality of conductive pixels, and a plurality of addressable pixel interconnect actuators to selectively heat a respective plurality of the thin-film transition material interconnects. The plurality of addressable pixel interconnect actuators is operable to selectively heat a respective plurality of the thin-film transition material interconnects to form an interconnect line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Hacker, Christopher E. Hillman
  • Patent number: 8476679
    Abstract: A dynamic and end-user configurable controlled impedance interconnect line includes a plurality of conductive pixels, a plurality of thin-film transition material interconnects to electrically connect adjacent conductive pixels in the plurality of conductive pixels, and a plurality of addressable pixel interconnect actuators to selectively heat a respective plurality of the thin-film transition material interconnects. The plurality of addressable pixel interconnect actuators is operable to selectively heat a respective plurality of the thin-film transition material interconnects to form an interconnect line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Hacker, Christopher E. Hillman
  • Publication number: 20120193682
    Abstract: A dynamic and end-user configurable controlled impedance interconnect line includes a plurality of conductive pixels, a plurality of thin-film transition material interconnects to electrically connect adjacent conductive pixels in the plurality of conductive pixels, and a plurality of addressable pixel interconnect actuators to selectively heat a respective plurality of the thin-film transition material interconnects. The plurality of addressable pixel interconnect actuators is operable to selectively heat a respective plurality of the thin-film transition material interconnects to form an interconnect line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Hacker, Christopher E. Hillman
  • Patent number: 8067996
    Abstract: A vanadium dioxide front-end advanced shutter device. The electronic shutter device is designed to protect receiver front-ends and other sensitive circuits from HPM pulse events such as HPM weapons, directed energy weapons, or EMPs. The shutter incorporates a transition material such as thin-film vanadium oxide (VOX) materials that exhibit a dramatic change in resistivity as their temperature is varied over a narrow range near a known critical temperature. A high-energy pulse causes ohmic heating in the shutter device, resulting in a state change in the VOX material when the critical temperature is exceeded. During the state change the VOX material transitions from an insulating state (high resistance) to a reflective state (low resistance). In the insulating state, the shutter device transmits the majority of the signal. In the reflective state, most of the signal is reflected and prevented from passing into electronics on the output side of the shutter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher E. Hillman, Jeffrey F. De Natale, Jonathan B. Hacker, J. Aiden Higgins, Paul H. Kobrin
  • Publication number: 20110089531
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for IC fabrication, including seating an integrated circuit (“IC”) having at least one contact into a recess of a silicon interposer substrate, applying an insulator in liquid form to fill portions of the recess not otherwise occupied by the IC and to cover a top surface of the IC and the silicon interposer substrate, introducing the insulator to a ramped environmental temperature, holding the environmental temperature at a reflow temperature to reflow the insulator and ramping down the environmental temperature to cure the insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher E. Hillman, Jonathan B. Hacker, Wonill Ha, Scott Newell, Lan Tran
  • Publication number: 20100123532
    Abstract: A vanadium dioxide front-end advanced shutter device. The electronic shutter device is designed to protect receiver front-ends and other sensitive circuits from HPM pulse events such as HPM weapons, directed energy weapons, or EMPs. The shutter incorporates a transition material such as thin-film vanadium oxide (VOX) materials that exhibit a dramatic change in resistivity as their temperature is varied over a narrow range near a known critical temperature. A high-energy pulse causes ohmic heating in the shutter device, resulting in a state change in the VOX material when the critical temperature is exceeded. During the state change the VOX material transitions from an insulating state (high resistance) to a reflective state (low resistance). In the insulating state, the shutter device transmits the majority of the signal. In the reflective state, most of the signal is reflected and prevented from passing into electronics on the output side of the shutter device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventors: Christopher E. Hillman, Jeffrey F. De Natale, Jonathan B. Hacker, J. Aiden Higgins, Paul H. Kobrin