Patents by Inventor Colm Durkan

Colm Durkan 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).

  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TRANSDUCER AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20090194830
    Abstract: A semiconductor device such as a resonant device has a capacitive, non-piezoelectric, actuator, the actuator comprising a depletion region. A capacitive actuator for a semiconductor device, a method for fabricating such an actuator, and a method for operating a semiconductor device are also provided. In the operating method, a drive voltage is applied across the depletion region of the semiconductor device, such as a drive voltage having an alternating voltage component for driving a resonant semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: James Ransley, Colm Durkan, Ashwin Seshia
  • Sensor probe
    Patent number: 6666081
    Abstract: An elongate probe suitable for measuring one or more properties of a stream of fluid, the probe having an external planar sensing surface, which in use is exposed to the stream of fluid, at a longitudinal end thereof and comprising a plurality of sensors at the planar external sensing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Inventors: Holger Babinsky, Colm Durkan, Howard Hodson, Mark Welland, Robert Howell, Uwe Kuschel, David Moore