Patents by Inventor Daniel Piper
Daniel Piper 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).
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Publication number: 20220300907Abstract: The present disclosure, in various embodiments, generally relates to systems and methods for conducting job analysis, and more particularly relates to systems and methods for utilizing machine learning and/or artificial intelligence to perform automatic categorization and analysis of jobs for use by employers. Embodiments provide systems and methods for gathering information related to a job (such as job title and associated data from preexisting jobs databases), creating a numerical job vector describing that job, and conducting a job analysis using the numerical job vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Ross Daniel Piper, Abdallah Khaled Mostafa Kamal Aboelela, Guglielmo Menchetti
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Patent number: 11187349Abstract: A micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) valve is provided. The MEMS valve includes first and second bodies, a medium and a thermal element. The first body defines a first channel and a second channel intersecting the first channel. The second body defines a third channel and is movable within the first channel between first and second positions. When the second body is at the first positions, the second and third channels align and permit flow through the second and third channels. When the second body is at the second positions, the second and third channels misalign and inhibit flow through the second channel. The medium is charged into the first channel at opposite sides of the second body. The thermal element is proximate to the first channel and is operable to cause the medium to drive movements of the second body to the first or the second positions.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yongchun Xin, Daniel Piper, Jonathan Fry, Jang Sim
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Patent number: 11161110Abstract: Microfluidic chips incorporating liquid level sensors for precise sensing of liquid levels in microfluidic system structures, e.g., channels, cavities or reservoirs without moving parts. The microfluidic system uses liquid level photosensors and use optical properties to measure liquid volumes. A light coupling emitter or waveguide transmits the light toward the fluid channel at a critical angle. Multiple light coupling emitters and photosensor array can detect light for a variety of scenarios (based on fluid refraction index) and exploit the phenomenon of critical angles to measure exact angles of reflection/refraction. The waveguide coupler(s) and photosensors are manufactured at the microscale, and use both reflected light and refracted light as monitor signals. A feedback control system (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jonathan Fry, Daniel Piper, Yongchun Xin, Jang Sim
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Patent number: 11056439Abstract: An optically readable chip ID is provided to an imprintable material that is formed as a last level of an integrated circuit (IC) chip using nanoimprint lithography. The nanoimprint lithography process provides an array of indentations into the imprintable material that is typically arranged in a hexadecimal pattern. The hexadecimal pattern includes one or more optically readable characters which combine to encode chip location identification data. The chip location identification data identifies a unique location of the product chip on a wafer prior to dicing.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Daniel Piper
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Patent number: 10898871Abstract: A MEMS multiplexing system including: first and second fluid inputs; and a mixing network. The mixing network including: a first channel to receive the first fluid input; a second channel to receive the second fluid input; a multiplexing valve communicating with the first channel and the second channel, the multiplexing valve to cause the transport of the first fluid into the second channel so as to form a first interleaved fluid downstream from the multiplexing valve in the second channel and to cause the transport of the second fluid into the first channel so as to form a second interleaved fluid downstream from the multiplexing valve in the first channel; and the first channel and the second channel intersecting downstream from the valve so as to force mixing of the first interleaved fluid and the second interleaved fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jonathan Fry, Daniel Piper, Jang Sim, Yongchun Xin
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Patent number: 10612691Abstract: A micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) valve is provided. The MEMS valve includes first and second bodies, a medium and a thermal element. The first body defines a first channel and a second channel intersecting the first channel. The second body defines a third channel and is movable within the first channel between first and second positions. When the second body is at the first positions, the second and third channels align and permit flow through the second and third channels. When the second body is at the second positions, the second and third channels misalign and inhibit flow through the second channel. The medium is charged into the first channel at opposite sides of the second body. The thermal element is proximate to the first channel and is operable to cause the medium to drive movements of the second body to the first or the second positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yongchun Xin, Jonathan Fry, Daniel Piper, Jang Sim
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Publication number: 20200061611Abstract: Microfluidic chips incorporating liquid level sensors for precise sensing of liquid levels in microfluidic system structures, e.g., channels, cavities or reservoirs without moving parts. The microfluidic system uses liquid level photosensors and use optical properties to measure liquid volumes. A light coupling emitter or waveguide transmits the light toward the fluid channel at a critical angle. Multiple light coupling emitters and photosensor array can detect light for a variety of scenarios (based on fluid refraction index) and exploit the phenomenon of critical angles to measure exact angles of reflection/refraction. The waveguide coupler(s) and photosensors are manufactured at the microscale, and use both reflected light and refracted light as monitor signals. A feedback control system (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Jonathan Fry, Daniel Piper, Yongchun Xin, Jang Sim
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Patent number: 10551240Abstract: A self-cleaning sensor to determine a level of a liquid includes a tube with an interior coating and a plurality of horizontally aligned, electrically isolated, electrical contacts. The self-cleaning sensor includes the plurality of horizontally aligned, electrically isolated, electrical contacts that each terminate in an outer surface of an interior wall of the tube and are electrically connected to one or more electrical devices in a cap residing on the tube. Additionally, the self-cleaning sensor includes a float that is composed of a low density, low dielectric constant material buoyant in one or more liquids to be measured where each horizontal dimension of the float corresponds to each horizontal dimension of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jonathan Fry, Daniel Piper, Jang Sim, Yongchun Xin
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Publication number: 20200013725Abstract: An optically readable chip ID is provided to an imprintable material that is formed as a last level of an integrated circuit (IC) chip using nanoimprint lithography. The nanoimprint lithography process provides an array of indentations into the imprintable material that is typically arranged in a hexadecimal pattern. The hexadecimal pattern includes one or more optically readable characters which combine to encode chip location identification data. The chip location identification data identifies a unique location of the product chip on a wafer prior to dicing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventor: Daniel Piper
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Publication number: 20200001257Abstract: A MEMS multiplexing system including: first and second fluid inputs; and a mixing network. The mixing network including: a first channel to receive the first fluid input; a second channel to receive the second fluid input; a multiplexing valve communicating with the first channel and the second channel, the multiplexing valve to cause the transport of the first fluid into the second channel so as to form a first interleaved fluid downstream from the multiplexing valve in the second channel and to cause the transport of the second fluid into the first channel so as to form a second interleaved fluid downstream from the multiplexing valve in the first channel; and the first channel and the second channel intersecting downstream from the valve so as to force mixing of the first interleaved fluid and the second interleaved fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Jonathan Fry, Daniel Piper, Jang Sim, Yongchun Xin
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Patent number: 10458909Abstract: A micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) optical sensor including a fluid channel having an input portion, an output portion and a curved portion positioned between the input portion and the output portion; a light source impinging on a first boundary of the curved portion and exiting from a second boundary of the curved channel; a photodetector to record a light path of refraction of the light source exiting from the second boundary of the curved portion; a processor to compute the refractive index of a fluid in the curved portion using the light path of refraction of the light source and compare the computed refractive index to a known refractive index for the fluid to determine a difference between the computed refractive index and the known refractive index.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jonathan Fry, Daniel Piper, Jang Sim, Yongchun Xin
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Publication number: 20190323627Abstract: A micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) valve is provided. The MEMS valve includes first and second bodies, a medium and a thermal element. The first body defines a first channel and a second channel intersecting the first channel. The second body defines a third channel and is movable within the first channel between first and second positions. When the second body is at the first positions, the second and third channels align and permit flow through the second and third channels. When the second body is at the second positions, the second and third channels misalign and inhibit flow through the second channel. The medium is charged into the first channel at opposite sides of the second body. The thermal element is proximate to the first channel and is operable to cause the medium to drive movements of the second body to the first or the second positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: YONGCHUN XIN, DANIEL PIPER, JONATHAN FRY, JANG SIM
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Patent number: 10453800Abstract: An optically readable chip ID is provided to an imprintable material that is formed as a last level of an integrated circuit (IC) chip using nanoimprint lithography. The nanoimprint lithography process provides an array of indentations into the imprintable material that is typically arranged in a hexadecimal pattern. The hexadecimal pattern includes one or more optically readable characters which combine to encode chip location identification data. The chip location identification data identifies a unique location of the product chip on a wafer prior to dicing.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Daniel Piper
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Publication number: 20190304920Abstract: An optically readable chip ID is provided to an imprintable material that is formed as a last level of an integrated circuit (IC) chip using nanoimprint lithography. The nanoimprint lithography process provides an array of indentations into the imprintable material that is typically arranged in a hexadecimal pattern. The hexadecimal pattern includes one or more optically readable characters which combine to encode chip location identification data. The chip location identification data identifies a unique location of the product chip on a wafer prior to dicing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventor: Daniel Piper
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Patent number: 10415721Abstract: A micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) valve is provided. The MEMS valve includes first and second bodies, a medium and a thermal element. The first body defines a first channel and a second channel intersecting the first channel. The second body defines a third channel and is movable within the first channel between first and second positions. When the second body is at the first positions, the second and third channels align and permit flow through the second and third channels. When the second body is at the second positions, the second and third channels misalign and inhibit flow through the second channel. The medium is charged into the first channel at opposite sides of the second body. The thermal element is proximate to the first channel and is operable to cause the medium to drive movements of the second body to the first or the second positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yongchun Xin, Daniel Piper, Jonathan Fry, Jang Sim
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Publication number: 20190219192Abstract: A micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) valve is provided. The MEMS valve includes first and second bodies, a medium and a thermal element. The first body defines a first channel and a second channel intersecting the first channel. The second body defines a third channel and is movable within the first channel between first and second positions. When the second body is at the first positions, the second and third channels align and permit flow through the second and third channels. When the second body is at the second positions, the second and third channels misalign and inhibit flow through the second channel. The medium is charged into the first channel at opposite sides of the second body. The thermal element is proximate to the first channel and is operable to cause the medium to drive movements of the second body to the first or the second positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Yongchun XIN, Daniel PIPER, Jonathan FRY, Jang SIM
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Publication number: 20190219193Abstract: A micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) valve is provided. The MEMS valve includes first and second bodies, a medium and a thermal element. The first body defines a first channel and a second channel intersecting the first channel. The second body defines a third channel and is movable within the first channel between first and second positions. When the second body is at the first positions, the second and third channels align and permit flow through the second and third channels. When the second body is at the second positions, the second and third channels misalign and inhibit flow through the second channel. The medium is charged into the first channel at opposite sides of the second body. The thermal element is proximate to the first channel and is operable to cause the medium to drive movements of the second body to the first or the second positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Yongchun XIN, Jonathan FRY, Daniel PIPER, Jang SIM
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Publication number: 20190162578Abstract: A self-cleaning sensor to determine a level of a liquid includes a tube with an interior coating and a plurality of horizontally aligned, electrically isolated, electrical contacts. The self-cleaning sensor includes the plurality of horizontally aligned, electrically isolated, electrical contacts that each terminate in an outer surface of an interior wall of the tube and are electrically connected to one or more electrical devices in a cap residing on the tube. Additionally, the self-cleaning sensor includes a float that is composed of a low density, low dielectric constant material buoyant in one or more liquids to be measured where each horizontal dimension of the float corresponds to each horizontal dimension of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Jonathan Fry, Daniel Piper, Jang Sim, Yongchun Xin
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Patent number: 10242951Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method and resulting structures for forming optically readable chip identification (CID) codes using dummy controlled collapse chip connection (C4) bumps. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a product chip is formed on a wafer. A chip location identifier including a plurality of controlled collapse chip connection (C4) bumps is formed on a surface of the product chip. The chip location identifier encodes a unique location of the product chip on the wafer prior to dicing. The plurality of C4 bumps are arranged into one or more optically readable alphanumeric characters.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Daniel Piper
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Patent number: 9564382Abstract: Provided is a test pattern structure for determining overlay accuracy in a semiconductor device. The test pattern structure includes one or more resistor structures formed by patterning a lower silicon layer. Each includes a zigzag portion with leads at different spatial locations. An upper pattern is formed and includes at least one pattern feature formed over the resistor or resistors. The portions of the resistor or resistors not covered by the upper pattern feature will become silicided during a subsequent silicidation process. Resistance is measured to determine overlay accuracy as the resistor structures are configured such that the resistance of the resistor structure is determined by the degree of silicidation of the resistor structure which is determined by the overlay accuracy between the upper and lower patterns.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: WAFERTECH, LLCInventor: Daniel Piper