Patents by Inventor Dennis Cobb

Dennis Cobb 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: 7984849
    Abstract: A security device comprises a portable magnetic stripe reader and computing functionality associated with the magnetic stripe reader, such as a credit card reader, drivers license reader, debit card reader, club card reader, or any other element that can be mechanically read. A single device may be needed for evaluation of each type of stripe carrying product, or a single device may have multiple functions and can be used (with or without switching to specific identification sequences) for evaluation of different magnetic stripe carrying products. It may be used as a law enforcement device, particularly to combat identity theft and financial fraud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    Inventors: Hal Berghel, Dennis Cobb, Michael Sthultz
  • Publication number: 20070040019
    Abstract: A security device comprises a portable magnetic stripe reader and computing functionality associated with the magnetic stripe reader, such as a credit card reader, drivers license reader, debit card reader, club card reader, or any other element that can be mechanically read. A single device may be needed for evaluation of each type of stripe carrying product, or a single device may have multiple functions and can be used (with or without switching to specific identification sequences) for evaluation of different magnetic stripe carrying products. It may be used as a law enforcement device, particularly to combat identity theft and financial fraud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Hal Berghel, Dennis Cobb, Michael Sthultz
  • Publication number: 20060192154
    Abstract: An EUV plasma formation target delivery system and method is disclosed which may comprise: a target droplet formation mechanism comprising a magneto-restrictive or electro-restrictive material, a liquid plasma source material passageway terminating in an output orifice; a charging mechanism applying charge to a droplet forming jet stream or to individual droplets exiting the passageway along a selected path; a droplet deflector intermediate the output orifice and a plasma initiation site periodically deflecting droplets from the selected path, a liquid target material delivery mechanism comprising a liquid target material delivery passage having an input opening and an output orifice; an electromotive disturbing force generating mechanism generating a disturbing force within the liquid target material, a liquid target delivery droplet formation mechanism having an output orifice; and/or a wetting barrier around the periphery of the output orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: Cymer, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Algots, Igor Fomenkov, Alexander Ershov, William Partlo, Richard Sandstrom, Oscar Hemberg, Alexander Bykanov, Dennis Cobb
  • Publication number: 20040160155
    Abstract: An DPP EUV source is disclosed which may comprise a debris mitigation apparatus employing a metal halogen gas producing a metal halide from debris exiting the plasma. The EUV source may have a debris shield that may comprise a plurality of curvilinear shield members having inner and outer surfaces connected by light passages aligned to a focal point, which shield members may be alternated with open spaces between them and may have surfaces that form a circle in one axis of rotation and an ellipse in another. The electrodes may be supplied with a discharge pulse shaped to produce a modest current during the axial run out phase of the discharge and a peak occurring during the radial compression phase of the discharge. The light source may comprise a turbomolecular pump having an inlet connected to the generation chamber and operable to preferentially pump more of the source gas than the buffer gas from the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: William N. Partlo, Gerry M. Blumenstock, Norbert Bowering, Kent Bruzzone, Dennis Cobb, Timothy S. Dyer, John Dunlop, Igor V. Fomenkov, James Christopher Hysham, I. Roger Oliver, Frederick Palenschat, Xiaojiang Pan, Curtis L. Rettig, Rodney D. Simmons, John Walker, R. Kyle Webb, Thomas Hofmann