Patents by Inventor Devon A. Kinkead
Devon A. Kinkead 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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Patent number: 10943242Abstract: The present invention is a system which enables a marketing team to initiate and sustain directed and interactive communication with thousands or millions of existing or prospective customers. In the preferred embodiment, a marketer accesses a database and selects a group of qualified prospects, using lifestyle dimensions and or demographic information, from a stable group of prospective or existing customers conducting financial transactions online. Once a prospect list is selected, the marketer designs a series of questions, typically using branch and skip logic, and the system deploys the question sequence to the target list in the form of a response-redeemable savings coupon. When prospects are next performing their financial transactions online, they are presented with a lifestyle-relevant coupon which is immediately redeemable by responding to the question/communication.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Micronotes, Inc.Inventors: Devon Kinkead, Venkat Rangamani
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Publication number: 20190340624Abstract: The present invention is a system which enables a marketing team to initiate and sustain directed and interactive communication with thousands or millions of existing or prospective customers. In the preferred embodiment, a marketer accesses a database and selects a group of qualified prospects, using lifestyle dimensions and or demographic information, from a stable group of prospective or existing customers conducting financial transactions online. Once a prospect list is selected, the marketer designs a series of questions, typically using branch and skip logic, and the system deploys the question sequence to the target list in the form of a response-redeemable savings coupon. When prospects are next performing their financial transactions online, they are presented with a lifestyle-relevant coupon which is immediately redeemable by responding to the question/communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Devon Kinkead, Venkat Rangamani
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Patent number: 10255609Abstract: The present invention is a system which enables a marketing team to initiate and sustain directed and interactive communication with thousands or millions of existing or prospective customers. In the preferred embodiment, a marketer accesses a database and selects a group of qualified prospects, using lifestyle dimensions and or demographic information, from a stable group of prospective or existing customers conducting financial transactions online. Once a prospect list is selected, the marketer designs a series of questions, typically using branch and skip logic, and the system deploys the question sequence to the target list in the form of a response-redeemable savings coupon. When prospects are next performing their financial transactions online, they are presented with a lifestyle-relevant coupon which is immediately redeemable by responding to the question/communication.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Micronotes, Inc.Inventors: Devon Kinkead, Venkat Rangamani
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Patent number: 8398753Abstract: The invention provides a system and method comprising an apparatus for removing contaminants from a gas in a semiconductor processing device, which can include a filter unit having at least two parallel filter stages located therein. The filter stages are designed to remove a least a portion of the contaminants present in the gas flowing through them. The apparatus can also include a flow controller for distributing the gas flow among the filter stages. In one embodiment, the controller may consist of a diffuser plate. The invention also provides a sampling tube orifice for gas flow control in a system or method of the invention. In another embodiment, an apparatus for removing contaminants from a gas in a clean room comprises a filter unit having at least two parallel filter stages, which are used to remove a portion of the contaminants in the gas as it passes through the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2005Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: John E. Sergi, John Gaudreau, Oleg P. Kishkovich, William Goodwin, Devon A. Kinkead
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Publication number: 20120265587Abstract: The present invention is a system which enables a marketing team to initiate and sustain directed and interactive communication with thousands or millions of existing or prospective customers. In the preferred embodiment, a marketer accesses a database and selects a group of qualified prospects, using lifestyle dimensions and or demographic information, from a stable group of prospective or existing customers conducting financial transactions online. Once a prospect list is selected, the marketer designs a series of questions, typically using branch and skip logic, and the system deploys the question sequence to the target list in the form of a response-redeemable savings coupon. When prospects are next performing their financial transactions online, they are presented with a lifestyle-relevant coupon which is immediately redeemable by responding to the question/communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Devon Kinkead, Venkat Rangamani
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Publication number: 20090240567Abstract: The present invention is a system which enables a marketing team to initiate and sustain directed and interactive communication with thousands or millions of existing or prospective customers. In the preferred embodiment, a marketer accesses a database and selects a group of qualified prospects, using lifestyle dimensions and or demographic information, from a stable group of prospective or existing customers conducting financial transactions online. Once a prospect list is selected, the marketer designs a series of questions, typically using branch and skip logic, and the system deploys the question sequence to the target list in the form of a response-redeemable savings coupon. When prospects are next performing their financial transactions online, they are presented with a lifestyle-relevant coupon which is immediately redeemable by responding to the question/communication, therewith lowering the respondent's bill instantaneously upon response, as in the case of online bill payment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2009Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: Micronotes, LLCInventors: Devon Kinkead, Merritt W. Mayher, Charla Jones, Venkat Rangamani
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Patent number: 7540901Abstract: A filter includes at least two different adsorptive media. First, chemisorptive media, which is porous and includes an acidic functional group, is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, imides and aminoalchols, from the atmosphere used in semiconductor fabrication and other processes that require uncontaminated gaseous environments of high quality. Second, physisorptive media is able to adsorb condensable contaminants, particularly those having a boiling point greater than 150 degrees C. The physisorptive media can include untreated, activated carbon.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: Oleg P. Kishkovich, Devon Kinkead, Anatoly Grayfer, William M. Goodwin, David Ruede
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Publication number: 20080078289Abstract: The invention provides a system and method comprising an apparatus for removing contaminants from a gas in a semiconductor processing device, which can include a filter unit having at least two parallel filter stages located therein. The filter stages are designed to remove a least a portion of the contaminants present in the gas flowing through them. The apparatus can also include a flow controller for distributing the gas flow among the filter stages. In one embodiment, the controller may consist of a diffuser plate. The invention also provides a sampling tube orifice for gas flow control in a system or method of the invention. In another embodiment, an apparatus for removing contaminants from a gas in a clean room comprises a filter unit having at least two parallel filter stages, which are used to remove a portion of the contaminants in the gas as it passes through the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2005Publication date: April 3, 2008Inventors: John E. Sergi, John Gaudreau, Oleg P. Kishkovich, William Goodwin, Devon A. Kinkead
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Publication number: 20080009099Abstract: The present invention provides passive sampling systems and methods for monitoring contaminants in a semiconductor processing system. In one embodiment, that passive sampling system comprises a collection device in fluid communication with a sample line that provides a flow of gas from a semiconductor processing system. The collection device is configured to sample by diffusion one or more contaminants in the flow of gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2006Publication date: January 10, 2008Inventors: Oleg Kishkovich, Anatoly Grayfer, William Goodwin, Devon Kinkead
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Patent number: 7092077Abstract: The present invention provides passive sampling systems and methods for monitoring contaminants in a semiconductor processing system. In one embodiment, that passive sampling system comprises a collection device in fluid communication with a sample line that provides a flow of gas from a semiconductor processing system. The collection device is configured to sample by diffusion one or more contaminants in the flow of gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2003Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: Oleg P. Kishkovich, Anatoly Grayfer, William M. Goodwin, Devon Kinkead
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Publication number: 20060169139Abstract: A filter includes at least two different adsorptive media. First, chemisorptive media, which is porous and includes an acidic functional group, is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, imides and aminoalchols, from the atmosphere used in semiconductor fabrication and other processes that require uncontaminated gaseous environments of high quality. Second, physisorptive media is able to adsorb condensable contaminants, particularly those having a boiling point greater than 150 degrees C. The physisorptive media can include untreated, activated carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2006Publication date: August 3, 2006Applicant: Extraction Systems, Inc.Inventors: Oleg Kishkovich, Devon Kinkead, Anatoly Grayfer, William Goodwin, David Ruede
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Patent number: 7022164Abstract: A clean, high efficiency, low pressure drop, adsorptive filter material that is porous and includes an acidic functional group. The filter can include, for example, a non-woven filter composite has a porous sulfonated divinyl benzene styrene copolymer beads having sulfonic acid functional side groups. The non-woven filter is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, inides, aminoalcohols, alcoholoamines from the atmosphere used in semiconductor fabrication and other processes that require uncontaminated gaseous environments of high quality.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Mykrolis CorporationInventors: Oleg Kishkovich, Robert W. Rezuke, Devon Kinkead
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Patent number: 7014693Abstract: A filter includes at least two different adsorptive media. First, chemisorptive media, which is porous and includes an acidic functional group, is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, imides and aminoalchols, from the atmosphere used in semiconductor fabrication and other processes that require uncontaminated gaseous environments of high quality. Second, physisorptive media is able to adsorb condensable contaminants, particularly those having a boiling point greater than 150 degrees C. The physisorptive media can include untreated, activated carbon.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2004Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Mykrolis CorporationInventors: Oleg P. Kishkovich, Devon Kinkead, Anatoly Grayfer, William M. Goodwin, David Ruede
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Publication number: 20050106737Abstract: A detection system for detecting base contamination at low concentrations in gas, for instance to protect a sensitive process, characterized in that the detection system in constructed to examine multiple amines in gas to produce a reading stoichiometrically related to the proton bonding characteristic of the multiple amines present, the detection system comprising at least two channels through which a gas to be examined passes, an amines remover located in one of the channels, at least one thermal/catalytic converter which discharges NO for each channel, and at least one chemiluminescent NO detector, whereby the total amine concentration is determined from the difference between the detected signals for the channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Applicant: Extraction Systems, Inc.Inventors: Oleg Kishkovich, Devon Kinkead
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Publication number: 20050051030Abstract: A filter includes at least two different adsorptive media. First, chemisorptive media, which is porous and includes an acidic functional group, is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, imides and aminoalchols, from the atmosphere used in semiconductor fabrication and other processes that require uncontaminated gaseous environments of high quality. Second, physisorptive media is able to adsorb condensable contaminants, particularly those having a boiling point greater than 150 degrees C. The physisorptive media can include untreated, activated carbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2004Publication date: March 10, 2005Applicant: Extraction Systems, Inc.Inventors: Oleg Kishkovich, Devon Kinkead, Anatoly Grayfer, William Goodwin, David Ruede
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Publication number: 20040166679Abstract: The present invention provides passive sampling systems and methods for monitoring contaminants in a semiconductor processing system. In one embodiment, that passive sampling system comprises a collection device in fluid communication with a sample line that provides a flow of gas from a semiconductor processing system. The collection device is configured to sample by diffusion one or more contaminants in the flow of gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Applicant: Extraction Systems, Inc.Inventors: Oleg P. Kishkovich, Anatoly Grayfer, William M. Goodwin, Devon Kinkead
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Publication number: 20040154470Abstract: A clean, high efficiency, low pressure drop, adsorptive filter material that is porous and includes an acidic functional group. The filter can include, for example, a non-woven filter composite has a porous sulfonated divinyl benzene styrene copolymer beads having sulfonic acid functional side groups. The non-woven filter is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, inides, aminoalcohols, alcoholoamines from the atmosphere used in semiconductor fabrication and other processes that require uncontaminated gaseous environments of high quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2003Publication date: August 12, 2004Applicant: Extraction Systems, IncInventors: Oleg Kishkovich, Robert W. Rezuke, Devon Kinkead
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Patent number: 6761753Abstract: A filter includes at least two different adsorptive media. First, chemisorptive media, which is porous and includes an acidic functional group, is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, imides and aminoalcohols, from the atmosphere used in semiconductor fabrication and other processes that require uncontaminated gaseous environments of high quality. Second, physisorptive media is able to adsorb condensable contaminants, particularly those having a boiling point greater than 150 degrees C. The physisorptive media can include untreated, activated carbon.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2002Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: Extraction Systems, Inc.Inventors: Oleg P. Kishkovich, Devon Kinkead, Anatoly Grayfer, William M. Goodwin, David Ruede
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Patent number: 6759254Abstract: A preferred embodiment includes a method for monitoring the performance of a filter positioned in an airstream in a semiconductor processing system. The method includes sampling the airstream at a location upstream of the filter to detect the molecular contaminants present in the airstream; identifying a target species of the contaminants upstream; selecting a non-polluting species of a contaminant having a concentration greater than a concentration of the target species; measuring the non-polluting species in the airstream at a plurality of locations; and determining the performance of the filter with respect to the target species from measurements of the non-polluting species. The plurality of locations includes a location downstream of the filter and at a location within the filter. Further, the method for monitoring includes generating a numerical representation of a chromatogram of the airstream sampled at a location upstream of the filter.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Extraction Systems, Inc.Inventors: Oleg P. Kishkovich, Devon Kinkead, Mark C. Phelps, William M. Goodwin
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Patent number: RE44536Abstract: A filter includes at least two different adsorptive media. First, chemisorptive media, which is porous and includes an acidic functional group, is used to remove molecular bases, including ammonia, organic amines, imides and aminoalchols, from the atmosphere used in semiconductor fabrication and other processes that require uncontaminated gaseous environments of high quality. Second, physisorptive media is able to adsorb condensable contaminants, particularly those having a boiling point greater than 150 degrees C. The physisorptive media can include untreated, activated carbon.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: Oleg P. Kishkovich, Devon Kinkead, Anatoly Grayfer, William M. Goodwin, David Ruede