Patents by Inventor Ernest Schirmann

Ernest Schirmann 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: 11921319
    Abstract: A transparent display includes a display including a transparent substrate and a patterned diamond layer formed on the transparent substrate to at least in part define a diamond waveguide. At least two electronic devices can be connected by the diamond waveguide, and can include a sensor, a transducer, or electronic circuitry, including communication, control, or data processing electronic circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AKHAN SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Adam Khan, Kiran Kumar Kovi, Ernest Schirmann, William Alberth
  • Publication number: 20240002285
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is method for fabricating a graphene layer on a non-graphene carbon layer including steps of cleaning and seeding a substrate, depositing a crystalline diamond on the substrate, sputtering an aluminum layer on the crystalline diamond, where the aluminum layer is greater than 5 nanometers and less than 50 nanometers; and treating a surface of the aluminum layer with an ion beam resulting in a graphene layer on the crystalline diamond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Khan, Ernest Schirmann
  • Publication number: 20230266527
    Abstract: A transparent display includes a display including a transparent substrate and a patterned diamond layer formed on the transparent substrate to at least in part define a diamond waveguide. At least two electronic devices can be connected by the diamond waveguide, and can include a sensor, a transducer, or electronic circuitry, including communication, control, or data processing electronic circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Khan, Kiran Kumar Kovi, Ernest Schirmann, William Alberth
  • Patent number: 11656404
    Abstract: A transparent display includes a display including a transparent substrate and a patterned diamond layer formed on the transparent substrate to at least in part define a diamond waveguide. At least two electronic devices can be connected by the diamond waveguide, and can include a sensor, a transducer, or electronic circuitry, including communication, control, or data processing electronic circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AKHAN SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Adam Khan, Kiran Kumar Kovi, Ernest Schirmann, William Alberth
  • Publication number: 20230126873
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is method for fabricating a graphene layer on a non-graphene carbon layer including steps of cleaning and seeding a substrate, depositing a crystalline diamond on the substrate, sputtering an aluminum layer on the crystalline diamond, where the aluminum layer is greater than 5 nanometers and less than 50 nanometers; and treating a surface of the aluminum layer with an ion beam resulting in a graphene layer on the crystalline diamond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Khan, Ernest Schirmann
  • Publication number: 20220206218
    Abstract: A transparent display includes a display including a transparent substrate and a patterned diamond layer formed on the transparent substrate to at least in part define a diamond waveguide. At least two electronic devices can be connected by the diamond waveguide, and can include a sensor, a transducer, or electronic circuitry, including communication, control, or data processing electronic circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Adam Khan, Kiran Kumar Kovi, Ernest Schirmann, William Alberth
  • Publication number: 20210349091
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for transistor pathogen virus detector in which one embodiment may include a substrate layer, a silicon dioxide layer on the substrate layer, a nanocrystalline diamond layer on the silicon dioxide layer, a graphene oxide layer on the nanocrystalline diamond layer, fluorinated graphene oxide portions; and a linker layer, the linker layer including a plurality of pathogen receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Khan, Ernest Schirmann, Kiran Kumar Kovi
  • Publication number: 20210039988
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is method for fabricating a graphene layer on a non-graphene carbon layer including steps of cleaning and seeding a substrate, depositing a crystalline diamond on the substrate, sputtering an aluminum layer on the crystalline diamond, where the aluminum layer is greater than 5 nanometers and less than 50 nanometers; and treating a surface of the aluminum layer with an ion beam resulting in a graphene layer on the crystalline diamond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Khan, Ernest Schirmann
  • Patent number: 10725214
    Abstract: A broad band mirror system and method, wherein the system includes a mechanical substrate layer, a reflective metal layer on the mechanical substrate level, and a diamond layer, and the method includes the steps of selecting a sacrificial substrate layer, depositing a diamond layer on the substrate layer, smoothing a first surface of the diamond layer, depositing a reflective metal layer on the diamond layer, bonding a mechanical substrate to the diamond layer, removing the sacrificial substrate level, and smoothing a second diamond surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: AKHAN Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest Schirmann, Priya Raman, Adam Khan, Robert Polak
  • Publication number: 20190064404
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a broad band mirror system and method, wherein the system includes a mechanical substrate layer, a reflective metal layer on the mechanical substrate level, and a diamond layer, and the method includes the steps of selecting a sacrificial substrate layer, depositing a diamond layer on the substrate layer, smoothing a first surface of the diamond layer, depositing a reflective metal layer on the diamond layer, bonding a mechanical substrate to the diamond layer, removing the sacrificial substrate level, and smoothing a second diamond surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ernest Schirmann, Priya Raman, Adam Khan, Robert Polak
  • Patent number: 9246454
    Abstract: An adaptive power amplifier that may be used in a wireless communication device is configured to adjust its load line or output impedance, the number of active amplifier cells in each amplification stage, the bias of the active amplifiers, and the supply voltage input capacitive load in accordance with a supply voltage modulation type provided to the power amplifier. The supply voltage modulation types include ET, APT, DC-DC, dual, multi-state or fixed voltage supply voltages. A supply voltage converter, signaled by a baseband processor, generates the selected type of supply voltage modulation for the adaptive power amplifier. The baseband processor may also provide a control interface signal to a controller within the adaptive power amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ernest Schirmann, Ryan J. Geodken, Armin W. Klomsdorf, Thomas D. Nagode
  • Publication number: 20140266462
    Abstract: An adaptive power amplifier that may be used in a wireless communication device is configured to adjust its load line or output impedance, the number of active amplifier cells in each amplification stage, the bias of the active amplifiers, and the supply voltage input capacitive load in accordance with a supply voltage modulation type provided to the power amplifier. The supply voltage modulation types include ET, APT, DC-DC, dual, multi-state or fixed voltage supply voltages. A supply voltage converter, signaled by a baseband processor, generates the selected type of supply voltage modulation for the adaptive power amplifier. The baseband processor may also provide a control interface signal to a controller within the adaptive power amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC
    Inventors: Ernest Schirmann, Ryan J. Goedken, Armin W. Klomsdorf, Thomas D. Nagode
  • Patent number: 8521204
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication transmitter including a baseband processor (310) that configures the transmitter for a particular signal configuration, and a headroom controller (350) for adjusting transmitter headroom based on the particular signal configuration. In one embodiment, the headroom is controlled based on a power metric, for example, a 3rd order polynomial or a peak to average ratio (PAR) metric, that is a function of the signal configuration. In another embodiment, the headroom is adjusted using information in a look up table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Armin W. Klomsdorf, Robert T. Love, Ernest Schirmann, Dale G. Schwent
  • Patent number: 7342955
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmission power amplifier bias control in an enhanced data rate for global system mobile evolution mobile communication device. The apparatus can include a transmitter configured to transmit information on an enhanced data rate for global system mobile evolution network at a first transmitter output power. The transmitter can include a modulator configured to receive an input signal and map information in the input signal to symbols represented by eight phase offsets and a power amplifier configured to provide the first transmitter output power for transmitting the symbols represented by eight phase offsets. The apparatus can also include a controller configured to adjust a first bias condition of the power amplifier to a second bias condition based on a changed parameter of operation related to the data stored in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Motorola Inc
    Inventors: Francis Forest, Armin Klomsdorf, Ernest Schirmann, Robert S. Trocke
  • Patent number: 7170341
    Abstract: A power amplification circuit (10) includes a scalable power amplifier (20) to produce an RF output signal (50) at an output of the power amplification circuit (10), and a variable impedance circuit (30) coupled to the output of the power amplification circuit (10). The scalable power amplifier (20) includes a plurality of selectively activated amplifier elements (22), (24), (26) to produce the RF output signal (50) in accordance with a desired RF output signal power level. The power amplification circuit (10) selectively activates individual amplifier elements by, for example reducing power or increasing power to at least one amplifier element. The variable impedance circuit (30) varies an impedance of the variable impedance circuit (30) to dynamically load the output of the scalable power amplifier (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Clark Conrad, Armin Klomsdorf, Ernest Schirmann
  • Publication number: 20060068830
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication transmitter including a baseband processor (310) that dynamically configures the transmitter for a particular signal configuration, and a headroom controller (350) for adjusting transmitter headroom based on the particular signal configuration. In one embodiment, the PA headroom is controlled based on a power metric, for example, a 3rd order polynomial or peak to average ratio (PAR) metric, that is a function of the signal configuration. In another embodiment the PA headroom is adjusted using information in a look up table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Armin Klomsdorf, Robert Love, Ernest Schirmann, Dale Schwent
  • Patent number: 6893947
    Abstract: A method for fabricating an RF enhancement mode FET (30) having improved gate properties is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing (131) a substrate (31) having a stack of semiconductor layers (32-35) formed thereon, the stack including a cap layer (35) and a central layer (33) defining a device channel, forming (103) a photoresist pattern (58) over the cap layer, thereby defining a masked region and an unmasked region, and, in any order, (a) creating (105) an implant region (36, 37) in the unmasked region, and (b) removing (107) the cap layer from the unmasked region. By forming the implant region and cap region with no overlap, a device with low current leakage may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Marino J. Martinez, Ernest Schirmann, Olin L. Hartin, Colby G. Rampley, Mariam G. Sadaka, Charles E. Weitzel, Julio Costa
  • Publication number: 20050030094
    Abstract: A power amplification circuit (10) includes a scalable power amplifier (20) to produce an RF output signal (50) at an output of the power amplification circuit (10), and a variable impedance circuit (30) coupled to the output of the power amplification circuit (10). The scalable power amplifier (20) includes a plurality of selectively activated amplifier elements (22), (24), (26) to produce the RF output signal (50) in accordance with a desired RF output signal power level. The power amplification circuit (10) selectively activates individual amplifier elements by, for example reducing power or increasing power to at least one amplifier element. The variable impedance circuit (30) varies an impedance of the variable impedance circuit (30) to dynamically load the output of the scalable power amplifier(20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Applicant: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Clark Conrad, Armin Klomsdorf, Ernest Schirmann
  • Publication number: 20040213335
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmission power amplifier bias control in an enhanced data rate for global system mobile evolution mobile communication device. The apparatus can include a transmitter configured to transmit information on an enhanced data rate for global system mobile evolution network at a first transmitter output power. The transmitter can include a modulator configured to receive an input signal and map information in the input signal to symbols represented by eight phase offsets and a power amplifier configured to provide the first transmitter output power for transmitting the symbols represented by eight phase offsets. The apparatus can also include a controller configured to adjust a first bias condition of the power amplifier to a second bias condition based on a changed parameter of operation related to the data stored in a memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Francis Forest, Armin Klomsdorf, Ernest Schirmann, Robert S. Trocke
  • Publication number: 20030235974
    Abstract: A method for fabricating an RF enhancement mode FET (30) having improved gate properties is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing (131) a substrate (31) having a stack of semiconductor layers (32-35) formed thereon, the stack including a cap layer (35) and a central layer (33) defining a device channel, forming (103) a photoresist pattern (58) over the cap layer, thereby defining a masked region and an unmasked region, and, in any order, (a) creating (105) an implant region (36, 37) in the unmasked region, and (b) removing (107) the cap layer from the unmasked region. By forming the implant region and cap region with no overlap, a device with low current leakage may be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Applicant: Motorola Inc.
    Inventors: Marino J. Martinez, Ernest Schirmann, Olin L. Hartin, Colby G. Rampley, Mariam G. Sadaka, Charles E. Weitzel, Julio Costa