Patents by Inventor George Andrew

George Andrew 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).

  • Publication number: 20240038096
    Abstract: A system includes a container filled with material other than radioactive material. The system also includes a capacitor disposed on the container. The capacitor is disposed over a surface of the container. A power source, e.g., 5 V, is used for powering the capacitor that is connected to the power source through a resistor ranging between 20 and 40 mega ohms. A processor is used and configured to generate a feedback based on a measured charging/discharging associated with the capacitor as a user moves with respect to the container. In one nonlimiting example, the processor is configured to generate a rolling average of the charging/discharging. An output device of the system may be configured to render feedback to the user based on the proximity of the user with respect to the container. In some nonlimiting examples, the output device is configured to render the feedback based on the rolling average.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Kyle Matthew Sternberg, George Andrew Erickson
  • Publication number: 20240017145
    Abstract: A stimulus and sensor device can include a body comprising a resilient material, the body being configured to be struck by a bat, multiple light sources longitudinally spaced apart along the body, and multiple motion sensors longitudinally spaced apart along the body. A method of evaluating batting performance can include activating one of a series of light sources spaced apart along a body, and measuring motion of the body due to being struck after the activating step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: George R. KING, George Andrew KING, Santos D. ORTIZ
  • Patent number: 11874229
    Abstract: An optical metrology device performs multi-wavelength polarized confocal Raman spectroscopy. The optical metrology device uses a first light source to produce a first light beam with a first wavelength and a second light source to produce a second light beam with a second wavelength. A dichroic beam splitter partially reflects the first light beam and transmits the second light beam to combine the light beams along a same optical axis that is incident on a sample. The dichroic beam splitter directs the Raman response emitted from the sample in response to the first light beam and the second light beam together towards at least one spectrometer and directs the first light beam away from the at least one spectrometer. A chopper may be used to isolate the Raman response to the first and second light beams that is received and spectrally measured by the at least one spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Onto Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: George Andrew Antonelli
  • Publication number: 20240004311
    Abstract: An alignment or overlay target that has an optically opaque layer disposed between the top and bottom target structure is measured using opto-acoustic metrology. A classifier library is generated for classifying whether an opto-acoustic metrology signal is on or off the bottom structure. A target may be measured by acquiring opto-acoustic measurement data for the bottom structure of the target and determining a location of the bottom structure using opto-acoustic metrology data acquired from the different locations over the bottom structure and the classifier library. Locations for acquisition of the data may be based on classification results of each measurement and a search pattern. The top structure of the target may be optically imaged. The relative position of the top structure with respect to the bottom structure is determined using the opto-acoustically determined location of the bottom structure and the image of the top structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Onto Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Manjusha Mehendale, George Andrew Antonelli, Priya Mukundhan, Robin A. Mair, Francis C. Vozzo
  • Publication number: 20230401476
    Abstract: A device comprises a first superconducting quantum bit, a second superconducting quantum bit, and a coupler circuit. The first superconducting quantum bit comprises a superconducting tunnel junction and a shunt inductor which form a first superconducting loop. The second superconducting quantum bit comprises a superconducting tunnel junction and a shunt inductor which form a second superconducting loop. The coupler circuit is coupled between the first and second superconducting quantum bits. The coupler circuit is configured to implement an entanglement gate operation between the first and second superconducting quantum bits through exchange interactions between the coupler circuit and the first superconducting quantum bit and the second superconducting quantum bit, when the coupler circuit is driven by a control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Aaron Finck, Cihan Kurter, Sarunya Bangsaruntip, Harry Jonathon Mamin, Charles Thomas Rettner, John Blair, George Andrew Keefe
  • Publication number: 20230366094
    Abstract: An apparatus for depositing film stacks in-situ (i.e., without a vacuum break or air exposure) are described. In one example, a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition apparatus configured to deposit a plurality of film layers on a substrate without exposing the substrate to a vacuum break between film deposition phases, is provided. The apparatus includes a process chamber, a plasma source and a controller configured to control the plasma source to generate reactant radicals using a particular reactant gas mixture during the particular deposition phase, and sustain the plasma during a transition from the particular reactant gas mixture supplied during the particular deposition phase to a different reactant gas mixture supplied during a different deposition phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jason Dirk Haverkamp, Pramod Subramonium, Joseph L. Womack, Dong Niu, Keith Fox, John B. Alexy, Patrick G. Breiling, Jennifer L. Petraglia, Mandyam A. Sriram, George Andrew Antonelli, Bart J. van Schravendijk
  • Patent number: 11808715
    Abstract: A metrology target is designed for measuring a feature at the bottom of a trench in a device under test, such as a tungsten recess vertical profile in a wordline in a three-dimensional (3D) NAND. The metrology target follows the design rules for the device under test and includes a tier stack with a plurality of tier stack pairs including, each including a conductor layer, such as tungsten, and an insulator layer, such as silicon dioxide and a trench that extends through the tier stack pairs. The metrology target includes a via that extends through the tier stack pairs and is positioned a lateral distance to the trench to promote access of light to a bottom of the trench, via plasmonic resonance, for measurement of a characteristic of the trench, such as the tungsten recess at the bottom of the wordline slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Onto Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas James Keller, George Andrew Antonelli
  • Publication number: 20230324303
    Abstract: An optical metrology device performs multi-wavelength polarized confocal Raman spectroscopy. The optical metrology device uses a first light source to produce a first light beam with a first wavelength and a second light source to produce a second light beam with a second wavelength. A dichroic beam splitter partially reflects the first light beam and transmits the second light beam to combine the light beams along a same optical axis that is incident on a sample. The dichroic beam splitter directs the Raman response emitted from the sample in response to the first light beam and the second light beam together towards at least one spectrometer and directs the first light beam away from the at least one spectrometer. A chopper may be used to isolate the Raman response to the first and second light beams that is received and spectrally measured by the at least one spectrometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: George Andrew ANTONELLI
  • Publication number: 20230285777
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for determining the location of a moving target region (e.g., a tumor) based on the location of the center of its range of motion and the location of a target region surrogate, during a radiotherapy treatment session or a quality assurance (QA) session. These methods comprise characterizing the motion range of the target region, calculating the location of the center of the motion range, and determining a correlation between the position of the target region surrogate and the displacement of the target region from the center of the motion range as the target region moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Rostem BASSALOW, George Andrew Zdasiuk
  • Publication number: 20230273516
    Abstract: Vacuum-integrated photoresist-less methods and apparatuses for forming metal hardmasks can provide sub-30 nm patterning resolution. A metal-containing (e.g., metal salt or organometallic compound) film that is sensitive to a patterning agent is deposited on a semiconductor substrate. The metal-containing film is then patterned directly (i.e., without the use of a photoresist) by exposure to the patterning agent in a vacuum ambient to form the metal mask. For example, the metal-containing film is photosensitive and the patterning is conducted using sub-30 nm wavelength optical lithography, such as EUV lithography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffrey MARKS, George Andrew ANTONELLI, Richard A. GOTTSCHO, Dennis M. HAUSMANN, Adrien LAVOIE, Thomas Joseph KNISLEY, Sirish K. REDDY, Bhadri N. VARADARAJAN, Artur KOLICS
  • Publication number: 20230265095
    Abstract: Described herein are new crystalline forms of the MAGL inhibitor 1-(1-(2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)b enzyl)-1,8-diazaspiro[4.5]decane-8-carbonyl)-1H-pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas VETTER, Martin JUHL, HEIDI LOPEZ DE DIEGO, Cheryl A. GRICE, John J.M. WIENER, Daniel J. BUZARD, Amy ALLAN, Susana DEL RIO GANCEDO, Samuel George ANDREW, Antonio CINCOTTI, Adam Ross PATTERSON, Richard James EDWARDS
  • Publication number: 20230266662
    Abstract: Vacuum-integrated photoresist-less methods and apparatuses for forming metal hardmasks can provide sub-30 nm patterning resolution. A metal-containing (e.g., metal salt or organometallic compound) film that is sensitive to a patterning agent is deposited on a semiconductor substrate. The metal-containing film is then patterned directly (i.e., without the use of a photoresist) by exposure to the patterning agent in a vacuum ambient to form the metal mask. For example, the metal-containing film is photosensitive and the patterning is conducted using sub-30 nm wavelength optical lithography, such as EUV lithography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffrey MARKS, George Andrew ANTONELLI, Richard A. GOTTSCHO, Dennis M. HAUSMANN, Adrien LAVOIE, Thomas Joseph KNISLEY, Sirish K. REDDY, Bhadri N. VARADARAJAN, Artur KOLICS
  • Publication number: 20230201629
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for generating a MV detector image for evaluating the quality of radiation delivery according to a radiotherapy treatment plan. The MV detector image is generated from MV detector measurements of a small number of multi-leaf collimator (MLC) leaf openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Amir RAMEZANZADEH MOGHADAM, George Andrew ZDASIUK
  • Publication number: 20230186134
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate space-saving coupler arm arrangement for superconducting qubits are provided. In various embodiments, a device can comprise a superconducting qubit. In various aspects, the superconducting qubit can be capacitively coupled to two or more coupler arms. In various instances, a parasitic capacitance between the two or more coupler arms can be within an order of magnitude of a capacitance between the superconducting qubit and at least one of the two or more coupler arms. In various cases, the parasitic capacitance can arise due to a physical proximity between the two or more coupler arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Srikanth Srinivasan, George Andrew Keefe, David C. Mckay, Xuan Wei, Abhinav Kandala
  • Patent number: 11668644
    Abstract: A non-destructive opto-acoustic metrology device detects the presence and location of non-uniformities in a film stack that includes a large number, e.g., 50 or more, transparent layers. A transducer layer at the bottom of the film stack produces an acoustic wave in response to an excitation beam. A probe beam is reflected from the layer interfaces of the film stack and the acoustic wave to produce an interference signal that encodes data in a time domain from destructive and constructive interference as the acoustic wave propagates upward in the film stack. The data may be analyzed across the time domain to determine the presence and location of one or more non-uniformities in the film stack. An acoustic metrology target may be produced with a transducer layer configured to generate an acoustic wave with a desired acoustic profile based on characteristics of the film stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Onto Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: George Andrew Antonelli, Manjusha S. Mehendale, Robin Mair, Nicholas James Keller
  • Publication number: 20230169252
    Abstract: One or more systems, devices and/or methods of use provided herein relate to a device that can facilitate reduction of inter-qubit cross talk and/or allow for increased interaction strengths between qubits as compared to existing technologies. A device can comprise a qubit lattice comprising a plurality of repeated and connected unit cells, and the unit cells comprising individual sets of qubits, wherein the unit cells comprise different cross talk groups of qubits having qubit islands connected together by couplers in different orders, and wherein the different cross talk groups are repeated among the unit cells of the qubit lattice. A device can comprise a qubit lattice comprising a plurality of different, interconnected cross talk groups of qubits, wherein the different cross talk groups are repeated within the qubit lattice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Jiri Stehlik, David Zajac, George Andrew Keefe, SRIKANTH SRINIVASAN
  • Patent number: 11658660
    Abstract: A device comprises first and second qubits, and a qubit coupler coupled between the first and second qubits. The second qubit comprises first and second modes with the first mode configured to store data. The qubit coupler comprises first and second modes, and operates in a first state or second state. In the first state, the first qubit is exchange coupled to the first mode of the qubit coupler, and the second mode of the second qubit is exchange coupled to the second mode of the qubit coupler, to suppress interaction between the first and second qubits. In the second state, the first qubit and the first mode of the second qubit are exchange coupled to both the first and second modes the qubit coupler, to enable interaction between the first and second qubits for an entanglement gate operation in response to a control signal applied to the qubit coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Finck, John Blair, George Andrew Keefe, Muir Kumph
  • Patent number: 11652916
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a mobile phone apparatus is provided for: storing, at an electronic device, payment information for a payment account; detecting, at the electronic device, that a mechanical input was locally received at the electronic device; and in response to detecting that the mechanical input has been locally received at the device, enabling, at the electronic device, the payment information to be accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: W74 Technology, LLC
    Inventors: George Andrew Gordon, Joseph A Cerrato, Ronald A Johnston, Kevin J Zilka
  • Patent number: 11637915
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided involving, at a first device: opening the application on the first device, performing an action utilizing an application, updating a state of the application, for being communicated with the second device; and, at a second device: utilizing the updated state of the application received from the first device, displaying an interface including: a button for opening the application utilizing the second device, and indicia that indicates that the first device has updated at least one aspect of the application, and in response to a detection of the selection of the button, accessing the application utilizing the second device such that the application is accessed so as to reflect the updated state of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: W74 Technology, LLC
    Inventors: George Andrew Gordon, Joseph A Cerrato, Ronald A Johnston, Kevin J Zilka
  • Patent number: D1014504
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Rahul Patil, David N. Skinner, Glenn A. Wong, Arthur Harvey Zarnowitz, George Andrew Campbell, Kevin L. Massaro, Stacy L. Wolff