Patents by Inventor Georges Thomas

Georges Thomas 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: 10741437
    Abstract: A multilayer semiconductor on insulator structure is provided in which the handle substrate and an epitaxial layer in interfacial contact with the handle substrate comprise electrically active dopants of opposite type. The epitaxial layer is depleted by the handle substrate free carriers, thereby resulting in a high apparent resistivity, which improves the function of the structure in RF devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Jeffrey L. Libbert, Shawn George Thomas, Qingmin Liu
  • Publication number: 20200249756
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a Fingernail Attachable Capacitive Stylus to interact with any number of devices having a capacitive touch screen. More particularly, the Fingernail Attachable Capacitive Stylus device may be constructed of one or more capacitive materials pieces, then attached directly to a natural fingernail or mounted on an artificial fingernail for use in working with a capacitive touch screen such as a computer, smartphone or tablet, when the natural or artificial fingernail hinders contact with the capacitive touch screen thereon. Additionally, when in place mounted on an artificial fingernail or natural fingernail, the Fingernail Attachable Capacitive Stylus enables variable compression of the conductive material and can be adjusted for length and variable compression characteristics, and acts to strengthen long fingernails that often grow weak and subsequently easily break or crack when mounted using a natural or an artificial fingernail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: George Thomas Straza, II
  • Patent number: 10726862
    Abstract: A system for removing noise from an audio signal is described. For example, noise caused by content playing in the background during a voice command or phone call may be removed from the audio signal representing the voice command or phone call. By removing noise, the signal to noise ratio of the audio signal may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: George Thomas Des Jardins
  • Patent number: 10727774
    Abstract: A multi-level high-speed adjustable speed drive has a plurality of modular multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges, wherein the multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges operate with fundamental frequency, f, wherein the multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges include at least three levels, wherein the multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges operate in Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) mode with 9 to 21× or operating in Fundamental Frequency Mode (FFM), wherein inverter commutation frequency equals the fundamental frequency, wherein the multilevel, 3-phase inverters operate with split phase such that one group is displaced from the other by an angle, ?=60°/q, wherein the phase displacement of a harmonic component of order n between groups, ?n is n?/q; a high-speed polyphase motor with phases arranged in q 3-phase groups; and electromagnetic means for blocking selected groups of harmonics while passing components at fundamental frequency, f, wherein the electromagnetic means includes coils carrying motor current linked by a magn
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: General Atomics
    Inventor: George Thomas Santamaria
  • Patent number: 10715526
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to integrated circuit technology with defense-in-depth. In one example of the technology, an integrated circuit includes a set of independent execution environments including at least two independent execution environments. At least two of the independent execution environments are general purpose cores with differing capabilities. The independent execution environments in the set of independent execution environments are configured to have a defense-in-depth hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Edmund B. Nightingale, Reuben R. Olinsky, Galen C. Hunt, Douglas Stiles, George Thomas Letey
  • Publication number: 20200195216
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting impedances or power or a combination thereof across multiple plasma processing stations are described. One of the systems includes a first radio frequency (RF) generator that generates a first RF signal having a first frequency, a second RF generator that generates a second RF signal having a second frequency, and a first matching network coupled to the first RF generator to receive the first RF signal. The first impedance matching network outputs a first modified RF signal upon receiving the first RF signal. The system further includes a second matching network coupled to the second RF generator to receive the second RF signal. The second matching network outputs a second modified RF signal upon receiving the second RF signal. The system further includes a combiner and distributor coupled to an output of the first matching network and an output of the second matching network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Sunil Kapoor, George Thomas, Yaswanth Rangineni, Edward Augustyniak
  • Publication number: 20200169599
    Abstract: Embodiments of the systems described herein can implement one or more processes remotely delivering customized code to a host application and/or computing device. The host application may be configured as an Application Programming Interface with a customized code processing library that may configure the host application to receive further instructions remotely. The host application may be further configured to execute host code and/or third-party code. The host application may be configured to receive remote application logic, after the host application has been installed on a computing device, and to execute the received application logic to alter the behavior of the host application, such as selectively tracking end user interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick McWilliams, Jason Lap-Wing Koo, Chad Major Hartman, George Thomas Webster, IV, Son Phi Hoang
  • Patent number: 10658227
    Abstract: A semiconductor on insulator multilayer structure is provided. The multilayer comprises a high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle substrate, a textured oxide, nitride, or oxynitride layer, a polycrystalline silicon layer, a dielectric layer, and a single crystal semiconductor device layer. The multilayer structure is prepared in a manner that reduces wafer bow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Jeffrey L. Libbert, Shawn George Thomas, Igor Peidous
  • Publication number: 20200126848
    Abstract: A semiconductor on insulator multilayer structure is provided. The multilayer comprises a high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle substrate, a textured oxide, nitride, or oxynitride layer, a polycrystalline silicon layer, a dielectric layer, and a single crystal semiconductor device layer. The multilayer structure is prepared in a manner that reduces wafer bow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Jeffrey L. Libbert, Shawn George Thomas, Igor Peidous
  • Publication number: 20200126847
    Abstract: A multilayer semiconductor on insulator structure is provided in which the handle substrate and an epitaxial layer in interfacial contact with the handle substrate comprise electrically active dopants of opposite type. The epitaxial layer is depleted by the handle substrate free carriers, thereby resulting in a high apparent resistivity, which improves the function of the structure in RF devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Jeffrey L. Libbert, Shawn George Thomas, Qingmin Liu
  • Publication number: 20200118856
    Abstract: A system for controlling of wafer bow in plasma processing stations is described. The system includes a circuit that provides a low frequency RF signal and another circuit that provides a high frequency RF signal. The system includes an output circuit and the stations. The output circuit combines the low frequency RF signal and the high frequency RF signal to generate a plurality of combined RF signals for the stations. Amount of low frequency power delivered to one of the stations depends on wafer bow, such as non-flatness of a wafer. A bowed wafer decreases low frequency power delivered to the station in a multi-station chamber with a common RF source. A shunt inductor is coupled in parallel to each of the stations to increase an amount of current to the station with a bowed wafer. Hence, station power becomes less sensitive to wafer bow to minimize wafer bowing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Edward Augustyniak, David French, Sunil Kapoor, Yukinori Sakiyama, George Thomas
  • Publication number: 20200120067
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to firewalls. In one example of the technology, a first firewall is used such that communication is blocked from a first subsystem of a device upon boot of the device. The first firewall is enabled to be configured by secure code subsequent to boot such that code that is not secure code is prevented from configuring the first firewall. After configuration of the first firewall, based on the configuration, the first firewall is used to selectively allow the first subsystem access to the first memory based on ranges of addresses of the first memory configured as accessible to the first subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: George Thomas LETEY, Douglas L. STILES, Edmund B. NIGHTINGALE
  • Patent number: 10622962
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting impedances or power or a combination thereof across multiple plasma processing stations are described. One of the systems includes a first radio frequency (RF) generator that generates a first RF signal having a first frequency, a second RF generator that generates a second RF signal having a second frequency, and a first matching network coupled to the first RF generator to receive the first RF signal. The first impedance matching network outputs a first modified RF signal upon receiving the first RF signal. The system further includes a second matching network coupled to the second RF generator to receive the second RF signal. The second matching network outputs a second modified RF signal upon receiving the second RF signal. The system further includes a combiner and distributor coupled to an output of the first matching network and an output of the second matching network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Sunil Kapoor, George Thomas, Yaswanth Rangineni, Edward Augustyniak
  • Publication number: 20200099759
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus, system and method embodiments for sending an interactive customized push notifications with customized actions. An embodiment operates by determining occurrence of an event associated with an object, forming a notification and a list of actions defined by a customer using fields from the object associated with the event, and presenting the notification and the actions to a user device that's associated to the object. Further, the action is executed in response to the user's selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Joshua SCHNEYER, Nitish Khadiya, Aleksandra Zhulina, Erik Forsberg, Nadia Nusrat, Allan George Thomas, Senthilkumar Kosanam Shanmugam
  • Publication number: 20200099760
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus, system and method embodiments for sending an interactive customized push notifications with customized actions. An embodiment operates by determining occurrence of an event associated with an object, forming a notification and a list of actions defined by a customer using fields from the object associated with the event, and presenting the notification and the actions to a user device that's associated to the object. Further, the action is executed in response to the user's selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Joshua SCHNEYER, Nitish KHADIYA, Aleksandra ZHULINA, Erik FORSBERG, Nadia NUSRAT, Allan George THOMAS, Senthilkumar Kosanam SHANMUGAM
  • Patent number: 10587575
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to firewalls. In one example of the technology, a first firewall is used such that communication is blocked from a first subsystem of a device upon boot of the device. The first firewall is enabled to be configured by secure code subsequent to boot such that code that is not secure code is prevented from configuring the first firewall. After configuration of the first firewall, based on the configuration, the first firewall is used to selectively allow the first subsystem access to the first memory based on ranges of addresses of the first memory configured as accessible to the first subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: George Thomas Letey, Douglas L. Stiles, Edmund B. Nightingale
  • Publication number: 20200066397
    Abstract: Techniques are described that employ a multifactorial, machine-learning based system and prioritization framework for optimizing patient placement to beds at a medical facility. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented is provided that comprises receiving, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a patient placement request requesting placement of a patient to a hospital bed of the healthcare facility, wherein the request is associated with information identifying a medical service for the patient and a bed type. The method further comprises, selecting, by the system, a placement prioritization model from a set of placement prioritization models based on the medical service and the bed type, and employing, by the system, the prioritization model and state information regarding a current state of the healthcare facility to determine a prioritization score reflective of a priority level of the patient placement request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Savanoor Rai, Bex George Thomas, Andrew Day
  • Patent number: 10553465
    Abstract: A system for controlling of wafer bow in plasma processing stations is described. The system includes a circuit that provides a low frequency RF signal and another circuit that provides a high frequency RF signal. The system includes an output circuit and the stations. The output circuit combines the low frequency RF signal and the high frequency RF signal to generate a plurality of combined RF signals for the stations. Amount of low frequency power delivered to one of the stations depends on wafer bow, such as non-flatness of a wafer. A bowed wafer decreases low frequency power delivered to the station in a multi-station chamber with a common RF source. A shunt inductor is coupled in parallel to each of the stations to increase an amount of current to the station with a bowed wafer. Hence, station power becomes less sensitive to wafer bow to minimize wafer bowing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Augustyniak, David French, Sunil Kapoor, Yukinori Sakiyama, George Thomas
  • Publication number: 20200035257
    Abstract: A system for removing noise from an audio signal is described. For example, noise caused by content playing in the background during a voice command or phone call may be removed from the audio signal representing the voice command or phone call. By removing noise, the signal to noise ratio of the audio signal may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: George Thomas Des Jardins
  • Publication number: 20200036056
    Abstract: A battery system includes at least one lithium-ion battery having a unique identification associated therewith. A gas sensor detects at least one gas produced by the lithium-ion battery when the lithium-ion battery experiences a fault condition. The gas sensor also enters a state signal in response thereto. A monitoring circuit includes a memory that stores the unique identification of the battery. The monitoring circuit monitors the gas sensor. A wireless communication device is disposed on the battery and is in data communication with the monitoring circuit. The wireless communication device transmits a wireless alarm signal when the alert state is asserted. A remote wireless communication unit is in wireless data communication with the wireless communication device and receives the wireless alarm signal therefrom. The remote wireless communication unit generates a human-perceptible notification when the wireless alarm signal has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: NuGen Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: George Thomas, Sai Praturu, Ajith N. Nair, Venus Desai