Patents by Inventor James Bruno

James Bruno 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: 11899042
    Abstract: An example test system includes test sites comprising test sockets for testing devices under test (DUTs) and pickers for picking DUTs from the test sockets or placing the DUTs into the test sockets. Each picker may include a picker head for holding a DUT. The test system also includes a gantry on which the pickers are mounted. The gantry may be configured to move the pickers relative to the test sites to position the pickers for picking the DUTs from the test sockets or placing the DUTs into the test sockets. The test sockets are arranged in at least one array that is accessible to the pickers on the gantry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TERADYNE, INC.
    Inventors: Philip Luke Campbell, Adnan Khalid, Christopher Croft Jones, Christopher James Bruno
  • Patent number: 11867749
    Abstract: An example test system includes test sites that include sockets for testing devices under test (DUTs), pickers for picking DUTs from the sockets or placing the DUTs in the sockets, and a gantry on which the pickers are mounted. The gantry is configured to move the pickers relative to the test sites to position the pickers for picking the DUTs from the sockets or placing the DUTs into the sockets. The test system also includes one or more LASER range finders mounted on the gantry for movement over the DUTs in the sockets and in conjunction with movement of the pickers. A LASER range finder among the one or more LASER rangefinders mounted on the gantry is configured to detect a distance to a DUT placed into a socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TERADYNE, INC.
    Inventors: Jianfa Pei, Adnan Khalid, Philip Luke Campbell, Christopher James Bruno, Christopher Croft Jones
  • Patent number: 11754596
    Abstract: An example test system includes a test socket for testing a DUT, a lid for the test socket, and an actuator configured to force the lid onto the test socket and to remove the lid from the test socket. The actuator includes an upper arm to move the lid, an attachment mechanism connected to the upper arm to contact the lid, where the attachment mechanism is configured to allow the lid to float relative to the test socket to enable alignment between the lid and the test socket, and a lower arm to anchor the actuator to a board containing the test socket. The actuator is configured to move the upper arm linearly towards and away from the test socket and to rotate the upper arm towards and away from the test socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TERADYNE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael O. McKenna, Christopher James Bruno, Philip Luke Campbell, John Patrick Toscano
  • Publication number: 20220128597
    Abstract: An example test system includes a test socket for testing a DUT, a lid for the test socket, and an actuator configured to force the lid onto the test socket and to remove the lid from the test socket. The actuator includes an upper arm to move the lid, an attachment mechanism connected to the upper arm to contact the lid, where the attachment mechanism is configured to allow the lid to float relative to the test socket to enable alignment between the lid and the test socket, and a lower arm to anchor the actuator to a board containing the test socket. The actuator is configured to move the upper arm linearly towards and away from the test socket and to rotate the upper arm towards and away from the test socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Michael O. McKenna, Christopher James Bruno, Philip Luke Campbell, John Patrick Toscano
  • Publication number: 20220128598
    Abstract: An example test system includes packs. The packs include test sockets for testing devices under test (DUTs) and at least some test electronics for performing tests on the DUTs in the test sockets. Different packs are configured to have different configurations. The different configurations include at least different numbers of test sockets arranged at different pitches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher James Bruno, Philip Luke Campbell, Adnan Khalid, Evgeny Polyakov, John Patrick Toscano
  • Publication number: 20220128622
    Abstract: An example test system includes test sites that include sockets for testing devices under test (DUTs), pickers for picking DUTs from the sockets or placing the DUTs in the sockets, and a gantry on which the pickers are mounted. The gantry is configured to move the pickers relative to the test sites to position the pickers for picking the DUTs from the sockets or placing the DUTs into the sockets. The test system also includes one or more LASER range finders mounted on the gantry for movement over the DUTs in the sockets and in conjunction with movement of the pickers. A LASER range finder among the one or more LASER rangefinders mounted on the gantry is configured to detect a distance to a DUT placed into a socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Jianfa Pei, Adnan Khalid, Philip Luke Campbell, Christopher James Bruno, Christopher Croft Jones
  • Publication number: 20220128599
    Abstract: An example test system includes test sites comprising test sockets for testing devices under test (DUTs) and pickers for picking DUTs from the test sockets or placing the DUTs into the test sockets. Each picker may include a picker head for holding a DUT. The test system also includes a gantry on which the pickers are mounted. The gantry may be configured to move the pickers relative to the test sites to position the pickers for picking the DUTs from the test sockets or placing the DUTs into the test sockets. The test sockets are arranged in at least one array that is accessible to the pickers on the gantry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Philip Luke Campbell, Adnan Khalid, Christopher Croft Jones, Christopher James Bruno
  • Patent number: 11094335
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatic detection of plagiarized spoken responses during standardized testing of language proficiency. A first spoken response to a speaking task that elicits spontaneous speech and a second spoken response to a source-based speaking task that is assumed to be non-plagiarized are digitally recorded. A first and second sets of speaking proficiency features are calculated for the first and the second spoken response, respectively. The first spoken response is classifying as plagiarized or non-plagiarized based on the comparison between the first and the second set of speaking proficiency features. Corresponding apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Educational Testing Service
    Inventors: Xinhao Wang, Keelan Evanini, James Bruno, Matthew Mulholland
  • Publication number: 20110318146
    Abstract: A system for testing devices includes a rack including bays configured to receive totes containing devices to be tested, where each bay includes a front that faces a robot, the robot is for moving the totes into and out of the bays, and each bay includes a back that is behind the first rack relative to the robot. At least one of the bays is configured for removal from the back of the rack without substantially interrupting operation of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventor: Christopher James Bruno
  • Publication number: 20110316545
    Abstract: A method is described for retrieving, by a test system, a formation profile associated with the storage cell, the formation profile comprising one or more formation segments, with a formation segment comprising an action to be performed upon a detection of a signature value; measuring, by the test system, a value of a parameter of the formation segment; detecting, based on a comparison between the value of the parameter and one or more signatures associated with the formation segment, that the value of the parameter comprises the signature value; and performing the action specified in the formation segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Rylan Ian Grant, Christopher James Bruno, Naim Mark Kahwati, Michael K. Malone, John Kenji Narasaki
  • Publication number: 20110316546
    Abstract: A contact assembly is described for testing a storage cell with a probe configured to flex in an outward direction, in response to a vertical application of force, to scrub a tab on the storage cell at a zero insertion force. The contact assembly comprises a contact structure configured to flex in an outward direction to scrub and to pierce a tab of the storage cell; a board, wherein a juxtaposition of the board to the contact structure defines an opening configured to receive the tab of the storage cell; and a device configured to move the contact structure, to a position in which the opening is closed, to cause the contact structure to scrub and to pierce the tab on the storage cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher James Bruno, David Nathaniel Scott, Bruce Leon Cowgill
  • Publication number: 20060029920
    Abstract: A method for knowledge assessment and encouraging learning via the administration, scoring, remediation, and reiteration of a confidence-based assessment (CBA) test. The CBA test comprises a plurality of multiple choice questions directed to categorical topics, and two-dimensional answers by which a subject indicates both their answer and level of confidence category of their answer. The answers include a plurality of full-confidence choices consisting of single-choice answers (A), (B) or (C), a plurality of partial-confidence choices consisting of sets of multiple single-choice answers (A or B), (B or C), (A or C), and an unsure answer. Scoring entails giving maximum points for correct full-confidence answers, partial points for correct partial-confidence answers, no score for not knowing, and a maximum penalty for wrong answers in any category. The answers are compiled and displayed as a knowledge profile to the subject that separates answers into quadrants of doubt, misinformation, unknown and mastery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: James Bruno, Charles Smith, Patrick Engstrom, Timothy Adams, Kevin Warr, Michael Cushman, Brian Webster, Frederick Bollin
  • Publication number: 20050227215
    Abstract: A method and system for knowledge assessment and learning for assessing the true knowledge of a human subject. The invention incorporates non-one dimensional testing techniques to obtain the subject's knowledge and confidence level associated with the knowledge. The invention produces an assessment or test prolific, which includes formative and summative evaluation. The profile is correlated to database of learning materials and presented to the subject for review and/or reeducation of the substantive response thereby ensuring the subject's acquisition of the true knowledge or accurate information. The invention accommodates various test queries without regard to the specific nature of the subject matter on which the test subject is queried. The present invention is adaptable for use in a microprocessor-based stand alone computers, as well as for individual use or distributed in a client-server environment of a communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: James Bruno, Charles Smith, Arthur Blank, Len Schiedel, Bob Serling
  • Patent number: 6342854
    Abstract: The invention relates to a position determining system, for receiving digital telephone signals transmitted by a number of transmission sources BTS. The system has a pair of receiving stations, CBU and CRU, one at a known position O and another on a roving object R; a position determining processor CPP; and means for passing a link signal, L1 and L2, from each of the receiving stations to the position determining processor, the link signal containing information about the signals received at the receiving station from the transmission sources. Each of the receiving stations is arranged to receive the signals from the respective transmission sources substantially simultaneously. The position determining processor is arranged to compare the information received from the one receiving station with the information received at the other receiving station, and to determine the time delay between the respective signals received at both receiving stations in order to determine the position of the roving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter James Duffett-Smith, Keith James Bruno Grainge
  • Patent number: 6094168
    Abstract: The invention relates to a position determining system, for receiving digital telephone signals transmitted by a number of transmission sources BTS. The system has a pair of receiving stations, CBU and CRU, one at a known position O and another on a roving object R; a position determining processor CPP; and means for passing a link signal, L1 and L2, from each of the receiving stations to the position determining processor, the link signal containing information about the signals received at the receiving station from the transmission sources. Each of the receiving stations is arranged to receive the signals from the respective transmission sources substantially simultaneously. The position determining processor is arranged to compare the information received from the one receiving station with the information received at the other receiving station, and to determining the time delay between the respective signals received at both receiving stations in order to determine the position of the roving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter James Duffett-Smith, Keith James Bruno Grainge
  • Patent number: 5845882
    Abstract: A pipe hanger for suspending a pipe from a support structure at a variety of angles includes a stem and a flexible hook attached to the stem. The stem has at least one groove suitable for accepting a staple for hanging the pipe hanger from the support structure. The grooves may be polygonal, allowing the pipe hanger to be suspended at a variety of angles. The hook has a curved portion to accept a pipe in a snap-fit position. The stem may be shortened to a suitable length by severing the stem at any one of the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Inventors: B. Eugene Hodges, James Bruno
  • Patent number: 4075059
    Abstract: A method of operating a nuclear power reactor is disclosed which enables an accelerated power reduction of the reactor without completely shutting the reactor down. The method includes monitoring the incidents which, upon their occurrence, would require an accelerated power reduction in order to maintain the reactor in a safe operation mode; calculating the power reduction required on the occurrence of such an incident; determining a control rod insertion sequence for the normal operation of the reactor, said sequence being chosen to optimize reactor power capability; selecting the number of control rods necessary to respond to the accelerated power reduction demand, said selection being made according to a priority determined by said control rod insertion sequence; and inserting said selected control rods into the reactor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1978
    Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen James Bruno, Stephen Alfred Dunn, Marvin Raber