Patents by Inventor James Kim
James Kim 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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Publication number: 20240133035Abstract: A substrate retaining apparatus, a load lock assembly comprising the substrate retaining apparatus, and a system including the substrate retaining apparatus are disclosed. The substrate retaining apparatus can include at least one sidewall and one or more heat shields. One or more of the at least one sidewall can include a cooling fluid conduit to facilitate cooling of substrates retained by the substrate retaining apparatus. Additionally or alternatively, one or more of the at least one sidewall can include a gas conduit to provide gas to a surface of a retained substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Shiva K.T. Rajavelu Muralidhar, Sam Kim, Jeffrey Barrett Robinson, James King Wilson, JR., Ninad Vijay Sonje
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Patent number: 11940495Abstract: An electronic assembly has a host wafer having a first circuit including wafer transistors and passive, non-transistor devices. Chiplets have a second circuit including at least one radio frequency (RF) transistor device. Electrical interconnects are between the chiplets and wafer. The electrical interconnects electrically connect the first circuit to the second circuits. Oscillators that have the wafer transistor, the RF transistor and the electrical interconnects produce a signal for built-in self-test circuits for testing an assembly design of the electronic assembly and speeds of the RF chiplet transistors.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PseudolithIC, Inc.Inventors: James Buckwalter, Michael Hodge, Justin Kim, Daniel Green, Florian Herrault
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Publication number: 20240095769Abstract: A system may provide an eco-feedback and gaming platform for home energy management. The system may generate daily energy scores for a plurality of households. The system may prepare a community energy conservation game in which community conservation goals and participation thresholds are generated. The system may execute the game by receiving time series date from each of the households and rewards the households for participating in achieving the community goal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: James Edward Braun, Julia Michelle Rayz, Panagiota Karava, Ilias Bilionis, Hemanth Devarapalli, Huijeong Kim, Sang Woo Ham, Vanessa Kwarteng, Marlen Promann
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Publication number: 20240086357Abstract: Systems and methods for updating remote memory side caches in a multi-GPU configuration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a graphics processor for a multi-tile architecture includes a first graphics processing unit (GPU) having a first memory, a first memory side cache memory, a first communication fabric, and a first memory management unit (MMU). The graphics processor includes a second graphics processing unit (GPU) having a second memory, a second memory side cache memory, a second memory management unit (MMU), and a second communication fabric that is communicatively coupled to the first communication fabric. The first MMU is configured to control memory requests for the first memory, to update content in the first memory, to update content in the first memory side cache memory, and to determine whether to update the content in the second memory side cache memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek Appu, Sean Coleman, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Pattabhiraman K, SungYe Kim, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Vasanth Ranganathan, James Valerio
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Publication number: 20240074836Abstract: Orthodontic devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an orthodontic device comprises a marking region configured to facilitate the design, manufacturing, production, distribution, installation, and/or use of the device. The marking region can comprise indicia configured to communicate information regarding the device, an associated patient, an instruction for installation of the device, etc. The indicia can comprise a recess or opening in the device, a raised or protruding portion of the device, and/or material that has been added to the device. In various embodiments, the indicia include, for example, letters, numbers, symbols, colors, shapes, and/or patterns that directly provide and/or encode the information of interest. The indicia can be human-readable and/or machine-readable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Seyed Mehdi Roein Peikar, James Sylvester Wratten, Jr., Woojae Kim
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Patent number: 11915735Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for sensing a memory with shared sense components are described. A device may activate a word line and a plate line each coupled with a set of memory cells, where each memory cell of the set of memory cells is coupled with a respective digit line of a set of digit lines. The device may activate a set of switching components to couple each digit line of the set of digit lines with a respective sense component of a set of sense components, where each switching component of the set of switching components is coupled with a respective memory cell of the set of memory cells. The device may sense the set of memory cells based on activating the word line and the plate line and based on coupling the set of digit lines with the set of sense components.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Yuan He, Tae H. Kim, Scott James Derner
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Patent number: 11914455Abstract: Improving storage device performance including initiating, on a storage device, execution of a rehabilitative action from a set of rehabilitative actions that can be performed on the storage device; determining that the storage device is operating outside of a defined range of expected operating parameters after the rehabilitative action has been executed; and initiating execution of a higher level rehabilitative action responsive to determining that the higher level rehabilitative action exists.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Andrew Bernat, James Cihla, Jungkeun Kim, Iris Mcleary, Damian Yurzola
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Patent number: 11909082Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cells that each contain a plurality of fuel electrodes and air electrodes. The system includes a fuel receiving unit connected to the fuel cell stack, which receives a hydrocarbon fuel from a fuel supply. The system includes a fuel exhaust processing unit fluidly coupled to the fuel cell stack by a slip stream, where the fuel exhaust processing unit processes fuel exhaust from the fuel cell stack, and the slip stream is fluidly connected to an exhaust stream flowing from the fuel cell stack. The fuel processing unit removes a first portion of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel exhaust within the slip stream, outputs the first portion of CO2 in a first stream, and outputs a second portion of CO2 remaining from the fuel exhaust in the slip stream into a second stream, which includes hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FuelCell Energy, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Leo, Stephen Jolly, James Kim
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Patent number: 11899603Abstract: A connection hub includes a housing coupled to a universal serial bus (USB) cable that includes a plug for electronic devices. A housing of the connection hub includes a number (N) of ports and switches. The connection hub includes 1-to-N connections between the USB cable and the N ports, where each of the N ports includes a data line and/or a power line. The switches each include a mechanical component that is movable between a first position that activates a private mode and a second position that deactivates the private mode. A data line of a particular port is disabled when the private mode is activated, and a particular power line of the particular port is enabled when either the private mode is activated and when the private mode is deactivated.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: OSOM PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Jason Sean Gagne-Keats, David John Evans, V, James Kim, Evan Jackson, Nicholas Franco, Edith Silver Walker
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Publication number: 20230412380Abstract: A display device establishes a secure communications session with a mobile device and receives an image-based item associated with a unique cryptographic token. The display device determines, based on metadata parsed from the unique cryptographic token, authenticity information and chain-of-ownership information for the cryptographic token. In response to determining that user account information for the secure communications session corresponds to an item included in the chain-of-ownership information, the display device displays the image-based item, and an indicator component of the display device provides an indication of authenticity for the image-based item.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Hernan Lopez, Jeanne Anderson, Sergey Tsibel, David Jeon, James Kim, Robert Magnus, Juan Pablo Cionci, Franco Forastiero
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Patent number: 11818402Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide for a software defined network (SDN) controller that virtualizes network elements to provide content delivery and data services through the virtualized network elements. In one embodiment, the SDN controller is operable in a cloud computing environment to balance data traffic through the virtualized network elements. For example, the SDN controller may abstract Layer 2 Control Protocol (L2CP) frame processing of the network elements into the cloud computing environment to relieve the network elements from the burdens of Ethernet frame processing. In this regard, the SDN controller comprises a L2CP decision module that determines how L2CP should be processed for the network elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: James Kim, Karthik Sundaresan, Thomas Kee
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Patent number: 11791309Abstract: A process for electrically connecting contact surfaces of electronic components by capillary wedge bonding a round wire of 8 to 80 ?m to the contact surface of a first electronic component, forming a wire loop, and stitch bonding the wire to the contact surface of a second electronic component, wherein the wire comprises a wire core having a silver or silver-based wire core with a double-layered coating comprised of a 1 to 50 nm thick inner layer of nickel or palladium and an adjacent 5 to 200 nm thick outer layer of gold.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: HERAEUS MATERIALS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.Inventors: Yean Mee Pun, Murali Sarangapani, Xi Zhang, Il Tae Kang, Abito Danila Bayaras, Kim Hui Chong, Sylvia Sutiono, Chee Wei Tok, Tae Yeop James Kim
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Patent number: 11784818Abstract: A display device establishes a secure communications session with a mobile device and receives an image-based item associated with a unique cryptographic token. The display device determines, based on metadata parsed from the unique cryptographic token, authenticity information and chain-of-ownership information for the cryptographic token. In response to determining that user account information for the secure communications session corresponds to an item included in the chain-of-ownership information, the display device displays the image-based item, and an indicator component of the display device provides an indication of authenticity for the image-based item.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Danvas, Inc.Inventors: Hernan Lopez, Jeanne Anderson, Sergey Tsibel, David Jeon, James Kim, Robert Magnus, Juan Pablo Cionci, Franco Forastiero
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Publication number: 20230185752Abstract: A Universal Serial Bus (USB) cable includes a connector and a switch. The connector includes a housing configured for gripping by a user to manually insert/remove the connector to/from a port of an electronic device. The connector includes a power line configured to enable transfer of power to the electronic device and a data line configured to enable exchange of data with the electronic device. The switch is integrated into the outer surface of the housing and includes, for example, a toggle that is mechanically movable between a first position that activates a private mode and a second position that deactivates the private mode. The exchange of data with the electronic device is only enabled while the toggle is in the second position, and the transfer of power to the electronic device is enabled regardless of whether the toggle is in the first position or the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Jason Sean GAGNE-KEATS, David Evans, James Kim, Evan Jackson, Nick Franco
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Publication number: 20230155831Abstract: A display device establishes a secure communications session with a mobile device and receives an image-based item associated with a unique cryptographic token. The display device determines, based on metadata parsed from the unique cryptographic token, authenticity information and chain-of-ownership information for the cryptographic token. In response to determining that user account information for the secure communications session corresponds to an item included in the chain-of-ownership information, the display device displays the image-based item, and an indicator component of the display device provides an indication of authenticity for the image-based item.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Hernan Lopez, Jeanne Anderson, Sergey Tsibel, David Jeon, James Kim, Robert Magnus, Juan Pablo Cionci, Franco Forastiero
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Publication number: 20230071679Abstract: An apparatus for depressurizing a pair of accumulators to provide high pressure gas includes a tank in fluid communication with each one of the pair of accumulators for receiving vapor from the pair of accumulators for storage and dispensing the vapor to a remote location other than the pair of accumulators and external atmosphere, a first fluid connection including a first valve assembly interconnecting the tank and a first accumulator of the pair of accumulators, a second fluid connection including a second valve assembly interconnecting the tank and a second accumulator of the pair of accumulators, wherein the first fluid connection with the first valve assembly and the second fluid connection with the second valve assembly are each constructed and arranged to deliver the vapor from a corresponding one of the first accumulator and the second accumulator to the tank during alternating intervals. A related method and system are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Messer Industries USA, Inc.Inventors: James Kim, Joseph Naumovitz, Tomasz Wolinski
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Patent number: 11478074Abstract: A cordless height-adjustable instrument table is disclosed. The table includes a plurality of vertical support legs that are equally spaced at each side of a centralized height-adjustment column that is fixedly attached to the bottom portion of the table. The centralized height-adjustment column is fixedly placed above a four-wheel base that is coupled to a motor housing including a charging port, a rechargeable lithium battery pack, and electronic components being provided therein. The table further includes easy touch buttons for raising and lowering the table and a plurality of table extensions that increase the length and width. In practice, the user can actuate the easy touch buttons until a desired height of the table is obtained. A readily available 12-hour rechargeable lithium battery from retailers or manufactures is integrated for prolonged use of the table.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Inventors: Kelly Burrows, Brian Mangubat, James Kim, Quinton Bankhead
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Publication number: 20220092688Abstract: A computer-implemented method for pacing a spend may include: (1) receiving, at a pacing computer program executed by a computer processor, a spend budget for a user for a period, wherein the spend budget represents income transactions for the period minus recurring or expected expense transactions for the period; (2) determining, by the pacing computer program, a pace of spend for the spend budget at a point in time for the period, wherein the pace of spend may be asymmetrical across the period; (3) determining, by the pacing computer program, a current spend for the period at the point of time; and (4) causing, by the pacing computer program, a display of an electronic device to graphically present the pace of spend for the point in time and the current spend for the period at the point in time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Liang ZHOU, Mathieu CLICHE, Robert CASTELLANO, Ryan KELLERMAN, Dinesh KASTI, Itamar PERLOV, John Andrew ADAMS, Samantha CLARK, James KIM
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Publication number: 20220085397Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack having a plurality of fuel cells that each contain a plurality of fuel electrodes and air electrodes. The system includes a fuel receiving unit connected to the fuel cell stack, which receives a hydrocarbon fuel from a fuel supply. The system includes a fuel exhaust processing unit fluidly coupled to the fuel cell stack by a slip stream, where the fuel exhaust processing unit processes fuel exhaust from the fuel cell stack, and the slip stream is fluidly connected to an exhaust stream flowing from the fuel cell stack. The fuel processing unit removes a first portion of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fuel exhaust within the slip stream, outputs the first portion of CO2 in a first stream, and outputs a second portion of CO2 remaining from the fuel exhaust in the slip stream into a second stream, which includes hydrogen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Anthony Leo, Stephen Jolly, James Kim
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Patent number: D1020753Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Emerge Now Inc.Inventors: Ravi Patel, James D. Hamilton, Mike de Jung, Richard Kim