Patents by Inventor Jan Maes
Jan Maes 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: 20250328030Abstract: Certain aspects provide a method for creating a discrete set of variants of a customizable wearable object, comprising: receiving a baseline 3D design file for a baseline 3D customizable wearable object; obtaining a fitting population comprising a set of 3D anatomy models representing potential wearers of the customizable wearable object; generating a plurality of modified 3D customizable wearable objects based on fitting the baseline 3D customizable wearable object to each 3D anatomy model of the set of 3D anatomy models; selecting one or more of the plurality of modified 3D customizable wearable objects as the discrete set of variants of the customizable wearable object; and generating a set of 3D design files corresponding to the discrete set of variants of the customizable wearable object.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2025Publication date: October 23, 2025Inventors: Tom CLUCKERS, Philippe LAES, Jan MAES, Alireza PARANDIAN
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Patent number: 11307437Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for customizing and personalizing eyewear. The methods and system consider optimal parameters for each wearer's personal visual situation and configures frames around them.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Materialise NVInventors: Alireza Parandian, Tom Cluckers, Jan Maes, Takashi Hatanaka
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Patent number: 10953602Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to systems and methods which allow for 3-D printed objects, such as eyeglasses and wristwatches, for example, to be customized by users according to modification specifications that are defined and constrained by manufacturers based on factors relating to the printability of a modified design.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Materialise N.V.Inventors: Tom Cluckers, Jan Maes
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Publication number: 20190332091Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to systems and methods which allow for 3-D printed objects, such as eyeglasses and wristwatches, for example, to be customized by users according to modification specifications that are defined and constrained by manufacturers based on factors relating to the printability of a modified design.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Tom CLUCKERS, Jan MAES
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Patent number: 10373328Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting shape are provided. A system for predicting shape can include a database, a training analysis module, a subject analysis module, and a prediction module. The database can store two sets of training models characterized by first and second parameters, respectively (e.g., bone and cartilage), as well as a subject model characterized by the first parameter (e.g., a bone model). The relationships between these models can be determined by a training analysis module and a subject module. Based on these relationships, the prediction module can generate a predicted shape characterized by the second parameter (e.g., a predicted cartilage model corresponding to the bone model).Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Materialise N.V.Inventors: Jan Maes, Tom Cluckers, Joris Van Deun
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Patent number: 10331111Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to systems and methods which allow for 3-D printed objects, such as eyeglasses and wristwatches, for example, to be customized by users according to modification specifications that are defined and constrained by manufacturers. These modification specifications may be constrained by the manufacturers based on factors relating to the printability of a modified design.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Materialise N.V.Inventors: Tom Cluckers, Jan Maes
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Publication number: 20190146243Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for customizing and personalizing eyewear. The methods and system consider optimal parameters for each wearer's personal visual situation and configures frames around them.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Alireza PARANDIAN, Tom CLUCKERS, Jan MAES, Takashi HATANAKA
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Publication number: 20180315206Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting shape are provided. A system for predicting shape can include a database, a training analysis module, a subject analysis module, and a prediction module. The database can store two sets of training models characterized by first and second parameters, respectively (e.g., bone and cartilage), as well as a subject model characterized by the first parameter (e.g., a bone model). The relationships between these models can be determined by a training analysis module and a subject module. Based on these relationships, the prediction module can generate a predicted shape characterized by the second parameter (e.g., a predicted cartilage model corresponding to the bone model).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Jan MAES, Tom CLUCKERS, Joris VAN DEUN
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Patent number: 10055536Abstract: Systems and methods for designing digital representations of 3-D objects and manufacturing such objects are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the systems and methods described relate to bending maps that define regions on a physical object that can be bent or manipulated in order to design the 3-D object.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Materialise, NVInventors: Jan Maes, Mohd Azman Mohd Ismail, Tom Cluckers
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Patent number: 10043277Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting shape are provided. A system for predicting shape can include a database, a training analysis module, a subject analysis module, and a prediction module. The database can store two sets of training models characterized by first and second parameters, respectively (e.g., bone and cartilage), as well as a subject model characterized by the first parameter (e.g., a bone model). The relationships between these models can be determined by a training analysis module and a subject module. Based on these relationships, the prediction module can generate a predicted shape characterized by the second parameter (e.g., a predicted cartilage model corresponding to the bone model).Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Materialise NVInventors: Jan Maes, Tom Cluckers, Joris Van Deun
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Publication number: 20170154778Abstract: Methods of treating metal-containing thin films, such as films comprising titanium carbide, with a silane/borane agent are provided. In some embodiments a film comprising titanium carbide is deposited on a substrate by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The process may include a plurality of deposition cycles involving alternating and sequential pulses of a first source chemical that comprises titanium and at least one halide ligand, a second source chemical comprising metal and carbon, wherein the metal and the carbon from the second source chemical are incorporated into the thin film, and a third source chemical, wherein the third source chemical is a silane or borane that at least partially reduces oxidized portions of the titanium carbide layer formed by the first and second source chemicals. In some embodiments treatment forms a capping layer on the metal carbide film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Jerry Chen, Vladimir Machkaoutsan, Brennan Milligan, Jan Maes, Suvi Haukka, Eric Shero, Tom Blomberg, Dong Li
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Patent number: 9583348Abstract: Methods of treating metal-containing thin films, such as films comprising titanium carbide, with a silane/borane agent are provided. In some embodiments a film comprising titanium carbide is deposited on a substrate by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The process may include a plurality of deposition cycles involving alternating and sequential pulses of a first source chemical that comprises titanium and at least one halide ligand, a second source chemical comprising metal and carbon, wherein the metal and the carbon from the second source chemical are incorporated into the thin film, and a third source chemical, wherein the third source chemical is a silane or borane that at least partially reduces oxidized portions of the titanium carbide layer formed by the first and second source chemicals. In some embodiments treatment forms a capping layer on the metal carbide film.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: ASM IP HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Jerry Chen, Vladimir Machkaoutsan, Brennan Milligan, Jan Maes, Suvi Haukka, Eric Shero, Tom Blomberg, Dong Li
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Publication number: 20170038767Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to systems and methods which allow for 3-D printed objects, such as eyeglasses and wristwatches, for example, to be customized by users according to modification specifications that are defined and constrained by manufacturers. These modification specifications may be constrained by the manufacturers based on factors relating to the printability of a modified design.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: MATERIALISE N.V.Inventors: Tom CLUCKERS, Jan MAES
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Publication number: 20160335776Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting shape are provided. A system for predicting shape can include a database, a training analysis module, a subject analysis module, and a prediction module. The database can store two sets of training models characterized by first and second parameters, respectively (e.g., bone and cartilage), as well as a subject model characterized by the first parameter (e.g., a bone model). The relationships between these models can be determined by a training analysis module and a subject module. Based on these relationships, the prediction module can generate a predicted shape characterized by the second parameter (e.g., a predicted cartilage model corresponding to the bone model).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: Jan MAES, Tom CLUCKERS, Joris VAN DEUN
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Publication number: 20160196977Abstract: Methods of treating metal-containing thin films, such as films comprising titanium carbide, with a silane/borane agent are provided. In some embodiments a film comprising titanium carbide is deposited on a substrate by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The process may include a plurality of deposition cycles involving alternating and sequential pulses of a first source chemical that comprises titanium and at least one halide ligand, a second source chemical comprising metal and carbon, wherein the metal and the carbon from the second source chemical are incorporated into the thin film, and a third source chemical, wherein the third source chemical is a silane or borane that at least partially reduces oxidized portions of the titanium carbide layer formed by the first and second source chemicals. In some embodiments treatment forms a capping layer on the metal carbide film.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2016Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Jerry Chen, Vladimir Machkaoutsan, Brennan Milligan, Jan Maes, Suvi Haukka, Eric Shero, Tom Blomberg, Dong Li
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Patent number: 9236247Abstract: Methods of treating metal-containing thin films, such as films comprising titanium carbide, with a silane or a borane agent are provided. In some embodiments a film comprising titanium carbide is deposited on a substrate by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The process may include a plurality of deposition cycles involving alternating and sequential pulses of a first source chemical that comprises titanium and at least one halide ligand, a second source chemical comprising metal and carbon, wherein the metal and the carbon from the second source chemical are incorporated into the thin film, and a third source chemical, wherein the third source chemical is a silane or borane that at least partially reduces oxidized portions of the titanium carbide layer formed by the first and second source chemicals. In some embodiments treatment forms a capping layer on the metal carbide film.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: ASM IP HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Jerry Chen, Vladimir Machkaoutsan, Brennan Milligan, Jan Maes, Suvi Haukka, Eric Shero, Tom Blomberg, Dong Li
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Publication number: 20150179440Abstract: Methods of treating metal-containing thin films, such as films comprising titanium carbide, with a silane/borane agent are provided. In some embodiments a film comprising titanium carbide is deposited on a substrate by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process. The process may include a plurality of deposition cycles involving alternating and sequential pulses of a first source chemical that comprises titanium and at least one halide ligand, a second source chemical comprising metal and carbon, wherein the metal and the carbon from the second source chemical are incorporated into the thin film, and a third source chemical, wherein the third source chemical is a silane or borane that at least partially reduces oxidized portions of the titanium carbide layer formed by the first and second source chemicals. In some embodiments treatment forms a capping layer on the metal carbide film.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Jerry Chen, Vladimir Machkaoutsan, Brennan Milligan, Jan Maes, Suvi Haukka, Eric Shero, Tom Blomberg, Dong Li
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Publication number: 20150149126Abstract: Systems and methods for designing digital representations of 3-D objects and manufacturing such objects are disclosed herein. In some aspects, the systems and methods described relate to bending maps that define regions on a physical object that can be bent or manipulated in order to design the 3-D object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Jan MAES, Mohd Azman MOHD ISMAIL, Tom CLUCKERS
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Publication number: 20080093711Abstract: High dielectric constant (high-k) materials are formed directly over oxidation-susceptible conductors such as silicon. A discontinuous layer is formed, with gaps between grains of the high-k material. Exposed conductor underneath the grain boundaries is oxidized or nitridized to form, e.g., silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, when exposed to oxygen or nitrogen source gases at elevated temperatures. This dielectric growth is preferential underneath the grain boundaries such that any oxidation or nitridation at the interface between the high-k material grains and covered conductor is not as extensive. The overall dielectric constant of the composite film is high, while leakage current paths between grains is reduced. Ultrathin high-k materials with low leakage current are thereby enabled.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: ASM INTERNATIONAL N.V.Inventors: Ivo Raaijmakers, Pekka Soininen, Jan Maes
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Publication number: 20070026540Abstract: In one aspect, non-conformal layers are formed by variations of plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition, where one or more of pulse duration, separation, RF power on-time, reactant concentration, pressure and electrode spacing are varied from true self-saturating reactions to operate in a depletion-effect mode. Deposition thus takes place close to the substrate surface but is controlled to terminate after reaching a specified distance into openings (e.g., deep DRAM trenches, pores, etc.). Reactor configurations that are suited to such modulation include showerhead, in situ plasma reactors, particularly with adjustable electrode spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2006Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventors: Sebastian Nooten, Jan Maes, Steven Marcus, Glen Wilk, Petri Raisanen, Kai-Erik Elers