Patents by Inventor Jennifer Hay
Jennifer Hay 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: 20240121204Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for automatically providing a suggestion to delay sending a message that is being composed by a user to send to a chat participant using a chat feature of an application. The suggestion is sent in response to determining that one or more trigger conditions occurred. The suggestion includes a scheduled time to send the message. The methods and systems send the delayed message at the scheduled time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Jiaoyan ZHANG, Wendy GUO, John Hay TAING, Vineet BATTA, Yury ISAKOV, Simon Chun Ho TAM, Jennifer Andrea NINO TAPIA, Matthew David WALL, Sean Michael LYNCH, Milena NATANOV, Angelina CONSTANCE
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Publication number: 20230182248Abstract: An apparatus includes a chuck configured to hold a wafer and a tilt plate disposed beneath the chuck and adjustably connected to the chuck by a pair of upper screws and a pair of lower screws separately arranged in opposite corners of the chuck. Screw heads of the pair of upper screws rest against a top surface of the chuck, such that clockwise rotation of one of the upper screws pushes a corresponding corner of the chuck toward the tilt plate. Screw heads of the pair of lower screws rest against a bottom surface of the chuck, such that counter-clockwise rotation of one of the lower screws pushes a corresponding corner of the chuck away from the tilt plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Warren C. Oliver, Michael Drake, Richard Anthony, Kurt Johanns, Jennifer Hay
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Patent number: 10288540Abstract: An instrumented indentation apparatus and instrumented indentation method, for use in instrumented indentation, employ a flat-ended indenter (punch). Force-displacement data of a loading operation, in which a sample is indented using the indenter, and the known value of the effective radius of the end surface of the indenter, are used to calculate values of stress and strain. The entire stress-strain curve for the sample may be produced from these values.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: KLA-Tencor CorporationInventor: Jennifer Hay
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Patent number: 9063132Abstract: An assay method and device can perform at least one (e.g., at least two) assays on a single aliquot of a sample liquid. The device can mix a sample liquid with assay reagents including magnetically susceptible particles. The device is configured to create a sample liquid-air interface with the sample liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles can be located (via an applied magnetic field) at the liquid-air interface when a second liquid contacts the interface to form a liquid-liquid interface. The magnetic particles travel across the liquid:liquid interface to the second liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles are configured to transport an analyte across the interface into the second liquid. An assay for the analyte is performed in the second liquid. An assay for another analyte can also be performed in the sample liquid.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: INVERNESS MEDICAL SWITZERLAND GMBHInventors: John William Dilleen, Phillip Lowe, Ruth Polwart, Jennifer Hay, Claus Marquordt, Steven Alexander Keatch, Steven Howell, Alan Thomson
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Patent number: 8028343Abstract: A nanoindenter that includes an interferometer, a rod, a force actuator and a controller is disclosed. The interferometer generates a light beam that is reflected from a moveable reflector, the interferometer determining a distance between a reference location and the moveable reflector. The rod is characterized by a rod axis and includes a tip on a first end thereof, the rod includes the moveable reflector at a location proximate to the tip. The tip is disposed in a manner that allows the tip to be forced against the surface of a sample. The force actuator applies a force to the rod in a direction parallel to the rod axis in response to a force control signal coupled to the actuator. The controller receives the determined distance from the interferometer and generates the force control signal. The invention can also be used as a scanning probe microscope.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Nanonmechanics, Inc.Inventors: Warren C. Oliver, John Swindernan, Jennifer Hay, Karmit Parks
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Publication number: 20110008813Abstract: An assay method and device can perform at least one (e.g., at least two) assays on a single aliquot of a sample liquid. The device can mix a sample liquid with assay reagents including magnetically susceptible particles. The device is configured to create a sample liquid-air interface with the sample liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles can be located (via an applied magnetic field) at the liquid-air interface when a second liquid contacts the interface to form a liquid-liquid interface. The magnetic particles travel across the liquid:liquid interface to the second liquid. The magnetically susceptible particles are configured to transport an analyte across the interface into the second liquid. An assay for the analyte is performed in the second liquid. An assay for another analyte can also be performed in the sample liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: Inverness Medical Switzerland GMBHInventors: John William Dilleen, Phillip Lowe, Ruth Polwart, Jennifer Hay, Claus Marquordt, Steven Alexander Keatch, Steven Howell, Alan Thompson
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Publication number: 20100192267Abstract: A nanoindenter that includes an interferometer, a rod, a force actuator and a controller is disclosed. The interferometer generates a light beam that is reflected from a moveable reflector, the interferometer determining a distance between a reference location and the moveable reflector. The rod is characterized by a rod axis and includes a tip on a first end thereof, the rod includes the moveable reflector at a location proximate to the tip. The tip is disposed in a manner that allows the tip to be forced against the surface of a sample. The force actuator applies a force to the rod in a direction parallel to the rod axis in response to a force control signal coupled to the actuator. The controller receives the determined distance from the interferometer and generates the force control signal. The invention can also be used as a scanning probe microscope.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Warren C. Oliver, John Swindernan, Jennifer Hay, Karmit Parks
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Patent number: 7681432Abstract: Concepts presented herein relate to a portable device that includes a frame and a fixture for engaging a mechanical probe to be calibrated. The fixture can be a platform of hard material that receives pushing action of the mechanical probe. A displacement sensor senses position of the platform with respect to the frame. An actuator is coupled to the displacement sensor and a controller is coupled to the actuator. The controller operates the actuator to cause the platform to move to a position (as indicated by the displacement sensor), while the force required to cause the displacement is measured with a force sensor.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2006Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Hay, Warren Oliver
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Publication number: 20080134748Abstract: Concepts presented herein relate to a portable device that includes a frame and a fixture for engaging a mechanical probe to be calibrated. The fixture can be a platform of hard material that receives pushing action of the mechanical probe. A displacement sensor senses position of the platform with respect to the frame. An actuator is coupled to the displacement sensor and a controller is coupled to the actuator. The controller operates the actuator to cause the platform to move to a position (as indicated by the displacement sensor), while the force required to cause the displacement is measured with a force sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: MTS Systems CorporationInventors: Jennifer Hay, Warren Oliver
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Publication number: 20040153292Abstract: A method of determining onset of a significant event, such as point of engagement, in experimental data such as data measured during indenter or tensile/compression tests. The measured data is processed by differentiation and/or integration to generate a plurality of processed series. The method includes setting an upper bound and a lower bound based on thresholds selected as multiples of a standard deviation. The significant event is determined from one or both of the upper and lower bounds. The method can include calculating an uncertainty for the significant event determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2004Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: MTS Systems CorporationInventor: Jennifer Hay
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Publication number: 20010036543Abstract: A plastic sheet product having a matte finish comprises a core layer of a thermoplastic polymer and at least one layer of a capstock composition which overlies, and is bonded to, at least one face of the core layer. The capstock composition comprises the same or different thermoplastic polymer and contains a plurality of discrete particles immiscible with and dispersed in the thermoplastic polymer of the capstock composition. The sheet product may be prepared by the co-extrusion of the thermoplastic polymer and the capstock composition, and in a particular embodiment, such co-extrusion may be conducted by means of a feedblock. In a particular embodiment, the thermoplastic polymer of the core layer and that of the capstock composition may be the same, such as in the instance of a methylmethacrylate-methylacrylate copolymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2001Publication date: November 1, 2001Inventors: Darrell L. Sparks, Grant B. LaFontaine, Jennifer A. Hay, Robert E. Smith