Patents by Inventor Joseph Kirkpatrick

Joseph Kirkpatrick 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).

  • Reduced semiconductor wafer bow and warpage
    Patent number: 11942359
    Abstract: Forming an integrated circuit, for example by first, concurrently forming a first front end of line (FEOL) layer having a first thickness and a surface contacting or facing a semiconductor substrate frontside and a second FEOL layer, having a second thickness and including a same material as the first FEOL layer and having a surface contacting or facing a semiconductor substrate backside, and second, processing the second FEOL layer to reduce the second thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Abbas Ali, Christopher Scott Whitesell, Brian K. Kirkpatrick, Byron Joseph Palla
  • Heat-producing agglomerates and their application in flameless heaters and self-heating packaging
    Patent number: 7258117
    Abstract: A heat-producing agglomerate contains particles of an acidic component selected from acid anhydrides, acid salts, and mixtures thereof, or a basic component selected from bases, basic anhydrides, basic salts, and mixtures thereof, or a mixture of such acidic and basic components. The heat producing agglomerate provides high heat output at a controllable rate of heat generation, minimizes safety and environmental risks, and is useful as a heat-producing component in self-heating packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Innophos, ,Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Payen, Robert Finn, Joseph Mitchell, George Carl Harmsen, Dennis L. Myers, Joseph Kirkpatrick
  • Heat-producing agglomerates and their application in flameless heaters and self-heating packaging
    Publication number: 20050092319
    Abstract: A heat-producing agglomerate contains particles of an acidic component selected from acid anhydrides, acid salts, and mixtures thereof, or a basic component selected from bases, basic anhydrides, basic salts, and mixtures thereof, or a mixture of such acidic and basic components. The heat producing agglomerate provides high heat output at a controllable rate of heat generation, minimizes safety and environmental risks, and is useful as a heat-producing component in self-heating packaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Vincent Payen, Robert Finn, Joseph Mitchell, George Harmsen, Dennis Myers, Joseph Kirkpatrick