Patents by Inventor Kelly J. Taylor

Kelly J. Taylor 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: 11772410
    Abstract: A magnetic erasable writable material for large format applications is disclosed, and includes a cast polyvinylchloride film with a mount surface opposite an etched receiver surface. Also incorporated is a transparent polyester film that has a marking side with a first predetermined hardness and an opposite seal side, laminated to the receiver surface. The marking side includes a clear superstrate that has a second predetermined hardness and applied to the marking side of the polyester film to lower its surface energy. The receiver surface is treated to have a surface energy adjusted to enable improved adherence of printed and preformed graphic elements, which are encapsulated when laminated between the PET film and receiver surface. The superstrate includes a perfluoropolyether, a polyurethane, an acrylated polyurethane, and/or an acrylate resin to harden the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Kelly J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20230273423
    Abstract: Systems and methods for MEMS devices are disclosed. A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes a substrate, and a MEMS structure supported by the substrate. The MEMS structure includes a first layer of a first material comprising a titanium aluminum alloy. The MEMS structure furth includes an aluminum layer on the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Toby Linder, John Hamlin, Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 11021004
    Abstract: A magnetic erasable writable material for large format applications is disclosed, and includes a cast polyvinylchloride film with a mount surface opposite an etched receiver surface. Also incorporated is a transparent polyester film that has a marking side with a first predetermined hardness and an opposite seal side, laminated to the receiver surface. The marking side includes a clear superstrate that has a second predetermined hardness and applied to the marking side of the polyester film to lower its surface energy. The receiver surface is treated to have a surface energy adjusted to enable improved adherence of printed and preformed graphic elements, which are encapsulated when laminated between the PET film and receiver surface. The superstrate includes a perfluoropolyether, a polyurethane, an acrylated polyurethane, and/or an acrylate resin to harden the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventor: Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10596847
    Abstract: An erasable writable material for large format applications is disclosed, and includes a cast polyvinylchloride film with a mount surface opposite an etched receiver surface. Also incorporated is a transparent polyester film that has a marking side with a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 79 and an opposite seal side, hermetically laminated to the receiver surface. The marking side includes a clear superstrate that has a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 90, which is applied to the marking side of the polyester film to lower surface energy below about 24 millinewtons per meter. The receiver surface is treated to have a surface energy exceeding about 45 millinewtons per meter, to enable improved adherence of printed and preformed graphic elements, which are encapsulated when laminated between the PET film and receiver surface. The superstrate includes a perfluoropolyether, a polyurethane, an acrylated polyurethane, and/or an acrylate resin to harden the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Inventor: Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10589565
    Abstract: A magnetic erasable writable material for large format applications is disclosed, and includes a cast polyvinylchloride film with a mount surface opposite an etched receiver surface. Also incorporated is a transparent polyester film that has a marking side with a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 79 and an opposite seal side, hermetically laminated to the receiver surface. The marking side includes a clear superstrate that has a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 90, which is applied to the marking side of the polyester film to lower surface energy below about 24 millinewtons per meter. The receiver surface is treated to have a surface energy exceeding about 45 millinewtons per meter, to enable improved adherence of printed and preformed graphic elements, which are encapsulated when laminated between the PET film and receiver surface. The superstrate includes a perfluoropolyether, a polyurethane, an acrylated polyurethane, and/or an acrylate resin to harden the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Kelly J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20180250979
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method of presenting user interactive graphical content. More specifically, the disclosure relates to presentation of a writeable surface covering including a base layer displaying graphical content and a transparent layer applied to the base layer. Users may add user content to the writeable surface covering, such as, by writing or drawing on the covering using dry erase markers other suitable writing implements. The user content may overlay the graphical content without marring the graphical content, and the user content may later be erased from the writeable surface covering. The writeable surface covering may be adhered or otherwise attached to a wall or other support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventor: Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10011142
    Abstract: An erasable writable material for large format applications is disclosed, and includes a cast polyvinylchloride film with a mount surface opposite an etched receiver surface. Also incorporated is a transparent polyester film that has a marking side with a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 79 and an opposite seal side, hermetically laminated to the receiver surface. The marking side includes a clear superstrate that has a hardness exceeding approximately shore D 90, which is applied to the marking side of the polyester film to lower surface energy below about 24 millinewtons per meter. The receiver surface is treated to have a surface energy exceeding about 45 millinewtons per meter, to enable improved adherence of printed and preformed graphic elements, which are encapsulated when laminated between the PET film and receiver surface. The superstrate includes a perfluoropolyether, a polyurethane, an acrylated polyurethane, and/or an acrylate resin to harden the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Inventor: Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9656860
    Abstract: In described examples, a MEMS device is formed by forming a sacrificial layer over a substrate and forming a first metal layer over the sacrificial layer. Subsequently, the first metal layer is exposed to an oxidizing ambient which oxidizes a surface layer of the first metal layer where exposed to the oxidizing ambient, to form a native oxide layer of the first metal layer. A second metal layer is subsequently formed over the native oxide layer of the first metal layer. The sacrificial layer is subsequently removed, forming a released metal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Earl Vedere Atnip, Raul Enrique Barreto, Kelly J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20160368765
    Abstract: In described examples, a MEMS device is formed by forming a sacrificial layer over a substrate and forming a first metal layer over the sacrificial layer. Subsequently, the first metal layer is exposed to an oxidizing ambient which oxidizes a surface layer of the first metal layer where exposed to the oxidizing ambient, to form a native oxide layer of the first metal layer. A second metal layer is subsequently formed over the native oxide layer of the first metal layer. The sacrificial layer is subsequently removed, forming a released metal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Earl Vedere Atnip, Raul Enrique Barreto, Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9446947
    Abstract: A MEMS device is formed by forming a sacrificial layer over a substrate and forming a first metal layer over the sacrificial layer. Subsequently, the first metal layer is exposed to an oxidizing ambient which oxidizes a surface layer of the first metal layer where exposed to the oxidizing ambient, to form a native oxide layer of the first metal layer. A second metal layer is subsequently formed over the native oxide layer of the first metal layer. The sacrificial layer is subsequently removed, forming a released metal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Earl Vedere Atnip, Raul Enrique Barreto, Kelly J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20160052778
    Abstract: A MEMS device is formed by forming a sacrificial layer over a substrate and forming a first metal layer over the sacrificial layer. Subsequently, the first metal layer is exposed to an oxidizing ambient which oxidizes a surface layer of the first metal layer where exposed to the oxidizing ambient, to form a native oxide layer of the first metal layer. A second metal layer is subsequently formed over the native oxide layer of the first metal layer. The sacrificial layer is subsequently removed, forming a released metal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Earl Vedere Atnip, Raul Enrique Barreto, Kelly J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20110114597
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of fabricating an integrated circuit comprising patterning a dielectric layer to form a hole having a sidewall and a bottom. The hole can expose an underlying material of an electrically conducting material. The method also includes exposing the sidewall and the exposed underlying material to a plasma etch, depositing a barrier layer on the bottom and the sidewall of the hole after the plasma etch clean, forming a counter-sunk cone in the underlying material by etching through the barrier layer at the bottom of the hole into the conducting metal underneath, flash depositing a thin layer of the barrier material into the hole, and finally depositing a metal seed layer in the hole covering the sidewalls and the bottom of the hole including the cone at the bottom. The hole is finally filled by depositing a metal layer in the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alfred J. Griffin, JR., Edmund Burke, Asad M. Haider, Kelly J. Taylor, Tae S. Kim
  • Patent number: 7897410
    Abstract: Reducing chemical contaminants is increasingly important for maintaining competitive production costs during fabrication of electronic devices. There is currently no production floor capability for mapping chemical contaminants across an electronic device substrate on a routine basis. A scanning surface chemical analyzer for mapping the distributions of a variety of chemicals on substrates is disclosed. The analyzer includes an array of sensors, each of which detects a single chemical or narrow range of chemicals, a scanning mechanism to provide a mapping capability, an electrical signal analyzer to collect and analyze signals from the array of sensors and generate reports of chemical distributions, and an optical desorption mechanism to amplify detection. A preferred embodiment includes an array of miniature quadrupole mass spectrometers in the sensor array. Scanning modes include whole substrate mapping, region sampling, and spot sampling of known defect sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sean M. Collins, Jeffrey W. Ritchison, Richard L. Guldi, Kelly J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20090153856
    Abstract: Reducing chemical contaminants is increasingly important for maintaining competitive production costs during fabrication of electronic devices. There is currently no production floor capability for mapping chemical contaminants across an electronic device substrate on a routine basis. A scanning surface chemical analyzer for mapping the distributions of a variety of chemicals on substrates is disclosed. The analyzer includes an array of sensors, each of which detects a single chemical or narrow range of chemicals, a scanning mechanism to provide a mapping capability, an electrical signal analyzer to collect and analyze signals from the array of sensors and generate reports of chemical distributions, and an optical desorption mechanism to amplify detection. A preferred embodiment includes an array of miniature quadrupole mass spectrometers in the sensor array. Scanning modes include whole substrate mapping, region sampling, and spot sampling of known defect sites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sean M. Collins, Jeffrey W. Ritchison, Richard L. Guldi, Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7514734
    Abstract: Hardmasks and fabrication methods are presented for producing ferroelectric capacitors in a semiconductor device, wherein a hardmask comprising aluminum oxide or strontium tantalum oxide is formed above an upper capacitor electrode material, and capacitor electrode and ferroelectric layers are etched to define a ferroelectric capacitor stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjeev Aggarwal, Kelly J. Taylor, Theodore S. Moise
  • Publication number: 20090020313
    Abstract: A system comprising a first layer comprising one or more metal sub-layers and a protective overcoat (PO) layer adjacent to the first layer. The PO layer is adapted to protect the first layer, and a circuit logic is at least partially embedded within the PO layer. The circuit logic couples to one of the metal sub-layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yves LEDUC, Nathalie MESSINA, Kelly J. TAYLOR, Louis N. HUTTER, Jeffrey P. SMITH, Byron L. WILLIAMS, Abha R. SINGH, Scott R. SUMMERFELT, Daniel L. CALLAHAN
  • Patent number: 7361949
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a method of fabricating a haze free, phase pure, PZT layer, 3, where a lead rich PZT film, 102, is formed over a phase pure stoichiometric PZT film, 101.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjeev Aggarwal, Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7332425
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of forming a interconnect barrier layer 100. In the method, physical vapor deposition of barrier material 200 is performed within an opening 140 located in a dielectric layer 135 of a substrate 110. RF plasma etching of the barrier material 200 that is deposited in the opening 140 occurs simultaneously with conducting the physical vapor deposition of the barrier material 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Asad M. Haider, Alfred J. Griffin, Jr., Kelly J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 7153706
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ferroelectric capacitor, a method of manufacture therefor, and a method of manufacturing a ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) device. The ferroelectric capacitor (100), among other elements, includes a substantially planar ferroelectric dielectric layer (165) located over a first electrode layer (160), wherein the substantially planar ferroelectric dielectric layer (165) has an average surface roughness of less than about 4 nm. The ferroelectric capacitor (100) further includes a second electrode layer (170) located over the substantially planar ferroelectric dielectric layer (165).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjeev Aggarwal, Kelly J. Taylor, Lindsey Hall, Satyavolu Srinivas Papa Rao
  • Patent number: 7144808
    Abstract: The present invention provides, in one embodiment, method of forming a barrier layer 300 over a semiconductor substrate 110. The method comprises forming an opening 120 in an insulating layer 130 located over a substrate thereby uncovering an underlying copper layer 140. The method further comprises exposing the opening and the underlying copper layer to a plasma-free reducing atmosphere 200 in the presence of a thermal anneal. The also comprises depositing a barrier layer in the exposed opening and on the exposed underlying copper layer. Such methods and resulting conductive structures thereof may be advantageously used in methods to manufacture integrated circuits comprising copper interconnects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjeev Aggarwal, Kelly J. Taylor