Patents by Inventor Kiarash Ahi

Kiarash Ahi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240070846
    Abstract: A computing system implementing a raw data filtering tool can aggregate multiple wafer images depicting a portion of an electronic device into a reference image, detect one or more of the wafer images have defects based on a comparison of the reference image to the wafer images, and generate a gauge file to include a set of the wafer images selected based on the detection of defects in the wafer images. The raw data filtering tool also can iteratively build defect maps that include differences between the reference image and the wafer images, and characterize the detected defect in the wafer images with a size and a location based on the defect maps. The raw data filtering tool can provide feedback to a foundry about wafer images were excluded from the set of the wafer images based on the detection of defects in the wafer images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kiarash Ahi, Germain Louis Fenger, Hsin-Wei Wu
  • Publication number: 20230342965
    Abstract: This application discloses a computing system to obtain a wafer image of an electronic device having physical structures manufactured using one or more lithographic masks associated with a layout design describing the electronic design. The computing system can implement an unsupervised deep learning algorithm to process the wafer image to remove at least some noise from the wafer image, which generates a denoised wafer image. The computing system can extract contours corresponding to the physical structures of the electronic device from the denoised wafer image of the electronic device without use of the layout design or a mask design. The computing system can calibrate the layout design or the mask design describing the one or more lithographic masks based, at least in part, on the contours extracted from the denoised wafer image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Germain Louis Fenger, Mark Pereira, Bhamidipati Venkata Rama Samir, Sandip Halder, Bappaditya Dey, Hsin-Wei Wu, Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20230093817
    Abstract: A system comprising methods and apparatuses is provided for managing and optimizing shopping lists, purchased items, shopping visits, delivery schedules and reducing food waste. This system stores shopping lists of a user or shopping lists shared between a group of users. Upon entering the user to a certain vicinity where there is a store that sells an item which is pending on the shopping lists, the system sends reminding alerts to the user. Upon checking out from the store, the system marks as purchased on the shopping lists the purchased items. Upon storing the purchased items in associated containers, the system stores the locations of the items and updates the remaining amount of each of the items each time the user consumes part of each item. The system predicts the most optimized time of purchase and amount of the items to be purchased such that the least amount of food waste would occur and the least amount of delivery or shopping trips would be needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Patent number: 11510586
    Abstract: A novel method and system for enhanced-resolution THz imaging whereby an enhanced-resolution THz image is developed by deconvolution of the original THz image that is developed using THz signals that are manipulated in time-domain and/or in frequency-domain and a point spread function (PSF) that is developed according to an equation wherein said THz signals in time-domain and/or frequency-domain are input parameters. By using this method and system, enhanced-resolution THz images are developed for detecting traces of symptoms of COVID-19 as small as a drop of water. Said novel method and system for enhanced-resolution THz imaging is used for developing a device, and method, that is: (a) rapid, (b) economical, (c) able to perform measurements remotely, (d) non-invasive. This device, and method, is capable of detecting symptoms of COVID-19 such as runny nose, congestion, and cough. The person under examination may or may not wear a face covering mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Patent number: 11461825
    Abstract: A system comprising methods and apparatuses is provided for managing and optimizing shopping lists, purchased items, shopping visits, delivery schedules and reducing food waste. This system stores shopping lists of a user or shopping lists shared between a group of users. Upon entering the user to a certain vicinity where there is a store that sells an item which is pending on the shopping lists, the system sends reminding alerts to the user. Upon checking out from the store, the system marks as purchased on the shopping lists the purchased items. Upon storing the purchased items in associated containers, the system stores the locations of the items and updates the remaining amount of each of the items each time the user consumes part of each item. The system predicts the most optimized time of purchase and amount of the items to be purchased such that the least amount of food waste would occur and the least amount of delivery or shopping trips would be needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Patent number: 11428366
    Abstract: A mobile phone holder is disclosed for mounting a mobile phone to the dashboard of a car. This mobile phone holder is integrated into the back of a mobile phone or is attached to the back surface of the mobile phone through adhesive pads, or suction cups, or is incorporated into accessories of mobile phones such as attachable card holding wallets, and etc. One embodiment of this mobile phone holder creates a closed loop around the air vent bars. Hence, shakes of the car will not cause sudden detachment and falling of the phone. In Addition, this mobile phone holder is portable and is carried by the mobile phone. Hence, the user can readily have it upon using a temporary car. Moreover, since this mobile phone holder is not permanently stayed in the car, it is not exposed to extreme temperatures and thus its wear and tear is lower than conventional phone holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20220075212
    Abstract: Toward prevention of the spread of COVID-19 virus and suppressing the pandemic caused by this outbreak, many local governments, states within the Unites States, and countries around the globe have mandated wearing of face covering masks. This mandate has introduced new challenges to the society. One of these challenges is formation of fog on the eyewear while wearing a mask. The direction of the leaked exhaled air from the upper edge of a face covering mask is upward. The location of the portion of the lens of the eyewear that is in front of the eye of the user is on top of the upper edge of the mask (because pulling up the mask further than the eye is not practically possible as the mask would block the eyesight). Hence, the leaked exhaled air (leaked from the top of the mask) moves over the surface of the lens of the eyewear and causes formation of fog on the surface of the lens of the eyewear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Patent number: 11119340
    Abstract: Toward prevention of the spread of COVID-19 virus and suppressing the pandemic caused by this outbreak, many local governments, states within the Unites States, and countries around the globe have mandated wearing of face covering masks. This mandate has introduced new challenges to the society. One of these challenges is formation of fog on the eyewear while wearing a mask. The direction of the leaked exhaled air from the upper edge of a face covering mask is upward. The location of the portion of the lens of the eyewear that is in front of the eye of the user is on top of the upper edge of the mask (because pulling up the mask further than the eye is not practically possible as the mask would block the eyesight). Hence, the leaked exhaled air (leaked from the top of the mask) moves over the surface of the lens of the eyewear and causes formation of fog on the surface of the lens of the eyewear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20210140583
    Abstract: A mobile phone holder is disclosed for mounting a mobile phone to the dashboard of a car. This mobile phone holder is integrated into the back of a mobile phone or is attached to the back surface of the mobile phone through adhesive pads, or suction cups, or is incorporated into accessories of mobile phones such as attachable card holding wallets, and etc. One embodiment of this mobile phone holder creates a closed loop around the air vent bars. Hence, shakes of the car will not cause sudden detachment and falling of the phone. In Addition, this mobile phone holder is portable and is carried by the mobile phone. Hence, the user can readily have it upon using a temporary car. Moreover, since this mobile phone holder is not permanently stayed in the car, it is not exposed to extreme temperatures and thus its wear and tear is lower than conventional phone holders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20210088181
    Abstract: A mobile phone holder is disclosed for mounting a mobile phone to the dashboard of a car. This mobile phone holder is integrated into the back of a mobile phone or is attached to the back surface of the mobile phone through adhesive pads, or suction cups, or is incorporated into accessories of mobile phones such as attachable card holding wallets, and etc. One embodiment of this mobile phone holder creates a closed loop around the air vent bars. Hence, shakes of the car will not cause sudden detachment and falling of the phone. In Addition, this mobile phone holder is portable and is carried by the mobile phone. Hence, the user can readily have it upon using a temporary car. Moreover, since this mobile phone holder is not permanently stayed in the car, it is not exposed to extreme temperatures and thus its wear and tear is lower than conventional phone holders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20210073948
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a novel method and system for enhanced-resolution THz imaging whereby an enhanced-resolution THz image is developed by deconvolution of the original THz image that is developed using THz signals that are manipulated in time-domain and/or in frequency-domain and a point spread function (PSF) that is developed according to an equation wherein said THz signals in time-domain and/or frequency-domain are input parameters. By using this method and system, enhanced-resolution THz images with better quality and resolution than the quality and resolution of the conventional THz images are achieved. By implementing this method, finer features are observable in the resulted image and more accurate measurement is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20210041724
    Abstract: Toward prevention of the spread of COVID-19 virus and suppressing the pandemic caused by this outbreak, many local governments, states within the Unites States, and countries around the globe have mandated wearing of face covering masks. This mandate has introduced new challenges to the society. One of these challenges is formation of fog on the eyewear while wearing a mask. The direction of the leaked exhaled air from the upper edge of a face covering mask is upward. The location of the portion of the lens of the eyewear that is in front of the eye of the user is on top of the upper edge of the mask (because pulling up the mask further than the eye is not practically possible as the mask would block the eyesight). Hence, the leaked exhaled air (leaked from the top of the mask) moves over the surface of the lens of the eyewear and causes formation of fog on the surface of the lens of the eyewear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20210038111
    Abstract: A novel method and system for enhanced-resolution THz imaging whereby an enhanced-resolution THz image is developed by deconvolution of the original THz image that is developed using THz signals that are manipulated in time-domain and/or in frequency-domain and a point spread function (PSF) that is developed according to an equation wherein said THz signals in time-domain and/or frequency-domain are input parameters. By using this method and system, enhanced-resolution THz images are developed for detecting traces of symptoms of COVID-19 as small as a drop of water. Said novel method and system for enhanced-resolution THz imaging is used for developing a device, and method, that is: (a) rapid, (b) economical, (c) able to perform measurements remotely, (d) non-invasive. This device, and method, is capable of detecting symptoms of COVID-19 such as runny nose, congestion, and cough. The person under examination may or may not wear a face covering mask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Patent number: 10900608
    Abstract: A mobile phone holder is disclosed for mounting a mobile phone to the dashboard of a car. This mobile phone holder is integrated into the back of a mobile phone or is attached to the back surface of the mobile phone through adhesive pads, or suction cups, or is incorporated into accessories of mobile phones such as attachable card holding wallets, and etc. One embodiment of this mobile phone holder creates a closed loop around the air vent bars. Hence, shakes of the car will not cause sudden detachment and falling of the phone. In Addition, this mobile phone holder is portable and is carried by the mobile phone. Hence, the user can readily have it upon using a temporary car. Moreover, since this mobile phone holder is not permanently stayed in the car, it is not exposed to extreme temperatures and thus its wear and tear is lower than conventional phone holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Patent number: 10783612
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a novel method and system for enhanced-resolution THz imaging whereby an enhanced-resolution THz image is developed by deconvolution of the original THz image that is developed using THz signals that are manipulated in time-domain and/or in frequency-domain and a point spread function (PSF) that is developed according to an equation wherein said THz signals in time-domain and/or frequency-domain are input parameters. By using this method and system, enhanced-resolution THz images with better quality and resolution than the quality and resolution of the conventional THz images are achieved. By implementing this method, finer features are observable in the resulted image and more accurate measurement is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20200292128
    Abstract: A mobile phone holder is disclosed for mounting a mobile phone to the dashboard of a car. This mobile phone holder is integrated into the back of a mobile phone or is attached to the back surface of the mobile phone through adhesive pads, or suction cups, or is incorporated into accessories of mobile phones such as attachable card holding wallets, and etc. One embodiment of this mobile phone holder creates a closed loop around the air vent bars. Hence, shakes of the car will not cause sudden detachment and falling of the phone. In Addition, this mobile phone holder is portable and is carried by the mobile phone. Hence, the user can readily have it upon using a temporary car. Moreover, since this mobile phone holder is not permanently stayed in the car, it is not exposed to extreme temperatures and thus its wear and tear is lower than conventional phone holders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20200286157
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a novel system wherein the cycle of creating shopping lists and keeping track of the purchased items are centralized in one system toward achieving an optimized scheme of shopping and online delivery. This system matches items on the shopping lists to the items that stores sell and alerts the user when the user enters a store, or its vicinity, that sells the pending items on the user's shopping lists. Upon checking out from the store, the items on the shopping lists that are purchased in that shopping event, are checked off as “purchased”. The shared shopping lists by a group of users, (that are for exemplary purpose, not limiting, are called household members in this disclosure), are updated by the system as well. Upon checking out from the store, the purchased items are automatically allocated into sub-lists. These sub lists are associated with the places (containers, or storages) that the purchased items will be stored within a household.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi
  • Publication number: 20200167897
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a novel method and system for enhanced-resolution THz imaging whereby an enhanced-resolution THz image is developed by deconvolution of the original THz image that is developed using THz signals that are manipulated in time-domain and/or in frequency-domain and a point spread function (PSF) that is developed according to an equation wherein said THz signals in time-domain and/or frequency-domain are input parameters. By using this method and system, enhanced-resolution THz images with better quality and resolution than the quality and resolution of the conventional THz images are achieved. By implementing this method, finer features are observable in the resulted image and more accurate measurement is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventor: Kiarash Ahi