Patents by Inventor Mark Dowling

Mark Dowling 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: 10559753
    Abstract: We describe a method for reducing a parasitic resistance at an interface between a conducting electrode region and an organic semiconductor in a thin film transistor, the method comprising: providing a solution comprising a dopant for doping said semiconductor, and depositing said solution onto said semiconductor and/or said conducting electrode region to selectively dope said semiconductor adjacent said interface between said conducting electrode region and said semiconductor, wherein depositing said solution comprises inkjet-printing said solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Jeremy Burroughes, Christopher Newsome, Daniel Tobjörk, Mark Dowling
  • Patent number: 10445770
    Abstract: An online system receives advertisement requests from one or more advertisers and determines whether an advertisement request includes malicious content before presenting content from the advertisement request to a user. To determine whether the advertisement request includes malicious content, the online system identifies text in the advertisement request, identifies words in the text, and identifies characters in each word. The online system identifies a most common type of character in each word and generates a score for each word based on its constituent characters. For example, a word's score is based on the combination of characters in the word, such as a conditional probability of a word including a type of character given that the word includes a given number of the most common type of character. The scores are analyzed to determine if text in the advertisement request includes malicious content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Schroeder, Benjamin Mark Dowling
  • Publication number: 20170279046
    Abstract: We describe a method for reducing a parasitic resistance at an interface between a conducting electrode region and an organic semiconductor in a thin film transistor, the method comprising: providing a solution comprising a dopant for doping said semiconductor, and depositing said solution onto said semiconductor and/or said conducting electrode region to selectively dope said semiconductor adjacent said interface between said conducting electrode region and said semiconductor, wherein depositing said solution comprises inkjet-printing said solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Jeremy Burroughes, Christopher Newsome, Daniel Tobjörk, Mark Dowling
  • Patent number: 9337426
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an organic electronic device using ink jet printing in swathes, comprises depositing an ink into a first set of locations in a column in a first print pass; wherein the first set of locations is less than a total number of locations in the column; and depositing an ink into a second set of locations in the column in a subsequent print pass; wherein the second set of locations is less than a total number of locations in the column. Preferably the number of nozzles used to fill all locations in a column is equal to the number of print passes needed to print the column. All locations in the swathe are printed after all print passes using a regular repeating randomized pattern, such that be ensured that print locations are not under filled, or over filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Dowling, Mark Ian Crankshaw
  • Publication number: 20160034950
    Abstract: An online system receives advertisement requests from one or more advertisers and determines whether an advertisement request includes malicious content before presenting content from the advertisement request to a user. To determine whether the advertisement request includes malicious content, the online system identifies text in the advertisement request, identifies words in the text, and identifies characters in each word. The online system identifies a most common type of character in each word and generates a score for each word based on its constituent characters. For example, a word's score is based on the combination of characters in the word, such as a conditional probability of a word including a type of character given that the word includes a given number of the most common type of character. The scores are analyzed to determine if text in the advertisement request includes malicious content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Schroeder, Benjamin Mark Dowling
  • Publication number: 20160034949
    Abstract: A online system receives advertisement (“ad”) requests for presentation to online system users, with each ad request including advertisement content and identifying a landing page. The online system determines whether the advertisement content differs from content associated with a landing page identified by an ad request. One or more topics associated with the advertisement content are identified, as well as one or more topics associated with content on the landing page. By comparing topics associated with the advertisement content to topics associated with the landing page content, the online system determines if the advertisement content and landing page content differ. If the advertisement content differs from the landing page content, the online system may prevent the ad request from being presented or may identify the ad request for manual review.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventor: Benjamin Mark Dowling
  • Patent number: 9136477
    Abstract: An organic light emissive device, which comprises: an anode; a cathode; and an organic light emissive region between the anode and the cathode, which region comprises a polymeric electroluminescent material; wherein the emission from the polymeric electroluminescent material is color shifted by the presence of a color shifting unit in the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: CDT OXFORD LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Dowling, Richard Wilson
  • Patent number: 9111885
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising: an electronic substrate comprising circuit elements; a double bank well-defining structure disposed over the electronic substrate, the double bank well-defining structure comprising a first layer of insulating material and a second layer of insulating material thereover, the second layer of insulating material having a lower wettability than the first layer of insulating material; and organic semiconductive material disposed in wells defined by the double bank well-defining structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jeremy Burroughes, Mark Dowling
  • Patent number: 9006715
    Abstract: A method of making an electronic device comprising a double bank well-defining structure, which method comprises: providing an electronic substrate; depositing a first insulating material on the substrate to form a first insulating layer; depositing a second insulating material on the first insulating layer to form a second insulating layer; removing a portion of the second insulating layer to expose a portion of the first insulating layer and form a second well-defining bank; depositing a resist on the second insulating layer and on a portion of the exposed first insulating layer; removing the portion of the first insulating layer not covered by the resist, to expose a portion of the electronic substrate and form a first well-defining bank within the second well-defining bank; and removing the resist. The method can provide devices with reduced leakage currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Mark Crankshaw, Mark Dowling, Daniel Forsythe, Simon Goddard, Gary Williams, Ilaria Grizzi, Angela McConnell
  • Patent number: 8410242
    Abstract: A pulsed driven display comprising an organic light-emitting device, said device comprising an organic layer comprising a semiconductive polymer, said polymer comprising a fluorene or triarylamine repeat unit, the fluorene or triarylamine repeat unit having a group R pendent from the polymer backbone, wherein R has general formula I: where Ar1 represents phenyl or a group comprising napthyl; Ar2 represents phenyl or a group comprising napthyl; R? represents a substituent group; R?=H or a substituent; n=0, 1, 2 or 3; m=0 or 1; and n?=1 or 2, with the proviso that m=0 if n=0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignees: Cambridge Display Technology Limited, CDT Oxford Limited
    Inventors: Valerie Grand, Richard Wilson, Mark Dowling, Ilaria Grizzi, Mary J. McKiernan
  • Publication number: 20130001594
    Abstract: A method of making an electronic device comprising a double bank well-defining structure, which method comprises: providing an electronic substrate; depositing a first insulating material on the substrate to form a first insulating layer; depositing a second insulating material on the first insulating layer to form a second insulating layer; removing a portion of the second insulating layer to expose a portion of the first insulating layer and form a second well-defining bank; depositing a resist on the second insulating layer and on a portion of the exposed first insulating layer; removing the portion of the first insulating layer not covered by the resist, to expose a portion of the electronic substrate and form a first well-defining bank within the second well-defining bank; and removing the resist. The method can provide devices with reduced leakage currents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Crankshaw, Mark Dowling, Daniel Forsythe, Simon Goddard, Gary Williams, Ilaria Grizzi, Angela McConnell
  • Publication number: 20110198661
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an organic electronic device using ink jet printing in swathes, comprises depositing an ink into a first set of locations in a column in a first print pass; wherein the first set of locations is less than a total number of locations in the column; and depositing an ink into a second set of locations in the column in a subsequent print pass; wherein the second set of locations is less than a total number of locations in the column. Preferably the number of nozzles used to fill all locations in a column is equal to the number of print passes needed to print the column. All locations in the swathe are printed after all print passes using a regular repeating randomized pattern, such that be ensured that print locations are not under filled, or over filled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Mark Dowling, Mark Crankshaw
  • Publication number: 20110042656
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising: an electronic substrate comprising circuit elements; a double bank well-defining structure disposed over the electronic substrate, the double bank well-defining structure comprising a first layer of insulating material and a second layer of insulating material thereover, the second layer of insulating material having a lower wettability than the first layer of insulating material; and organic semiconductive material disposed in wells defined by the double bank well-defining structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: CAMBRIDGE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jeremy Burroughes, Mark Dowling
  • Publication number: 20090203876
    Abstract: A pulsed driven display comprising an organic light-emitting device, said device comprising an organic layer comprising a semiconductive polymer, said polymer comprising a fluorene or triarylamine repeat unit, the fluorene or triarylamine repeat unit having a group R pendent from the polymer backbone, wherein R has general formula I: where Ar1 represents phenyl or a group comprising napthyl; Ar2 represents phenyl or a group comprising napthyl; R? represents a substituent group; R??H or a substituent; n=0, 1, 2 or 3; m=0 or 1; and n?=1 or 2, with the proviso that m=0 if n=0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicants: Cambridge Display Technologh Limited, CDT Oxford Limited
    Inventors: Valerie Grand, Richard Wilson, Mark Dowling, Ilaria Grizzi, Mary J. McKiernan
  • Publication number: 20090072722
    Abstract: An organic light emissive device, which comprises: an anode; a cathode; and an organic light emissive region between the anode and the cathode, which region comprises a polymeric electroluminescent material; wherein the emission from the polymeric electroluminescent material is colour shifted by the presence of a colour shifting unit in the polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: CTD OXFORD LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Dowling, Richard Wilson