Patents by Inventor Mark Johns

Mark Johns 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: 20240028877
    Abstract: There is provided a neural processing unit for calculating an attention matrix during machine learning inference. The neural processing unit is configured to calculate: a first score matrix based on differences between a query matrix and a key matrix; a second score matrix based on differences between the key matrix and a learned key matrix; a similarity matrix based on a combination of the first score matrix and second score matrix; and an attention matrix comprising applying a normalisation function to the similarity matrix. Also provided is an apparatus comprising at least one said neural processing unit and at least one memory, the memory configured to pass, on demand, a learned key matrix to the neural processing unit. Also provided is a computer program product having computer readable program code stored thereon which, when executed by said neural processing unit, causes the unit to perform said calculations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Shounak DATTA, Dibakar GOPE, Jesse Garrett BEU, Mark John O'CONNOR
  • Publication number: 20240012337
    Abstract: A method for determining a metric of a feature on a substrate obtained by a semiconductor manufacturing process involving a lithographic process, the method including: obtaining an image of at least part of the substrate, wherein the image includes at least the feature; determining a contour of the feature from the image; determining a plurality of segments of the contour; determining respective weights for each of the plurality of segments; determining, for each of the segments, an image-related metric; and determining the metric of the feature in dependence on the weights and the calculated image-related metric of each of the segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Wim Tjibbo TEL, Mark John MASLOW, Koenraad VAN INGEN SCHENAU, Patrick WARNAAR, Abraham SLACHTER, Roy ANUNCIADO, Simon Hendrik Celine VAN GORP, Frank STAALS, Marinus JOCHEMSEN
  • Patent number: 11867044
    Abstract: A proppant container facilitates the transportation of wet sand for use in a hydraulic fracturing operation. The container is mounted in a cradle that tips downward in arcuate motion for discharge or proppant through a top opening The tipping mechanism may be driven by a system of gears or a hydraulic ram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Proppant Express Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Cory Snyder, Scott Joseph D'Agostino, Marc Kevin Fisher, Matthew Oehler, Kevin Smith, Brian Dorfman, Mark John D'Agostino
  • Publication number: 20240004299
    Abstract: A method involving determining a contribution that one or more process apparatuses make to a characteristic of a substrate after the substrate has been processed according to a patterning process by the one or more process apparatuses by removing from values of the characteristic of the substrate a contribution of a lithography apparatus to the characteristic and a contribution of one or more pre-lithography process apparatuses to the characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Wim Tjibbo TEL, Mark John MASLOW, Frank STAALS, Paul Christiaan HINNEN
  • Patent number: 11860548
    Abstract: A method of determining a characteristic of one or more processes for manufacturing features on a substrate, the method including: obtaining image data of a plurality of features on a least part of at least one region on a substrate; using the image data to obtain measured data of one or more dimensions of each of at least some of the plurality of features; determining a statistical parameter that is dependent on the variation of the measured data of one or more dimensions of each of at least some of the plurality of features; determining a probability of defective manufacture of features in dependence on a determined number of defective features in the image data; and determining the characteristic of the one or more processes to have the probability of defective manufacture of features and the statistical parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Wim Tjibbo Tel, Hermanus Adrianus Dillen, Marc Jurian Kea, Mark John Maslow, Koen Thuijs, Peter David Engblom, Ralph Timotheus Huijgen, Daan Maurits Slotboom, Johannes Catharinus Hubertus Mulkens
  • Patent number: 11857018
    Abstract: A light-emitting system is provided which is removably attachable to headgear for personal illumination to enhance visibility of the user to others. The light-emitting system includes a housing that defines a receiving aperture and is configured to surround a portion of the headgear when the light-emitting system is removably attached to the headgear for use. The light-emitting system further includes at least one lens and a plurality of lighting elements coupled to the annular housing which are configured to selectively generate a halo or at least a partial halo of light that radiates outwardly away from the annular housing through the at least one lens to provide enhanced personal illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Illumagear, Inc.
    Inventors: John Maxwell Baker, Andrew Royal, Raymond Walter Riley, Mark John Ramberg, Chad Austin Brinckerhoff, John R. Murkowski, Trent Robert Wetherbee, Alexander Michael Diener, Kristin Marie Will, Kyle S. Johnston, Clint Timothy Schneider, Evan William Mattingly, Keith W. Kirkwood, Jonathan Brandt Hadley
  • Patent number: 11847570
    Abstract: A method for training a deep learning model of a patterning process. The method includes obtaining (i) training data comprising an input image of at least a part of a substrate having a plurality of features and a truth image, (ii) a set of classes, each class corresponding to a feature of the plurality of features of the substrate within the input image, and (iii) a deep learning model configured to receive the training data and the set of classes, generating a predicted image, by modeling and/or simulation of the deep learning model using the input image, assigning a class of the set of classes to a feature within the predicted image based on matching of the feature with a corresponding feature within the truth image, and generating, by modeling and/or simulation, a trained deep learning model by iteratively assigning weights using a loss function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Adrianus Cornelis Matheus Koopman, Scott Anderson Middlebrooks, Antoine Gaston Marie Kiers, Mark John Maslow
  • Patent number: 11845690
    Abstract: A chemical vapour deposition process for preparing a coated glass substrate, said process comprising at least the following steps in sequence: a) providing a glass substrate having a surface, b) depositing a layer based on SiCO and/or SiNO on the surface of the glass substrate, c) exposing the layer based on SiCO and/or SiNO to a gaseous mixture (i) comprising water, and d) subsequently depositing a layer based on a TCO over the layer based on SiCO and/or SiNO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Pilkington Group Limited
    Inventors: Deborah Raisbeck, Paul Andrew Skinner, Hans-Eckhard Leitl, Mark John Glynn, David Rimmer, Kevin David Sanderson
  • Patent number: 11841208
    Abstract: A universally adjustable firearm stock is provided having adjustments for comb, cast, length of pull and butt pad height. The stock has an adapter (receiver model specific) to connect a frame to the receiver. An end of a mount passes through a slot through a frame seat. A cast piece is received within the seat and has a cast hole (center hole—no cast, offset hole—cast). The rearward extending end of the mount passes through the cast hole, wherein any offset in the cast hole results in an angular cast. The comb is vertically adjustable relative to the frame. Two rods are extendable relative to the frame to adjust the length of pull. A butt plate has two slots wherein the height of a butt pad relative to the rods is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventor: Mark John Roth
  • Patent number: 11822387
    Abstract: A tablet information handling system selectively couples to a charging stand and charging dock with opposing sets of spaced magnets to have magnetic attraction hold a wireless charging receiver aligned with a wireless charger. Magnetic attraction is greatest when the tablet information handling system couples in a landscape or portrait orientation and is reduced for removal of the tablet information handling system by rotating to an offset orientation so that magnets align with opposing spaces, resulting in a reduced magnetic attraction. A sensor disposed in a space detects the offset rotation by detecting the increased magnetic flux of the magnet aligning with the space so that a user interface can provide an end user with an indication that the tablet information handling system is positioned for separation from the charging stand or charging dock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gerald R. Pelissier, Tzu-Chau Chen, Hsu-Feng Lee, Mark John Law, Benedict Tiong Chee Tay
  • Publication number: 20230365020
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for routing one or more electrified vehicles in a manner that improves battery life. The proposed systems and methods may utilize a multi-objective approach to route planning. The multi-objective approach may account for factors such as time, energy consumption, and battery life. Origin-destination matrices may be leveraged for providing the multi-objective route planning approaches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jinwoo SEOK, Mark John JENNINGS, Ryan O'GORMAN, Stuart C. SALTER, Xiaohong Nina DUAN, Gabrielle VUYLSTEKE, Michael David BEENEY
  • Patent number: 11794094
    Abstract: A control device with a touch screen and motion sensors is held in one hand with the screen facing the user. Preferably, thumb motion of the hand holding the control device on the touch screen sensor of the control device is the input to control the motion and animations of an avatar, wherein the avatar motion is displayed on the control device touch screen or, in an embodiment, on an external display device. An important aspect of the present invention is tilting the control device, causing an angular rotation velocity, which can trigger a game event such as throwing, kicking, shooting or other action of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AQUIMO INC.
    Inventors: Mark John Jeffery, Robert Sunshin Komorous-King, Manoj Kumar Rana, James S. Frey, Jordan Matthew Blackman
  • Patent number: 11780955
    Abstract: A polymer complex is disclosed which is the reaction product of one or more polymers having a terminal or pendant hydroxyl group, or a terminal or pendent carboxyl group, or combinations thereof, with at least one metal complex and one alkyl phosphate. This polymer complex acts as an adhesion promotion agent as well as a viscosity stabilizer when formulated in a printing ink or coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sun Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Andreas Mielke, Mathew Charles Mathew, William P. Keaveney, Richard John Czarnecki, William Ford Wilson, Mark John Lindsey, Ralph Francis Arcurio
  • Publication number: 20230315150
    Abstract: A tablet information handling system selectively couples to a charging stand and charging dock with opposing sets of spaced magnets to have magnetic attraction hold a wireless charging receiver aligned with a wireless charger. Magnetic attraction is greatest when the tablet information handling system couples in a landscape or portrait orientation and is reduced for removal of the tablet information handling system by rotating to an offset orientation so that magnets align with opposing spaces, resulting in a reduced magnetic attraction. A sensor disposed in a space detects the offset rotation by detecting the increased magnetic flux of the magnet aligning with the space so that a user interface can provide an end user with an indication that the tablet information handling system is positioned for separation from the charging stand or charging dock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gerald R. Pelissier, Tzu-Chau Chen, Hsu-Feng Lee, Mark John Law, Benedict Tiong Chee Tay
  • Patent number: 11768442
    Abstract: A method including: obtaining an image of at least part of a substrate, wherein the image includes at least one feature of a device being manufactured in a layer on the substrate; obtaining a layout of features associated with a previous layer adjacent to the layer on the substrate; calculating one or more image-related metrics in dependence on: 1) a contour determined from the image including the at least one feature and 2) the layout; and determining one or more control parameters of a lithographic apparatus and/or one or more further processes in a manufacturing process of the device in dependence on the one or more image-related metrics, wherein at least one of the control parameters is determined to modify the geometry of the contour in order to improve the one or more image-related metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Wim Tjibbo Tel, Mark John Maslow, Koenraad Van Ingen Schenau, Patrick Warnaar, Abraham Slachter, Roy Anunciado, Simon Hendrik Celine Van Gorp, Frank Staals, Marinus Jochemsen
  • Publication number: 20230293843
    Abstract: Distinctly keyed male-female couplers are pneumatically connected to medical ventilator by distinct lines carrying pulsatile gas or sensory signals. Ventilator-mounted female coupler has entranceway cavity and larger receiving cavity delimited by catch edge. Male fence-forming longitudinal winglets extend from sealing plate carry terminal end convexities which latch onto catch edge. Winglets move inward due to larger fence circumference than entranceway and seat on catch. Winglets placed in tension due to locking length less than entranceway span, then convert force into sealing compressive force between sealing plate and female tube end. Conjoining male tube bayoneted and sheathed by projecting female tube, resulting in another gas seal. Two compressive seals formed between male distal port and pneumatic line. Extending male key(s) on winglet insertable into matching female slots. Convexities block insertion of non-matching couplers set due to interference by convexities on female on entranceway edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Mark John Baillie, Shawn Adam Goughnour, Chad Thomas Nuxoll
  • Publication number: 20230295712
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of selectively characterising polynucleotides of a desired property, such as length, using a nanopore, based on the translocation of the polynucleotide through or across the nanopore. Kits and systems for use in such methods are also provided. The methods of the invention are particularly suitable for sequencing polynucleotides such as DNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Victoria Bowen, Clive Gavin Brown, Mark John Bruce, Daniel Ryan Garalde, James Edward Graham, Andrew John Heron, Etienne Raimondeau, James White, Christopher Peter Youd
  • Patent number: 11733610
    Abstract: A method involving determining a contribution that one or more process apparatuses make to a characteristic of a substrate after the substrate has been processed according to a patterning process by the one or more process apparatuses by removing from values of the characteristic of the substrate a contribution of a lithography apparatus to the characteristic and a contribution of one or more pre-lithography process apparatuses to the characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Wim Tjibbo Tel, Mark John Maslow, Frank Staals, Paul Christiaan Hinnen
  • Publication number: 20230247996
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to herbicidal combinations and their use in controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth. In particular, herbicidal combinations comprising pyridafol in combination with at least one further herbicide that is a HPPD-inhibitor herbicide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Marshall Mark HAY, Mark John KITT
  • Patent number: D1001950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventor: Mark John Roth