Patents by Inventor Michael Maher
Michael Maher 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).
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Patent number: 9314819Abstract: The use of self-assembled block copolymer structures to produce advanced lithographic patterns relies on control of the orientation of these structures in thin films. In particular, orientation of cylinders and lamellae perpendicular to the plane of the block copolymer film is required for most applications. The preferred method to achieve orientation is by heating. The present invention involves the use of polarity-switching top coats to control block copolymer thin film orientation by heating. The top coats can be spin coated onto block copolymer thin films from polar casting solvents and they change composition upon thermal annealing to become “neutral”. Top coats allow for the facile orientation control of block copolymers which would otherwise not be possible by heating alone.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Carlton Grant Willson, Christopher John Ellison, Takehiro Seshimo, Julia Cushen, Christopher M Bates, Leon Dean, Logan J Santos, Erica L Rausch, Michael Maher
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Publication number: 20150261090Abstract: A method for ordering block copolymers including forming a first layer having a first preference mode; and providing a reactive agent in selected regions of the first layer that modifies the selected regions to a second preference mode, wherein the selected regions define other regions of the first layer retaining the first preference mode thereby forming an alignment layer for block copolymers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Inventors: C. Grant Willson, Christopher Ellison, Michael Maher, Christopher Bates, Dustin Janes
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Publication number: 20140212024Abstract: One embodiment relates to a method of inspecting an array of cells on a substrate. A reference image is generated using a cell image that was previously determined to be defect free. A reference contour image which includes contours of the reference image is also generated. The reference contour image is used to detect defects in the array of cells on the substrate. Another embodiment relates to a system for detecting defects in an array on a substrate. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: KLA-TENCOR CORPORATIONInventors: Chien-Huei CHEN, Ajay GUPTA, Thanh Huy HA, Jianwei WANG, Hedong YANG, Christopher Michael MAHER, Michael J. VAN RIET
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Patent number: 8690026Abstract: A fluid dispensing valve assembly comprises a housing, a lever, a resilient member, and a seal. The housing defines a fluid dispensing port and a vent opening. The fluid dispensing valve can be operated with a single hand to dispense liquid from a container. Further, upon release of the lever, the fluid dispensing valve automatically returns to a sealed configuration, thereby preventing fluid from leaking out of the container.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: David S. Smith America, Inc.Inventors: James L. Richards, Loren L. Brelje, Michael Maher
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Publication number: 20140039365Abstract: A cervical collar that facilitates therapeutic hypothermia is provided and includes an outer shell having a front portion and a back portion fixedly coupled to the front portion on one side and removably coupled to the front portion on an opposite side. A fastening device removably couples the back portion to the front portion on the opposite side. At least one cooling device is provided on an interior of the outer shell to induce hypothermia in a patient. A sensor is provided that measures a physical characteristic of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: NEURORESCUE, LLCInventors: Robert Michael Maher, Michael Paloian
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Publication number: 20130344242Abstract: The use of self-assembled block copolymer structures to produce advanced lithographic patterns relies on control of the orientation of these structures in thin films. In particular, orientation of cylinders and lamellae perpendicular to the plane of the block copolymer film is required for most applications. The preferred method to achieve orientation is by heating. The present invention involves the use of polarity-switching top coats to control block copolymer thin film orientation by heating. The top coats can be spin coated onto block copolymer thin films from polar casting solvents and they change composition upon thermal annealing to become “neutral”. Top coats allow for the facile orientation control of block copolymers which would otherwise not be possible by heating alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Carlton Grant Willson, Christopher John Ellison, Takehiro Seshimo, Julia Cushen, Christopher M. Bates, Leon Dean, Logan J. Santos, Erica L. Rausch, Michael Maher
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Publication number: 20130098947Abstract: A fluid dispensing valve assembly comprises a housing, a lever, a resilient member, and a seal. The housing defines a fluid dispensing port and a vent opening. The fluid dispensing valve can be operated with a single hand to dispense liquid from a container. Further, upon release of the lever, the fluid dispensing valve automatically returns to a sealed configuration, thereby preventing fluid from leaking out of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: David S. Smith America, Inc., DBA, Worldwide DispensersInventors: James L. Richards, Loren L. Brelje, Michael Maher
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Publication number: 20120143110Abstract: A cervical collar that facilitates therapeutic hypothermia is provided and includes a front portion, a back portion fixedly coupled to the front portion on one side and removably coupled to the front portion on an opposite side, and a fastening device that removably couples the back portion to the front portion on the opposite side. At least one cooling device is disposed on an interior of the front portion and/or the back portion to induce hypothermia in a patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: NEURORESCUE LLCInventors: Robert Michael Maher, Michael Paloian
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Patent number: 7745652Abstract: Integrated processes of preparing industrial chemicals starting from seed oil feedstock compositions containing one or more unsaturated fatty acids or unsaturated fatty acid esters, which are essentially free of metathesis catalyst poisons, particularly hydroperoxides; metathesis of the feedstock composition with a lower olefin, such as ethylene, to form a reduced chain olefin, preferably, a reduced chain ?-olefin, and a reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester, preferably, a reduced chain ?,?-unsaturated acid or ester. The reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester may be (trans)esterified to form a polyester polyolefin, which may be epoxidized to form a polyester polyepoxide. The reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester may be hydroformylated with reduction to produce an ?,?-hydroxy acid or ?,?-hydroxy ester, which may be (trans)esterified with a polyol to form an ?,?-polyester polyol.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.Inventors: Zenon Lysenko, Bob R. Maughon, Jozef Bicerano, Kenneth A. Burdett, Christopher P. Christenson, Clark H. Cummins, Marvin L. Dettloff, Alan K. Schrock, P. J. Thomas, Richard D. Varjian, Jerry E. White, John Michael Maher
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Publication number: 20090143544Abstract: Integrated processes of preparing industrial chemicals starting from seed oil feedstock compositions containing one or more unsaturated fatty acids or unsaturated fatty acid esters, which are essentially free of metathesis catalyst poisons, particularly hydroperoxides; metathesis of the feedstock composition with a lower olefin, such as ethylene, to form a reduced chain olefin, preferably, a reduced chain ?-olefin, and a reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester, preferably, a reduced chain ?,?-unsaturated acid or ester. The reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester may be (trans)esterified to form a polyester polyolefin, which may be epoxidized to form a polyester polyepoxide. The reduced chain unsaturated acid or ester may be hydroformylated with reduction to produce an ?,?-hydroxy acid or ?,?-hydroxy ester, which may be (trans)esterified with a polyol to form an ?,?polyester polyol.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: Dow Global Technologies Inc.Inventors: Zenon Lysenko, Bob R. Maughon, Jozef Bicerano, Kenneth A. Burdett, Christopher P. Christenson, Clark H. Cummins, Marvin L. Dettloff, Alan K. Schrock, P. J. Thomas, Richard D. Varjian, Jerry E. White, John Michael Maher
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Publication number: 20070003899Abstract: A tobacco curing enclosure includes roof vents, sidewall fan assemblies with heaters, a humidity augmentation system, and internal air circulation devices. Internal temperature and humidity monitors are connected with a control system for the fans, vents, heaters, humidity augmentation system and air circulation devices. The control system in conjunction with the enclosure allows humidity inside the enclosure to be controlled according to a predetermined schedule despite the ambient weather conditions, thereby enhancing the quality of cured tobacco.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2006Publication date: January 4, 2007Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Leonard Lipscomb, John Bain, Boris Kizzie, Michael Maher
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Publication number: 20060281069Abstract: A method of characterizing the biological activity of a candidate compound may include exposing cells to the candidate compound, and then exposing the cells to a repetitive application of electric fields so as to set the transmembrane potential to a level corresponding to a pre-selected voltage dependent state of a target ion channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: December 14, 2006Inventors: Michael Maher, Jesus Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20060216689Abstract: A method of characterizing the biological activity of a candidate compound may include exposing cells to the candidate compound, and then exposing the cells to a repetitive application of electric fields so as to set the transmembrane potential to a level corresponding to a pre-selected voltage dependent state of a target ion channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Inventors: Michael Maher, Jesus Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20060216688Abstract: A method of characterizing the biological activity of a candidate compound may include exposing cells to the candidate compound, and then exposing the cells to a repetitive application of electric fields so as to set the transmembrane potential to a level corresponding to a pre-selected voltage dependent state of a target ion channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Inventors: Michael Maher, Jesus Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20060216690Abstract: A method of characterizing the biological activity of a candidate compound may include exposing cells to the candidate compound, and then exposing the cells to a repetitive application of electric fields so as to set the transmembrane potential to a level corresponding to a pre-selected voltage dependent state of a target ion channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: September 28, 2006Inventors: Michael Maher, Jesus Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20010053858Abstract: This invention relates in part to processes for producing one or more substituted or unsubstituted epsilon caprolactones and/or hydrates and/or esters thereof which comprise subjecting one or more substituted or unsubstituted penten-1-ols to carbonylation in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst, e.g., a metal-organophosphorus ligand complex catalyst, to produce said one or more substituted or unsubstituted epsilon caprolactones and/or hydrates and/or esters thereof. The substituted and unsubstituted epsilon caprolactones and/or hydrates and/or esters thereof produced by the processes of this invention can undergo further reaction(s) to afford desired derivatives thereof, e.g., epsilon caprolactam. This invention also relates in part to reaction mixtures containing one or more substituted or unsubstituted epsilon caprolactones and/or hydrates and/or esters thereof as principal product(s) of reaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2000Publication date: December 20, 2001Inventors: Erik Bruce Tjaden, John Robert Briggs, Anil Sakharam Guram, John Michael Maher
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Patent number: 6310260Abstract: This invention relates to a process for separating one or more organophosphorus ligand degradation products, one or more reaction byproducts and one or more products from a continuously generated reaction product fluid comprising one or more unreacted reactants, a metal-organophosphorus ligand complex catalyst, optionally free organophosphorus ligand, said one or more organophosphorus ligand degradation products, said one or more reaction byproducts, said one or more products, one or more polar solvents and one or more nonpolar solvents by phase separation wherein (i) the selectivity of the polar phase for the organophosphorus ligand with respect to the one or more products is expressed by a partition coefficient ratio Ef1 which is a value greater than about 2.5, (ii) the selectivity of the polar phase for the organophosphorus ligand with respect to the one or more organophosphorus ligand degradation products is expressed by a partition coefficient ratio Ef2 which is a value greater than about 2.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology CorporationInventors: John Nicholas Argyropoulos, Jeffrey Scott Kanel, Michael Leo Tulchinsky, David James Miller, Donald Lee Morrison, Paul Foley, David Robert Bryant, Ailene Gardner Phillips, Brian Michael Roesch, John Robert Briggs, Max Min Lee, John Michael Maher
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Patent number: 6307110Abstract: This invention relates to a process for separating one or more organophosphorus ligand degradation products, one or more reaction byproducts and one or more products from a continuously generated reaction product fluid comprising one or more unreacted reactants, a metal-organophosphorus ligand complex catalyst, optionally free organophosphorus ligand, said one or more organophosphorus ligand degradation products, said one or more reaction byproducts, said one or more products, one or more nonpolar solvents and one or more polar solvents by phase separation wherein (i) the selectivity of the nonpolar phase for the organophosphorus ligand with respect to the one or more products is expressed by a partition coefficient ratio Ef1which is a value greater than about 2.5, (ii) the selectivity of the nonpolar phase for the organophosphorus ligand with respect to the one or more organophosphorus ligand degradation products is expressed by a partition coefficient ratio Ef2 which is a value greater than about 2.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology CorporationInventors: John Nicholas Argyropoulos, Jeffrey Scott Kanel, Michael Leo Tulchinsky, David James Miller, Donald Lee Morrison, Paul Foley, David Robert Bryant, Ailene Gardner Phillips, Brian Michael Roesch, John Robert Briggs, Max Min Lee, John Michael Maher
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Patent number: D676320Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: David S. Smith America, Inc.Inventors: James L. Richards, Loren L. Brelje, Michael Maher
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Patent number: D766083Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: David S. Smith America, Inc.Inventors: Bradley L. Trettin, Michael Maher