Patents by Inventor Peter LAVOIE

Peter LAVOIE 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).

  • MULTI-LAYER TOPOLOGICAL INTERCONNECT WITH PROXIMAL DOPING LAYER
    Publication number: 20240113024
    Abstract: An interconnect structure including conducting layers of topological semi-metals and/or topological insulators. To increase charge carrier density in the conducting layers, a charge carrier doping layer present on at least one surface of the one or more conductive layers of topological semi-metals. The charge carrying doping layers have a charge carrier density greater than the topological semi-metals and/or topological insulators of the one or more conductive layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ching-Tzu Chen, Christian Lavoie, Guy M. Cohen, Utkarsh Bajpai, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Teodor Krassimirov Todorov, Oki GUNAWAN, NATHAN P. MARCHACK, Peter Kerns
  • Receptacle assembly and a reverse vending machine comprising said receptacle assembly
    Patent number: 9292991
    Abstract: A receptacle assembly for receiving empty containers includes a set of receptacles and a base. The base includes a guide adapted to control orientation of each receptacle in the set of receptacles when a receptacle is assembled on the base. When assembled on the base, each receptacle includes at least one inner side wall arranged adjacent to a side wall of another receptacle in the set of receptacles, and at least one outer side wall that does not face any side wall of a receptacle in the set of receptacles. The upper edge of a first inner side wall of a first receptacle extends downwards from a first intersection between the first inner side wall and one first outer side wall, to a point where the upper edge has a height which is lower than the height of any upper edge of each outer side wall of the first receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: TOMRA NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Peter Lavoie
  • RECEPTACLE ASSEMBLY AND A REVERSE VENDING MACHINE COMPRISING SAID RECEPTACLE ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20150246771
    Abstract: A receptacle assembly for receiving empty containers includes a set of receptacles and a base. The base includes a guide adapted to control orientation of each receptacle in the set of receptacles when a receptacle is assembled on the base. When assembled on the base, each receptacle includes at least one inner side wall arranged adjacent to a side wall of another receptacle in the set of receptacles, and at least one outer side wall that does not face any side wall of a receptacle in the set of receptacles. The upper edge of a first inner side wall of a first receptacle extends downwards from a first intersection between the first inner side wall and one first outer side wall, to a point where the upper edge has a height which is lower than the height of any upper edge of each outer side wall of the first receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: TOMRA North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter LAVOIE
  • Receptacle assembly
    Patent number: D756050
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: TOMRA North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Lavoie
  • Receptacle
    Patent number: D811035
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: TOMRA NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Peter Lavoie