Patents by Inventor Robert Veltrop

Robert Veltrop 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: 11974679
    Abstract: Food orders are divided into components or tasks. Systems and methods of food order preparation communicate instructions for automated actions to devices to carry out the automated actions. A toaster operates to toast a bun according to toaster settings. A bun magazine operates to deliver a bun into the toaster. A condiment dispenser receives the bun from the toaster and operates to dispense at least one portion of at least one condiment onto the bun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Veltrop, Arshad Baxamusa, Robert Duncan, Jacob Kane, Collin Psenka, Jonathan Sammon, Sathvik Sanagala, Nicole Szewczyk, Andrew Thompson
  • Patent number: 7580279
    Abstract: An anti-reflective coating (ARC) is formed over the various layers involved in a cell fabrication process. The ARC is selectively etched such that the edges of the etched areas of the ARC slope downward at an angle determined by the thickness of the ARC. The etching process could include CF4 chemistry. The inner edges of the sloped ARC areas reduce the original photo-defined space since the underlying layers are now defined by the sloped edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger W. Lindsay, Frances May, Robert Veltrop
  • Patent number: 7208407
    Abstract: An anti-reflective coating (ARC) is formed over the various layers involved in a cell fabrication process. The ARC is selectively etched such that the edges of the etched areas of the ARC slope downward at an angle determined by the thickness of the ARC. The etching process could include CF4 chemistry. The inner edges of the sloped ARC areas reduce the original photo-defined space since the underlying layers are now defined by the sloped edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger W. Lindsay, Frances May, Robert Veltrop
  • Publication number: 20060270230
    Abstract: Methods of etching substrates with small critical dimensions and altering the critical dimensions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sulfur oxide based plasma is used to etch an amorphous carbon hard mask layer. The features of a pattern can be shrunk using a plasma etch to reduce the resist elements on the surface of the masking structure. Features in the pattern can also be enlarged by depositing polymer on the resist elements or by sloping an underlying layer. In one preferred embodiment, features of the pattern are shrunk before being enlarged in order to reduce line edge roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Mirzafer Abatchev, David Hwang, Robert Veltrop
  • Publication number: 20060226471
    Abstract: An anti-reflective coating (ARC) is formed over the various layers involved in a cell fabrication process. The ARC is selectively etched such that the edges of the etched areas of the ARC slope downward at an angle determined by the thickness of the ARC. The etching process could include CF4 chemistry. The inner edges of the sloped ARC areas reduce the original photo-defined space since the underlying layers are now defined by the sloped edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Roger Lindsay, Frances May, Robert Veltrop
  • Publication number: 20060105577
    Abstract: A modulated bias power etching method for etching a substrate is disclosed. The method alternatively deposits and etches material from a low aspect area of an integrated circuit device to form a static area while etching material from a high aspect area. The modulation pulse period and repetition rate are adjusted to permit deposition at low aspect ratio and very little or no deposition at high aspect ratio during the deposition cycle and to permit etching of the material deposited on the low aspect ratio area and etching of the material in the high aspect ratio area during the etching cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Kevin Donohoe, Mirzafer Abatchev, Robert Veltrop
  • Publication number: 20060046483
    Abstract: Methods of etching substrates with small critical dimensions and altering the critical dimensions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sulfur oxide based plasma is used to etch an amorphous carbon hard mask layer. The features of a pattern can be shrunk using a plasma etch to reduce the resist elements on the surface of the masking structure. Features in the pattern can also be enlarged by depositing polymer on the resist elements or by sloping an underlying layer. In one preferred embodiment, features of the pattern are shrunk before being enlarged in order to reduce line edge roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Mirzafer Abatchev, David Hwang, Robert Veltrop
  • Publication number: 20060003588
    Abstract: An anti-reflective coating (ARC) is formed over the various layers involved in a cell fabrication process. The ARC is selectively etched such that the edges of the etched areas of the ARC slope downward at an angle determined by the thickness of the ARC. The etching process could include CF4 chemistry. The inner edges of the sloped ARC areas reduce the original photo-defined space since the underlying layers are now defined by the sloped edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Roger Lindsay, Frances May, Robert Veltrop
  • Publication number: 20040161941
    Abstract: A modulated bias power etching method for etching a substrate is disclosed. The method alternatively deposits and etches material from a low aspect area of an integrated circuit device to form a static area while etching material from a high aspect area. The modulation pulse period and repetition rate are adjusted to permit deposition at low aspect ratio and very little or no deposition at high aspect ratio during the deposition cycle and to permit etching of the material deposited on the low aspect ratio area and etching of the material in the high aspect ratio area during the etching cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Kevin G. Donohoe, Mirzafer Abatchev, Robert Veltrop
  • Patent number: 6716758
    Abstract: A modulated bias power etching method for etching a substrate is disclosed. The method alternatively deposits and etches material from a low aspect area of an integrated circuit device to form a static area while etching material from a high aspect area. The modulation pulse period and repetition rate are adjusted to permit deposition at low aspect ratio and very little or no deposition at high aspect ratio during the deposition cycle and to permit etching of the material deposited on the low aspect ratio area and etching of the material in the high aspect ratio area during the etching cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin G. Donohoe, Mirzafer Abatchev, Robert Veltrop
  • Patent number: 5589737
    Abstract: A plasma processor for large workpieces includes a vacuum chamber having plural individually supported dielectric windows for coupling an r.f. field originating outside of the chamber into the chamber to excite the plasma. A planar coil for inductively deriving the field has plural segments with the same electrical length, each including an element connected in parallel with an element of another segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: LAM Research Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Barnes, Neil Benjamin, John Holland, Richard Beer, Robert Veltrop