Patents by Inventor Ronald Andrews

Ronald Andrews 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: 10670649
    Abstract: A method of bondwire integrity testing a packaged IC includes forcing a pin current or pin voltage level sufficient to forward bias a parasitic diode at a plurality of pins relative to a selected reference pin. The pins are connected to bond pads (BPs) on the IC by a bondwire. The bond pads coupled to a diffusion of a first type that forms the parasitic diode (D) with a region doped the second type coupled to a bondpad wirebonded to the reference pin. The resulting pin voltages or pin currents at measured, and present pin-pin relationships are determined. The present pin-pin relationships are compared to stored pin-pin relationship data for a device design of the IC. Results from the comparing are used to determine whether any present pin-pin relationships are significantly different as compared to the stored pin-pin relationships to identify a bondwire problem for at least one pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ronald Andrew Michallick, Michael Nolan Jervis, David Anthony White
  • Patent number: 10670354
    Abstract: Components of a firearm having a bolt with locking lugs improve shooting accuracy, due to increased coaxial alignment between the bolt, the cartridge, the receiver, and/or the barrel of a firearm. The receiver inner surface is shaped for lug-cleaning and for close tolerance/mating with the lugs only in the locked position and also with a non-threaded, axial surface of the barrel. Thus, the mating surfaces that are instrumental and/or that mainly control coaxial alignment of the receiver, bolt, and barrel are located between the lug stops and the threaded end of the receiver. The lugs may be axially curved or otherwise axially non-linear to tolerate dirt and other debris in a field environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Inventor: Ronald Andrew Foster
  • Patent number: 10652030
    Abstract: A method and system for generating multiple profiles corresponding to different digital certificates. The profile includes intrinsic attributes and derived attributes associated with a digital certificate. The system enables a customer system to filter digital certificates based on a suitability of the various digital certificates for use with a given application to be executed by or on behalf of the customer system. The suitability may be determined based on a comparison of certificate requirements associated with a customer system's request and one or more of the intrinsic attributes and derived attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Andrew Levy, Peter Zachary Bowen, Todd Lawrence Cignetti, Brandonn Gorman, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Brenda Lee Leary, Timothy Sterling Loverin, James Spencer, Nicholas Wexler
  • Patent number: 10571210
    Abstract: A trigger guard for a firearm with a projection extending towards a magazine well of the firearm such that the projection extends into the magazine well. The trigger guard allows the projection to apply pressure to an inserted magazine or to limit the amount of movement of an inserted magazine within the magazine well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventors: Chad Amodio, Ronald Andrew Bowers
  • Patent number: 10469442
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable adaptive handling of domain resolution requests originating from a virtual private cloud (VPC) networking environment. An administrator of the VPC can provide a set of rules specific to the VPC that designates how requests for a domain name should be handled. The rules may specify, for example, that a request for a given domain name should be routed to a particular domain name server, which may include a private domain name server, should be dropped, or should be routed according to a default behavior (e.g., a public domain name system). Resolution requests originating in the VPC can be associated with a VPC identifier. When an adaptive resolution system receives the request, it can retrieve rules associated with the VPC identifier, and apply the rules to determine further routing for the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrey Mizik, Lee-Ming Zen, Gavin Derek McCullagh, Yohanes Santoso, Vadim Meleshuk, Yu Gu, Minli Lai, Ivan Mistrianu, Rebecca Claire Weiss, Yi Cheng Chen, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Patent number: 10466005
    Abstract: Firearms, and components of firearms, improve shooting accuracy, due to increased coaxial alignment between the receiver and the barrel of the firearm. The outer surface of the barrel and the receiver inner surface feature extremely-tight-tolerance/press-fit mating of one or more outer axial mating surfaces of the barrel with one or more axial portions of the receiver inner surface. The extremely-tight-tolerance/press-fit axial mating surfaces may be distal of, proximal of, in-between, and/or otherwise outside and separate from the threads or conventional connection means for connecting the barrel to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Inventor: Ronald Andrew Foster
  • Publication number: 20190242940
    Abstract: A method of bondwire integrity testing a packaged IC includes forcing a pin current or pin voltage level sufficient to forward bias a parasitic diode at a plurality of pins relative to a selected reference pin. The pins are connected to bond pads (BPs) on the IC by a bondwire. The bond pads coupled to a diffusion of a first type that forms the parasitic diode (D) with a region doped the second type coupled to a bondpad wirebonded to the reference pin. The resulting pin voltages or pin currents at measured, and present pin-pin relationships are determined. The present pin-pin relationships are compared to stored pin-pin relationship data for a device design of the IC. Results from the comparing are used to determine whether any present pin-pin relationships are significantly different as compared to the stored pin-pin relationships to identify a bondwire problem for at least one pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: RONALD ANDREW MICHALLICK, MICHAEL NOLAN JERVIS, DAVID ANTHONY WHITE
  • Publication number: 20190162498
    Abstract: A trigger guard for a firearm with a projection extending towards a magazine well of the firearm such that the projection extends into the magazine well. The trigger guard allows the projection to apply pressure to an inserted magazine or to limit the amount of movement of an inserted magazine within the magazine well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: CHAD AMODIO, RONALD ANDREW BOWERS
  • Patent number: 10277562
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first device in a network receives intercepted traffic that has been encrypted. The first device decrypts the intercepted traffic and sends the decrypted traffic to one or more analysis devices in the network. The first device receives a message indicative of a result of analysis of the decrypted traffic by the one or more analysis devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Andrew Frederick, Srinivas Yerra, Tarun Soin
  • Publication number: 20190086167
    Abstract: Components of a firearm having a bolt with locking lugs improve shooting accuracy, due to increased coaxial alignment between the bolt, the cartridge, the receiver, and/or the barrel of a firearm. The receiver inner surface is shaped for lug-cleaning and for close tolerance/mating with the lugs only in the locked position and also with a non-threaded, axial surface of the barrel. Thus, the mating surfaces that are instrumental and/or that mainly control coaxial alignment of the receiver, bolt, and barrel are located between the lug stops and the threaded end of the receiver. The lugs may be axially curved or otherwise axially non-linear to tolerate dirt and other debris in a field environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: RONALD ANDREW FOSTER
  • Publication number: 20180351904
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable adaptive handling of domain resolution requests originating from a virtual private cloud (VPC) networking environment. An administrator of the VPC can provide a set of rules specific to the VPC that designates how requests for a domain name should be handled. The rules may specify, for example, that a request for a given domain name should be routed to a particular domain name server, which may include a private domain name server, should be dropped, or should be routed according to a default behavior (e.g., a public domain name system). Resolution requests originating in the VPC can be associated with a VPC identifier. When an adaptive resolution system receives the request, it can retrieve rules associated with the VPC identifier, and apply the rules to determine further routing for the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Andrey Mizik, Lee-Ming Zen, Gavin Derek McCullagh, Yohanes Santoso, Vadim Meleshuk, Yu Gu, Minli Lai, Ivan Mistrianu, Rebecca Claire Weiss, Yi Cheng Chen, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Patent number: 10140282
    Abstract: A plurality of input string n-grams may be generated by accessing an input string and generating a Universal character set transformation format (UTF) encoded input string from the input string. The UTF encoded input string may be parsed via an n-gram parser to generate a plurality of input string n-grams, where a length of each of the input string n-grams is larger than a lower bound and smaller than an upper bound. The generated plurality of input string n-grams may be provided to determine matches between the input string and a domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Pallavi Aras, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Patent number: 10132579
    Abstract: Components of a firearm having a bolt with locking lugs improve shooting accuracy, due to increased coaxial alignment between the bolt, the cartridge, the receiver, and/or the barrel of a firearm. The receiver inner surface is shaped for lug-cleaning and for close tolerance/mating with the lugs only in the locked position and also with a non-threaded, axial surface of the barrel. Thus, the mating surfaces that are instrumental and/or that mainly control coaxial alignment of the receiver, bolt, and barrel are located between the lug stops and the threaded end of the receiver. The lugs may be axially curved or otherwise axially non-linear to tolerate dirt and other debris in a field environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventor: Ronald Andrew Foster
  • Patent number: 10033691
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable adaptive handling of domain resolution requests originating from a virtual private cloud (VPC) networking environment. An administrator of the VPC can provide a set of rules specific to the VPC that designates how requests for a domain name should be handled. The rules may specify, for example, that a request for a given domain name should be routed to a particular domain name server, which may include a private domain name server, should be dropped, or should be routed according to a default behavior (e.g., a public domain name system). Resolution requests originating in the VPC can be associated with a VPC identifier. When an adaptive resolution system receives the request, it can retrieve rules associated with the VPC identifier, and apply the rules to determine further routing for the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrey Mizik, Lee-Ming Zen, Gavin Derek McCullagh, Yohanes Santoso, Vadim Meleshuk, Yu Gu, Minli Lai, Ivan Mistrianu, Rebecca Claire Weiss, Yi Cheng Chen, Ronald Andrew Hoskinson
  • Patent number: 10023818
    Abstract: A diesel engine fuel composition comprising methanol at a level of at least 20% by weight of the fuel; water at a level at least 20% by weight of the fuel; a ratio of water to methanol of between 20:80 to 80:20; a total amount of water and methanol of at least 60% by weight of the fuel composition, and one or more additives, in a total amount of at least 0.1% by weight of the fuel, wherein the level of sodium chloride, if present as an additive, is between 0 to 0.5% by weight of the fuel, and the level of flavorant, if present as an additive, is between 0 to 1.5% of the composition is provided. Also provided is a process for powering a compression ignition engine using a fuel comprising methanol and water, including inlet air pre-heating, and associated systems and uses of the fuel composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Gane Energy & Resources Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Greg Morris, Michael John Brear, Ronald Andrew Slocombe
  • Patent number: 10014810
    Abstract: A reduced-impedance active measurement device, for example, includes a current transformer for generating a sense current for monitoring a drive signal. An amplifier is arranged to generate an offsetting current in response to the sense current, wherein the offsetting current is opposite in polarity to the sense current. A sense resistor is arranged to develop a sensed voltage signal across the sense resistor in response to the received sense current and the offsetting current. Optionally, the drive signal can be used to drive and control a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Ronald Andrew Michallick, David Anthony White, Michael Nolan Jervis
  • Publication number: 20180128567
    Abstract: Firearms, and components of firearms, improve shooting accuracy, due to increased coaxial alignment between the receiver and the barrel of the firearm. The outer surface of the barrel and the receiver inner surface feature extremely-tight-tolerance/press-fit mating of one or more outer axial mating surfaces of the barrel with one or more axial portions of the receiver inner surface. The extremely-tight-tolerance/press-fit axial mating surfaces may be distal of, proximal of, in-between, and/or otherwise outside and separate from the threads or conventional connection means for connecting the barrel to the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventor: Ronald Andrew Foster
  • Patent number: 9785629
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automated language detection for domain names are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for detecting a language of an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) comprises receiving, by an I/O interface, a string of characters for the IDN; receiving training data, including a plurality of multi-gram analyses for a set of languages; analyzing, by a processor, the string of characters based on the training data, wherein the analyzing includes extracting a set of multi-grams from the string of characters and comparing the extracted set of multi-grams with the training data; detecting the language of the IDN based on results of the analyzing. In some embodiments, the method further comprises comparing the detected language of the IDN with a user selected language and using the IDN to generate a domain name, if the comparing indicates that the detected language of the IDN is consistent with the user selected language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: VERISIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald Andrew Hoskinson, Lambert Arians, Marc Anderson, Mahendra Jain
  • Publication number: 20170252585
    Abstract: A door breaching device comprising: a longitudinal chassis having a first and a second extremity; a piston assembly located at said first extremity of the chassis, said piston assembly comprising a piston rod, said piston rod having, at a first end, a head and a second end located inside a piston chamber, said piston chamber having two opposite ends, a first end having an opening adapted for the movement of the piston rod therethrough and a second end located opposite said first end; wherein said piston rod is adapted for linear displacement between a first position where the second end of the piston rod is positioned at the second end of the piston chamber and a second position where the second end of the piston rod is at the first end of the piston chamber; a motor operatively connected to a hydraulic pump which is operatively connected to the piston chamber; a control unit for user input, said control unit being operatively connected to the motor; a two-part head assembly comprising: a fixed jaw, attac
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan Andre DESGROSEILLIERS, Andrew Mackenzie HENRY, Sergiu Mihai GEAMANU, Depinder Singh BHULLAR, Richard Elliot FENSTER, James Joseph Russell BRACKEN, Michael CICCONE, Ronald Andrew SUTHERLAND
  • Publication number: 20170241723
    Abstract: Components of a firearm having a bolt with locking lugs improve shooting accuracy, due to increased coaxial alignment between the bolt, the cartridge, the receiver, and/or the barrel of a firearm. The receiver inner surface is shaped for lug-cleaning and for close tolerance/mating with the lugs only in the locked position and also with a non-threaded, axial surface of the barrel. Thus, the mating surfaces that are instrumental and/or that mainly control coaxial alignment of the receiver, bolt, and barrel are located between the lug stops and the threaded end of the receiver. The lugs may be axially curved or otherwise axially non-linear to tolerate dirt and other debris in a field environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: RONALD ANDREW FOSTER