Patents by Inventor Shashank Sharma

Shashank Sharma 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: 20240144059
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for classifying a trip. Embodiments include receiving, from a plurality of users, a plurality of historical trip records. Each of the plurality of historical trip records may comprise one or more historical trip attributes and historical classification information. Embodiments include training a predictive model, using the plurality of historical trip records, to classify trips based on trip records. Training the predictive model may comprise determining a plurality of hot spots based on the historical trip records, each of the plurality of hot spots comprising a region encompassing one or more locations, and associating, in the predictive model, the plurality of hot spots with historical classification information. Embodiments include receiving, from a user, a new trip record comprising a plurality of trip attributes related to a trip and using the predictive model to predict a classification for the trip based on the trip record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Grace WU, Shashank SHASHIKANT RAO, Susrutha GONGALLA, Nhung HO, Carly WOOD, Vaibhav SHARMA
  • Patent number: 11971651
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics. Some embodiments include a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator module to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements. Some embodiments include flexure arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Alfred N. Mireault
  • Patent number: 11964956
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and compositions that modulate cannabinoid receptors, methods of modulating cannabinoid receptors, and methods of treating various disorders related to the modulation of cannabinoid receptors. This disclosure is directed to methods of treating cannabinoid dependence, neuropathy, inflammation, glaucoma, a neurodegenerative disorder, a motor function disorder, a gastrointestinal disorder, hypothermia, emesis, loss of appetite, or anorexia associated with AIDS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Alexandros Makriyannis, Spyridon P. Nikas, Ganeshsingh A. Thakur, Rishi Sharma, Shashank Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11934090
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott W. Miller, Alfred N. Mireault, Brad V. Johnson, Nicholas D. Smyth, Rummel R. Adriano, Shashank Sharma, Steven Webster
  • Patent number: 11936845
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to contaminant detection systems and related optical systems and methods. An example contaminant detection system includes an optical coupler configured to couple light into and/or out of an optical element. The contaminant detection system also includes a plurality of light-emitter devices configured to emit emission light toward the optical coupler. The contaminant detection system additionally includes a plurality of detector devices configured to detect at least a portion of the emission light by way of the optical element and the optical coupler. The plurality of detector devices is also configured to provide detector signals indicative of a presence of a contaminant on the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Frevert, Shashank Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240087889
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing channel structures of substrates that include positioning the substrate in a first processing chamber having a first processing volume. The substrate includes a channel structure with high aspect ratio features having aspect ratios greater than about 20:1. The method includes forming a silicon-containing layer over the channel structure to a hydrogen-or-deuterium plasma in the first processing volume at a flow rate of about 10 sccm to about 5000 sccm. The substrate is maintained at a temperature of about 100° C. to about 1100° C. during the exposing, the exposing forming a nucleated substrate. Subsequent to the exposing a thermal anneal operation is performed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinming ZHANG, Abhilash J. MAYUR, Shashank SHARMA, Norman L. TAM, Matthew SPULLER
  • Publication number: 20240085693
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to replaceable, heated, and wipeable apertures for optical systems. An example embodiment includes an apparatus that includes an optical system (e.g., a camera) with a lens. The apparatus also includes a housing in which the lens is disposed. The housing has a sealing surface and a threated portion. The apparatus further includes a chamfered window that provides a protective aperture for the lens. The apparatus also includes a retainer ring that has a retaining portion and a threaded portion. The retaining portion contacts the chamfer of the window while the threaded portion of the retainer ring threads onto the threaded portion of the housing to hold the window against the sealing surface of the housing and form a watertight seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 11927440
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a lens assembly that includes at least one lens that defines an optical axis. The apparatus also includes a substrate, an image sensor disposed on the substrate, and an actuator coupled to the substrate and configured to adjust a position of the substrate relative to the lens assembly to move the image sensor along the optical axis. The apparatus additionally includes a capacitive position sensor that includes a first capacitive plate coupled to the substrate and a second capacitive plate coupled to the lens assembly. The capacitive position sensor may be configured to generate a capacitance measurement indicative of the position of the substrate relative to the lens assembly. The apparatus further includes circuitry configured to control the actuator based on (i) the capacitance measurement and (ii) a target position of the image sensor relative to the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Matthew Last, Prasanna Kalkura, Paul Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20240053656
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator assembly to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. The VCM actuator assembly is configured to move an image sensor of the camera in three dimensions (e.g. X, Y, and Z) to provide the AF and/or OIS movements. The VCM actuator assembly is asymmetrical and includes an at least partially open side that allows an optical assembly of the camera to pass through the open side of the VCM actuator. In some embodiments, the optical assembly is part of a folded optics arrangement of the camera that includes one or more prisms/and or lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Shashank Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240055265
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The method includes thermally treating a substrate having one or more silicon nanosheets formed thereon. Thermally treating the substrate includes positioning the substrate in a processing volume of a first processing chamber, the substrate having one or more silicon nanosheets formed thereon. Thermally treating the substrate further includes heating the substrate to a first temperature of more than about 250 degrees Celsius, generating hydrogen radicals using a remote plasma source fluidly coupled with the processing volume, and maintaining the substrate at the first temperature while concurrently exposing the one or more silicon nanosheets to the generated hydrogen radicals. The generated hydrogen radicals remove residual germanium from the one or more silicon nanosheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Pradeep SAMPATH KUMAR, Norman L. TAM, Shashank SHARMA, Zhiming JIANG, Jingmin LENG, Victor CALDERON, Mahesh RAMAKRISHNA
  • Patent number: 11901195
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods, systems, and apparatus for conducting a radical treatment operation on a substrate prior to conducting an annealing operation on the substrate. In one implementation, a method of processing semiconductor substrates includes pre-heating a substrate, and exposing the substrate to species radicals. The exposing of the substrate to the species radicals includes a treatment temperature that is less than 300 degrees Celsius, a treatment pressure that is less than 1.0 Torr, and a treatment time that is within a range of 8.0 minutes to 12.0 minutes. The method includes annealing the substrate after the exposing of the substrate to the species radicals. The annealing includes exposing the substrate to molecules, an anneal temperature that is 300 degrees Celsius or greater, an anneal pressure that is within a range of 500 Torr to 550 Torr, and an anneal time that is less than 4.0 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Sampath Kumar, Norman L. Tam, Dongming Iu, Shashank Sharma, Eric R. Rieske, Michael P. Kamp
  • Patent number: 11902648
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a lens assembly that includes at least one lens that defines an optical axis, a lens holder coupled to the lens assembly, a substrate, an image sensor disposed on the substrate, and an actuator coupled between the lens holder and the substrate and configured to adjust a position of the substrate relative to the lens assembly to reposition the image sensor along the optical axis. The apparatus also includes a position sensor that includes a magnet and a magnetic field sensor. The position sensor is coupled to the substrate and the lens holder. The magnetic field sensor is configured to generate magnetic field data indicating a position of the substrate relative to the lens holder. The apparatus additionally includes circuitry configured to control the actuator based on the magnetic field data to place the image sensor within a depth of focus of the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventor: Shashank Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240014075
    Abstract: A method of forming an electrical contact in a semiconductor structure includes performing a patterning process to form a mask on a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure comprising a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a dielectric layer having a first opening over the first semiconductor region and a second opening over the second semiconductor region, wherein the mask covers an exposed surface of the second semiconductor region within the second opening, performing an amorphization ion implant process to amorphize an exposed surface of the first semiconductor region within the first opening, performing a removal process to remove the mask, performing a selective epitaxial deposition process, to epitaxially form a contact layer on the exposed surface of the second semiconductor region, and performing a recrystallization anneal process to recrystallize the amorphized surface of the first semiconductor region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nicolas Louis BREIL, Lisa MCGILL, Amritha RAMMOHAN, Shashank SHARMA
  • Patent number: 11835845
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with a voice coil motor (VCM) actuator assembly to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. The VCM actuator assembly is configured to move an image sensor of the camera in three dimensions (e.g. X, Y, and Z) to provide the AF and/or OIS movements. The VCM actuator assembly is asymmetrical and includes an at least partially open side that allows an optical assembly of the camera to pass through the open side of the VCM actuator. In some embodiments, the optical assembly is part of a folded optics arrangement of the camera that includes one or more prisms/and or lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 11831986
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with image sensor shifting capabilities and a flexure arrangement. In various embodiments, the flexure arrangement may include an upper flexure and a lower flexure. The upper flexure may include a suspension wire that extends between two sheets. The lower flexure may include one or more flexure arms that connect a moveable platform to a stationary platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 11823901
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing channel structures of substrates that include positioning the substrate in a first processing chamber having a first processing volume. The substrate includes a channel structure with high aspect ratio features having aspect ratios greater than about 20:1. The method includes forming a silicon-containing layer over the channel structure to a hydrogen-or-deuterium plasma in the first processing volume at a flow rate of about 10 sccm to about 5000 sccm. The substrate is maintained at a temperature of about 100° C. to about 1100° C. during the exposing, the exposing forming a nucleated substrate. Subsequent to the exposing a thermal anneal operation is performed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS INC.
    Inventors: Xinming Zhang, Abhilash J. Mayur, Shashank Sharma, Norman L. Tam, Matthew Spuller
  • Publication number: 20230362489
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator configured to shift an image sensor along multiple axes. Some embodiments include a magnet and coil arrangement. Some embodiments include a position sensing arrangement. Some embodiments include a flexure arrangement. Some embodiments include a coil structure and coil carrier assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Scott W. Miller
  • Publication number: 20230341652
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and light path folding elements (e.g., prisms). Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements, carrier arrangements, and/or suspension arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Furthermore, some embodiments include position sensor arrangements for position sensing with respect to AF and/or OIS movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Smyth, Alfred N. Mireault, Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma
  • Publication number: 20230328373
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator that includes an additive coil structure for shifting a lens along one or multiple axes. The additive coil structure may include a base portion configured to couple with a lens carrier and at least partially surround a perimeter of the lens carrier. In various examples, the additive coil structure may include folded portions that individually include a respective coil that is located proximate a respective magnet. According to various embodiments, the additive coil structure may be formed using an additive process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas S. Brodie, Aurelien R. Hubert, Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 11750929
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator configured to shift an image sensor along multiple axes. Some embodiments include a magnet and coil arrangement. Some embodiments include a position sensing arrangement. Some embodiments include a flexure arrangement. Some embodiments include a coil structure and coil carrier assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Scott W. Miller