Patents by Inventor Shashank

Shashank 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: 20190156371
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to an electronic system, a computerized method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for advertisement pricing. The system comprises a host server configured for performing steps of the method comprising: generating an electronic map representation of a geographical area; demarcating the electronic map representation into a plurality of demarcated regions; retrieving, from a transaction database, transaction data associated with merchant transactions in the plurality of demarcated regions; receiving, from a telecommunications service provider, mobile traffic data for generating consumer traffic data indicative of consumer traffic activity in the plurality of demarcated regions; and performing an advertisement pricing process to determine advertisement prices for each demarcated region based on at least the transaction data and consumer traffic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Shashank Kumar Trivedi, Vikas Bishnoi
  • Publication number: 20190157143
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to a sequential hydrogenation and nitridization process for reducing interfacial and bulk O atoms in a conductive structure in a semiconductor device. A hydrogenation and plasma nitridization process is performed on a metal nitride layer in a conductive structure prior to deposition of a second metal layer, thereby reducing interfacial oxygen atoms formed on a surface of the metal nitride and oxygen atoms present in the bulk metal layers of the conductive structure. As a result, adhesion of the second metal layer to the metal nitride layer is improved and the electrical resistance of the contact structure is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Johanes S. SWENBERG, Wei LIU, Houda GRAOUI, Shashank SHARMA, Shankar MUTHUKRISHNAN, Rene GEORGE
  • Patent number: 10292615
    Abstract: A method of internal MRI employing at least one active internal MRI detector located within a sample of interest. The method includes applying an MRI pulse sequence to the sample of interest. The MRI pulse sequence includes spatial encoding projections. The method further includes receiving MRI signals at the active internal MRI detector and reconstructing at least one MRI image from the MRI signals using an error minimizing algorithm. The MRI pulse sequence provides an increase in an acquisition speed when reconstructing the at least one MRI image by sparsely under-sampling an image k-space in at least one dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Paul Bottomley, Yi Zhang, Shashank S. Hegde
  • Publication number: 20190141248
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a camera actuator includes an actuator base, an autofocus voice coil motor, and an optical image stabilization voice coil motor. In some embodiments, the autofocus voice coil motor includes a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to the actuator base, a plurality of shared magnets mounted to the base, and an autofocus coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of one or more lenses of the lens carrier. In some embodiments, the optical image stabilization voice coil motor includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the actuator base, and optical image stabilization coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the shared magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in a plurality of directions orthogonal to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aurelien R. Hubert, Qiang Yang, Douglas S. Brodie, Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma
  • Publication number: 20190140161
    Abstract: A piezoelectric material includes a first material layer including a polycrystalline lead zinc niobate-lead zirconate titanate material arranged in a 001 crystal direction; and a second material layer including a mono-crystalline material having a 001 crystal face, wherein the lead zinc niobate-lead zirconate titanate and the mono-crystalline material are different. Also a piezoelectric device including the piezoelectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Jin S. Heo, Kyunghoon Cho, Shashank Priya, Yonke Yan
  • Patent number: 10282103
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to delete a command queue, in accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure. An apparatus may comprise a circuit configured to receive a queue deletion indicator from a host device, including a queue identifier for a selected command queue to be deleted. The circuit may abort each command associated with the selected command queue and pending at the apparatus based on the queue identifier. Commands associated with the selected queue may be identified in a command table and flagged with an abort bit, which may signal an I/O processing pipeline to abort the command when encountered. The circuit may verify that no commands associated with the selected command queue remain pending at the apparatus, and send a completion indicator to notify the host device that the selected command queue is deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Chris Randall Stone, Shashank Nemawarkar, Balakrishnan Sundararaman, Charles Edward Peet
  • Publication number: 20190132751
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes: selecting, based on control signal data, a cell to optimize in a tracking area (TA) of a mobile network, wherein the cell is associated with a control signal load that exceeds an associated control signal load threshold, wherein the load is determined according to control signal data and includes tracking area update load and/or paging load; reconfiguring the TA by: splitting the TA, combining the TA and another TA, adding another cell from another TA, and/or removing another cell; receiving, based on the reconfigured TA, updated control signal data associated with both the load and a second control signal load for cells affected by the reconfigured TA; and when the load is under the associated threshold and the second load is under an associated second control signal load threshold for the affected cells, saving the reconfigured TA for continued use in the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Atul Kumar Jha, Shashank Misra
  • Publication number: 20190130534
    Abstract: A method for filtering noise for imaging includes receiving an image frame having position and range data. A filter size divides the frame into filter windows for processing each of the filter windows. For the first pixel, a space to the center pixel and a range difference between this pixel and the center pixel is determined and used for choosing a selected weight from weights in a 2D weight LUT including weighting for space and range difference, a filtered range value is calculated by applying the selected 2D weight to the pixel, and the range, filtered range value and selected 2D weight are summed. The determining, choosing, calculating and summing are repeated for at least the second pixel. A total sum of contributions from the first and second pixel are divided by the sum of selected 2D weights to generate a final filtered range value for the center pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Mihir Narendra Mody, Shashank Dabral, Jesse Gregory Villarreal, William Wallace, Niraj Nandan
  • Publication number: 20190129607
    Abstract: Methods and devices for performing remote control are provided. The method includes displaying at least one icon for controlling one or more functions provided by a second device; recognizing a gesture of a user, obtaining a control command for controlling one of the one or more functions provided by the second device based on the recognized gesture and the displayed at least one icon, and transmitting the obtained control command to the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Shashank SAURABH, Mayank SHOREY, Puneet SRIVASTAVA, Sushant SHARMA
  • Publication number: 20190127248
    Abstract: A highly efficient and effective process for destroying organic contaminants in wastewater streams, without the need for supercritical oxidation conditions, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Shashank N. SHAH
  • Patent number: 10275547
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for evaluating performance of a finite or infinite antenna array including a finite number of antennas. Typically, a model is generated for the antenna array, the model including an arbitrarily large antenna array with an arbitrarily large number of model antennas. Each model antenna has features defined by features of antennas of the finite or infinite antenna array. A unit cell is determined for the arbitrarily large antenna, and impedance matrices Zantenna and Zperiodic are computed, Zperiodic representing interactions among the unit cell and the other model antennas. From these matrices, the performance of the finite or infinite antenna array is assessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Makarov, Vishwanath Iyer, Shashank Kulkarni
  • Publication number: 20190121353
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a vehicle controller and a portable user device. The vehicle controller is configured to control operation of a vehicle component of a vehicle. The portable user device is configured to wirelessly connect to the vehicle controller and facilitate providing a command to the vehicle controller regarding operation of the vehicle component from an exterior of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Bryan Datema, Cody Clifton, Xiang Gong, Zhenyi Wei, Shashank Bhatia
  • Patent number: 10269625
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a sacrificial material over a stack comprising alternating levels of a dielectric material and another material, forming an opening through the sacrificial material and at least some of the alternating levels of the dielectric material and the another material, forming at least one oxide material in the opening and overlying surfaces of the sacrificial material, an uppermost surface of the at least one oxide material extending more distal from a surface of a substrate than an uppermost level of the dielectric material and the another material, planarizing at least a portion of the at least one oxide material to expose a portion of the sacrificial material, and removing the sacrificial material while the uppermost surface of the at least one oxide material remains more distal from the surface of the substrate than the uppermost level of the alternating levels of the dielectric material and the another material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John B. Matovu, David S. Meyaard, Gowrisankar Damarla, Sri Sai Sivakumar Vegunta, Kunal Shrotri, Shashank Saraf, Kevin R. Gast, Jivaan Kishore Jhothiraman, Suresh Ramarajan, Lifang Xu, Rithu K. Bhonsle, Rutuparna Narulkar, Matthew J. King
  • Patent number: 10268779
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for determining a server conversational state in an interactive dialog between a server and an administrator is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a query statement from a user. The embodiment may also include updating a context map to reflect a context of the received query statement. The embodiment may further include transmitting a request to one or more cognitive engines capable of resolving the received query statement. The embodiment may also include processing the transmitted request in each of the one or more cognitive engines. The embodiment may further include updating the context map with a resolution operation performed by the one or more cognitive engines. The embodiment may also include displaying a response to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Anu Jalan, Naveen Kumar T, Priya Kannan, Shashank M S
  • Publication number: 20190115219
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to enable the formation of a metal gate structure with a reduced effective oxide thickness over a similar structure formed via conventional methods. A plasma hydrogenation process followed by a plasma nitridization process is performed on a metal nitride layer in a film stack, thereby removing oxygen atoms disposed within layers of the film stack and, in some embodiments eliminating an oxygen-containing interfacial layer disposed within the film stack. As a result, an effective oxide thickness of the metal gate structure is reduced with little or no accompanying flatband voltage shift. Further, the metal gate structure operates with an increased leakage current that is as little as one quarter the increase in leakage current associated with a similar metal gate structure formed via conventional techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Johanes S. SWENBERG, Wei LIU, Houda GRAOUI, Shashank SHARMA
  • Patent number: 10264188
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a first camera unit includes a first actuator for moving a first optical package configured for a first focal length. A second camera unit of the multifunction device for simultaneously capturing a second image of a second visual field includes a second actuator for moving a second optical package configured for a second focal length, and the camera system includes a shared magnet positioned between the first camera unit and the second camera unit to generate magnetic fields usable in creating motion in both the first camera actuator and the second camera actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma, Simon S. Lee
  • Patent number: 10261761
    Abstract: Template-driven data access is enabled. A collection of data model component identifiers that are accessible for use by view developers may be established. View developers may specify views of the data model with a view description language and may utilize accessible data model component identifiers to reference data model components that may be rendered in the views. The views may be in accordance with a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. In contrast to a conventional MVC architecture, changes to a view do not require changes to a corresponding controller. For example, view developers may create, update, modify and delete views independent of the activity of controller developers. In accordance with at least one embodiment, there is a universal controller for views specified with the view specification language and/or utilizing the predefined collection of accessible data model component identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth Bradon Kinast, Cameron Dailey Austgen, Shashank Shekhar, Teresa Shuk Kwan Lau, Jay Austin Crosley, Oleg Oleg Pistolet, Gurinder Raju, Satish Kumar Eerpini
  • Publication number: 20190109676
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, base stations may transmit downlink transmissions in short transmission time intervals (sTTIs) shorter than 1 millisecond (ms) transmission time intervals (TTIs). The base stations and user equipment (UE) receiving the downlink transmissions may be configured to determine a transport block size, soft channel bit buffer size, or rate matching based on the sTTI. The transport block size may be selected based on a scaling factor associated with signaling overhead or a type, length, or index of sTTI, or based on an sTTI transport block size table. The buffer size may be selected based on scaling or not scaling a buffer size value, N_IR, associated with a TTI. Additionally, UEs may handle receiving retransmissions of downlink transmissions in different length TTIs, and base stations may select channel quality indicator-to-modulation and coding scheme mappings on an sTTI-by-sTTI basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Wenshu Zhang, Amir Farajidana, Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Shashank Maiya
  • Patent number: 10256005
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to thermal processing of substrates. More specifically, embodiments described herein relate to flash on spike annealing processes and apparatus suitable for performing such processes. In one embodiment, a thermal processing apparatus may include a lamp radiation source, a laser source, and a reflector plate disposed between the lamp radiation source and the laser source. One or more apertures may be formed in the reflector plate and the laser source may be positioned adjacent to the reflector plate such that a laser beam emitted from the laser source propagates through the one or more apertures. In one embodiment, the reflector plate may be substantially circular and the one or more apertures may approximate a sector of the reflector plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Ranish, Shashank Sharma, Diwakar N. Kedlaya, Aaron Muir Hunter
  • Publication number: 20190104245
    Abstract: Disclosed examples include integrated circuits, merge circuits and methods of processing multiple-exposure image data, in which a single pre-processing circuit is used for pre-processing first input exposure data associated with a first exposure of the image, and then for pre-processing second input exposure data associated with a second exposure of the image, and the first and second pre-processed exposure data are merged to generate merged image data for tone mapping and other post-processing. An example merge circuit includes a configurable gain circuit to apply a gain to the first and/or second exposure data, as well as a configurable weighting circuit with a weight calculation circuit and a motion adaptive filter circuit to compute a first and second weight values for merging the pre-processed first and second exposure data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Shashank Dabral, Rajasekhar Reddy Allu