Patents by Inventor Srikanth Chilukuru

Srikanth Chilukuru 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).

  • Ultrasonic authenticating button
    Patent number: 9945818
    Abstract: Embodiments of an ultrasonic button and methods for using the ultrasonic button are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic button may include an ultrasonic transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave, a piezoelectric receiver layer configured to receive a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave, a platen layer configured to protect the ultrasonic transmitter and the piezoelectric receiver layer, a first matching layer configured to match an acoustic impedance of the platen layer with an acoustic impedance of ridges of a finger, and an ultrasonic sensor array configured to detect the finger using the reflected wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Suryaprakash Ganti, Srikanth Chilukuru, Livingstone Song, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Jack Conway Kitchens, John Schneider, Nicholas Ian Buchan, Leonard Eugene Fennell, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Ashish Hinger, Nai-Kuei Kuo, Kollengode Narayanan, Samir Kumar Gupta, Timothy Dickinson, Max Hamel, David William Burns, Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan, Eugene Dantsker
  • Ultrasonic Authenticating Button
    Publication number: 20150241393
    Abstract: Embodiments of an ultrasonic button and methods for using the ultrasonic button are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic button may include an ultrasonic transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave, a piezoelectric receiver layer configured to receive a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave, a platen layer configured to protect the ultrasonic transmitter and the piezoelectric receiver layer, a first matching layer configured to match an acoustic impedance of the platen layer with an acoustic impedance of ridges of a finger, and an ultrasonic sensor array configured to detect the finger using the reflected wave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Suryaprakash Ganti, Srikanth Chilukuru, Livingstone Song, Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Jack Conway Kitchens, John Schneider, Nicholas Ian Buchan, Leonard Eugene Fennell, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh, Ashish Hinger, Nai-Kuei Kuo, Kollengode Narayanan, Samir Kumar Gupta, Timothy Dickinson, Max Hamel, David William Burns, Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan, Eugene Dantsker