Patents by Inventor Stephen Lau
Stephen Lau 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).
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Publication number: 20160258057Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for cleaning a semiconductor processing chamber is provided. The semiconductor processing chamber may include a UV radiation source, a substrate holder, and a UV transmissive window. The UV transmissive window may include one or multiple panes. One or more panes of the UV transmissive window may be non-reactive with fluorine containing chemistries. In multi-pane windows a purge gas flow path may be formed in the gap between windows. A purge gas may be flowed through the purge gas flow path to prevent process gases used in the chamber interior from reaching one or more panes of the UV transmissive window.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2015Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: James Lee, George Andrew Antonelli, Kevin M. McLaughlin, Andrew John McKerrow, Curtis Bailey, Alexander R. Fox, Stephen Lau, Eugene Smargiassi, Casey Holder, Troy Daniel Ribaudo, Xiaolan Chen
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Publication number: 20160243228Abstract: Provided herein are the use of FGFR3 inhibitors and PD1 inhibitors to treat solid and hematologic cancers and compositions and kits comprising an FGFR3 inhibitor and a PD1 inhibitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Jocelyn HOLASH, Stephen LAU
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Patent number: 9268340Abstract: Flow distribution networks that supply process gas to two or more stations in a multi-station deposition chamber. Each flow distribution network includes an inlet and flow distribution lines for carrying process gas to the stations. The flow distribution lines include a branch point downstream from the inlet and two or more branches downstream from the branch point. Each branch supplies a station. The flow distribution network also includes highly variable flow elements in each branch. Restrictive components are placed downstream from the variable control elements in each branch. These restrictive components are nominally identical and designed to shift the bulk of the pressure drop away from the variable flow components to improve flow balancing while not unduly increasing inlet pressure. In some cases, the load shifting allows the more variable flow components to operate in the unchoked flow regime.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Womack, Stephen Lau
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Publication number: 20150317978Abstract: Methods and electronic devices for facilitating communication are described. In one example, the present application describes processor-implemented method. The method includes: receiving an audio signal; determining that the audio signal includes a voice command to communicate with a contact using a first communication type; and determining that communication with the contact using the first communication type is unavailable; and after determining that communication with the contact using the first communication type is unavailable, facilitating communication with the contact using a second communication type.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2012Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Darrin Kenneth John FRY, Jianqiang SHI, Stephen LAU
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Publication number: 20150075626Abstract: Flow distribution networks that supply process gas to two or more stations in a multi-station deposition chamber. Each flow distribution network includes an inlet and flow distribution lines for carrying process gas to the stations. The flow distribution lines include a branch point downstream from the inlet and two or more branches downstream from the branch point. Each branch supplies a station. The flow distribution network also includes highly variable flow elements in each branch. Restrictive components are placed downstream from the variable control elements in each branch. These restrictive components are nominally identical and designed to shift the bulk of the pressure drop away from the variable flow components to improve flow balancing while not unduly increasing inlet pressure. In some cases, the load shifting allows the more variable flow components to operate in the unchoked flow regime.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Jeffrey Womack, Stephen Lau
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Publication number: 20150072538Abstract: Method and apparatus for reducing metal oxide surfaces to modified metal surfaces are disclosed. By exposing a metal oxide surface to a remote plasma, the metal oxide surface on a substrate is reduced. A remote plasma apparatus can treat the metal oxide surface as well as cool, load/unload, and move the substrate within a single standalone apparatus. The remote plasma apparatus includes a processing chamber and a controller configured to provide a substrate having a metal seed layer in a processing chamber, move the substrate towards a substrate support in the processing chamber, form a remote plasma of a reducing gas species, expose a metal seed layer of the substrate to the remote plasma, and expose the substrate to a cooling gas. In some embodiments, the remote plasma apparatus is part of an electroplating apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Tighe A. Spurlin, James E. Duncan, Stephen Lau, Marshall Stowell, Jonathan D. Reid, David Porter
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Patent number: 8925588Abstract: Flow distribution networks that supply process gas to two or more stations in a multi-station deposition chamber. Each flow distribution network includes an inlet and flow distribution lines for carrying process gas to the stations. The flow distribution lines include a branch point downstream from the inlet and two or more branches downstream from the branch point. Each branch supplies a station. The flow distribution network also includes highly variable flow elements in each branch. Restrictive components are placed downstream from the variable control elements in each branch. These restrictive components are nominally identical and designed to shift the bulk of the pressure drop away from the variable flow components to improve flow balancing while not unduly increasing inlet pressure. In some cases, the load shifting allows the more variable flow components to operate in the unchoked flow regime.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Womack, Stephen Lau
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Publication number: 20140317495Abstract: An electronic device is configured for retroactive word correction. The device includes memory, a processor, a network interface and display. The device also includes an operating system managing access to the memory, processor, network interface and display. The device yet further includes a message transmitting application and a spell checker operable to perform spell checking on text in messages composed within the message transmitting application. Finally, the device includes a retroactive word correction module coupled to the spell checker. The module includes program code enabled to identify both an incorrectly spelled word in a previously transmitted message in the message transmitting application and also a correctly spelled form of the incorrectly spelled word, and to respond to the identifying (A) by locating the incorrectly spelled word in the previously transmitted message and (B) by replacing the located incorrectly spelled word with the correctly spelled form of the incorrectly spelled word.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2013Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Stephen Lau, Christopher William Wood
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Patent number: 8864137Abstract: An action game apparatus and method are disclosed. The apparatus is useable to play an action game including a launching device and a collection device with an indicator that signals when a predetermined quantity of game pieces have been collected.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Mattel, Inc.Inventors: Janice Ritter, Rawn Trinidad, Stephen Lau
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Patent number: 8805340Abstract: These teachings provide for receiving from a user (via, for example, a voice-recognition component) a name-based identifier for an entity to be contacted via wireless communications and then using that name-based identifier to access a contacts list to identify a corresponding communications address to use when contacting the entity via the wireless communications. Upon determining that the contacts list includes at least two contacts having the same name-based identifier, these teachings then provide for providing to the user location information as pertains to at least one of the candidate contacts to thereby facilitate disambiguation.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry Limited and QNX Software Systems LimitedInventors: Stephen Lau, Jianqiang Shi, Darrin Kenneth John Fry
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Publication number: 20140180856Abstract: A system may include a payment terminal and a mobile communications device capable of completing at least one electronic payment transaction with the payment terminal via near field communication (NFC). The payment terminal may be capable of transferring password data to the mobile communications device for accessing a wireless network responsive to completion of the at least one electronic payment transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Research In Motion LimitedInventors: STEPHEN LAU, Christopher William Wood
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Publication number: 20140158792Abstract: A temperature controlled showerhead for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) chambers enhances heat dissipation to enable accurate temperature control with an electric heater. Heat dissipates by conduction through a showerhead stem and fluid passageway and radiation from a back plate. A temperature control system includes one or more temperature controlled showerheads in a CVD chamber with fluid passageways serially connected to a heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: Novellus Systems, Inc.Inventors: Henner Meinhold, Dan M. Doble, Stephen Lau, Vince Wilson, Easwar Srinivasan
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Publication number: 20140163994Abstract: A method and system on an electronic device which uses speech recognition to initiate a communication from a mobile device having access to contact information for a number of contacts. The method includes: receiving through an audio input interface a voice input for initiating a communication, extracting from the voice input a type of communication and at least part of a contact name, and outputting, to an output interface, a selectable list of all contacts from the contact information which have the part of the contact name and which have a contact address associated with the type of communication. The mobile device may also be configured to access remote contact information from a remote server.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicants: QNX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS LIMITED, RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITEDInventors: Stephen LAU, Darrin Kenneth John FRY, Jianqiang SHI
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Publication number: 20140105012Abstract: Responsive to detecting that bandwidth consumption of a packet flow has exceeded a threshold, packet forwarding treatment is changed in accordance with at least one class of packet flow from a first packet forwarding treatment to a second packet forwarding treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Rockstar Consortium US LPInventors: Tal Lavian, Stephen Lau
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Publication number: 20140105025Abstract: Responsive to detecting a predetermined time of day, packet forwarding treatment is changed in accordance with at least one class of packet flow from a first packet forwarding treatment to a second packet forwarding treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Rockstar Consortium US LPInventors: Tal Lavian, Stephen Lau
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Patent number: 8673080Abstract: A temperature controlled showerhead for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) chambers enhances heat dissipation to enable accurate temperature control with an electric heater. Heat dissipates by conduction through a showerhead stem and fluid passageway and radiation from a back plate. A temperature control system includes one or more temperature controlled showerheads in a CVD chamber with fluid passageways serially connected to a heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2008Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Novellus Systems, Inc.Inventors: Henner Meinhold, Dan M. Doble, Stephen Lau, Vince Wilson, Easwar Srinivasan
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Publication number: 20140048141Abstract: Flow distribution networks that supply process gas to two or more stations in a multi-station deposition chamber. Each flow distribution network includes an inlet and flow distribution lines for carrying process gas to the stations. The flow distribution lines include a branch point downstream from the inlet and two or more branches downstream from the branch point. Each branch supplies a station. The flow distribution network also includes highly variable flow elements in each branch. Restrictive components are placed downstream from the variable control elements in each branch. These restrictive components are nominally identical and designed to shift the bulk of the pressure drop away from the variable flow components to improve flow balancing while not unduly increasing inlet pressure. In some cases, the load shifting allows the more variable flow components to operate in the unchoked flow regime.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Novellus Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Womack, Stephen Lau
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Patent number: 8619793Abstract: An apparatus and method for dynamic assignment of classes of traffic to a priority queue. Bandwidth consumption by one or more types of packet traffic received in the packet forwarding device is monitored to determine whether the bandwidth consumption exceeds a threshold. If the bandwidth consumption exceeds the threshold, assignment of at least one type of packet traffic of the one or more types of packet traffic is changed from a queue having a first priority to a queue having a second priority.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LPInventors: Tal I. Lavian, Stephen Lau
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Publication number: 20130337781Abstract: These teachings provide for receiving from a user (via, for example, a voice-recognition component) a name-based identifier for an entity to be contacted via wireless communications and then using that name-based identifier to access a contacts list to identify a corresponding communications address to use when contacting the entity via the wireless communications. Upon determining that the contacts list includes at least two contacts having the same name-based identifier, these teachings then provide for providing to the user location information as pertains to at least one of the candidate contacts to thereby facilitate disambiguation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicants: QNX Software Systems Limited, Research In Motion LimitedInventors: Stephen LAU, Jianqiang SHI, Darrin Kenneth John FRY
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Patent number: 8353516Abstract: A toy play set for containing at least one predetermined board game includes a generally elongated body having a hollow interior, first and second opposing longitudinal ends, and a generally curved side wall extending around the hollow interior between the first and second ends. The first and second ends and side wall generally surround the hollow interior in a closed configuration of the body. The body has an open configuration in which the hollow interior is at least partially accessible. A playing surface is operably engaged with the body and is configured to play the predetermined board game. The playing surface is shaped and sized to enable the playing surface to be completely stored within the hollow interior of the body with the body in the closed configuration. The playing surface is accessible at least with the body in the open configuration for playing of the predetermined board game.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Mattel, Inc.Inventors: Gary Collins, Stephen Lau