Patents by Inventor Steven C.

Steven C. 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).

  • Start-up method for contacting a feed stream with fluidized catalyst
    Patent number: 12012557
    Abstract: A start-up method for contacting a feed stream with fluidized catalyst is disclosed. The start-up method comprises reacting a feed stream over a catalyst to produce a gas stream and spent catalyst. The gas stream is separated from the spent catalyst. The separated gas stream is passed to a compressor. The operating condition associated with the compressor is measured. Based on the measured operating condition associated with the compressor, one or both of a supplemental hydrocarbon stream and a supplemental hydrogen gas stream is provided to the compressor to meet a predetermined operating condition associated with the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Steven C. Kozup, Michael R. Van de Cotte, Adam J Kanyuh
  • BUFFER DEVICE WITH LOW-LATENCY SKID MODE FOR DATA FRESHNESS
    Publication number: 20240194231
    Abstract: A buffer integrated circuit (IC) chip is disclosed. The buffer IC chip includes host interface circuitry to receive a read command to retrieve read data from a memory. Memory interface circuitry couples to the memory. Data freshness authentication circuitry performs a freshness verification operation on the read data. Read data forwarding circuitry, in a skid mode of operation, transmits the read data to the host prior to completion of the freshness verification operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Taeksang Song, Evan Lawrence Erickson, Steven C. Woo
  • METAL BASED HYDROGEN BARRIER
    Publication number: 20240194526
    Abstract: A method of forming an electronic device is disclosed. The method comprises forming depositing a metal on a substrate, the metal comprising one or more of copper (Cu), titanium (Ti), or tantalum (Ta). A metal cap is deposited on the metal. The metal cap comprises one or more of molybdenum (Mo), ruthenium (Ru), iridium (Ir), rhodium (Rh), palladium (Pd), silver (Ag), osmium (Os), platinum (Pt), or gold (Au). The substrate is then exposed to an anneal process, e.g., a hydrogen high-pressure anneal. The formation of the metal cap on the metal minimizes parasitic adsorption of hydrogen by the underlying metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivas Gandikota, Steven C.H. Hung, Srinivas D. Nemani, Yixiong Yang, Susmit Singha Roy, Nikolaos Bekiaris
  • Method and System for Switching a Dispensed Fluid in a Nanofabrication Dispensing System
    Publication number: 20240189849
    Abstract: A method of switching a first fluid supplied to a dispenser with a second fluid. The method includes stopping the first fluid from flowing into a common portion of a flow system, causing a flush fluid to flow through the common portion, stopping the flush fluid from flowing into the common portion, removing the flush fluid from the common portion, causing the second fluid to flow through the common portion, and continuously circulating the first fluid to and from a reservoir without the first liquid entering the common portion of the flow system. The continuously circulating of the first fluid begins a) after stopping the fluid liquid from flowing into the common portion of the flow system and b) prior to or during the second fluid flowing through the common portion of the flow system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Pearce Mann, Steven C. Shackleton
  • SENSOR MEASUREMENT VALUE CALIBRATION USING SENSOR CALIBRATION DATA DETERMINED BASED ON FABRICATION MEASUREMENTS
    Publication number: 20240189508
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to determining a calibrated measurement value indicative of a physiological condition of a patient using sensor calibration data determined based on fabrication measurements. In some embodiments, the techniques involve obtaining one or more electrical signals from a sensing element of a sensing arrangement, where the one or more electrical signals are influenced by a physiological condition in a body of a patient; obtaining calibration data associated with the sensing element, where the calibration data is based on fabrication process measurement data for the sensing element and a calibration model for a certain physiological condition; and determining, using the one or more electrical signals and the calibration data associated with the sensing element, a calibrated output value indicative of the physiological condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Steven C. Jacks, Peter Ajemba, Akhil Srinivasan, Jacob E. Pananen, Sarkis Aroyan, Pablo Vazquez, Tri T. Dang, Ashley N. Sullivan, Raghavendhar Gautham
  • Method and system for thermal control of devices in an electronics tester
    Patent number: 12007451
    Abstract: A tester apparatus is provided. Slot assemblies are removably mounted to a frame. Each slot assembly allows for individual heating and temperature control of a respective cartridge that is inserted into the slot assembly. A closed loop air path is defined by the frame and a heater and cooler are located in the closed loop air path to cool or heat the cartridge with air. Individual cartridges can be inserted or be removed while other cartridges are in various stages of being tested or in various stages of temperature ramps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: AEHR TEST SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jovan Jovanovic, Kenneth W. Deboe, Steven C. Steps
  • Pouch containment and carton loading
    Patent number: 12006083
    Abstract: A stack of products such as pouches are formed in a product bucket, pushed into a stack guide bucket and from there into a carton. A stack tamp descends over the stack, engages and confines it downwardly during stack pushing from product bucket and through stack guide bucket into a carton. Multiple product buckets, stack guide buckets and cartons move downstream during cartoning, and are respectively aligned in a cartoning station. Reciprocal containment blades hold the stack in respective cartons prior to flap closing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: R.A Jones & Co.
    Inventors: William E. Engelhardt, Steven C. Hamilton, Eric M. Schaefer
  • Distributed electric propulsion modular wing aircraft with blown wing and extreme flaps for VTOL and/or STOL flight
    Patent number: 12006030
    Abstract: An aircraft wing configuration for a vertical or a short take-off and landing aircraft having a plurality of propeller-blown wings mounted at different longitudinal locations along a fuselage of the vertical take-off and landing aircraft, producing two or more lifting surfaces, fixed at a predetermined acute wing angle greater than 0° and substantially less than 90° relative to a horizontal plane, and having a plurality of flaps disposed behind the wings. The configuration has a plurality of propellers distributed in front of the plurality of wings producing two or more lifting surfaces and mounted such that the wings are externally blown by forced airstreams from the propellers. The propellers produce distributed thrust components, and the plurality of flaps are in the forced airstreams of the propellers when one or more of the flaps is in an extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA
    Inventors: Steven C. Geuther, David D. North, Robert G. McSwain, Michael D. Patterson, Gregory Howland, Jared S. Fell, Christopher M. Cagle, Xiaofan Fei, Siena K. S. Whiteside, David A. Hare
  • CANCER THERAPY USING TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR AGONISTS
    Publication number: 20240180952
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for methods of treating cancer and methods of delivering toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists to solid tumors in the liver using a locoregional therapy through the vasculature. In one aspect, the present invention relates to a method of treating primary liver cancers such as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intra-hepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) comprising administering TLR9 agonists to the liver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven C. Katz, Bryan F. Cox, David Benjamin Jaroch
  • Driver Profiles Based Upon Responsiveness to Vehicle Alerts
    Publication number: 20240185188
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving software version data generated by an on-board system of a vehicle via a network, wherein the software version data indicates a version of software executed by the on-board system to control operational parameters of the vehicle. The method also includes determining, based at least upon (i) the software version data and (ii) a known current version of the software, whether a latest software update was installed for the on-board system, setting, based at least upon whether the latest software update was installed for the on-board system, at least a portion of a driver profile associated with the driver, and transmitting the at least the portion of the driver profile to a third party server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Leo Nelson Chan, Jacob J. Alt, Matthew S. Megyese, Steven C. Cielocha, Kristopher Keith Gaudin, Brian Mark Fields
  • TURBINE ENGINE WITH FUEL NOZZLE ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20240183536
    Abstract: An engine can utilize a combustor to combust fuel to drive the engine. A fuel nozzle assembly can supply fuel to the combustor for combustion or ignition of the fuel. The fuel nozzle assembly can include a swirler and a fuel nozzle to supply a mixture of fuel and air for combustion. The fuel nozzle can include both a primary and secondary fuel passage, and an additional air passage to provide for greater flame control, fuel provision, or local fuel and air mixing prior to combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Michael T. Bucaro, Ajoy Patra, Pradeep Naik, Perumallu Vukanti, R Narasimha Chiranthan, Clayton Stuart Cooper, Michael A. Benjamin, Steven C. Vise, Manampathy G. Giridharan, Krushnakumar Venkatesan, V
  • Multi-modal refresh of dynamic, random-access memory
    Patent number: 12001697
    Abstract: A memory system includes two or more memory controllers capable of accessing the same dynamic, random-access memory (DRAM), one controller having access to the DRAM or a subset of the DRAM at a time. Different subsets of the DRAM are supported with different refresh-control circuitry, including respective refresh-address counters. Whichever controller has access to a given subset of the DRAM issues refresh requests to the corresponding refresh-address counter. Counters are synchronized before control of a given subset of the DRAM is transferred between controllers to avoid a loss of stored data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Vogelsang, Steven C. Woo, Michael Raymond Miller
  • Multi pressure drop swirler ferrule plate
    Patent number: 11994295
    Abstract: A swirler assembly includes a swirler having primary swirler with a primary swirler venturi, a swirler ferrule plate connected to the primary swirler, and a fuel nozzle disposed in the swirler ferrule plate. The swirler ferrule plate has an aft wall, an annular conical wall, and an annular cavity wall that together form an annular cavity. The annular cavity includes a plurality of inlet orifices, and at least one outlet orifice. A flow of oxidizer through the plurality of inlet orifices into the annular cavity incurs a first pressure drop from a first pressure of a pressure plenum to a second pressure lower than the first pressure, and a flow of the oxidizer from the annular cavity through the at least one outlet orifice into the primary swirler venturi incurs a second pressure drop from the second pressure to a third pressure lower than the second pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Pradeep Naik, Shai Birmaher, Kwanwoo Kim, Saket Singh, Perumallu Vukanti, Karthikeyan Sampath, Steven C. Vise, Nicholas R. Overman, Michael A. Benjamin
  • Vehicle bypass catalyst diagnostic system
    Patent number: 11994051
    Abstract: An engine system includes an internal combustion engine, a main exhaust aftertreatment system with a main catalytic converter, and a light-off catalyst bypass system with a bypass passage and a bypass catalytic converter. An emissions control system includes a controller in signal communication with a first temperature sensor disposed upstream of the bypass catalytic converter, and a second temperature sensor disposed downstream of the bypass catalytic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Steven C Wante, Roger C Sager, Jeff Brand
  • Method and system for HTTP session management using hash chains
    Patent number: 11997188
    Abstract: A method for performing authentication of a client device using a hash chain includes: receiving a first data request from a client device, the first data request including at least a user identifier and a first hash value; transmitting a first data response message to the client device; receiving a second data request from the client device, the second data request including at least the user identifier and a second hash value; generating a validating hash value by applying a hashing algorithm to the second hash value; validating the first hash value as being equal to the generated validating hash value; and transmitting a second data response message to the client device upon successful validation of the first hash value, wherein the second data response message includes one or more data values associated with the user identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven C. Davis, Jason Jay Lacoss-Arnold
  • P-type dipole for P-FET
    Patent number: 11996455
    Abstract: Methods of forming and processing semiconductor devices are described. Certain embodiments related to electronic devices which comprise a dipole region having an interlayer dielectric, a high-? dielectric material, and a dipole layer. The dipole layer comprises one or more of titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN), titanium tantalum nitride (TiTaN), titanium oxide (TiO), tantalum oxide (TaO), and titanium aluminum carbide (TiAlC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjing Lin, Karla M Bernal Ramos, Shih Chung Chen, Yixiong Yang, Lin Dong, Steven C. H. Hung, Srinivas Gandikota
  • FIBER OPTIC CONNECTOR, FIBER OPTIC CONNECTOR AND CABLE ASSEMBLY, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING
    Publication number: 20240168241
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable and connector assembly including a fiber optic connector mounted at the end of a fiber optic cable. The fiber optic connector includes a ferrule assembly including a stub fiber supported within a ferrule. The stub fiber is fusion spliced to an optical fiber of the fiber optic cable at a location within the fiber optic connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Michael James Ott, Thomas P. Huegerich, Steven C. Zimmel, Ponharith Nhep
  • RNA-GUIDED NUCLEIC ACID MODIFYING ENZYMES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20240167052
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides CasX proteins, nucleic acids encoding the CasX proteins, and modified host cells comprising the CasX proteins and/or nucleic acids encoding same. CasX proteins are useful in a variety of applications, which are provided. The present disclosure provides CasX guide RNAs that bind to and provide sequence specificity to the CasX proteins, nucleic acids encoding the CasX guide RNAs, and modified host cells comprising the CasX guide RNAs and/or nucleic acids encoding same. CasX guide RNAs are useful in a variety of applications, which are provided. The present disclosure provides archaeal Cas9 polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding same, as well as their associated archaeal Cas9 guide RNAs and nucleic acids encoding same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Jillian F. Banfield, David Burstein, Lucas Benjamin Harrington, Steven C. Strutt
  • Extruded protein product and methods of making
    Patent number: 11985991
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to extruded protein products and methods for producing an extruded protein product. In particular, an extruded piece is disclosed having a high protein content and having a desirable texture and flavor. Methods for making an extruded piece include processing, under extrusion conditions, a combination of a powdered protein ingredient, a protein matrix disruptive ingredient, water, and an oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Goeran Walther, Steven C Robie, Kevin H Wright, Joel R Lafavor
  • ENDOXIFEN FOR TREATMENT OF OVARIAN CANCER
    Publication number: 20240156752
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions and methods for treating ovarian cancer. A method of treating ovarian cancer may include administering endoxifen in combination with a phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitor, such as alpelisib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventor: Steven C. QUAY