Patents by Inventor Steven Griffiths
Steven Griffiths 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: 20250006491Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) materials including SiC wafers and SiC boules and related methods are disclosed that provide large dimension SiC wafers with reduced crystallographic stress. Growth conditions for SiC materials include maintaining a generally convex growth surface of SiC crystals, adjusting differences in front-side to back-side thermal profiles of growing SiC crystals, supplying sufficient source flux to allow commercially viable growth rates for SiC crystals, and reducing the inclusion of contaminants or non-SiC particles in SiC source materials and corresponding SiC crystals. By forming larger dimension SiC crystals that exhibit lower crystallographic stress, overall dislocation densities that are associated with missing or additional planes of atoms may be reduced, thereby improving crystal quality and usable SiC crystal growth heights.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael J. Paisley, Oleksandr Kramarenko, Matthew David Conrad, Eugene Deyneka, Steven Griffiths, Simon Bubel, Adrian R. Powell, Robert Tyler Leonard, Elif Balkas, Curt Progl, Michael Fusco, Alexander Shveyd, Kathy Doverspike, Lukas Nattermann
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Publication number: 20240352622Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and related methods are disclosed that include large diameter SiC wafers with wafer shape characteristics suitable for semiconductor manufacturing. Large diameter SiC wafers are disclosed that have reduced deformation related to stress and strain effects associated with forming such SiC wafers. As described herein, wafer shape and flatness characteristics may be improved by reducing crystallographic stress profiles during growth of SiC crystal boules or ingots. Wafer shape and flatness characteristics may also be improved after individual SiC wafers have been separated from corresponding SiC crystal boules. In this regard, SiC wafers and related methods are disclosed that include large diameter SiC wafers with suitable crystal quality and wafer shape characteristics including low values for wafer bow, warp, and thickness variation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael J. Paisley, Oleksandr Kramarenko, Matthew David Conrad, Eugene Deyneka, Steven Griffiths, Simon Bubel, Adrian R. Powell, Robert Tyler Leonard, Elif Balkas, Jeffrey C. Seaman
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Patent number: 12125701Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) materials including SiC wafers and SiC boules and related methods are disclosed that provide large dimension SiC wafers with reduced crystallographic stress. Growth conditions for SiC materials include maintaining a generally convex growth surface of SiC crystals, adjusting differences in front-side to back-side thermal profiles of growing SiC crystals, supplying sufficient source flux to allow commercially viable growth rates for SiC crystals, and reducing the inclusion of contaminants or non-SiC particles in SiC source materials and corresponding SiC crystals. By forming larger dimension SiC crystals that exhibit lower crystallographic stress, overall dislocation densities that are associated with missing or additional planes of atoms may be reduced, thereby improving crystal quality and usable SiC crystal growth heights.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Wolfspeed, Inc.Inventors: Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael J. Paisley, Oleksandr Kramarenko, Matthew David Conrad, Eugene Deyneka, Steven Griffiths, Simon Bubel, Adrian R. Powell, Robert Tyler Leonard, Elif Balkas, Curt Progl, Michael Fusco, Alexander Shveyd, Kathy Doverspike, Lukas Nattermann
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Patent number: 12054850Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and related methods are disclosed that include large diameter SiC wafers with wafer shape characteristics suitable for semiconductor manufacturing. Large diameter SiC wafers are disclosed that have reduced deformation related to stress and strain effects associated with forming such SiC wafers. As described herein, wafer shape and flatness characteristics may be improved by reducing crystallographic stress profiles during growth of SiC crystal boules or ingots. Wafer shape and flatness characteristics may also be improved after individual SiC wafers have been separated from corresponding SiC crystal boules. In this regard, SiC wafers and related methods are disclosed that include large diameter SiC wafers with suitable crystal quality and wafer shape characteristics including low values for wafer bow, warp, and thickness variation.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: WOLFSPEED, INC.Inventors: Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael J. Paisley, Oleksandr Kramarenko, Matthew David Conrad, Eugene Deyneka, Steven Griffiths, Simon Bubel, Adrian R. Powell, Robert Tyler Leonard, Elif Balkas, Jeffrey C. Seaman
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Patent number: 11519098Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) wafers, SiC boules, and related methods are disclosed that provide improved dislocation distributions. SiC boules are provided that demonstrate reduced dislocation densities and improved dislocation uniformity across longer boule lengths. Corresponding SiC wafers include reduced total dislocation density (TDD) values and improved TDD radial uniformity. Growth conditions for SiC crystalline materials include providing source materials in oversaturated quantities where amounts of the source materials present during growth are significantly higher than what would typically be required. Such SiC crystalline materials and related methods are suitable for providing large diameter SiC boules and corresponding SiC wafers with improved crystalline quality.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Wolfspeed, Inc.Inventors: Yuri Khlebnikov, Robert T. Leonard, Elif Balkas, Steven Griffiths, Valeri Tsvetkov, Michael Paisley
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Publication number: 20220189768Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) materials including SiC wafers and SiC boules and related methods are disclosed that provide large dimension SiC wafers with reduced crystallographic stress. Growth conditions for SiC materials include maintaining a generally convex growth surface of SiC crystals, adjusting differences in front-side to back-side thermal profiles of growing SiC crystals, supplying sufficient source flux to allow commercially viable growth rates for SiC crystals, and reducing the inclusion of contaminants or non-SiC particles in SiC source materials and corresponding SiC crystals. By forming larger dimension SiC crystals that exhibit lower crystallographic stress, overall dislocation densities that are associated with missing or additional planes of atoms may be reduced, thereby improving crystal quality and usable SiC crystal growth heights.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael J. Paisley, Oleksandr Kramarenko, Matthew David Conrad, Eugene Deyneka, Steven Griffiths, Simon Bubel, Adrian R. Powell, Robert Tyler Leonard, Elif Balkas, Curt Progl, Michael Fusco, Alexander Shveyd, Kathy Doverspike, Lukas Nattermann
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Publication number: 20210230769Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) wafers, SiC boules, and related methods are disclosed that provide improved dislocation distributions. SiC boules are provided that demonstrate reduced dislocation densities and improved dislocation uniformity across longer boule lengths. Corresponding SiC wafers include reduced total dislocation density (TDD) values and improved TDD radial uniformity. Growth conditions for SiC crystalline materials include providing source materials in oversaturated quantities where amounts of the source materials present during growth are significantly higher than what would typically be required. Such SiC crystalline materials and related methods are suitable for providing large diameter SiC boules and corresponding SiC wafers with improved crystalline quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Yuri Khlebnikov, Robert T. Leonard, Elif Balkas, Steven Griffiths, Valeri Tsvetkov, Michael Paisley
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Publication number: 20210198804Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) wafers and related methods are disclosed that include large diameter SiC wafers with wafer shape characteristics suitable for semiconductor manufacturing. Large diameter SiC wafers are disclosed that have reduced deformation related to stress and strain effects associated with forming such SiC wafers. As described herein, wafer shape and flatness characteristics may be improved by reducing crystallographic stress profiles during growth of SiC crystal boules or ingots. Wafer shape and flatness characteristics may also be improved after individual SiC wafers have been separated from corresponding SiC crystal boules. In this regard, SiC wafers and related methods are disclosed that include large diameter SiC wafers with suitable crystal quality and wafer shape characteristics including low values for wafer bow, warp, and thickness variation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Yuri Khlebnikov, Varad R. Sakhalkar, Caleb A. Kent, Valeri F. Tsvetkov, Michael J. Paisley, Oleksandr Kramarenko, Matthew David Conrad, Eugene Deyneka, Steven Griffiths, Simon Bubel, Adrian R. Powell, Robert Tyler Leonard, Elif Balkas, Jeffrey C. Seaman
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Publication number: 20200069884Abstract: An automatic injection device including a housing, a chamber with a first compartment and a second compartment, and a seal structure between the compartments. The seal structure is initially in a sealing condition that seals the first compartment from the second compartment, where the seal includes a plug and an outer sealing member. The plug is slidably movable within the outer sealing member to convert the seal structure from the sealing condition to a mixing condition by opening a path between the first compartment and the second compartment. The automatic injection device also includes a needle assembly and an activation assembly. Activation of the activation assembly causes (1) pressurization of the first compartment, (2) the seal structure to convert from the sealing condition to the mixing condition, and (3) the first and second medicament components to be mixed and forced through the needle assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert L. Hill
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Publication number: 20180256824Abstract: An automatic injection device including a housing, a chamber with a first compartment and a second compartment, and a seal structure between the compartments. The seal structure is initially in a sealing condition that seals the first compartment from the second compartment, where the seal includes a plug and an outer sealing member. The plug is slidably movable within the outer sealing member to convert the seal structure from the sealing condition to a mixing condition by opening a path between the first compartment and the second compartment. The automatic injection device also includes a needle assembly and an activation assembly. Activation of the activation assembly causes (1) pressurization of the first compartment, (2) the seal structure to convert from the sealing condition to the mixing condition, and (3) the first and second medicament components to be mixed and forced through the needle assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert L. Hill
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Publication number: 20160250419Abstract: An automatic injection device including a housing, a chamber with a first compartment and a second compartment, and a seal structure between the compartments. The seal structure is initially in a sealing condition that seals the first compartment from the second compartment, where the seal includes a plug and an outer sealing member. The plug is slidably movable within the outer sealing member to convert the seal structure from the sealing condition to a mixing condition by opening a path between the first compartment and the second compartment. The automatic injection device also includes a needle assembly and an activation assembly. Activation of the activation assembly causes (1) pressurization of the first compartment, (2) the seal structure to convert from the sealing condition to the mixing condition, and (3) the first and second medicament components to be mixed and forced through the needle assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert L. Hill
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Publication number: 20150283327Abstract: An automatic injection device including a housing, a chamber with a first compartment and a second compartment, and a seal structure between the compartments. The seal structure is initially in a sealing condition that seals the first compartment from the second compartment, where the seal includes a plug and an outer sealing member. The plug is slidably movable within the outer sealing member to convert the seal structure from the sealing condition to a mixing condition by opening a path between the first compartment and the second compartment. The automatic injection device also includes a needle assembly and an activation assembly. Activation of the activation assembly causes (1) pressurization of the first compartment, (2) the seal structure to convert from the sealing condition to the mixing condition, and (3) the first and second medicament components to be mixed and forced through the needle assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert L. Hill
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Publication number: 20150018761Abstract: An automatic injection device including a housing, a chamber with a first compartment and a second compartment, and a seal structure between the compartments. The seal structure is initially in a sealing condition that seals the first compartment from the second compartment, where the seal includes a plug and an outer sealing member. The plug is slidably movable within the outer sealing member to convert the seal structure from the sealing condition to a mixing condition by opening a path between the first compartment and the second compartment. The automatic injection device also includes a needle assembly and an activation assembly. Activation of the activation assembly causes (1) pressurization of the first compartment, (2) the seal structure to convert from the sealing condition to the mixing condition, and (3) the first and second medicament components to be mixed and forced through the needle assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert L. Hill
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Publication number: 20120071630Abstract: The present invention provides the use of nucleic acid sequences and/or amino acid sequences in the preparation of a vaccine for the protection of fish against infectious salmon anaemia virus. Specifically, such vaccines contain at least one nucleic acid sequence which is derived from ISAV or synthetically prepared analogues thereof, or substantially homologous sequences. These nucleic acid sequences are transcripted and translated into peptide sequences which are incorporated into a vaccination strategy to induce and immune response to the surface antigens of ISAV and therefore ISAV itself. Therefore both the use of a vaccine against ISAV, and the incorporation of peptide sequences is herein described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicants: OTTAWA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NOVARTIS AGInventors: STEVEN GRIFFITHS, RACHAEL JAME RITCHIE, JOEL HEPPELL
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Patent number: 7998484Abstract: The present invention provides the use of nucleic acid sequences and/or amino acid sequences in the preparation of a vaccine for the protection of fish against infectious salmon anemia virus. Specifically, such vaccines contain at least one nucleic acid sequence which is derived from ISAV or synthetically prepared analogues thereof, or substantially homologous sequences. These nucleic acid sequences are transcripted and translated into peptide sequences which are incorporated into a vaccination strategy to induce and immune response to the surface antigens of ISAV and therefore ISAV itself. Therefore both the use of a vaccine against ISAV, and the incorporation of peptide sequences is herein described.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignees: Novartis AG, Ottawa Health Research InstituteInventors: Steven Griffiths, Rachael Jane Ritchie, Joel Heppell
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Publication number: 20100136038Abstract: The present invention provides the use of nucleic acid sequences and/or amino acid sequences in the preparation of a vaccine for the protection of fish against infectious salmon anaemia virus. Specifically, such vaccines contain at least one nucleic acid sequence which is derived from ISAV or synthetically prepared analogues thereof, or substantially homologous sequences. These nucleic acid sequences are transcripted and translated into peptide sequences which are incorporated into a vaccination strategy to induce and immune response to the surface antigens of ISAV and therefore ISAV itself. Therefore both the use of a vaccine against ISAV, and the incorporation of peptide sequences is herein described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Rachael Jane Ritchie, Joel Heppell
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Patent number: 7556614Abstract: A separation assembly for initially keeping a first component separate from a second component includes a generally cylindrical body slidably supported within a container between the first and second components. The body includes a seal structure having an inner seal member that initially seals the first component from the second component. In response to a predetermined operating condition, the inner seal member allows the first component to flow through at least one flow path in the seal structure to mix with the second component. The body further includes a flow distributing member disposed adjacent the seal structure to evenly distribute the first component into the second component. The seal structure and the flow distributing member form a single unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2003Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Meridian Medical Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert L. Hill, John G. Wilmot
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Publication number: 20080077083Abstract: An automatic injector separately stores liquid and dry components in respective compartments. When the injector is activated, a fluid-directing member between the liquid and dry compartments causes the liquid component to form a vortex as the liquid flows into the dry compartment. This allows the two components to combine more thoroughly and quickly to form a liquid solution that is delivered to an injection site.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert Hill, Matthew Robben
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Publication number: 20070142768Abstract: An automatic medicament injector having a compartment for a dry medicament component and a compartment for a wet medicament component. The two compartments are separated by a seal structure that converts from a sealing condition into a mixing condition when the device is activated. The seal structure includes a wiper that scrapes the interior walls in the dry component compartment to prevent the dry component from accumulating at the seal/glass interface. A tapered insert funnels the mixed medicament components to an attached needle assembly, but can be removed when the device is filled. A filter is provided between the medicament compartments and the needle assembly. A chamber between the filter and the needle allows for better flow through the filter. An actuation assembly drives the seal structure into the mixing condition and forces the mixed medicament through the needle and into the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2007Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert Hill
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Publication number: 20070142769Abstract: An automatic medicament injector having a compartment for a dry medicament component and a compartment for a wet medicament component. The two compartments are separated by a seal structure that converts from a sealing condition to a mixing condition when the device is activated. The seal structure includes a wiper that scrapes the interior walls in the dry component compartment to prevent the dry component from accumulating at the seal/glass interface. A tapered insert funnels the mixed medicament components to an attached needle assembly, but can be removed when the device is filled. A filter is provided between the medicament compartments and the needle assembly. A chamber between the filter and the needle allows for better flow through the filter. An actuation assembly drives the seal structure into the mixing condition and forces the mixed medicament through the needle and into the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2007Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Steven Griffiths, Robert Hill