Patents by Inventor Steven K. List

Steven K. List 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).

  • Patent number: 6377901
    Abstract: An adaptive delay learning algorithm is presented that reduces the amount of delay before making test measurements in an automated test that requires a delay of any type to be completed before a measurement is made in order to remove the possibility that a tester component lying in the measurement path has not achieved a ready state. In the execution of an automated test, a current delay time is set to an initial delay value. Test execution does not begin until the current delay time elapses. If, upon execution, the test fails, the current delay time is set to a different delay time, and the test is reexecuted only after the updated current delay time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven K List, David T. Crook
  • Publication number: 20020045997
    Abstract: An adaptive delay learning algorithm is presented that reduces the amount of delay before making test measurements in an automated test that requires a delay of any type to be completed before a measurement is made in order to remove the possibility that a tester component lying in the measurement path has not achieved a ready state. In the execution of an automated test, a current delay time is set to an initial delay value. Test execution does not begin until the current delay time elapses. If, upon execution, the test fails, the current delay time is set to a different delay time, and the test is reexecuted only after the updated current delay time has elapsed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventors: STEVEN K. LIST, DAVID T. CROOK
  • Patent number: 6324486
    Abstract: A method and system is presented for optimizing the number of required measurements to obtain in real-time by an automated tester that tests a device under test. During a test run, historical measurements are obtained and tracked. Each subsequent iteration the test attempts to re-measure the fewest number of measurements in real-time to obtain an accurate reflection of whether the device being tested passes or fails based on the real-time measurements and substituting historical measurements for those required measurements that were not taken in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David T. Crook, Steven K. List, Stephen P. Rozum, Eddie L. Williamson