Patents by Inventor Thomas Herbert
Thomas Herbert 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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Patent number: 7541669Abstract: A semiconductor device package comprises a container including a base and sidewalls. The base is configured to support a semiconductor device chip, and a lead frame extends through at least one of the sidewalls. A portion of the lead frame within the sidewall has at least one aperture penetrating into the lead frame. The sidewall material extends into the aperture, thereby forming a strong interfacial bond that provides a low leakage, sidewall-lead-frame interface. The base has a reentrant feature that is positioned within the thickness of at least one of the sidewalls and engages the at least one sidewall, thereby forming a low leakage base-sidewall interface. The top surface of the base has a groove that is positioned within the thickness of at least one of the sidewalls and engages the at least one sidewall, thereby enhancing the low leakage base-sidewall interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2007Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: Patrick Joseph Carberry, Jeffery John Gilbert, George John Libricz, Jr., Ralph Salvatore Moyer, John William Osenbach, Hugo Fernando Safar, Thomas Herbert Shilling
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Publication number: 20080153811Abstract: This invention relates to methods for treating, managing and preventing cognitive impairment associated with various diseases and disorders, age-associated memory impairment, and dementia.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Joseph Barbosa, Li Dong, Cynthia Anne Fink, Thomas Herbert Lanthorn, Jian Cheng Wang, G. Gregory Zipp
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Patent number: 7366206Abstract: A method and an apparatus using a system level clocking scheme to remove jitter from multi-media packets distributed over an asynchronous network. The present invention overcomes the problems associated with jitter introduced in an asynchronous network by using various time stamps to synchronize a client device clock to a headend clock and to control the data flow in the client device to match the rate that the data is received by a broadband receiver coupled to the headend. The present invention allows the client device to synchronize to a selected one of a plurality of headend clock by including a clock adjustment factor along with the time stamps. The time stamps are added at the physical layer so that the time stamps correspond to the time the data packets are placed onto and received from the asynchronous network.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Terry Wayne Lockridge, Thomas Edward Horlander, Thomas Herbert Jones
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Patent number: 7355130Abstract: A cable sealing device (10) includes a member (14) includes an elastomeric material and adapted to be fitted into a cable receiving aperture. The member includes a first wall (16) and a second wall (18) spaced apart from the first wall to partially define a cavity (20) between the walls. Each wall includes a cable receiving slot (e.g., 22, 24) formed in the wall. Each wall is deformable away from the respective slot to accommodate a respective cable portion (e.g., 26, 28) extended through the slot so that the wall is biased around the cable portion to minimize any opening around the cable portion passing through the slot. The slots in the respective walls cooperate to provide a redundant seal around a cable portion (30) passing through the member.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.Inventors: Glen Allen Holman, Andrew Filtness, Thomas Herbert Singer
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Patent number: 7301851Abstract: A method and survey system for inspecting hulls of ships has a base portion and side portions defining an inspection channel in water. Sonar is mounted on the side portions transmitting acoustic signals onto a hull as a ship passes through the inspection channel, receiving reflected acoustic signal portions of the transmitted acoustic signals, and converting the reflected acoustic signal portions into electromagnetic acousto-signals corresponding to the hull and objects on the hull. An electro-optic scanning array is mounted on the base member transmitting optical signals onto the hull as the ship passes through the inspection channel, receiving reflected optical signal portions of the transmitted optical signals, and converting the reflected optical signal portions into electromagnetic opto-signals corresponding to the hull and objects on the hull. A control module receiving the corresponding electromagnetic acousto-signals and opto-signals transmits these signals as amplified RF signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2005Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Larry Mixon, Linda Lampl, Thomas Herbert
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Patent number: 7245502Abstract: A small form factor USB Bluetooth dongle includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a USB contact area, and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver die. The PCB includes a first primary surface and a second primary surface. The USB contact area is fabricated on the first primary surface. The RF transceiver die is mounted on the second primary surface, wherein the RF transceiver is in accordance with Bluetooth.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2004Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Craig Alan Kochis, Thomas Herbert Ramsthaler
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Patent number: 7242090Abstract: Device packages often include walls build on a heat sink that surrounds a device die that thermally interacts with the heat sink. Use of raised or depressed feature on said heat sink that contacts the walls improves the cohesiveness of the package. By appropriately positioning these features contaminant infusion into the package is improved without degrading cohesiveness.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2005Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: John M. Brennan, Joseph Micheal Freund, Ralph S. Moyer, John William Osenbach, Hugo Fernando Safar, Thomas Herbert Shilling
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Patent number: 7224047Abstract: A semiconductor device package comprises a container including a base and sidewalls. The base is configured to support a semiconductor device chip, and a lead frame extends through at least one of the sidewalls. A portion of the lead frame within the sidewall has at least one aperture penetrating into the lead frame. The sidewall material extends into the aperture, thereby forming a strong interfacial bond that provides a low leakage, sidewall-lead-frame interface. The base has a reentrant feature that is positioned within the thickness of at least one of the sidewalls and engages the at least one sidewall, thereby forming a low leakage base-sidewalls interface. The top surface of the base has a groove that is positioned within the thickness of at least one of the sidewalls and engages the at least one sidewall, thereby enhancing the low leakage base-sidewall interface.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: LSI CorporationInventors: Patrick Joseph Carberry, Jeffery John Gilbert, George John Libricz, Jr., Ralph Salvatore Moyer, John William Osenbach, Hugo Fernando Safar, Thomas Herbert Shilling
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Patent number: 7153308Abstract: An attachment mechanism for attaching a component to an instrument. The attachment mechanism includes a first hoop assembly having a first hoop receiving a first portion of the instrument and a second hoop assembly having a second hoop receiving a second portion of the instrument. Either one of the first hoop assembly or the second hoop assembly may be configured to retain the component thereto. The first and second hoop assemblies are configured to be secured to each other such that the first and second hoops are in tension with, and secured about, the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLCInventor: Thomas Herbert Peterson
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Patent number: 7006457Abstract: A method and apparatus for recovering a second transport stream included within a first transport stream and reducing timing anomaly imparted to the second transport stream within the context of a front-end device subject to random access via a data bus, illustratively a PCI bus. A first transport stream is received from a transport medium, the first transport stream having disposed therein packets associated with a second transport stream. The first medium tending to impart jitter to the first transport stream. Those packets associated with the second transport stream are extracted from the first transport stream and adapted to reduce jitter, and launched via a second transport medium, the launched adapted packets forming a jitter-reduced second transport stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Thomas Herbert Jones, Xaiodong Liu, Jeffery Lynn Taylor
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Patent number: 6965726Abstract: The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for performing a trick mode on a video signal containing a plurality of original pictures. The invention includes the steps of, in response to a trick mode command, selectively repeating (216) at least one of the original pictures to convert the video signal to a trick mode video signal having the original pictures and at least one repeated original picture and selectively displaying (218) at least a portion of the original picture and at least a portion of the repeated original pictures in accordance with a predetermined sequence to avoid a vibration artifact. Each original picture and each repeated original picture can contain at least two fields.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2003Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: Thomson Licensing SA.Inventors: Phillippe Leyendecker, Franck Abelard, Thomas Herbert Jones, Terry Wayne Lockridge
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Patent number: 6956858Abstract: A routing table circuit for a router has one or more input ports and output ports for message communication. In the routing table circuit, one or more routing table memories store a plurality of routing table arrays. The routing table arrays are arranged hierarchically in levels, and each routing table array is associated with a predetermined subset of prefixes. Each routing table array has entries. The entries include a block default route pointer field to store a block default route pointer, if any, and a routing field. The route engine may access any level of table array by using a next level route pointer stored in the routing field. Using the block default route and the routing field, the present invention further reduces the number of memory accesses and the update cost for route insertion and deletion by identifying and skipping elements that do not require route updating.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Mayan Networks CorporationInventors: Yoichi Hariguchi, Thomas A. Herbert, Ryan T. Herbst
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Patent number: 6890445Abstract: In the method, a cap wafer surface is lithographically etched at time of fabrication, so that a raised ridge onto which bonding material is placed is formed near a perimeter of a desired cavity region. This is done in order to reduce the bonding area between the cap wafer and electronic device wafers, so as to provide a better defined standoff. In another aspect of the method, the cap wager surface is lithographically etched to form recesses or trenches near the perimeter of a cavity region, each recess being filled with a sealing material, and polished if necessary to be flush with the cap wafer surface. Thereafter, the cap wafer surface is etched so that the filled recesses become the raised ridges which are used to bond a cap wafer to an electronic device wafer.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Agere Systems, Inc.Inventors: Bradley Paul Barber, LaRue Norman Dunkleberger, Jason Paul Goodelle, Thomas Herbert Shilling
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Publication number: 20050028224Abstract: An apparatus, system, and/or method of use as described herein provide generated menu data to a display device for initial network parameter configuration data input of the apparatus. The apparatus, in one form, includes a text generator for input of initial network parameter configuration data therein. This system, apparatus and/or method require only a small amount of boot ROM to implement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2002Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Xiaodong Liu, Thomas Herbert Jones, Matthew Wahoske
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Patent number: 6833557Abstract: An apparatus and process to assess the occurrence or the likelihood of a failure in an integrated circuit. The process includes forming a conductive region such as a runner about the periphery of a substrate or die. The conductive regions may be located at one of more different metallization layers within the integrated circuit. The conductive region is couple to one or more of the bond pads. The die is assessed by measuring the resistance, conductivity, cross talk or other electrical characteristics on the conductive region via the bond pads. The assessment can then be used to predict whether, for example, the runners formed in the integrated circuit have failed or are likely to fail.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2000Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: Vivian Wanda Ryan, Thomas Herbert Shilling
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Publication number: 20040230200Abstract: An attachment mechanism for attaching a component to an instrument. The attachment mechanism includes a first hoop assembly having a first hoop receiving a first portion of the instrument and a second hoop assembly having a second hoop receiving a second portion of the instrument. Either one of the first hoop assembly or the second hoop assembly may be configured to retain the component thereto. The first and second hoop assemblies are configured to be secured to each other such that the first and second hoops are in tension with, and secured about, the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2003Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventor: Thomas Herbert Peterson
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Publication number: 20040170384Abstract: The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for performing a trick mode on a video signal containing a plurality of original pictures. The invention includes the steps of, in response to a trick mode command, selectively repeating (216) at least one of the original pictures to convert the video signal to a trick mode video signal having the original pictures and at least one repeated original picture and selectively displaying (218) at least a portion of the original picture and at least a portion of the repeated original pictures in accordance with a predetermined sequence to avoid a vibration artifact. Each original picture and each repeated original picture can contain at least two fields.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Phillippe Leyendecker, Franck Abelard, Thomas Herbert Jones, Terry Wayne Lockridge
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Publication number: 20040133885Abstract: A method is described for providing required values as needed in a class of computer-program compilers, which transform a first computer-program (source program) into a second computer-program (target program), such that the target program has modified or augmented functionality. The source and target programs may be written in the same or different programming languages. As an example, the compiler may perform automatic differentiation (AD), where the source program evaluates a function and the target program evaluates both the function and its derivative, and both programs are written in a high level programming language such as Fortran. In this example, required values are needed in the target program to evaluate its control flow, index expressions, or local derivative information. Providing required values in an efficient way is essential in AD but constitutes a major complexity for various modes of AD. For typical applications, our method is significantly more efficient than standard approaches.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Applicant: FastOpt Drs. Ralf Giering und Thomas Kaminski GbRInventors: Ralf Christian Giering, Thomas Herbert Kaminski
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Publication number: 20040010729Abstract: A method and an apparatus using a system level clocking scheme to remove jitter from multi-media packets distributed over an asynchronous network. The present invention overcomes the problems associated with jitter introduced in an asynchronous network by using various time stamps to synchronized a client device clock to a headend clock and to control the data flow in the client device to match the rate that the data is received by a broadband receiver coupled to the headend. The present invention allows the client device to synchronize to a selected one of a plurality of headend clock by including a clock adjustment factor along with the time stamps. The time stamps are added at the physical layer so that the time stamps correspond to the time the data packets are placed onto and received from the asynchronous network.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2003Publication date: January 15, 2004Inventors: Terry Wayne Lockridge, Thomas Edward Horlander, Thomas Herbert Jones
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Patent number: D508568Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2004Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.Inventors: Glen Allen Holman, Thomas Herbert Singer, Jared Grodnitzky, Justin Mazzoni