Patents by Inventor Thomas Langdo

Thomas Langdo 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: 11791477
    Abstract: A method of making a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) includes the steps of providing a first SOFC layer laminate tape comprising a first SOFC layer composition attached to a flexible carrier film layer, providing a second SOFC laminate tape comprising a second SOFC layer composition attached to a flexible carrier film layer, and providing a third SOFC layer laminate tape comprising a third SOFC layer composition attached to a flexible carrier film layer. The first SOFC layer laminate tape, the second SOFC layer laminate tape, and the third SOFC layer laminate tape are assembled on rolls positioned along a roll-to-roll assembly line. The laminate tapes are sequentially laminated and calendered and the flexible carrier films removed to provide a composite SOFC precursor laminate that can be sintered and combined with a cathode to provide a completed SOFC. An assembly for making composite SOFC precursor laminates is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: UT-BATTELLE, LLC, REDOX POWER SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Jianlin Li, Dhrupadkumar P. Parikh, Thomas Langdo, Sean R. Bishop, Bryan M. Blackburn
  • Patent number: 11594748
    Abstract: In various embodiments, techniques for fabricating solid oxide fuel cells utilize setter plates composed of or having outer surfaces composed of materials unreactive with species found in the layers of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Redox Power Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Keji Pan, Sean R. Bishop, Thomas Langdo, Bryan M. Blackburn
  • Publication number: 20210242482
    Abstract: In various embodiments, techniques for fabricating solid oxide fuel cells utilize setter plates composed of or having outer surfaces composed of materials unreactive with species found in the layers of the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Keji PAN, Sean R. BISHOP, Thomas LANGDO, Bryan M. BLACKBURN
  • Publication number: 20210175517
    Abstract: A method of making a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) includes the steps of providing a first SOFC layer laminate tape comprising a first SOFC layer composition attached to a flexible carrier film layer, providing a second SOFC laminate tape comprising a second SOFC layer composition attached to a flexible carrier film layer, and providing a third SOFC layer laminate tape comprising a third SOFC layer composition attached to a flexible carrier film layer. The first SOFC layer laminate tape, the second SOFC layer laminate tape, and the third SOFC layer laminate tape are assembled on rolls positioned along a roll-to-roll assembly line. The laminate tapes are sequentially laminated and calendered and the flexible carrier films removed to provide a composite SOFC precursor laminate that can be sintered and combined with a cathode to provide a completed SOFC. An assembly for making composite SOFC precursor laminates is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Jianlin Li, Dhrupadkumar P. Parikh, Thomas Langdo, Sean R. Bishop, Bryan M. Blackburn
  • Publication number: 20210143447
    Abstract: In various embodiments, components of a solid oxide fuel cell device such as interconnect plates, seals, and/or endplates may be composed of materials including aluminum, copper, and/or graphite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Bryan M. BLACKBURN, Lei WANG, Thomas A. LANGDO
  • Publication number: 20210143448
    Abstract: In various embodiments, components such as interconnects and/or endplates of a solid-state electrochemical device are coated with materials such as, for example, graphite, copper, aluminum, carbide ceramics, nitride ceramics, conversion coatings, or aluminum intermetallics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Bryan M. BLACKBURN, Lei WANG, Thomas A. LANGDO
  • Patent number: 10957933
    Abstract: In various embodiments, techniques for fabricating solid oxide fuel cells utilize setter plates composed of or having outer surfaces composed of materials unreactive with species found in the layers of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: REDOX POWER SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Keji Pan, Sean R. Bishop, Thomas Langdo, Bryan M. Blackburn
  • Publication number: 20200091538
    Abstract: In various embodiments, techniques for fabricating solid oxide fuel cells utilize setter plates composed of or having outer surfaces composed of materials unreactive with species found in the layers of the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Keji PAN, Sean R. BISHOP, Thomas LANGDO, Bryan M. BLACKBURN
  • Patent number: 10510581
    Abstract: The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Langdo, Matthew T. Currie, Richard Hammond, Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Eugene A. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 10050145
    Abstract: The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication. A structure includes a relaxed substrate including a bulk material, a strained layer directly on the relaxed substrate, where a strain of the strained layer is not induced by the relaxed substrate, and a transistor formed on the strained layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Thomas A. Langdo, Richard Hammond, Matthew T. Currie, Eugene A. Fitzgerald
  • Publication number: 20170179285
    Abstract: The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication. A structure includes a relaxed substrate including a bulk material, a strained layer directly on the relaxed substrate, where a strain of the strained layer is not induced by the relaxed substrate, and a transistor formed on the strained layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Thomas A. Langdo, Richard Hammond, Matthew T. Currie, Eugene A. Fitzgerald
  • Publication number: 20170117176
    Abstract: The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas A. Langdo, Matthew T. Currie, Richard Hammond, Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Eugene A. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 9601623
    Abstract: The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Thomas A. Langdo, Richard Hammond, Matthew T. Currie, Eugene A. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 9548236
    Abstract: The benefits of strained semiconductors are combined with silicon-on-insulator approaches to substrate and device fabrication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Langdo, Matthew T. Currie, Richard Hammond, Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Eugene A. Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 9431243
    Abstract: Fabrication of monolithic lattice-mismatched semiconductor heterostructures with limited area regions having upper portions substantially exhausted of threading dislocations, as well as fabrication of semiconductor devices based on such lattice-mismatched heterostructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Matthew T. Currie, Zhiyuan Cheng, James Fiorenza, Glyn Braithwaite, Thomas A. Langdo
  • Patent number: 9425069
    Abstract: Electronic modules are formed by encapsulating microelectronic dies within cavities in a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Livia M. Racz, Gary B. Tepolt, Jeffrey C. Thompson, Thomas A. Langdo, Andrew J. Mueller
  • Publication number: 20160111285
    Abstract: Fabrication of monolithic lattice-mismatched semiconductor heterostructures with limited area regions having upper portions substantially exhausted of threading dislocations, as well as fabrication of semiconductor devices based on such lattice-mismatched heterostructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Matthew T. Currie, Zhiyuan Cheng, James Fiorenza, Glyn Braithwaite, Thomas A. Langdo
  • Publication number: 20160023144
    Abstract: Water purification system comprising filtration media sized with respect to each other to allow a first contaminant in the water to saturate the first medium with a delay prior to saturation of the second medium with a second contaminant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: The Water Initiative, LLC,
    Inventors: Eugene A. FITZGERALD, Ya-Hong XIE, Thomas LANGDO, Richard RENJILIAN, Carl V. THOMPSON, III
  • Patent number: 9219112
    Abstract: Fabrication of monolithic lattice-mismatched semiconductor heterostructures with limited area regions having upper portions substantially exhausted of threading dislocations, as well as fabrication of semiconductor devices based on such lattice-mismatched heterostructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Lochtefeld, Matthew T. Currie, Zhiyuan Cheng, James Fiorenza, Glyn Braithwaite, Thomas A. Langdo
  • Patent number: 9206058
    Abstract: Water purification system comprising filtration media sized with respect to each other to allow a first contaminant in the water to saturate the first medium with a delay prior to saturation of the second medium with a second contaminant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: THE WATER INITATIVE, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Ya-Hong Xie, Thomas Langdo, Richard Renjilian, Carl V. Thompson