Patents by Inventor Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson 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: 10187323Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for on-demand resource provisioning for service instances. An on-demand service broker provisions IaaS resources at service instance creating time. The service broker provides a catalog listing one or more service plans, each service plan corresponds to a set of available resources. A user device selects a respective service plan that matches specific needs of an application that consumes the resources. The service broker generates a deployment manifest based on the selected service plan. The service broker then submits the deployment manifest to a deployment system. The deployment system provisions the resources to the service instance according to the manifest generated by the service broker.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventors: Ben Jonathan Laplanche, Alexander David Ley, Dmitriy Kalinin, Craig Furman, Jatin Naik, Tom Anderson, Maria Ntalla, James Joshua Hill, Onsi Joe Fakhouri, Tammer Saleh
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Publication number: 20180374763Abstract: A semiconductor substrate support for supporting a semiconductor substrate in a plasma processing chamber includes a heater array comprising thermal control elements operable to tune a spatial temperature profile on the semiconductor substrate, the thermal control elements defining heater zones each of which is powered by two or more power supply lines and two or more power return lines wherein each power supply line is connected to at least two of the heater zones and each power return line is connected to at least two of the heater zones. A power distribution circuit is mated to a baseplate of the substrate support, the power distribution circuit being connected to each power supply line and power return line of the heater array. A switching device is connected to the power distribution circuit to independently provide time-averaged power to each of the heater zones by time divisional multiplexing of a plurality of switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Keith William Gaff, Tom Anderson, Keith Comendant, Ralph Jan-Pin Lu, Paul Robertson, Eric A. Pape, Neil Benjamin
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Patent number: 10115945Abstract: A battery package includes a card, a cover attached to the card, and a tray positioned between the card and the cover. The cover includes an opening and a door. The door is movable between an open position and a closed position. The tray includes multiple receptacles. The battery package further includes multiple batteries and multiple tabs. Each battery is positioned within one of the receptacles. Each tab is removably attached to one of the batteries. The tray is rotatable relative to the card and the cover to selectively align one of the receptacles with the opening in a battery removal position. With the door in the open position, the tab attached to the battery in the receptacle in the battery removal position is accessible through the opening which provides an arc of access of at least 90 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC.Inventors: William R. Dorr, Christopher A. Harris, Dave Young, Tom Anderson, Jason Lahaye, Marek Kokoszka, Dan R. Teteak
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Patent number: 10093469Abstract: A battery package includes a card, a cover attached to the card, a tray positioned between the card and the cover, batteries, and tabs. The cover includes an opening and a door. The door is movable between an open position to provide access to the opening and a closed position. The tray includes a plurality of receptacles in which are positioned the batteries. Each tab is removably attached to one of the batteries and is positioned between the cover and the battery. The tray is rotatable relative to the card and the cover about an axis of rotation to selectively align one of the receptacles with the opening in a battery removal position. With the door in the open position, the tab attached to the battery in the receptacle in the battery removal position is accessible through the opening from the front of the cover and the peripheral edge of the cover.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC.Inventors: William R. Dorr, Christopher A. Harris, Dave Young, Tom Anderson, Jason Lahaye, Marek Kokoszka, Dan R. Teteak
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Publication number: 20180287277Abstract: An electrical contact includes a main body and a compliant pin extending from the main body. The compliant pin includes a through-hole. The compliant pin is configured to be compressed. The electrical contact also includes a first leg and a second leg that each extend from the main body. The compliant pin is between the first leg and the second leg. The compliant pin, the first leg, and the second leg extend from the main body in a same direction. The electrical contact further includes a first blade and a second blade that each extend from the main body. A slot is formed between the first blade and the second blade, and a width of the slot is larger at a first position adjacent a distal end of the first and second blades than at a second position adjacent a proximal end of the first and second blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Brent B. LYBRAND, Norman C. HUNTLEY, Tom ANDERSON
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Patent number: 10049948Abstract: A semiconductor substrate support for supporting a semiconductor substrate in a plasma processing chamber includes a heater array comprising thermal control elements operable to tune a spatial temperature profile on the semiconductor substrate, the thermal control elements defining heater zones each of which is powered by two or more power supply lines and two or more power return lines wherein each power supply line is connected to at least two of the heater zones and each power return line is connected to at least two of the heater zones. A power distribution circuit is mated to a baseplate of the substrate support, the power distribution circuit being connected to each power supply line and power return line of the heater array. A switching device is connected to the power distribution circuit to independently provide time-averaged power to each of the heater zones by time divisional multiplexing of a plurality of switches.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Keith William Gaff, Tom Anderson, Keith Comendant, Ralph Jan-Pin Lu, Paul Robertson, Eric A. Pape, Neil Benjamin
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Publication number: 20180226621Abstract: A battery package includes a card, a cover attached to the card, and a tray positioned between the card and the cover. The cover includes an opening and a door. The door is movable between an open position and a closed position. The tray includes multiple receptacles. The battery package further includes multiple batteries and multiple tabs. Each battery is positioned within one of the receptacles. Each tab is removably attached to one of the batteries. The tray is rotatable relative to the card and the cover to selectively align one of the receptacles with the opening in a battery removal position. With the door in the open position, the tab attached to the battery in the receptacle in the battery removal position is accessible through the opening which provides an arc of access of at least 90 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: William R. Dorr, Christopher A. Harris, Dave Young, Tom Anderson, Jason Lahaye, Marek Kokoszka, Dan R. Teteak
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Patent number: 9954208Abstract: A battery package includes a card, a cover attached to the card, and a tray positioned between the card and the cover. The cover includes a body having an opening and a door with the door movable between an open position to provide access to the opening and a closed position in which the door closes the opening. The tray includes multiple receptacles arranged symmetrically about a central post. The front surface of the central post is spaced apart from the interior surface of the front portion of the cover by a distance. The battery package also includes multiple batteries and multiple tabs. The tray is rotatable to selectively align one of the receptacles with the opening in a battery removal position. With the door in the open position, the tab attached to the battery in the receptacle in the battery removal position is accessible through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: SPECTRUM BRANDS, INC.Inventors: William R. Dorr, Christopher A. Harris, Dave Young, Tom Anderson, Jason Lahaye, Marek Kokoszka, Dan R. Teteak
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Publication number: 20180069804Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for on-demand resource provisioning for service instances. An on-demand service broker provisions IaaS resources at service instance creating time. The service broker provides a catalog listing one or more service plans, each service plan corresponds to a set of available resources. A user device selects a respective service plan that matches specific needs of an application that consumes the resources. The service broker generates a deployment manifest based on the selected service plan. The service broker then submits the deployment manifest to a deployment system. The deployment system provisions the resources to the service instance according to the manifest generated by the service broker.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Ben Jonathan Laplanche, Alexander David Ley, Dmitriy Kalinin, Craig Furman, Jatin Naik, Tom Anderson, Maria Ntalla, James Joshua Hill, Onsi Joe Fakhouri, Tammer Saleh
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Publication number: 20180013116Abstract: A battery package includes a card, a cover attached to the card, and a tray positioned between the card and the cover. The cover includes a body having an opening and a door with the door movable between an open position to provide access to the opening and a closed position in which the door closes the opening. The tray includes multiple receptacles arranged symmetrically about a central post. The front surface of the central post is spaced apart from the interior surface of the front portion of the cover by a distance. The battery package also includes multiple batteries and multiple tabs. The tray is rotatable to selectively align one of the receptacles with the opening in a battery removal position. With the door in the open position, the tab attached to the battery in the receptacle in the battery removal position is accessible through the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: William R. Dorr, Christopher A. Harris, Dave Young, Tom Anderson, Jason Lahaye, Marek Kokoszka, Dan R. Teteak
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Publication number: 20160329536Abstract: A battery package includes a card, a cover attached to the card, a tray positioned between the card and the cover, batteries, and tabs. The cover includes an opening and a door. The door is movable between an open position to provide access to the opening and a closed position. The tray includes a plurality of receptacles in which are positioned the batteries. Each tab is removably attached to one of the batteries and is positioned between the cover and the battery. The tray is rotatable relative to the card and the cover about an axis of rotation to selectively align one of the receptacles with the opening in a battery removal position. With the door in the open position, the tab attached to the battery in the receptacle in the battery removal position is accessible through the opening from the front of the cover and the peripheral edge of the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: William R. Dorr, Christopher A. Harris, Dave Young, Tom Anderson, Jason Lahaye, Marek Kokoszka, Dan R. Teteak
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Publication number: 20140154819Abstract: A semiconductor substrate support for supporting a semiconductor substrate in a plasma processing chamber includes a heater array comprising thermal control elements operable to tune a spatial temperature profile on the semiconductor substrate, the thermal control elements defining heater zones each of which is powered by two or more power supply lines and two or more power return lines wherein each power supply line is connected to at least two of the heater zones and each power return line is connected to at least two of the heater zones. A power distribution circuit is mated to a baseplate of the substrate support, the power distribution circuit being connected to each power supply line and power return line of the heater array. A switching device is connected to the power distribution circuit to independently provide time-averaged power to each of the heater zones by time divisional multiplexing of a plurality of switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATIONInventors: Keith William Gaff, Tom Anderson, Keith Comendant, Ralph Jan-Pin Lu, Paul Robertson, Eric A. Pape, Neil Benjamin
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Publication number: 20120180598Abstract: A process of preparing for reuse small particles of one or more waste products produced from iron or steel mill activities, comprising the steps of creating a blend of one or more waste products with a blending system, the blend including a predetermined proportion of each of the one or more waste products, combining fly ash and the blend with a liquid in a mixing container to create a mixture, adding a predetermined amount of moisture reduction additive to the mixture, adjusting the amount of the liquid in the mixture to achieve a predetermined moisture and time before set up occurs, mixing the mixture continuously until set up occurs and an agglomeration forms, casting the agglomeration onto a surface, dividing the agglomeration into predetermined size chunks, removing particles of less than the predetermined size from the agglomeration. The chunks produced according to this process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventor: Tom Anderson
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Patent number: 7599191Abstract: An electrochemical double layer capacitor (DLC) is configured for mounting on a PCB. A first connector component is configured at each individual terminal lead of the DLC capacitor. A second connector component is mounted on the PCB and includes a number of parallel connector elements at a footprint location for electrical mating contact with the DLC leads. The connector configuration produces a minimal increase in the ESR of the capacitor when mounted on the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: AVX CorporationInventors: Lee Shinaberger, Dean Smith, Tom Anderson, Bharat Rawal
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Publication number: 20080159181Abstract: A method of managing input/output/access options and caller greetings within a SmartPhone (or similar) environment. The method is based on grouping Caller IDs (CIDs) of like community, activity, achievement, interests or functionality. These groups are assigned a Group ID code (GID) conferring specific rights to callers through GID-profiles and menu and scripting options that are capable of drawing upon a prescribed suite of variables linked to files, resident applications and peripherals. Rights are further augmented if the CID is associated with multiple GIDs or conferred individual rights. Unlinked CIDs are further scanned for matching prefix-based (area code) GIDs, thus presenting the possibility of individual (rather than governmental) control of Do Not Call (DNC) functionality.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2006Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventor: David Toms Anderson
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Patent number: 7237564Abstract: A transducer for use in an acoustic energy cleaner is provided. The transducer includes a resonator and a plurality of crystals bonded to a surface of the resonator. The plurality of crystals is configured to be bonded to the surface of the resonator in a staggered arrangement with respect to each other. In one embodiment, the plurality of crystals is bonded to the surface of the resonator in a horizontally staggered arrangement. In another embodiment, the plurality of crystals is bonded to the surface of the resonator in a vertically staggered arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2003Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Tom Anderson, John M. Boyd
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Publication number: 20070117422Abstract: An electrochemical double layer capacitor (DLC) is configured for mounting on a PCB. A first connector component is configured at each individual terminal lead of the DLC capacitor. A second connector component is mounted on the PCB and includes a number of parallel connector elements at a footprint location for electrical mating contact with the DLC leads. The connector configuration produces a minimal increase in the ESR of the capacitor when mounted on the PCB.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2006Publication date: May 24, 2007Inventors: Lee Shinaberger, Dean Smith, Tom Anderson, Bharat Rawal
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Patent number: 7170190Abstract: An apparatus for brushing a surface of a substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a brush for scrubbing the surface of the substrate, a head for holding the brush, and an arm. The arm is configured to hold the head about a connection point. The arm is connected to an oscillating mechanism configured to cause the head to oscillate at an angle of rotation about the connection point.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Randolph E. Treur, John M. Boyd, Tom Anderson, John de Larios
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Patent number: 6703819Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for analyzing particles using an impedance sensor. A flow-through impedance sensor may use two in-line electrodes driven in counter phase. A common sensor electrode may be used to, for example, detect impedance and determine trajectories through the sensor area. The sensor may be used in a wide variety of applications, including but not limited to use with microfluidic devices for determining particle characteristics such as position, velocity, size, and concentration as well as detection of bacterial spores and other biological agents of potential use in warfare and bio-terrorism.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Peter Gascoyne, Tom Anderson, Jody Vykoukal, Frederick Becker
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Patent number: D500546Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2004Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Master Cutlery Inc.Inventor: Tom Anderson