Patents by Inventor William Erickson
William Erickson 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: 11920347Abstract: A joist assembly system that is structured for dynamic retrieval of components, dynamic and precise positioning and location of retrieved components, assembly of the components to form a joist, and delivery of the assembled joist. The joist assembly system has a plurality of material handling systems, a plurality of welding systems, and a rigging table system. The material handling systems are structured to load and position the components such as chords and webs onto the rigging table. The rigging table in turn supports the chords or webs. Subsequently, the plurality of welding systems weld the webs to the chords to form the joist.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NUCOR CORPORATIONInventors: Jason Alan Freidenberger, Joseph Patrick Cagle, Christopher Ray Couch, Richard Thomas Erickson, Travis Marshall Fuhrman, John Lyman Hale, Matthew Glenn Hire, Christopher William Martin, James E. Ogburn, III, Jonathan Pressley Poston, Peter Michael Puglisi, Phillip Murray Sylvester, Jr., Adam Taylor Watkins
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Publication number: 20230206511Abstract: Mechanisms for generating compressed images are provided. More particularly, methods, systems, and media for capturing, reconstructing, compressing, and rendering view-dependent immersive light field video with a layered mesh representation are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Ryan Overbeck, Michael Joseph Broxton, John Flynn, Daniel William Erickson, Lars Peter Johannes Hedman, Matthew Nowicki DuVall, Jason Angelo Dourgarian, Jessica Lynn Busch, Matthew Stephen Whalen, Paul Debevec
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Publication number: 20230081888Abstract: In various embodiments, a surgical instrument, systems including the surgical instrument, and methods of use of the surgical instrument are disclosed. The surgical instrument includes a handle body extending from a proximal end to a distal end substantially along a longitudinal axis. The handle body defines a first channel sized and configured to receive a guide element therein. A plurality of indicators are formed on the handle body. Each of the plurality of indicators correspond to a size of one of a plurality of fixation elements sized and configured for insertion into a bone. A countersink element is coupled to a distal end of the body. The countersink element defines a second channel sized and configured to receive the guide element therethrough that is circumferentially located with and coupled to the first channel. The countersink element includes a head sized and configured to form a countersink in the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Scott Mitchell IRVING, Lewis Pearce BRANTHOVER, Nathan William ERICKSON, Zachary Charles CHRISTENSEN
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Patent number: 11601636Abstract: Mechanisms for generating compressed images are provided. More particularly, methods, systems, and media for capturing, reconstructing, compressing, and rendering view-dependent immersive light field video with a layered mesh representation are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ryan Overbeck, Michael Joseph Broxton, John Flynn, Daniel William Erickson, Lars Peter Johannes Hedman, Matthew Nowicki DuVall, Jason Angelo Dourgarian, Jessica Lynn Busch, Matthew Stephen Whalen, Paul Debevec
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Publication number: 20210368157Abstract: Mechanisms for generating compressed images are provided. More particularly, methods, systems, and media for capturing, reconstructing, compressing, and rendering view-dependent immersive light field video with a layered mesh representation are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Ryan Overbeck, Michael Joseph Broxton, John Flynn, Daniel William Erickson, Lars Peter Johannes Hedman, Matthew Nowicki DuVall, Jason Angelo Dourgarian, Jessica Lynn Busch, Matthew Stephen Whalen, Paul Debevec
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Patent number: 10164175Abstract: A method for providing magnetic junctions is described. Each magnetic junction includes a free layer. A first portion of a stack for the magnetic junctions is provided. The first portion of a stack includes magnetic layer(s) for the free layer. A hard mask is provided. The hard mask covers a part of the first portion of the stack corresponding to the magnetic junctions. The hard mask includes aperture(s) exposing a second part of the first portion of the stack corresponding to spacing(s) between the magnetic junctions. The spacing(s) are not more than fifty nanometers. The second part of the first portion of the stack is etched. A remaining part of the first portion of the stack forms a first portion of each magnetic junction. This first portion of each magnetic junction includes the free layer. A second portion of the stack for the magnetic junctions is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mohamad Towfik Krounbi, Dustin William Erickson, Xueti Tang, Donkoun Lee
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Patent number: 9965582Abstract: A system and method determine a size and a shape for identical geodesic modules that are used to form a structure. The system and method may include analyzing input data regarding a size and a shape of the structure to be formed, and determining the size and the shape for each of the identical geodesic modules based on the size and the shape of the structure to be formed. The structure may include a framework including the identical geodesic modules. Each of the geodesic modules has a size and a shape that are the same as all of the other of the geodesic modules. A forming system and method position a framework and a covering skin of the structure in relation to a mandrel, and drill and rivet the framework to the covering skin with a plurality of operating heads.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Sina Golshany, Junghyun Ahn, Derek Alderks, Todd William Erickson
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Patent number: 9957031Abstract: A system and method determine a size and a shape for identical geodesic modules that are used to form a structure. The system and method may include analyzing input data regarding a size and a shape of the structure to be formed, and determining the size and the shape for each of the identical geodesic modules based on the size and the shape of the structure to be formed. The structure may include a framework including the identical geodesic modules. Each of the geodesic modules has a size and a shape that are the same as all of the other of the geodesic modules. A forming system and method position a framework and a covering skin of the structure in relation to a mandrel, and drill and rivet the framework to the covering skin with a plurality of operating heads.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Sina Golshany, Junghyun Ahn, Derek Alderks, Todd William Erickson
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Patent number: 9806253Abstract: A method for providing a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device and the magnetic junction are described. The method includes providing a free layer, a pinned layer and a nonmagnetic spacer layer between the free layer and the pinned layer. The free layer is switchable between stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. At least one of the steps of providing the free layer and providing the pinned layer includes providing magnetic and sacrificial layers and performing two anneals of the sacrificial and magnetic layers. The magnetic layer includes a glass-promoting component and is amorphous as-deposited. The first anneal is at a first temperature exceeding 300 degrees Celsius and not exceeding 450 degrees Celsius. The second anneal is at a second temperature greater than the first temperature and performed after the first anneal. The sacrificial layer is removed.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dmytro Apalkov, Dustin William Erickson, Vladimir Nikitin
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Patent number: 9799382Abstract: A method for providing a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device and a magnetic junction are described. A reference layer, a crystalline MgO tunneling barrier layer and a free layer are provided. The crystalline MgO tunneling barrier layer is continuous, has a (001) orientation and has a thickness of not more than eleven Angstroms and not less than two Angstroms. The crystalline MgO tunneling barrier layer is between the free layer and the reference layer. The magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dustin William Erickson, Xueti Tang, Jangeun Lee, Eugene Chen
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Patent number: 9789548Abstract: A system and method determine a size and a shape for identical geodesic modules that are used to form a structure. The system and method may include analyzing input data regarding a size and a shape of the structure to be formed, and determining the size and the shape for each of the identical geodesic modules based on the size and the shape of the structure to be formed. The structure may include a framework including the identical geodesic modules. Each of the geodesic modules has a size and a shape that are the same as all of the other of the geodesic modules. A forming system and method position a framework and a covering skin of the structure in relation to a mandrel, and drill and rivet the framework to the covering skin with a plurality of operating heads.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Sina Golshany, Junghyun Ahn, Derek Alderks, Todd William Erickson
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Publication number: 20170256708Abstract: A method for providing magnetic junctions is described. Each magnetic junction includes a free layer. A first portion of a stack for the magnetic junctions is provided. The first portion of a stack includes magnetic layer(s) for the free layer. A hard mask is provided. The hard mask covers a part of the first portion of the stack corresponding to the magnetic junctions. The hard mask includes aperture(s) exposing a second part of the first portion of the stack corresponding to spacing(s) between the magnetic junctions. The spacing(s) are not more than fifty nanometers. The second part of the first portion of the stack is etched. A remaining part of the first portion of the stack forms a first portion of each magnetic junction. This first portion of each magnetic junction includes the free layer. A second portion of the stack for the magnetic junctions is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2016Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Mohamad Towfik Krounbi, Dustin William Erickson, Xueti Tang, Donkoun Lee
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Patent number: 9735350Abstract: A method provides a magnetic junction having a top and sides. A first magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer and a second magnetic layer are deposited. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the first and second magnetic layers. A free layer is one of the magnetic layers. A reference layer is the other of the magnetic layers. The second magnetic layer includes an amorphous magnetic layer having nonmagnetic constituent(s) that are glass-forming. An anneal is performed in a gas having an affinity for the nonmagnetic constituent(s). The gas includes at least one of first and second gases. The first gas forms a gaseous compound with the nonmagnetic constituent(s) The second gas forms a solid compound with the nonmagnetic constituent(s). The second gas is usable if the anneal is performed after the magnetic junction has been defined. The solid compound is at least on the sides of the magnetic junction.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Robert Beach, Roman Chepulskyy, Dustin William Erickson, Vladimir Nikitin
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Publication number: 20170141296Abstract: A method for providing a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device and the magnetic junction are described. The method includes providing a free layer, a pinned layer and a nonmagnetic spacer layer between the free layer and the pinned layer. The free layer is switchable between stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. At least one of the steps of providing the free layer and providing the pinned layer includes providing magnetic and sacrificial layers and performing two anneals of the sacrificial and magnetic layers. The magnetic layer includes a glass-promoting component and is amorphous as-deposited. The first anneal is at a first temperature exceeding 300 degrees Celsius and not exceeding 450 degrees Celsius. The second anneal is at a second temperature greater than the first temperature and performed after the first anneal. The sacrificial layer is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Dmytro Apalkov, Dustin William Erickson, Vladimir Nikitin
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Publication number: 20170057029Abstract: A system and method determine a size and a shape for identical geodesic modules that are used to form a structure. The system and method may include analyzing input data regarding a size and a shape of the structure to be formed, and determining the size and the shape for each of the identical geodesic modules based on the size and the shape of the structure to be formed. The structure may include a framework including the identical geodesic modules. Each of the geodesic modules has a size and a shape that are the same as all of the other of the geodesic modules. A forming system and method position a framework and a covering skin of the structure in relation to a mandrel, and drill and rivet the framework to the covering skin with a plurality of operating heads.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Sina Golshany, Junghyun Ahn, Derek Alderks, Todd William Erickson
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Publication number: 20170058506Abstract: A system and method determine a size and a shape for identical geodesic modules that are used to form a structure. The system and method may include analyzing input data regarding a size and a shape of the structure to be formed, and determining the size and the shape for each of the identical geodesic modules based on the size and the shape of the structure to be formed. The structure may include a framework including the identical geodesic modules. Each of the geodesic modules has a size and a shape that are the same as all of the other of the geodesic modules. A forming system and method position a framework and a covering skin of the structure in relation to a mandrel, and drill and rivet the framework to the covering skin with a plurality of operating heads.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Sina Golshany, Junghyun Ahn, Derek Alderks, Todd William Erickson
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Publication number: 20170061068Abstract: A system and method determine a size and a shape for identical geodesic modules that are used to form a structure. The system and method may include analyzing input data regarding a size and a shape of the structure to be formed, and determining the size and the shape for each of the identical geodesic modules based on the size and the shape of the structure to be formed. The structure may include a framework including the identical geodesic modules. Each of the geodesic modules has a size and a shape that are the same as all of the other of the geodesic modules. A forming system and method position a framework and a covering skin of the structure in relation to a mandrel, and drill and rivet the framework to the covering skin with a plurality of operating heads.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Sina Golshany, Junghyun Ahn, Derek Alderks, Todd William Erickson
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Patent number: 9559143Abstract: A magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device and a method for providing the magnetic junction are described. The magnetic junction includes a free layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, and a reference layer. The free layer includes at least one of Fe and at least one Fe alloy. Furthermore, the free layer excludes Co. The nonmagnetic spacer layer adjoins the free layer. The nonmagnetic spacer layer residing between reference layer and the free layer. The magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Xueti Tang, Jang-Eun Lee, Gen Feng, Dustin William Erickson
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Patent number: 9559296Abstract: A method for providing a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device and the magnetic junction are described. The method includes providing a free layer, a pinned layer and a nonmagnetic spacer layer between the free layer and the pinned layer. The free layer is switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. At least one of the step of providing the free layer includes a first plurality of steps and the step of providing the pinned layer includes a second plurality of steps. The first and second plurality of steps include depositing a portion of a layer, depositing a sacrificial layer, annealing the portion of the magnetic junction under the sacrificial layer, and depositing a remaining portion of the layer. The layer may be the free layer, the pinned layer, or both.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dustin William Erickson, Xueti Tang, Jangeun Lee
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Patent number: 9472750Abstract: A magnetic junction and method for providing the magnetic junction are described. The magnetic junction includes free and pinned layers separated by a nonmagnetic spacer layer. The free layer is switchable between stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction. The pinned layer has a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) energy greater than its out-of-plane demagnetization energy. Providing the pinned layer includes providing a bulk PMA (B-PMA) layer, providing an interfacial PMA (I-PMA) layer on the B-PMA layer and then providing a sacrificial layer that is a sink for a constituent of the first I-PMA layer. An anneal is then performed. The sacrificial layer and part of the first I-PMA layer are removed after the anneal. Additional I-PMA layer(s) are provided after the removing. A remaining part of the first I-PMA layer and the additional I-PMA layer(s) have a thickness of not more than twenty Angstroms.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Xueti Tang, Dustin William Erickson, Jang-Eun Lee