Patents by Inventor William Koch

William Koch 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).

  • Publication number: 20240142668
    Abstract: An article that includes: an inorganic oxide substrate having opposing major surfaces; and an optical film structure disposed on a first major surface of the substrate, the optical film structure comprising one or more of a silicon-containing oxide, a silicon-containing nitride and a silicon-containing oxynitride and a physical thickness from about 50 nm to less than 500 nm. The article exhibits a hardness of 8 GPa or greater measured at an indentation depth of about 100 nm or a maximum hardness of 9 GPa or greater measured over an indentation depth range from about 100 nm to about 500 nm, the hardness and the maximum hardness measured by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test. Further, the article exhibits a single-side photopic average reflectance that is less than 1%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Alexandre Michel Mayolet, James Joseph Price
  • Publication number: 20240144202
    Abstract: A system and method for implementing a fast payment is described. A request to execute a payout to a payee account is received, where the request includes information about the payout. At least one payment rail available for the requested payout is determined from a plurality of payment rails based on the included information. Rules associated with each of the at least one payment rail are identified. A fastest payment rail is determined from the at least one payment rail for executing the payout based on the identified rules and the information about the payout. The payout is then executed over the determined fastest payment rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: William Earl Crowley, Michael Ting, David Koch
  • Patent number: 11971519
    Abstract: A display article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; a textured surface region; and an antireflective coating disposed on the textured surface region. The textured surface region comprises structural features and an average texture height (Rtext) from 50 nm to 300 nm. The substrate exhibits a sparkle of less than 5%, as measured by PPD140, and a transmittance haze of less than 40%, at a 0° incident angle. The antireflective coating comprises alternating high refractive index and low refractive index layers. Each of the low index layers comprises a refractive index of less than or equal to 1.8, and each of the high index layers comprises a refractive index of greater than 1.8. The article also exhibits a first-surface average photopic specular reflectance (% R) of less than 0.3% at any incident angle from about 5° to 20° from normal at visible wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Cameron Robert Nelson, James Joseph Price, Jayantha Senawiratne, Florence Christine Monique Verrier, David Lee Weidman
  • Publication number: 20240132218
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods comprising acoustically absorptive air ducts comprising an internally positioned structure component as an endoskeleton and an air impervious inner layer, and an acoustically absorptive foam outer layer, environmental control systems comprising such air ducts, and vehicles incorporating such environmental control systems are disclosed with methods for manufacture and installations are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Rachel Ann Bires, Douglas Dean Maben, Christopher Edward Plass, Mark Michael Gmerek, David William Olson, Sonny Keever Nguyen, James Julius Koch, Greta Grace Hadford, Bryce Avery Van Dyke, Xin Han
  • Publication number: 20240116801
    Abstract: A colored glass article includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 80 mol % SiO2; greater than or equal to 7 mol % and less than or equal to 25 mol % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 15 mol % B2O3; greater than or equal to 5 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Li2O; greater than or equal to 0.5 mol % and less than or equal to 15 mol % Na2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % K2O; and greater than or equal to 1×10?6 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % Au. R2O—Al2O3 is greater than or equal to ?5 mol % and less than or equal to 7 mol %, R2O being the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jill Marie Hall, Karl William Koch, III, Jesse Kohl, Jian Luo, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Patent number: 11948792
    Abstract: Embodiments of a glass wafer for semiconductor fabrication processes are described herein. In some embodiments, a glass wafer includes: a glass substrate comprising: a top surface, a bottom surface opposing the top surface, and an edge surface between the top surface and the bottom surface; a first coating disposed atop the glass substrate, wherein the first coating is a doped crystalline silicon coating having a sheet-resistance of 100 to 1,000,000 ohm per square; and a second coating having one or more layers disposed atop the glass substrate, wherein the second coating comprises a silicon containing coating, wherein the glass wafer has an average transmittance (T) of less than 50% over an entire wavelength range of 400 nm to 1000 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ya-Huei Chang, Karl William Koch, III, Jen-Chieh Lin, Jian-Zhi Jay Zhang
  • Patent number: 11940593
    Abstract: A display article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising a thickness and a primary surface; and the primary surface having defined thereon a diffractive surface region. The diffractive surface region comprises a plurality of structural features that comprises a plurality of different heights in a multimodal distribution. Further, the substrate exhibits a sparkle of less than 4%, as measured by pixel power deviation (PPD140) at an incident angle of 0° from normal, a distinctness of image (DOI) of less than 80% at an incident angle of 20° from normal, and a transmittance haze of less than 20% from an incident angle of 0° from normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jiangwei Feng, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Cameron Robert Nelson, Wageesha Senaratne, William Allen Wood
  • Patent number: 11927382
    Abstract: A portable cooler container with active temperature control includes a double-walled insulated container body with a chamber to receive and hold temperature sensitive products. A control system is at least partially disposed between an outer wall and an inner wall of the container body. An electronic display screen on one of the lid and the container body configured to display shipping address information for the portable cooler container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ember Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton Alexander, Daren John Leith, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Jacob William Emmert, Joseph Lyle Koch, Frank Victor Baumann, Clifton Texas Lin, Farzam Roknaldin, Mark Channing Stabb
  • Patent number: 11927722
    Abstract: A transparent article is described herein that includes: a glass-ceramic substrate comprising first and second primary surfaces opposing one another and a crystallinity of at least 40% by weight; and an optical film structure disposed on the first primary surface. The optical film structure comprises a plurality of alternating high refractive index (RI) and low RI layers and a scratch-resistant layer. The article also exhibits an average photopic transmittance of greater than 80% and a maximum hardness of greater than 10 GPa, as measured by a Berkovich Hardness Test over an indentation depth range from about 100 nm to about 500 nm. The glass-ceramic substrate comprises an elastic modulus of greater than 85 GPa and a fracture toughness of greater than 0.8 MPa·?m. Further, the optical film structure exhibits a residual compressive stress of ?700 MPa and an elastic modulus of ?140 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jaymin Amin, Jason Thomas Harris, Shandon Dee Hart, Chang-gyu Kim, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Dong-gun Moon, Jeonghong Oh, James Joseph Price, Charlene Marie Smith, Ananthanarayanan Subramanian, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Tingge Xu
  • Publication number: 20240069246
    Abstract: An article is described herein that includes an optical coating on both a first portion and a second portion of a first major surface of a substrate. The first portion and the second portion face in different directions. The optical coating forms an anti-reflective surface, has a total thickness of less than 1000 nm, and is thicker over the first portion than over the second portion. The optical coating exhibits a first surface reflected color characterized by International Commission on Illumination (“CIE”) L*a*b* color space values of: (i) a*, from ?6.0 to +4.5, and (ii) b*, from ?11.0 to +6.0 at all viewing angles within a range of from 0 degrees to 10 degrees relative to a normal of the first major surface at both (i) the first portion and (ii) the second portion where the total thickness of the optical coating is 75% to 90% of the maximum value of the total thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin
  • Publication number: 20240059604
    Abstract: A glass composition includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 70 mol % SiO2; greater than or equal to 10 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % B2O3; greater than or equal to 7 mol % and less than or equal to 14 mol % Li2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % Na2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % K2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 7 mol % CaO; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % MgO; and greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % ZnO. R2O+R?O is less than or equal to 25 mol %, wherein R2O is the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O and R?O is the sum of CaO, MgO, and ZnO. The glass composition includes at least one of NiO+Co3O4+Cr2O3+CuO is greater than or equal to 0.001 mol %, CeO2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %, and TiO2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Karl William Koch, III, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Patent number: 11906699
    Abstract: An article that includes: an inorganic oxide substrate having opposing major surfaces; and an optical film structure disposed on a first major surface of the substrate, the optical film structure comprising one or more of a silicon-containing oxide, a silicon-containing nitride and a silicon-containing oxynitride and a physical thickness from about 50 nm to less than 500 nm. The article exhibits a hardness of 8 GPa or greater measured at an indentation depth of about 100 nm or a maximum hardness of 9 GPa or greater measured over an indentation depth range from about 100 nm to about 500 nm, the hardness and the maximum hardness measured by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test. Further, the article exhibits a single-side photopic average reflectance that is less than 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Alexandre Michel Mayolet, James Joseph Price
  • Publication number: 20240045106
    Abstract: An article is described herein that includes: a translucent substrate having a major surface; and an anti-reflective coating disposed on the major surface and forming an anti-reflective surface. The article exhibits a single side average photopic light reflectance at the anti-reflective surface of less than 0.35%. Further, the article exhibits a single side color shift (?C) of less than 6 over an incident angle range from 0 degrees to 60 degrees incidence at the anti-reflective surface, wherein the anti-reflective coating comprises a physical thickness from about 50 nm to less than 500 nm. In addition, the anti-reflective coating comprises a plurality of layers that comprises at least one low refractive index layer and at least one high refractive index layer. Further, each high refractive index layer has a refractive index of greater than 2.0 and each low refractive index layer has a refractive index of less than 1.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, James Joseph Price, Nicholas Michael Walker
  • Patent number: 11891332
    Abstract: A colored glass article includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 80 mol % SiO2; greater than or equal to 7 mol % and less than or equal to 25 mol % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 15 mol % B2O3; greater than or equal to 5 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Li2O; greater than or equal to 0.5 mol % and less than or equal to 15 mol % Na2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % K2O; and greater than or equal to 1×10?6 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % Au. R2O—Al2O3 is greater than or equal to ?5 mol % and less than or equal to 7 mol %, R2O being the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jill Marie Hall, Karl William Koch, III, Jesse Kohl, Jian Luo, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Publication number: 20240036236
    Abstract: A cover glass article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising an outer primary surface with an outer optical film structure disposed thereon and an inner primary surface with an inner optical film structure disposed thereon. The outer film structure comprises a first plurality of alternating high index and low index layers with an outermost low index layer. The inner film structure comprises a second plurality of alternating high index and low index layers with a low or high index layer disposed on the inner primary surface, and an innermost low or high index layer. Each high index layer of the first and the second plurality comprises a nitride or an oxynitride, and an oxide or a nitride, respectively. Further, the cover glass article exhibits an average photopic transmittance of greater than 95% and a maximum hardness of greater than 10 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Albert Joseph Fahey, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Alexandre Michel Mayolet, Xu Ouyang, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Patent number: 11834370
    Abstract: A glass composition includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 70 mol % SiO2; greater than or equal to 10 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Al2O3; greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % B2O3; greater than or equal to 7 mol % and less than or equal to 14 mol % Li2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % Na2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % K2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 7 mol % CaO; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % MgO; and greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % ZnO. R2O+R?O is less than or equal to 25 mol %, wherein R2O is the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O and R?O is the sum of CaO, MgO, and ZnO. The glass composition includes at least one of NiO+Co3O4+Cr2O3+CuO is greater than or equal to 0.001 mol %, CeO2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %, and TiO2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Karl William Koch, III, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Publication number: 20230373846
    Abstract: A colored glass article may include 50-80 mol % SiO2; 7-20 mol % Al2O3; 1-35 mol % R2O, wherein R2O comprises at least one of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O; 1×10?6-10 mol % of a colorant, wherein the colorant comprises at least one of Cr2O3, Au, Ag, CuO, NiO, Co3O4, TiO2, CeO2; and 12-24 mol % of Al2O3+MgO+CaO+ZnO. The colored glass article may have a transmittance color coordinate in the CIELAB color space with an L* value of 55 to 96.5. The colored glass article may have a compressive stress profile with a depth of compression ?0.15t a thickness t from 0.4 mm-5 mm, a compressive stress ?200 MPa, and a central tension ?60 MPa. The colored glass article may have a dielectric constant from 5.6 to 6.4 over the frequency range from 10 GHz to 60 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaoju Guo, Jill Marie Hall, Karl William Koch, III, Jesse Kohl, Liping Xiong Smith, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Patent number: 11815657
    Abstract: An article is described herein that includes: a translucent substrate having a major surface; and an anti-reflective coating disposed on the major surface and forming an anti-reflective surface. The article exhibits a single side average photopic light reflectance at the anti-reflective surface of less than 0.35%. Further, the article exhibits a single side color shift (?C) of less than 6 over an incident angle range from 0 degrees to 60 degrees incidence at the anti-reflective surface, wherein the anti-reflective coating comprises a physical thickness from about 50 nm to less than 500 nm. In addition, the anti-reflective coating comprises a plurality of layers that comprises at least one low refractive index layer and at least one high refractive index layer. Further, each high refractive index layer has a refractive index of greater than 2.0 and each low refractive index layer has a refractive index of less than 1.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, James Joseph Price, Nicholas M Walker
  • Publication number: 20230359074
    Abstract: A transparent article is described herein that includes: a substrate comprising an opposing first and second primary surface; and an optical film structure disposed on the first primary surface. The optical film structure comprises a scratch-resistant layer, a plurality of alternating high refractive index (RI) and low RI layers, and an outer and inner structure, the scratch-resistant layer disposed between the outer and inner structures. The outer structure can comprise at least one medium RI layer in contact with one of the high RI layers and the scratch-resistant layer. The medium RI layer comprises an RI from 1.55 to 1.80, each of the high RI layers comprises an RI of >1.80, and each of the low RI layers comprises an RI<1.55. A sum of the physical thicknesses of all of the low RI layers in the outer structure can be <200 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jaymin Amin, Jason Thomas Harris, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Lin Lin, Alexandre Michel Mayolet, Dong-gun Moon, Jeonghong Oh, Naveen Prakash, James Joseph Price, Charlene Marie Smith, Ananthanarayanan Subramanian, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Florence Christine Monique Verrier, Tingge Xu, Binwei Zhang, Wenlei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230324583
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure pertain to articles that exhibit scratch-resistance and improved optical properties. In some examples, the article exhibits a color shift of about 2 or less, when viewed at an incident illumination angle in the range from about 0 degrees to about 60 degrees from normal under an illuminant. In one or more embodiments, the articles include a substrate, and an optical film disposed on the substrate. The optical film includes a scratch-resistant layer and an optical interference layer. The optical interference layer may include one or more sub-layers that exhibit different refractive indices. In one example, the optical interference layer includes a first low refractive index sub-layer and a second a second high refractive index sub-layer. In some instances, the optical interference layer may include a third sub-layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Alan Bellman, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price