Inventor Recognitions with Centurion Plus Utility Patents as of June 13, 2023
James S Clarke
He is the director of the Quantum Hardware research group within Intel’s Components Research Organization.
Jim launched Intel’s Quantum Computing effort in 2015. His group’s primary focus is to use Intel’s process expertise to develop scalable qubit arrays.
In 2018, Jim worked with industry leaders and the Intel policy group to influence the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act.
Prior to his current role, Jim managed a group focused on interconnect research at advanced technology nodes as well as evaluating new materials and paradigms for interconnect performance.
Prior to joining Intel in 2001, Jim completed a B.S. in chemistry at Indiana University, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Harvard University, and a post-doctoral fellowship in physical organic chemistry at ETH, Zürich. He is a member of IEEE.
Patent №: 11677017 (June 13, 2023) – Quantum well stacks for quantum dot devices.
This disclosure relates to quantum dot devices, computing devices, and methods. One embodiment includes a quantum dot device with a (111) silicon substrate, a (111) germanium quantum well layer, and multiple gates. Another embodiment features a silicon substrate, an insulating material, a quantum well layer, and multiple gates.
Gregory W Johnson
Mr. Johnson is the Director of Design for Worrell, a medical-focused design and research firm with offices in Minneapolis, Shanghai and London.
He has dedicated his career, spanning more than 20 years, to the development and design of Medical devices and healthcare solutions.
Greg spent 17 years with Johnson & Johnson Medical Device and Development as part of the award-winning Ethicon design team.
He has 100 patents in the healthcare field and believes deeply in the value design brings to advancing innovation in healthcare.
Patent №: 11672536 (June 13, 2023) – Layer of material for a surgical end effector. The staple cartridge with a tissue thickness compensator. The compensator includes an uncompressed height, a compressed height, an outer encasement, and tubular structures aligned along the longitudinal axis. When tissue applies pressure during the firing motion, the tubular structures collapse.
Tzu-Chiang Chen
Chen received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2006.
In 2006, he joined Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Ltd., Hsinchu, Taiwan, as a Principal Engineer, engaged in the research and development of advanced transistor integration and simulation; where he was promoted to a Manager at the Advanced Technology Research Division in 2010.
Since 2017, he has been serving as a Program Manager, in charge of the advanced transistor research and leading the Cooperate Research High-Density Memory Team to establish high capacity/density/bandwidth nonvolatile memory with a 3-D architecture.
Patent №: 11677010 (June 13, 2023) – Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device.
Ryoma Oami
Oami received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993 and 1995, respectively.
He joined NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, in 1995, and is currently a Principal Researcher with the Information and Media Processing Laboratories.
His current research interests include image and video processing and analysis for understanding visual content.
Mr. Oami involved in the standardization activities in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (MPEG) since 2006 and contributed to developing several MPEG-7 and MPEG-A standards as an ISO Project Editor.
Patent №: 11676388 (June 13, 2023) – Object tracking apparatus, object tracking system, object tracking method, display control device, object detection device, and computer-readable medium.
Stephen Y Chou
Mr. Chou received a Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1986.
He is Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering and Head of the NanoStructure Laboratory, at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, which he joined in 1997.
Stephen was a Research Associate and Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (1986–1989) and a Faculty Member at the University of Minnesota (Assistant Professor 1989–1991, Associate Professor 1991–1994, and Full Professor 1994–1997).
Since 1982, he has been developing a broad range of nanotechnologies, particularly the invention and development of nanoimprint lithography, quantized magnetic disks (now termed bit-patterned media), lithographically and other nanofabrication and nanodevices.
He founded Nanonex Corp. (1999) and NanoOpto Corp. (2000) and was involved in founding BioNanoMatrix (2003)—another spinoff from his Lab. His current research is in the exploration of innovative nanofabrication technologies and nanodevices in multiple disciplines (electronics, photonics, magnetics, and biology).
Dr. Chou is a Packard Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is an Inductee into the New Jersey High Technology Hall of Fame.
Patent №: 11674883 (June 13, 2023) – Image-based assay performance improvement. The present invention is related to correcting errors in instruments, operations, and others using intelligent monitoring structures and machine learning, and others.
Donald M Wichern
He is Managing Member at WSDN Solution.
Donald received B.S. in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2002; M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering also from Brigham Young University in 2005.
Patent №: 11674677 (June 13, 2023) –Controlling the integral light energy of a laser pulse.
This system illuminates an endoscope device using a light source with light bundles and emitters. It emits electromagnetic energy in partitions, with each bundle corresponding to a partition. An embedded electromagnetic sensor detects emitted energy from selected emitters within each bundle. A control circuit measures the electromagnetic energy generated by the emitters.
Patent №: 11674848 (June 13, 2023) – Wide dynamic range using a monochrome image sensor for hyperspectral imaging.
Hsu-Hsiang Wu
Hsu-Hsiang (Mark) Wu is a senior scientific advisor in the electromagnetic sensor-physics research group at Halliburton in Houston. He joined Halliburton in 2008 and has since improved the LWD resistivity logging tools and developed several new electromagnetic tools.
Wu has been working on LWD-related projects for more than 13 years and has helped develop the new ranging system and ultradeep resistivity tool in the last five years.
He received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Houston in 2007 and in 2017, respectively.
Wu has proposed various innovations related to downhole formation evaluation, look-ahead look-around determination, and magnetic ranging detection since 2009.
Patent №: 11674378 (June 13, 2023) –Downhole ranging using a 3D magnetic field and 3D gradient field measurements.
Siddhartha Srinivasa
He is a Distinguished Engineer at Cruise & Professor of Robotics at the University of Washington.
Mr. Srinivasa received the B.Tech. degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, in 1999 and a Ph.D. degree in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2005.
He is the Boeing Endowed Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Siddhartha works on robotic manipulation, with the goal of enabling robots to perform complex manipulation tasks under uncertainty and clutter, with and around people. To this end, he founded the Personal Robotics Lab in 2005.
He is also passionate about building end-to-end systems (HERB, ADA, HRP3, CHIMP, Andy, among others) that integrate perception, planning, and control in the real world. Understanding the interplay between system components has helped produce state-of-the-art algorithms for robotic manipulation, motion planning, object recognition, and pose estimation (MOPED), dense 3-D modelling (CHISEL, now used by Google Project Tango), and mathematical models for human–robot collaboration.
Patent №: 11673742 (June 13, 2023) – Systems and methods for processing objects including mobile matrix carrier systems.
Daniel Smith
He is Software Engineer at Berkshire Grey since Apr. 2015.
Mr. Smith received B.S. in Computer Engineering from West Virginia University in 2012 and; M.S. in Robotic Systems Development from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014.
Patent №: 11673742 (June 13, 2023) – Systems and methods for processing objects including mobile matrix carrier systems. This object processing system consists of multiple track sections and remotely controllable carriers. The carriers can move along the track sections and are designed to support and transport object processing bins.
Michael Dawson-Haggerty
He is Robotics Engineer at kerfed.com since Nov. 2017.
Mr. Dawson-Haggerty received B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University in 2010; M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Carnegie Mellon University in 2011.
Patent №: 11673742 (June 13, 2023) – Systems and methods for processing objects including mobile matrix carrier systems.
Gene Temple Price
He is Robotics Engineer at Berkshire Grey since June 2015. Software engineering for robotics, including motion planning, execution, behaviour, and system design.
Mr. Price received B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, and Studio Art (Sculpture) from Swarthmore College in 2015.
Patent №: 11673742 (June 13, 2023) – Systems and methods for processing objects including mobile matrix carrier systems.
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About The Author
Angelina Kushnarova
Angelina Kushnarova (Sverediuk) was born in Ukraine. She graduated from Ternopil Medical University with a specialization in Medicine and completed an internship in Radiology at Lviv University. She worked as a Radiologist, while also working as a web developer.