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N. Stephan Kinsella -- Issued & Published Patents
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I have prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications, for clients such as Intel Corporation,
Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems,
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.,
General Electric, Motorola, Thomson Consumer Electronics,
Sarnoff Corporation, Burr-Brown (now Texas Instruments),
Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, UPS,
and many others. Most of these have covered technology such as
computer architecture & hardware; optoelectronics, lasers, optics; networks, data conferencing, and email; software, algorithms, video/audio/signal processing,
encryption; communications/signal processing/television and cable TV technology;
electronics, circuits, power; integrated circuits (ICs),
semiconductors, fabrication, testing, imaging; and
electro-mechanical, mechanical, and oil & gas technology.
PTO Searches for Kinsella Patents
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PTO Patent Search for Issued Patents; this search covers only patents issued with my name listed as the attorney; many
others contain only the name of my previous law firm (e.g., Duane Morris) and do not come up on this search.
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PTO Patent Search for Published Patent Applications;
this search covers only AOI patent applications published with my name listed as the attorney, or with Applied Optoelectronics shown as assignee, but is not necessarily complete.
Selected Patents
Selected issued patents I have prosecuted (mostly in whole, a few in part) are provided below.
The following patents are displayed using the PTO's search engine, along with the full
image file in PDF format in some cases. (Some of the categories employed below are imprecise and overlap to some degree.)
Video/Audio Processing
| Optoelectronics/Lasers
| Electronics/Circuits/Power
| Integrated Circuits/Semiconductors/CCDs/Imaging
| Communications/TV/CATV
| Computer Architecture/Hardware
| Internet/Conferencing
| Oil & Gas/Mechanical
Video/Audio/Signal Processing/Software/Algorithms/Encryption
- 5,978,756:
Encoding audio signals using precomputed silence (Intel)
- 5,748,804:
Method and apparatus for processing images with symbols with dense edges (UPS)
- 5,938,773:
Sideband signaling with parity bit schemes (Intel)
- 5,986,712:
Hybrid global/local bit rate control (Thomson Consumer Electronics)
- 5,832,125:
Bit rate control using short-term and long-term performance characterization (Intel)
- 5,754,658:
Adaptive encryption to avoid processor oversaturation (Intel)
- 5,878,061:
Providing serial data clock signal transitions with parity bits (Intel)
- 5,754,742:
Setting quantization level to match DCT coefficients (Intel)
- 5,627,936:
Apparatus and method for temporal indexing of multiple audio, video and data streams (Intel)
- 5,590,254:
Displaying multiple video streams using a bit map and a single frame buffer (Intel)
- 5,485,611:
Video database indexing and method of presenting viode database index to a user (Intel)
- 5,880,734:
Peripheral vision simulator for immersive 3D virtual environments (Intel)
- 5,850,264:
Pseudo interlacing in digital video (Intel)
- 5,848,195:
Selection of Huffman tables for signal encoding (Intel)
- 5,835,149:
Bit allocation in a coded video sequence (Intel)
- 5,751,861:
Reducing residual artifacts in video coding schemes with integer motion compensation (Intel)
Optoelectronics/Lasers/Optics
- 7,290,943:
Modular Laser Package System and Associated Method (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 7,226,218:
Method And Apparatus For Coupling A Laser To A Fiber In A Two-Lens Laser System (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 7,010,012:
Method and apparatus for reducing specular reflections in semiconductor lasers (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 7,010,013:
Assembly with tapered, threaded ferrule housing for improved alignment of fiber with laser (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 7,026,178:
Method for fabricating a VCSEL with ion-implanted current-confinement structure (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,263,002:
Tunable fiber Fabry-Perot surface-emitting lasers (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,795,478:
VCSEL with antiguide current confinement layer (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,859,481:
Optically-pumped multiple-quantum well active region with improved distribution of optical pumping power (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,788,466:
Multiple reflectivity band reflector (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,782,019:
VCSEL with heat-spreading layer
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,765,948:
VCSEL assembly with edge-receiving optical devices
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,765,939:
Multiple reflectivity band reflector with non-uniform profile and laser system employing same for laser wavelength monitoring
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,763,053:
Laser having multiple reflectivity band reflector
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,763,046:
Method and system employing multiple reflectivity band reflector for laser wavelength monitoring
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,746,777:
Alternative substrates for epitaxial growth (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,736,550:
Housing for passively aligning an optical fiber with a lens
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,735,224:
Planar lightwave circuit for conditioning tunable laser output
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,724,796:
Modified distributed bragg reflector (DBR) for vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) resonant wavelength tuning sensitivity control
(Related PCT Application)
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,697,413:
Tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with tuning junction
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,696,307:
Patterned phase shift layers for wavelength-selectable vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays
(online WIPO version)
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,669,367:
Optical fiber with mirror for semiconductor laser
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,603,184:
Double heterostructure photodiode with graded minority-carrier blocking structures
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,652,707:
Method and apparatus for demounting workpieces from adhesive film
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,638,773:
Method for fabricating single-mode DBR laser with improved yield
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,636,544:
Overlapping wavelength-tunable vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,611,543:
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with metal mirror and method of fabrication of same
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,608,855:
Single-mode DBR laser with improved phase-shift section
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,560,265:
Method and Apparatus For Polarizing Light In A VCSEL
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,560,259:
Spatially Coherent Surface Emitting Grating Coupled Quantum Cascade Lasers With Unstable Resonance Cavity
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,549,556:
Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser With Bottom Dielectric Distributed Bragg Reflector
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,455,908:
Multispectral radiation detectors using strain-compensating superlattices
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,448,547:
Method for determining photodiode performance parameters
(online WIPO version) (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,406,795:
Compliant universal substrates for optoelectronic and electronic devices
(Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,351,583:
Multiple laser wavelength stabilization (Agere)
- 6,323,491:
Corona discharge imagine system for outdoor daylight use (Forsyth Electro-Optics)
- 6,150,652:
Corona detector with narrow-band optical filter (Forsyth Electro-Optics)
- 6,301,059:
Astigmatic compensation for an anamorphic optical system
(Lucent)
Published US/PCT Applications
- 20060056777:
Method and apparatus for coupling a laser to a fiber in a two-lens laser system (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 20070036495:
Modular laser package system and associated methods (Applied Optoelectronics)
Electronics/Circuits/Electrical/Power
- 6,265,919:
In phase alignment for PLL's (Lucent)
- 6,302,701:
RF connector with impedance matching tab (Agere)
- 6,239,510:
Reduced impact power up/down mode in electrical circuits (Lucent)
- 6,194,940:
Automatic clock switching (Lucent)
- 6,106,314:
Coaxial jack with integral switch and shielded center conductor (Lucent)
- 5,977,656:
Switching network for circuit with multiple power sources (Lucent)
- 5,856,903:
Matching overcurrent characteristic curves (General Electric)
- 5,821,826:
Oscillator circuit synchronization (Burr-Brown)
- 5,781,077:
Reducing transformer interwinding capacitance (Burr-Brown)
- 5,737,163:
DC-AC converter protection (Burr-Brown)
- 5,586,043:
Method and apparatus for monitoring differentials between signals (General Electric)
- 5,539,352:
Low power voltage input circuit with high noise immunityand fast operating time (General Electric)
Integrated Circuits/Semiconductors/Fabrication/Testing/CCDs/Imaging
- 6,730,538:
Fabricating electronic devices using actinide oxide semiconductor materials (University of Tennessee Research Corporation) (drafted application)
- 6,356,861:
Deriving statistical device models from worst-case files (Agere)
- 6,101,294:
Extended dynamic imaging system and method (Sarnoff)
- 6,246,971:
Testing asynchronous circuits (Lucent)
- 5,920,345:
CMOS image sensor with improved fill factor (Sarnoff)
- 5,969,758:
CD offset and gain correction for CMOS image sensor
(Sarnoff)
- 6,208,190:
Minimizing effects of switching noise in mixed signal chips
(Lucent)
- 6,356,132:
Programmable delay cell
(Agere)
- 6,278,332:
Charge pump for low-voltage, low-jitter phase locked loops
(Agere)
- 6,275,109:
Low noise microphone preamplifier
(Agere)
- 6,208,177:
Output buffer having immediate onset of gentle state transition
(Lucent)
- 6,204,704:
Micropower, minimal area DC sensing power-up reset circuit
(Lucent)
- 6,194,739:
Inline ground-signal-ground (GSG) RF tester (Lucent)
- 6,191,963:
Charge pump with no diode drop at output stage (Lucent)
- 6,175,533:
Multi-port memory cell with preset
(Lucent)
- 6,160,446:
Balanced differential amplifier without common-mode feedback circuit (Lucent)
- 6,154,046:
Preconditioning input singals of logic gates for glitch-free output signal
(Lucent)
- 6,125,057:
Segmented source memory array (Lucent)
- 6,108,233:
Ultra low voltage static RAM memory cell (Lucent)
- 6,084,804:
Memory row driver with parasitic diode pull-down function (Lucent)
- 6,040,728:
Active substrate noise injection cancellation (Lucent)
Communications/Signal Processing/TV/CATV/Telephone/Cellular
- 6,430,408:
Allocating antenna-provided communications services (Motorola)
- 6,320,469:
Lock detector for phase-locked loop (Agere)
- 5,943,369:
Timing recovery system for a digital signal processor (Thomson Consumer Electronics)
- 5,930,309:
Receiver signal processing system for CAP signals (Thomson Consumer Electronics)
- 5,920,354:
HDTV to NTSC transcoder system (Thomson Consumer Electronics)
- 5,878,088:
Digital variable symbol timing recovery system for QAM (Thomson Consumer Electronics)
- 5,752,080:
Cable terminal unit using bit set for selectively enabling a plurality of hardware functions
with some functions having a plurality of selectively enabled hardware functions (Intel)
Computer Architecture/Systems/Hardware/Data/Memory/Routines
- 6,317,846:
System and method for detecting faults in computer memories using a look up table (Agere)
- 6,216,241:
Method and system for testing multiport memories (Agere)
- 6,175,936:
Apparatus for detecting faults in multiple computer memories (Lucent)
- 6,009,527:
Computer system security (Intel)
- 6,006,282:
Blocking host input while a remote guest has input control to a host-executed shared application (Intel)
- 5,926,644:
Instruction formats/instruction encoding (Intel)
- 5,901,285:
Hierarchical erasure key protection for computer system data (Intel)
- 5,857,088:
System for configuring memory space for storing single decoder table, reconfiguring same space for storing plurality of decoder tables, and selecting one configuration based on encoding scheme (Intel)
- 5,828,900:
International multiple-byte character generator support in application sharing which distinguishes guest keyboard input from host key board and bypassing execution of the generator module when guest keyboard input is determined (Intel)
- 5,708,846:
System for retrieving initial data sequence corresponding to next data sequence while locating next data sequence when branch point is reached during current data sequence (Intel)
- 5,649,142:
Method and apparatus for translating addresses using mask and replacement value registers and for accessing a service routine in response to a page fault (Intel)
- 5,386,233:
Method for efficient memory use (Intel)
Networks/Internet/Data Conferences/Email
- 20020073321:
Fraud prevention for remote transactions (published patent application) (full image version) (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 6,279,029:
Server/client architecture and method for multicasting on a computer network (Intel)
- 5,951,637:
Bandwidth reservation system (Intel)
- 5,905,862:
Automatic web site registration with multiple search engines (Intel)
- 5,903,723:
Method and apparatus for transmitting electronic mail attachments with attachment references
(Intel)
- 5,771,355:
Transmitting electronic mail by either reference or value at file-replication points to minimize costs
(Intel)
Oil & Gas/Mechanical/Other
- 6,510,104:
Acoustic frequency selection in acoustic logging tools (Schlumberger)
- 6,427,125:
Hydraulic calibration of equivalent density (Schlumberger)
- 6,471,582:
Adapter for coupling air duct to fan-driven vent (full image version) (Applied Optoelectronics)
- 5,417,289:
Inflatable packer device including limited initial travel means and method
- 5,469,919:
Programmed shape inflatable packer device and method
- 5,495,892:
Inflatable packer device and method
- 5,971,043:
Multi-chambered booth and method for filling drums (Delta Chemical Services)
- 5,770,267:
Method and apparatus for smoothing substrate surfaces
(J.M. Huber Corp.)
- 6,138,860:
Plate and glass assembly
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