Stephen F. Pond
`MEMS and Inkjet Technology Consultant
`607 River Bluffs, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185
`(757) 345-6608, StephenPond@cox.net
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`Expertise: MEMS devices, especially ink jet. Ph.D. solid state physicist. U.S. Patent Agent (# 41,257).
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`Education:
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`1967 A. B. Physics Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
`1968 M.S. Physics University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
`1971 Ph.D. Physics University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
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`Thesis: “Electroreflectance of Gallium Arsenide”
`1997 Patent Practitioner Internship, Oliff & Berridge, Attorneys-at-Law, Alexandria, VA
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`Experience:
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`Inkjet, MEMS, and Electronic Printing Consultant, Patent Agent, Corporate Research, Product
`Engineering, and Manufacturing, University Research.
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`6/98-Present Electronic Printing and MEMS Consultant and US Patent Agent.
`Consultant to clients engaged in inkjet technology development efforts of all types.
`Complete patent application preparation for filing by in-house counsel.
`Expert witness for inkjet related intellectual property matters.
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`Xerox Corporation, June, 1972 to June, 1998.
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` 9/94 - 6/98 Principal, Ink Jet Business Unit, Xerox Channels Group.
`Responsible for workgroup and special product concept development. Managed the initial
`productization project for Xerox 600 spi thermal ink jet (TIJ) printhead and ink technology,
`managed the development of a state-of-the-art thermal ink jet printer mechanism for application
`to workgroup and networked color printers, and managed a joint project with an external partner
`for a high speed printer mechanism for postal franking applications.
`3/89 - 9/94 Chief Engineer, Components Development and Manufacturing, New Imaging
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`Systems, Supplies Development and Manufacturing Unit.
`Responsible for thermal ink jet (TIJ) advanced technology, product development, and printhead
`and ink manufacturing activities. Line management responsibility for ~ 60 engineers and
`technologists. Set program goals and matrix managed tasks across other Xerox functional
`organizations. Managed ink jet product development collaborations with foreign OEM suppliers
`and Xerox Japanese subsidiary, Fuji-Xerox.
`5/84 - 3/89 Manager, Electronic Marking Laboratory, Webster Research Center.
`Responsible for thermal ink jet research and technology feasibility demonstration (~ 25 - 55
`scientists and technologists). Established microelectronic fabrication and MOS device
`electronics integration capabilities for TIJ, thin film materials development, and ink development.
`Enabled three Xerox product initiations. Also responsible for the Xerox Large Area Electronics
`Facility which developed prototypes for liquid crystal writebars, displays, laser modulators, and
`writeheads for ionography and direct electrostatic printing.
`6/81 - 5/84 Manager, Electronic Marking Device Area, Electronic Marking Laboratory, Webster
`Research Center.
`Responsible for thermal transfer, thermal ink jet, magnetographic, and ionographic device
`fabrication research and feasibility demonstration (~ 20 scientists and technologists). Initiated
`Xerox thermal ink jet device effort in 1981. A founding manager of the Xerox Large Area
`Electronics Facility, a microelectronic laboratory devoted to electronic marking and display device
`research. Managed the Facility shared resources for mask design, microelectronic packaging,
`and computing.
`12/79 - 6/81 Manager, Mechanical Design and Integration, Advanced Marking Development
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`Section, Process Engineering Department, Reprographic Technology Group.
`Responsible for the mechanical engineering, printhead design and build, nozzle fabrication, ink
`supply subsystem, controlled velocity cut sheet paper transport, dryer, and overall mechanical
`system integration for a 90 page per minute, 300 dot per inch, continuous drop ink jet marking
`engine ( ~ 30 engineers and scientists). Also responsible for technical strategy planning for the
`Advanced Marking Development Section.
`Sr. Scientist /Area Manager, Advanced Marking Program, Corporate Research.
`Charter technical contributor Xerox continuous ink jet research program begun in March, 1977.
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`3/77 - 12/79
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`9/68 - 6/72
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`Honors:
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`Responsible for early continuous ink jet demonstration, technical strategy, and competitive
`technology information analysis. Technical liaison with Xerox companion piezoelectric drop-on-
`demand research effort in Dallas, Texas.
`Scientist, Imaging Sciences Section, Webster Research Center.
`Project leader and principal technical contributor for a successful research and feasibility
`demonstration of a 135 page/minute, 750 dot/inch, magnetographic electronic duplicator. Made
`seminal contributions to the physical process understanding, magnetic field and thermal latent
`image creation subsystems, magnetographic toner development, magnetographic image science,
`and the development of MICR for xerographic systems.
`Associate Scientist, Xerographic Sciences Section, Research Laboratory Department.
`Conducted fundamental experimental studies of toner adhesion to enable improvement
`of xerographic cleaning and development processes.
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`University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Materials Research Laboratory. Teaching and
`Research Assistant, Post-Doctoral Fellow (1972).
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`Phi Beta Kappa (Dartmouth, 1966), Most Promising Chemistry-Physics Graduate (Dartmouth,
`1967), University of Illinois Fellow (1967-68), 5.0/5.0 GPA (University of Illinois, 1967-1971),
`Xerox Research Excellence in Technology Award (1980, 1989),
`1991 Xerox President’s Award (Xerox highest individual honor).
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`US Patents: US4030104 Thermo-magnetic image transfer apparatus
`US4032923 Thermomagnetic imaging apparatus
`US4035810 Magnetic interpositive method with electrostatic imaging
`US4067018 Excessive magnetic developer displacement system
`US4115786 Constant wavelength magnetic recording
`US4274100 Electrostatic scanning ink jet system
`US4531137 Thermoremanent magnetic imaging method
`US4789425 Thermal ink jet printhead fabricating process
`US4860030 Resistive printhead arrays for thermal transfer printing
`US4887098 Thermal ink jet printer having printhead transducers with multilevel interconnections
`US5043740 Use of sequential firing to compensate for drop misplacement due to curved platen
`US5057854 Modular partial bars and full width array printheads fab’d from modular partial bars
`US5072235 Method and apparatus for the electronic detection of air inside a thermal IJ
`printhead
`US5218381 Hydrophobic coating for a front face of a printhead in an ink jet printer
`US5230926 Application of a front face coating to ink jet printheads or printhead dies
`US5336319 Apparatus for applying an adhesive layer to a substrate surface
`US5367326 Ink jet printer with selective nozzle priming and cleaning
`US5382963 Ink jet printer for magnetic image character recognition printing
`US5696546 Ink supply cartridge with ink jet printhead having improved fluid seal therebetween
`US5843259 Method for applying an adhesive layer to a substrate surface
`US5870112 Dot scheduling for liquid ink printers
`US6234608 Magnetically actuated ink jet printing device
`US6344819 Heliographic ink jet apparatus and imaging processes thereof
`US6441774 Heliographic ink jet apparatus and imaging processes thereof
`US6505902 Mail piece producing machine having a wide swath envelope printing module
`US6817702 Tapered multi-layer thermal actuator and method of operating same
`US6820964 Tapered thermal actuator
`US6824249 Tapered thermal actuator
`US6896346 Thermomechanical actuator d-o-d apparatus and method with multiple drop
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`US7011394 Liquid drop emitter with reduced surface temperature actuator
`US7029101 Tapered multi-layer thermal actuator and method of operating same
`US7033000 Tapered multi-layer thermal actuator and method of operating same
`US7073890 Thermally conductive thermal actuator and liquid drop emitter using same
`US7175258 Doubly-anchored thermal actuator having varying flexural rigidity
`US7188931 Doubly-anchored thermal actuator having varying flexural rigidity
`US7249829 High speed, high quality liquid pattern deposition apparatus
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`US7249830 Ink jet break-off length controlled dynamically by individual jet stimulation
`US7273269 Suppression of artifacts in inkjet printing
`US7283030 Doubly-anchored thermal actuator having varying flexural rigidity
`US7303265 Air deflected drop liquid pattern deposition apparatus and methods
`US7364276 Continuous ink jet apparatus with integrated drop action devices and control
`circuitry
`US7401906 Ink jet break-off length controlled dynamically by individual jet stimulation
`US7434919 Ink jet break-off length measurement apparatus and method
`US7508294 Doubly-anchored thermal actuator having varying flexural rigidity
`US7651206 Output image processing for small drop printing
`US7673976 Continuous ink jet apparatus and method using a plurality of break-off times
`US7713771 Pressure sensor
`US7777395 Continuous drop emitter with reduced stimulation crosstalk
`US8087740 Continuous ink jet apparatus and method using a plurality of break-off times
`US8226199 Ink jet break-off length measurement apparatus and method
`US8287066 Ink jet printing method
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`Published Pre-grant US Patent Applications:
`US20070064066 Continuous ink jet apparatus and method using a plurality of break-off times
`US20080088680 Continuous ink jet apparatus with reduced stimulation crosstalk
`US20080143766 Output image processing for small drop printing
`US20090027459 Ink jet break-off length measurement apparatus and method
`US20100118071 Continuous ink jet apparatus and method using a plurality of break-off times
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`Publications: “Electroreflectance of GaAs. I” Physical Review B6, 2248 (1972).
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`“Electroreflectance of GaAs. II” Physical Review B8 (1973).
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`“Electroreflectance from Flatband”, Surface Science 37 (1973).
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`“Model of Magnetographic Printing”, 1976 London InterMag Conf. Proc., p. 38 -1.
`“Toner Mixture to Reduce Background Transfer”, Xerox Disclosure Journal 2, p.17, (1977).
`“Use of Flux Channeling in Magnetic Imaging”, Xerox Disclosure Journal 4, p. 245 (1979).
`“Elimination of Moire Effects Introduced by Recording an Interpositive in Magnetic Imaging
`Processes”, Xerox Disclosure Journal 5, p. 505 (1980).
`“Recording Magnetographic Latent Images”, IEEE Conf. Elec. Devices, Rochester, NY
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`“Thermal Magnetographic Printing”, SID Intl. Symposium Digest XVI 250 (1985).
`“Ink Jet Technology Classification”, 13th Conf. on Ink Jet Printing, BIS CAP International,
`(October, 1987).
`“Ink Jet Technology Overview”, 11th Conf. on Ink Jet Printing, Institute for Graphic
`Communications, (September, 1989).
`“Graded Stitch Pagewidth Array”, Xerox Disclosure Journal 14, p. 221 (1989).
`“Method of Operation of Ink Jet Printer”, Xerox Disclosure Journal 16, p. 233 (1991).
`“Microelectronic Thermal Ink Jet”, BIS Ink Jet Printing Conference, Hamburg, Germany,
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`March 23-25, 1994.
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`“New Generation for Thermal Ink Jet”, IMI 3rd Annual Ink Jet Printing Workshop,
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`Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 5-6, 1994,
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`“Drop-on-Demand Ink Jet Transducer Effectiveness”, IS&T 10th Intl. Conf. on Non-
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`Impact Printing Technology Proceedings, New Orleans (1994).
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`“Whither Ink Jet? Current Patent Trends”, IS&T/SPIE Symposium, Hard Copy Session
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`Proceedings, San Jose (1995).
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`“Compensation of Subunit Print Density Variation in a Full Width Thermal Ink Jet
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`Printbar”, Xerox Disclosure Journal 20, p. 215 (1995).
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`“System for Sealing the Shim Stock to the Ink Manifold”, Xerox DJ 20, p. 427 (1995).
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`“A Process for Lamination of Nickel Screen to the Bonded Channel Wafer in Printhead
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`Manufacture”, Xerox Disclosure Journal 21, p. 113 (1996).
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`“Inkjet Technology and Product Development Strategies”, Torrey Pines Research, May, 2000.
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