Patents by Inventor George Gal
George Gal 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: 10129938Abstract: A system for driving one or more electrical currents includes a current driver operable to cause current to flow to the one or more driven electrical elements, a sensor module for sensing a current at the input of the current driver, a compensation module for compensating an input control signal based on the sensed current at the input of the current driver and an optocoupling module having a grounded side connected to an earth ground and a floating side connected to a floating ground. The grounded side receives the compensated control signal and the floating side outputs a floating control signal corresponding to the compensated control signal. An amplification module connected to the floating ground is operable for amplifying the floating control signal outputted from the optocoupling module. The amplified floating control signal further controls the current driver to cause the flow of current to the driven electrical elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: 8952272 CANADA INC.Inventors: George Gal, Alex Gal, Mircea Gal
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Publication number: 20180077764Abstract: A system for driving one or more electrical currents includes a current driver operable to cause current to flow to the one or more driven electrical elements, a sensor module for sensing a current at the input of the current driver, a compensation module for compensating an input control signal based on the sensed current at the input of the current driver and an optocoupling module having a grounded side connected to an earth ground and a floating side connected to a floating ground. The grounded side receives the compensated control signal and the floating side outputs a floating control signal corresponding to the compensated control signal. An amplification module connected to the floating ground is operable for amplifying the floating control signal outputted from the optocoupling module. The amplified floating control signal further controls the current driver to cause the flow of current to the driven electrical elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: George GAL, Alex GAL, Mircea GAL
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Patent number: 5781257Abstract: A flat panel display incorporates an array of color separation microlenses. Each color separation microlens in the array is a single, micro-optical element which disperses color by orders to distinct color spots and focuses these color spots to related liquid crystal sub-pixels located in a common plane. Substantially all of the areas of the color spots fall directly and only on the liquid crystal sub-pixels. Little, if any, light energy is lost by falling outside areas occupied by the individual liquid crystal sub-pixels. Because the color separation microlenses provide the color separation, no color filter is required in the flat panel display. Eliminating the color filters eliminates light losses which are incurred when transmitting light through a color filter. The flat panel display makes more efficient use of light transmitted through the components of the display than was possible with prior art flat panel displays.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1995Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignee: Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space CoInventors: George Gal, Bruce J. Herman
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Patent number: 5650873Abstract: A micropolarization assembly has a beam-shaping microlens wafer and a polarization wafer assembly. The micropolarization assembly utilizes the full illumination incident on the beam-shaping microlens wafer and aligns all of the light to the same polarization at the outlet of the micropolarization wafer assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.Inventors: George Gal, Bruce J. Herman
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Patent number: 5600486Abstract: A color separation microlens is fabricated to be a single micro-optical element made up of a color separation grating integrated with a refractive lens. The color separation microlens separates the spectrum into distinct color spots and focuses these spots to a common plane. The spots fall at the locations of the different diffraction orders of the grating. The color separation is done by the grating, and the focusing is done by the lens. The color separation microlens can be fabricated as a monolithically integrated element (an element in which the grating and the lens are combined to a single surface) and can also be fabricated as a dual-sided thin wafer (a wafer in which the grating is on one side and the lens is on the other).Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1995Date of Patent: February 4, 1997Assignee: Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc.Inventors: George Gal, Bruce J. Herman
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Patent number: 5497269Abstract: Dispersive microlens apparatus and methods are used in one mode for detecting multiple, different wavelengths from a bandwidth of wavelengths (existing within an image plane blur spot) and are used in another mode for combining a plurality of different, emitted wavelengths into a bandwave of wavelengths (at a blur spot in an image plane).Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1992Date of Patent: March 5, 1996Assignee: Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc.Inventor: George Gal
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Patent number: 5482800Abstract: A microlens of any designed configuration is formed as a replica in a photoresist material, and the photoresist material replica is used to reproduce the replica directly in a substrate material.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1993Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.Inventor: George Gal
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Patent number: 5480764Abstract: A monolithically integrated, micro-fabricated optical device for use in photonic applications has at least one waveguide surface configuration which cannot be fabricated by binary processing. The optical device comprises a plurality of layers of substrate materials. The material in at least one layer has an index of refraction different from the index of retraction of the material in an adjacent layer. A waveguide surface is formed at an interface between the layers and has a configuration fabricated by use of a gray scale mask.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1994Date of Patent: January 2, 1996Assignee: Lockheed Missiles and Space Comapny, Inc.Inventors: George Gal, William W. Anderson, Bruce J. Herman, Marc A. Stiller
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Patent number: 5471345Abstract: Wavefront correction apparatus for correcting a stepped wavefront output produced by certain angles of scan and by certain positions of scan in scanning microlens arrays includes anamorphic transfer optics with diffractive corrections. The transfer optics form the outputs of all of the unit cell trains of the microlens arrays into a unique, separate, linear image at each position of scan of the scanning array. A stepped wavefront corrector is positioned in the path of each linear image, and selected thicknesses of the material in the stepped wavefront corrector are effective to vary the times of optical passage through the stepped wavefront corrector in amounts to restore the wavefront to a continuous, unstepped form at the outlet of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1994Date of Patent: November 28, 1995Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.Inventors: George Gal, William W. Anderson, Bruce J. Herman, Dean M. Shough
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Patent number: 5463498Abstract: A large aperture microlens array assembly has at least two arrays of microlenses with individual unit cell trains optically interconnecting individual microlenses in one array with related individual microlenses in another array. In each unit cell train the light entering an entrance pupil of a microlens in one array is transmitted through the exit surface of a related microlens of the other array to provide a collimated output through the exit. One array may be moved with respect to the other array for scanning a field of regard.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1994Date of Patent: October 31, 1995Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.Inventors: George Gal, Howard E. Morrow
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Patent number: 5450241Abstract: Wavefront correction apparatus for correcting a stepped wavefront output produced by certain angles of scan and by certain positions of scan in scanning microlens arrays includes anamorphic transfer optics with diffractive corrections. The transfer optics form the outputs of all of the unit cell trains of the microlens arrays into a unique, separate, linear image at each position of scan of the scanning array. A stepped wavefront corrector is positioned in the path of each linear image, and selected thicknesses of the material in the stepped wavefront corrector are effective to vary the times of optical passage through the stepped wavefront corrector in amounts to restore the wavefront to a continuous, unstepped form at the outlet of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1994Date of Patent: September 12, 1995Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc.Inventors: George Gal, William W. Anderson, Bruce J. Herman, Dean M. Shough
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Patent number: 5444572Abstract: Wavefront correction apparatus for correcting a stepped wavefront output produced by certain angles of scan and by certain positions of scan in scanning microlens arrays includes anamorphic transfer optics with diffractive corrections. The transfer optics form the outputs of all of the unit cell trains of the microlens arrays into a unique, separate, linear image at each position of scan of the scanning array. A stepped wavefront corrector is positioned in the path of each linear image, and selected thicknesses of the material in the stepped wavefront corrector are effective to vary the times of optical passage through the stepped wavefront corrector in amounts to restore the wavefront to a continuous, unstepped form at the outlet of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 1993Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.Inventors: George Gal, William W. Anderson, Bruce J. Herman, Dean M. Shough
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Patent number: 5420720Abstract: A large aperture microlens array assembly has at least two arrays of microlenses with individual unit cell trains optically interconnecting individual microlenses in one array with related individual microlenses in another array. In each unit cell train the light entering an entrance pupil of a microlens in one array is transmitted through the exit surface of a related microlens of the other array to provide a collimated output through the exit. One array may be moved with respect to the other array for scanning a field of regard.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1993Date of Patent: May 30, 1995Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.Inventors: George Gal, Howard E. Morrow
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Patent number: 5415727Abstract: A large aperture microlens array assembly has at least two arrays of microlenses with individual unit cell trains optically interconnecting individual microlenses in one array with related individual microlenses in another array. In each unit cell train the light entering an entrance pupil of a microlens in one array is transmitted through the exit surface of a related microlens of the other array to provide a collimated output through the exit. One array may be moved with respect to the other array for scanning a field of regard.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1994Date of Patent: May 16, 1995Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc.Inventors: George Gal, Howard E. Morrow
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Patent number: 5310623Abstract: A microlens of any designed configuration is formed as a replica in a photoresist material, and the photoresist material replica is used to reproduce the replica directly in a substrate material.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1992Date of Patent: May 10, 1994Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.Inventor: George Gal
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Patent number: 4859055Abstract: An aircraft velocimeter comprises means for projecting three pairs of independently generated ribbon-shaped laser beams to a measurement volume located at a predetermined distance from the aircraft with a predetermined separation being maintained between the two ribbon-shaped laser beams of each pair at the measurement volume. The times of flight of atmospheric aerosol particles between the two ribbon-shaped laser beams of corresponding pairs of laser beams are measured as the aerosol particles pass through the measurement volume. From the predetermined distance between the two ribbon-shaped laser beams of each pair and the measured time of flight of an aerosol particle across that predetermined distance, a component of velocity of the aerosol particle relative to the aircraft is calculated for each pair of ribbon-shaped laser beams.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1988Date of Patent: August 22, 1989Assignee: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.Inventors: George Gal, Howard E. Morrow
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Patent number: 4273943Abstract: Methylvanillyl ketone is prepared from a "through process" involving oxidation of isoeugenol followed by subsequent acidic hydrolysis.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1979Date of Patent: June 16, 1981Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.Inventors: George Gal, Seemon H. Pines
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Patent number: 4230893Abstract: 4-Hydroxy-3-methoxyphenylacetone, an intermediate for methyldopa, has been prepared from reacting two moles of guaiacol and one mole of a 2-alkoxy propanol followed by basic elimination to form the enol ether of 4-hydroxy-3-methoxy phenyl acetone. The enol ether is subsequently converted to 4-hydroxy-3-methoxy phenyl acetone upon treatment with a strong acid.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1979Date of Patent: October 28, 1980Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.Inventor: George Gal
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Patent number: 4169858Abstract: A process for preparing methyl vanillyl ketone from guaiacol is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1978Date of Patent: October 2, 1979Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.Inventors: George Gal, Seemon H. Pines
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Patent number: 4048224Abstract: DL-Alanine, 3-fluoro-DL-alanine and 2-deutero-3-fluoro-DL-alanine, are resolved by reaction with a resolving base and a .beta.-dicarbonyl compound. The resulting azomethine diastereomeric salts which are easily separated, the masking group is readily removed under mildly acidic conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1976Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Assignee: Merck & Co., Inc.Inventors: John M. Chemerda, George Gal