Patents by Inventor Jake Beverage

Jake Beverage 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).

  • Calibration of scanning interferometers
    Patent number: 9958254
    Abstract: Calibrating a scanning interferometry imaging system includes: configuring the scanning interferometry imaging system for operation with an interference objective using light having a narrowband wavelength spectrum; using the scanning interferometry imaging system to direct measurement light and reference light along different paths and to overlap the measurement and reference light on a detector, the measurement and reference light having the narrowband wavelength spectrum; scanning an optical path length difference between the measurement light and the reference light at the detector while acquiring intensity data using the detector, the detector acquiring the intensity data at a frame rate and the scanning being performed at a scan speed; determining information about the scan speed based on the acquired intensity data, geometric information about the scanning interferometry imaging system, and the narrowband wavelength spectrum; and calibrating the scanning interferometry imaging system based on the infor
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Zygo Corporation
    Inventors: Peter J. de Groot, Jake Beverage, Xavier Colonna de Lega, Martin F. Fay
  • CALIBRATION OF SCANNING INTERFEROMETERS
    Publication number: 20160047645
    Abstract: Calibrating a scanning interferometry imaging system includes: configuring the scanning interferometry imaging system for operation with an interference objective using light having a narrowband wavelength spectrum; using the scanning interferometry imaging system to direct measurement light and reference light along different paths and to overlap the measurement and reference light on a detector, the measurement and reference light having the narrowband wavelength spectrum; scanning an optical path length difference between the measurement light and the reference light at the detector while acquiring intensity data using the detector, the detector acquiring the intensity data at a frame rate and the scanning being performed at a scan speed; determining information about the scan speed based on the acquired intensity data, geometric information about the scanning interferometry imaging system, and the narrowband wavelength spectrum; and calibrating the scanning interferometry imaging system based on the infor
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Peter J. de Groot, Jake Beverage, Xavier Colonna de Lega, Martin F. Fay