Patents by Inventor Maximillian A. Perez

Maximillian A. Perez 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).

  • Compact, high-performance MEMS-based optical shutter
    Patent number: 10613319
    Abstract: A micro-machined optical shutter includes an entry layer with a through-passage having an input side adapted to receive incoming light and an output side, and an exit layer with a through-passage having an input side comprising a pinhole and an output side. The entry and exit layers are vertically aligned, thereby providing an optical path such that light exiting the entry layer enters the exit layer via the pinhole unless the optical path is interrupted. An actuation plane positioned between the entry and exit layers comprises a shutter blade and an actuator arranged to move the shutter blade laterally with respect to the pinhole when actuated. The shutter blade preferably has a reflective angled surface such that, when the blade covers the pinhole, the angled surface redirects light on the optical path away from the pinhole, preferably into a micromachined beam dump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC, Coldquanta, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mihailovich, Alex Papavasiliou, Philip Stupar, Jeffrey DeNatale, Maximillian A. Perez
  • Single wafer fabrication process for wavelength dependent reflectance for linear optical serialization of accelerometers
    Patent number: 8334984
    Abstract: A plurality of Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors are optically coupled in series with each other to form an ordered optical series. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has a unique signalband and a passband. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has its unique signalband within the passbands of all of the next higher ordered Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors in the optical series so that a corresponding unique fringe signal from each of the Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors is a multiplexed output from the optical series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Maximillian A. Perez, Andrei A. Shkel
  • Single wafer fabrication process for wavelength dependent reflectance for linear optical serialization of accelerometers
    Patent number: 8318524
    Abstract: A plurality of Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors are optically coupled in series with each other to form an ordered optical series. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has a unique signalband and a passband. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has its unique signalband within the passbands of all of the next higher ordered Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors in the optical series so that a corresponding unique fringe signal from each of the Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors is a multiplexed output from the optical series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: The Regent of the University of California
    Inventors: Maximillian A. Perez, Andrei A. Shkel
  • SINGLE WAFER FABRICATION PROCESS FOR WAVELENGTH DEPENDENT REFLECTANCE FOR LINEAR OPTICAL SERIALIZATION OF ACCELEROMETERS
    Publication number: 20120231570
    Abstract: A plurality of Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors are optically coupled in series with each other to form an ordered optical series. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has a unique signalband and a passband. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has its unique signalband within the passbands of all of the next higher ordered Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors in the optical series so that a corresponding unique fringe signal from each of the Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors is a multiplexed output from the optical series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Maximillian A. Perez, Andrei A. Shkel
  • SINGLE WAFER FABRICATION PROCESS FOR WAVELENGTH DEPENDENT REFLECTANCE FOR LINEAR OPTICAL SERIALIZATION OF ACCELEROMETERS
    Publication number: 20100046002
    Abstract: A plurality of Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors are optically coupled in series with each other to form an ordered optical series. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has a unique signalband and a passband. Each Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor has its unique signalband within the passbands of all of the next higher ordered Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors in the optical series so that a corresponding unique fringe signal from each of the Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors is a multiplexed output from the optical series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Maximillian A. Perez, Andrei A. Shkel