Patents by Inventor Ryan Sullenberger
Ryan Sullenberger 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: 11082127Abstract: The ability to communicate with a specific subject at a prescribed location who lacks any communications equipment opens up many intriguing possibilities. Communications across noisy rooms, hail and warn applications, and localized communications directed at only the intended recipient are a few possibilities. We disclose and show localized acoustic communications, which we call photoacoustic communications, with a listener at long standoff distances using a modulated laser transmitted toward the receiver's ear. The optically encoded information is converted into acoustic messages via the photoacoustic effect. The photoacoustic conversion of the optical information into an audible signal occurs via the absorption of the light by ambient water vapor in the near area of the receiver's ear followed by airborne acoustic transmission to the ear. The recipient requires no external communications equipment to receive audible messages.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Charles Wynn, Yaron Rachlin, Ryan Sullenberger, Sumanth Kaushik
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Publication number: 20210217402Abstract: The ability to communicate with a specific subject at a prescribed location who lacks any communications equipment opens up many intriguing possibilities. Communications across noisy rooms, hail and warn applications, and localized communications directed at only the intended recipient are a few possibilities. We disclose and show localized acoustic communications, which we call photoacoustic communications, with a listener at long standoff distances using a modulated laser transmitted toward the receiver's ear. The optically encoded information is converted into acoustic messages via the photoacoustic effect. The photoacoustic conversion of the optical information into an audible signal occurs via the absorption of the light by ambient water vapor in the near area of the receiver's ear followed by airborne acoustic transmission to the ear. The recipient requires no external communications equipment to receive audible messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Charles Wynn, Yaron Rachlin, Ryan Sullenberger, Sumanth KAUSHIK
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Patent number: 10909670Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging spectrometers have applications in environmental monitoring, biomedical imaging, surveillance, biological or chemical hazard detection, agriculture, and minerology. Nevertheless, their high cost and complexity has limited the number of fielded spaceborne hyperspectral imagers. To address these challenges, the wide field-of-view (FOV) hyperspectral imaging spectrometers disclosed here use computational imaging techniques to get high performance from smaller, noisier, and less-expensive components (e.g., uncooled microbolometers). They use platform motion and spectrally coded focal-plane masks to temporally modulate the optical spectrum, enabling simultaneous measurement of multiple spectral bins. Demodulation of this coded pattern returns an optical spectrum in each pixel.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Adam Milstein, Charles Wynn, Yaron Rachlin, Ryan Sullenberger, Sumanth Kaushik
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Publication number: 20200410653Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging spectrometers have applications in environmental monitoring, biomedical imaging, surveillance, biological or chemical hazard detection, agriculture, and minerology. Nevertheless, their high cost and complexity has limited the number of fielded spaceborne hyperspectral imagers. To address these challenges, the wide field-of-view (FOV) hyperspectral imaging spectrometers disclosed here use computational imaging techniques to get high performance from smaller, noisier, and less-expensive components (e.g., uncooled microbolometers). They use platform motion and spectrally coded focal-plane masks to temporally modulate the optical spectrum, enabling simultaneous measurement of multiple spectral bins. Demodulation of this coded pattern returns an optical spectrum in each pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Adam Milstein, Charles Wynn, Yaron Rachlin, Ryan Sullenberger, Sumanth Kaushik
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Patent number: 10605662Abstract: A device, and corresponding method, can include a pump light source configured to irradiate a target specimen. The device can also include a sensor configured to observe a probe speckle pattern based on light from a probe light source reflected from the target specimen. The device further may include a correlator configured to determine a material property of the target specimen by analyzing changes in images of the probe speckle pattern as a function of the irradiation with the pump light source. Advantages of the device and method can include much higher sensitivity than existing methods; the ability to use visible probe wavelengths for uncooled, low-cost visible detectors with high spatial resolution; and the ability to obtain target material properties without detecting infrared light.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Thomas H. Jeys, William D. Herzog, Brian G. Saar, Alexander M. Stolyarov, Ryan Sullenberger, David Crompton, Shawn Michael Redmond
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Publication number: 20190250038Abstract: A device, and corresponding method, can include a pump light source configured to irradiate a target specimen. The device can also include a sensor configured to observe a probe speckle pattern based on light from a probe light source reflected from the target specimen. The device further may include a correlator configured to determine a material property of the target specimen by analyzing changes in images of the probe speckle pattern as a function of the irradiation with the pump light source. Advantages of the device and method can include much higher sensitivity than existing methods; the ability to use visible probe wavelengths for uncooled, low-cost visible detectors with high spatial resolution; and the ability to obtain target material properties without detecting infrared light.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Thomas H. Jeys, William D. Herzog, Brian G. Saar, Alexander M. Stolyarov, Ryan Sullenberger, David Crompton, Shawn Michael Redmond
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Patent number: 10228284Abstract: A device, and corresponding method, can include a pump light source configured to be modulated at a pump modulation and to irradiate a target specimen. The device can also include a probe light source arranged to generate a speckle pattern from the target specimen, as well as a sensor configured to detect changes in at least one of position and intensity of one or more speckle lobes of the speckle pattern having correlation with the pump modulation. The device and method can be used for non-contact monitoring and remote sensing of surfaces, gases, liquids, particles, and other target materials by analyzing speckle pattern changes as a function of pump light irradiation. Advantages can include much higher sensitivity than existing methods; the ability to use visible probe wavelengths for uncooled, low-cost visible detectors with high spatial resolution; and the ability to obtain target material properties without detecting infrared light.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Thomas H. Jeys, William D. Herzog, Brian G. Saar, Alexander M. Stolyarov, Ryan Sullenberger, David Crompton, Shawn Michael Redmond
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Publication number: 20170211977Abstract: A device, and corresponding method, can include a pump light source configured to be modulated at a pump modulation and to irradiate a target specimen. The device can also include a probe light source arranged to generate a speckle pattern from the target specimen, as well as a sensor configured to detect changes in at least one of position and intensity of one or more speckle lobes of the speckle pattern having correlation with the pump modulation. The device and method can be used for non-contact monitoring and remote sensing of surfaces, gases, liquids, particles, and other target materials by analyzing speckle pattern changes as a function of pump light irradiation. Advantages can include much higher sensitivity than existing methods; the ability to use visible probe wavelengths for uncooled, low-cost visible detectors with high spatial resolution; and the ability to obtain target material properties without detecting infrared light.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Thomas H. Jeys, William D. Herzog, Brian G. Saar, Alexander M. Stolyarov, Ryan Sullenberger, David Crompton, Shawn Michael Redmond