Patents by Inventor Tycho Sleator

Tycho Sleator 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).

  • Method and system using microscopic building blocks for driving 3D self-assembly
    Patent number: 9446950
    Abstract: A method and system for constructing structures by self-assembly of objects. The method and system include providing a first object having a first selected shape and providing a second object having a second selected shape, the shape of the first and second objects interacting to form an alignment which has only a simple stable state arising from minimization of interaction energy for the single stable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Inventors: Paul Michael Chaikin, Tycho Sleator, Remi Dreyfus, Daniel Sleator
  • Method and System Using Microscopic Building Blocks For Driving 3D Self-Assembly
    Publication number: 20130042457
    Abstract: A method and system for constructing structures by self-assembly of objects. The method and system include providing a first object having a first selected shape and providing a second object having a second selected shape, the shape of the first and second objects interacting to form an alignment which has only a simple stable state arising from minimization of interaction energy for the single stable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Paul Michael Chaikin, Tycho Sleator, Remi Dreyfus, Daniel Sleator
  • Josephson junction Q-spoiler
    Patent number: 4733182
    Abstract: An automatic Q-spoiler comprising at least one Josephson tunnel junction connected in an LC circuit for flow of resonant current therethrough. When in use in a system for detecting the magnetic resonance of a gyromagnetic particle system, a high energy pulse of high frequency energy irradiating the particle system will cause the critical current through the Josephson tunnel junctions to be exceeded, causing the tunnel junctions to act as resistors and thereby damp the ringing of the high-Q detection circuit after the pulse. When the current has damped to below the critical current, the Josephson tunnel junctions revert to their zero-resistance state, restoring the Q of the detection circuit and enabling the low energy magnetic resonance signals to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: John Clarke, Claude Hilbert, Erwin L. Hahn, Tycho Sleator