Patents by Inventor Vera Lyahovitsky

Vera Lyahovitsky 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).

  • Patent number: 8419984
    Abstract: A film is presented having super-pyroelectric properties. The film comprises nano-sized grains being in a ferroelectric phase and having at least three different crystallographic variants defining at least two polycrystalline macro-domains. The film is shaped to define at least one film region with the macro-domains of a predetermined shape and different orientations of crystallographic axes with respect to the film's surface, thereby enabling to apply a temperature change to the film to induce movement of the polycrystalline macro-domains boundaries enabling super-pyroelectric properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignees: Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd., University of Maryland
    Inventors: Igor Lubomirsky, Vera Lyahovitsky, Alexander L. Roytburd