Patents by Inventor Yizhak Yacoby

Yizhak Yacoby 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 to determine the three-dimensional atomic structure of molecules
    Patent number: 6891925
    Abstract: The invention presents an x-ray method for determining the three-dimensional molecular structure of molecules having an unknown structure. The molecules having unknown structure are arranged in a two-dimensional periodic array on a substrate molecular crystal having a known structure. It is a requirement of the method that the dimensions of the molecules with the unknown structure are smaller than the corresponding dimensions of the substrate crystal unit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Yissum Research Development
    Inventor: Yizhak Yacoby
  • Method to determine the three-dimensional atomic structure of molecules
    Publication number: 20040165698
    Abstract: The invention presents an x-ray method for determining the three-dimensional molecular structure of molecules having an unknown structure. The molecules having unknown structure are arranged in a two-dimensional periodic array on a substrate molecular crystal having a known structure. It is a requirement of the method that the dimensions of the molecules with the unknown structure are smaller than the corresponding dimensions of the substrate crystal unit cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventor: Yizhak Yacoby
  • Direct structure determination of systems with two dimensional periodicity
    Patent number: 6430256
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining the three-dimensional atomic structure of systems that are periodic in two dimensions, a-periodic in the third dimension, and are commensurate with an underlying three-dimensional crystal. The system is considered as composed of two components: an unknown system periodic in two dimensions, a-periodic in the third with an unknown structure and a known system also periodic in two dimensions with a known structure. The two systems are commensurate with each other. The method provides the structure of the unknown and therefore of the entire system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Inventor: Yizhak Yacoby
  • Focusing and guiding X-rays with tapered capillaries
    Patent number: 5001737
    Abstract: Apparatus for directing and focusing X-rays by the new method of confinement is disclosed. A capillary having an inlet end and an outlet end with a generally tubular or rectangular inner wall surface defines a longitudinal central opening. The central opening is tapered inwardly from the inlet end to the outlet end. X-rays are directed into the inlet end at angles less than the critical glancing angle for the inner wall surface to direct X-rays through the capillary to a focus point near the capillary outlet end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Inventors: Aaron Lewis, Edward A. Stern, Yizhak Yacoby