Patents Examined by Wyatt A Stoffa
  • Patent number: 12383978
    Abstract: An optomechanical assembly for temperature-robust laser beam processing includes a baseplate and an optics plate. The baseplate includes a source area for accommodating a source of the laser beam, and a light-processing area located away from the source area and including first and second anchor points. The optics plate is disposed in the light-processing area and includes first and second portions and a flexible coupling interconnecting the first and second portions. The first and second portions are fixed to the baseplate at the first and second anchor points, respectively. The flexible coupling allows for a thermally-induced change in distance between the first and second anchor points in the presence of dissimilar thermal expansion of the optics plate and the baseplate. The assembly further includes a series of optical elements for manipulating a laser beam from the laser source. Each of the optical elements is rigidly bonded to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Coherent, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Czopek, Cameron Simmons
  • Patent number: 12386209
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides eyeglasses including: an eyeglass rim; an eyeglass temple, the eyeglass temple comprising a control circuit or a battery; a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft being configured to connect the eyeglass rim and the eyeglass temple, so that the eyeglass rim and the eyeglass temple are relatively rotated around the rotating shaft, and the rotating shaft being disposed with a rotating shaft wiring channel along an axial direction; and a speaker, the speaker comprising an earphone core, the speaker being connected to the eyeglass temple, the control circuit or battery in the eyeglass temple driving the earphone core to vibrate through the connection wire, wherein the earphone core vibrates to generate a driving force to drive a housing panel of the speaker to vibrate, and a straight line of the driving force being not parallel to a normal line of the housing panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueqiang Wang, Haofeng Zhang, Yongjian Li, Yunbin Chen, Fen You, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12386196
    Abstract: A system creating an autostereoscopic augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), or other visual display experience involving 3D images, presented to a viewer without glasses or other head-gear. The system includes a projection screen, which includes a reflective surface formed using retroreflective material. The system includes a projection assembly and a beamsplitter, which is disposed between an outlet of the projection assembly and the projection screen. The system includes a physical scenic space facing a lower side of the beamsplitter and a viewing space facing an upper side of the beamsplitter. A controller operates the projector assembly to project left and right eye images toward the projection screen. The left and right eye images are then directed to left and right eye positions so a viewer with eyes positioned at the left and right eye positions perceives a virtual object concurrently with light from the physical scenic space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Quinn Y. J. Smithwick, Dawson McLeod Dill, Michael John Ilardi, Elisabeth C. Papadopoulos, Robert J. Bristow, Colleen L. Bristow-Campbell, Chad Michael Smith
  • Patent number: 12386199
    Abstract: A method for determining a design of a progressive lens intended to be worn by a future wearer, the progressive lens comprising a front surface and a back surface, at least one of the front surface and the back surface comprising a progression profile on its general spherical shape, said at least one progression profile defining a meridian line extending from a distance-vision point to a near-vision point, said meridian line comprising a vertical portion passing through the distance-vision point and an inclined portion passing through the near-vision point, the vertical portion and the inclined portion forming an angle between them, the method including obtaining first data representative of a first measurement of a first postural instability of the future wearer when seeing a visual pattern moving along an mediolateral direction, and determining a reparation between the first progression profile and the second progression profile based on the first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignees: Essilor International, UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
    Inventors: Delphine Tranvouez-Bernardin, Jocelyn Faubert, Guillaume Giraudet
  • Patent number: 12379522
    Abstract: A method of making an integrated depth sensor window lens, such as for an augmented reality (AR) head set, the depth sensor window lens comprising a sensor lens and an illuminator lens separated by an opaque dam. The method uses a two-shot injection molding process, a first shot comprising an optically clear polymeric material to form the sensor lens and the illuminator lens and the second shot comprising an opaque polymeric material to form the separator of the two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Maosheng Ye, Javier Yanez, Frank C. Holloway, Michael Beerman, Roy Joseph Riccomini
  • Patent number: 12372689
    Abstract: A protective film for polarizers, a polarizing plate including the same, and an optical display apparatus including the same. The polyester-based film is a polyester protective film, has a thickness of about 10 ?m to about 50 ?m and a refractive index difference (nx?ny) of about 0.01 or more (nx and ny being indexes of refraction of the protective film at a wavelength of about 550 nm in the slow axis direction and the fast axis direction of the protective film, respectively), and is a biaxially stretched film. The slow axis direction of the protective film is coincident with a transverse direction (TD) thereof and an angle of about 70° to about 90° is defined between an external optical axis of the protective film and a normal direction with respect to an in-plane direction of the protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong Choon Kim, Jun Mo Koo, Jung Hun You, Sang Hum Lee, Dong Yoon Shin
  • Patent number: 12372693
    Abstract: A light control film comprises a light input surface and a light output surface opposite the light input surface. Alternating transmissive regions and absorptive regions are disposed between the light input surface and the light output surface. The absorptive regions have an aspect ratio of at least 30 and the alternating transmissive region and absorptive regions have a relative transmission at a viewing angle of 0 degrees of at least 75%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel J. Schmidt, Caleb T. Nelson, Kevin W. Gotrik, Raymond J. Kenney, John A. Wheatley, Kenneth A. Epstein, Gary T. Boyd, Corey D. Balts
  • Patent number: 12372745
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens, an image capturing device and an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: JIANGXI JINGCHAO OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Han Xie, Binbin Liu, Ming Li, Hairong Zou
  • Patent number: 12372758
    Abstract: Actuators for rotating or tilting an optical element, for example an optical path folding element, comprising a voice coil motor (VCM) and a curved ball-guided mechanism operative to create a rotation or tilt movement of the optical element around a rotation axis upon actuation by the VCM. In some embodiments, an actuator includes two, first and second VCMs, and two curved ball-guided mechanisms operative to create rotation or tilt around respective first and second rotation axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Bachar, Itay Jerby, Itay Yedid
  • Patent number: 12372755
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and fifth lens, wherein an Abbe number of the second lens is vd2, an Abbe number of the third lens is vd3, a central thickness of the second lens along the optical axis is CT2, a central thickness of the third lens along the optical axis is CT3, the aperture number of the optical lens assembly is Fno, an incident angle of a main light incident at the position of 60% of the maximum image height of the optical lens assembly is CRA6, and the following conditions are satisfied: 3.54<(vd3*CT3?vd2*CT2)/Fno<8.18 and 28.25<CRA6<35.76.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ching-Yun Huang, Chi-Chang Wang
  • Patent number: 12372760
    Abstract: A variable magnification projection optical system includes, in order from an enlargement side: a first lens group having negative refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having positive refractive power. During zooming, the first lens group is fixed, and the second lens group and the third lens group move. The second lens group includes a plurality of lenses each having positive refractive power. All lenses each having positive refractive power in the first lens group and the second lens group are made of a glass material having a transmittance greater than 0.98 per thickness of 10 mm with respect to light having a wavelength of 440 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Atsuo Masui
  • Patent number: 12372763
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group of which at least a part moves for focusing, a plurality of lens groups which move in zooming, an aperture stop, and a final lens group which does not move for zooming. The final lens group includes a separation element PR for separating an incident light thereon into a transmitted light and a reflected light, a relay unit LR having a positive refractive power on which the transmitted light is incident, and a relay unit LA having a positive refractive power on which the reflected light is incident. An inequality about Fwp/Fw is satisfied, where Fw is a focal length at a wide angle end of the zoom lens via the relay unit LR and FwP is a focal length at the wide angle end of the zoom lens via the relay unit LA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yutaka Iriyama
  • Patent number: 12372769
    Abstract: The presently claimed and described technology provides an apparatus (500, 1000A, 1000B) configured to adjustably position a focal location (14) of a first instrument (12) of a first body (10, 20, 60) with respect to a target location (44, 54) of a second instrument (42, 42H, 42U, 52) of a second body (40, 50). The apparatus further includes a third body (30), a first joint (210), and a second joint (310). The first joint is configured to adjustably linearly position the first body with respect to the third body along a first axis (A2) and thereby perform a first adjustment and is further configured to adjustably rotatably position the first body with respect to the third body about the first axis (A2) and thereby perform a second adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventor: Jozef Sofka
  • Patent number: 12372781
    Abstract: A system with a deformable membrane for speckle mitigation. In some embodiments, the system includes a laser for producing laser light; a photodetector for detecting the laser light after interaction of the laser light with a sample; and a silicon deformable membrane, for modulating the phase of the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Rockley Photonics Limited
    Inventors: Alexander Fast, Aaron L. Birkbeck, Craig Gardner, Haydn Frederick Jones, Benjamin Ver Steeg
  • Patent number: 12372743
    Abstract: There are provided an optical system and an imaging device including the same. The optical system includes: in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group having refractive power; and a second lens group having positive refractive power. A variable distance that varies during focusing between the first lens group and the second lens group is closer to an object than a variable distance that varies during focusing between other lenses. The first lens group includes a positive lens and at least one or more negative lenses in order from the image side. The second lens group includes a lens subgroup 2A having positive refractive power, an aperture stop, and a lens subgroup 2B having positive refractive power in order from the object side. The lens subgroup 2B includes a negative lens and a positive lens in order from the object side and satisfies a predetermined Conditional Expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiya Segawa, Yuki Mori
  • Patent number: 12372699
    Abstract: An optical component includes a base and a multilayer film including a first layer group located on the base and a second layer group located between the first layer group and the base. The second layer group includes a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer alternately stacked, the first layer group includes a third dielectric layer and a fourth dielectric layer alternately stacked. The first dielectric layer has a higher refractive index than the second dielectric layer, and the third dielectric layer has a higher refractive index than the fourth dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Fukui, Seiji Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 12372700
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a light-guide optical element having a plurality of partially reflecting surfaces is disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of transparent plates, each plate polished on two opposite surfaces such that the surfaces are parallel to each other, coating a first of the surfaces of a subset of plates with a first coating, coating a second of the surfaces of the subset of plates with a second coating; bonding together the plurality of transparent plates to form a stack, and cutting the stack along parallel planes obliquely angled to the faces of the transparent plates so as to form the optical element, wherein the first coating is a partially reflective coating have a first set of mechanical properties, and the second coating is selected from the group consisting of: a coating similar to the first coating and a non-reflective coating having a second set of mechanical properties substantially similar to the first set of mechanical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Lumus Ltd.
    Inventors: Elad Sharlin, Dror Hermoni
  • Patent number: 12366736
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with negative refractive power, a second lens with positive refractive power, a third lens with positive refractive power, a fourth lens with negative refractive power, a fifth lens with positive refractive power, and a sixth lens with negative refractive power, wherein said first lens has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, said fourth lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and said sixth lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Kamada
  • Patent number: 12368037
    Abstract: The invention relates to devices and methods for desorption scanning of analyte material deposited on a sample support, which can comprise the following mode of operation: (a) setting a position of the support to approach an impingement region onto which a beam is directed for local desorption of analyte material; (b) determining an actual position of the support after setting the position; (c) comparing the determined actual position with a target position of the support to determine any deviation; (d) adjusting a beam orientation, if a deviation is detected, so that the beam is directed onto the impingement region on the support that results when there is no deviation; (e) applying the beam to the impingement region to locally desorb analyte material and deliver it to an analyzer; and (f) checking whether a predetermined end condition is satisfied and, if not, repeating steps (a)-(e) for a subsequent non-congruent impingement region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Inventors: Andreas Haase, Marcel Niehaus, Jens Höhndorf
  • Patent number: 12366540
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device and method for measuring a correlation between fatigue performance and a microstructure of a one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterial in situ in a transmission electron microscope (TEM), belongs to the technical field of in-situ testing and characterization of microstructures of nanomaterials. The device includes a chip part, a supporting part, and a control circuit. The supporting part is a bracket and a cable disposed on a transmission sample holder, and the circuit part consists of cables connected to the chip and a power supply capable of applying different waveforms, variable voltages, and variable frequencies. This design breaks through a traditional mechanical stress-driven fatigue performance test method, and achieves controllable adjustment of different amplitudes and cycles by using an electric field formed by a voltage and adjusting a voltage size and frequency, such that the 1D nanomaterial vibrates in the electric field to achieve fatigue performance testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Beijing University of Technology
    Inventors: Lihua Wang, Yan Ma, Xiaodong Han