Patents by Inventor Alexander James Yeh

Alexander James Yeh 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).

  • Archimedean cages, polyhedra, and nanotube structures and methods
    Patent number: 9863136
    Abstract: A method for designing a structure includes selecting an initial cage, defining a secondary cage by positioning a plurality of tiles, reduced tiles, or larger patches obtained or derived from a selected one of the uniform Archimedean tilings over the faces of the initial cage, resizing edges of the secondary cage such the cage is equilateral, and planarizing the cage faces. In an embodiment the patch comprising a network of edges and vertices from a uniform tiling decorates the faces of a polyhedron to define a non-polyhedral cage that is transformed by planarizing the faces. In an embodiment the secondary cage comprises tiles derived from an Archimedean tiling that decorate faces of the initial cage comprising a polyhedron. In an embodiment the secondary cages resemble a nanotube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Stanley Jay Schein, James Maurice Gayed, Alexander James Yeh
  • ARCHIMEDEAN CAGES, POLYHEDRA, AND NANOTUBE STRUCTURES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20150315775
    Abstract: A method for designing a structure includes selecting an initial cage, defining a secondary cage by positioning a plurality of tiles, reduced tiles, or larger patches obtained or derived from a selected one of the uniform Archimedean tilings over the faces of the initial cage, resizing edges of the secondary cage such the cage is equilateral, and planarizing the cage faces. In an embodiment the patch comprising a network of edges and vertices from a uniform tiling decorates the faces of a polyhedron to define a non-polyhedral cage that is transformed by planarizing the faces. In an embodiment the secondary cage comprises tiles derived from an Archimedean tiling that decorate faces of the initial cage comprising a polyhedron. In an embodiment the secondary cages resemble a nanotube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Stanley Jay Schein, James Maurice Gayed, Alexander James Yeh