Patents by Inventor Benny Pesach
Benny Pesach 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).
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Patent number: 9091413Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate and an edge-emitting radiation source, mounted on a surface of the substrate so as to emit optical radiation along an axis that is parallel to the surface. A reflector is fixed to the substrate in a location on the axis and is configured to reflect the optical radiation in a direction that is angled away from the surface. One or more optical elements are mounted on the substrate so as to receive and transmit the optical radiation reflected by the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Israel Petronius, Zafrir Mor, Mordehai Margalit, Benny Pesach, Alexander Shpunt
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Patent number: 9056167Abstract: An apparatus and a system for controlling and/or managing administration of a drug to a body of a patient. The apparatus includes a drug infusion device configured to deliver drug at a predetermined location in the body of the patient, at least one sensor disposed in the drug infusion device and configured to measure a. corresponding property related to the patient and selected from the group consisting of physiological properties, biochemical properties, environmental properties and drug-related properties, a controller disposed in the drug infusion device and configured to receive from the at least one sensor data representative of the measured corresponding property and based on the received data, determine a drug delivery rate. The drug delivery device is configured to deliver the drug to the body of the patient based on the determined drug delivery rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Insuline Medical Ltd.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Gabriel Bitton, Ron Nagar, Ram Weiss
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Patent number: 9036158Abstract: A pattern projector, comprising a light source, configured to emit a beam of light. A transparent substrate, which has a pair of mutually-opposed planar surfaces is configured to receive and propagate the beam within the substrate by total internal reflection between the planar surfaces. The transparent substrate comprises a diffractive structure that is formed on one of the planar surfaces and is configured to direct at least a part of the beam to propagate out of the substrate in a direction that is angled away from the surface and to create a pattern comprising multiple interleaved light and dark areas.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Benny Pesach
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Patent number: 9030528Abstract: An imaging module includes a matrix of detector elements formed on a single semiconductor substrate and configured to output electrical signals in response to optical radiation that is incident on the detector elements. A filter layer is disposed over the detector elements and includes multiple filter zones overlying different, respective, convex regions of the matrix and having different, respective passbands.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Erez Sali, Alexander Shpunt
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Patent number: 8961458Abstract: A therapeutic treatment device, system and method for improving administration of a temperature sensitive drug into a tissue on the body of a patient at a drug injection site are disclosed. The device includes a treatment element with a controllable heating element in temperature communicative contact with the tissue adjacent to the drug injection site. The controllable heating element is configured to heat the tissue adjacent to the drug injection site to a controllable temperature but does not heat the injected drug above a predetermined limiting temperature, above which degradation of the injected drug may occur.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Insuline Medical Ltd.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Gabriel Bitton, Ron Nagar, Ram Weiss
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Publication number: 20140378908Abstract: The present disclosure presents systems, devices and methods for injection of drugs, substances and/or chemicals to a patient and for improving their effectiveness once they are injected are disclosed. Additional treatment can be applied to a tissue region on the patient into which a drug (e.g., insulin) is injected, to expose the tissue region to various forms of energy or a substance to improve the drug's pharmacokinetic and/or pharmacodynamic profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Benny Pesach, Gabriel Bitton, Ram Weiss, Ron Nagar
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Patent number: 8908277Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a matrix of light sources arranged on a substrate with a predetermined, uniform spacing between the light sources. A beam homogenizer includes a first optical surface, including a first microlens array, which has a first pitch equal to the spacing between the light sources and which is aligned with the matrix so that a respective optical axis of each microlens in the array intercepts a corresponding light source in the matrix and transmits light emitted by the corresponding light source. A second optical surface, including a second microlens array, is positioned to receive and focus the light transmitted by the first microlens array and has a second pitch that is different from the first pitch.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Apple IncInventors: Benny Pesach, Shimon Yalov, Zafrir Mor
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Patent number: 8827979Abstract: The present disclosure presents systems, devices and methods for injection of drugs, substances and/or chemicals to a patient and for improving their effectiveness once they are injected are disclosed. Additional treatment can be applied to a tissue region on the patient into which a drug (e.g., insulin) is injected, to expose the tissue region to various forms of energy or a substance to improve the drug's pharmacokinetic and/or pharmacodynamic profile.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Insuline Medical Ltd.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Gabriel Bitton, Ram Weiss, Ron Nagar
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Publication number: 20140211215Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a beam source, which is configured to generate an optical beam having a pattern imposed thereon. A projection lens is configured to receive and project the optical beam so as to cast the pattern onto a first area in space having a first angular extent. A field multiplier is interposed between the projection lens and the first area and is configured to expand the projected optical beam so as to cast the pattern onto a second area in space having a second angular extent that is at least 50% greater than the first angular extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: PrimeSense Ltd.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Zafrir Mor
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Publication number: 20140211084Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate and an edge-emitting radiation source, mounted on a surface of the substrate so as to emit optical radiation along an axis that is parallel to the surface. A reflector is fixed to the substrate in a location on the axis and is configured to reflect the optical radiation in a direction that is angled away from the surface. One or more optical elements are mounted on the substrate so as to receive and transmit the optical radiation reflected by the reflector.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: PRIMESENSE LTD.Inventors: Israel Petronius, Zafrir Mor, Mordehai Margalit, Benny Pesach, Alexander Shpunt
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Patent number: 8749796Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a beam source, which is configured to generate an optical beam having a pattern imposed thereon. A projection lens is configured to receive and project the optical beam so as to cast the pattern onto a first area in space having a first angular extent. A field multiplier is interposed between the projection lens and the first area and is configured to expand the projected optical beam so as to cast the pattern onto a second area in space having a second angular extent that is at least 50% greater than the first angular extent.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Primesense Ltd.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Zafrir Mor
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Publication number: 20140155679Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for delivery of a chemical substance to the body of the patient are provided. Such embodiments may include an infusion catheter configured to be inserted into tissue, a catheter securing element configured to be adhered to the skin of the patient and further configured to secure the infusion catheter to the skin, a drug delivery pump configured to infuse a drug into the infusion catheter for delivery to a drug infused region on the body of the patient, and a treatment element configured to apply a treatment to the drug infused region to improve pharmacodynamics of the drug during a period of delivery of the drug to the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: INSULINE MEDICAL LTD.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Gabriel Bitton, Ron Nagar, Ram Weiss
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Patent number: 8622991Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for delivery of a chemical substance to the body of the patient are provided. Such embodiments may include an infusion catheter configured to be inserted into tissue, a catheter securing element configured to be adhered to the skin of the patient and further configured to secure the infusion catheter to the skin, a drug delivery pump configured to infuse a drug into the infusion catheter for delivery to a drug infused region on the body of the patient, and a treatment element configured to apply a treatment to the drug infused region to improve pharmacodynamics of the drug during a period of delivery of the drug to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Insuline Medical Ltd.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Gabriel Bitton, Ram Weiss, Ron Nagar
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Publication number: 20130127854Abstract: Apparatus (20) for mapping includes an illumination module (30), which includes a radiation source (32), which is configured to emit a beam of radiation. A scanner (34) receives and scans the beam over a selected angular range. Illumination optics (35) project the scanned beam so as to create a pattern of spots extending over a region of interest. An imaging module (38) captures an image of the pattern that is projected onto an object (28) in the region of interest. A processor (46) processes the image in order to construct a three-dimensional (3D) map of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: PRIMESENSE LTD.Inventors: Alexander Shpunt, Benny Pesach, Ronen Akerman
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Patent number: 8409133Abstract: An apparatus and a system for controlling and/or managing administration of a drug to a body of a patient. The apparatus includes a drug infusion device configured to deliver drug at a predetermined location in the body of the patient, at least one sensor disposed in the drug infusion device and configured to measure a. corresponding property related to the patient and selected from the group consisting of physiological properties, biochemical properties, environmental properties and drug-related properties, a controller disposed in the drug infusion device and configured to receive from the at least one sensor data representative of the measured corresponding property and based on the received data, determine a drug delivery rate. The drug delivery device is configured to deliver the drug to the body of the patient based on the determined drug delivery rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Insuline Medical Ltd.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Gabriel Bitton, Ron Nagar, Ram Weiss
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Patent number: 8384997Abstract: Optical apparatus includes first and second diffractive optical elements (DOEs) arranged in series to diffract an input beam of radiation. The first DOE is configured to apply to the input beam a pattern with a specified divergence angle, while the second DOE is configured to split the input beam into a matrix of output beams with a specified fan-out angle. The divergence and fan-out angles are chosen so as to project the radiation onto a region in space in multiple adjacent instances of the pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Primesense LtdInventors: Alexander Shpunt, Benny Pesach
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Publication number: 20130038881Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a beam source, which is configured to generate an optical beam having a pattern imposed thereon. A projection lens is configured to receive and project the optical beam so as to cast the pattern onto a first area in space having a first angular extent. A field multiplier is interposed between the projection lens and the first area and is configured to expand the projected optical beam so as to cast the pattern onto a second area in space having a second angular extent that is at least 50% greater than the first angular extent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: PRIMESENSE LTD.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Zafrir Mor, Shimon Yalov, Alexander Shpunt
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Publication number: 20130038941Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a matrix of light sources arranged on a substrate with a predetermined, uniform spacing between the light sources. A beam homogenizer includes a first optical surface, including a first microlens array, which has a first pitch equal to the spacing between the light sources and which is aligned with the matrix so that a respective optical axis of each microlens in the array intercepts a corresponding light source in the matrix and transmits light emitted by the corresponding light source. A second optical surface, including a second microlens array, is positioned to receive and focus the light transmitted by the first microlens array and has a second pitch that is different from the first pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: PRIMESENSE LTD.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Shimon Yalov, Zafrir Mor
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Publication number: 20120249744Abstract: An imaging module includes a matrix of detector elements formed on a single semiconductor substrate and configured to output electrical signals in response to optical radiation that is incident on the detector elements. A filter layer is disposed over the detector elements and includes multiple filter zones overlying different, respective, convex regions of the matrix and having different, respective passbands.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: PRIMESENSE LTD.Inventors: Benny Pesach, Erez Sali, Alexander Shpunt
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Publication number: 20120203164Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for the controlled delivery of a drug to a targeted layer of the skin in a human or animal subject. In particular, the present invention relates to such a device, system and method for selective drug delivery to the cutaneous or subcutaneous layer of skin to enhances the effectiveness of the drug delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Inventors: Gabriel Bitton, Ron Nagar, Benny Pesach