Patents by Inventor Daniel STEPHAN

Daniel STEPHAN 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).

  • Publication number: 20220110243
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for determining a status of plants. The system includes a light transmitter arranged for providing broad band illumination to one or more plants. The system includes a light receiver including a plurality of receiver channels, the receiver channels arranged for receiving light from said one or more plants in mutually different wavelength bands. The system includes a processing unit arranged for determining a status of said one or more plants on the basis of light received by the plurality of receiver channels. The transmitter may be arranged for transmitting bursts of modulated light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan REUSCH, Lars WUNTKE, Daniel STEPHAN, Christoph MATTOLAT
  • Patent number: 11234361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for determining a status of plants. The system includes a light transmitter arranged for providing broad band illumination to one or more plants. The system includes a light receiver including a plurality of receiver channels, the receiver channels arranged for receiving light from said one or more plants in mutually different wavelength bands. The system includes a processing unit arranged for determining a status of said one or more plants on the basis of light received by the plurality of receiver channels. The transmitter may be arranged for transmitting bursts of modulated light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
    Inventors: Stefan Reusch, Lars Wuntke, Daniel Stephan, Christoph Mattolat
  • Publication number: 20220026777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tuneable optical microcavity, characterised in that it comprises electrodes (12) on substrates (11), wherein the electrodes are comprised in the structure of dielectric or metal mirrors (13), or each of the electrodes has at least one dielectric or metal minor (13) on it, or the electrodes are semitransparent metal minors (13), wherein the mirrors are preferably located at a separation being a multiple of ½ lambda, where lambda is the central wavelength of the cavity mode, the cavity between the mirrors being filled with material (15) that changes the effective refractive index under the influence of external fields, preferably such as electric, magnetic field, thermal and mechanical stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jacek Szczytko, Katarzyna Lekenta, Barbara Pietka, Mateusz Krol, Rafal Mirek, Daniel Stephan, Wiktor Piecek, Rafal Mazur, Przemyslaw Morawiak
  • Publication number: 20200084958
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for determining a status of plants. The system includes a light transmitter arranged for providing broad band illumination to one or more plants. The system includes a light receiver including a plurality of receiver channels, the receiver channels arranged for receiving light from said one or more plants in mutually different wavelength bands. The system includes a processing unit arranged for determining a status of said one or more plants on the basis of light received by the plurality of receiver channels. The transmitter may be arranged for transmitting bursts of modulated light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan REUSCH, Lars WUNTKE, Daniel STEPHAN, Christoph MATTOLAT