Patents by Inventor Darrick Hay

Darrick Hay 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: 20250369087
    Abstract: A shutter apparatus for use in a part-manufacturing process is disclosed. The shutter apparatus includes a platen having a plurality of substrate locations. The shutter apparatus also includes a shutter defining a substrate-location aperture. The shutter covers the platen except for a selectable one of the plurality of substrate locations of the platen exposed through the substrate-location aperture. The substrate-location aperture is sized to expose only one of the plurality of substrate locations at a time, such that the shutter covers all but a selected one of the plurality of substrate locations. The shutter and the platen are selectively rotatable, relative to each other, to alternatingly expose a different selected one of the plurality of substrate locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: James M. Kestner, Daniel Perron, Darrick Hay, Derrick Ong
  • Patent number: 11709097
    Abstract: An apparatus measures the transverse profile of vectorial optical field beams, including both the phase and the polarization spatial profile. The apparatus contains a polarization separation module, a weak perturbation module, and a detection module. Characterizing the transverse profile of vector fields provides an optical metrology tool for both fundamental studies of vectorial optical fields and a wide spectrum of applications, including microscopy, surveillance, imaging, communication, material processing, and laser trapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Zhimin Shi, Darrick Hay, Ziyi Zhu, Yiyu Zhou, Robert W. Boyd
  • Publication number: 20220011163
    Abstract: An apparatus measures the transverse profile of vectorial optical field beams, including both the phase and the polarization spatial profile. The apparatus contains a polarization separation module, a weak perturbation module, and a detection module. Characterizing the transverse profile of vector fields provides an optical metrology tool for both fundamental studies of vectorial optical fields and a wide spectrum of applications, including microscopy, surveillance, imaging, communication, material processing, and laser trapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicants: The University of Rochester, University of South Florida
    Inventors: Zhimin Shi, Darrick Hay, Ziyi Zhu, Yiyu Zhou, Robert W. Boyd
  • Patent number: 11067450
    Abstract: An apparatus measures the transverse profile of vectorial optical field beams, including both the phase and the polarization spatial profile. The apparatus contains a polarization separation module, a weak perturbation module, and a detection module. Characterizing the transverse profile of vector fields provides an optical metrology tool for both fundamental studies of vectorial optical fields and a wide spectrum of applications, including microscopy, surveillance, imaging, communication, material processing, and laser trapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Zhimin Shi, Darrick Hay, Ziyi Zhu, Yiyu Zhou, Robert W. Boyd
  • Publication number: 20200011737
    Abstract: An apparatus measures the transverse profile of vectorial optical field beams, including both the phase and the polarization spatial profile. The apparatus contains a polarization separation module, a weak perturbation module, and a detection module. Characterizing the transverse profile of vector fields provides an optical metrology tool for both fundamental studies of vectorial optical fields and a wide spectrum of applications, including microscopy, surveillance, imaging, communication, material processing, and laser trapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicants: The University of Rochester, University of South Florida
    Inventors: Zhimin Shi, Darrick Hay, Ziyi Zhu, Yiyu Zhou, Robert W. Boyd