Patents by Inventor David Shafer

David Shafer 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: 20230065641
    Abstract: A substrate etching system includes a support to hold a wafer in a face-up orientation, a dispenser arm movable laterally across the wafer on the support, the dispenser arm supporting a delivery port to selectively dispense a liquid etchant onto a portion of a top face of the wafer, and a monitoring system comprising a probe movable laterally across the wafer on the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Jeffrey Chi Cheung, John Ghekiere, Jerry D. Leonhard, David P. Surdock, Benjamin Shafer, Ray Young
  • Publication number: 20230033858
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to improved skin quality, health and appearance using a new delivery method and certain bioactive compositions and formulations. The system incorporates microneedle delivery technology with unique compositions and formulations. Such development allows for the pursuit of personalized medicine, or treatment delivery that can expand to remote controlled environment, immediate compounding and ultimate personalization with a state of the art longitudinal data predictive analytics. Certain formulations described herein are unique, combinatory and synergistic. Secured by high-tech proprietary system, there are unlimited potentials using AQT technology including but not limited to 3-D printing of a biodegradable micro chips that can be delivered via injection, AQT or any other possible route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Sobin Chang, David J. Goldberg, David Shafer
  • Patent number: 11501986
    Abstract: A substrate etching system includes a support to hold a wafer in a face-up orientation, a dispenser arm movable laterally across the wafer on the support, the dispenser arm supporting a delivery port to selectively dispense a liquid etchant onto a portion of a top face of the wafer, and a monitoring system comprising a probe movable laterally across the wafer on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Chi Cheung, John Ghekiere, Jerry D. Leonhard, David P. Surdock, Benjamin Shafer, Ray Young
  • Patent number: 11422352
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to system for transferring a substrate, such as a microscope slide, and holding the substrate within at least one device. The system includes a holder for holding the substrate and a gripper for transferring the substrate, such as between a cassette or stack and the holder. A method is also discussed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: RareCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Quarre, Edward Shafer, David Stewart, Joel Smith
  • Publication number: 20220000452
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a robotic surgical system includes a combined laser imaging robotic surgical tool, a control console, and a laser generator/controller. The tool is mounted to a first robotic arm of a patient side cart. The tool has a wristed joint and an end effector coupled together. The end effector has a laser-emitting device to direct a laser beam onto tissue in a surgical site and an image-capturing device to capture images of the tissue in the surgical site. The control console, in communication with the tool, receives the captured images of tissue in the surgical site and displays the captured images on a display device to a user. The laser generator/controller is coupled to the tool and the control console to control the emission of the laser beam onto tissue of the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew R. Williams, Gregory W. Dachs, II, David Shafer
  • Patent number: 11051788
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a robotic surgical system includes a combined laser imaging robotic surgical tool, a control console, and a laser generator/controller. The tool is mounted to a first robotic arm of a patient side cart. The tool has a wristed joint and an end effector coupled together. The end effector has a laser-emitting device to direct a laser beam onto tissue in a surgical site and an image-capturing device to capture images of the tissue in the surgical site. The control console, in communication with the tool, receives the captured images of tissue in the surgical site and displays the captured images on a display device to a user. The laser generator/controller is coupled to the tool and the control console to control the emission of the laser beam onto tissue of the surgical site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Williams, Gregory W. Dachs, II, David Shafer
  • Patent number: 10980865
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to improved skin quality, health and appearance using a new delivery method and certain bioactive compositions and formulations. The system incorporates microneedle delivery technology with unique compositions and formulations. Such development allows for the pursuit of personalized medicine, or treatment delivery that can expand to remote controlled environment, immediate compounding and ultimate personalization with a state of the art longitudinal data predictive analytics. Certain formulations described herein are unique, combinatory and synergistic. Secured by high-tech proprietary system, there are unlimited potentials using AQT technology including but not limited to 3-D printing of a biodegradable micro chips that can be delivered via injection, AQT or any other possible route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: AQUAVIT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Sobin Chang, David J. Goldberg, David Shafer
  • Patent number: 10969694
    Abstract: A refractive projection lens for imaging a pattern in an object plane of the projection lens into an image plane of the projection lens via electromagnetic radiation of a mercury vapor lamp includes a multiplicity of lens elements are arranged along an optical axis between the object and image planes. The lens elements image a pattern in the object plane into the image plane with a reducing imaging scale. The lens elements include first lens elements made of a first material with a relatively low Abbe number and a second lens elements made of a second material with a higher Abbe number relative to the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Epple, David Shafer
  • Publication number: 20200184588
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a cultural assessment system for a method of assessing culture of a school. The method may include collecting continuous school culture indicator ratings from teachers of the school via a web application, the continuous school culture indicator ratings being for each individual teacher for each of a plurality of school culture indicators for each of a plurality of school culture drivers. The method may include generating school culture driver scores for each of the plurality of school culture drivers based on the continuous school culture indicator ratings of the teachers of the school. The method may include displaying to the individual teacher, a comparison of school culture driver scores of the school and school culture driver scores of the individual teacher based on the continuous school culture indicator ratings of the individual teacher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: David SHAFER, Robert NEU, Philip LANOUE, Douglas BULLARD
  • Publication number: 20200121769
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to improved skin quality, health and appearance using a new delivery method and certain bioactive compositions and formulations. The system incorporates microneedle delivery technology with unique compositions and formulations. Such development allows for the pursuit of personalized medicine, or treatment delivery that can expand to remote controlled environment, immediate compounding and ultimate personalization with a state of the art longitudinal data predictive analytics. Certain formulations described herein are unique, combinatory and synergistic. Secured by high-tech proprietary system, there are unlimited potentials using AQT technology including but not limited to 3-D printing of a biodegradable micro chips that can be delivered via injection, AQT or any other possible route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Sobin Chang, David J. Goldberg, David Shafer
  • Publication number: 20200026199
    Abstract: A refractive projection lens for imaging a pattern in an object plane of the projection lens into an image plane of the projection lens via electromagnetic radiation of a mercury vapor lamp includes a multiplicity of lens elements are arranged along an optical axis between the object and image planes. The lens elements image a pattern in the object plane into the image plane with a reducing imaging scale. The lens elements include first lens elements made of a first material with a relatively low Abbe number and a second lens elements made of a second material with a higher Abbe number relative to the first material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Alexander Epple, David Shafer
  • Publication number: 20190357884
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a robotic surgical system includes a combined laser imaging robotic surgical tool, a control console, and a laser generator/controller. The tool is mounted to a first robotic arm of a patient side cart. The tool has a wristed joint and an end effector coupled together. The end effector has a laser-emitting device to direct a laser beam onto tissue in a surgical site and an image-capturing device to capture images of the tissue in the surgical site. The control console, in communication with the tool, receives the captured images of tissue in the surgical site and displays the captured images on a display device to a user. The laser generator/controller is coupled to the tool and the control console to control the emission of the laser beam onto tissue of the surgical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Matthew R. Williams, Gregory W. Dachs, II, David Shafer
  • Patent number: 10371574
    Abstract: A detection device for a microscope comprises a dispersive element in the beam path of light and a selection element. The selection element separates a beam path of a spectral portion of the light from the beam path of the light. The detector device furthermore comprises a focusing optical unit configured to focus the beam path of the spectral portion of the light onto a sensor. By way of example, the microscope may be a confocal microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: David Shafer, Tiemo Anhut, Matthias Wald
  • Patent number: 10368838
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a robotic surgical system includes a combined laser imaging robotic surgical tool, a control console, and a laser generator/controller. The tool is mounted to a first robotic arm of a patient side cart. The tool has a wristed joint and an end effector coupled together. The end effector has a laser-emitting device to direct a laser beam onto tissue in a surgical site and an image-capturing device to capture images of the tissue in the surgical site. The control console, in communication with the tool, receives the captured images of tissue in the surgical site and displays the captured images on a display device to a user. The laser generator/controller is coupled to the tool and the control console to control the emission of the laser beam onto tissue of the surgical site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Reagan Williams, Gregory William Dachs, II, David Shafer
  • Publication number: 20190063993
    Abstract: A detection device for a microscope comprises a dispersive element in the beam path of light and a selection element. The selection element separates a beam path of a spectral portion of the light from the beam path of the light. The detector device furthermore comprises a focusing optical unit configured to focus the beam path of the spectral portion of the light onto a sensor. By way of example, the microscope may be a confocal microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: David Shafer, Tiemo Anhut, Matthias Wald
  • Patent number: 10132685
    Abstract: A detection device for a microscope comprises a dispersive element in the beam path of light and a selection element. The selection element separates a beam path of a spectral portion of the light from the beam path of the light. The detector device furthermore comprises a focusing optical unit configured to focus the beam path of the spectral portion of the light onto a sensor. By way of example, the microscope may be a confocal microscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: David Shafer, Tiemo Anhut, Matthias Wald
  • Patent number: 10073256
    Abstract: An apparatus for imaging a sample arranged in a first medium in an object plane. The apparatus includes an optical transmission system which images the sample in the object plane in an intermediate image in an intermediate image plane. The object plane and the intermediate image plane form an angle not equal to 90° with an optical axis of the transmission system. The apparatus further comprises an optical imaging system having an objective. The object plane may be imaged on a detector without distortion. The optical transmission system is symmetrical with respect to a pupil plane, the object plane, and the intermediate image plane to satisfy the Scheimpflug condition. The intermediate image lies in a second medium having a refractive index virtually identical to that of the first medium. A lens group of a subsystem arranged closest to the sample or intermediate image comprises at least one catadioptric assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH, CARL ZEISS AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Singer, Ralf Wolleschensky, Wilhelm Ulrich, David Shafer, Artur Degen
  • Publication number: 20180031815
    Abstract: A projection objective configured to image an object field in an object plane into an image field in an image field plane includes a reflective unit, a first refractive unit, and a second refractive unit. An optical axis of the first refractive unit is parallel to but displaced from an optical axis of the second refractive unit. The reflective unit includes a first curved mirror and a second curved mirror. The second curved mirror is immediately downstream from the first curved mirror in a path of light from the object plane to the image plane. The projection objective is a microlithography projection objective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: David Shafer, Wilhelm Ulrich, Aurelian Dodoc, Rudolf Murai Von Buenau, Hans-Juergen Mann, Alexander Epple
  • Publication number: 20170350763
    Abstract: A detection device (113) for a microscope comprises a dispersive element (211) in the beam path (290) of light and a selection element (212). The selection element (212) separates a beam path (291) of a spectral portion of the light from the beam path (290) of the light. The detector device (113) furthermore comprises a focusing optical unit (213) configured to focus the beam path (291) of the spectral portion of the light onto a sensor (214). By way of example, the microscope may be a confocal microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: David SHAFER, Tiemo ANHUT, Matthias WALD
  • Publication number: 20170336609
    Abstract: Catadioptric eyepiece system having an exit pupil, comprising a display having a surface disposed in an object plane; optics providing a beam path from the display to the exit pupil and being configured to image a portion of the object plane into an intermediate image formed in a curved intermediate image plane; wherein the optics comprise: a lens system of positive optical power comprising at least one lens, wherein the lens system is disposed in the beam path downstream of the display and upstream of the intermediate image; a concave first mirror disposed in the beam path downstream of the intermediate image and upstream of the exit pupil; and a first beam splitter disposed in the beam path between the lens system and the first mirror and between the first mirror and the exit pupil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Scott LERNER, Markus SEESSELBERG, Tobias BREUNINGER, David SHAFER, Toufic JABBOUR