Patents by Inventor Eugene Pauling Boden
Eugene Pauling Boden 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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Publication number: 20110053055Abstract: There are provided compositions, optical data storage media and methods of using the optical data storage media. The compositions comprise a non-linear sensitizer comprising one or more subphthalocyanine reverse saturable absorbers capable of absorbing actinic radiation to cause upper triplet energy transfer to a reactant that undergoes a photochemical change upon triplet excitation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Kwok Pong Chan, Riffard Pierre Jean-Gilles, Robert James Perry, Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Evgenia Mikhailovna Kim, Julia Lam Lee, Eugene Pauling Boden, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Brian Lee Lawrence
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Publication number: 20110053054Abstract: There are provided compositions, optical data storage media and methods of using the optical data storage. The compositions comprise a non-linear sensitizer comprising one or more platinum ethynyl complexes capable of absorbing actinic radiation to cause upper triplet energy transfer to a reactant that undergoes a photochemical change upon triplet excitation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Riffard Pierre Jean-Gilles, Kwok Pong Chan, Robert James Perry, Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Evgenia Mikhailovna Kim, Julia Lam Lee, Eugene Pauling Boden, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Brian Lee Lawrence
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Publication number: 20110051586Abstract: There are provided optical data storage media and methods of optical data storage using the same. The optical data storage media comprises a non-linear sensitizer capable of absorbing actinic radiation to cause upper triplet energy transfer to a reactant that undergoes change upon triplet excitation. The refractive index change (?n) of the medium is at least about 0.005, or even at least about 0.05.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Eugene Pauling Boden, Kwok Pong Chan, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Evgenia Mikhailovna Kim, David Gilles Gascoyne, Robert James Perry, Riffard Pierre Jean-Gilles, Julia Lam Lee, Brian Lee Lawrence
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Patent number: 7897296Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a data storage media comprising mixing a photochromic dye with an organic material or an inorganic material to form a holographic composition; and molding the holographic composition into holographic data storage media. Disclosed herein too is an article comprising a photochromic dye and an organic material, wherein the article is used as a data storage media. Disclosed herein too is a method for recording information comprising irradiating an article that comprises a photochromic dye; wherein the irradiation is conducted with electromagnetic energy having a wavelength of about 350 to about 1,100 nanometers; and reacting the photochromic dye.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christoph Georg Erben, Eugene Pauling Boden, Michael Jeffrey McLaughlin
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Publication number: 20100302927Abstract: There are provided an optical data storage medium and methods of optical data storage using the same. The optical data storage medium comprises a non-linear sensitizer capable of absorbing actinic radiation to cause upper triplet energy transfer to a reactant that undergoes a photochemical change upon triplet excitation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2009Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Eugene Pauling Boden, Kwok Pong Chan, David Gilles Gascoyne, Evgenia Mikhailovna Kim, Brian Lee Lawrence, Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov, Robert James Perry, Michael Teruki Takemori
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Patent number: 7794896Abstract: A method of making a holographic data storage medium is provided. The method comprises: (a) providing an optically transparent substrate comprising at least one photochemically active dye; and (b) irradiating the optically transparent substrate at least one wavelength at which the optically transparent substrate has an absorbance in a range from about 0.1 to 1, to produce a modified optically transparent substrate comprising at least one optically readable datum and at least one photo-product of the photochemically active dye. The at least one wavelength is in a range from about 300 nanometers to about 800 nanometers. The optically transparent substrate is at least 100 micrometers thick, and comprises the photochemically active dye in an amount corresponding to from about 0.1 to about 10 weight percent based on a total weight of the optically transparent substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christoph Georg Erben, Eugene Pauling Boden, Kathryn Lynn Longley, Brian Lee Lawrence, Xiaolei Shi
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Publication number: 20100165817Abstract: An optical disc for micro-holographic data storage, including: optically-enabled material configured to store holographic data; guide grooves; a first coating disposed on the guide grooves and configured to reflect a tracking beam and to transmit a read or record beam; and a second coating disposed to cover the guide grooves and disposed on the first coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Xiaolei Shi, Brian Lee Lawrence, Eugene Pauling Boden, Zhiyuan Ren, Mark Cheverton, Victor Petrovich Ostroverkhov
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Patent number: 7524590Abstract: The present invention provides a method for storing holographic data comprising providing an optically transparent substrate comprising a photochemically active dye and a photo-acid generator; irradiating the optically transparent substrate with a holographic interference pattern, wherein the pattern has a first wavelength and an intensity both sufficient to convert, within a volume element of the substrate, at least some of the photochemically active dye into a photo-product, producing within the irradiated volume element concentration variations of the photo-product corresponding to the holographic interference pattern, thereby producing a first optically readable datum corresponding to the volume element; and irradiating the optically transparent substrate at a second wavelength and intensity sufficient to activate the photo-acid generator to stabilize the optically readable datum.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christoph Georg Erben, Eugene Pauling Boden, Xiaolei Shi
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Patent number: 7514521Abstract: Unexpected corrosion of downstream sections of a dialkyl carbonate manufacturing apparatus has been traced to alkyl chloroformate impurities, which slowly decompose to yield hydrochloric acid. An improved process and apparatus for dialkyl carbonate synthesis reduce corrosion by physically removing or chemically decomposing the alkyl chloroformate impurities within the corrosion-resistant upstream sections of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2001Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V.Inventors: Eugene Pauling Boden, Ganesh Kailasam, Larry Neil Lewis, Ignacio Vic Fernandez
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Publication number: 20080247011Abstract: A method for storing data including: providing a first substrate having a plurality of micro-holograms therein, the micro-holograms being indicative of the data; providing a second hologram-supporting substrate; illuminating the plurality of micro-holograms in the first substrate through the second substrate, thereby producing a holographic pattern in the second substrate indicative of reflections of the plurality of micro-holograms in the first substrate; providing a third hologram-supporting substrate; and, illuminating the holographic pattern in the second substrate through the third substrate, thereby substantially replicating the plurality of micro-holograms in the first substrate in the third substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brian Lee Lawrence, Marc Dubois, Pingfan Peter Wu, Joseph Lucian Smolenski, Xiaolei Shi, Eugene Pauling Boden
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Publication number: 20080158627Abstract: A method for storing holographic data, said method comprising: step (A) providing an optically transparent substrate comprising a polymer composition and a light absorbing chromophore, said polymer composition comprising a continuous phase and a dispersed phase, said dispersed phase being less than about 200 nm in size; and step (B) irradiating a volume element of the optically transparent substrate with a holographic interference pattern, wherein the pattern has a first wavelength and an intensity both sufficient to cause a phase change in at least a portion of the dispersed phase within the volume element of the substrate to produce within the irradiated volume element refractive index variations corresponding to the holographic interference pattern, thereby producing an optically readable datum corresponding to the volume element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2007Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Brian Lee Lawrence, Marc Dubois, Eugene Pauling Boden, William David Richards, Patrick Joseph McCloskey, Azar Alizadeh, Xiaolei Shi
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Publication number: 20080144145Abstract: Methods for storing holographic data are presented. The method includes providing an optically transparent substrate comprising a thermally active photochemically active polymer composition, the polymer composition including a photochemically active dye and a heat generating chromophore, thermally activating at least a part of a volume element of the optically transparent substrate to increase a quantum efficiency of photochemical conversion of the photochemically active dye into a photo-product, within the at least a part of the volume element and converting at least some of the photochemically active dye to a photo-product, and producing concentration variations of the photo-product within the volume element of the optically transparent substrate, thereby producing an optically readable datum corresponding to the volume element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Eugene Pauling Boden, Brian Lee Lawrence, Xiaolei Shi
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Publication number: 20080144146Abstract: Holographic data storage devices are presented. The holographic data storage device includes an optically transparent substrate, wherein the optically transparent substrate includes a photochemically active dye and a heat generating chromophore. Methods for making holographic data storage device are also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Eugene Pauling Boden, Brian Lee Lawrence, Xiaolei Shi
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Patent number: 7388695Abstract: A data storage device including: a plastic substrate having a plurality of volumes arranged in tracks along a plurality of vertically stacked, laterally extending layers therein; and, a plurality of micro-holograms each contained in a corresponding one of the volumes; herein, the presence or absence of a micro-hologram in each of the volumes is indicative of a corresponding portion of data stored.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2006Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brian Lee Lawrence, Marc Dubois, Pingfan Peter Wu, Joseph Lucian Smolenski, Xiaolei Shi, Eugene Pauling Boden
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Publication number: 20080137032Abstract: The present invention provides a method of modifying a lens, for example an ophthalmic lens. The method comprises providing an optically transparent lens comprising an organic polymer composition containing a photochemically active dye. The optically transparent lens is irradiated with light having a wavelength and an intensity sufficient to transform at least a portion of the photochemically active dye into a photoproduct or photoproducts within the irradiated volume elements of the optically transparent lens to produce refractive index variations in a modified optically transparent lens. In certain embodiments, the modified optically transparent lens is subjected to a stabilization step to provide a light stable modified optically transparent lens. Stabilization is required only when the starting photochemically active dye and/or the photoproduct(s) are unstable under ambient conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brian Lee Lawrence, Eugene Pauling Boden
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Publication number: 20080130129Abstract: The present invention provides methods for controlling the optical properties of a light transmissive article. The method includes identifying a target window in an Abbe diagram comprising reference polymeric materials. The method further includes selecting a first polymeric material from the reference polymeric materials and compounding the first polymeric material with a stable UV chromophore to provide a first polymer composition. The method further includes transforming the first polymer composition to provide the light transmissive article, wherein the light transmissive article has an Abbe number and a refractive index which falls within the target window. Light transmissive articles prepared using the above methods are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2006Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eugene Pauling Boden, Brian Lee Lawrence, Steven James Montgomery, Shreyas Chakravarti, Peter Hendrikus Vollenberg, Edward Kung, Jan Henk Kamps, Lina Prada, John Brian McDermott, Michael Teruki Takemori
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Publication number: 20080084592Abstract: A molded article is formed by molding a holographic recording material into a shape that is determined by the function of an molded article and a volume hologram is formed in the molded article. Alternatively, only a portion of the molded article is formed from the holographic recording medium, or a molded article is formed by molding a thermoplastic into a shape that is determined by the function of the article, and then this article is then coated, for example by dip-coating, with a holographic recording medium, and al volume hologram is formed in the coating of the molded article.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2006Publication date: April 10, 2008Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eugene Pauling Boden, Christoph Georg Erben, Brian Lee Lawrence, Kathryn Lynn Longley, Xiaolei Shi, Yana Z. Williams, Marc B. Wisnudel
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Patent number: 7351848Abstract: Unexpected corrosion of downstream sections of a dialkyl carbonate manufacturing apparatus has been traced to alkyl chloroformate impurities, which slowly decompose to yield hydrochloric acid. An improved process and apparatus for dialkyl carbonate synthesis reduce corrosion by physically removing or chemically decomposing the alkyl chloroformate impurities within the corrosion-resistant upstream sections of the apparatus. The alkyl chloroformate may be decomposed by passing it through a passageway at a temperature of about 30° C. to about 130° C. for a time of about 0.5 hour to about 10 hours. The passageway may include one or more holding vessels or a tubular section that promotes plug flow.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2002Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eugene Pauling Boden, Ganesh Kailasam, Larry Neil Lewis, Alberto Nisoli, John Yaw Ofori, Angel Sanchez Gonzalez
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Patent number: 7345187Abstract: Unexpected corrosion of downstream sections of a dialkyl carbonate manufacturing apparatus has been traced to alkyl chloroformate impurities, which slowly decompose to yield hydrochloric acid. An improved process and apparatus for dialkyl carbonate synthesis reduce corrosion by physically removing or chemically decomposing the alkyl chloroformate impurities within the corrosion-resistant upstream sections of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2001Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Eugene Pauling Boden, Ganesh Kailasam, Larry Neil Lewis, Alberto Nisoli, John Yaw Ofori, Angel Sanchez Gonzalez
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Patent number: 7102802Abstract: The present invention provides a method for storing holographic data comprising providing an optically transparent substrate comprising a photochemically active dye; irradiating the optically transparent substrate with a holographic interference pattern, wherein the pattern has a first wavelength and an intensity both sufficient to convert, within a volume element of the substrate, at least some of the photochemically active dye into a photo-product, producing within the irradiated volume element concentration variations of the photo-product corresponding to the holographic interference pattern, thereby producing a first optically readable datum corresponding to the volume element; activating the optically transparent substrate to form an intramolecular hydrogen bond to a nitrone oxygen in residual photochemically active dye, to stabilize the optically readable datum.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christoph Georg Erben, Eugene Pauling Boden, Xiaolei Shi, Kathryn Lynn Longley