Patents by Inventor Fabien Sorin
Fabien Sorin 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: 11579523Abstract: A method for manufacturing glass-based micro- and nanostructure comprising the step of dewetting a thin-film glass layer on a textured substrate to form the micro- and nanostructure from the thin-film glass layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)Inventors: Fabien Sorin, Louis Martin-Monier, Alexis Page, Tapajyoti Dasgupta
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Publication number: 20220307878Abstract: The present invention concerns an elongated capacitive sensor for fluid monitoring. The sensor comprising: a fibre support made of a dielectric material or dielectric composite material; and a first electrode and a second electrode arranged longitudinally along the fibre support, the first and second electrodes forming together with the fibre support a capacitive sensing element whose capacitance is dependent upon one or more electrical properties of one or more materials inside the support and/or outside the support, and/or is dependent upon a change of materials configuration and associated overall change of one or more electrical properties inside the support and/or outside the support.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)Inventors: Fabien SORIN, William ESPOSITO, Véronique MICHAUD, Chaoqun DONG, Baris ÇAGLAR, Dang Tung NGUYEN
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Publication number: 20220151515Abstract: A sensor comprising an elongate member comprising an electrochemical sensor comprising an electrochemical filament extending along the length of the elongate member, wherein the elongate member comprises a fibre formed from a drawable material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Guang-Zhong Yang, Salzitsa Anastasova-Ivanova, Burak Temelkuran, Mohamed E.M.K. Abdelaziz, Fabien Sorin
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Patent number: 11141942Abstract: The present invention concerns a thermal drawing method for forming fibers, wherein said fibers are made at least from a stretchable polymer. The present invention also concerns drawn fibers made by the process.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)Inventors: Fabien Sorin, Yunpeng Qu, Marco Volpi, Wei Yan, Dang Tung Nguyen, Alexis Page
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Publication number: 20210000155Abstract: The invention provides an edible fiber comprising a biopolymer and a plasticiser; wherein the weight ratio of biopolymer to plasticiser is about 1:0.25 to about 1:3; and wherein the fiber has a diameter of about 0.5 ?m to about 1 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Jan Engmann, Emma Rose Janecek, Veronique Michaud, Yunpeng Qu, Federica Sordo, Fabien Sorin, Francesco Stellacci, Timothy James Wooster
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Publication number: 20200257194Abstract: A method for manufacturing glass-based micro- and nanostructure comprising the step of dewetting a thin-film glass layer on a textured substrate to form the micro- and nanostructure from the thin-film glass layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Fabien Sorin, Louis Martin-Monier, Alexis Page, Tapajyoti Dasgupta
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Patent number: 10704167Abstract: The method for drawing a fiber with a textured surface comprises the following steps: —forming of a preform from which the fiber is to be drawn with a textured surface; —addition of an outer layer to the textured preform to preserve the shape of the texture of the preform surface during the drawing operation; —drawing of a fiber from the preform, whereby the fiber keeps the formed texture of the preform surface and —removing the additional outer layer to leave the original surface textured fiber exposed. The obtained fiber can be used as a mold to form a textured hollow channel in another material, as a surface coating and as a pressure detector.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)Inventors: Fabien Sorin, Tung Dang Nguyen, Yunpeng Qu, Alexis Page, Wei Yan
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Patent number: 10338000Abstract: There is provided a sensor fiber including an electrically insulating material having a fiber length. At least one transduction element is disposed along at least a portion of the fiber length and is arranged for exposure to an intake species. A photoconducting element is in optical communication with the transduction element. At least one pair of electrically conducting electrodes are in electrical connection with the photoconducting element. The pair of electrodes extend the fiber length.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, FLIR Systems, IncorporatedInventors: Alexander Gumennik, Alexander Mark Stolyarov, Brent Richard Schell, Chong Hou, Guillaume Romain Lestoquoy, Fabien Sorin, William Richard McDaniel, II, Yoel Fink, Aimee Rose, John Dimitris Joannopoulos
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Publication number: 20190047240Abstract: The present invention concerns a thermal drawing method for forming fibers, wherein said fibers are made at least from a stretchable polymer. The present invention also concerns drawn fibers made by the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Fabien SORIN, Yunpeng QU, Marco VOLPI, Wei YAN, Dang Tung NGUYEN, Alexis PAGE
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Publication number: 20180327931Abstract: The method for drawing a fiber with a textured surface comprises the following steps: —forming of a preform from which the fiber is to be drawn with a textured surface; —addition of an outer layer to the textured preform to preserve the shape of the texture of the preform surface during the drawing operation; —drawing of a fiber from the preform, whereby the fiber keeps the formed texture of the preform surface and—removing the additional outer layer to leave the original surface textured fiber exposed. The obtained fiber can be used as a mold to form a textured hollow channel in another material, as a surface coating and as a pressure detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Fabien Sorin, Tung Dang Nguyen, Yunpeng Qu, Alexis Page, Wei Yan
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Patent number: 8863556Abstract: The invention provides techniques for drawing fibers that include conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials in intimate contact and prescribed geometries. The resulting fiber exhibits engineered electrical and optical functionalities along extended fiber lengths. The invention provides corresponding processes for producing such fibers, including assembling a fiber preform of a plurality of distinct materials, e.g., of conducting, semiconducting, and insulating materials, and drawing the preform into a fiber.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Mehmet Bayindir, Fabien Sorin, Dursen S. Hinczewski, Shandon D. Hart, Yoel Fink, John D Joannopoulos
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Publication number: 20140212084Abstract: There is provided a sensor fiber including an electrically insulating material having a fiber length. At least one transduction element is disposed along at least a portion of the fiber length and is arranged for exposure to an intake species. A photoconducting element is in optical communication with the transduction element. At least one pair of electrically conducting electrodes are in electrical connection with the photoconducting element. The pair of electrodes extend the fiber length.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicants: FLIR Systems, Incorporated, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Alexander Gumennik, Alexander Mark Stolyarov, Brent Richard Schell, Chong Hou, Guillaume Romain Lestoquoy, Fabien Sorin, William Richard McDaniel, II, Yoel Fink, Aimee Rose, John Dimitris Joannopoulos
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Patent number: 8663522Abstract: Fiber draw synthesis process. The process includes arranging reactants in the solid state in proximate domains within a fiber preform. The preform is fluidized at a temperature below the melting temperature of the reactants. The fluidized preform is drawn into a fiber thereby bringing the reagents in the proximate domains into intimate contact with one another resulting in a chemical reaction between the reactants thereby synthesizing a compound within the fiber. The reactants may be dissolved or mixed in a host material within the preform. In a preferred embodiment, the reactants are selenium and zinc.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Nicholas D. Orf, Sylvain Danto, Ofer Shapira, Fabien Sorin, Yoel Fink, John D. Joannopoulos
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Patent number: 8630519Abstract: Photodetecting fiber. The fiber detects and localizes an incident optical beam. A semiconducting core is in intimate contact with a material forming a resistive channel that breaks axial symmetry. The resistive channel has a resistivity between that of metals and the semiconducting core, enabling the imposition of non-uniform, convex electric potential distributions along the fiber axis allowing photo-current measurements along the fiber.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Fabien Sorin, Guillaume Lestoquoy, Sylvain Danto, Yoel Fink, John D. Joannopoulos
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Patent number: 8442078Abstract: The laser includes an optical fiber including a cavity containing a microfluidic gain medium bounded by a composite structure of alternating layers of high and low index materials forming an axially invariant, rotationally symmetric photonic bandgap cavity. The optical fiber also includes at least one microfluidic channel containing liquid crystal modulators in the fiber cladding extending in an axial direction and further includes a pair of electrodes flanking the microfluidic channel. An electrical potential across the pair of electrodes will rotate the liquid crystal molecules to rotate the linearly polarized state of light emitted from the cavity. An external linear polarizer is disposed around the fiber to modulate azimuthal laser intensity distribution.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Alexander Stolyarov, Lei Wei, Ofer Shapira, Fabien Sorin, Yoel Fink, John D. Joannopoulos
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Publication number: 20120267820Abstract: Fiber draw synthesis process. The process includes arranging reactants in the solid state in proximate domains within a fiber preform. The preform is fluidized at a temperature below the melting temperature of the reactants. The fluidized preform is drawn into a fiber thereby bringing the reagents in the proximate domains into intimate contact with one another resulting in a chemical reaction between the reactants thereby synthesizing a compound within the fiber. The reactants may be dissolved or mixed in a host material within the preform. In a preferred embodiment, the reactants are selenium and zinc.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Nicholas D. Orf, Sylvain Danto, Ofer Shapira, Fabien Sorin, Yoel Fink, John D. Joannopoulos
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Publication number: 20120263409Abstract: Photodetecting fiber. The fiber detects and localizes an incident optical beam. A semiconducting core is in intimate contact with a material forming a resistive channel that breaks axial symmetry. The resistive channel has a resistivity between that of metals and the semiconducting core, enabling the imposition of non-uniform, convex electric potential distributions along the fiber axis allowing photo-current measurements along the fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Fabien Sorin, Guillaume Lestoquoy, Sylvain Danto, Yoel Fink, John D. Joannopoulos
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Publication number: 20100316088Abstract: There is provided a thermal sensing fiber grid, including a plurality of rows and columns of thermal sensing fibers, each of which includes a semiconducting element that has a fiber length and that is characterized by a bandgap energy corresponding to a selected operational temperature range of the fiber in which there can be produced a change in thermally-excited electronic charge carrier population in the semiconducting element in response to a temperature change in the selected temperature range. There is included at least one pair of conducting electrodes in contact with the semiconducting element along the fiber length, and an insulator along the fiber length. An electronic circuit is provided for and connected to each thermal sensing fiber for producing an indication of thermal sensing fiber grid coordinates of a change in ambient temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Mehmet Bayindir, Fabien Sorin, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Ofer Shapira, Jerimy R. Arnold, Yoel Fink, John D. Joannopoulos
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Patent number: 7805029Abstract: There is provided a feedback-controlled self-heat-monitoring fiber, including an insulator having a fiber length with at least one metal-semiconductor-metal thermal sensing element along the fiber length and disposed at a position in a cross section of the fiber for sensing changes in fiber temperature. An electronic circuit is connected to the thermal sensing element for indicating changes in fiber temperature. A controller is connected for controlling optical transmission through an optical transmission element, that is disposed along the fiber length, in response to indications of changes in fiber temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2009Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Mehmet Bayindir, Fabien Sorin, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Ofer Shapira, Jeremy R. Arnold, Yoel Fink, John D Joannopoulos
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Patent number: 7567740Abstract: There is provided a thermal sensing fiber including a semiconducting element having a fiber length and characterized by a bandgap energy corresponding to a selected operational temperature range for the fiber in which there can be produced a change in thermally-excited electronic charge carrier population in the semiconducting element in response to a temperature change in the selected temperature range. At least one pair of conducting electrodes is provided in contact with the semiconducting element along the fiber length, and an insulator is provided along the fiber length.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Mehmet Bayindir, Fabien Sorin, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Ofer Shapira, Jerimy R. Arnold, Yoel Fink, John D. Joannopoulos