Patents by Inventor Frank Essmeier

Frank Essmeier 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: 20230003615
    Abstract: A multi-beam system includes a light source configured to emit light; a fiber bundle connected to the light source; and a camera configured to capture an image set including images corresponding to each fiber connected to the light source. The fiber bundle includes a central fiber having one end connected to the light source, and N layers of fibers surrounding the central fiber. The first layer of fibers includes M fibers, each having one end connected to the light source, and the Nth layer of fibers includes more than M fibers, but only M fibers in the Nth layer of fibers have one end connected the light source. A processor is configured to determine a centroid of each image in the image set to produce a centroid map and generate a fiber location map comprising fiber locations of all fibers in the fiber bundle based on the centroid map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Sameet K. Shriyan, Frank Essmeier, Hedong Yang