Patents by Inventor Frauke ROELLINGHOFF

Frauke ROELLINGHOFF 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: 20260022932
    Abstract: A device is for chromatic confocal measurement of distances to a plurality of points on a reflective surface of an object. The device has a light source that generates polychromatic measurement light and a light pattern generating device that generates a light pattern from the measurement light. A chromatically uncorrected objective generates images of the light pattern in image planes whose axial position is wavelength-dependent due to chromatic longitudinal aberration. The device further comprises a spectrometer, which spectrally analyzes measurement light reflected from the surface, and a pixel-wise digitally switchable spatial filter which has a plurality of pixels and either forms the light pattern generating device or is arranged in a plane optically conjugate to the static spatial filter. Each pixel can be converted into a first switching state, in which the pixel blocks measuring light. and into a second switching state, in which the pixel does not block measuring light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 22, 2026
    Inventors: Laura Vietze, Christoph Dietz, Frauke Roellinghoff
  • Patent number: 9802061
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to an apparatus and method for charged hadron therapy verification. The apparatus comprises a collimator comprising a plurality of collimator slabs of a given thickness, spaced apart so as to form an array of mutually slit-shaped openings, configured to be placed at a right angle to the beam line, so as to allow the passage of prompt gammas from the target, the collimator being defined at least by three geometrical parameters being the width and depth of the slit-shaped openings and a fill factor. The disclosure is also related to a method for charged hadron therapy verification with a multi-slit camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: Ion Beam Applications S.A., Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut National des Science Appliquées de Lyon, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Nicolas Freud, Frauke Roellinghoff, Etienne Testa, Marco Pinto, Julien Smeets
  • Publication number: 20150321025
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to an apparatus and method for charged hadron therapy verification. The apparatus comprises a collimator comprising a plurality of collimator slabs of a given thickness, spaced apart so as to form an array of mutually slit-shaped openings, configured to be placed at a right angle to the beam line, so as to allow the passage of prompt gammas from the target, the collimator being defined at least by three geometrical parameters being the width and depth of the slit-shaped openings and a fill factor. The disclosure is also related to a method for charged hadron therapy verification with a multi-slit camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Nicolas FREUD, Frauke ROELLINGHOFF, Etienne TESTA, Marco PINTO, Julien SMEETS