Patents by Inventor Frederick Bossert McCormick, Jr.

Frederick Bossert McCormick, Jr. 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).

  • Patent number: 6590852
    Abstract: A volume radiation memory, nominally a 2.5 cm (1″) diameter 6 mm thick optical disk, is preferably written in parallel by two-photon absorption within, and read with massive parallelism by a single-beam-induced fluorescence of, spherical voxels of nominal diameter 2 microns spaced 2 microns center-to-center and arrayed 32×128 in planar segments that are tilted typically 40° to the planar surfaces of the disk, and that are typically located within a 5 mm thick central volume of the disk. Imaging of the voxels within the tilted planar segment for reading is through a two-lens doubly-telecentric afocal lens imaging system to a detector, normally an array of active pixel sensors or charge-coupled devices, located in the conjugate plane. Voxel illumination for reading may be orthogonal from the side of the disk, confocal-theta from a side of the disk, or co-linear through the doubly-telecentric afocal lens. Volumetric storage capacity is typically 5.89 gigabits (5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Call/Recall, Inc.
    Inventor: Frederick Bossert McCormick, Jr.