Patents by Inventor Frithjof Nolting

Frithjof Nolting 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).

  • Method and system for coding and read out of information in a microscopic cluster comprising coupled functional islands
    Patent number: 8085578
    Abstract: A method and a system for coding and reading out information in a microscopic cluster formed with coupled functional islands includes: generating the cluster by forming a regular microscopic pattern for locating the functional islands; making use of a physical or chemical property of each individual island and making use of the coupling between the functional islands; assigning different information to different energy levels of the cluster; effecting a change of the physical or chemical property of at least one functional island in order to change the energy level of the cluster to the energy level equivalent to the information content to be coded; and reading out the information. These measures allow forming a cluster having distinct energy levels, each being assigned to a distinct information content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Paul Scherrer Institut
    Inventors: Laura J. Heyderman, Thomas Jung, Elena Mengotti, André Bisig, Arantxa Fraile Rodríguez, Frithjof Nolting, Hans-Benjamin Braun, Thomas Schrefl
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CODING AND READ OUT OF INFORMATION IN A MICROSCOPIC CLUSTER COMPRISING COUPLED FUNCTIONAL ISLANDS
    Publication number: 20100232251
    Abstract: A method and a system for coding and reading out information in a microscopic cluster formed with coupled functional islands includes: generating the cluster by forming a regular microscopic pattern for locating the functional islands; making use of a physical or chemical property of each individual island and making use of the coupling between the functional islands; assigning different information to different energy levels of the cluster; effecting a change of the physical or chemical property of at least one functional island in order to change the energy level of the cluster to the energy level equivalent to the information content to be coded; and reading out the information. These measures allow forming a cluster having distinct energy levels, each being assigned to a distinct information content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT
    Inventors: Laura J. Heyderman, Thomas Jung, Elena Mengotti, André Bisig, Arantxa Fraile Rodríguez, Frithjof Nolting, Hans-Benjamin Braun, Thomas Schrefl