Patents by Inventor Gary A. Shields

Gary A. Shields 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: 8254034
    Abstract: Fluidic adaptive lens devices containing impermeable elastomer membrane, and systems employing such lens devices, along with methods of fabricating such lens devices, are disclosed. In the embodiments, processes and techniques of creating transparent, impermeable elastomer membranes are disclosed. The membranes thus produced display no or extremely slow permeation for at least one fluid suitable for the fluidic adaptive lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Rhevision Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Shields, Robert S. Vasko, Jeffrey R. Vasko
  • Patent number: 5143444
    Abstract: A lighting system is described having an electronic means for controlling the color, color temperature, magnification and focus in response to predetermined signals from a computerized system. A wide spectrum light beam having a wavelength of from 380 nm to 700 nm is passed through a heat absorbing condenser to control the predetermined color temperature thereof and said portion of the beam is separated into a first color beam having a wavelength of from 445 nm to 450 nm, a second color beam having a wavelength of from 555 nm to 570 nm and a third color beam having a wavelength of from 525 nm to 535 nm. The separated color beams are maintained at substantially equal focal length and the intensity of the respective color beams varied in response to an electronic signal. The color beams are then combined to form a composite beam of predetermined color. The color and intensity of the resulting beam is thereby more accurately predetermined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Inventor: Gary A. Shields
  • Patent number: 5045983
    Abstract: A lighting system is described having an electronic means for controlling the color, color temperature, magnification and focus in response to predetermined signals from a computerized system. A wide spectrum light beam having a wavelength of from 380 nm to 700 nm is passed through a heat absorbing condenser to control the predetermined color temperature thereof and said portion of the beam is separated into a first color beam having a wavelength of from 445 nm to 450 nm, a second color beam having a wavelength of from 555 nm to 570 nm and a third color beam having a wavelength of from 525 nm to 535 nm. The separated color beams are maintained at substantially equal focal length an the intensity of the respective color beams varied in response to an electronic signal. The color beams are then combined to form a composite beam of predetermined color. The colour and intensity of the resulting beam is thereby more accurately predetermined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Inventor: Gary A. Shields