Patents by Inventor Jay Tobia
Jay Tobia 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).
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Patent number: 11826949Abstract: Systems, methods, components, and materials are disclosed for stereolithographic fabrication of three-dimensional, dense objects. A resin including at least one component of a binder system and dispersed particles can be exposed to an activation light source. The activation light source can cure the at least one component of the binder system to form a green object, which can include the at least one component of the binder system and the particles. A dense object can be formed from the green object by removing the at least one component of the binder system in an extraction process and thermally processing particles to coalesce into the dense object.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Desktop Metal, Inc.Inventors: Michael Andrew Gibson, Jonah Samuel Myerberg, Ricardo Fulop, Michael J. Tarkanian, Yet-Ming Chiang, Jay Tobia, Olivia Molnar Lam
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Patent number: 11554552Abstract: Systems and methods for forming an object using additive manufacturing. One method includes receiving a digital model of the object, predicting a shrinking characteristic or receiving a predicted shrinking characteristic of the object that will occur during thermal processing of the object, once formed, and generating, based on the shrinking characteristic of the object, instructions for forming a raft on which the object will be formed. The instructions for forming the raft are configured to form a raft having a shrinking characteristic that reflects the shrinking characteristic of the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Desktop Metal, Inc.Inventors: Jay Tobia, Aaron M. Preston, Alexander C. Barbati
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Patent number: 11472116Abstract: Complexity of a geometry of a desired (i.e., target) three-dimensional (3D) object being produced by an additive manufacturing system, as well as atypical behavior of the processes employed by such a system, pose challenges for producing a final version of the desired 3D object with fidelity relative to the desired object. An example embodiment enables such challenges to be overcome as a function of feedback to enable the final version to be produced with fidelity. The feedback may be at least one value that is associated with at least one characteristic of a printed object following processing of the printed object. Such feedback may be obtained as part of a calibration process of the 3D printing system or as part of an operational process of the 3D printing system.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Desktop Metal, Inc.Inventors: Jay Tobia, Nihan Tuncer, Aaron Preston, Ricardo Fulop, Michael A. Gibson, Richard Remo Fontana, Anastasios John Hart
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Publication number: 20210078259Abstract: Systems and methods for forming an object using additive manufacturing. One method includes receiving a digital model of the object, predicting a shrinking characteristic or receiving a predicted shrinking characteristic of the object that will occur during thermal processing of the object, once formed, and generating, based on the shrinking characteristic of the object, instructions for forming a raft on which the object will be formed. The instructions for forming the raft are configured to form a raft having a shrinking characteristic that reflects the shrinking characteristic of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Desktop Metal, Inc.Inventors: Jay Tobia, Aaron M. Preston, Alexander C. Barbati
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Patent number: 10609265Abstract: An aspect of this disclosure is an apparatus for capturing an image. The apparatus comprises an image sensor configured to capture an image of a field of view. The apparatus also comprises a flash component configured to illuminate at least a portion of the field of view at a power level during capture of a first frame by the image sensor. The apparatus further comprises a controller. The controller is configured to determine a flash ramp-up time for the flash component, the flash ramp-up time corresponding to an amount of time between a flash being requested at the power level and the flash component producing the flash at the power level. The controller is also configured to blank the image sensor for a blanking period during the flash ramp-up time.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Nishant Pandit, Nathaniel Jay Tobias Salazar, Jeyaprakash Soundrapandian
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Patent number: 10589467Abstract: Complexity of a geometry of a desired (i.e., target) three-dimensional (3D) object being produced by an additive manufacturing system, as well as atypical behavior of the processes employed by such a system, pose challenges for producing a final version of the desired 3D object with fidelity relative to the desired object. An example embodiment enables such challenges to be overcome as a function of feedback to enable the final version to be produced with fidelity. The feedback may be at least one value that is associated with at least one characteristic of a printed object following processing of the printed object. Such feedback may be obtained as part of a calibration process of the 3D printing system or as part of an operational process of the 3D printing system.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Desktop Metal, Inc.Inventors: Jay Tobia, Nihan Tuncer, Aaron Preston, Ricardo Fulop, Michael A. Gibson, Richard Remo Fontana, Anastasios John Hart
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Publication number: 20190329501Abstract: Complexity of a geometry of a desired (i.e., target) three-dimensional (3D) object being produced by an additive manufacturing system, as well as atypical behavior of the processes employed by such a system, pose challenges for producing a final version of the desired 3D object with fidelity relative to the desired object. An example embodiment enables such challenges to be overcome as a function of feedback to enable the final version to be produced with fidelity. The feedback may be at least one value that is associated with at least one characteristic of a printed object following processing of the printed object. Such feedback may be obtained as part of a calibration process of the 3D printing system or as part of an operational process of the 3D printing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: Desktop Metal, Inc.Inventors: Jay Tobia, Nihan Tuncer, Aaron Preston, Ricardo Fulop, Michael A. Gibson, Richard Remo Fontana, Anastasios John Hart
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Publication number: 20190329500Abstract: Complexity of a geometry of a desired (i.e., target) three-dimensional (3D) object being produced by an additive manufacturing system, as well as atypical behavior of the processes employed by such a system, pose challenges for producing a final version of the desired 3D object with fidelity relative to the desired object. An example embodiment enables such challenges to be overcome as a function of feedback to enable the final version to be produced with fidelity. The feedback may be at least one value that is associated with at least one characteristic of a printed object following processing of the printed object. Such feedback may be obtained as part of a calibration process of the 3D printing system or as part of an operational process of the 3D printing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: Desktop Metal, Inc.Inventors: Jay Tobia, Nihan Tuncer, Aaron Preston, Ricardo Fulop, Michael A. Gibson, Richard Remo Fontana, Anastasios John Hart
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Publication number: 20190329502Abstract: Complexity of a geometry of a desired (i.e., target) three-dimensional (3D) object being produced by an additive manufacturing system, as well as atypical behavior of the processes employed by such a system, pose challenges for producing a final version of the desired 3D object with fidelity relative to the desired object. An example embodiment enables such challenges to be overcome as a function of feedback to enable the final version to be produced with fidelity. The feedback may be at least one value that is associated with at least one characteristic of a printed object following processing of the printed object. Such feedback may be obtained as part of a calibration process of the 3D printing system or as part of an operational process of the 3D printing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: Desktop Metal, Inc.Inventors: Jay Tobia, Nihan Tuncer, Aaron Preston, Ricardo Fulop, Michael A. Gibson, Richard Remo Fontana, Anastasios John Hart
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Publication number: 20190240734Abstract: Methods of printing an object via a 3-dimensional printer include printing a shell and an infill structure. The shell defines an exterior of an object and includes one or more apertures enabling flow of a debinder solvent therethrough. The infill structure occupies a volume encompassed by the shell, and defines a network of interconnected channels. During a debing of the object, the network enables percolation of a debinder solvent through the structure and the one or more apertures. As a result, the object is debinded efficiently and in minimal time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventor: Jay Tobia
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Publication number: 20180304540Abstract: Complexity of a geometry of a desired (i.e., target) three-dimensional (3D) object being produced by an additive manufacturing system, as well as atypical behavior of the processes employed by such a system, pose challenges for producing a final version of the desired 3D object with fidelity relative to the desired object. An example embodiment enables such challenges to be overcome as a function of feedback to enable the final version to be produced with fidelity. The feedback may be at least one value that is associated with at least one characteristic of a printed object following processing of the printed object. Such feedback may be obtained as part of a calibration process of the 3D printing system or as part of an operational process of the 3D printing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Jay Tobia, Nihan Tuncer, Aaron Preston, Ricardo Fulop, Michael A. Gibson, Richard Remo Fontana, Anastasios John Hart
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Publication number: 20180297272Abstract: Methods of printing an object via a 3-dimensional printer include provide for printed objects having a higher density. A printer head is operated to deposit build material in lines under controlled parameters including lateral position, height, extrustion rate, extrusion temperature, and/or extrusion material. The printer may print first lines forming channels at a given layer, and then second lines to fill those channels. The printer may operate with other approaches to fill gaps between printed lines, such as offset and/or smaller lines aligned with those gaps. The resulting object has greater density while maintaining an accurate object shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Aaron Preston, Nicholas Mykulowycz, Alexander C. Barbati, Michael A. Gibson, Charles John Haider, Jay Tobia
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Publication number: 20180213141Abstract: An aspect of this disclosure is an apparatus for capturing an image. The apparatus comprises an image sensor configured to capture an image of a field of view. The apparatus also comprises a flash component configured to illuminate at least a portion of the field of view at a power level during capture of a first frame by the image sensor. The apparatus further comprises a controller. The controller is configured to determine a flash ramp-up time for the flash component, the flash ramp-up time corresponding to an amount of time between a flash being requested at the power level and the flash component producing the flash at the power level. The controller is also configured to blank the image sensor for a blanking period during the flash ramp-up time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Nishant Pandit, Nathaniel Jay Tobias Salazar, Jeyaprakash Soundrapandian
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Patent number: 9420248Abstract: Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for color temperature analysis and matching. For example, three or more camera flash LEDs of different output colors can be used to match any of a range of ambient color temperatures in a non-linear space on the black body curve. The scene color temperature can be analyzed in a preliminary image by determining actual sensor R/G and B/G ratios, enabling more accurate matching of foreground flash lighting to background lighting by the reference illuminant for subsequent white balance processing. The current provided to, and therefore brightness emitted from, each LED can be individually controlled based on the determined sensor response to provide a dynamic and adaptive mix of the output colors of the LEDs.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Ruben Manuel Velarde, Nathaniel Jay Tobias Salazar, Szepo Robert Hung, Sandeep Dhar, Hengzhou Ding
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Publication number: 20160088278Abstract: Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for color temperature analysis and matching. For example, three or more camera flash LEDs of different output colors can be used to match any of a range of ambient color temperatures in a non-linear space on the black body curve. The scene color temperature can be analyzed in a preliminary image by determining actual sensor R/G and B/G ratios, enabling more accurate matching of foreground flash lighting to background lighting by the reference illuminant for subsequent white balance processing. The current provided to, and therefore brightness emitted from, each LED can be individually controlled based on the determined sensor response to provide a dynamic and adaptive mix of the output colors of the LEDs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Ruben Manuel Velarde, Nathaniel Jay Tobias Salazar, Szepo Robert Hung, Sandeep Dhar, Hengzhou Ding