Patents by Inventor Jesse Butterfield

Jesse Butterfield 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: 12144953
    Abstract: A device for photoexcitation of a photo-responsive material, such as a photochromic material, includes a pen-type housing having a UV lamp at one end and a visible light lamp at the other end. The device includes a microcontroller, a power supply, and an input device such as button, microphone, temperature sensor, or accelerometer. The beam width of the lamps can be adjusted by a lens adjacent to the respective lamps. The device is designed to photoexcite the photo-responsive material into various states depending on the type and wavelength of light emitted from the device. The device enables writing and erasing on a substrate, such as human skin, that contains or is embedded with the photo-responsive material, by exposing the material to light emitted from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: HYPRSKN INC., THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    Inventors: Keith McCurdy, Carson Bruns, Jesse Butterfield, Jon Osis
  • Publication number: 20240226522
    Abstract: A device for photoexcitation of a photo-responsive material, such as a photochromic material, includes a pen-type housing having a UV lamp at one end and a visible light lamp at the other end. The device includes a microcontroller, a power supply, and an input device such as button, microphone, temperature sensor, or accelerometer. The beam width of the lamps can be adjusted by a lens adjacent to the respective lamps. The device is designed to photoexcite the photo-responsive material into various states depending on the type and wavelength of light emitted from the device. The device enables writing and erasing on a substrate, such as human skin, that contains or is embedded with the photo-responsive material, by exposing the material to light emitted from the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Keith McCurdy, Carson Bruns, Jesse Butterfield, Jon Osis
  • Publication number: 20240173241
    Abstract: Biocompatible, bistable or multistable (P-Type) photochromic nanoparticles or microparticles that can be embedded in the skin using techniques such as those used to create a tattoo with tattoo ink. The color of the “tattoo” using the biocompatible bistable or multistable photochromic microparticles can be written, erased or changed, and re-written locally in the skin by irradiation with light of appropriate wavelengths. Some formulations with much higher sensitivity to UV light than visible light can also be used as short-term intradermal colorimetric UV dosimeters that can be reset and re-used on an hourly or daily basis. These particles can be uniform aggregates or polymers containing P-type photochromic dyes, microencapsulated or core-shell structures with cores containing P-type photochromic dyes, or solid particulate materials with P-type photochromic dyes adsorbed on the surface or within their pores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Carson J. Bruns, Jesse Butterfield
  • Publication number: 20230320973
    Abstract: Biocompatible UV-absorbing nanoparticles or microparticles that can be embedded in the skin using techniques such as those used to create a tattoo with tattoo ink. The “tattoo” using the biocompatible UV-absorbing nanoparticles or microparticles provides skin protection against sunburn, photoaging, and skin cancers in a permanent or semi-permanent way, but remain clear in the visible light spectrum, or matched closely to the user's specific skin tone. These particles can be solid uniform UV-absorbers, microencapsulated UV-absorbers, or UV-absorbing material embedded in or coated on solid materials. Long-term sun protection from an invisible (does not change the color of the skin) material, embedded in the skin (dermis layer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Carson J. Bruns, Jesse Butterfield