Patents by Inventor L. A. Goddard
L. A. Goddard 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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Publication number: 20240104872Abstract: Various implementations provide a view of a 3D environment including a portal for viewing a stereo item (e.g., a photo or video) positioned a distance behind the portal. One or more visual effects are provided based on texture of one or more portions of the stereo item, e.g., texture at cutoff or visible edges of the stereo item. The effects change the appearance of the stereo item or the portal itself, e.g., improving visual comfort issues by minimizing window violations or otherwise enhancing the viewing experience. Various implementations provide a view of a 3D environment including an immersive view of a stereo item without using portal. Such a visual effect may be provided to partially obscure the surrounding 3D environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Bryce L. Schmidtchen, Bryan Cline, Charles O. Goddard, Michael I. Weinstein, Tsao-Wei Huang, Tobias Rick, Vedant Saran, Alexander Menzies, Alexandre Da Veiga
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Publication number: 20230324620Abstract: A high efficiency grating coupler design includes a grating region formed of a first material on an optics substrate. A side reflector formed of the first material is disposed on the optics substrate adjacent the grating region. A high contrast overlay is on the grating region, but is not disposed on the side reflector. The grating region includes teeth formed of the first material and the high contrast overlay, wherein the teeth have independently apodized fill factor, etch depth, and heights The first material and a material of the high contrast overlay can be selected to correspond to a particular laser type, wavelength of the laser, properties of the laser beam, and material of the laser. In addition, the teeth of the grating region, along with the side reflector teeth, can be apodized for optimized optical coupling efficiency with respect to the laser.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Lynford L. Goddard, Shaneen F. Braswell
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Patent number: 11693180Abstract: An apparatus such as an optical modulator includes a buried oxide layer is disposed on a substrate. A microring resonator and an optical waveguide are disposed on the buried oxide layer and within a bonded semiconductor layer. The optical waveguide is optically coupled to the microring resonator and inputs a first optical wave into the microring resonator. An oxide layer is deposited on top of the optical waveguide and the microring resonator. A set of electrodes is disposed adjacent to the microring resonator, and in response to an electrical signal, the set of electrodes modulates the first optical wave into a modulated optical wave of transverse magnetic polarization within the microring resonator and outputs the modulated optical wave to the optical waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Meisam Bahadori, Songbin Gong, Lynford L. Goddard
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Patent number: 11237343Abstract: A device includes an optic in an at least partially rigid scaffold. The scaffold is permeated, at least temporarily during a writing process, by writable media. The optic may be written into a writable volume in the scaffold defined by the writable media. The optic may be written by exposing the writable media to incident light to cause a material property change in the writable media within the writable volume.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISInventors: Lynford L. Goddard, Kimani C. Toussaint, Paul V. Braun, Jinlong Zhu, Daniel Bacon-Brown, Christian H. Ocier, Qing Ding, Corey Richards
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Publication number: 20220026634Abstract: An apparatus such as an optical modulator includes a buried oxide layer is disposed on a substrate. A microring resonator and an optical waveguide are disposed on the buried oxide layer and within a bonded semiconductor layer. The optical waveguide is optically coupled to the microring resonator and inputs a first optical wave into the microring resonator. An oxide layer is deposited on top of the optical waveguide and the microring resonator. A set of electrodes is disposed adjacent to the microring resonator, and in response to an electrical signal, the set of electrodes modulates the first optical wave into a modulated optical wave of transverse magnetic polarization within the microring resonator and outputs the modulated optical wave to the optical waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Meisam Bahadori, Songbin Gong, Lynford L. Goddard
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Publication number: 20210384694Abstract: Objects and/or grouped emitters are anti-symmetrically excited. The anti-symmetric radiation emitted by the objects generate an interference pattern with a node in the spacing between the objects. The spacing may be sub-wavelength and/or below a resolution limit for the emitted radiation. Samples within the spacing may be detected via distortion to the inference pattern and visualized (including sub-resolution limit features) either directly or through reconstruction analysis from the interference pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Lynford L. Goddard, Jinlong Zhu, Aditi Udupa
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Patent number: 11060973Abstract: Provided are plasmon resonance imaging devices having metal-insulator-metal nanocups and methods of use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISInventors: Gang Logan Liu, Lynford L. Goddard, Abid Ameen, Lisa Anne Plucinski Hackett, Faiza Khawar Dar
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Publication number: 20200183100Abstract: A device includes an optic in an at least partially rigid scaffold. The scaffold is permeated, at least temporarily during a writing process, by writable media. The optic may be written into a writable volume in the scaffold defined by the writable media. The optic may be written by exposing the writable media to incident light to cause a material property change in the writable media within the writable volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Lynford L. Goddard, Kimani C. Toussaint, Paul V. Braun, Jinlong Zhu, Daniel Bacon-Brown, Christian H. Ocier, Qing Ding, Corey Richards
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Publication number: 20200022911Abstract: Described herein are oral formulations for controlled delivery of bio-pharmaceutical agents to the gastrointestinal tract.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2017Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Symbiotic Health Inc.Inventors: Gerard HONIG, Noel L. GODDARD
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Publication number: 20190369019Abstract: Provided are plasmon resonance imaging devices having metal-insulator-metal nanocups and methods of use thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Gang Logan Liu, Lynford L. Goddard, Abid Ameen, Lisa Anne Plucinski Hackett, Faiza Khawar Dar
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Patent number: 10427059Abstract: Embodiment of turntables, which can include rotating indexed turntables are described herein. The rotating indexed turntable can include: a looped track having an inner rail and an outer rail; a plurality of adjacent turntable wagons linked together in a closed chain and movingly coupled to the looped track, wherein each of the turntable wagons are independently propelled along the looped track, each of the plurality of turntable wagons including: an inner portion having a first length; an outer portion having a second length, which second length is greater than the first length; a plurality of outer motion features movingly coupled to the outer rail of the looped track; and at least one inner motion feature movingly coupled to the inner rail of the looped track.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Steven L. Goddard, John Larena
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Patent number: 9751038Abstract: Layered filtered cartridge systems with an End of Service Life Indicating system include a filter cartridge that includes filter media. The filter media includes a multi-layer construction, of a first sorbent layer, a second sorbent layer, and a sensing element adjacent to the first and second sorbent layers such that an indicating element of the sensing element is located at the interface between the first and second sorbent layers. The first sorbent layer has a higher adsorption capacity and/or higher adsorption rate than the second sorbent layer. The sensing element indicates the passage of an adsorption wavefront through the filter cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Kevin A. Frankel, J. Christopher Thomas, Melissa A. Checky, Maria L. Zelinsky, Denise L. Goddard
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Patent number: 9404857Abstract: Methods for obtaining a tomographic phase image of a specimen, either in transmission or in scatter. A specimen is illuminated by a temporally incoherent source and light collected in transmission or scattering is used to generate a scattered phase image of the specimen in multiple axial planes. The scattered field is solved for in wavevector space, and a derived instrument function is deconvolved to obtain specimen susceptibility in wavevector space. The specimen susceptibility is transformed to obtain a three-dimensional phase tomogram of the specimen.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllnoisInventors: Gabriel Popescu, Lynford L. Goddard, Paul Scott Carney, Taewoo Kim, Renjie Zhou, Mustafa A. H. Mir, S. Derin Babacan
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Publication number: 20160030877Abstract: Layered filtered cartridge systems with an End of Service Life Indicating system include a filter cartridge that includes filter media. The filter media includes a multi-layer construction, of a first sorbent layer, a second sorbent layer, and a sensing element adjacent to the first and second sorbent layers such that an indicating element of the sensing element is located at the interface between the first and second sorbent layers. The first sorbent layer has a higher adsorption capacity and/or higher adsorption rate than the second sorbent layer. The sensing element indicates the passage of an adsorption wavefront through the filter cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Kevin A. Frankel, J. Christopher Thomas, Melissa A. Checky, Maria L. Zelinsky, Denise L. Goddard
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Publication number: 20140307261Abstract: Methods for obtaining a tomographic phase image of a specimen, either in transmission or in scatter. A specimen is illuminated by a temporally incoherent source and light collected in transmission or scattering is used to generate a scattered phase image of the specimen in multiple axial planes. The scattered field is solved for in wavevector space, and a derived instrument function is deconvolved to obtain specimen susceptibility in wavevector space. The specimen susceptibility is transformed to obtain a three-dimensional phase tomogram of the specimen.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Gabriel Popescu, Lynford L. Goddard, Paul Scott Carney, Taewoo Kim, Renjie Zhou, Mustafa A.H. Mir, S. Derin Babacan
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Patent number: 8670476Abstract: A component having a microring resonator and grating, coupled to a waveguide is described. By selection of the grating period, and other parameters such as the grating-waveguide coupling coefficient, an efficient filter may be designed and constructed. The component may be used in passive devices such as add-drop multiplexers or sensors, or in active devices such as lasers. Designs having essentially no response sidelobes, very narrow effective bandwidths, and fast filter roll-offs may permit compact devices to be produced, when compared with typical distributed sampled Bragg grating structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Lynford L. Goddard, Young Mo Kang, Amir Arbabi
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Patent number: 8343878Abstract: A method of plasma etching Ga-based compound semiconductors includes providing a process chamber and a source electrode adjacent thereto. The chamber contains a Ga-based compound semiconductor sample in contact with a platen which is electrically connected to a first power supply, and the source electrode is electrically connected to a second power supply. SiCl4 and Ar gases are flowed into the chamber. RF power is supplied to the platen at a first power level, and RF power is supplied to the source electrode. A plasma is generated. Then, RF power is supplied to the platen at a second power level lower than the first power level and no greater than about 30 W. Regions of a surface of the sample adjacent to one or more masked portions of the surface are etched at a rate of no more than about 25 nm/min to create a substantially smooth etched surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Weibin Qiu, Lynford L. Goddard
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Patent number: 8338308Abstract: A method of plasma etching Ga-based compound semiconductors includes providing a process chamber and a source electrode adjacent to the process chamber. The process chamber contains a sample comprising a Ga-based compound semiconductor. The sample is in contact with a platen which is electrically connected to a first power supply, and the source electrode is electrically connected to a second power supply. The method includes flowing SiCl4 gas into the chamber, flowing Ar gas into the chamber, and flowing H2 gas into the chamber. RF power is supplied independently to the source electrode and the platen. A plasma is generated based on the gases in the process chamber, and regions of a surface of the sample adjacent to one or more masked portions of the surface are etched to create a substantially smooth etched surface including features having substantially vertical walls beneath the masked portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Weibin Qiu, Lynford L. Goddard
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Publication number: 20120063484Abstract: A component having a microring resonator and grating, coupled to a waveguide is described. By selection of the grating period, and other parameters such as the grating-waveguide coupling coefficient, an efficient filter may be designed and constructed. The component may be used in passive devices such as add-drop multiplexers or sensors, or in active devices such as lasers. Designs having essentially no response sidelobes, very narrow effective bandwidths, and fast filter roll-offs may permit compact devices to be produced, when compared with typical distributed sampled Bragg grating structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventors: Lynford L. Goddard, Young Mo Kang, Amir Arbabi
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Patent number: D887553Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: John S. Huberty, Jennifer A. Chaisson, Gary E. Dwyer, Denise L. Goddard