Patents by Inventor Lawrence E. Schumtz

Lawrence E. Schumtz 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 apparatus for deflecting an optical beam
    Patent number: 5581408
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for inducing deflections in a collimated optical beam using a microptic multiplet (MOM) optical system wherein a first microptic lens module (MLM) receives a collimated optical beam and provides it to a second microptic lens module (MLM) whose lenslet optic axes are displaced relative to the lenslet optic axes of the first MLM by an amount yielding the desired optical beam deflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence E. Schumtz, Craig M. Schiller
  • System having optically encoded information
    Patent number: 5479026
    Abstract: A optical system having optically encoded information includes a microptic multiplet (MOM) optical system on compact arrays or cards for both secure (encrypted) and non-secure applications where the presence or position of optical micro-lenses is indicative of the encoded information. The system is characterized by a first microptic lens module (MLM) that has data optically encoded thereon based on the position of a lenslet in a lenslet cell. One or more additional microptic lens modules can be used as a key(s) to interpret the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence E. Schumtz, Craig M. Schiller