Patents by Inventor Michael Haass

Michael Haass 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 improvement of spectrometer stability, and multivariate calibration transfer
    Patent number: 7889349
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods and apparatuses for accurate measurements using interferometers. A functional relationship between the optical path difference and time is determined from a reference signal from an interferometer. The times at which the interferometer had specific optical path differences can be determined from the functional relationship. Those times can then be used to select times at which the spectroscopic signal from the interferometer was produced at the specific optical path differences. The invention can be applied, as examples, to maintain instrument calibration, and to transfer or compare calibrations or measurements across different interferometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: TruTouch Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Trent Ridder, Ben ver Steeg, Michael Haass, John D. Maynard, Zachary Benz
  • Method and Apparatus for Improvement of Spectrometer Stability, and Multivariate Calibration Transfer
    Publication number: 20080117405
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods and apparatuses for accurate measurements using interferometers. A functional relationship between the optical path difference and time is determined from a reference signal from an interferometer. The times at which the interferometer had specific optical path differences can be determined from the functional relationship. Those times can then be used to select times at which the spectroscopic signal from the interferometer was produced at the specific optical path differences. The invention can be applied, as examples, to maintain instrument calibration, and to transfer or compare calibrations or measurements across different interferometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Trent Ridder, Ben ver Steeg, John D. Maynard, Michael Haass, Zachary Benz
  • Use of optical skin measurements to determine cosmetic skin properties
    Publication number: 20060239547
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of optical skin measurements to determine skin properties such as surface topography, hydration, elasticity, pigmentation intensity or uniformity, dermal thickness, dermal perfusion, presence or concentration or composition of oil on or near the surface, and apparent age of the skin. An apparatus according to the present invention can comprise a skin positioning system for positioning the skin relative to other parts of the apparatus. An illumination system, adapted to produce illumination radiation, can mount with the skin positioning system such that illumination radiation impinges on a first portion of the skin at a first determined angle thereto. A detection system can mount with the skin positioning system such that radiation from a second portion of the skin at a second determined angle therefrom impinges on the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: M. Robinson, Russell Abbink, Michael Haass
  • Process for the recombinant production of ribonucleoproteins
    Patent number: 7122346
    Abstract: A process is described for the recombinant production of ribonucleoproteins in prokaryotic cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
    Inventors: Jean Burckhardt, Michael Haass, Hans-Peter Lehmann
  • Process for the recombinant production of ribonucleoproteins
    Publication number: 20030109001
    Abstract: A process is described for the recombinant production of ribonucleoproteins in prokaryotic cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Jean Burckhardt, Michael Haass, Hans-Peter Lehmann