Patents by Inventor Michael Hack

Michael Hack 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).

  • Publication number: 20260143909
    Abstract: A reconfigurable thin-film photonic filter weight bank comprises at least one photodetector and at least one optical filtering device comprising a pair of reflective thin film stacks with an interstitial medium cavity therebetween forming an optical cavity. Operation of a bank occurs when the reflective film is more selectively reflective to a range of frequencies and is more translucent to frequencies outside the range. The bank can reconfigurably weight signals by varying the cavity sizes or complex indices of refraction, with one photodetector integrating the weighted signals. Detectors can also be embedded inside the individual cavities to output unweighted, but demultiplexed, electrical signals. A neuromorphic opto-electronic system comprises a plurality of interconnected artificial optical neurons, each including at least one thin film neuromorphic opto-electronic device with a reconfigurable thin-film photonic filter weight bank. Related methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Inventors: Simon Bilodeau, Eli A. Doris, Thormas Ferreira de Lima, Michael Hack, Paul Prucnal
  • Patent number: 12626116
    Abstract: A hybrid neuromorphic computing device is provided, in which artificial neurons include light-emitting devices that provide weighted sums of inputs as light output. The output is detected by a photodetector and converted to an electrical output. Each neuron may receive output from one or more other neurons as initial input. Interconnects between neurons may be optical, electrical, or a combination thereof. The neurons also may provide imaging sensor and/or display capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignees: Universal Display Corporation, THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Paul Prucnal, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Michael S. Weaver, Simon Bilodeau
  • Publication number: 20260124339
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a method of coating a surface with an active pharmaceutical ingredient, where an organic source having a first organic material may be heated to create an organic vapor, the first organic material having an active pharmaceutical ingredient. The source vapor may be transported via an inert carrier gas to a confined organic printing COP depositor in a deposition chamber. The organic vapor entrained in the inert carrier gas may be ejected from the COP depositor toward a surface to cause the first organic material to condense on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Gregory McGraw, William T. Mayweather, III, Ving Jick Lee, Michael Hack
  • Patent number: 12609065
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device that includes a full color display. A camera may be disposed below the full color display. A controller may modify a video signal applied to one or more sub-pixels of the full color display based on a predicted degradation of the one or more sub-pixels, such that the modification is updated by the controller based on luminance data for the one or more subpixels acquired by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver
  • Publication number: 20260101634
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device having at least one pixel comprising three or more sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel may include an organic emissive layer having an organic emissive material, and an enhancement layer having a plasmonic material that is more than a threshold distance away from the organic emissive layer. Each sub-pixel may include an outcoupling layer disposed over the enhancement layer and a color altering layer disposed over the outcoupling layer, where there is an overlap between a transmission spectrum of the color altering layer and an emission spectrum of light output from the outcoupling layer. For at least one sub-pixel of the three or more sub-pixels, a full width half maximum (FWHM) of a light emission spectrum from the color altering layer may be between 30 nm greater than or 30 nm less than the FWHM of a light emission spectrum from the outcoupling layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2025
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Inventors: Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Michael HACK
  • Publication number: 20260076053
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device having a full-color organic light emitting device (OLED) display having a plurality of pixels, with each pixel having a plurality of sub-pixels and where no individual sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels emits white light. The OLED display may be configured to operate with a luminance of at least 1,000 cd/m2 at the D65 or higher white point, and using not more than a 0.5 mA/cm2 drive current for a blue sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels based on an overall active area of the full-color OLED display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver
  • Patent number: 12542101
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may provide a wearable device that includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) light source to output light. At least one emissive layer of the OLED light source of the wearable device may have a plurality of segments that are independently controllable to output the light at a duty cycle of less than 100%. The OLED light source of the wearable device may be encapsulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Julia J. Brown
  • Publication number: 20260026182
    Abstract: In one aspect, a tandem photovoltaic (PV) device comprising a substrate, a reflector layer above the substrate, a lower-energy absorbing PV sub-cell above the reflector layer comprising an organic sub-cell, and a higher-energy absorbing PV sub-cell above the lower-energy absorbing PV sub-cell comprising a perovskite sub-cell or a CdTe sub-cell. In another aspect, a tandem photovoltaic (PV) device comprises a substrate, a reflector layer above the substrate, a lower-energy absorbing PV sub-cell above the reflector layer, and a higher-energy absorbing PV sub-cell above the lower-energy absorbing PV sub-cell, wherein the device has greater than 30% PCE and an open circuit voltage greater than 2.0V with incident AM1.5 radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2025
    Publication date: January 22, 2026
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Stephen R. Forrest
  • Patent number: 12532626
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device having a full-color organic light emitting device (OLED) display having a plurality of pixels, with each pixel having a plurality of sub-pixels and where no individual sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels emits white light. The OLED display may be configured to operate with a luminance of at least 1,000 cd/m2 at the D65 or higher white point, and using not more than a 0.5 mA/cm2 drive current for a blue sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels based on an overall active area of the full-color OLED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver
  • Publication number: 20250380607
    Abstract: A three-dimensional (3D) organic framework is provided. The 3D organic framework includes a plurality of nodes, A; a plurality of linkers, B; and a plurality of interstitial void spaces, C. The 3D organic framework has a structure wherein each node of the plurality of nodes A is connected to at least another node of the plurality of nodes A through one of the plurality of linkers B; each of the plurality of interstitial void spaces C, can contain one or more molecules E; at least one of A, B, or E is an electron donor; and at least one of A, B, or E is an electron acceptor. An organic photovoltaic (OPV) or an organic photodetector (OPD) device including the 3D organic framework is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. MACOR, Rasha HAMZE, Sean Michael RYNO, Michael HACK, Julia J. BROWN
  • Publication number: 20250374753
    Abstract: Emissive devices are provided that include an outcoupling layer having a plurality of nanoparticles such that the outcoupling layer has at least 3 regions possessing distinct bulk refractive index values. One or more dielectric materials are arranged at least partially between the outcoupling layer and an emissive layer of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Fusella, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Michael Stuart WEAVER, Michael HACK
  • Publication number: 20250374789
    Abstract: Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Michael HACK, Michael Stuart WEAVER, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Vadim ADAMOVICH
  • Publication number: 20250331384
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to reduced power consumption OLED displays at reduced cost for reduced information content applications, such as wearable displays. Image quality for wearable displays can be different than for high information content smart phone displays and TVs, where the wearable display has an architecture that in includes, for example, an all phosphorescent device and/or material system that may be fabricated at reduced cost. The reduced power consumption can facilitate wireless and solar charging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2025
    Publication date: October 23, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Julia J. Brown, Michael Stuart Weaver, Woo-Young So
  • Patent number: 12414433
    Abstract: Emissive devices are provided that include an outcoupling layer having a plurality of nanoparticles such that the outcoupling layer has at least 3 regions possessing distinct bulk refractive index values. One or more dielectric materials are arranged at least partially between the outcoupling layer and an emissive layer of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Fusella, Nicholas J. Thompson, Michael Stuart Weaver, Michael Hack
  • Patent number: 12414452
    Abstract: Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich
  • Publication number: 20250280648
    Abstract: A tandem photovoltaic (PV) device comprises a substrate, a reflector layer on one side of the substrate, a first PV sub-cell in optical communication with the reflector layer configured to absorb visible light; and a second PV sub-cell above the first PV sub-cell configured to absorb NIR light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Publication date: September 4, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Stephen R. Forrest, Hafiz K.M. Sheriff
  • Publication number: 20250261532
    Abstract: Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Michael HACK, Michael Stuart WEAVER, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Vadim ADAMOVICH
  • Publication number: 20250248263
    Abstract: Full-color display arrangements and device architectures are provided that include a stack of unpatterned organic emissive layers, with color-altering layers and down-conversion layers to provide individual sub-pixels, where the emissive stack includes not more than two distinct emissive colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Julia J. Brown
  • Patent number: 12376469
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to reduced power consumption OLED displays at reduced cost for reduced information content applications, such as wearable displays. Image quality for wearable displays can be different than for high information content smart phone displays and TVs, where the wearable display has an architecture that in includes, for example, an all phosphorescent device and/or material system that may be fabricated at reduced cost. The reduced power consumption can facilitate wireless and solar charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Julia J. Brown, Michael Stuart Weaver, Woo-Young So
  • Patent number: 12341466
    Abstract: Implementations of the disclosed subject matter provide a window, an energy and light producing device including at least one transparent photovoltaic device and at least one non-transparent Organic Light Emitting Device (OLED) in an optical path of the window. A controller may control the operation of the non-transparent OLED of the energy and light producing device. An energy storage device may be electrically coupled to the controller and the energy and light producing device to store energy generated by the transparent photovoltaic device and to power the non-transparent OLED. In some implementations, a LED or OLED may be mounted in the frame of the window and may be powered by the energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Stephen R. Forrest