Patents by Inventor Michael Lucien Genier

Michael Lucien Genier 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: 20240027775
    Abstract: An optical device includes a stack that includes a first curved optical element stacked with a second curved optical element. The second curved optical element propagates light by total internal reflection. The stack also includes an incoupling diffractive grating that incouples the light into the second optical element and an outcoupling diffractive grating optically coupled to the incoupling diffractive grating through the second curved optical element. The outcoupling diffractive grating directs the light. The first curved optical element has a first refractive index, the second curved optical element has a second refractive index, and the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index by approximately 0.15 to 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, Mark Francis Krol, Michael John Moore, Horst Herbert Anton Schreiber
  • Patent number: 11828941
    Abstract: An optical device includes a stack that includes a first curved optical element stacked with a second curved optical element. The second curved optical element propagates light by total internal reflection. The stack also includes an incoupling diffractive grating that incouples the light into the second optical element and an outcoupling diffractive grating optically coupled to the incoupling diffractive grating through the second curved optical element. The outcoupling diffractive grating directs the light. The first curved optical element has a first refractive index, the second curved optical element has a second refractive index, and the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index by approximately 0.15 to 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, Mark Francis Krol, Michael John Moore, Horst Schreiber
  • Patent number: 11786751
    Abstract: A therapeutic illumination assembly includes a catheter and a point source treatment fiber. The catheter comprises a catheter wall encircling a luminal fluid pathway. The point source treatment fiber is positioned within the luminal fluid pathway of the catheter. Further, the point source treatment fiber comprises a plurality of light emitting point sources intermittently positioned along a treatment length of the point source treatment fiber such that the plurality of light emitting point sources irradiate the catheter when the plurality of light emitting point sources emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, William Spencer Klubben, III
  • Publication number: 20220177349
    Abstract: Radiation shielding glass articles with thin glass faceplates that improve transmission are disclosed. A radiation shielding glass article includes a radiation shielding glass having a first surface and an opposing second surface; and a first thin glass faceplate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein one of said first surface or second surface of said first thin glass faceplate faces the first surface of the radiation shielding glass, wherein the first thin glass faceplate having a thickness of less than or equal to 1.0 mm is bonded to the first surface of the radiation shielding glass, and wherein the first thin glass faceplate is one of an alkaline boro-aluminosilicate glass, or a chemically strengthenable sodium aluminum silicate glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Pierre-Jean Baron, Michele Marie-Louise Fredholm, Michael Lucien Genier, Charlotte Andree Ingold, Valerie Laforgue, Kevin Robert Claude Michel, Ludovic Guillaume Panard, Wilfried Guy Marcel Tribaudot
  • Patent number: 11344972
    Abstract: A method for processing a transparent workpiece includes generating a beam of radiation and forming a defect in or on an object. The beam is a quasi-non-diffracting beam and has a focal volume. Forming the defect includes directing the beam onto the object and positioning the focal volume partially or fully within the object. Generating the beam includes partially blocking the beam upstream of the focal volume to adjust an axial symmetry of the freeform energy distribution with respect to an optical axis of the beam using an adjustable blocking element and/or spatially modulating a phase of the beam upstream of the focal volume to adjust a geometry of the freeform energy distribution using a phase mask. The freeform energy distribution has energy sufficient to induce multi-photon absorption in a region of the object that is co-located with the focal volume. The induced multi-photon absorption produces the defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael Lucien Genier
  • Patent number: 10935698
    Abstract: A glass wafer having a first major surface, a second major surface that is parallel to and opposite of the first major surface, a thickness between the first major surface and the second major surface, and an annular edge portion that extends from an outermost diameter of the glass wafer toward the geometrical center of the glass wafer. The glass wafer has a diameter from greater than or equal to 175 mm to less than or equal to 325 mm and a thickness of less than 0.350 mm. A width of the edge portion is less than 10 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, John Tyler Keech, Robert Sabia
  • Publication number: 20200254567
    Abstract: A method for processing a transparent workpiece includes generating a beam of radiation and forming a defect in or on an object. The beam is a quasi-non-diffracting beam and has a focal volume. Forming the defect includes directing the beam onto the object and positioning the focal volume partially or fully within the object. Generating the beam includes partially blocking the beam upstream of the focal volume to adjust an axial symmetry of the freeform energy distribution with respect to an optical axis of the beam using an adjustable blocking element and/or spatially modulating a phase of the beam upstream of the focal volume to adjust a geometry of the freeform energy distribution using a phase mask. The freeform energy distribution has energy sufficient to induce multi-photon absorption in a region of the object that is co-located with the focal volume. The induced multi-photon absorption produces the defect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Lucien Genier
  • Publication number: 20200257120
    Abstract: An optical device includes a stack that includes a first curved optical element stacked with a second curved optical element. The second curved optical element propagates light by total internal reflection. The stack also includes an incoupling diffractive grating that incouples the light into the second optical element and an outcoupling diffractive grating optically coupled to the incoupling diffractive grating through the second curved optical element. The outcoupling diffractive grating directs the light. The first curved optical element has a first refractive index, the second curved optical element has a second refractive index, and the first refractive index is different from the second refractive index by approximately 0.15 to 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, Mark Francis Krol, Michael John Moore, Horst Schreiber
  • Publication number: 20200121947
    Abstract: A therapeutic illumination assembly includes a catheter and a point source treatment fiber. The catheter comprises a catheter wall encircling a luminal fluid pathway. The point source treatment fiber is positioned within the luminal fluid pathway of the catheter. Further, the point source treatment fiber comprises a plurality of light emitting point sources intermittently positioned along a treatment length of the point source treatment fiber such that the plurality of light emitting point sources irradiate the catheter when the plurality of light emitting point sources emit light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: MICHAEL LUCIEN GENIER, WILLIAM SPENCER KLUBBEN, III
  • Patent number: 10549114
    Abstract: A therapeutic illumination assembly includes a catheter and a point source treatment fiber. The catheter comprises a catheter wall encircling a luminal fluid pathway. The point source treatment fiber is positioned within the luminal fluid pathway of the catheter. Further, the point source treatment fiber comprises a plurality of light emitting point sources intermittently positioned along a treatment length of the point source treatment fiber such that the plurality of light emitting point sources irradiate the catheter when the plurality of light emitting point sources emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, William Spencer Klubben, III
  • Publication number: 20200010351
    Abstract: A system for cutting a substrate that is transparent within a predetermined range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum is provided that includes: a laser capable of emitting light along a light path and of a predetermined wavelength that is within the range of wavelengths in which the substrate is transparent; an optical element positioned in the light path of the laser such that the laser in conjunction with the optical element is capable of generating induced nonlinear absorption within at least a portion of the substrate; and an interface block composed of a material that is transparent over at least a portion of the predetermined range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum in which the substrate is also transparent. The interface block is positioned in the light path and between the substrate and the optical element. Further, the substrate will include an edge when extracted from a sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Lucien Genier
  • Patent number: 10526234
    Abstract: A system for cutting a substrate that is transparent within a predetermined range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum is provided that includes: a laser capable of emitting light along a light path and of a predetermined wavelength that is within the range of wavelengths in which the substrate is transparent; an optical element positioned in the light path of the laser such that the laser in conjunction with the optical element is capable of generating induced nonlinear absorption within at least a portion of the substrate; and an interface block composed of a material that is transparent over at least a portion of the predetermined range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum in which the substrate is also transparent. The interface block is positioned in the light path and between the substrate and the optical element. Further, the substrate will include an edge when extracted from a sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael Lucien Genier
  • Publication number: 20190346307
    Abstract: A spectral imaging system includes a a focal plane array (122). The focal plane array includes a plurality of imaging pixel rows (124), each imaging pixel row of the plurality of imaging pixel rows includes two or more individual imaging pixels, and the plurality of imaging pixel rows include a first imaging pixel row (124a) and a second imaging pixel row (124b). The spectral imager also includes a reference filter (142) optically coupled to the first imaging pixel row of the focal plane array and a multivariate optical element (140) optically coupled to the second imaging pixel row of the focal plane array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, Jeffry John Santman, Patrick Wallace Woodman
  • Publication number: 20180246257
    Abstract: A glass wafer having a first major surface, a second major surface that is parallel to and opposite of the first major surface, a thickness between the first major surface and the second major surface, and an annular edge portion that extends from an outermost diameter of the glass wafer toward the geometrical center of the glass wafer. The glass wafer has a diameter from greater than or equal to 175 mm to less than or equal to 325 mm and a thickness of less than 0.350 mm. A width of the edge portion is less than 10 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, John Tyler Keech, Robert Sabia
  • Patent number: 9813801
    Abstract: A headphone system includes a first audio speaker assembly and a second audio speaker assembly, a connecting body extending between the first and second audio speaker assemblies, and a light-diffusing fiber coupled with the connecting body, the light-diffusing fiber having a glass core and a cladding. At least one of the glass core and a core-cladding interface includes a plurality of light scattering structures. A light source is optically coupled to the light-diffusing fiber and configured to emit light into the light-diffusing fiber. The light scattering structures are configured to scatter the emitted light and output the emitted light at least partially along a sidewall of the light-diffusing fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Vineet Tyagi, Michael Lucien Genier
  • Publication number: 20170216621
    Abstract: A therapeutic illumination assembly includes a catheter and a point source treatment fiber. The catheter comprises a catheter wall encircling a luminal fluid pathway. The point source treatment fiber is positioned within the luminal fluid pathway of the catheter. Further, the point source treatment fiber comprises a plurality of light emitting point sources intermittently positioned along a treatment length of the point source treatment fiber such that the plurality of light emitting point sources irradiate the catheter when the plurality of light emitting point sources emit light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, William Spencer Klubben, III
  • Publication number: 20170215732
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a balloon catheter includes a balloon located at a distal end of the balloon catheter. The balloon includes a first transferrable marking and a second transferrable marking on an exterior surface of the balloon. The first transferrable marking includes a partially IR-transmittable marking material. The second transferrable marking includes an IR-transmittable marking material. An OCT probe including the balloon catheter and a method of using the OCT probe are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, Michael Paul Then
  • Publication number: 20170158550
    Abstract: The present application describes a system for cutting a substrate (102) that is transparent within a predetermined range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum and will include an edge when extracted from a sheet of substrate (102). The system generally includes a laser (104) capable of emitting light along a light path and of a predetermined wavelength that is within the range of wavelengths in which the substrate (102) is transparent; an optical device (106) positioned in the light path of the laser; and an interface block (108) composed of a material that is transparent over at least a portion of the predetermined range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum in which the substrate (102) is also transparent, wherein said interface block (108) is positioned in said light path and between the substrate (102) and said optical element (108).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Lucien Genier
  • Patent number: 9628898
    Abstract: An illuminable transmission cable includes an electrical conductor, a light-diffusing fiber having a glass core and a cladding, at least one of the glass core and a core-cladding interface having a plurality of scattering structures. The light-diffusing fiber is configured to optically couple with a light source which emits light into the light-diffusing fiber. The scattering structures are configured to scatter the emitted light and output the emitted light along at least a portion of a sidewall of the light-diffusing fiber. A light transmissive jacket surrounds the electrical conductor and the light-diffusing fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Carl Edgar Crossland, Michael Lucien Genier, Vineet Tyagi
  • Patent number: 9442252
    Abstract: A method including the steps of providing a light-diffusing optical fiber (12a) having a glass core (20), a cladding (40) surrounding the core (20), and a plurality of nano-sized structures in the form of voids (32) situated within said core (20) or at a core-cladding boundary; cleaving the light-diffusing fiber (12a), thereby forming a cleaved end face (66); and applying energy to one or more of 1) the cleaved end face (66) and 2) the light-diffusing fiber (12b) along a portion of the length thereof adjacent the cleaved end face (66), the amount of energy being sufficient to collapse and seal the voids (32) exposed at the cleaved end face (66), leaving a sealed cleaved end face (68). A lens may then be attached to the sealed cleaved end face (68), or the sealed cleaved end face (68) may be softened sufficiently to induce formation of a lensing surface such as a convex lensing surface (60) on the sealed end face (68).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Michael Lucien Genier