Patents by Inventor Michael Tischler

Michael Tischler 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).

  • SEALED AND SEALABLE LIGHTING SYSTEMS INCORPORATING FLEXIBLE LIGHT SHEETS AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20170051898
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems include flexible light sheets and one or more sealed regions containing light-emitting elements, the sealed regions defined by seals between a top housing and a bottom housing and/or the light sheet. The top housing defines a plurality of shaped regions each associated with a light-emitting element and spaced apart from and not in contact with the light-emitting element with which it is associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Paul Palfreyman
  • High efficiency LEDs and LED lamps
    Patent number: 9559150
    Abstract: In various embodiments, lighting systems include an electrically insulating carrier having a plurality of conductive elements disposed thereon and a light-emitting array. The light-emitting array is disposed over the carrier and includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that are interconnected in parallel in a first direction and interconnected in series in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: COOLEDGE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Vladimir Odnoblyudov, David Keogh
  • ILLUMINATION DEVICE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20170019967
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a control system for an electronic circuit iteratively applies voltage to and senses current from a load to regulate operation of the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Michael A. TISCHLER, William P. COETZEE, Paul JUNGWIRTH
  • Wiring boards for array-based electronic devices
    Patent number: 9526132
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems include one or more lightsheets each including a plurality of strings of light-emitting elements, control elements, and power conductors for supplying power to the light-emitting elements and control elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: COOLEDGE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Paul Palfreyman, Michael A. Tischler, Philippe M. Schick, Paul Jungwirth
  • ARBITRARILY SIZABLE BROAD-AREA LIGHTING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160366731
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems feature lightsheets including multiple illumination units or modules electrically interconnected such that unremoved illumination units or modules remain energized upon removal of at least a portion of one or more illumination units or modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Paul Palfreyman, Paul Jungwirth, Jane Wei Yang, Michael A. Tischler
  • LIGHTING SYSTEMS WITH REMOVABLE ILLUMINATION MODULES
    Publication number: 20160363276
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems feature lightsheets including multiple illumination units or modules electrically interconnected such that unremoved illumination units or modules remain energized upon removal of at least a portion of one or more illumination units or modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Paul Palfreyman, Paul Jungwirth, Jane Wei Yang, Michael A. Tischler
  • Illumination device control systems and methods
    Patent number: 9520783
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a control system for an electronic circuit iteratively applies voltage to and senses current from a load to regulate operation of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: COOLEDGE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, William P. Coetzee, Paul Jungwirth
  • Illumination device control systems and methods
    Patent number: 9520784
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a control system for an electronic circuit iteratively applies voltage to and senses current from a load to regulate operation of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: COOLEDGE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, William P. Coetzee, Paul Jungwirth
  • Sealed and sealable lighting systems incorporating flexible light sheets and related methods
    Patent number: 9506633
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems include flexible light sheets and one or more sealed regions containing light-emitting elements, the sealed regions defined by seals between a top housing and a bottom housing and/or the light sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: COOLEDGE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Paul Palfreyman
  • Lighting systems incorporating flexible light sheets deformable to produce desired light distributions
    Patent number: 9494305
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems include flexible light sheets having light-emitting elements with first luminous intensity distributions disposed thereover, and the light sheets are curved or folded to produce a second luminous intensity distribution different from the first luminous intensity distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Cooledge Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Paul Palfreyman, Calvin Wade Sheen
  • Wafer-level flip chip device packages and related methods
    Patent number: 9496472
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, semiconductor dies are at least partially coated with a polymer and a conductive adhesive prior being bonded to a substrate having electrical traces thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: COOLEDGE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventor: Michael A. Tischler
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH YIELDING SUBSTRATES
    Publication number: 20160327220
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, a semiconductor die is adhered directly to a yielding substrate with a pressure-activated adhesive notwithstanding any nonplanarity of the surface of the semiconductor die or non-coplanarity of the semiconductor die contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Michael A. TISCHLER, Philippe M. SCHICK, Ian ASHDOWN, Calvin Wade SHEEN, Paul JUNGWIRTH
  • Shippable LED-based luminaire
    Patent number: 9488320
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems include a set of components that fit entirely within a shipping container that interfits with at least some of the components to form the assembled lighting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: COOLEDGE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Paul Palfreyman, Andrew Tien-Man Ng, Michael A. Tischler
  • Discrete phosphor chips for light-emitting devices and related methods
    Patent number: 9478715
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, phosphor chips are formed and subsequently attached to light-emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Cooledge Lighting Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Tischler
  • Light-emitting element repair in array-based lighting devices
    Patent number: 9480133
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, patches with replacement light-emitting elements thereon are utilized to repair lighting-system fault locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: COOLEDGE LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Tom Pinnington, Philippe M. Schick, Paul Jungwirth
  • MODULAR LED LIGHTING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20160305621
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, a modular lighting system features multiple light panels each having multiple light-emitting elements thereon, as well as connectors for electrically and mechanically interconnecting the light panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Paul Palfreyman
  • Light-emitting dies incorporating wavelength-conversion materials and related methods
    Patent number: 9472732
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, semiconductor dies are embedded within polymeric binder to form, e.g., freestanding white light-emitting dies and/or composite wafers containing multiple light-emitting dies embedded in a single volume of binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Cooledge Lighting, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Tischler
  • High efficiency LEDs and LED lamps
    Patent number: 9431462
    Abstract: In various embodiments, lighting systems include an electrically insulating carrier having a plurality of conductive elements disposed thereon, a light-emitting array, and at least one power source. The light-emitting array is disposed over the carrier and includes a plurality of light-emitting strings, each light-emitting string comprising a plurality of electrically connected light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Each LED has at least two electrical contacts, and each electrical contact is electrically connected to a conductive element. The power source provides power to the light-emitting strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Cooledge Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Vladimir Odnoblyudov, David Keogh
  • Electronic devices with yielding substrates
    Patent number: 9426860
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, a semiconductor die is adhered directly to a yielding substrate with a pressure-activated adhesive notwithstanding any nonplanarity of the surface of the semiconductor die or non-coplanarity of the semiconductor die contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Cooledge Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Philippe M. Schick, Ian Ashdown, Calvin Wade Sheen, Paul Jungwirth
  • Engineered-phosphor LED packages and related methods
    Patent number: 9425368
    Abstract: In accordance with certain embodiments, regions of spatially varying wavelength-conversion particle concentration are formed over light-emitting dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Cooledge Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Tischler, Ian Ashdown, Tom Pinnington, Henry Ip