Patents by Inventor Robert Luck

Robert Luck 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: 20100309463
    Abstract: A scattered-light spectroscopy system for collecting light scattered from a sample, e.g. Raman-scattered light, to produce a spectrum of the sample, includes a cylindrical cell for holding the sample that is transparent and coated on either its inside surface or outside surface with a reflective coating, e.g. aluminum. The reflective coating has an opening for aligning with an aperture in a spectrometer for receiving the sample-scattered light. Light from a source such as a laser illuminates the sample to produce a scattered light having a first part received directly at the opening and a second part reflected by the reflective coating one or more times prior to arrival at the opening, thereby adding to the total scattered light entering the aperture of the spectrometer to improve its collection efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Lucke, Jacob Grun, Charles K. Manka, Sergei Nikitin
  • Publication number: 20080114567
    Abstract: A sequential sampling tool that executes advanced sequential protocols on a portable platform. The system includes a computer and software code compiled with well-known statistical and graphical user interface packages. The sampling and testing tool supports SPRT, 2-SPRT, and sequential Bayes sampling protocols for a variety of statistical distributions, including Bernoulli, binomial, Poisson, negative binomial, and normal distributions. The user has easy access to properties of the statistical design, such as average sample size curve, the operating characteristic curve, and the Type-1 and Type-2 error rates. The system also displays two boundary lines for the design, and allows the user to plot and visualize each observation point one-at-a-time as each sample unit is taken and counted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Daniel Jeske, Pengyue Lin, Robert Luck, Arunava Chakravartty, Payal Shah, Carlos Rendon
  • Patent number: 6440593
    Abstract: A molded plastic article having improved electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding properties. The article includes a plastic layer and an outer film layer over the plastic layer. The outer film layer has an inner surface adjacent to and bonded to the plastic layer and an outer surface opposed to the inner surface. The plastic layer and outer layer are electrically conductive. Preferably the outer layer has higher conductivity than the plastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: The University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Thomas M. Ellison, Arthur K. Delusky, Robert Lucke, Stephen P. McCarthy
  • Publication number: 20010031349
    Abstract: A molded plastic article having improved electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding properties. The article includes a plastic layer and an outer film layer over the plastic layer. The outer film layer has an inner surface adjacent to and bonded to the plastic layer and an outer surface opposed to the inner surface. The plastic layer and outer layer are electrically conductive. Preferably the outer layer has higher conductivity than the plastic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas M. Ellison, Arthur K. Delusky, Robert Lucke, Stephen P. McCarthy