Patents by Inventor Ronald D. Blum

Ronald D. Blum 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).

  • Patent number: 9778489
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens provides a vision correcting area for the correction of a wearer's refractive error. The viewing correction area provides correction for non-conventional refractive error to provide at least a part of the wearer's vision correction. The lens has a prescription based on a wave front analysis of the wearer's eye and the lens can further be modified to fit within an eyeglass frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski
  • Publication number: 20170265992
    Abstract: Eyewear is provided including a frame, and a camera connected with the frame, in which the camera is configured to be controlled by a remote controller. The camera may be configured to capture video and/or a photo. The eyewear may include data storage, and the camera may be connected to the data storage. A wrist watch may be configured to act both as a time piece and a controller of the camera. The eyewear may also include a heads up display and/or a video file player. The eyewear may also include an electro-active lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski, Dwight P. Duston
  • Publication number: 20170205680
    Abstract: Devices and methods related generally to electrochromic materials and their use. In some embodiments, the electrochromic materials are for use on an optical substrate, such as a lens, a semi-finished lens blank, and the like. Some embodiments include an electrochromic stack including nanostructured materials. Some embodiments include an electrochromic stack including nanostructured electrochromic materials. Some embodiments include one or more ion-conducting layers. Methods of making electrochromic stacks having nanostructured materials and/or ion-conducting layers are also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Anita Trajkovska-Broach, Amitava Gupta, William Kokonaski, Ronald D. Blum
  • Publication number: 20170195529
    Abstract: A wearable camera system includes an eyewear which includes a temple and a lens and a camera coupled to eyewear, the camera having a field of view. The wearable camera system further includes a marker coupled to the eyewear, the camera, or both, the marker positionable on or in front of the lens of the eyewear at a location such that when a wearer of the eyewear aligns the marker with a target, the field of view of the camera includes the target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: POGOTEC, INC.
    Inventor: Ronald D. Blum
  • Patent number: 9690117
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to electro-active optical systems, such as a pair of spectacles having one or more lenses that employ electro-active optical structures. In some embodiments, the invention relates to electro-active optical systems having a flexible electrically conductive connection between the lens and the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, Charles Willey, Joshua Haddock
  • Publication number: 20170172730
    Abstract: Eyewear is provided including a frame, and a camera connected with the frame, in which the camera is configured to be controlled by a remote controller. The camera may be configured to capture video and/or a photo. The eyewear may include data storage, and the camera may be connected to the data storage. A wrist watch may be configured to act both as a time piece and a controller of the camera. The eyewear may also include a heads up display and/or a video file player. The eyewear may also include an electro-active lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski, Dwight P. Duston
  • Publication number: 20170176777
    Abstract: Eyewear is provided including a frame, and a camera connected with the frame, in which the camera is configured to be controlled by a remote controller. The camera may be configured to capture video and/or a photo. The eyewear may include data storage, and the camera may be connected to the data storage. A wrist watch may be configured to act both as a time piece and a controller of the camera. The eyewear may also include a heads up display and/or a video file player. The eyewear may also include an electro-active lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski, Dwight P. Duston
  • Patent number: 9675444
    Abstract: Many modern implantable ophthalmic devices include electronic components, such as electro-active cells, that can leak harmful substances into the eye and/or surrounding tissue. In the implantable ophthalmic devices disclosed herein, electronic components are hermetically sealed within cavities formed by bonding together two or more glass wafers. Bonding the glass wafers together with laser fusion bonding, pressure bonding, or anodic bonding creates a seal that leaks at a rate of less than about 5×10?12 Pa m3s?1 when subjected to a helium leak test. Hermetically sealed feedthroughs formed of conductive material running through channels in the wafers provide electrical connections to components inside the sealed cavities. In some cases, the conductive material has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that is roughly equal to (e.g., within 10% of) the CTE of the glass wafers to minimize leakage due to thermally induced expansion and contraction of the conductive material and the glass wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: ELENZA, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, Amitava Gupta, Jean-Noel Fehr, Jean-Christophe Roulet, Urban Schnell, Walter Doll, Roland Michaely
  • Publication number: 20170150049
    Abstract: Camera systems and methods configured to receive power wirelessly are described. A wireless energy transfer system according to some examples includes a transmitter of wireless energy located within a communication device, such as a mobile phone, or attached to the communication device and a distance separated receiver located within an electronic wearable device other than the communication device, such as a wearable camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: POGOTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, Amitava Gupta, William Kokonaski, Richard Clompus, Massimo Pinazza, Claudio Dalla Longa, Stefan Bauer, Jean-Noel Fehr, Walter Dannhardt
  • Publication number: 20170127196
    Abstract: A hearing aid system according to some examples includes a hearing aid which includes a microphone, amplifier, speaker, and a telecoil. In some examples, the hearing aid may include a battery or a capacitor for storing power wirelessly received from a distance separated wireless power transfer unit. The telecoil may be configured to receive audio signals and couple the audio signals to audio processing circuitry of the hearing aid. The telecoil may be further configured to receive power signals from the base unit and couple the power signals to power supply circuitry of the hearing aid, for example for charging the battery of the hearing aid. Examples of transmitter and receiver coils, and of distance and orientation optimization are described. Examples of wireless charging systems that may be used with hearing aids or other medical assistance devices are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: PogoTec, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski, Stefan Bauer, Jean-Noel Fehr, Amitava Gupta, Richard Clompus
  • Patent number: 9635222
    Abstract: A wearable camera system includes an eyewear which includes a temple and a lens and a camera coupled to eyewear, the camera having a field of view. The wearable camera system further includes a marker coupled to the eyewear, the camera, or both, the marker positionable on or in front of the lens of the eyewear at a location such that when a wearer of the eyewear aligns the marker with a target, the field of view of the camera includes the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: PogoTec, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald D. Blum
  • Publication number: 20170108713
    Abstract: A lens includes a lens body, and an electro-active section (liquid crystals and a diffraction section) that is provided to a region of part of the lens body. The lens includes a pair of electrodes that are embedded in the lens body, that are electrically connected to a focal length modification section, that extend downward from an upper side end of the lens body, and that are disposed substantially parallel to each other spaced apart in a width direction orthogonal to an up-down direction of the lens body. Lower ends of the pair of electrodes are disposed spaced apart from the electro-active section in the up-down direction of the lens body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. BLUM, Sophie ADAMS, David BOYD, Richard CLOMPUS, Mark GRAHAM, Joshua HADDOCK, Robert HALL, Venki IYER, William KOKONASKI, Charles WILLEY, Yongping WANG, Claudio Dalla LONGA, Tsuyoshi KAMIBEPPU, Akifumi AONO, Akihiro MURAMATSU
  • Patent number: 9628707
    Abstract: Camera systems and methods configured to receive power wirelessly are described. A wireless energy transfer system according to some examples includes a transmitter of wireless energy located within a communication device, such as a mobile phone, or attached to the communication device and a distance separated receiver located within an electronic wearable device other than the communication device, such as a wearable camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: PogoTec, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, Amitava Gupta, William Kokonaski, Richard Clompus, Massimo Pinazza, Claudio Dalla Longa, Stefan Bauer, Jean-Noel Fehr, Walter Dannhardt
  • Publication number: 20170075141
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods for the design and manufacturing of electronic eyeglasses and associated components thereof. Electronic eyeglasses consist of electro-active lenses, receiving electrical signals that turn them on and off from an electronic control module. The electronic control module is embedded within a temple of the eyeglass frame, and is powered by a removable power source pack residing at a temple tip through a flexible cable. Various methods describe the interconnection schemes between the components of the electronic eyeglasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. BLUM, Sophie ADAMS, David BOYD, Richard CLOMPUS, Mark GRAHAM, Joshua HADDOCK, Robert HALL, Venki IYER, William KOKONASKI, Charles WILLEY, Yongping WANG, Claudio Dalla LONGA
  • Publication number: 20170031181
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods for the design and manufacturing of electronic eyeglasses and associated components thereof. Electronic eyeglasses consist of electro-active lenses, receiving electrical signals that turn them on and off from an electronic control module. The electronic control module is embedded within a temple of the eyeglass frame, and is powered by a removable power source pack residing at a temple tip through a flexible cable. Various methods describe the interconnection schemes between the components of the electronic eyeglasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. BLUM, Sophie ADAMS, David BOYD, Richard CLOMPUS, Mark GRAHAM, Joshua HADDOCK, Robert HALL, Venki IYER, William KOKONASKI, Charles WILLEY, Yongping WANG, Claudio Dalla LONGA
  • Publication number: 20170010480
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens provides a vision correcting area for the correction of a wearer's refractive error. The viewing correction area provides correction for non-conventional refractive error to provide at least a part of the wearer's vision correction. The lens has a prescription based on a wave front analysis of the wearer's eye and the lens can further be modified to fit within an eyeglass frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski
  • Publication number: 20160363787
    Abstract: An eyewear system according to the present disclosure may include at least one temple, and a temple guide provided on the at least one temple, wherein the temple guide comprises a guide surface defined by a ferromagnetic material of the temple, and wherein the temple guide is configured to magnetically retain an electronic wearable device in slidable attachment therewith and to restrict lateral movement of the electronic wearable device relative to the temple when the electronic wearable device is engaged with the temple guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: POGOTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, WILLIAM KOKONASKI, RICHARD CLOMPUS, WALTER DANNHARDT, MASSIMO PINAZZA, CLAUDIO DALLA LONGA, ANITA TRAJKOVSKA-BROACH
  • Publication number: 20160363783
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens provides a vision correcting area for the correction of a wearer's refractive error. The viewing correction area provides correction for non-conventional refractive error to provide at least a part of the wearer's vision correction. The lens has a prescription based on a wave front analysis of the wearer's eye and the lens can further be modified to fit within an eyeglass frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski
  • Patent number: 9500883
    Abstract: A spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens provides a vision correcting area for the correction of a wearer's refractive error. The viewing correction area provides correction for non-conventional refractive error to provide at least a part of the wearer's vision correction. The lens has a prescription based on a wave front analysis of the wearer's eye and the lens can further be modified to fit within an eyeglass frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski
  • Publication number: 20160313572
    Abstract: A lens system is presented having a diffractive optical power region. The diffractive optical power region has a plurality of concentric surface relief diffractive structures. A greater portion of light incident on a diffractive structure near the center point contributes to the optical power than light incident on a diffractive structure peripherally spaced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Joshua HADDOCK, William KOKONASKI, Roger CLARKE, Mark MATTISON-SHUPNICK, Ronald D. BLUM