Patents by Inventor Samuel B. Backes

Samuel B. Backes 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: 20190129183
    Abstract: Designs of integrated frames for wearable display devices are described. An exemplary wearable device includes a pair of integrated lenses, a lens frame accommodate the integrated lenses and two temples coupled respectively to two opposite ends of the lens frame. The integrated lens includes a transparent optical waveguide. Each of the temples includes a conduit to accommodate a cable received at one end thereof and an enclosure on an inner side thereof, wherein the enclosure includes electronic parts powered by wires in the cable and optical parts receiving optical signals from at least two optical fibers in the cable. Depending on the implementation, the temples and/or the lens frame glows when one of the optical fibers is coupled to a light source being turned on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Darwin Hu, Leo Chen, Hank Lee, Samuel B. Backes, Jie Wu