Patents by Inventor Stephen Swan

Stephen Swan 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: 12266280
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. A system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, DeaGyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan MacNeill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Patent number: 12266279
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a device includes: an optical guiding device configured to guide light to propagate along a first direction within the optical guiding device, an in-coupling diffractive structure configured to diffract the light to propagate in the optical guiding device, and one or more out-coupling diffractive structures arranged downstream the in-coupling diffractive structure along the first direction and configured to diffract at least part of the light out of the optical guiding device along a second, different direction. The in-coupling diffractive structure is configured to cause a first optical dispersion for the light, and at least one out-coupling diffractive structure is configured to cause a second optical dispersion for the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, DeaGyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan MacNeill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Patent number: 12251844
    Abstract: Foldable, multipurpose shears can have a pair of shearing blades, each blade having a sharp side and a blunt side. The blades are connected to handles via a hinge, and the handles have one side that is straighter and another side that is more rounded or irregularly shaped. One of the blades includes a backward facing hook on the blade's blunt side. Additionally, the blunt side may have partially sharpened serrations. The blades can fold about the hinge for easier transport and storage and the shears are configured so that the hook does not extend past the handles when folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander Stephen Swan, Cameron J Nielson
  • Patent number: 12254798
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor and having instructions executable by the at least one processor to perform operations including: obtaining primitive data of a plurality of primitives corresponding to at least one object based on information of the plurality of primitives, the information of the plurality of primitives comprising respective primitive identifiers of the plurality of primitives; for each primitive of the plurality of primitives, determining an electromagnetic (EM) field contribution to each of a plurality of display elements of a display based on primitive data of the primitive; and for each of the plurality of display elements of the display, generating a sum of the EM field contributions of the plurality of primitives to the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, DeaGyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan Macneill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Publication number: 20250078698
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WIENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
  • Patent number: 12243453
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method of manipulating data of a plurality of primitives corresponding to at least one object includes: for each of a plurality of vertices of the plurality of primitives, associating a respective vertex identifier of the vertex with respective vertex data of the vertex, and storing the association between the respective vertex identifier and the respective vertex data of the vertex in a memory; and for each of the plurality of primitives, associating a respective primitive identifier of the primitive with one or more respective vertex identifiers of one or more vertices of the primitive in the memory, and storing an association between the respective primitive identifier and the one or more respective vertex identifiers for the primitive in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, DeaGyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan MacNeill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Publication number: 20250061826
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WIENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
  • Patent number: 12230176
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, an optical device includes: an optical guiding device configured to guide light to propagate along a first direction within the optical guiding device; an in-coupling diffractive structure configured to diffract the light to propagate in the optical guiding device; and out-coupling diffractive structures configured to diffract at least part of the light out of the optical guiding device along a second direction different from the first direction. The out-coupling diffractive structures are configured to have gradually increased diffraction efficiencies for the light along the first direction away from the in-coupling diffractive structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, Deagyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan Macneill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Publication number: 20250029534
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WIENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
  • Publication number: 20250029527
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WIENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
  • Publication number: 20250029532
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes: a display having a plurality of display elements and a driving device coupled to the driving device and configured to: obtain a hologram for the display, wherein the hologram comprises, for each display element of the plurality of display elements, a respective sum of electromagnetic (EM) field contributions of a plurality of primitives corresponding to at least one object to the display element; and generate, for each display element of the plurality of display elements, a respective modulation control signal based on the respective sum of EM field contributions of the plurality of primitives to the display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
  • Publication number: 20250029530
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus Blackley, Richard Bahr, Watson Brent Boyett, Sylvain Marcel Colin, Robin James Green, Isaac Serrano Guasch, Stephen John Hart, Robert Alan Hess, Margaret H. Hsu, Christoph Von Jutrzenka, DeaGyu Kim, Mark Anthony Loya, Kelly Swan Macneill, Benjamin Francis Neil, Kamran Qaderi, Tina Qin, Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Jayakrishna Sashidharan, Asher Zelig Sefami, Jeff Smith, Robert David Srinivasiah, Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Joshua D. Wiensch, Daniel Dereck Williamson
  • Publication number: 20250029531
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WIENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
  • Publication number: 20250029528
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method of manipulating data of a plurality of primitives corresponding to at least one object includes: for each of a plurality of vertices of the plurality of primitives, associating a respective vertex identifier of the vertex with respective vertex data of the vertex, and storing the association between the respective vertex identifier and the respective vertex data of the vertex in a memory; and for each of the plurality of primitives, associating a respective primitive identifier of the primitive with one or more respective vertex identifiers of one or more vertices of the primitive in the memory, and storing an association between the respective primitive identifier and the one or more respective vertex identifiers for the primitive in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WIENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
  • Publication number: 20250029526
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a display and a controller. The display includes: a backplane having a plurality of circuits and a plurality of display elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of display elements form an irregular pattern. Each of the plurality of display elements is coupled to a respective circuit of the plurality of circuits. The controller is coupled to the display and configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one display element of the display for modulating at least one property of the at least one display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Seamus BLACKLEY, Richard BAHR, Watson Brent BOYETT, Sylvain Marcel COLIN, Robin James GREEN, Isaac Serrano GUASCH, Stephen John HART, Robert Alan HESS, Margaret H. HSU, Christoph Von JUTRZENKA, DeaGyu KIM, Mark Anthony LOYA, Kelly Swan MACNEILL, Benjamin Francis NEIL, Kamran QADERI, Tina QIN, Jesus Manuel Caridad RAMIREZ, Jayakrishna SASHIDHARAN, Asher Zelig SEFAMI, Jeff SMITH, Robert David SRINIVASIAH, Sameer Sudhir WALAVALKAR, Joshua D. WIENSCH, Daniel Dereck WILLIAMSON
  • Publication number: 20220234226
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments a system of foldable shears is provided, comprising a pair of shearing blades, each blade having a sharp side and a blunt side. The blades are connected to handles via a hinge, and the handles have one side that is straighter and another side that is more rounded or irregularly shaped. One of the blades includes a backward facing hook on the blade's blunt side. Additionally, the blunt side may have partially sharpened serrations or other features. The blades can fold about the hinge for easier transport and storage and the shears are configured so that the hook does not extend past the handles when folded to prevent catching the hook on anything or damaging any nearby equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander Stephen Swan, Cameron J Nielson
  • Patent number: 9043794
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented process for scalable group synthesis receives a group definition, applies a sub-set of conditions to the group definition to form a conditioned group definition, receives a set of entities and populates group membership using the received set of entities and the conditioned group definition, wherein each member responds in the affirmative to the sub-set of conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Cooper, Peter Andrew Nicholls, Roger Harry Pett, Jeremiah Stephen Swan
  • Publication number: 20130117748
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented process for scalable group synthesis receives a group definition, applies a sub-set of conditions to the group definition to form a conditioned group definition, receives a set of entities and populates group membership using the received set of entities and the conditioned group definition, wherein each member responds in the affirmative to the sub-set of conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Cooper, Peter Andrew Nicholls, Roger Harry Pett, Jeremiah Stephen Swan
  • Patent number: 7537430
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotor assembly for a steam turbine. The steam turbine includes a retention portion having a stacked rotor section. The steam turbine further includes a first shaft end disposed at a first end of the retention portion. The steam turbine yet further includes a second shaft end disposed at a second end of the retention portion that is opposite to the first end of the retention portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert James Bracken, John Thomas Murphy, Stephen Swan, Jeffrey Robert Simkins, Clement Gazzillo, Ronald W. Korzun, David Orus Fitts
  • Patent number: D992390
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Stephen Swan, Cameron J Nielsen