Patents by Inventor Teresa M. Marta
Teresa M. Marta 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).
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Patent number: 11119037Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. A method for gas detection may comprise providing a gas sealed in a cavity of a gas detector; directing radiative power from a light source through one or more target gases and through a cell body of the gas detector toward the cavity and a wavelength selective absorber of the gas detector, wherein the one or more target gases are located between the light source and the cavity; setting wavelength sensitivity with the wavelength selective absorber, wherein the wavelength sensitivity is irrespective of an angle of incidence (?); absorbing the radiative power by the wavelength selective absorber and by the one or more target gases; detecting, by a pressure sensing element, a pressure change caused by the absorbing of the radiative power; and determining the one or more target gases based on the detected pressure change.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Wei Yang, Teresa M. Marta, Bernard Fritz, Martin Willett
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Publication number: 20200333244Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. A method for gas detection may comprise providing a gas sealed in a cavity of a gas detector; directing radiative power from a light source through one or more target gases and through a cell body of the gas detector toward the cavity and a wavelength selective absorber of the gas detector, wherein the one or more target gases are located between the light source and the cavity; setting wavelength sensitivity with the wavelength selective absorber, wherein the wavelength sensitivity is irrespective of an angle of incidence (?); absorbing the radiative power by the wavelength selective absorber and by the one or more target gases; detecting, by a pressure sensing element, a pressure change caused by the absorbing of the radiative power; and determining the one or more target gases based on the detected pressure change.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Wei YANG, Teresa M. MARTA, Bernard FRITZ, Martin WILLETT
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Patent number: 10422740Abstract: Devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a dual wavelength source gas sensor are described herein. One or more embodiments include a gas sensor, comprising: a dual wavelength source to transmit a first wavelength and a second wavelength via an optical path, wherein a gas is present through the optical path, a detector to receive the first wavelength and the second wavelength via the optical path, and a computing device coupled to the detector to determine an determine a signal intensity for the first wavelength and the second wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Teresa M. Marta, Martin Willett, Bernard Fritz
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Patent number: 10393591Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. One device includes a cell body forming a cavity therein, wherein the cavity includes a wavelength selective absorber having a predetermined absorption spectral range and the cavity is filled with a gas and a pressure sensing element fluidly connected to the cavity to measure a change in pressure within the cavity. One device may include a plurality of planar Golay cells, wherein the cell bodies of the Golay cells are stacked against one another, wherein the pressure sensing elements of the Golay cells are located adjacent to the stacked sides of the cell bodies, and wherein radiation from a single light source is directed through the plurality of Golay cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Wei Yang, Teresa M. Marta
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Publication number: 20180374331Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for assessing cognitive function limitations. A system may comprise a sensor module, wherein the sensor module comprises a gas detector; and a device, wherein the device is configured to: obtain data from the sensor module, wherein the data comprises environmental data; calculate a cognitive availability value based on the environmental data; and display the cognitive availability value on a user interface of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Adam Dewey McBrady, Teresa M. Marta, Stephan Bork
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Publication number: 20180299330Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to electromagnetic radiation detector devices, systems, and methods using a planar Golay cell. One device includes a cell body forming a cavity therein, wherein the cavity includes a wavelength selective absorber having a predetermined absorption spectral range and the cavity is filled with a gas and a pressure sensing element fluidly connected to the cavity to measure a change in pressure within the cavity. One device may include a plurality of planar Golay cells, wherein the cell bodies of the Golay cells are stacked against one another, wherein the pressure sensing elements of the Golay cells are located adjacent to the stacked sides of the cell bodies, and wherein radiation from a single light source is directed through the plurality of Golay cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Wei Yang, Teresa M. Marta
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Patent number: 9829428Abstract: Gas detector devices, systems, and methods using a Golay cell are described herein. One device includes a microphone having a front surface with a sound collecting aperture for receiving sound, a substrate, a gas cavity formed in the substrate such that the gas cavity is in gas communication with the sound collecting aperture and the front surface forms a side surface of the gas cavity, and a window abutting the substrate to form a side surface of the gas cavity.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Wei Yang, Teresa M. Marta, Martin Willett, Rodney R. Watts
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Publication number: 20170307518Abstract: Devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a dual wavelength source gas sensor are described herein. One or more embodiments include a gas sensor, comprising: a dual wavelength source to transmit a first wavelength and a second wavelength via an optical path, wherein a gas is present through the optical path, a detector to receive the first wavelength and the second wavelength via the optical path, and a computing device coupled to the detector to determine an determine a signal intensity for the first wavelength and the second wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Teresa M. Marta, Martin Willett, Bernard Fritz
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Publication number: 20170115207Abstract: Gas detector devices, systems, and methods using a Golay cell are described herein. One device includes a microphone having a front surface with an sound collecting aperture for receiving sound, a substrate, a gas cavity formed in the substrate such that the gas cavity is in gas communication with the sound collecting aperture and the front surface forms a side surface of the gas cavity, and a window abutting the substrate to form a side surface of the gas cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2017Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Wei Yang, Teresa M. Marta, Martin Willett, Rodney R. Watts
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Publication number: 20170102318Abstract: Gas detector devices, systems, and methods using a Golay cell are described herein. One device includes a microphone having a front surface with an sound collecting aperture for receiving sound, a substrate, a gas cavity formed in the substrate such that the gas cavity is in gas communication with the sound collecting aperture and the front surface forms a side surface of the gas cavity, and a window abutting the substrate to form a side surface of the gas cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: Wei Yang, Teresa M. Marta, Martin Willett, Rodney R. Watts
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Patent number: 9606049Abstract: Gas detector devices, systems, and methods using a Golay cell are described herein. One device includes a microphone having a front surface with an sound collecting aperture for receiving sound, a substrate, a gas cavity formed in the substrate such that the gas cavity is in gas communication with the sound collecting aperture and the front surface forms a side surface of the gas cavity, and a window abutting the substrate to form a side surface of the gas cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Wei Yang, Teresa M. Marta, Martin Willett, Rodney R. Watts
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Patent number: 9267844Abstract: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a laser source and a ring-down optical resonator that performs cavity ring-down spectroscopy, the optical resonator receives coherent optical energy from the laser, wherein an extinction rate of optical resonance within the optical resonator is at least 100 times longer than an extinction rate of optical energy emitted from the laser source first following deactivation of the laser source.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: James Allen Cox, Teresa M. Marta
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Patent number: 9228903Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems relating to infrared imager devices, methods for providing infrared imagers, methods of operating infrared imagers, and infrared imager systems are disclosed. An infrared imager system includes a number of lenses, a beam splitter, an imager array, and a thermo-optical array, wherein the beam splitter directs light to the imaging array and to the thermo-optical array.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Barrett E. Cole, Robert Higashi, Yue Liu, Teresa M. Marta
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Patent number: 9136084Abstract: Micro discharge devices, methods, and systems are described herein. One device includes a non-conductive material, a channel through at least a portion of the non-conductive material having a first open end and a second open end, a first electrode proximate to a first circumferential position of the channel between the first open end and the second open end, a second electrode proximate to a second circumferential position of the channel between the first open end and the second open end, a discharge region defined by a portion of the channel between the first electrode and the second electrode, an optical emission collector positioned to receive an optical emission from the discharge region, and a discharge shielding component between the discharge region and the optical emission collector.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Teresa M. Marta, Fouad Nusseibeh
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Publication number: 20140312230Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems relating to infrared imager devices, methods for providing infrared imagers, methods of operating infrared imagers, and infrared imager systems are disclosed. An infrared imager system includes a number of lenses, a beam splitter, an imager array, and a thermo-optical array, wherein the beam splitter directs light to the imaging array and to the thermo-optical array.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Barrett E. Cole, Robert Higashi, Yue Liu, Teresa M. Marta
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Publication number: 20140196520Abstract: Micro discharge devices, methods, and systems are described herein. One device includes a non-conductive material, a channel through at least a portion of the non-conductive material having a first open end and a second open end, a first electrode proximate to a first circumferential position of the channel between the first open end and the second open end, a second electrode proximate to a second circumferential position of the channel between the first open end and the second open end, a discharge region defined by a portion of the channel between the first electrode and the second electrode, an optical emission collector positioned to receive an optical emission from the discharge region; and a discharge shielding component between the discharge region and the optical emission collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Teresa M. Marta, Fouad Nusseibeh
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Publication number: 20130314715Abstract: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a laser source and a ring-down optical resonator that performs cavity ring-down spectroscopy, the optical resonator receives coherent optical energy from the laser, wherein an extinction rate of optical resonance within the optical resonator is at least 100 times longer than an extinction rate of optical energy emitted from the laser source first following deactivation of the laser source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: James Allen COX, Teresa M. MARTA
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Patent number: 8427647Abstract: Cavity ring-down spectrometer systems are described herein. One or more embodiments include a cavity having at least two mirrors, wherein a first mirror of the at least two mirrors is configured to permit light to enter and exit the cavity, a first detector configured to detect light exiting the cavity through the first mirror, and a second detector configured to detect light from the first mirror, wherein the first detector is separate from the second detector.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: James A. Cox, Teresa M. Marta
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Patent number: 8325343Abstract: A cavity ring-down spectroscope includes a ring-down cavity. A trigger detector is optically coupled within the ring-down cavity to generate a signal to indicate a desired radiation level in the ring-down cavity. A controller is coupled to the trigger detector to control light provided to the ring-down cavity. A ring-down time may then be measured.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Barrett E. Cole, James A. Cox, Teresa M. Marta, Rodney H. Thorland
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Publication number: 20120140220Abstract: Cavity ring-down spectrometer systems are described herein. One or more embodiments include a cavity having at least two mirrors, wherein a first mirror of the at least two mirrors is configured to permit light to enter and exit the cavity, a first detector configured to detect light exiting the cavity through the first mirror, and a second detector configured to detect light from the first mirror, wherein the first detector is separate from the second detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: James A. Cox, Teresa M. Marta