Patents by Inventor Theodor Vollmer

Theodor Vollmer 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).

  • Method for enhancing a computer to estimate an uncertainty of an onset of a signal of interest in time-series noisy data
    Patent number: 10859721
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of enhancing a computer to estimate an uncertainty of an onset of a signal of interest in time-series noisy data. A first mathematical model of first time series data that contains only noise is calculated. A second mathematical model of second time series data that contains the noise and an onset of a signal of interest in the second time series data is calculated. A difference is evaluated between a first combination, being the first mathematical model and the second mathematical model, and a second combination, being the first time series data and the second time series data, wherein evaluating is performed using a generalized entropy metric. A specific time when an onset of the signal of interest occurs is estimated from the difference. An “a posteriori” distribution is derived for an uncertainty of the specific time at which the onset occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: David John Stracuzzi, Matthew Gregor Peterson, Charles Theodore Vollmer
  • METHOD FOR ENHANCING A COMPUTER TO ESTIMATE AN UNCERTAINTY OF AN ONSET OF A SIGNAL OF INTEREST IN TIME-SERIES NOISY DATA
    Publication number: 20190235105
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of enhancing a computer to estimate an uncertainty of an onset of a signal of interest in time-series noisy data. A first mathematical model of first time series data that contains only noise is calculated. A second mathematical model of second time series data that contains the noise and an onset of a signal of interest in the second time series data is calculated. A difference is evaluated between a first combination, being the first mathematical model and the second mathematical model, and a second combination, being the first time series data and the second time series data, wherein evaluating is performed using a generalized entropy metric. A specific time when an onset of the signal of interest occurs is estimated from the difference. An “a posteriori” distribution is derived for an uncertainty of the specific time at which the onset occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: David John Stracuzzi, Matthew Gregor Peterson, Charles Theodore Vollmer
  • Integrated optical lens/coupler
    Patent number: 4752108
    Abstract: In the integrated optical multiplexer/demultiplexer (lens coupler), a reflection grating is deposited on an imaging lens having a plane surface. Input/output light beams are guided to the imaging lens via an integrated optical device containing planar waveguides for the light beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1988
    Assignee: Alcatel N.V.
    Inventor: Theodor Vollmer