Patents by Inventor Tom Pfeiffer

Tom Pfeiffer 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: 11262185
    Abstract: A method comprises: splitting laser light into sample light, reference light, and monitor light; routing the reference light into a reference arm of an OCT interferometer; routing the monitor light into a monitor device, which generates at least one optical monitor signal representing at least one time-dependent property of the monitor light; generating at least one electric monitor signal from the at least one optical monitor signal; illuminating in a point-shaped manner a sample with sample light, wherein the illumination point is guided on the surface of the sample along a predetermined trajectory; superimposing the light scattered by the sample with the reference light emerging from the reference arm to generate an electric OCT signal; wherein the at least one electric monitor signal and the electric OCT signal are AD-converted in alternating sequence, in each case equidistantly in time, to form a single digital data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: OPTORES GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Huber, Wolfgang Draxinger, Tom Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20210247174
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for monitoring time-dependent properties of light during scanning swept-source optical coherence tomography, having the steps: a. generating laser light having wavelengths that change on a time-dependent basis and a predetermined sweep duration; b. splitting the laser light into sample light, reference light, and monitor light; c. routing the reference light into a reference arm of an OCT interferometer; d. routing the monitor light into a monitor device, which generates at least one optical monitor signal representing at least one time-dependent property of the monitor light; e. generating at least one electric monitor signal from the at least one optical monitor signal with a light detector; f. illuminating in a point-shaped manner a sample with sample light, wherein the illumination point is guided on the surface of the sample along a predetermined trajectory; g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Robert HUBER, Wolfgang DRAXINGER, Tom PFEIFFER
  • Patent number: 10910787
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for maintaining the synchronism of a Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) laser, the FDML laser comprising at least one dispersion-compensated resonator with at least one variably wavelength-selective optical filter, the laser light circulating in the resonator at a circulation frequency, and the wavelength selectivity of the filter being repeatedly modified at a syntonising rate, the FDML laser being synchronous when the syntonising rate is an integral multiple of the circulation frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OPTORES GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Huber, Tom Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20200106235
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for maintaining the synchronism of a Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) laser, the FDML laser comprising at least one dispersion-compensated resonator with at least one variably wavelength-selective optical filter, the laser light circulating in the resonator at a circulation frequency, and the wavelength selectivity of the filter being repeatedly modified at a syntonising rate, the FDML laser being synchronous when the syntonising rate is an integral multiple of the circulation frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Robert HUBER, Tom PFEIFFER
  • Publication number: 20180024385
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for measuring eyewear characteristics are provided. The eyewear measurement systems and devices comprise a plurality of measurement standard frames, each having lenses marked with visible gridlines specifically configured to the measurement standard frame to allow for the direct measurement of a PD and SH/FH with respect to each eye of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicants: iCoat Company, LLC, Wiley X, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Pfeiffer, Michael Bumerts, Larry Wickline, Imtiaz Hasan, Timothy George Stephan, Dan Freeman, Arman Bernardi