Patents by Inventor Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare
Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare 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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Publication number: 20230104471Abstract: There is described a method for interrogating optical fiber comprising fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”), using an optical fiber interrogator. The method comprises (a) generating an initial light pulse from phase coherent light emitted from a light source, wherein the initial light pulse is generated by modulating the intensity of the light; (b) splitting the initial light pulse into a pair of light pulses; (c) causing one of the light pulses to be delayed relative to the other of the light pulses; (d) transmitting the light pulses along the optical fiber; (e) receiving reflections of the light pulses off the FBGs; and (f) determining whether an optical path length between the FBGs has changed from an interference pattern resulting from the reflections of the light pulses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Hifi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Chris Henrikson, Ajay Sandhu, Adrian Dumitru, Thomas Clement, Dongliang Huang, Seyed Ehsan Jalilian
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Patent number: 11609086Abstract: There is described a method for interrogating optical fiber comprising fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”), using an optical fiber interrogator. The method comprises (a) generating an initial light pulse from phase coherent light emitted from a light source, wherein the initial light pulse is generated by modulating the intensity of the light; (b) splitting the initial light pulse into a pair of light pulses; (c) causing one of the light pulses to be delayed relative to the other of the light pulses; (d) transmitting the light pulses along the optical fiber; (e) receiving reflections of the light pulses off the FBGs; and (f) determining whether an optical path length between the FBGs has changed from an interference pattern resulting from the reflections of the light pulses.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Hifi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Chris Henrikson, Ajay Sandhu, Adrian Dumitru, Thomas Clement, Dongliang Huang, Seyed Ehsan Jalilian
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Publication number: 20220062724Abstract: Disclosed is a device used in forming and maintaining a legal pocket in lacrosse head, and methods for its use.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Thomas Edward SEDLACK, Walter Jeffrey SHAKESPEARE
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Publication number: 20220057193Abstract: There is described a method for interrogating optical fiber comprising fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”), using an optical fiber interrogator. The method comprises (a) generating an initial light pulse from phase coherent light emitted from a light source, wherein the initial light pulse is generated by modulating the intensity of the light; (b) splitting the initial light pulse into a pair of light pulses; (c) causing one of the light pulses to be delayed relative to the other of the light pulses; (d) transmitting the light pulses along the optical fiber; (e) receiving reflections of the light pulses off the FBGs; and (f) determining whether an optical path length between the FBGs has changed from an interference pattern resulting from the reflections of the light pulses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: Hifi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Chris Henrikson, Ajay Sandhu, Adrian Dumitru, Thomas Clement, Dongliang Huang, Seyed Ehsan Jalilian
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Patent number: 11199393Abstract: There is described a method for interrogating optical fiber comprising fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”), using an optical fiber interrogator. The method comprises (a) generating an initial light pulse from phase coherent light emitted from a light source, wherein the initial light pulse is generated by modulating the intensity of the light; (b) splitting the initial light pulse into a pair of light pulses; (c) causing one of the light pulses to be delayed relative to the other of the light pulses; (d) transmitting the light pulses along the optical fiber; (e) receiving reflections of the light pulses off the FBGs; and (f) determining whether an optical path length between the FBGs has changed from an interference pattern resulting from the reflections of the light pulses.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: HiFi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Chris Henrikson, Ajay Sandhu, Adrian Dumitru, Thomas Clement, Dongliang Huang, Seyed Ehsan Jalilian
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Patent number: 11054288Abstract: An optical fiber interrogator for interrogating optical fiber that includes fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”). The interrogator includes a light source operable to emit phase coherent light, amplitude modulation circuitry optically coupled to the light source and operable to generate pulses from the light, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the amplitude modulation circuitry that is configured to perform a method for interrogating the optical fiber. The method includes generating a pair of light pulses by using the amplitude modulation circuitry to modulate light output by the light source without splitting the light.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Hifi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Tom Clement
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Publication number: 20190346295Abstract: An optical fiber interrogator for interrogating optical fiber that includes fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”). The interrogator includes a light source operable to emit phase coherent light, amplitude modulation circuitry optically coupled to the light source and operable to generate pulses from the light, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the amplitude modulation circuitry that is configured to perform a method for interrogating the optical fiber. The method includes generating a pair of light pulses by using the amplitude modulation circuitry to modulate light output by the light source without splitting the light.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: Hifi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Tom Clement
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Patent number: 10416005Abstract: An optical fiber interrogator for interrogating optical fiber that includes fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”). The interrogator includes a light source operable to emit phase coherent light, amplitude modulation circuitry optically coupled to the light source and operable to generate pulses from the light, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the amplitude modulation circuitry that is configured to perform a method for interrogating the optical fiber. The method includes generating a pair of light pulses by using the amplitude modulation circuitry to modulate light output by the light source without splitting the light.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Hifi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Tom Clement
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Patent number: 10221833Abstract: A system utilizes conventional sail technology to greatly increase the wind energy captured at modest cost. The use of a large area collector for wind energy, such as a sail, allows the conversion of wind kinetic energy into pressure so as to be further converted into mechanical or electrical energy in a much smaller turbine than in the conventional wind mill configuration. The collector is characterized by a deployed condition and a furled condition. In the deployed condition, a plurality of flexible membranes of the collector are deployed over an entirety or a portion of a roof. In the furled condition, plurality of flexible membranes are furled.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Inventors: Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Parker Egan Jones
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Publication number: 20180356210Abstract: There is described a method for interrogating optical fiber comprising fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”), using an optical fiber interrogator. The method comprises (a) generating an initial light pulse from phase coherent light emitted from a light source, wherein the initial light pulse is generated by modulating the intensity of the light; (b) splitting the initial light pulse into a pair of light pulses; (c) causing one of the light pulses to be delayed relative to the other of the light pulses; (d) transmitting the light pulses along the optical fiber; (e) receiving reflections of the light pulses off the FBGs; and (f) determining whether an optical path length between the FBGs has changed from an interference pattern resulting from the reflections of the light pulses.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Chris Henrikson, Ajay Sandhu, Adrian Dumitru, Thomas Clement, Dongliang Huang, Seyed Ehsan Jalilian
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Publication number: 20180266854Abstract: An optical fiber interrogator for interrogating optical fiber that includes fiber Bragg gratings (“FBGs”). The interrogator includes a light source operable to emit phase coherent light, amplitude modulation circuitry optically coupled to the light source and operable to generate pulses from the light, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the amplitude modulation circuitry that is configured to perform a method for interrogating the optical fiber. The method includes generating a pair of light pulses by using the amplitude modulation circuitry to modulate light output by the light source without splitting the light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Hifi Engineering Inc.Inventors: Brian H. Moore, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Phillip William Wallace, Viet Hoang, Tom Clement
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Publication number: 20180209402Abstract: An invention is presented which greatly improves the potential for individual home wind energy conversion. The system utilizes conventional sail technology to greatly increase the wind energy capture at modest cost. The use of a large area collector for wind energy, such as a sail, allows the conversion of wind kinetic energy into pressure to be further converted into mechanical or electrical energy in a much smaller turbine than in the conventional wind mill configuration. This technology encourages the distributed generation of green and renewable wind energy, complementing solar generation and the grid tie box, toward making the residential home energy neutral.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Parker Egan Jones
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Patent number: 9002372Abstract: Mentally challenged persons such as autistic children and Alzheimer's patients can become lost and they are hard to find because they have difficulty communicating or they are confused and disoriented. The present invention provides an apparatus, system and methods for locating lost persons (or animals or packages) whether they are indoors or outdoors. The apparatus comprises a cellular telephone unit which can be activated by a RF signal and which a child or patient can wear. The wearable unit can be activated by a caregiver's smart phone having a locating application installed therein. The locating application enables the caregiver to locate the lost person using radio direction finder triangulation when the lost person is within a few hundred feet of the caregiver. When the lost person is further away, the locating application employs cell phone tower triangulation or the wearable unit GPS/Assisted GPS application to determine an approximate location of the lost person.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Danielle's Buddy, Inc.Inventors: Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Clarence William Crompton, Lawrence P. Levitt, Sharone Vaknin, Phillip William Wallace
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Publication number: 20130260785Abstract: Mentally challenged persons such as autistic children and Alzheimer's patients can become lost and they are hard to find because they have difficulty communicating or they are confused and disoriented. The present invention provides an apparatus, system and methods for locating lost persons (or animals or packages) whether they are indoors or outdoors. The apparatus comprises a cellular telephone unit which can be activated by a RF signal and which a child or patient can wear. The wearable unit can be activated by a caregiver's smart phone having a locating application installed therein. The locating application enables the caregiver to locate the lost person using radio direction finder triangulation when the lost person is within a few hundred feet of the caregiver. When the lost person is further away, the locating application employs cell phone tower triangulation or the wearable unit GPS/Assisted GPS application to determine an approximate location of the lost person.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2012Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Danielle's Buddy, Inc.Inventors: Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Clarence William Crompton, Lawrence P. Levitt, Sharone Vaknin, Phillip William Wallace
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Publication number: 20120150001Abstract: The invention provides a method for using OCT human tissue scan data for tracking a scan structure in depth, follow change in structure position within an OCT scan from, for example, fasting glucose level to peak glucose level and back down again, and relate the structure position change to analyte concentration. In the preferred embodiment, the analyte of interest is glucose concentration and the target of interest is living human skin. A hyaluronic acid based mechanism is suggested for dermis thickness. Alternate embodiments of the method are presented, including curve fitting of topographic regions corresponding to trackable target features.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Walter Gregory Shakespeare
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Patent number: 8049364Abstract: A substantially uninterruptible backup power system to provide power to common household appliances comprises a rechargeable battery, a trickle-charging circuit to keep the battery fully charged at all times from the receptacle power, a DC to AC inverter to supply standard AC line voltage from the battery to the lamp, a relay switch, controlled by main power voltage, to switch to the backup system when main power fails, and a timing circuit to optimize a voltage output of the system based on current battery voltage and a desired time period for the voltage output. The system can be set to operate only when the appliance is turned on, which optimizes the current and power required to provide backup power to the appliance for a maximum period of time.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Electrikus, Inc.Inventors: Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Clarence William Crompton
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Patent number: 7510849Abstract: This invention relates to a method of diagnosing or treating a biological subject, such as a person or animal, comprising the steps of subjecting at least a microsample of the subject's tissue to a physiological perturbation and measuring the response of the microsample to the perturbation using optical coherence tomography (OCT). In an exemplary embodiment, the concentration of glucose in the microsample is perturbed, as by providing the subject with a high glucose drink, and subsequently monitoring at a high sample rate in a microsample by OCT. Pathology, such as diabetes, can be diagnosed by deviation of the concentration vs. time response over several cells (micro-oscillation) from the micro-oscillation in the cells of a healthy subject. Other applications include diagnosing or treating de-hydration and diseases that cause changes in the osmolyte concentrations and thus the osmotic pressure in the cells in tissue.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2005Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: GlucoLight CorporationInventors: Matthew J. Schurman, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare
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Publication number: 20080296975Abstract: A substantially uninterruptible backup power system to provide power to common household appliances comprises a rechargeable battery, a trickle-charging circuit to keep the battery fully charged at all times from the receptacle power, a DC to AC inverter to supply standard AC line voltage from the battery to the lamp, a relay switch, controlled by main power voltage, to switch to the backup system when main power fails, and a timing circuit to optimize a voltage output of the system based on current battery voltage and a desired time period for the voltage output. The system can be set to operate only when the appliance is turned on, which optimizes the current and power required to provide backup power to the appliance for a maximum period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventors: Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare, Clarence William Crompton
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Patent number: D1010042Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HeadRight Products LLCInventors: Thomas Edward Sedlack, Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare
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Patent number: D1025234Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventor: Walter Jeffrey Shakespeare