Patents by Inventor Yannis Bakos

Yannis Bakos 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).

  • Publication number: 20030112737
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for making an optically readable storage media in which the reading beam passes through a bonding layer configured with a reactive material that transforms from an optically transparent state to an optically opaque state after exposure to a predefined stimulus, thereby inhibiting access to the data encoded on the optically readable storage media. The method includes steps of synthesizing a blocked dye combining the blocked dye with a carrier material curing the resultant combination deblocking the dye to produce a reduced dye in the resultant bonding layer exposing the optically readable storage media with the reactive material in its bonding layer to a predetermined stimulus. In a further aspect of the present invention methods and apparatus are provided for making an optically readable storage media wherein the reading light passes through the bonding layer and the data encoded information is encoded on the L1 substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Robert F. Thompson, Neil Exter, Yannis Bakos
  • Publication number: 20030099186
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for inhibiting the readability of an optical media due to changes in a pseudo-reflective material that composes the optical media after the optical media has been exposed to air for a predetermined time. An optical media includes a data encoded component. At least a fraction of the data encoded component transforms from a substantially optically reflective state to a substantially optically non-reflective state as at-least-in-part a function of time from an initializing event. The systems and methods provide advantages because of low cost, limited content lifetime, avoidance of rental returns and minimum changes to existing manufacturing precesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2003
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Yannis Bakos, Erik Brynjolfsson, Adam Heller, Ephraim Heller
  • Patent number: 6537635
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for inhibiting the readability of an optical media due to changes in a pseudo-reflective material that composes the optical media after the optical media has been exposed to air for a predetermined time. An optical media includes a data encoded component. At least a fraction of the data encoded component transforms from a substantially optically reflective state to a substantially optically non-reflective state as at-least-in-part a function of time from an initializing event. The systems and methods provide advantages because of low cost, limited content lifetime, avoidance of rental returns and minimum changes to existing manufacturing precesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Flexplay Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yannis Bakos, Erik Brynjolfsson, Adam Heller, Ephraim Heller
  • Patent number: 6511728
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for inhibiting the readability of an optical media due to changes in a pseudo-transmissive material that composes the optical media after the optical media has been exposed to air for a predetermined time. A optical media includes a substrate. At least a fraction of the substrate transforms from a substantially optically transmissive state to a substantially optically non-transmissive state as at-least-in-part a function of time from an initializing event. The systems and methods provide advantages because of low cost, limited content lifetime, avoidance of rental returns and minimum changes to existing manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Flexplay Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yannis Bakos, Erik Brynjolfsson, Adam Heller, Ephraim Heller