Invention Disclosures, Provisional, and Issued Patents
Note: A number of these disclosures were filed as provisional patents only; a group was packaged and sold as an IP portfolio to IBM; and several others were licensed to outside companies for subsequent filing groups. U.S., European and International issues are noted.
1. Optical detection scheme for random access magnetic crosstie memory using Faraday rotation
2. Utilization of Franz-Keldysh absorption modulation for optical addressing of memory elements
3. Optical decoding for random access memory using electro-optic addressing
4. Practical electrooptic modulators and switches using ion implanted waveguides
5. Ion implantation technique for integrated optic device-multiplexing geometries
6. Ion implanted variable loss devices for integrated optical circuits and logic systems
7. Efficient grating fabrication for integrated optical circuits
8. Variable delay lines for optical communications systems
9. Schottky contact processing monitor
10. Acousto-optic deflection/scanning for random access memory addressing
11. Voight phase shift detection for magnetic crosstie memory random access readout
12. Photon-coupled isolators for RAM
13. Low-loss channel waveguides formed by ion implantation
14. Optical waveguide couplers formed by ion implanted gratings
15. Improved detection scheme for XTIE memory using double complementary operation
16. Improved fabrication technique for surface and buried blazed transmission grating couplers
17. GaAs heterostructure implanted waveguides for low-loss propagation at 10.6 microns
18. Analog memory utilizing multistable logic in the magnetic crosstie random access memory
19. High efficiency GaAs depletion layer modulation directional coupler switch
20. Single pulse write and single pulse read crosstie memory
21. X-tie spatial light modulator
22. Ion implanted switch/filter
23. Dielectric overlays for low-loss ion-implanted waveguide fabrication
24. Staggered S-Ram geometry for improved signal extraction in the crosstie random access memory
25. Cooltie crosstie memory
26. Magnetoresistive random access cross-tie memory architecture and signal processing system [U.S. Patent 4,722,073] [also international and European
filings]
27. Quad store crosstie memory with single pulse read and write
28. Crosstie memory system [U.S. Patent 4,841,480] [also international and European filings]
29. Magneto-optic two-dimensional spatial modulator
30. Signal-to-noise enhancement for crosstie memory Faraday rotation
31. Multiple structure cell
32. Methods and systems for determining the density and/or temperature of fluids [US Patent 7,573,565] [also international and European filings]
33. Liquid level sensor using fluorescence in an optical waveguide [International Patent WO 2004/008086]
34. Autocalibration circuit for color temperature and luminous flux
35. Actively aligned multi-fiber array
36. Systems and methods for determining level and/or type of a fluid [U.S. Patent 7,710,567] [also international and European filings]
37. Methods and systems for detecting and/or determining the concentration of a fluid [U.S. Patent 7,768,646] [also international and European filings]*
38. Optical fiber connector with silicon locator
39. Angled optical connector [U.S. Patent 6,422,761] [also international and European filings]
40. Multi-fiber array connector system [U.S. Patent 6,447,171] [also international and European filings]
41. Systems and methods for generating optical energy using a light-emitting diode [U.S. Patent 7,671,539] [also international and European filings]*
42. Angled connector for miniMAC
43. Optical densitometer
44. Electro-optic fluid quantity measurement system [US Patent 6,831,290] [also international and European filings]
45. In filing process by the U.S. Army: Blast, ballistic and blunt trauma sensor exhibiting differential circular dichroism chirality shifts and color changes based on concurrent disruption of tissue and sensor phospholipid bilayers configured as liposomes