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Green-Enhancer Glasses
This invention is an optical filter which blocks out blue light and only allows green to pass through, increasing the relative amount of green light that passes through. This filter can be used on prescription and non-prescription glasses, as well as on coverings for lamps and light bulbs. Green light in the morning can rehabilitate the circadian system...
Published: 11/8/2021
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Inventor(s): Fabian Fernandez, Michael Grandner, Stanley Pau, Brooke Mason
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Healthcare Portfolios > Sleep Disorders
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Melanopsin Blocker
This invention describes an optical filter that can be used in the production of glasses that block wavelengths of light harmful to circadian rhythms and sleep.
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The great importance of maintaining a healthy circadian rhythm and getting good sleep continues to be firmly supported by researchers, and more healthy sleep is known to produce...
Published: 11/8/2021
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Inventor(s): Fabian Fernandez, Michael Grandner, Stanley Pau, Brooke Mason
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Healthcare Portfolios > Sleep Disorders, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Blue-Enhancer Glasses
Because of the huge increase in the amount of blue light consumed by the average individual due to myriad factors including society’s dependence on phones, tablets, and computers, blue light blocking glasses are becoming commonplace. Not only do blue light suppressing glasses decrease some of the stress on an individuals’ eyes, but the decrease...
Published: 11/4/2021
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Inventor(s): Michael Grandner, Brooke Mason, Fabian Fernandez, Stanley Pau
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Category(s): *Opt: Industrial & Consumer, Technology Classifications > Healthcare Portfolios > Sleep Disorders, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Pink Blue Blockers
This invention uses pink lenses as an efficient way to block blue light while appealing to younger users and those who have a difficult time wearing the more visually cumbersome orange or red lenses. The use of blue light blocking glasses have recently become more popular for the general public because an increasing number of individuals spend a majority...
Published: 11/3/2021
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Inventor(s): Michael Grandner, Brooke Mason, Fabian Fernandez, Stanley Pau
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, *PSE: For Medicine & Health
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Overlapping Apertures Diffractive Optical Lens
This invention describes a diffractive optical lens that utilizes overlapping apertures for higher resolution images than conventional methods. The inventors have created a lens design, method of manufacturing, and an imaging instrument to utilize the lens that is based on overlapping apertures where a single coherent light illumination is used, and...
Published: 11/3/2021
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Inventor(s): Stanley Pau, David Brady
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Displays
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Multiaperture Monocular Endoscopic Objective for Multiview Acquisition
This invention describes a device with several novel imaging capabilities such as 3D viewing, peripheral awareness, and light-field based computational imaging in endoscopes for minimally invasive surgery. Through integration of a multiaperture and multiview selector in conjunction with a multiview deflector, the technology allows for multiple perspective...
Published: 11/3/2021
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Inventor(s): Hong Hua, Elliott Kwan
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Category(s): *Opt: Medical Instrumentation & Devices, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Novel High Refractive Index and Abbie Value Polymers for Advanced Lower Cost Optical Eyewear
Copolymerization of chalcogenide halides with widely available unsaturated monomers is used to create advanced polymer materials for consumer plastic optics, consumer eye wear, and smart phone plastic optics.
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Sulfenyl chlorides are a widely known but largely ignored class of sulfur compounds that are highly reactive toward nucleophiles...
Published: 9/15/2021
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Inventor(s): Dong-Chul Pyun, Robert Norwood, Jon Njardarson, Richard Glass, Taeheon Lee, Chisom Olikagu, Kyle Carothers
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication > Optical, EO & MO, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Ophthalmology, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers
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Solar Generator with Two-Stage Optical Concentration Onto PV Cells
This technology is a photovoltaic (PV) solar power generator that leverages optical design principles to obtain high power conversion performance and the robustness of operation at lower cost.
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As competition continues to grow within the solar power market, more efficient and less costly solar power systems are in high demand. This technology...
Published: 4/29/2020
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Inventor(s): James Angel, Dmitry Reshidko, Brian Wheelwright, Nicholas Didato, Justin Hyatt
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Energy, Cleantech & Environmental > Renewable Energy > Solar/Photovoltaic
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Tandem Photovoltaic Module with Diffractive Spectral Separation
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a design for a solar concentrating device that has a solar tracker and a diffractive grating as a part of the entrance window or glass for the sunlight to enter through. The technology is designed for use in conjunction with a solar cell for solar panels. The grating delivers specific diffracted...
Published: 4/29/2020
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Inventor(s): James Angel, Brian Wheelwright, Zachary Holman, Raymond Kostuk
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Energy, Cleantech & Environmental > Renewable Energy > Solar/Photovoltaic, Technology Classifications > Energy, Cleantech & Environmental > Energy Collection, Storage & Battery
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Segmented Optical Component
This technology combines diffraction and refraction in a multi-order diffractive optical surface that is an extension of Fresnel lens technology that reflects numerous orders of wavelengths in a wide bandwidth that is constrained by the refractive dispersion of the lens. This has the advantage of collecting and focusing broader wavebands of light than...
Published: 3/25/2020
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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