Selected Patents Archive

A list of selected patents of Lincoln Laboratory-developed inventions is periodically published. Below are patents that have been featured in past lists. Each is linked to its entry on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website.

For further information on the availability of these technologies for license, contact Jack Turner of the MIT Technology Licensing Office at http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/, 617-253-6966, or mailto:jht@mit.edu.

2008

Atmospheric Feature Detection Using Langrangian Scalar Integration

Inventors: Paul E. Bieringer and Sean Winkler
Date issued: 30 December 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,472,021

Surface-Emission Cathodes Having Cantilevered Electrodes

Inventors: Michael W. Geis, Theodore H. Fedynyshyn, Sandra J. Deneault, Keith E. Krohn, Theodore M. Lyszczarz, and Michael F. Marchant
Date issued: 28 October 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,443,090

Flow Cell and Methods of Use Thereof

Inventors: Shaun R. Berry, Amanda N. Goyette, Ronald H. Hoffeld, and Jonathan D. Pitts
Date issued: 14 October 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,435,963

Optoelectronic Detection System

Inventors: Eric D. Schwoebel, James D. Harper, Martha S. Petrovick, Frances E. Nargi, Todd H. Rider, Kristine E. Hogan, Richard H. Mathews, Joseph Lacirignola, Mark Hennessy, Trina R. Vian, Rose M. Joseph, Raymond S Uttaro, Shaun R. Berry, Bernadette Johnson, and Mark A. Hollis
Date issued: 9 September 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,422,860

Reconfigurable Polarization Independent Interferometers and Methods of Stabilization

Inventor: David O. Caplan
Date issued: 19 August 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,414,728

Multichannel Differentially Encoded Phase Shift Keyed Receivers

Inventor: David O. Caplan
Date issued: 12 August 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,411,726

Weather Radar Echo Tops Forecast Generation

Inventors: William J. Dupree, Marilyn M. Wolfson, Richard J. Johnson Jr., Robert A. Boldi, Paul E. Bieringer, Kim T. Calden, and Carol A. Wilson
Date issued: 24 June 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,391,358

Method and Apparatus for Differential Compression of Speaker Models

Inventor: Douglas A. Reynolds
Date issued: 27 May 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,379,868

High-Speed Electrical Interconnect Using an Optically Distributed Carrier Signal

Inventors: Brian M. Tyrrell and Robert K. Reich
Date issued: 22 April 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,363,018

Single Sideband Optical Transmitter

Inventors: Peter A. Schulz, Paula J. Donovan, and Scott R. Henion
Date Issued: 29 January 2008
U.S. Patent No.: 7,324,761

2007

Method and System of Lithography Using Masks Having Gray-Tone Features

Inventors: Michael Fritze and Brian M. Tyrrell
Date issued:  11 December 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,306,881

Incremental Reduced Error Pruning

Inventors: Robert K. Cunningham and Oliver Dain
Date issued:  4 December 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,305,373

Apparatus and Methods for Surface Contour Measurement

Inventor: Lyle G. Shirley
Date issued:  10 July 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,242,484

Multi-channel DPSK Receiver

Inventor: David O. Caplan
Date issued: 19 June 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,233,430

Micro-electromechanical Switch Designs

Inventors: Carl O. Bozler, Shaun R. Berry, Jeremy Muldavin, and Craig L. Keast
Date issued: 15 May 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,218,191

Apparatus and Method for Isolating a Nucleic Acid from a Sample

Inventors: Lalitha Parameswaran, Albert Young, Laura Bortolin, Mark Hollis, James Harper, and Johanna Bobrow
Date issued: 15 May 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,217,513

High-Yield Single-Level Gate Charge-Coupled Device Design and Fabrication

Inventors: Barry E. Burke and Vyshnavi Suntharalingam
Date issued: 15 May 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,217,601

Optoelectronic Detection System

Inventors: James D. Harper, Richard H. Mathews, Bernadette Johnson, Martha S. Petrovick, Ann Rundell, Frances E. Nargi, Timothy Stephens, Linda M. Mendenhall, Mark A. Hollis, Albert M. Young, Todd H. Rider, Eric D. Schwoebel, and Trina R. Vian

Date Issued: 8 May 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,214,346

Device for Subtracting or Adding Charge in a Charge-Coupled Device

Inventor: Michael Anthony
Date issued: 3 April 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,199,409

Network Security Planning Architecture

Inventors: Richard Lippmann, Chris Scott, Kendra Kratkiewicz, Michael Artz,
and Kyle Ingols
Date issued: 20 March 2007
Patent No.: 7,194,769

Interferometric Communication System and Method

Inventor: Sumanth Kaushik
Date issued: 6 March 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,187,871

Methods of Achieving Optimal Communications Performance

Inventors: David O. Caplan and Walid A. Atia
Date issued: 20 February 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,181,097

Self-Assembled Quantum Dot Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

Inventors: Theodore C. Harman, Patrick J. Taylor, Michael P. Walsh, and
Brian E. LaForge
Date issued: 20 February 2007
U.S. Patent No.: 7,179,986

2006

Adjustable CCD Charge Splitter

Inventor: Michael Anthony
Date issued: 26 December 2006
U.S. Patent No.: 7,154,134

Resist with Reduced Line Edge Roughness

Inventor: Theodore H. Fedynyshyn
Date issued: 26 December 2006
U.S. Patent No.: 7,153,630

Efficient Subband Channelizer and Subband Combiner with Oversampled Subbands

Inventor: William S. Song
Date issued: 28 November 2006
U.S. Patent No.: 7,142,607

Optical Frequency Filter

Inventor: Jerry Chen
Date issued: 24 October 2006
U.S. Patent No.: 7,127,172

High-Speed, High-Sensitivity Charge-Coupled Device with Independent Pixel Control of Charge Collection and Storage

Inventors: Robert K. Reich, Bernard B. Kosicki, Jonathan C. Twichell, and Dennis D. Rathman
Date Issued: 15 August 2006
U.S. Patent No.: 7,091,530

Optoelectronic Sensor

Inventors: Todd H. Rider and Laura Bortolin
Date issued: 15 August 2006
U.S. Patent No.: 7,090,988

Fabrication of a High-Precision Blooming Control Structure for an Image Sensor

Inventors: Barry E. Burke and Eugene D. Savoye
Date issued: 11 July 2006
U.S. Patent No.: 7,074,639

2005

Optical Imaging Systems and Methods Using Polarized Illumination and Coordinated Pupil Filter

Inventor: David C. Shaver
Date issued: 15 November 2005
U.S. Patent No.: 6,965,484

Method for Photolithography Using Multiple Illuminations and a Single Fine Feature Mask

Inventors: Michael Fritze and Brian M. Tyrrell
Date issued: 23 August 2005
U.S. Patent No.: 6,934,007

High Sensitivity X-Ray Photoresist

Inventor: Theodore H. Fedynyshyn
Date issued: 29 March 2005
U.S. Patent No.: 6,872,504

 

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