Patents Archive

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 patent 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 tlo.mit.edu, 617-253-6966, or [email protected].

2013

Two-Dimensional Wavelength-Beam-Combining of Lasers Using First-Order Grating Stack

Inventors: Bien Chann, Tso Yee Fan, and Antonio Sanchez-Rubio
Date issued: 24 December 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,614,853

Methods and Apparatus for In-Pixel Filtering in Focal Plane Arrays

Inventors: Kenneth I. Schultz, Brian Tyrrell, Michael W. Kelly, Curtis Colonero, Lawrence M. Candell, and Daniel Mooney
Date issued: 10 December 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,605,853

Gas Detector for Atmospheric Species Detection

Inventors: Eric R. Statz, Alan E. DeCew Jr., and Jonathan B. Ashcom
Date issued: 3 December 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,599,381

Wide Band and Radio Frequency Waveguide and Hybrid Integration in a Silicon Package

Inventors: Carl O. Bozler, Jeremy Muldavin, Peter W. Wyatt, Craig L. Keast, and Steven Rabe
Date issued: 19 November 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,587,106

High-Efficiency Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide Laser and Amplifier

Inventors: Robin K. Huang, Reuel P. Swint, and Joseph P. Donnelly
Date issued: 29 October 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,571,080

Directed Material Assembly

Inventors: Theodore H. Fedynyshyn and Richard Kingsborough
Date issued: 8 October 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,551,566

Electronic Shutter with Photogenerated Charge Extinguishment Capability for Back-Illuminated Image Sensors

Inventor: Barry E. Burke
Date issued: 17 September 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,536,625

External-Cavity One-Dimensional Multi-wavelength Beam Combining of Two-Dimensional Laser Elements

Inventors: Bien Chann, Tso Yee Fan, and Antonio Sanchez-Rubio
Date issued: 10 September 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,531,772

High Peak Power Optical Amplifier

Inventors: Bien Chann, Tso Yee Fan, Antonio Sanchez-Rubio, and Steven J. Augst
Date issued: 10 September 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,531,761

Terahertz Sensing System and Method

Inventors: Mohammad Jalal Khan, Jerry C. Chen, and Sumanth Kaushik
Date issued: 20 August 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,514,393

Time Varying Quantization-Based Linearity Enhancement of Signal Converters and Mixed-Signal Systems

Inventor: William S. Song
Date issued: 13 August 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,508,395

Filter-Based DPSK Receiver

Inventors: David O. Caplan and Mark L. Stevens
Date issued: 6 August 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,503,889

Method and Apparatus for Audio Source Separation

Inventors: Tianyu Wang and Thomas F. Quatieri
Date issued: 30 July 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,498,863

Method and Apparatus for Hypothesis Testing

Inventor: David W. Browne
Date issued: 25 June 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,473,446

Waveguide Coupler Having Continuous Three-Dimensional Tapering

Inventors: Steven J. Spector, Reuel B. Swint, and Milos Popovic
Date issued: 25 June 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,472,766

Very Large Mode Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide Laser and Amplifier

Inventors: Robin K. Huang and Joseph P. Donnelly
Date issued: 28 May 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,451,874

Micro-electromechanical Tunneling Switch

Inventors: Carl O. Bozler, Craig L. Keast, and Jeremy Muldavin
Date issued: 30 April 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,432,239

Method and Apparatus for Spectral Cross Coherence

Inventor: Christ D. Richmond
Date issued: 23 April 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,428,897

CMOS Readout Architecture and Method for Photon-Counting Arrays

Inventors: Brian F. Aull, Matthew J. Renzi, Robert K. Reich, and Daniel R. Schuette
Date issued: 23 April 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,426,797

Polyphase Nonlinear Digital Predistortion

Inventors: Joel I. Goodman, Benjamin A. Miller, Matthew A. Herman, and
James E. Vian
Date issued: 2 April 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,410,843

Grazing-Incidence-Disk Laser Element

Inventors: Daniel J. Ripin, Tso Yee Fan, Anish K. Goyal, and John Hybl
Date issued: 26 March 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,406,267

Modulator for Frequency-Shift Keying of Optical Signals

Inventors: Bryan S. Robinson, Don M. Boroson, Scott A. Hamilton, and
Shelby J. Savage
Date issued: 19 March 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,401,398

Method and Apparatus for Synchronizing a Wireless Communication System

Inventors: Daniel W. Bliss and Peter A. Parker
Date issued: 22 January 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,358,716

Iterative Clutter Calibration with Phased-Array Antennas

Inventors: Steven I. Krich and Ian Weiner
Date issued: 22 January 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,358,239

Method for Low Sidelobe Operation of a Phased Array Antenna Having Failed Antenna Elements

Inventors: Steven I. Krich, Cory J. Prust, and Ian Weiner
Date issued: 15 January 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,354,960

Notch Antenna Having a Low Profile Stripline Feed

Inventors: Glenn A. Brigham, Marat Davidovitz, Sean M. Duffy, and Jeffrey Herd
Date issued: 8 January 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,350,767

Optical Limiting Using Plasmonically Enhancing Nanoparticles

Inventors: Vladimir Liberman and Mordechai Rothschild
Date issued: 1 January 2013
U.S. Patent no.: 8,345,364

2012

Annular Solid Immersion Lenses and Methods of Making Them

Inventor: Zong-Long Liau
Date issued: 4 December 2012
U.S. Patent no.: 8,325,420

Single-Electron Detection Method and Apparatus for Solid-State Intensity Image Sensors with a Charge-Metering Device

Inventors: David C. Shaver, Bernard B. Kosicki, Robert K. Reich, Dennis D. Rathman, Daniel R. Schuette, and Brian F. Aull
Date issued: 4 December 2012
U.S. Patent no.: 8,324,554

Inorganic Resist Sensitizer

Inventors: Theodore H. Fedynyshyn and Russell B. Goodman
Date issued: 4 December 2012
U.S. Patent no.: 8,323,866

Method and Apparatus for Measuring a Position of a Particle in a Flow

Inventors: Thomas H. Jeys, Antonio Sanchez-Rubio, Ronald H. Hoffeld, Jonathan Z. Lin, Nicholas M.F. Judson, George S. Haldeman, and Vincenzo Daneu
Date issued: 27 November 2012
U.S. Patent no.: 8,319,965

Agile-Beam Laser Array Transmitter

Inventors: Gary A. Shaw and Lawrence M. Candell
Date issued: 30 October 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,301,027

Method and System for in situ Aerosol Thermo-Radiometric Analysis

Inventor: William D. Herzog
Date issued: 25 September 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,274,655

High Duty Cycle Radar with Near/Far Pulse Compression
Interference Mitigation

Inventor: William S. Song
Date issued: 4 September 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,259,003

System and Method for Detecting Damage, Defect, and Reinforcement in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Bonded Concrete Systems Using Far-Field Radar

Inventors: Oral Buyukozturk, Tzu-Yang Yu, and Dennis Blejer
Date issued: 14 August 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,244,485

Phase-Locked Loop Frequency Synthesizer

Inventors: Helen H. Kim, Matthew D. Cross, Merlin R. Green, and Daniel D. Santiago
Date issued: 14 August 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,242,818

Pathogen Detection Biosensor

Inventors: Eric Schwoebel, James Harper, Martha Petrovick, Frances Nargi, Mark Hollis, Bernadette Johnson, Joseph Lacirignola, Richard Mathews, Kristine Hogan, Trina Vian, Allan Heff, Mark Hennessy, Songeeta Palchaudhuri, and Todd Rider
Date issued: 10 July 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,216,797

Space-Time Digital Power Amplifier

Inventors: Joel I. Goodman, Helen H. Kim, Benjamin A. Miller, and James E. Vian
Date issued: 19 June 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,204,148

Detection of Materials via Nitrogen Oxide

Inventors: John J. Zayhowski, Mordechai Rothschild, Charles M. Wynn, and
Roderick R. Kunz
Date issued: 12 June 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,198,095

Systolic Merge Sorter

Inventor: William S. Song
Date issued: 29 May 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,190,943

Digital Readout Method and Apparatus

Inventors: Michael Kelly, Daniel Mooney, Curtis Colonero, Robert Berger, and Lawrence Candell
Date issued: 15 May 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,179,296

Asymmetric Multilevel Outphasing Architecture for RF Amplifiers

Inventors: Joel L. Dawson, David J. Perreault, SungWon Chung, Philip Godoy, and Everest Huang
Date issued: 24 April 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,164,384

Single-Transducer, Three-Dimensional Laser Imaging System and Method

Inventors: Bryan S. Robinson, Don M. Boroson, and Marius A. Albota
Date issued: 17 April 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,159,680

Resist Sensitizer

Inventor: Theodore H. Fedynyshyn
Date issued: 17 April 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,158,338

Multi-tone Resist Compositions

Inventor: Theodore H. Fedynyshyn
Date issued: 7 February 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,110,339

High Fill-Factor Avalanche Photodiode

Inventors: Matthew J. Renzi, Brian F. Aull, Robert K. Reich, and Bernard B. Kosicki
Date issued: 10 January 2012
U.S. Patent No.: 8,093,624

2011

Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Optical Signals

Inventor: David O. Caplan
Date issued: 6 December 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 8,073,342

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 Berry, Bernadette Johnson, and Mark A. Hollis
Date issued: 29 November 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 8,067,184

Apparatus for Isolating a Nucleic Acid from a Sample

Inventors: Lalitha Parameswaran, James D. Harper, Johanna Bobrow, Mark A. Hollis, Drew C. Brown, Laura T. Bortolin, Eric S. Clasen, and John C. Schmidt
Date issued: 22 November 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 8,062,846

External-Cavity One-Dimensional Multi-Wavelength Beam Combining of Two-Dimensional Laser Elements

Inventors: Bien Chann, Tso Yee Fan, and Antonio Sanchez-Rubio
Date issued: 1 November 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 8,049,966

Asymmetric Multilevel Outphasing Architecture for RF Amplifiers

Inventors: Everest Huang, Joel L. Dawson, David J. Perreault,
SungWon Chung, and Philip Godoy
Date issued: 27 September 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 8,026,763

Architecture for Systolic Nonlinear Filter Processors

Inventor: William S. Song
Date issued: 23 August 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 8,005,176

Method and Apparatus Performing Automatic Mapping for a Multi-processor System

Inventors: Nadya T. Bliss and Henry Hoffman
Date issued: 19 July 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,983,890

Generating a Multiple-Prerequisite Attack Graph

Inventors: Richard P. Lippmann, Kyle W. Ingols, and Keith J. Piwowarski
Date issued: 28 June 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,971,252

Detection of Materials via Nitrogen Oxide

Inventors: Mordechai Rothschild, Charles M. Wynn, John J. Zayhowski, and Roderick R. Kunz
Date issued: 7 June 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,955,855

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: 24 May 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,947,509

System and Method for Detecting Damage, Defect, and Reinforcement in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Bonded Concrete Systems Using Far-Field Radar

Inventors: Oral Buyukozturk, Tzu-Yang Yu, and Dennis Blejer
Date issued: 3 May 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,937,229

Real-Time Ranging and Angle Measurements Using Radar and Surface Acoustic Wave Transponders

Inventors: Jason M. LaPenta and Joseph A. Paradiso
Date issued: 12 April 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,924,160

System and Method for Providing Amplitude Spectroscopy of a Multilevel Quantum System

Inventors: David M. Berns, Mark S. Rudner, Sergio O. Valenzuela, William D. Oliver, Leonid S. Levitov, and Terry P. Orlando
Date issued: 22 March 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,912,656

Time-Multiplexed Optical Waveform Generation

Inventors: Kevin W. Holman, David G. Kocher, Jae H. Kyung, Leaf A. Jiang, Sumanth Kaushik, and Richard M. Heinrichs
Date issued: 22 February 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,894,725

System and Method for Providing a High Frequency Response Silicon Photodetector

Inventors: Michael W. Geis, Steven J. Spector, Donna M. Lennon, Matthew E. Grein, Robert T. Schulein, Jung U. Yoon, Franz Xaver Kaertner, Fuwan Gan, and Theodore M. Lyszczarz
Date issued: 1 February 2011
U.S. Patent No.: 7,880,204

2010

Digital Photon-Counting Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiode Solid-State Monolithic Intensity Imaging Focal-Plane with Scalable Readout Circuitry

Inventors: Alvin Stern, Brian F. Aull, Bernard B. Kosicki, Robert K. Reich, Bradley J. Felton, David C. Shaver, Andrew H. Loomis, and Douglas J. Young
Date issued: 28 December 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,858,917

Method and Apparatus for Measuring a Position of a Particle in a Flow

Inventors: Thomas H. Jeys, Antonio Sanchez-Rubio, Ronald H. Hoffeld, Jonathan Z. Lin, Nicholas M.F. Judson, George S. Haldeman, and Vincenzo Daneu
Date issued: 26 October 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,821,636

Cube Coordinate Subspaces for Nonlinear Digital Predistortion

Inventors: Joel I. Goodman, Benjamin A. Miller, and Matthew A. Herman
Date issued: 5 October 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,808,315

Method and Apparatus for Simultaneously Measuring a Three-Dimensional Position of a Particle in a Flow

Inventors: William D. Herzog, Antonio Sanchez-Rubio, Gregory G. Cappiello, Ronald H. Hoffeld, Shane M. Tysk, Vincenzo Daneu, and Thomas H. Jeys
Date issued: 10 August 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,772,579

GPS-Based Attitude Reference System

Inventor: George Gorski-Popiel
Date issued: 20 July 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,760,139

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

Inventor: Michael P. Anthony
Date issued: 6 July 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,750,962

Immersion Fluids for Lithography

Inventors: Theodore H. Fedynyshyn and Indira Pottebaum
Date issued: 29 June 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,745,102

Acoustic Detection of Hidden Objects and Material Discontinuities

Inventors: Robert Haupt and Ken Rolt
Date issued: 13 April 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,694,567

Method of Detecting Analyte Vaporized from Sample with
Low-Power UV Radiation

Inventor: Roderick R. Kunz
Date issued: 30 March 2010
U.S. Patent No.: 7,687,276

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

Inventors: Brian Tyrrell and Michael Fritze
Date issued: 26 January 2010
U.S. patent No.: 7,651,821

2009

Multi-element Optical Detectors with Sub-wavelength Gaps

Inventors: Eric A. Dauler, Andrew J. Kerman, Karl K. Berggren, Vikas Anant, and Joel K.W. Yang
Date issued: 29 December 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,638,751

Wavelength Division and Polarization Division Multiple Access Free Space Optical Terminal Using a Single Aperture

Inventors: Frederick G. Walther, Jeffrey M. Roth, William E. Keicher, and Alan E. DeCew
Date issued: 1 December 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,627,251

Contrast Enhancing Layers

Inventor: Theodore H. Fedynyshyn
Date issued: 24 November 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,622,246

Large-Aperture Focal Plane Shutter

Inventors: Brian J. Julian and Anthony M. Smith
Date issued: 20 October 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,604,422

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

Inventors: Michael Fritze and Brian M. Tyrrell
Date issued: 1 September 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,583,360

2-D Processing of Speech

Inventor: Thomas F. Quatieri, Jr.
Date issued: 11 August 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,574,352

Anti-pathogen Treatments

Inventor: Todd H. Rider
Date issued: 28 July 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,566,694

Sensor for Measuring a Vibrating Surface Obscured from View

Inventors: Jerry C. Chen and Sumanth Kaushik
Date issued: 21 July 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,564,567

Optoelectronic Sensor

Inventors: Todd H. Rider and Laura Bortolin
Date issued: 14 April 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,517,660

Method and System for Distribution of an Exposure Control Signal for Focal Plane Arrays

Inventors: Robert K. Reich, Bernard B. Kosicki, Dennis D. Rathman, Richard Osgood, Michael Rose, R. Allen Murphy, and Robert Berger
Date issued: 10 March 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,501,634

Light Modulating Mirror Device and Array

Inventors: Carl O. Bozler, W. Gregory Lyons, and Jeremy B. Muldavin
Date issued: 3 February 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,484,857

Systolic Demultiplexed Finite Impulse Response Filter Array Architecture for Linear and Nonlinear Implementations

Inventor: William S. Song
Date issued: 20 January 2009
U.S. Patent No.: 7,480,689

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