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Optics: measuring and testing October categorized by USPTO classification 10/09

20090257046 - Method and device for ir spectroscopy measurements with fiber optic needle probe: A method of non-destructively determining the condition of a material, said method including providing an elongated probe containing a plurality of optical fibers, said elongated probe coupled to an infrared spectrometer, said tip of said elongated probe positioned near said material, said elongated probe including said tip having a width... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20090257047 - Water in oil measurement using stabilizer: A method for determining an amount of polar substance in a non-polar media includes adding a surfactant to increase a dispersion of the polar substance in the non-polar media and to increase the optical absorbance of the polar substance in the non-polar media to create a sample, passing an initial... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20090257048 - Optical fiber inspection device and method thereof: The present invention provides an optical fiber inspection device. The optical fiber inspection device is used to inspect an optical fiber. The optical fiber has a first termination and a second termination. The optical fiber inspection device includes a light emitter and an engagement portion. The first termination of the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090257049 - Device and method for the optical measurement of an optical system by using an immersion fluid: A device for the optical measurement of an optical system, in particular an optical imaging system, is provided. The device includes at least one test optics component arranged on an object side or an image side of the optical system. An immersion fluid is adjacent to at least one of... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090257051 - Abnormality-identifying method and analyzer: Provided is an abnormality-identifying method for identifying an abnormality in an analyzer which analyzes a specimen based on optical measurement. The method includes firstly acquiring a reference value which is a measurement result obtained by using a low-concentration reagent containing a component in predetermined very low concentrations, secondly acquiring an... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090257050 - Illumination system for optical inspection: Apparatus for optical inspection includes an illumination assembly, including multiple parallel rows of light sources for emitting light and illumination optics associated with each row for directing the light onto an object under inspection. The multiple parallel rows include at least a first row with first illumination optics including a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090257052 - Device for inspecting the quality of a surface: a reflecting means positioned in relation to the surface to be inspected (5) so as to direct the image reflected by the surface to be inspected (5) toward the sensor (3), the display device being oriented in relation to the surface to be inspected at an angle such that the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090257053 - High numerical aperture catadioptric objectives without obscuration and applications thereof: Disclosed are high numerical (NA) catadioptric objectives without a central obscuration, and applications thereof. Such objectives can operate through a wide spectral bandwidth of radiation, including deep ultraviolet (DUV) radiation. Importantly, refractive elements in the catadioptric objectives can be manufactured from a single type of material (such as, for example,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090257054 - Compact, thermally stable fiber-optic array mountable to flow cell: Various embodiments of an optical system for directing light for optical measurements such laser-induced fluorescence and spectroscopic analysis are disclosed. In some embodiments, the optical system includes a thermally conductive housing and a thermoelectric controller, a plurality of optical fibers, and one or more optical elements to direct light emitted... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090257055 - Hollow-core waveguide-based raman systems and methods: Embodiments of the invention include a system for sensing homonuclear diatomic molecules, such as, for example, nitrogen. Other embodiments include a method for sensing homonuclear diatomic molecules. The system may include a light source, a hollow-core wave-guiding device that exhibits a low attenuation at predetermined operating optical frequencies and is... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090257056 - Surface enhanced raman detection on metalized nanostructured polymer films: Disclosed herein is a structure having a spatially organized polymer nanostructured thin film and a metal coating on the film. The thin film is made by directing a monomer vapor or pyrolyzed monomer vapor towards a substrate at an angle other than perpendicular to the substrate, and polymerizing the monomer... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20090257057 - Common-path interferometer rendering amplitude and phase of scattered light: A beam of coherent laser light with linear polarization oriented at 45 degrees to vertical is expanded, and passes through a quarter-wave plate with the fast axis oriented vertically, creating circularly polarized light. The light then passes through a non-polarizing 50/50 beamsplitter. A partial reflector then collinearly reflects a portion... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090257058 - Method and its apparatus for inspecting defects: A defect inspection apparatus is capable of inspecting an extremely small defect present on the top and edge surfaces of a sample such as a semiconductor substrate or a thin film substrate with high sensitivity and at high speed. The defect inspection apparatus has an illumination optical system, a plurality... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090257059 - Alignment apparatus: An alignment apparatus includes first and second alignment devices (1) and means (9) for mounting each of the first and second alignment devices in spaced relationship one behind the other and such that one alignment device is at a higher level than the other alignment device. Each alignment device (1)... Agent: Law Office Of Ira S. Dorman

20090257060 - Housing for an optical measurement device and method for producing a housing: Housing (1) for an optical measurement device, in particular for yarn monitoring, and a method for producing such housing, from a plastics material by prototyping and receiving components of the measurement device such as a light source, sensor or lens. According to the invention, a glass insert (3) is arranged... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090257061 - Optical analyzer: An optical analyzer comprises a plurality of independent analysis zones (18a;18b), each for receiving an associated different sample and an optical system (24) including a first light source (26) adapted to generate a first optical beam (B1) and an optical unit (30) adapted to direct said beam (B1) to illuminate... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090257062 - Device and method for optical localized plasmon sensing: A device is presented comprising a multi-layer structure with a plurality of metal islands on the surface of a solid transparent substrate. The islands are coated by an ultrathin sol-gel derived silica film via self-assembled monolayer.... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090257063 - Adjustable two dimensional lamellar grating: An adjustable two-dimensional lamellar grating system including a lamellar grating and a movable mirror disposed substantially parallel to one another, and an interferometer using the adjustable lamellar grating system. In one example, the lamellar grating includes a dielectric wafer having a dielectric wafer having a plurality of periodically spaced recesses... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090257064 - Optical absorption spectrometer and method for measuring concentration of a substance: An optical absorption spectrometer is provided for determining the concentration of a substance within a sample. The optical absorption spectrometer comprises a first radiation source for supplying radiation to the sample to be measured; at least one cavity for containing the sample during measurement; and a detector assembly for detecting... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20090257065 - Surgical microscopy system having an optical coherence tomography facility: A surgical microscopy system is provided wherein an optical coherence tomography facility is integrated into a microscopy system. A beam of measuring light formed by collimating optics of an OCT system is deflected by a beam scanner, traverses imaging optics, and is reflected by a reflector such that the beam... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090257066 - Optical displacement measuring device: An optical displacement measuring device includes a diffraction grating, a reflecting optical system configured to irradiate two one-time diffracted beams diffracted at the diffraction grating on the diffraction grating again, and the reflecting optical system includes a first imaging element, a second imaging element, a first reflector, and a second... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090257067 - Dynamic air turbulence compensation for laser measurement apparatus: Measurement apparatus comprising a laser measuring system an acoustic system is described. The apparatus provides a feedback control signal that can be used in the feedback control system of an associated machine. To allow real time, dynamic, operation the laser measurements are compensated using a compensation value derived from a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090257068 - Wavefront measuring method and wavefront measuring apparatus using the wavefront measuring method: obtaining a first transmitted-wavefront from a first image formed by transmitting beam through a substance at a first angle; obtaining a second image formed by transmitting the beam through the substance at a second angle; formulating a mask corresponding to an interference degree of the second image; converting the first... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090257069 - Laser projection systems and methods: A laser imaging system and method of projecting a laser template on a surface, including independently determining a position and orientation of the surface using an external metrology device, independently determining a position and orientation of a laser projector using the metrology device, generating a signal from the metrology device... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20090251680 - Three dimensional spatial imaging system and method: A three dimensional spatial imaging system (10) for generating a three dimensional model of a scanned space includes: a laser rangefinder (42) that obtains spatial data by measuring distances to a plurality of target points within the scanned space; a rotating mirror (46) placed in a path of a laser... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090251682 - Biosensor: A biosensor includes an external cavity laser device having an optical resonator with at least one total-reflection mirror and a semi-reflection mirror corresponding to the total-reflection mirror, wherein the total-reflection mirror includes a transparent substrate and a surface plasma resonance unit disposed on the transparent substrate. The total-reflection mirror includes... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090251681 - System and method for liquid delivery evaluation using solutions with multiple light absorbance spectral features: A system and related method for improved liquid delivery evaluation using a solution containing one or more dyes such that the solution exhibits multiple distinct detectable light absorbance spectral features for calibrating or testing over extended volume or dilution ranges are described. The system includes: a photometric instrument capable of... Agent: Chris A. Caseiro

20090251683 - Virtual separation of bound and free label in a ligand assay for performing immunoassays of biological fluids, including whole blood: Detection and characterization of immunologically detected substances are performed electronically on human and animal biological fluids such as whole blood, serum, plasma, urine, milk, pleural and peritoneal fluids, and semen, which fluids are contained in a thin chamber forming a quiescent fluid sample, which chamber has at least two parallel... Agent: O''shea Getz P.C.

20090251684 - Optical transmission module, wavelength monitor, and wavelength drift detection method: To detect a wavelength drift of laser light with no error, an optical transmission module (10) includes: a laser diode (20); a laser temperature calculation section (52) for detecting the temperature of the laser diode (20) that monotonously increases with respect to a wavelength of the laser light; a wavelength... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090251685 - Lens system: A fragmented lens system for creating an invisible light pattern useful to computer vision systems is disclosed. Random or semi-random dot patterns generated by the present system allow a computer to uniquely identify each patch of a pattern projected by a corresponding illuminator or light source. The computer may determine... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090251686 - Spectrum-forming device on an optical sensor with spatial rejection: Optical device comprising: a spatial filter means for eliminating, from the light rays emanating from an observed scene those coming from a direction or restricted range of directions in space, while letting through most of the light rays coming from said scene; means for varying the direction or the restricted... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090251687 - Surface detection system for use with a droplet spray oral cleaning device: The surface detection system includes a source of an optical interrogating signal (44) which accompanies a droplet spray in an oral cleaning device directed to an oral surface (46). The interrogating optical signal is reflected from the oral surface which the spray impacts and detected (48). A selected characteristic of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090251688 - Device for measuring the diffusion and/or absorption and/or refraction of a sample: Device for measuring at least one of diffusion, absorption and refraction of a sample, having a radiation source, at least one receiving element, an optical imaging element and a protection element, the radiation source and the receiving element being arranged on the sensor side of the optical imaging element, the... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090251689 - Lens measuring device and method applied therein: A lens measuring device and method applied therein. The lens measuring device includes a light source, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, and an image analysis module. The method includes enabling the light source to orderly pass through the first polarizer, a lens to be measured, and the second polarizer... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090251690 - Optical apparatus for defect inspection: An optical apparatus for defect inspection having an illuminating optical system for irradiating illumination light beams on the surface of a specimen to form a beam spot and a detection optical system for detecting a reflection light ray originating from the beam spot comprises a storage unit in which the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090251691 - Liquid immersion microscope: To provide a liquid immersion microscope device enabling nondestructive liquid immersion observation of a substrate without deteriorating quality of the substrate. To attain this, a liquid immersion microscope device of the present invention includes a supporting unit supporting a substrate as an observation target, an objective lens of a liquid... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090251692 - Synchronous apparatus: A vision measuring machine includes a workbench, a support mounted to the workbench, a moving member movably mounted to the support, two fixing portions and a lens respectively fixed to the moving member, a group of pulleys fixed to the support, two mounting members each including at least one pulley... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090251693 - Analysis for glucose products using pyridinylboronic acid: A method of analyzing a target analyte using laser excitation spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, or colormetric analysis, where the analysis is enhanced by using pyridinylboronic acid.... Agent: Roetzel And Andress

20090251694 - Method and apparatus for conducting raman spectroscopy: A Raman probe system includes: a base station; a mobile robot remotely controllable from the base station; a Raman probe assembly supported by the robot, the Raman probe assembly including a laser and a spectrometer; a camera supported by the robot; and a communication subsystem operable to communicate images from... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090251696 - Light scattering measurements using simultaneous detection: Methods and apparatus for measuring particle characteristics are disclosed. In one aspect, an amount of light arising from interaction between light and a suspended sample is detected simultaneously with the acquisition of a photon count from a different direction. At least one measure of particle characteristics can then be derived... Agent: Kristofer E. Elbing

20090251695 - Optical measuring device: Within a container 1 which is storing a sample is generated a regularly arranged electric field distribution by an impression of a voltage upon an electrode pair 2 provided within the container 1, thereby generating diffraction grating formed by a density modulation of particles within the sample within the container... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20090251697 - Laser emitter modules and methods of assembly: Embodiments are directed to laser emitter modules and methods and devices for making the modules. Some module embodiments are configured to provide hermetically sealed enclosures that are convenient and cost effective to assemble and provide for active alignment of optical elements of the module.... Agent: Grant Anderson LLP C/o Portfolioip

20090251699 - Apparatus and method for semiconductor wafer alignment: An apparatus for aligning semiconductor wafers includes equipment for positioning a first surface of a first semiconductor wafer directly opposite to a first surface of a second semiconductor wafer and equipment for aligning a first structure on the first semiconductor wafer with a second structure on the first surface of... Agent: Akc Patents

20090251698 - Method and system for collecting alignment data from coated chips or wafers: A process and system for determining alignment data for features on wafers or chips when a wafer or chip is substantially coated by an over bump applied material, e.g. a resin or film, and using that data to align the wafers or chips for subsequent operations such as dicing or... Agent: Graham S. Jones, Ii

20090251700 - Methods and apparatus for normalizing optical emission spectra: An arrangement for in-situ optical interrogation of plasma emission to quantitatively measure normalized optical emission spectra in a plasma chamber is provided. The arrangement includes a flash lamp and a set of quartz windows. The arrangement also includes a plurality of collimated optical assemblies, which is optically coupled to the... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090251701 - Mounting apparatus, inspecting apparatus, inspecting method, and mounting method: A mounting apparatus includes a coating unit, an acquiring portion, a judging portion, and a mounting mechanism. The coating unit coats a first region of a coating target component as a coating target region with a coating agent. The acquiring portion acquires first luminance information of the first region before... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090251702 - Stitching of near-nulled subaperture measurements: A metrology system for measuring aspheric test objects by subaperture stitching. A wavefront-measuring gauge having a limited capture range of wavefront shapes collects partially overlapping subaperture measurements over the test object. A variable optical aberrator reshapes the measurement wavefront with between a limited number of the measurements to maintain the... Agent: Steven Weseman, Patent Counsel Qed Technologies International, Inc.

20090251703 - Optical nonliner evaluation device and optical switching element: An optical nonlinear evaluation device (1) capable of accurately evaluating the optical nonlinearity of a Kerr medium in accordance with a phase difference caused by cross-phase modulation generated in the Kerr medium includes: a polarization Sagnac interference path (3) provided with a Kerr medium (4); an optical pulse light source... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090251704 - Optical rotary adapter and optical tomographic imaging system using the same: The optical rotary adapter is used with an optical tomographic imaging system for acquiring an optical tomographic image of an object under measurement. The adapter includes a fixed sleeve, a stationary optical fiber supported by the fixed sleeve and having an inclined end face, a stationary collimating lens spaced a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090251705 - Optical sensing based on overlapping optical modes in optical resonator sensors and interferometric sensors: Techniques and devices based on transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) modes in an optical resonator or interferometer to provide sensitive optical detection with insensitivity to a change in temperature.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090251706 - Vibrometer and method for optically measuring an object: A vibrometer and a method for optically measuring oscillations at an object, including a radiation source for creating a source beam, a beam splitter to split the source beam into a measuring beam and a reference beam, an optic interference device for interfering the reference beam with a measuring beam,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090251707 - Method and apparatus for phase sensitive surface plasmon resonance: There is disclosed a phase sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensing apparatus wherein a testing beam may be reflected from a sensing surface at a plurality of angles. There are also disclosed methods for surface plasmon resonance sensing.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090251708 - Fast three-dimensional shape measuring apparatus and method: Disclosed herein is an apparatus for measuring the shape of a 3D object using an interferometer. The apparatus includes a light source unit, a beam splitter, a reference mirror, an actuator, an image pickup device, and a control unit. The light source unit emits light. The beam splitter divides the... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20090251709 - Apparatus and method for the representation of an area on the surface of a patient's body: An apparatus for the representation of an area on the three-dimensional surface of a patient's body, with a control device which provides three-dimensional coordinates of at least one area to be represented on the surface of the patient's body, wherein the area pre-sets a desired intersection area of a radiation... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20090251710 - Method for measuring coating uniformity: A method of determining thickness uniformity of a coating, the coating being formed on the surface of an object, the method comprising determining coating thickness data within portions of the surface, the portions including at least one generally concave portion and at least one generally convex portion, and presenting the... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20090244514 - Distance measuring sensors including vertical photogate and three-dimensional color image sensors including distance measuring sensors: A distance measuring sensor may include: a photoelectric conversion region; first and second charge storage regions; first and second trenches; and/or first and second vertical photogates. The photoelectric conversion region may be in a substrate and/or may be doped with a first impurity in order to generate charges in response... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244515 - Sensor system with a lighting device and a detector device: A sensor system with a lighting device and a detector device is specified. The lighting device is provided for emitting laser radiation of a first wavelength and laser radiation of a second wavelength different from the first. The detector device is provided for detecting electromagnetic radiation of the first and... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090244516 - Combination of ellipsometry and optical stress generation and detection: A method includes selecting one of performing ellipsometry or performing optical stress generation and detection. The method also includes, in response to selecting performing ellipsometry, applying at least one first control signal to a controllable retarder that modifies at least polarization of a light beam, and performing ellipsometry using the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090244517 - Method for evaluating purity and concentration of oils and fatty acid compositions: Methods for evaluation of fish oil, oils, omega-3 fatty acid compositions, and dietary supplements containing omega-3 essential fatty acids and other fats are provided herein. The relative purity and/or concentration of oil-containing aliquots can be determined by cooling approximately equal volumes of two or more aliquots to a temperature near... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLPIPGroup, Columbia Square

20090244518 - Optical identifier comprising randomly oriented partial faces: The invention relates to an optical identifier (30) for generating an identification signal in response to an incident radiation beam (12), and to a corresponding method. In order to provide an optical identifier (30) which can be produced by a simplified process and which has nevertheless a sufficient or even... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090244519 - Security device: A security device comprises a substrate having a transparent region (1). At least one optical element (2, 3) is provided in part of the transparent region, the optical element causing an incident off-axis light beam transmitted through the optical element to be redirected away from a line parallel with the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090244520 - Light beam receiver with interference signal suppression: An improved laser light beam receiver rejects unwanted pulses of optical energy, such as strobe lights or other flashes of light, that can occur on a jobsite. The receiver analyzes a light beam reception by using a photosensitive light beam detector arrangement and a separate photoelectric detector serving as an... Agent: Frederick H. Gribbell

20090244521 - System and method for multi-mode optical imaging: A technique is provided for multi-mode optical imaging. The technique includes directing a visible light and an excitation light towards a specimen. The excitation light is configured to induce luminescence in the specimen. The technique also includes detecting visible light scattered or reflected from the specimen and luminescent light emitted... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090244523 - Optical fiber continuous measurement system: An optical fiber continuous measurement system continually measures at least one optical property along a length of optical fiber. The system includes a rotatable body onto which a reflector is secured. The reflector is optically coupled to an end of the optical fiber, thereby allowing light propagating from the optical... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20090244524 - Optical power monitoring with robotically moved macro-bending: A method may include bending a first optical fiber of a plurality of optical fibers; measuring light leaked from the first optical fiber with a photo detector; robotically moving the photo detector to a second optical fiber of the plurality of optical fibers; bending the second optical fiber; and measuring... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090244522 - Polarization optical time domain reflectometer and method of determining pmd: In a method of measuring cumulative polarization mode dispersion (PMD) along the length of a fiber-under-test (FUT), a polarization-sensitive optical time domain reflectometer (POTDR) is used to inject into the FUT plural series of light pulses arranged in several groups. Each group comprises at least two series of light pulses... Agent: Adams Patent & Trademark Agency

20090244525 - Lens holder and lens shape measuring apparatus: A lens holder includes a lens holding member having a mounting shaft portion and configured to hold a lens provided with at least one hole mounting a fitting for a rimless frame or a dummy lens provided with at least one hole, a main body including an opened bottom surface,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090244526 - Fiber-based optical alignment system: A low-cost alignment system suitable for aligning a wafer to a test fixture includes a bundle of optical fibers wherein at least one fiber serves to deliver illumination to the alignment target from an end thereof, and a plurality of receiver fibers, each having ends with a known spatial relationship... Agent: Raymond J. Werner

20090244529 - Appearance inspection apparatus: An appearance inspection apparatus analyzes a difference in detection characteristics of detection signals obtained by detectors to flexibly meet various inspection purposes without changing a circuit or software. The apparatus includes a signal synthesizing section that synthesizes detection signals from the detectors in accordance with a set condition. An input... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090244528 - Blade breakage and abrasion detecting device: The present invention provides a blade breakage and abrasion detecting device comprising: a detecting unit including a light-emitting unit which is provided close to a side of a blade to emit a round shape light toward the blade, and a light receiving unit which is provided opposed to the light-emitting... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090244527 - System for inspecting defects of panel device: System for inspecting defects of panel device includes a to-be-inspected device, a platform for holding the to-be-inspected device, a power unit, and a light source apparatus. The light source apparatus is controlled by the power unit to provide an inspection light to the to-be-inspected device for inspecting whether or not... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090244530 - Mask inspection apparatus: A lightweight and inexpensive mask inspection apparatus having highly efficient environmental radiation resistance is provided. The mask inspection apparatus is a mask inspection apparatus for inspecting for mask defects and includes a light source, an illuminating optical system configured to irradiate a mask with an inspection light emitted from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090244531 - Optical apparatus, photomask inspecting apparatus, and exposure apparatus: l

20090244532 - Multiplexed photonic membranes and related detection methods for chemical and/or biological sensing applications: Photonic detection systems and methods are shown. A flow through photonic membrane is provided with pores which are distributed along multiple regions. The pores of one region have walls to which a first type of target specific anchor can be attached, while pores of another region have walls to which... Agent: Llnl/steinfl & Bruno John H. Lee, Assistant Laboratory Counsel

20090244535 - Continuous measurement of amine loading in gas processing plants using raman spectroscopy: The present invention provides a system and method for continuous measurement of acid gas concentration or amine loading in a basic solution using Raman spectroscopy.... Agent: Edward Yoo C/o Bennett Jones

20090244534 - Mirror adapted in microscope to perform sers, a microscope and methods thereof: The present invention relates to spectroscopy, more particularly relates to a mirror which is adopted in a microscope to perform Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy [SERS].... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090244533 - Raman analysis: Properties of turbid or scattering samples are determined using Raman spectroscopy with probe light delivered to and subsequently collected from the sample using a transmission geometry. The technique may be applied to pharmaceutical products such as tablets, diagnostic tests such as lateral flow diagnostic strips, and elsewhere.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090244536 - Two-dimensional optical imaging methods and systems for particle detection: The present invention provides methods and systems for particle detection and analysis using two-dimensional optical imaging to access enhanced detection sensitivity and expanded sensing functionality relative to conventional point and array detection-based optical particle counters. Methods and systems of the present invention provide a two-dimensional optical imaging-based particle sensing platform... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20090244537 - Optical system, method, and computer readable medium: An optical system includes a light sending section that sends light to an object having a scattering medium and a lower medium positioned below the scattering medium, where the scattering medium scatters light and the lower medium feeds back polarized light in response to light incident thereon, a light receiving... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244538 - Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method using overlay measurement: A lithographic apparatus arranged to transfer a pattern from a patterning device onto a substrate includes a reference set of gratings provided in the substrate, the reference set including two reference gratings having line elements in a first direction and one reference grating having line elements in a second, perpendicular,... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090244539 - Microchip testing device: A testing device equipped with: a microchip having a receiver for a test fluid, a discharge lamp which emits light into the microchip test fluid receiver, a light source housing in which the discharge lamp is located, and an arithmetic calculation mechanism, which calculates the concentration of the component to... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20090244540 - Biosensor: A biosensor provided herein includes a semiconductor laser device having an optical resonator with at least one reflective surface and a light output surface, and a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) unit disposed on the reflective surface of the optical resonator. The SPR unit has specific biological molecules fixed thereon for... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090244541 - Cavity ring-down apparatus and method for measuring reflectivity of highly reflective mirrors: A cavity ring-down apparatus and method is provided for measuring the reflectivity of highly reflective mirrors. The apparatus comprises an optical ring-down cavity including three highly-reflective mirrors whose frequency-selective optical transmission is retro-reflected into the oscillator cavity of a continuous-wave semiconductor laser, creating a change of output spectrum of said... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090244542 - Micro integrated planar optical waveguide type spr sensor: An integrated optical waveguide type surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor having an optical waveguide with a corresponding SPR sensing area, photodetectors, and wavelength tunable laser or any kind of external tunable laser source/coupler formed on a substrate. In an embodiment, the laser is a wavelength tunable laser and optionally, the... Agent: Law Offices Of Brian S Steinberger

20090244543 - Human-readable, bi-state environmental sensors based on micro-mechanical membranes: An environmental sensing device includes an interferometric modulator which permanently actuates, in a visually-detectable manner, in response to being exposed to a predetermined environmental threshold or condition. The device can include a reactive layer, coating, or proof mass disposed on a movable member of the interferometric modulator. The reactive layer,... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090244544 - Unidirectional crow gyroscope: An optical waveguide gyroscope includes at least one optical coupler configured to receive a first optical signal at a first port, to transmit a second optical signal to a second port, and to transmit a third optical signal to a third port. The optical waveguide gyroscope further includes a plurality... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090244545 - Optical rotary adaptor and optical tomographic imaging apparatus using the same: An optical rotary adapter is featured by including: a fixed side optical fiber which is fixedly supported by a fixed sleeve and which has an end surface inclined with respect to a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the optical fiber; a fixed side collimator lens which is arranged... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244546 - Compensation table generation method, apparatus and computer program product, and tomography image processing apparatus using the same: A compensation table for compensating interference signal obtained by OCT measurement is generated easily. When a reflection body interference signal is obtained by OCT measurement, the reflection body interference signal is compensated by a compensation table (Formula (1)) to obtain an evaluation output signal. Then, a spectrum of the evaluation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244547 - Optical tomographic imaging system, tomographic image acquiring method, and optical tomographic image forming method: This optical tomographic imaging system comprises an optical path length adjustor configured to set a first reference position of a measurement depth direction to an inner edge of a measurement range by adjusting an optical path length of a reference light, and an optical path length switching unit having a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090244549 - Contact displacement meter: There is provided a contact displacement meter in which the size of the housing can be miniaturized as much as possible without lowering the measurement accuracy of a displacement. Light emitted by a light emitting element is converted to parallel light by a lens, and then is deflected to a... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20090244548 - Level sensor: A level sensor, i.e., a light receiving section (11X) having multiple light receiving elements (PDX1 to PDXn) arranged in parallel. In the level sensor, each two adjacent output terminals of the light receiving elements (PDX1 to PDXn) are connected by one of resistors (RX1 to RXn).... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090244550 - Method for controlling a machine tool and apparatus therefor: Relative movement in X, Y and Z axis directions is made between a main spindle and a table 6 for application in a machine tool in which a work is machined. An emitting element 12 for irradiating laser beam 11 and a photosensitive element 13 are disposed on the table... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090244552 - Method for forming and measuring the thickness of a coating: A coating thickness monitor is disclosed that includes at least one radiation source directed at least a portion of the substrate. The coating thickness monitor includes at least one probe for capturing at least a portion of the radiation reflected and refracted by the coating on the substrate. The captured... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20090244551 - Sensor apparatus for detecting an overhang on the load of a carrier device: A sensor apparatus for detecting an overhang on a load of a carrier device, having a sensor arrangement with at least one transmitter and a receiver and also an electronic unit for control purposes. According to the invention, the sensor arrangement senses two regions of the carrier device with a... Agent: Burr & Brown