Elwha LLC

The Invention Science Fund I LLC

Tokitae LLC

Lasermotive, Inc.

Gearbox LLC

Deep Science, LLC

Searete LLC

Equility LLC

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Elwah LLC

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University of California

The Boeing Company

The United States of America As Represented by the United States

Deep Sciences, LLC

Jordin T Kare

Roderick A Hyde

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Clarence T Tegreene

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Nathan P Myhrvold

Victoria Y H Wood

Charles Whitmer

Eric Leuthardt

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Edward K Y Jung

Tony S Pan

William Henry Gates, Iii

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Thomas A Weaver

Robert W Lord

Alistair K Chan

Richard T Lord

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

Robert C Petroski

Mark A Malamud

William David Duncan

Royce A Levien

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Craig J Mundie

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Michael A Smith

Jeffrey A Bowers

Hon Wah Chin

Matthew Graham Dyor

Michael Baym

Ralph G Dacey, Jr

John D Rinaldo, Jr

Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera

Peter L Hagelstein

David R Smith

Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov

Kenneth G Caldeira

Gary L McKnight

Gregory J Della Rocca

Desney S Tan

Howard Lee Davidson

Geoffrey Frank Deane

Douglas Christopher Burger

Pablos Holman

Erez Lieberman

Edward Stuart Boyden

Eleanor V Goodall

Robert Samuel Langer

W Daniel Hillis

Stephen L Malaska

Joshua L Dowling

Bran Ferren

Tom Driscoll

Paul D Holman

Paramvir Bahl

Ranveer Chandra

John Brian Pendry

Lin Zhong

Keith David Rosema

Tim Paek

Marc Eliot Davis

Richard Neil Zare

Daniel Hawkins

David Schurig

Xuedong D Huang

Stephen Hugh Salter

Nels R Peterson

Russell J Hannigan

Daniel Reed

Daniel A Gerrity

Burton Jordan Smith

Marc Tremblay

Steven Nabil Bathiche

James Robert Hamilton

William Henry Mangione-Smith

Paul G Allen

Robert Victor Welland

Richard F Rashid

William Tod Gross

Nathan Kundtz

Eric J Horvitz

Andrew David Wilson

Chris Demetrios Karkanias

Christopher Charles Young

Jaron Zepel Lanier

Paul Henry Dietz

Wayne R Kindsvogel

Gleb M Akselrod

Parag Jitendra Parikh

Anoop Gupta

Ruopeng Liu

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

Daniel B Cook

Jie Jerry Liu

Andrew F Glew

Christian L Belady

Sean Michael James

A power beaming system delivers electric power in laser light from a first location to a second location. The laser light has a high energy intensity level defining a hazardous illumination area and a low energy intensity level defining a safe illumination area. The system includes guard circuitry emitter(s) and corresponding detector(s). The guard circuitry forms a detection area about the hazardous illumination area to detect objects in proximity to the hazardous illumination area. A controller directs the guard and power beam circuitry according to sequentially activated safety modes to operate at a low energy intensity level, to scan in a defined pattern, to adjust operation of the detector(s), and to set guard circuitry parameters, an object detection value, or a change to the delivered electric power. An output coupled to the controller and power beam circuitry controllably permits or prevents operation at the high energy intensity level.

Remote power safety system

A system to detect obstacles includes a power beam transmission circuit, a power beam reception circuit arranged to receive a power beam from the power beam transmission circuit, an emitter module, and a detector module arranged to distinguish between a first characteristic and a second characteristic. The emitter module includes a first emitter arranged to emit a first signal having the first characteristic, the first signal emitted in proximity to the power beam, and a second emitter arranged to emit a second signal having the second characteristic, the second characteristic different from the first characteristic. The detector module includes a first detector arranged to respond to the first signal emitted by the first emitter, the detector module being arranged to determine when an obstacle is in or near a line-of-sight transmission path between the first emitter and the first detector.

Light curtain safety system

A device for converting electromagnetic radiation into electricity comprises an expander that includes a conical shape having an axis and a curved surface that is configured to reflect electromagnetic radiation away from the axis to expand a beam of the electromagnetic radiation; and one or more energy conversion components configured to receive a beam of electromagnetic radiation expanded by the expander, and to generate electricity from the expanded beam of electromagnetic radiation. With the expander's curved surface, a beam of electromagnetic radiation that is highly concentrated—has a large radiation flux—may be converted into a beam that has a larger cross-sectional area. Moreover, one can configure, if desired, the curved surface to provide a substantially uniform distribution of radiation across the expanded cross-sectional area. With such an expanded beam the one or more energy conversion components can efficiently convert some of the electromagnetic radiation into electricity.

Device for converting electromagnetic radiation into electricity, and related systems and methods

Embodiments are directed towards a safety system that can be used with a high-flux power beam, such as in wireless power transmission. The system includes a transmitter that generates and transmits a power beam and a receiver that receives the power beam. A plurality of sensors is configured to independently detect if an object is near, impeding, or about to impede (i.e., impinging) the power beam. Each of the plurality of sensors is configured to detect the object at different distances between the transmitter and the receiver. A controller triggers the transmitter to stop generating the power beam when any one or more of the plurality of sensors detects the object or a combination of the plurality of sensors detects the object. The controller triggers the transmitter to re-generate and transmit the power beam when each of the plurality of sensors fails to detect the object.

Multi-layered safety system

A power beaming system includes a power beam transmitter arranged to transmit the power beam, and a power beam receiver arranged to receive the power beam from the power beam transmitter. A power beam transmission source is arranged to generate a laser light beam for transmission by the power beam transmitter from a first location toward a remote second location. A beam-shaping element shapes the laser light beam, at least one diffusion element uniformly distributes light of the shaped laser light beam, and a projection element illuminates a power beam receiving element of predetermined shape with the shaped laser light beam. At the power beam receiver, a diffusion surface diffuses a portion the power beam specularly reflected from the power beam receiver.

Diffusion safety system

A power beaming system delivers electric power in laser light from a first location to a remote second location. The laser light has a high energy intensity level defining a hazardous illumination area and a low energy intensity level defining a safe illumination area. The system includes guard circuitry emitter(s) and corresponding detector(s). The guard circuitry forms a detection area about the hazardous illumination area to detect objects in proximity to the hazardous illumination area. A controller directs the guard and power beam circuitry according to sequentially activated safety modes to operate at a low energy intensity level, to scan in a defined pattern, to adjust operation of the detector(s), and to set guard circuitry parameters based on a time value, an object detection value, or a change to the delivered electric power. An output coupled to the controller and power beam circuitry controllably permits or prevents operation at the high energy intensity level.

A system to detect obstacles includes a power beam transmission circuit, a power beam reception circuit arranged to receive a power beam from the power beam transmission circuit, an emitter module, and a detector module arranged to distinguish between a first characteristic and a second characteristic. The emitter module includes a first emitter arranged to emit a first signal having the first characteristic, the first signal emitted in proximity to the power beam, and a second emitter arranged to emit a second signal having the second characteristic, the second characteristic different from the first characteristic, the second signal emitted in proximity to the first signal. The detector module includes a first detector arranged to respond to the first signal emitted by the first emitter, wherein the detector module is arranged to determine when an obstacle is in or near a line-of-sight transmission path between the first emitter and the first detector.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator that operates responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one sensor to cause a flexible compression garment to selectively constrict or selectively dilate, thereby compressing or relieving compression against at least one body part of a subject. Such selective constriction or dilation can improve muscle functioning or joint functioning during use of motion-conducive equipment, such as an exercise bike or rowing machine.

Garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator responsive to the sensor and related methods

In an embodiment, a nerve stimulation system includes a headset and an earpiece which includes two or more ear-contacting elements, for example an ear canal insert, and a concha insert. Ear-contacting elements may be mounted onto an earpiece housing have projecting mounting structures, which provide mechanical and electrical connection between ear-contacting elements and housing through various materials and configurations. In an embodiment, a nerve stimulation system includes a neural stimulation subsystem including neural stimulation device control circuitry for use in combination with a personal computing device to control a neural stimulation device.

Nerve stimulation system, subsystem, headset, and earpiece

A system for tracking airborne organisms includes an imager, a backlight source (such as a retroreflective surface) in view of the imager, and a processor configured to analyze one or more images captured by the processor to identify a biological property of an organism.

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