Richard Lee Powers
Land Surveyors at Kalamath St, Denver, CO

7768693, Aug 3, 2010

Jan 24, 2008

12/019602

Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US
Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US

RavenBrick LLC - Denver CO

G02F 1/35, G02F 2/02, F21V 9/04

359326, 359359, 359641, 359707, 359885, 2505171, 349104

A thermally switched optical downconverting (TSOD) filter is a self-regulating device including a downconverter that converts incoming light at a variety of wavelengths into longer-wavelength radiation and then directs it using one or more bandblock filters in either the inward or outward direction, depending on the temperature of the device. This control over the flow of radiant energy occurs independently of the thermal conductivity or insulating properties of the device and may or may not preserve the image and color properties of incoming visible light. The TSOD filter has energy-efficiency implications, as it can be used to regulate the internal temperature and illumination of buildings, vehicles, and other structures without the need for an external power supply or operator signals. The TSOD filter also has aesthetic implications, since the device has unique optical properties that are not found in traditional windows, skylights, stained glass, light fixtures, glass blocks, bricks, or walls. The TSOD filter has particular, but not exclusive, application as a building material.

8169685, May 1, 2012

Dec 19, 2008

12/340552

Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US
Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US

Ravenbrick, LLC - Denver CO

G02F 1/01, G02B 26/02, E06B 7/00

359288, 359227, 521713

The thermally switched absorptive optical shutter may be a self-regulating “switchable absorber” device that may absorb approximately 100% of incoming light above a threshold temperature, and may absorb approximately 50% of incoming light below a threshold temperature. The shutter may be formed by placing a thermotropic depolarizer between two absorptive polarizers. This control over the flow of radiant energy may occur independently of the thermal conductivity or insulation of the shutter device and may or may not preserve the image and color properties of incoming visible light. This has energy-efficiency implications as it can be used to regulate the internal temperature and illumination of buildings, vehicles, and other structures without the need for an external power supply or operator signals. It also has aesthetic implications since the shutter device has unique optical properties that are not found in traditional windows, skylights, stained glass, light fixtures, glass blocks, bricks, or walls. Additionally, the shutter device may have application as a building material.

8284336, Oct 9, 2012

Apr 12, 2010

12/758573

Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US
Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US

Ravenbrick LLC - Denver CO

G02F 1/133, G02F 1/01

349 20, 349104, 349 19, 349112, 359288

Thermochromic filters are constructed using absorptive, reflective, or fluorescent dyes, molecules, polymers, particles, rods, or other orientation-dependent colorants that have their orientation, order, or director influenced by carrier materials, which are themselves influenced by temperature. These order-influencing carrier materials include thermotropic liquid crystals, which provide orientation to dyes and polymers in a Guest-Host system in the liquid-crystalline state at lower temperatures, but do not provide such order in the isotropic state at higher temperatures. The varying degree to which the absorptive, reflective, or fluorescent particles interact with light in the two states can be exploited to make many varieties of thermochromic filters. Thermochromic filters can control the flow of light and radiant heat through selective reflection, transmission, absorption, and/or re-emission. The filters have particular application in passive or active light-regulating and temperature-regulating films, materials, and devices, and particularly as construction materials and building and vehicle surfaces.

2007019, Aug 23, 2007

Feb 20, 2007

11/676785

Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US
Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US
Gary E. Snyder - Lakewood CO, US

THE PROGRAMMABLE MATTER CORPORATION - Lakewood CO

H01L 31/00

257 14

A multifunctional, programmable quantum confinement switching device uses the quantum confinement of charge carriers to operate on an input signal or energy and to release an output signal or energy. Energy enters the device through an input path and leaves through an output path, after being selectively blocked or modified by the switching action of the device under the influence of a control path. The quantum confinement of charge carriers as an artificial atom within a layer of the device in a quantum well or a quantum dot operates as the switch. The artificial atoms serve as dopants within a material supporting the device and are directly related to the voltage between the control path and a ground plane. The electrical, optical, thermal, or other energy passing through the device is selectively blocked, regulated, filtered, or modified by the doping properties of the artificial atoms. The remaining, unblocked energy is then free to exit the device through the output path.

8363307, Jan 29, 2013

Feb 27, 2008

12/038677

Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US
Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US

Ravenbrick, LLC - Denver CO

G02F 1/35, G02F 2/02, H01S 3/10

359326, 257 89, 257 98, 372 20

A multicolor light emitting optical device is a programmable, multifunctional, general-purpose, solid-state light source. The device can use any of several light sources, including LEDs. The device couples a light source and a tunable optical converter composed of a quantum confinement device to produce a tunable, monochromatic light emission. The output wavelength of the optical device can be selected from within a tunable range of the optical (visible, near infrared, or near ultraviolet) spectrum on demand, in real time. The optical device is capable of serving as a tunable light source, a “true color” pixel, and a replacement for bi-color, tri-color, and multi-color light-emitting diodes. The optical device has particular, but not exclusive, application as an indicator light, in room lighting, and as a picture element in video displays.

2011010, May 5, 2011

Oct 29, 2010

12/916233

Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US
Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US

RavenBrick LLC - Denver CO

G02F 1/01

359288

Thermochromic filters use combinations of absorptive, reflective, thermoabsorptive, and thermoreflective elements covering different portions of the solar spectrum, to achieve different levels of energy savings, throw, shading, visible light transmission, and comfort. Embodiments include stopband filters in the near-infrared spectrum.

2011020, Aug 25, 2011

May 3, 2011

13/100000

Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US
Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US

RavenBrick LLC - Denver CO

G02B 5/22

359889

A wavelength-specific optical switch combines one or more tunable filters and bandblock reflectors such that the absorption or reflection of selected wavelength bands in the optical spectrum (visible, near infrared, or near ultraviolet) can be switched on and off. The wavelength switch is programmable, multifunctional, general-purpose, solid-state optical filter. The wavelength switch may serve as a tunable notch or bandblock filter, a tunable bandpass filter, a tunable highpass or lowpass filter, or a tunable band reflector. The wavelength switch has particular, but not exclusive, application in optics as a filter, band reflector, and as a means of isolating particular wavelengths or wavelength bands from a collimated light stream for transmission to, or rejection from, a sensor.

2011023, Sep 29, 2011

Mar 29, 2011

13/074876

Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US
Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US
Neil B. Cramer - Boulder CO, US
Christopher M. Caldwell - Denver CO, US
Michael Pickford - Denver CO, US
Matthew B. Kish - Denver CO, US
Andrew L. LaFrate - Boulder CO, US

RavenBrick LLC - Denver CO

G02F 1/1333, B05D 5/06, B05D 3/02, B05D 3/06, B05D 3/10, B32B 37/02, B32B 37/14, B32B 38/10

349 86, 427164, 156 60, 156250, 427521, 427517

A resizable polymer-stabilized, thermotropic liquid crystal device formulation is used in passive or active light-regulating and temperature-regulating films, materials and devices, including construction materials. Implementations of the device may be composed of five basic elements: one or more transparent substrates, a transparent surface treatment, a liquid crystal mixture, a stabilizing polymer, and spacer beads. The polymer-stabilized liquid crystal is coated and cured on at least one substrate. The transparent surface treatment and the stabilizing polymer network are selected to provide phase separation, curing, and adhesion within the LC mixture. The substrate or substrates may be polarizing or nonpolarizing.

2011029, Dec 1, 2011

Jun 1, 2011

13/150475

Wil McCarthy - Lakewood CO, US
Richard M. Powers - Lakewood CO, US
Alex K. Burney - Denver CO, US

RavenBrick LLC. - Denver CO

G02F 1/15, G02F 1/01

359265, 359288

A multifunctional building component is capable of serving as one or more of a window, a wall, a shading device, a roofing element, a color panel, a display, and an energy harvesting, storage, and distribution element. The