INVENTIONS
Nearly 100 inventions
and product developments with several US and foreign patents. Here is a list of US patents:
§ Multi-chamber vibrating valve for cementitious material, U.S. Patent No. 7,878,789, February 2011.
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Extruded wall
with rib-like interior, US Patent No. 7,874,825, January 2011.
§
Compliant, Low-profile, Independently-releasing,
Non-protruding, and Genderless (CLING) docking system for robotic modules,
US Patent No. 7,850,388 B2, December 2010.
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Material Delivery System Using Decoupling
Accumulator, US Patent No. 7,841,851,
November 2010.
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Dry Material
Transport and Extrusion, US Patent No. 7,841,849, November 2010.
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Mixer-Extruder Assembly, US
Patent No. 7,837,378, November 2010.
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Wellbore
Collection System, US Patent No. 7,819,197, October 2010,
with M. Looney, K. McLachlan, and N.
Yamali.
§ Deployable Contour Crafting, US
Patent No. 7,814,937, November 2010.
§ Robotic systems for automated construction, US Patent No. 7,641,461,
January 2010.
§ Metering and Pumping Devices, US Patent No. 7,574,925, August 2009
§ Systems and methods for unloading water from gas wells, US
Patent No. 7,549,477, June 2009
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Haptics Apparatus – OmniGrasp,
US Patent No. 7,495,654, February
2009
§ Automated plumbing, wiring and
reinforcement, US Patent No. 7,452,196, November
2008
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Methods for
reduction of powder waste in selective inhibition of sintering (SIS), US Patent No. 7291242,
November 2007
§
Metallic parts fabrication using selective
inhibition sintering (SIS), (24 claims), U.S. Patent No. 7,241,415 B2,
July 2007. The technology has been licensed to ProMetal.
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Multi-nozzle assembly for extrusion of
walls, U.S. Patent No.7153454, 2006
§
Selective
Inhibition of Bonding of Powder Particles for Layered Fabrication of 3-D
Objects, US
Patent No. 6,589,471(International
Patent), July 2003. The technology has been licensed to MCP-HEK GmbH in
Germany.
§
Optically
Multiplexed Hand-Held Digital Binocular System, U.S. Patent No. 6,487,012, 2002, with
Greg Steinthal. The
technology has been licensed to Stereovision Imaging, Inc.
§ An Additive Fabrication Method, U.S. Patent No. 5656230,
August, 1997.
§ Additive Fabrication Apparatus and Method, U.S. Patent No.
5529471, June 1996.
§ Incremental digitizer for encoding
geometrical forms, U.S. Patent No. 4,500,749, 1984.
