公开(公告)号：US11313838B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-26

申请号：US16356286

申请日：2019-03-18

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Matthew Dixon Eisaman ,  Dominico P. Julian ,  Benoit Schillings ,  Brian John Adolf

IPC: G01N29/06 ,  G01N29/14

Abstract: An apparatus includes an acoustic source for directing an acoustic wave towards a workspace, a variable acoustic diffractive device positioned in a path of the acoustic wave between the acoustic source and the workspace, the variable acoustic diffractive device including an array of elements each having independently variable acoustic properties, and an electronic controller in communication with the acoustic source and the variable acoustic diffractive device, the electronic controller programmed to supply signals to cause the acoustic source to produce the acoustic wave and the variable acoustic diffractive device to diffract the acoustic wave from the acoustic source to provide non-uniform acoustic forces in a medium located in the workspace.

公开(公告)号：US11189901B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-30

申请号：US15837411

申请日：2017-12-11

Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC

Inventor： Brian John Adolf

IPC: H01P5/08 ,  H02J50/12 ,  G01R21/133 ,  H01Q3/28 ,  G05B15/02 ,  H01Q1/36 ,  G01S13/02 ,  G01S13/46

Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to systems and methods for denying power to unauthorized power loads within a spherical waveguide bounded by the Earth's surface. One or more eigenmodes of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide may be computed based on a mathematical model incorporating electrical properties of the terrestrial surface and plasma physics of the ionosphere. A phased array of wave guide couplers, each including an array of electrically-connected waveguide-coupling elements, may be configured at different geographic locations for coupling to the one or more eigenmodes and generating standing waves in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide. Power loads may be detected via power reflections, and power nodes and nulls of the standing waves may be steered with respect to specified locations by adjusting relative phases and/or amplitudes of the waveguide couplers. Locations of power loads may be triangulating reflections. Power nulls of the standing waves may be steered to locations of unauthorized power loads.

公开(公告)号：US20200298488A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-24

申请号：US16356357

申请日：2019-03-18

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Matthew Dixon Eisaman ,  Dominico P. Julian ,  Benoit Schillings ,  Brian John Adolf

IPC: B29C64/264 ,  G03H1/02 ,  B29C64/393 ,  G03H3/00 ,  B29C64/10

Abstract: An apparatus includes a precursor dispenser for dispensing a precursor material into a workspace, one or more acoustic sources configured to direct acoustic waves towards the workspace to provide acoustic fields that arrange the precursor material in a three-dimensional shape in the workspace, one or more sensors configured to detect a distribution of the precursor material in the workspace, and an electronic controller in communication with the precursor dispenser, the one or more acoustic sources, and the one or more sensors, the electronic controller being programmed to cause the one or more acoustic sources to adjust the acoustic fields to reduce deviations in the distribution of the precursor material from the three-dimensional shape in the workspace.

公开(公告)号：US10389140B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-20

申请号：US14940747

申请日：2015-11-13

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Brian John Adolf ,  Richard Wayne DeVaul

IPC: H01F38/00 ,  H02J5/00 ,  H02J50/12 ,  H02J50/05 ,  H02J7/02

Abstract: Embodiments described herein may relate to a system including a transmit resonator configured to couple power from a source into an oscillating field generated with a reference phase by the transmit resonator resonating at an oscillation frequency; one or more repeaters, each at a respective location, each including: a repeat resonator configured to resonate at the oscillation frequency, where each of the one or more repeaters is configured to regenerate the oscillating field with a phase shift relative to a phase at the respective location; and at least one receiver, the at least one receiver including: a receive resonator configured to resonate at the oscillation frequency in response to coupling to the oscillating field, where the at least one receiver is configured to transfer a power of the oscillating field to a load associated with the at least one receiver.

公开(公告)号：US20190192083A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-27

申请号：US15855870

申请日：2017-12-27

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Sarah Ann Laszlo ,  Brian John Adolf ,  Gabriella Levine ,  Joseph R. Owens ,  Patricia Prewitt ,  Philip Edwin Watson

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  G06N99/00

CPC classification number: A61B5/7225 ,  A61B5/0006 ,  A61B5/0022 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  A61B5/0478 ,  A61B5/0482 ,  A61B5/04842 ,  A61B5/6803 ,  A61B5/7203 ,  A61B5/7267 ,  A61B5/7275 ,  A61B2562/0209 ,  G06F3/015 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  G06K7/10762 ,  G06K7/1417 ,  G06N3/02 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: A bioamplifier for analyzing electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is disclosed. The bioamplifier includes an input terminal for receiving an EEG signal from a plurality of sensors coupled to a user. The bioamplifier also includes an analogue-to-digital converter arranged to receive the EEG signal from the input terminal and convert the EEG signal to a digital EEG signal. A data processing apparatus within the bioamplifier is arranged to receive the digital EEG signal from the analogue-to-digital converter and programmed to process, in real time the digital EEG signal using a first machine learning model to generate a cleaned EEG signal having a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the digital EEG signal. The bioamplifier further includes a power source to provide electrical power to the analogue-to-digital converter and the data processing apparatus. The bioamplifier includes a housing that contains the analogue-to-digital converter, the data processing apparatus, the power source, and the sensor input.

公开(公告)号：USD852367S1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-25

申请号：US29619312

申请日：2017-09-28

Applicant: X Development LLC

Designer： Joseph Hollis Sargent ,  Sarah Ann Laszlo ,  Brian John Adolf

公开(公告)号：US12061851B1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-13

申请号：US18313982

申请日：2023-05-08

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Jesse Lu ,  Brian John Adolf ,  Martin Friedrich Schubert

IPC: G06F30/23 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G06F111/10

CPC classification number: G06F30/23 ,  G02B27/0012 ,  G06F2111/10

Abstract: Methods and systems for designing a photonic computational architecture including a plurality of optical components. At least some of the methods include: defining a loss function within a simulation space composed of a plurality of voxels, the simulation space encompassing the plurality of optical components; defining an initial structure for the photonic computational architecture in the simulation space, at least some of the voxels corresponding to each of the plurality of optical components and having a dimension smaller than an operative wavelength of the computational architecture; determining values for at least one structural parameter and/or at least one functional parameter for each of the plurality of optical components using a numerical solver to solve Maxwell's equations; and defining a final structure of the photonic computational architecture based on the values for the one or more structural and/or functional parameters.

公开(公告)号：US20240008838A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-11

申请号：US17858160

申请日：2022-07-06

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Joel Emilio Bregman Segre ,  Raj B. Apte ,  Philipp H. Schmaelzle ,  Brian John Adolf

IPC: A61B8/08 ,  A61N7/02 ,  A61B5/00

CPC classification number: A61B8/0808 ,  A61N7/02 ,  A61B5/4064 ,  A61N2007/0078

Abstract: A system includes: a form factor device sized and shaped to accommodate a subject's skull; an ultrasound array comprising a plurality of transducer elements attached to the form factor device, wherein the plurality of transducer elements are configured to: emit ultrasound pulses through the subject's skull for performing a neuro-modulation of the subject's brain during use of the system, and receive ultrasound signals from the subject's skull and brain in response to the ultrasound pulses being emitted; and a controller coupled to the ultrasound array, wherein the controller is configured, during use of the system, to: generate at least one image depicting at least a portion of the subject's skull and brain based on, at least in part, the received ultrasound signals received, and adapt the neuro-modulation of the subject's brain based on, at least in part, the at least one image during use of the system.

公开(公告)号：US10852333B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US15837343

申请日：2017-12-11

Applicant: X DEVELOPMENT LLC

Inventor： Brian John Adolf

IPC: G01R27/04 ,  H02J50/20 ,  G01R21/133 ,  H02J50/90 ,  H02J50/40 ,  G06F30/20 ,  H02J50/80 ,  G06F111/10 ,  H02J50/12 ,  H02J50/10 ,  H02J50/05

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting low-loss eigenmodes of a spherical waveguide bounded by the Earth's surface and its ionosphere are disclosed. One or more eigenmodes of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide may be computed based on a mathematical model incorporating electrical properties of the terrestrial surface and plasma physics of the ionospheric layer. A transmitter apparatus may be used transmit electrical power into the Earth-ionosphere waveguide in the form of an electromagnetic wave, which may, in turn, be detected by a receiver apparatus remote from the transmitter apparatus. A coupling strength between the transmitted electromagnetic wave and the one or more eigenmodes may be determined by measuring power received by the receiver apparatus in the detected electromagnetic wave. By iteratively adjusting parameters of the transmitter apparatus, determining the coupling strength, and refining a quantitative description of the eigenmodes, the eigenmodes may be harnessed for wireless power transmission throughout the Earth-ionosphere waveguide.

公开(公告)号：US10587124B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US16148479

申请日：2018-10-01

Applicant: X Development LLC

Inventor： Richard Wayne DeVaul ,  Brian John Adolf ,  Raj B. Apte

IPC: H02J5/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  H02J50/12 ,  H02J7/02 ,  H02J50/05 ,  H02J50/80 ,  H02J7/00

Abstract: A system and method for a mobile hybrid transmitter/receiver (TX/RX) node for wireless resonant power delivery is disclosed. A hybrid TX/RX can be configured to travel to remote, wirelessly-powerable receivers and deliver power to them wirelessly. A hybrid TX/RX device can include a transmitter component (TX), a receiver (RX) component, and a power store for storing power for supply to remote receivers. The TX/RX device can be configured in an autonomous unmanned vehicle operational to travel between a fixed source transmitter devices and one or more specified locations that may be host to one or more remote receivers. In the location of the one or more remote receivers, the TX component may function to wirelessly transfer power from the power store to the one or more remote receivers. In the location of the fixed source transmitter device, RX component can be configured to receive power via wireless power transfer, and to use the received power to at least partially replenish the power store.