David Don Boyd

6469788, Oct 22, 2002

Mar 27, 2001

09/820094

David A. Boyd - South Pasadena CA
Ares J. Rosakis - Altadena CA
David M. Owen - Redondo Beach CA

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena CA

G01J 400

356369, 356630, 356 73

Systems and techniques for integrating an optical coherent gradient sensing (CGS) module and another optical sensing module to simultaneously measure the curvature and another property of a specularly reflective surface.

7504136, Mar 17, 2009

Dec 6, 2004

11/006457

David A. Boyd - Pasadena CA, US
Mark Brongersma - Redwood City CA, US
Leslie Greengard - New York NY, US

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena CA

H05H 1/24
C23C 16/00
C23C 8/00
C23C 14/28
H05H 1/02
H05H 1/00
H05B 6/00

427569, 4272481, 427570, 427585, 427572, 427586, 427595

A method for forming a film of material using chemical vapor deposition. The method includes providing a substrate comprising a pattern of at least one metallic nanostructure, which is made of a selected material. The method includes determining a plasmon resonant frequency of the selected material of the nanostructure and exciting a portion of the selected material using an electromagnetic source having a predetermined frequency at the plasmon resonant frequency to cause an increase in thermal energy of the selected material. The method includes applying one or more chemical precursors overlying the substrate including the selected material excited at the plasmon resonant frequency and causing selective deposition of a film overlying at least the portion of the selected material.

7764869, Jul 27, 2010

May 24, 2006

11/420187

Nathan Harrison Noe - Calabasas CA, US
David A. Boyd - Pasadena CA, US

Lexington Environmental Technologies, Inc. - Mesa AZ

H05B 3/60
H05B 6/62

392322, 219772

Electrical oscillations are supplied to electrodes of a diathermal heating chamber. A liquid is passed through the diathermal heating chamber so as to be heated. The liquid has a minimum level of dissolved solids, which is replenished over time or when the dissolved solids in the liquid fall below a predetermined minimum level. Alternatively, when the level of dissolved solids is excessive, current input or liquid temperature is reduced.

7798164, Sep 21, 2010

Jan 25, 2008

12/020504

James Adleman - Pasadena CA, US
David A. Boyd - Pasadena CA, US
David G. Goodwin - Pasadena CA, US
Demetri Psaltis - Pasadena CA, US

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena CA

F15C 1/04

137 1, 417 53, 417207, 137828

A method of microfluidic control via localized heating includes providing a microchannel structure with a base region that is partially filled with a volume of liquid being separated from a gas by a liquid-gas interface region. The base region includes one or more physical structures. The method further includes supplying energy input to a portion of the one or more physical structures within the volume of liquid in a vicinity of the liquid-gas interface region to cause localized heating of the portion of the one or more physical structures. The method also includes transferring heat from the portion of the one or more physical structures to surrounding liquid in the vicinity of the liquid-gas interface region and generating an interphase mass transport at the liquid-gas interface region or across a gas bubble while the volume of liquid and the gas remain to be substantially at ambient temperature.

7998538, Aug 16, 2011

Dec 14, 2004

11/012393

Leslie Frederick Greengard - New York NY, US
Mark Brongersma - Redwood City CA, US
David A. Boyd - Pasadena CA, US

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena CA

C23C 8/00
C23C 16/00

427585, 427551, 427553, 427572, 427573, 427581, 118724, 20415741, 20415747, 548498

The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that provide heat, via at least Photon-Electron resonance, also known as excitation, of at least a particle utilized, at least in part, to initiate and/or drive at least one catalytic chemical reaction. In some implementations, the particles are structures or metallic structures, such as nanostructures. The one or more metallic structures are heated at least as a result of interaction of incident electromagnetic radiation, having particular frequencies and/or frequency ranges, with delocalized surface electrons of the one or more particles. This provides a control of catalytic chemical reactions, via spatial and temporal control of generated heat, on the scale of nanometers as well as a method by which catalytic chemical reaction temperatures are provided.

20020144276, Oct 3, 2002

Mar 30, 2001

09/823451

Jim Radford - Pasadena CA, US
David Boyd - South Pasadena CA, US

H04N007/173

725/087000, 725/109000

The invention provides a system and methods for the delivery of streamed content over a network. The system and methods of the invention are suited for the delivery of streaming video content over a network at a variety of data rates. The system allows a user to dynamically select the quality level of data to be delivered while a video is being displayed. Moreover, the system also can automatically select content suitable for a client device's connection speed as well as hardware, software, network and firewall configurations.

20090074389, Mar 19, 2009

Oct 10, 2008

12/249391

Nathan H. Noe - Calabasas CA, US
David A. Boyd - Pasadena CA, US
Richard M. Cox - Thousand Oaks CA, US

LEXINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - Mesa AZ

H05B 3/60

392314

A method for generating heat includes passing a liquid between electrodes connected to an alternating current power supply. The liquid must have a sufficient level of electrolytes or dissolved minerals so as to be effectively heated. The level of current applied to the electrodes is preferably monitored and controlled. Exothermic, electrochemical reactions occur within the liquid and at the surface of the electrodes. More particularly, the electrodes are comprised of a material that can be oxidized, and the oxidation process during operation of the heater supplies additional current to heat the liquid.

20130001067, Jan 3, 2013

Dec 22, 2011

13/335878

David A. Boyd - La Canada Flintridge CA, US

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena CA

B01J 19/12
C01B 3/02
B82Y 99/00

20415741, 20415752, 422186, 977902, 977773

A method of producing hydrogen includes providing a substrate having a plurality of nanoparticles disposed thereon and providing a source of electromagnetic radiation. The method also includes immersing the plurality of nanoparticles in an aqueous solution and irradiating at least a portion of the substrate having the plurality of nanoparticles disposed thereon with electromagnetic radiation. The method further includes exciting a plasmon resonance in the plurality of nanoparticles and converting a portion of the aqueous solution to hydrogen.