OPTICAL TECHNIQUES

Expert No 1213

New York

Expert 1213 has over forty-years of academic and industry experience in optical devices, systems and technologies. He has been President of his own company since 1972, an independent consulting organization that provides a full range of design, development, and testing. Expert 1213 is an experienced expert witness and provides in-house testing and laboratory analysis for his clients.

• Optical Techniques & Technology

• Optical & Electro-Optical Devices

• Optical Instruments & Systems

• Opto-electronic Real Time Control

• Sensing, Control, Display

• Photonics

• Lasers, Fiber Optics, Displays

• Communications

Year

College or University	Degree
1961	University of London	Post-Doctoral
1960	Institute of Optics & Physics, Univ. of Rochester	Ph.D., Optics and Physics
1958	University of Paris (Ecole Normale Superieure)	NATO-NSF Program on Materials
1954	Cornell University	AB, Physics

From:	1972
To:	Present

Title:	President

Summary:

Expert 1213 consults on optical sensing, display & control, sensors, signal processing (digital & analog), optical devices, optical & electronic instruments, optical systems, science and technology and intellectual property disputes. The company provides a full range of services including consulting on intellectual property disputes, contract development, feasibility, turn-key systems, system integration, computer control and software as well as technical planning, project reviews, troubleshooting and related services. In-house resources include digital data acquisition; computer output to sensors, display, electronics, and control; digital/optical signal processing, recognition; software, and proprietary systems and programs for hardware and software development.

Examples of Optical Sensing, Display and Control projects include:

• Developed detection & identification techniques for DNA, immuno-assays, hepatitis, etc.

• Gauge wall thickness, ovality & eccentricity and detect 1-mil defects in continuous, extruding coating on leads for cardiac pacing devices. Designed optical and electronic systems for real-time sensing; analog & digital signal processing; real-time initiation of control signals; documentation & filing system. Won the annual award of Medtronic, a Fortune 500 corporation.

• Designed, developed, and led fabrication & testing of laser communication system..

• Provided signal detection and processing remedy for false identifications of automated microfiche retrieval & display system. Led upgrade project that introduced new display and microprocessor control of sensing & display modules. US Patent assigned to IRSC (Information Retrieval Systems Corp.).

• Developed image processing methods to detect sub-mil and sub-micron defects in photo masks and wafers used in IC manufacturing. Optical spatial filtering is used to detect and recognize defects (holes and excess metal) but that removes circuit information before the light reaches the camera. Patents issued, assigned to Bell Laboratories and Perkin Elmer.

• Consulted on laser pods, for F-18 jet planes, to target and guide Smart ordnance. Improved performance of new-generation Advanced Targeting Pod - Sniper XR for USAF (Lockheed-Martin)

• Troubleshot on design and production of LCD and LED displays for Timex.

In-house resources include computer-based vision systems and data acquisition systems, SMART OPTICS^SM, sensors, electronics, lasers, fiber optics, software for testing, control, analysis and design.

SMART OPTICS^SM is a proprietary Expert 1213 Associates system that modifies the optical signal before the light reaches an electronic camera or photo detector, before signal processing and before rejection decisions. It exploits optical variations arising from changes in materials, structure and processing to enhance signal-to-noise or optical contrast. It eliminates background images & produces signals from critical features only. This improves reliability and simplifies software and hardware.

ROBUST SYSTEM^SM is a proprietary Expert 1213 Associates program for hardware and software development.

The ROBUST SYSTEM^SM methodology automatically compensates for acceptable product and system changes during operation. It monitors, modifies & upgrades performance. It bullet-proofs the system.

Below is a client list organized by technology: Optical & Electronic Products
Aero Communications Angenieux Bausch & Lomb Burroughs Corporation CompuScan Dolan-Jenner Dover Corp. Dynatech Fisher Scientific General Electric (Schenectady, NY) General Electric (Wilmington, MA) General Electric (with Kodak) Honeywell Corporation Image Processing Systems, Ltd. Information Retrieval Systems Inc. International FiberCom, Inc. Iomega Konishiroku Photo Industries Ltd. Lear Siegler Monsanto Corporation	Materials Research Corp. Macbeth National Semiconductor Corporation Penn State Applied Physics Labs. Perkin-Elmer Corp. PlasmaGraphics Self-Powered Lighting Recognition Equipment Inc Sensar Sharp Opto-Electronics Skan-A-Matic Stryker Instruments (IRDA) Sybron Chemicals, Inc Thomas & Betts Timex Toshiba Universal Instrument Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Westinghouse (Pittsburgh, PA) Westinghouse (Horsehead, NY)

Medical, Surgical, Biomedical, etc.
American Dade C. R. Bard, Urological (NJ, GA) C. R. Bard, USCI Division(MA) Baxter Labs Becton Dickinson Bio-Rad Boehringer Ingelheim Computed Anatomy Dentsply Dynatech / Organon EndoTherapeutics Gen-Probe Geometric Data / SmithKline Hemex Instrumentation Development Co. Johnson & Johnson, Somerville, NJ	Johnson & Johnson, Skillman, NJ Johnson & Johnson, Cornellia, GA Johnson & Johnson, Boston, MA Marine Biological Laboratory Medical Laboratory Automation Medtronic, Advanced Mfg. Techn. Medtronic, R & D Medtronic, Promeon Picker Ultrasound Schering-Plough Sensar Squibb, E. R, Theragrin M Tablets Squibb, E. R., Parenterals Stryker U. S. Surgical / Tyco Wesley-Jesson / Tyco
Consumer Products
American Consumer Products Inc. Calgon Chesebough-Pond's / Unilever Cone Mills Delco Electronics Emhart Federal Cartridge General Foods Henson Associates (the Muppets) Labatt	Nabisco Ocean Spray Polychrome / Dai Nippon Procter & Gamble Progresso Revlon Schlossberg, Inc. Shulton Unilever Research Woodgrain Millwork





Foreign
Angenieux, France Calor Ltd., England Image Processing Systems Ltd., Canada Konishiroku Photo Industries Ltd., Japan	Labatt, Canada Matsushita Research Instit., Japan Samsung, Japan Sharp Opto-Electronics, Japan Teijin, Japan Toshiba, Japan

From:	1965
To:	1972

Title:	Member, Technical Staff
Summary:	Responsibilities included research and development on optical sensing equipment for characterization of materials and on communication-related components and devices. Patents issued (and assigned to Bell Labs.) on pattern recognition, optical inspection system for manufacturing, barrier-diode electronic device for signal mixing, etc.

From:	1961
To:	1965

Title:	Assistant Professor of Physics
Summary:	Research on optical and electronic properties of materials using both optical and electron-beam techniques. Taught Optics, Statistical Mechanics, and Physics for Engineers.

From:	1959
To:	1961
Title:	Aerospace Scientist
Summary:	R & D of optical sensing techniques & systems for rocket & satellite experiments.

From:

1960

To:

1961

Title:

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Summary:

Experiments on optical properties of thin films. Taught course on Optical Properties of Materials, and on Group Theory Applied to Solid State Physics

From:	1959
To:	1961
Title:	Aerospace Scientist
Summary:	Research & Development on optical systems

Expert Engagement:

Type of Matter:
Services Provided:	Type of Matter:
Services Provided:	Type of Matter:	Patent Infringement, proprietary consumer product
Services Provided:	Optical testing

Expert Engagement:

Type of Matter:	Services Provided:	Type of Matter:	Pre-litigation patent investigation
Services Provided:	Due-Diligence for accousto-optical filter device acquired by Sybron Chemicals, Inc.Work was very narrowly defined to determine if device actually worked pursuant to the claims of the patent that described the filter device

Expert Engagement:

Type of Matter:	Patent Infringement / Legal Malpractice
Services Provided:	Prior art research in legal malpractice suit

Fact Witness:

Type of Matter:	Product Liability
Services Provided:	Deposed as a fact witness. Expert 1213 was a consultant for Johnson & Johnson on the inspection of the quality of the product at issue.

Fact Witness:

Type of Matter:	Medical Malpractice
Services Provided:	Medical malpractice. Deposed and provided testimony before jury that resulted in a $1MM offer by New York Hospital

• Certified by Stature as a Machine-Vision/Manufacturing Engineer Technologist (CmfgE) by SME

• Fellow, AAAS

• Member, IEEE

• Who�s Who in America

• Who�s Who in Science & Engineering

• American Men & Women of Science

Expert 1213 has published over 40 papers, which are available upon request.

OPTICAL TECHNIQUES

Expert No 1213

New York

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