Ron Gerber Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis

Patent drafting and prosecution, with a specialty in optics and optical systems.

• Produce and host weekly music radio show for airing on KFAI-FM/Minneapolis and for distribution to other stations worldwide.
• Former member of Board of Directors, former Treasurer.

• Passed the Patent Bar Exam and registered to practice with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Registration No. 57,166.
• Managed all aspects of patent prosecution, including drafting and filing complete U.S. and foreign patent applications, and drafting and filing responses to U.S. Patent Office Actions.

• Passed the Patent Bar Exam and registered to practice with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Registration No. 57,166.
• Managed all aspects of patent prosecution, including drafting and filing complete U.S. and foreign patent applications, and drafting and filing responses to U.S. Patent Office Actions.

• Performed optical modeling for telecommunications laser and fiber optic assemblies. Used primarily self-written code (in MATLAB and Excel) for Gaussian beam analysis and diffraction modeling, in addition to.
• Responsible for mechanical budgets of dual-fiber collimators, plus the higher-level assemblies that use them as building blocks.
• Contributed to eight records of invention, and was the chief technical writer for them.

• Used proprietary code that finds a steady-state solution of the Reynolds equation to design and analyze air bearings for computer hard drives.
• Responsible for air bearing design and support for current and future desktop products at Seagate.
• Developed, documented, and supported code that performs analysis of the head/disk interface mechanical spacing budgets. Inputs included sigmas from nearly 50 manufacturing processes.

• Responsible for optical modeling of various subsystems in future-generation Quinta optically assisted Winchester drives.
• Used optical design programs (ZEMAX, OSLO) to perform layout and tolerancing of various 1×12 optical MEMS switches and a pigtailed fiber laser pen.
• Contributed to 18 Seagate invention disclosures and 14 U.S. patent applications.

• Performed modeling of optical data storage heads.
• Performed diffraction-based analysis of novel focus/tracking schemes and optical head designs.
• Ordered components for custom optical heads, monitored and documented the head building procedure.
• Contributed to four U.S. patents.

• Continued work on a benchtop testbed that tests magneto-optical discs in the blue wavelengths.
• Responsible for optical layout and alignment, GPIB and RS-232 programming for the equipment, and control electronics for the focus and tracking systems.
• Showed experimentally that sending discs through the coating process does not change the substrate birefringence.

• Tested a Zeiss lithography lens at its design wavelength in the near UV.
• Measured the Strehl Ratio at various points in the lens field, using a liquid-nitrogen-cooled 16-bit camera and an early version of frame-grabber software.
• Responsible for constructing the optical testbed, running the experiment, and documenting the results. A final product was a short film showing the point spread function of the lens as the image plane is translated.

Ph.D., Optics

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M.S., Optics

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B.S., Optics

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