InnovaQuartz LLC

12/02/2025

Scientists are finally studying the important stuff, eh?

11/29/2025

The idiocracy bleats anew…

Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.

11/21/2025

Our next product will be fibers terminated with these caps. We call them HaloFibers (trademark) because the energy comes out in a ring at 90 degrees to the fiber axis. Think of it as a a laser rotorooter for arteries and veins, clearing out cholesterol plaques being the ultimate goal. This large model (2 mm) is destined for prostate surgery -- low hanging fruit versus endovascular surgery.

This product is covered by one or more US patents.

05/05/2025

A 1.00 (+/- 0.01) millimeter diameter 'window' on a 0.273 mm core, Si/Si fiber is pictured.

It is unique, non-obvious and useful, i.e., it's patented. You may ask why that is. Others have welded windows on fibers for decades, after all.

Yet this structure has no weld and the window is clad with fluorine doped silica at 1.08 CCDR on the 1.1 CCDR fiber (Cladding to Core Diameter Ratio). Not only that, the input face is laser polished for an insanely high laser damage threshold and may be equipped with curvatures. (This one is a concave input surface for collimating converging laser foci, for example.)

The OD tolerance of the 'window' is +/- 1%. The distance between the original core and the input face may be maintained to +/- 0.025mm. Finally, the upper left inset shows that we can put these on both ends of a fiber, with the same lens or with different lenses.

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03/24/2025

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year has been won by amateur photographer

An amateur photographer from the UK has won a prestigious Wildlife Photographer Of The Year award 🏆 ⁠
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Nima Sarikhani captured the image of a sleeping polar bear on an iceberg off Norway's Svalbard archipelago.⁠
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The picture, titled Ice Bed, has been crowned the winner of the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer Of The Year people's choice award, after being whittled down to a shortlist of 25 …

10/25/2020

Interferometric image captured by Dr. Jason Guth, our VP for R&D.
Pretty cool, eh?

10/13/2020

Well, there is patent number 34...and my first "Design Patent". A design patent is what one gets when the concept lacks novelty but has utility: that is, it's a good idea but not completely new. It's a bit difficult to explain...this device can be used in a surgical theater to reprocess a laser surgical fiber optic with precision and ease.

Nothing like it exists on the market, but because other ways to reprocessing optical fiber in the OR are commonly known, and since devices making it impossible to screw-up the reprocessing are also known, even if totally impossible to use in and OR, the combination of ideas is "obvious" and cannot be patented, but the SHAPE of the the thing can be, so I patented the shape.

10/06/2020

Boston Scientific is a multi-billion dollar corporation that happens to own 16 of my earlier patents. Unfortunately, they weren't very good at learning how to actually MAKE my devices so they're having some overheating issues and went to a South Korean university for help in solving them. That work produced this little contribution to the Optical Society of America's journal. It's interesting work, but I must say that we at IQ did this a decade or more ago and found a better solution and patented that...

The letter is interesting in another way, though...the illustration used exposes at least six patented features of my device...yet no credit is give to us, the originators of this technology, not even in the references. I wonder if we intimidate they by being a decade or more ahead of them...

08/20/2020

A bragging post...Our project with Los Alamos National Laboratory looks like it's proceeding to fruition, finally. Why would a prestigious national laboratory be working with little ole IQ? It's simple, really. It turns out that our bragging about having the best optical fiber in the world is not at all bragging and our technology for high power laser energy delivery is also unmatched, anywhere in the known universe.

Recent stress corrosion testing of our PowerCore fiber (See Si-Phy.com) showed a 14-fold increase in longevity over the world's best data from a decade ago, when our fiber became the only on of it's type to win Space Flight ready status (Honeywell data for NASA). Not only that, our attenuation is also improved and when asked just what the shelf life determination results were, the LANL engineer quipped "about a billion years".

I'd go into more detail about the project, but due to one indication that makes this 30-year project look like it's finally a "GO" is that aspects of the work are now being classified as top secret, so I'd have to kill all of you if I told you and that's a lot of work.

08/18/2020

Two additional US Patents have published for InnovaQuartz' really cool ureteroscope technology. (FYI, a ureteroscope is a specialized endoscope that traverses the urethra, bladder, ureter and can reach the lower pole of the kidney. This technology will also work for cystoscopes, duodenoscopes, etc., even industrial inspection scopes.)

That's four patents covering what we call the RISC and it's applications. RISC is an acronym for Ring Illuminated Surgical Camera. I believe that makes 17 patents now controlled by Cyclone Biosciences (our IP housing sister company).

08/16/2020

If you haven't seen our preliminary website for Silica Physics, check it out, too. https://www.si-phy.com