Burnsville, Minnesota, United States
Charles A. Lemaire (Charlie) is a registered patent attorney providing counsel in the areas of electronic, software, laser, P.R.M.L. (i.e., both partial response maximum likelyhood recovery of digital data from weak analog signals, and pattern recognition machine learning (generative AI)) and other coding and encryption, magnetic disk, optical, mechanical and plant patent applications, prosecution and related licensing and opinions. His undergraduate degree is in electronics from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis on VLSI circuits fabrication (B.E.E., with Honors, 1975). He took numerous graduate courses at the University of Minnesota in electronics, lasers, magnetics and coding theory. He has an M.B.A. from the College of St. Thomas (1985), and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law (1993). Charlie has been registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office since 1992 and practiced with Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner from 1994 to 2003 before founding the Lemaire Patent Law Firm nine years ago. He was an Advisory Electrical Engineer at IBM Corporation's Advanced Systems Division (1976-1991), and IBM's Storage Systems Division (1991-1993), Rochester, Minnesota. At IBM, Charles architected and implemented large-system CPUs including microcode coding and simulation, VLSI chip designs, virtual addressing, caches, supervisors, queuing, and main-line performance path optimization, tightly coupled multiprocessor architecture, RISC (reduced instruction set computer) systems, single-chip computers, input-output processors, and RAID (redundant arrays of independent disks) storage systems. He was a member of IBM's corporate RISC Architecture Review Board. Charlie is a co-inventor on fifty-eight issued U.S. patents. The inventions range from carbon nanotubes, wireless communication, high-power laser systems, optical nerve stimulators and sensors, microcode, microprocessor technology, and multiprocessor architectures to optics, microphones, voice synthesis and talking pagers. Charlie also has five issued design patents. Specialties: Obtaining patents in the areas of electronic, software, lasers and optics, PRML/encryption and other coding, semiconductor processing, analog and digital circuits, multiprocessor/memory/network systems, antenna systems, magnetic disk systems, microscopy, optical, mechanical, MRI and EPRI systems, nerve-stimulation and nerve-signal sensors. Drafting and prosecution of patent applications, IP-portfolio evaluation and related patent licensing, freedom-to-operate analyses and opinions of counsel.
MR Safe Devices provides device-evaluation and testing services for biomedical devices that may be subjected to a magnetic-resonance environment (such as an MRI machine). In particular, the company performs tests for RF heating, image artifacts, magnetic torque and magnetic deflection for devices that are implanted or affixed to the skin of MRI patients. We also perform RF heating measurements of MRI coils themselves, as such coils would experience in an MRI system. Our core services are MR-safety testing and evaluation that conform to the standards established by ASTM International (previously American Society of Testing of Materials). Results from our tests are used by numerous companies in their applications for FDA approval of devices as MR Safe or MR Conditional. Test results are also used in an iterative process of device development.
Life Services LLC designs and builds state-of-the-art multi-channel transmit and multi-channel receive MRI coils operating at 4T, 7T, and 9.4T for brain and whole-body imaging. Our customers include both university and industry institutions in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan. In addition to MRI coil manufacturing, we offer software services for EM and RF simulation. We can aid in your research and development for any MRI related products including power testing, component specifications, coil design, MRI system integration, T/R switching, diode driver, and the like. Our services also include custom mechanical-engineering designs including silicon/urethane molding, compression-form molding, casting, injection molding, CNC machining, FDM, SLA and rapid prototyping.
LPLF offers patent-portfolio analysis, intellectual-property counseling, patent drafting for complex technology inventions including software, databases, vector and multiprocessors, I/O, disk drives, memory subsystems and wireless communications, as well as optics, fiber and semiconductor lasers, L.E.D.s and non-linear wavelength conversion devices, military-defense systems and medical devices. We provide both U.S. and international patent-filing services. We are an alternative legal resource for solving patent-prosecution deadlocks and appeals for difficult cases.
In 2012, Lemaire Illumination Technologies LLC (LIT) sold a portfolio of U.S. Patents and patent applications for controlling and powering light-emitting-diode devices and methods to LED Tech Development, LLC. In 2013, Lemaire Illumination Technologies acquired LED Tech and the portfolio. Aspects of LIT's patent portfolio enable the efficient management of LED lighting by controlling the pulses of electricity that power LED light as a result of user action, battery life, ambient lighting, desired color spectrum, and other feedback controls. Potential markets that could benefit from the LED Tech patent portfolio include consumer electronics (mobile phones, video cameras, color cameras, LED-Backlit LCD color displays, etc.), handheld lighting, automotive and general lighting.
Drafted numerous patent applications for large companies (e.g., Cray, Silicon Graphics, Intel, Microsoft, Gateway, Seagate), several small companies (e.g., Cymbet, PPT Vision, Hypertension Diagnostics, Northstar Photonics) and some universities (University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, Washington State University) over a wide range of technologies (see my Linkedin resume).
Drafted numerous patent applications for large companies (e.g., Cray, Silicon Graphics, Intel, Microsoft, Gateway, Seagate), several small companies (e.g., Cymbet, PPT Vision, Hypertension Diagnostics, Northstar Photonics) and some universites (University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, Washington State University) over a wide range of technologies (see my Linkedin resume).