About Us

Innovations in Optics is pushing the technology envelope to develop industry-leading ultra high brightness LED products incorporating patented and proprietary optics to direct and maximize output uniformity and efficiency, enabling some of today’s most revolutionary solutions in light.

Innovations in Optics was co-founded in 1993 by Thomas Brukilacchio, Ph.D., and Sarah Harpley Brukilacchio.

Recognized as one of the leading innovators in the areas of high brightness LED chip-on-board (COB) products and illumination engineering and technology, we leverage a unique, multidisciplinary approach to systems design to help engineers around the world bring cutting-edge turnkey optical solutions to market faster. Serving as a contract engineering company specializing in photonics engineering in its early days, our organization was exposed to many challenges as we worked with start-up and well established companies to solve complex problems and to design and prototype high-performance optical product solutions. The Company has transitioned over the last several years to develop and manufacture standard High Brightness LED products and custom OEM solutions in our state-of-the-art facility and at our contract management partner facilities.

 

 

 

 

Leadership Team

Thomas Brukilacchio

Dr. Brukilacchio, President of Innovations in Optics, began his career with both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Optical Engineering from the prestigious Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester.

He spent several years in aerospace R&D and medical device development prior to co-founding the Company and receiving his Ph.D. from the School of Engineering at Tufts University. Dr. Brukilacchio’s dissertation work was completed at The NMR Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, in affiliation with Harvard Medical School’s Department of Radiology and the Photon Migration Laboratory.

Sarah Harpley Brukilacchio

Ms. Brukilacchio, Financial Officer of Innovations in Optics, began her career as a research analyst at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital NMR Laboratory after earning a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Regis College.

Upon completing her degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University, she subsequently joined the Vicor Corporation as a manufacturing engineer, where she was part of a team developing high density DC to DC power supplies. In addition to bringing manufacturing experience and perspective to Innovations in Optics, Sarah Brukilacchio’s guidance in the area of strategic planning has been instrumental in the Company’s growth.

Intellectual Property

Patents

The following represents a list of currently published patents owned by Innovations in Optics, Inc. IOI has recently filed numerous patent applications in the field of Light Emitting Diodes, which have not yet been published and therefore are not shown in the list below. 

  1. CA2,764,974 Light emitting diode light engine
  2. CA2,749,511 Light emitting diode linear light for machine vision
  3. CN10,111,046 High radiance light emitting diode light engine
  4. DE2,452,120 Light emitting diode light engine
  5. DE2,389,536 Light emitting diode linear light for machine vision
  6. EP2,452,120 Light emitting diode light engine
  7. EP2,389,536 Light emitting diode linear light for machine vision
  8. EP2,633,365 Light Emitting Diode Projector
  9. FR2,452,120 Light emitting diode light engine
  10. FR2,389,536 Light emitting diode linear light for machine vision
  11. GB2,452,120 Light emitting diode light engine
  12. GB2,389,536 Light emitting diode linear light for machine vision
  13. IL225,918 Light emitting diode projector
  14. IL243,125 Light emitting diode linear light with uniform far field
  15. IT2,389,536 Light emitting diode linear light for machine vision
  16. JP5,850,542 Light emitting diode projector
  17. JP 5,615,355 Light emitting diode light engine
  18. JP5,869,027 Light emitting diode light engine
  19. JP6,858,904 High radiance light emitting diode light engine
  20. JP6,813,687 Light emitting diode digital micromirror device illuminator
  21. JP5,687,207 Light emitting diode linear light for machine vision

  1. 10,409,045 Hollow light integrator for light emitting diode digital micromirror device illuminator
  2. 9,971,135 Light emitting diode digital micromirror device illuminator
  3. 9,632,035 Light emitting diode linear light with uniform far field
  4. 9,606,304 High radiance light emitting diode light engine
  5. 9,574,722 Light emitting diode illumination system
  6. 9,395,055 Light emitting diode illumination system
  7. 9,068,703 Light emitting diode illumination system
  8. 9,062,832 Light emitting diode illumination system
  9. 8,764,238 Light emitting diode emergency lighting module
  10. 8,746,943 LED backlighting system with closed loop control
  11. 8,682,982 Light emitting diode illumination system
  12. 8,625,097 Light emitting diode illumination system
  13. 8,525,999 Light emitting diode illumination system
  14. 8,493,564 Light emitting diode illumination system
  15. 8,403,527 Light emitting diode projector
  16. 8,279,442 Light emitting diode illumination system
  17. 8,278,841 Light emitting diode light engine
  18. 8,152,347 Light emitting diode linear light for machine vision
  19. 8,098,375 Light emitting diode illumination system
  20. 7,898,665 Light emitting diode illumination system
  21. 7,832,878 Light emitting diode projection system
  22. 7,819,591 Monocular three-dimensional imaging
  23. 7,746,568 Three-channel camera systems with non-collinear apertures
  24. 7,646,550 Three-channel camera systems with collinear apertures
  25. 7,488,102 LED illuminator for changing target properties
  26. 7,488,101 High intensity LED array illuminator
  27. 7,488,088 LED white light illuminator
  28. 7,372,642 Three-channel camera systems with non-collinear apertures
  29. 7,300,175 LED illuminator with retro reflector
  30. 7,153,015 Led white light optical system
  31. 6,857,772 High performance light engine
  32. 6,856,436 Scanning light source system
  33. 6,513,962 Illumination system adapted for surgical lighting
  34. 5,997,472 Endodiagnostic method using differential thermal relaxation and IR imaging
  35. 5,944,653 Dual IR and visible channel endodiagnostic apparatus
  36. 5,833,596 Endoscope for imaging infrared emissions within the range of 2 to 14 microns
  37. 5,711,755 Endoscopic diagnostic systems and associated methods employing infrared radiation