Todd Van Mechelen, Ph.D., is a technology specialist who focuses his practice on patent prosecution and counseling in a broad range of technologies and industries, including machine learning, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, material science, solid-state physics, optics and photonics, imaging, quantum computing, and atomic and molecular physics.
Todd has published in numerous high-impact peer-reviewed journals such as eLight, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Nanophotonics, and Optica. His work involves technologies such as generative AI and reinforcement learning, semiconductor devices and displays, integrated photonics, EV power and drive trains, microfluidics, analytical chemistry, high temperature superconductors and quantum materials, superconducting quantum processors, magnetic confinement and nuclear fusion devices, control systems and sensing, solar cells, and optical metrology.
Prior to joining Fish & Richardson, Todd served as a postdoctoral research scientist at Purdue University, where he developed solid-state hyperspectral and quantum imaging systems, silicon photonics, topological materials, and on-chip optical circulators.
Todd likes to unwind with a yoga class or a good book from the historical fiction section. As a classical music enthusiast, he winds himself back up attempting to learn piano from YouTube.
