Background
Bill Parkyn was born in the United States of America, state of New Jersey, and lived most of his adult life in Los Angeles County, California.
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Bachelor of Science (Bachelor of Science), Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science and Technology, General at on a full four year scholarship.
Career
Bill Parkyn worked on nonimaging optics. His specialties were solving new optical design problems for LED illumination and generating new intellectual property. The book "Introduction to Nonimaging Optics", in its acknowledgments, refers that it "benefited from the writing skills and extensive experience of Bill Parkyn in optics, who edited the whole book, greatly improving readability."
He was the chief scientist of InteLED from 2001 to 2012, Chief Technology Officer of Teledyne Lighting & Display in Marina Delegate Rey, California from 1992 to 2002 and part of the technical staff at bd Systems in Torrance California from 1985 to 1994.
In his job at bd Systems, Bill developed Personal Computer-based programs for simulating Earth orbit surveillance, launch vehicle performance, SDI particle-beam targeting, missile-warfare scenarios, and Anti-satellite weapons coverage. bd Systems was a provider of aerospace engineering and information technology (Information Technology) services.
In the 1980s he worked at National Technical Systems where he set up and ran one of the few approved solar thermal panel testing facilities in the United States. Bill Parkyn"s technical expertise was wide-ranging and included the fields of: nonimaging optics, optical engineering, thermal engineering, solar energy and patent drafting.
Parkyn was a prolific inventor and his list of patents is extensive. He was one of the inventors of the modern TIR (Total Internal Reflection) lens as exemplified by United States patent 5676453 issued in 1997 with his co-inventor Doctor David Pelka.
He and Doctor Pelka collaborated on a number of inventions over a period of several decades.
Bill was also a co-inventor with the famous Doctor Roland Winston (United States 6177761) on a patent to better extract and radiate light from LEDs. Parkyn collaborated on many inventions with researchers at the company Light Prescriptions Innovators (United States of America and Spain) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid from 2000 to 2012. Overall, Bill Parkyn held 23 patents.
His personal interests were also varied and included world history, astrophysics, economics, cell biology, political philosophy or philosophy of the mind and Vikings and their written lanquage or runes.
