Patents Assigned to Alentic Microscience Inc.
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Patent number: 10520711Abstract: Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson
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Patent number: 10502666Abstract: Among other things, a diluted sample is generated based on mixing a small sample of blood with a one or more diluents. A thin film of the diluted sample is formed on the surface of a contact optical microscopy sensor. Red blood cells within a portion of the thin film of the diluted sample are illuminated using light of a predetermined wavelength. One or more images of the diluted sample are acquired based on illuminating the red blood cells within the portion of the thin film of the diluted sample. The acquired one or more images of the diluted sample are then processed. The mean corpuscular hemoglobin in the red blood cells within the portion of the thin film of the diluted sample is determined based on processing the acquired images of the diluted sample.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Hershel Macaulay
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Patent number: 10466457Abstract: Among other things, a method comprises imaging a sample displaced between a sensor surface and a surface of a microscopy sample chamber to produce an image of at least a part of the sample. The image is produced using lensless optical microscopy, and the sample contains at least blood from a subject. The method also comprises automatically differentiating cells of different types in the image, generating a count of one or more cell types based on the automatic differentiation, and deriving a radiation dose the subject has absorbed based on the count.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventor: Alan Marc Fine
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Patent number: 10461112Abstract: Among other things, an integral image sensor includes a sensor surface having a surface area at which light-sensitive pixels are arranged in rows and columns. The surface area includes two or more light-sensitive subareas each of the subareas having been configured to have been diced from a wafer along two orthogonal dimensions to form a discrete image sensor. The two or more light-sensitive subareas are arranged along one of the two orthogonal dimensions. The sensor surface of the integral image sensor is flat and continuous across the two or more subareas.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Madhuranga Srinath Rankaduwa
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Patent number: 10459213Abstract: Among other things, a first surface is configured to receive a sample and is to be used in a microscopy device. There is a second surface to be moved into a predefined position relative to the first surface to form a sample space that is between the first surface and the second surface and contains at least part of the sample. There is a mechanism configured to move the second surface from an initial position into the predefined position to form the sample space. When the sample is in place on the first surface, the motion of the second surface includes a trajectory that is not solely a linear motion of the second surface towards the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Hershel Macaulay, Noah Hymes-Vandermeulen
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Publication number: 20190324239Abstract: Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson
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Patent number: 10345564Abstract: Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson
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Patent number: 10317662Abstract: In some instances, an apparatus can include a light sensitive imaging sensor having a surface to receive a fluid sample, a body to be moved relative to the light sensitive imaging sensor and having a surface to touch a portion of the fluid sample, and a carrier to move the body toward the surface of the light sensitive imaging sensor to cause the surface of the body to touch the portion of the fluid sample, so that as the surface of the body touches the portion of the fluid, the surface of the body (i) is parallel to the surface of the light sensitive imaging sensor, and (ii) settles on top of the fluid sample independently of motion of the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventor: Alan Marc Fine
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Patent number: 10249669Abstract: Among other things, an integral image sensor includes a sensor surface having a surface area at which light-sensitive pixels are arranged in rows and columns. The surface area includes two or more light-sensitive subareas each of the subareas having been configured to have been diced from a wafer along two orthogonal dimensions to form a discrete image sensor. The two or more light-sensitive subareas are arranged along one of the two orthogonal dimensions. The sensor surface of the integral image sensor is flat and continuous across the two or more subareas.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Madhuranga Srinath Rankaduwa
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Publication number: 20190094510Abstract: Among other things, a method comprises imaging a sample displaced between a sensor surface and a surface of a microscopy sample chamber to produce an image of at least a part of the sample. The image is produced using lensless optical microscopy, and the sample contains at least blood from a subject. The method also comprises automatically differentiating cells of different types in the image, generating a count of one or more cell types based on the automatic differentiation, and deriving a radiation dose the subject has absorbed based on the count.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventor: Alan Marc Fine
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Publication number: 20190094509Abstract: Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson
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Patent number: 10153317Abstract: Among other things, an integral image sensor includes a sensor surface having a surface area at which light-sensitive pixels are arranged in rows and columns. The surface area includes two or more light-sensitive subareas each of the subareas having been configured to have been diced from a wafer along two orthogonal dimensions to form a discrete image sensor. The two or more light-sensitive subareas are arranged along one of the two orthogonal dimensions. The sensor surface of the integral image sensor is flat and continuous across the two or more subareas.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Madhuranga Srinath Rankaduwa
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Patent number: 10114203Abstract: Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson
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Patent number: 10107997Abstract: Among other things, a method comprises imaging a sample displaced between a sensor surface and a surface of a microscopy sample chamber to produce an image of at least a part of the sample. The image is produced using lensless optical microscopy, and the sample contains at least blood from a subject. The method also comprises automatically differentiating cells of different types in the image, generating a count of one or more cell types based on the automatic differentiation, and deriving a radiation dose the subject has absorbed based on the count.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventor: Alan Marc Fine
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Publication number: 20180231753Abstract: Among other things, a method comprises imaging a sample displaced between a sensor surface and a surface of a microscopy sample chamber to produce an image of at least a part of the sample. The image is produced using lensless optical microscopy, and the sample contains at least blood from a subject. The method also comprises automatically differentiating cells of different types in the image, generating a count of one or more cell types based on the automatic differentiation, and deriving a radiation dose the subject has absorbed based on the count.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventor: Alan Marc Fine
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Patent number: 9989750Abstract: Among other things, a first surface is configured to receive a sample and is to be used in a microscopy device. There is a second surface to be moved into a predefined position relative to the first surface to form a sample space that is between the first surface and the second surface and contains at least part of the sample. There is a mechanism configured to move the second surface from an initial position into the predefined position to form the sample space. When the sample is in place on the first surface, the motion of the second surface includes a trajectory that is not solely a linear motion of the second surface towards the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Hershel Macaulay, Noah Hymes-Vandermeulen
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Patent number: 9952417Abstract: Among other things, a method comprises imaging a sample displaced between a sensor surface and a surface of a microscopy sample chamber to produce an image of at least a part of the sample. The image is produced using lensless optical microscopy, and the sample contains at least blood from a subject. The method also comprises automatically differentiating cells of different types in the image, generating a count of one or more cell types based on the automatic differentiation, and deriving a radiation dose the subject has absorbed based on the count.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventor: Alan Marc Fine
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Patent number: 9910254Abstract: Among other things, a method comprises imaging a sample displaced between a sensor surface and a surface of a microscopy sample chamber to produce an image of at least a part of the sample. The image is produced using lensless optical microscopy, and the sample contains at least blood from a subject. The method also comprises automatically differentiating cells of different types in the image, generating a count of one or more cell types based on the automatic differentiation, and deriving a radiation dose the subject has absorbed based on the count.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventor: Alan Marc Fine
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Publication number: 20170322402Abstract: Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson
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Patent number: 9720217Abstract: Among other things, an imaging device has a photosensitive array of pixels, and a surface associated with the array is configured to receive a specimen with at least a part of the specimen at a distance from the surface equivalent to less than about half of an average width of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Alentic Microscience Inc.Inventors: Alan Marc Fine, Peter Hodges Gregson