Patents Assigned to WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INC
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Patent number: 11701522Abstract: A method, apparatus and components thereof enable stimulating synthesis of new collagen and elastic fibers in superficial tissues, of a human or other living subject by introducing magnetic particles into the superficial tissue and activating the magnetic particles by application of magnetic field to stimulate synthesis of new collagen and elastic fibers.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INCInventors: Sahar Jafari, Irving Weinberg
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Patent number: 11554269Abstract: A method, apparatus and components thereof enable selective or differentiated manipulation of at least one of a plurality of particles located in a region of space via magnetic field generation and variation.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS, INC.Inventors: Irving Weinberg, Bradley English
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Patent number: 11536789Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of particles, wherein each particle contains a plurality of magnetizable (for example, ferromagnetic) and ferroelectric materials in fixed physical relationship (for example, physical contact) with one another. A method and apparatus measure magnetic fields arising from or within the plurality of particles.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INCInventors: Irving Weinberg, Lamar Odell Mair, Oleg Udalov
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Patent number: 11534771Abstract: An apparatus and method collect and deactivate pathogens (for example, coronaviruses) within a magnetic particle in order to reduce the number of active pathogens in a body.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INCInventor: Irving Weinberg
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Patent number: 11357997Abstract: Methodologies and mechanisms are provided for introducing one or more magnetizable particles introduced non-invasively into one or more body structures containing nervous tissue in a subject, directing, guiding, transporting, focusing and/or concentrating the one or more particles using at least one image-guidance component in proximity to the one or more body structures which can direct the one or more particles within the one or more body structures, and modulating, using at least one activation component, the one or more particles to modulate neuronal function in the one or more body structures of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INC.Inventor: Irving N. Weinberg
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Patent number: 10985383Abstract: A method of fabrication produces one or more functional microparticles using a parallel pore working piece. In one embodiment, the method forms a particle that includes a segment for the oxidation of a biofuel (such as glucose) and the reduction of oxygen. The particle may be synthesized in a structure with defined and parallel, uniform, thin pores that completely penetrate the structure. Further, the functional microparticle may be configured to reside in a human or animal body or cell such that it may be self-contained fuel cell having an anode, a cathode, a separator membrane, and a magnetic component. In other embodiments, the functional microparticles may deliver energy or therapeutic materials in the body.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc.Inventors: Irving N. Weinberg, Lamar Odell Mair
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Patent number: 10900135Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide a method and apparatus for continuous production of micro/nanoscale particles using roll-to-roll manufacturing in combination with electroplating. The roll-to-roll process can move a mechanically flexible reel stock material along rotating elements designed to position the material for various additive, subtractive, and modification processes. In accordance with at least one embodiment, processes applied at various stations may include sputtering, electroplating, and/or etching.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc.Inventors: Irving N. Weinberg, Lamar Odell Mair, Pavel Stepanov
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Patent number: 10888243Abstract: Disclosed embodiments enable equipment and methodologies that generate a magnetic field using at least one coil under the control of a controller and transduce radio-frequency energy into lower-frequency current or voltage under control of the controller for application to tissue in a subject's body, whereby the transduction produces a lower-field current or voltage that has an effect upon the subject's body tissue.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INCInventor: Irving N. Weinberg
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Patent number: 10888225Abstract: An imaging apparatus and methodologies image a subject using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, wherein neuronal activity is assessed by measuring displacement of one or more red blood cells resulting from nearby electrical fields produced by the neuronal activity in the at least part of the subject's brain.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INCInventor: Irving N. Weinberg
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Patent number: 10534053Abstract: Apparatuses and methodologies are provided that utilize at least one polarizing magnet controlled and positioned to polarize spins in a first region of interest, at least one gradient coil controlled and positioned to generate phase-encoding gradient pulses within a second region of interest, and at least one radiofrequency coil controlled and positioned to acquire radiofrequency signals from the second region of interest, wherein the at least one gradient coil and at least one radiofrequency coil may be controlled such that application of phase-encoding gradient pulses stops before acquisition of radiofrequency signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc.Inventor: Aleksandar Nelson Nacev
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Patent number: 10485605Abstract: An apparatus and method stimulate or sense neurons or groups of neurons in a subject, e.g., a human or animal brain, with positional dependence. This utility is provided in part by utilizing individually-addressable Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) coils so that locations of those coils in the brain would be monitored and known.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc.Inventor: Irving N. Weinberg
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Patent number: 10463871Abstract: Disclosed embodiments enable apparatus and methodologies that are provided for three-dimensional construction of tissues in the body at locations internal to the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics IncInventors: Irving N. Weinberg, Aleksandar Nelson Nacev, Lamar Odell Mair
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Patent number: 10290404Abstract: An apparatus and method for magnetic particle manipulation enables the particle to be rotated and translated independently using magnetic fields and field gradients, which produce the desired decoupled translational and rotational motion. The apparatus and the method for manipulation may be implemented in parallel, involving many particles. The rotational magnetic field used to induce rotational motion may be varied to induce particle motion, which is either in phase or out of phase with the rotational magnetic field. The magnetic fields and gradients described herein may be generated with permanent magnets, electromagnets, or some combination of permanent magnets and electromagnets.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc.Inventors: Lamar Odell Mair, Aleksandar Nelson Nacev, Irving N. Weinberg
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Patent number: 10034633Abstract: Disclosed embodiments enable determining and monitoring the location of at least one particle in a subject's body, as well as the status of a local environment within the body where the at least one particle is located.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignees: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INC., UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKInventors: Irving N. Weinberg, Edo Waks, Benjamin Shapiro
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Patent number: 9995810Abstract: A magnetic field generator includes a power source and a segmented or un-segmented coil connected to the power source to generate a time-varying magnetic field. Energy is applied to the coil so that the coil generates a time-varying magnetic field gradient with a magnitude of at least 1 milliTesla per meter and a rise-time of less than 1000 microseconds. The coil may be comprised of overlapping, non-overlapping or partially overlapping coil segments that may individually energized to further improve the operating characteristics of the coil to further decrease bio-effects in magnetic resonance imaging through the use of reduced pulse lengths and multi-phasic magnetic gradient pulses.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics IncInventors: Irving N. Weinberg, Pavel Stepanov
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Patent number: 9903922Abstract: A magnetic field generator includes a power source and a segmented or un-segmented coil connected to the power source to generate a time-varying magnetic field. Energy is applied to the coil so that the coil generates a time-varying magnetic field gradient with a magnitude of at least 1 milliTesla per meter and a rise-time of less than 1000 microseconds. The coil may be comprised of overlapping, non-overlapping or partially overlapping coil segments that may individually energized to further improve the operating characteristics of the coil to further decrease bio-effects in magnetic resonance imaging through the use of reduced pulse lengths and multi-phasic magnetic gradient pulses.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc.Inventors: Irving N. Weinberg, Pavel Stepanov
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Publication number: 20180036532Abstract: A neuronal tissue-machine interface apparatus includes an array of magnetically-responsive switches positioned in close proximity or contact to neuronal tissue of a human subject, wherein a magnetic environment of the plurality of magnetically-responsive switches varies along the array, and an antenna that is electrically connected to the array, wherein a subset of the magnetically-responsive switches respond to electromagnetic energy received by the antenna, and wherein the response of the subset of the magnetically-responsive switches includes modulation of an electrical current conducted by the subset of the magnetically-responsive switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc.Inventor: Irving N. Weinberg
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Patent number: 9865887Abstract: A method of fabrication produces one or more functional microparticles using a parallel pore working piece. In one embodiment, the method forms a particle that includes a segment for the oxidation of a biofuel (such as glucose) and the reduction of oxygen. The particle may be synthesized in a structure with defined and parallel, uniform, thin pores that completely penetrate the structure. Further, the functional microparticle may be configured to reside in a human or animal body or cell such that i t may be self-contained fuel cell having an anode, a cathode, a separator membrane, and a magnetic component. In other embodiments, the functional microparticles may deliver energy or therapeutic materials in the body.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INC.Inventors: Lamar Odell Mair, Irving N. Weinberg
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Patent number: 9833170Abstract: An apparatus and method apply magnetic fields by generators external to a body or body part with sensors within an in vivo source that are sensitive to applied magnetic fields Through the use of these applied magnetic fields and sensitive sensors, disclosed embodiments can realize much better spatial resolution than is conventionally possible.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics Inc.Inventors: Lamar Odell Mair, Aleksandar Nelson Nacev, Irving N. Weinberg
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Patent number: 9772387Abstract: In accordance with disclosed embodiments, very high magnetic gradients and magnetic slew are applied to magnetizable particle imaging in order to realize high spatial resolution.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc.Inventor: Irving N. Weinberg