Patents Examined by David Porta
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Patent number: 10192646Abstract: A radiation shielding system for an x-ray digital detector array includes a first radiation shield having a plurality of shielding pads and a plurality of interstices between the plurality of shielding pads, the plurality of shielding pads having a greater thickness than the thickness of the plurality of interstices. The plurality of shielding pads is configured to be positioned over active components of the x-ray digital detector array and the interstices are configured to be positioned over passive components of the x-ray digital detector array.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Susanne Madeline Lee, Douglas Albagli, James Michael Gent, Kevin Edward Kinsey
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Patent number: 10183181Abstract: An ion chamber has a chamber having an interior volume. There is a first electrode and a second electrode in the chamber and separated by a gap. A collector electrode is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. The collector electrode is shaped to occlude a portion of the first electrode from the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: VIEWRAY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Iwan Kawrykow, Eyad Kishawi
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Patent number: 10185052Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for estimating at least one parameter of interest of a volume of interest of an earth formation using nuclear radiation based measurements. Logging tools include a limited aperture collimated radiation beam source, detectors, and at least one processor configured to take measurements. The source is configured to emit a beam of radiation radially from the logging tool into an elongated volume of interest outside the wellbore such that the beam penetrates a plurality of zones of the volume of interest. Each zone represents a range of radial depths corresponding to a respective infrastructure component associated with the wellbore, such as nested tubulars. Each detector has a unique angle of detection and is configured to generate measurement information in response to spatially coherent backscattered gamma rays. Each detector is associated with scattering events at one of the plurality of zones.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Feyzi Inanc, Douglas Patterson, Elizaveta Onegova, Rocco DiFoggio, Otto Fanini
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Patent number: 10184835Abstract: An imaging scanner and a method for using the same are disclosed. The scanner includes a variable attenuator adapted to receive a light beam generated by a MIR laser and that generates an attenuated light beam therefrom characterized by an attenuation level. The scanner includes an optical assembly that focuses the attenuated light beam to a point on a specimen. A light detector measures an intensity of light leaving the point on the specimen, the light detector being characterized by a detector dynamic range. A controller forms a plurality of MIR images from the intensity as a function of position on the specimen, each of the plurality of MIR images being formed with a different level of attenuation of the light beam. The controller combines the plurality of MIR images to generate a combined MIR image having a dynamic range greater than the detector dynamic range.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles Hoke, Christopher Ryan Moon, Andrew Ghetler, Yang Han
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Patent number: 10185039Abstract: A detector module for an x-ray detector is disclosed. In an embodiment, the detector module includes a plurality of sensor boards arranged adjacent to one another on a module carrier. Each sensor board is arranged in a stack formation and includes a sensor layer with a sensor surface, to which a bias voltage can be applied in order to detect x-ray radiation. A voltage supply line is arranged in the stack formation along a lateral surface of the stack formation of each sensor board in order to apply the bias voltage. Moreover, an x-ray detector is disclosed for recording an image of an object irradiated by x-ray radiation, the x-ray detector including a plurality a number of detector modules arranged adjacent to one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Thorsten Ergler, Thomas Reichel, Kurt Stadlthanner, Jan Wrege
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Patent number: 10185040Abstract: A detector apparatus includes a scattered radiation grid; a scintillator unit for converting X-rays into a light quantity; an evaluation unit for converting the light quantity into electric signals; and a module-receiving appliance. The scintillator unit and the scattered radiation grid are mechanically connected to the module-receiving appliance via a first connection and the evaluation unit is mechanically connected to the module-receiving appliance via a second connection, independent of the first connection. The evaluation unit, the scintillator unit and the scattered radiation grid are aligned with respect to one another such that light quantity, when emitted from sub-regions of the scintillator unit, is registered by sub-regions of the evaluation unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventor: Stefan Wirth
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Patent number: 10180502Abstract: A radiometric detector is provided for detecting a measurement variable. The detector is particularly failsafe with, simultaneously, a simple, space-saving and cost-effective design, without having losses in the signal-to-noise ratio.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Berthold Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Dirk Moermann, Ewald Freiburger, Steffen Mueller, Tobias Daibenzeiher
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Patent number: 10178856Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods of classifying flying insects. The methods utilize recording the wingbeat frequency and amplitude spectrum of flying insects and comparing them to known or created insect models to properly classify the flying insect. The error rate of the classification is reduced by utilizing multiple inputs to the classification system, which may include a precise circadian rhythm for the time of year, current environmental conditions, and flight velocity or direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Inventors: Agenor Mafra-Neto, Eamonn Keogh
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Patent number: 10180357Abstract: Devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a multispectral band system are described herein. One or more embodiments include a filter comprising a first designated transmittance value for a first wavelength range and a second designated transmittance value for a second wavelength range, a sensor to receive transmitted radiation from the filter, and a computing device coupled to the sensor to detect any radiation within the first and second wavelength ranges from the received transmitted radiation from the filter and wherein the detected radiation in the first wavelength indicates a particular type of radiation source and detected radiation in the second wavelength range indicates one or more other items within a field of view of the received radiation.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Kwong Wing Au, Barrett E. Cole, Christopher S. Larsen, Sharath Venkatesha
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Patent number: 10180350Abstract: A device including: a processor being configured to: instruct an image sensor to capture first image data of a patch applied to a user's skin unprotected against an ultraviolent spectrum of radiation, the patch having a reflection coefficient in the ultraviolent spectrum; measure a first reflectance from the patch based on the reflection coefficient; determine a second reflectance from the unprotected skin adjacent to the patch based on the measured first reflectance; instruct the image sensor to capture second image data of the user's skin after application of a sunscreen; determine a third reflectance from the skin adjacent to the applied patch for the skin having the applied sunscreen based on the measured first reflectance; and determine a time extending factor for the applied sunscreen based on the second and third reflectance.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: OMNITEK PARTNERS LLCInventors: Jahangir S Rastegar, Harbans Dhadwal, Thomas Spinelli
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Patent number: 10180390Abstract: A flow cytometry system having a flow channel defined through the thickness of a substrate is disclosed. Fluid flowing through the flow channel is illuminated by a first plurality of surface waveguides that are arranged around the flow channel in a first plane, while a second plurality of surface waveguides arranged around the flow channel in a second plane receive light after it has interacted with the fluid. The illumination pattern provided to the fluid is controlled by controlling the phase of the light in the first plurality of surface waveguides. As a result, the fluid is illuminated with light that is uniform and has a low coefficient of variation, improving the ability to distinguish and quantify characteristics of the fluid, such as cell count, DNA content, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: LioniX International BVInventors: Frederik Schreuder, Marcel Hoekman, Ronald Dekker, Seyed Naser Hosseini
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Patent number: 10178976Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a PET detector module suitable for using in a PET/MR hybrid system. The PET detector module comprises a scintillator, a set of frontend electronics and a positioning means configured to securing relative position between the scintillator and the frontend electronics. The PET detector module may further comprise a temperature control system, such as an air-cooling system or a heat exchange plate. The present disclosure also relates to a heat exchange plate, which comprises a fluidic passage for containing a flow of a heat exchange media. The heat exchange plate is suitable for use in the magnetic field environment of a MRI system.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Weiping Liu, Yixing Sun, Lingzhi Hu
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Patent number: 10180619Abstract: A terahertz wave generating element includes a nonlinear optical crystal generating terahertz waves by propagating light, and a coupling member propagating the generated terahertz waves. The coupling member includes a reflecting face reflecting at least part of the generated terahertz waves. The reflecting face is convex in a propagation direction of the generated terahertz waves. An angle at the coupling member side between the reflecting face and the propagation direction of the light is greater than 90 degrees?cos?1 (ng/nTHz) but smaller than 90 degrees at a plane including the light propagation direction. ng represents a group refractive index of the nonlinear optical crystal at a wavelength of the light, nTHz the refractive index of the coupling member at a wavelength of the generated terahertz waves. A curvature radius of the reflecting face, in a reflection region reflecting the radius terahertz waves, is smaller the farther downstream in the light propagation direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kousuke Kajiki
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Patent number: 10175366Abstract: A radiation detector that improves accurately a fluorescence emission-time. A limiter circuit instead of a low-pass filter and a high-pass filter removes a noise component of the amplifier output. The limiter circuit blocks passing through the amplification signal when the amplification signal output from the amplifier a is lower than the limit level. Accordingly, a noise component output not related to the fluorescence detection from the amplifier a is blocked by the limiter circuit L and is unable to reach to the addition circuit. When the amplification signal output from the amplifier a is larger than the limit level, the limiter circuit L passes through such amplification signal; so that the signal, which is related to a fluorescence detection, that the amplifier a outputs can be absolutely input into the fluorescence emission-time calculation element.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuo Furumiya
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Patent number: 10175365Abstract: A radiation detection element includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, each pixel electrodes including a first electrode placed on the first surface of an insulating member and having an opening portion and a second electrode placed at the opening portion of the first electrode. The plurality of pixel electrodes is arrayed in the row direction and the column direction. The pitch of the pixel electrodes in the row direction and the column direction is 380 ?m or less. An area ratio between the first electrode and the second electrode falls within the range of 14.5:1 to 154.6:1.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomohisa Motomura, Kohei Ota, Toru Tanimori, Atsushi Takada, Taito Takemura
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Patent number: 10175112Abstract: A camera apparatus. The camera apparatus includes a housing having a front end and a back end; a lens, wherein the lens is disposed in the front end of the housing; and a thermal core, wherein the thermal core is disposed between the lens and the back end of the housing, the thermal core further including: an electrical component; at least one substrate electrically connected to the electrical component; and an infrared imager configured to capture an infrared video stream, wherein the infrared imager is affixed to one of the at least one substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Adasky, LtdInventors: Vitaly Kuperman, Nir Brandwine
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Patent number: 10176659Abstract: A paper sheet authentication apparatus determines the type of the paper sheet by using a characteristic other than a fluorescent light characteristic, sequentially emits excitation lights of different wavelengths on the paper sheet, measures an intensity of light per wavelength within a predetermined range emitted by a fluorescent material applied to the paper sheet, and acquires fluorescent light characteristic data as the result. The paper sheet authentication apparatus performs the authentication of the paper sheet by using fluorescent light characteristic data of a genuine paper sheet previously stored per type of the paper sheet or a threshold calculated therefrom and the acquired fluorescent light characteristic data.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Takeshi Sato
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Patent number: 10175171Abstract: The present invention provides a multi UV-LED probe system for detection of a characteristic of a sample, the system including a device comprising a probe head, the probe head including a plurality of UV-LEDs, an optic fiber bundle, an optional heating surface, an optional cooling surface and a light directing means adapted to transfer UV from the plurality of UV-LEDs to a region of the sample and further adapted to receive fluorescent light from the region to focus it into the optic fiber bundle and a power source adapted to provide electrical energy to the plurality of UV-LEDs, a spectrophotometer configured to receive the fluorescent light from the optic fiber bundle and a processor adapted to receive signals associated with the fluorescent light and to process the signals to provide the detection of the characteristic of the sample.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Inventor: Aron Vecht
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Patent number: 10175111Abstract: A method for characterizing terahertz radiation using spectral domain interferometry, comprising overlapping a pump beam and a terahertz beam in a detecting crystal; obtaining two probe pulses by propagating the probe beam into a polarization maintaining single-mode optical fiber after the detecting crystal; and measuring a change in the optical path difference between the two probe pulses. The system comprises a detection crystal, where a terahertz pulse and a probe beam are made to overlap; a polarization-maintaining optical fiber propagating the probe beam after the detection crystal and outputting two probe pulses; and a spectrometer where the two probe pulses interfere.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Institut National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInventors: Tsuneyuki Ozaki, Gargi Sharma, Kanwarpal Singh
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Patent number: 10175367Abstract: A tool for detecting radiation includes a semiconductor detector material that interacts with ionizing radiation, an electrode that collects charge carriers generated in the detector material from an interaction with the ionizing radiation. A shaping circuit forms electrical pulses having a shape that depends on the amount of collected charge. A counting circuit counts the number of pulses and includes a counter and an incrementing element that increments the counter when a comparison parameter exceeds a threshold. The counting circuit further includes a duration-measuring element that measures a pulse duration (f) for each pulse and a peak-detecting element that determines a maximum amplitude (H) of each pulse. A combining element combines maximum amplitude and the pulse duration (f) to establish the comparison parameter. The comparison parameter is the product (H×t) of a maximum amplitude of the pulse and the corresponding pulse duration.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventor: Francis Glasser