Patents Examined by Don K. Wong
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Patent number: 11977038Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting an inspection target object, includes an X-ray generation tube having a target including an X-ray generation portion that generates X-rays by irradiation with an electron beam, and configured to emit X-rays to the inspection target object, and a plurality of X-ray detectors, wherein each of the plurality of X-ray detectors detects X-rays emitted from a foreign substance existing on an inspection target surface of the inspection target object irradiated with the X-rays from the X-ray generation portion and totally reflected by the inspection target surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventor: Takeo Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 11974872Abstract: The present apparatus, system, and method relate to reliably capturing multiple x-ray images for later combination. A radiation detection cabinet is positioned proximally to a radiation emitter. The cabinet includes a detector that is movable and may be locked into a plurality of positions. Indicia on the face of the cabinet provide an indication of radiation detection zones. The zones overlap such that images captured by the detector also overlap.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Inventor: Steven A. Gdula
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Patent number: 11969284Abstract: A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a state transition mode selection unit configured to select a state transition mode from among a first state transition mode of changing from a stand-by state to a ready-for-imaging state based on irradiation preparation start information about a radiation generation apparatus and a second state transition mode of changing from the stand-by state to the ready-for-imaging state based on other information excluding the irradiation preparation start information.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tadahiko Iijima
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Patent number: 11971301Abstract: A spectroscopic unit includes a housing, a light incident portion provided in the housing, a Fabry-Perot interference filter arranged in the housing and having a first mirror and a second mirror, a distance between the first mirror and the second mirror being variable. The light incident portion includes an aperture portion in which an aperture is formed and a band pass filter arranged between the aperture and the Fabry-Perot interference filter. The aperture portion is configured so that a value obtained by dividing a length of the aperture in a facing direction of the first mirror and the second mirror by a width of the aperture in a direction perpendicular to the facing direction is equal to or more than 0.5 and the entirety of light passing through the aperture is incident on the band pass filter.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.Inventors: Kei Tabata, Masaaki Muto
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Patent number: 11967439Abstract: An x-ray window can include a boron-film 12 and an aluminum-film 52 spanning an aperture 15 of a support-frame 11. The boron-film 12 and the aluminum-film 52 can be the only films, or the primary films, spanning the aperture. The boron-film 12 can include boron and hydrogen. An annular-film 32 can adjoin the support-frame 11, on an opposite side of the support-frame 11 from the boron-film 12. The annular-film 32 can include boron and hydrogen. The annular-film 32 can have the same material composition as, and can be similar in thickness with, the boron-film 12.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Moxtek, Inc.Inventors: Jared Sommer, Jonathan Abbott
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Patent number: 11966004Abstract: A method, and corresponding system, provides enhanced security threat detection. The method includes: irradiating a target from a stationary x-ray source having end-point energy of at least 88 keV; enabling target motion with respect to the stationary x-ray source; detecting resulting x-rays received from the target; generating an image of an interior of the target based on the resulting x-rays; performing analysis of the image for an indication of a weapon; producing signals representing an energy spectrum of the resulting x-rays; analyzing the signals for characteristic x-ray fluorescence that can be emitted from lead potentially present in the target; providing an indication, based on the signals, of a probability of lead ammunition being present; and outputting an indication of likelihood of a security threat based on the analysis of the image for the weapon indication and the probability of lead ammunition.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Viken Detection CorporationInventor: Peter J. Rothschild
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Patent number: 11950952Abstract: A method, performed by a mobile X-ray detector, of processing an X-ray image, including generating the X-ray image of an object by detecting an X-ray transmitted through the object and converting the detected X-ray into an electrical signal; detecting a power supply stoppage which prevents transmission of the generated X-ray image from the mobile X-ray detector to a workstation; based on the detecting of the power supply stoppage, storing the X-ray image in a nonvolatile memory inside the mobile X-ray detector; and after storing the X-ray image, deactivating the mobile X-ray detector.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Uncheol Kim, Sungwoo Lee
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Patent number: 11944473Abstract: Collimation device for an X-ray detection system, the collimation device comprising: a collimator comprising a substantially planar support made of a material with partial or zero radiotransparency, the support being rotatably movable about an axis of rotation (?) which passes through the support and which is perpendicular to a first face of the support which acts as an X-ray plane of incidence referred to as the main plane of the support (P), the support (D) being provided on the first face with a slit which is completely transparent to X-rays and which is configured to generate an X-ray flow when the collimator is exposed to an X-ray source, the slit extending longitudinally in the main plane of the support along an axis located at a non-zero distance (d) from the axis of rotation (?), the slit extending through the entire thickness of the support.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: Université Grenoble Alpes, Surgiqual Institute, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, École Centrale de Lyon, CPE LYON FORMATION CONTINUE ET RECHERCHEInventors: Yannick Grondin, Philippe Cinquin, Laurent Desbat, Pierrick Guiral, Patrick Pittet
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Patent number: 11946838Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure is directed to coatings or thin films comprising a dye or stain embedded within a matrix, e.g. a polymer matrix.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.Inventor: Christian Roessler
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Patent number: 11944477Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a companion animal with radiation is provided. The apparatus includes a radiation irradiation unit configured to generate the radiation and irradiate the radiation toward a diagnosis object; a detector disposed to face the radiation irradiation unit and configured to detect the radiation irradiated from the radiation irradiation unit; a driving unit configured to adjust positions of the radiation irradiation unit and the detector; and a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device in a wireless manner. The driving unit adjusts the positions of the radiation irradiation unit and the detector such that the diagnosis object is located between the radiation irradiation unit and the detector, and the radiation irradiation unit irradiates the radiation toward the diagnosis object when the diagnosis object is located between the radiation irradiation unit and the detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AURACARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyeon Tae Kyeong
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Patent number: 11937965Abstract: The radiographic system includes a camera that images a subject, a processor, and a display, in which the processor recognizes whether or not arrangement of the subject in a camera image captured using the camera matches arrangement of the subject in the imaging menu, and displays a first display mode for indicating presence of a result of the recognition, and displays a second display mode for displaying a content of the recognition result in a case of receiving an explicit display request for the recognition result, on the display.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masataka Sugahara
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Patent number: 11940394Abstract: An inspection apparatus for inspecting an inspection target object, includes an X-ray generation tube having a target including an X-ray generation portion that generates X-rays by irradiation with an electron beam, and configured to emit X-rays to the inspection target object, and a plurality of X-ray detectors, wherein each of the plurality of X-ray detectors detects X-rays emitted from a foreign substance existing on an inspection target surface of the inspection target object irradiated with the X-rays from the X-ray generation portion and totally reflected by the inspection target surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATIONInventor: Takeo Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 11937956Abstract: A SPECT scanner for making images of an object using gamma radiation comprises a collimator that extends along a longitudinal direction around an object space and that comprises a set of pinholes for the gamma radiation, a detection device for gamma radiation that is allowed to pass through from the object space by the pinholes, and an object carrier for bringing the object into the object space along the longitudinal direction. At least one pinhole is provided in a pinhole body that is rotatable in the collimator around an axis of rotation. Because the pinholes themselves rather than the collimator are made rotatable, the entire object space with the object therein can be advantageously scanned without having to move the object. The properties of the collimator can also easily be adjusted, even during scanning.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MILABS B.V.Inventor: Frederik Johannes Beekman
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Patent number: 11940383Abstract: A method and/or system is provided for detecting and/or identifying inclusions (e.g., nickel sulfide based inclusions/defects) in glass such as soda-lime-silica based float glass. In certain example instances, during and/or after the glass-making process, following the stage in the float process where the glass sheet is formed and floated on a molten material (e.g., tin bath) and cooled or allowed to cool such as via an annealing lehr, energy such as infrared (IR) energy is directed at the resulting glass and reflectance at various wavelengths is analyzed to detect inclusions.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLCInventor: Okan Agbuga
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Patent number: 11931193Abstract: Methods and systems for X-ray and fluoroscopic image capture and, in particular, to a versatile, multimode imaging system incorporating a handheld X-ray emitter operative to capture non-invasive images of a target; a stage operative to capture static X-ray and dynamic fluoroscopic images of the target; a system for the tracking and positioning of the X-ray emission to improve safety of obtaining X-ray images as well as improve the quality of X-ray images. Where the devices can automatically limit the field of the X-ray emission.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: OXOS Medical, Inc.Inventors: Evan Ruff, Gregory Paul Kolovich, Dev Mandavia, Dhruv Vishwakarma, Igor Zamlinsky, Sean Dolan
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Patent number: 11921065Abstract: An exclusion module (21) is configured to calculate a coating amount of each component whose measurement element is not contained in the base layers, for each of corresponding measurement lines, on an assumption that that component solely makes up the thin film and to adopt a maximum coating amount as an initial value of the coating amount of that component; and to calculate a coating amount of each component whose measurement element is contained in the base layers, for each of corresponding measurement lines, on the basis of initial values of coating amounts of individual components whose measurement elements are not contained in the base layers, if calculation results for all the corresponding measurement lines give errors, to exclude that component from analysis targets as an unquantifiable component, and in other cases, to adopt a maximum coating amount as an initial value of the coating amount of that component.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Rigaku CorporationInventors: Shinya Hara, Yasujiro Yamada, Kenji Kodama, Makoto Doi
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Patent number: 11918391Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention relates to an energy supply circuit for a CT system. The energy supply circuit comprises a stationary energy distribution device, a co-rotating bias voltage supply device, a standard energy supply path having an energy transmission device between the stationary energy distribution device and the co-rotating bias voltage supply device and an alternatively connectable service energy supply path having a voltage protection device. A computed tomography system is also described. Further, a production method for producing an energy supply circuit for a CT system is described. In addition, a method for operating a CT system is described.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AGInventors: Shameem Kabir Chaudhury, Thomas Hilderscheid, Christian Holland-Nell, Daniel Mueller
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Patent number: 11918395Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for medical imaging are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for imaging an anatomic region includes receiving, from a detector carried by an imaging arm of an x-ray imaging apparatus, a plurality of images of the anatomic region. The images can be obtained during manual rotation of the imaging arm. The imaging arm can be stabilized by a shim structure during the manual rotation. The method can also include receiving, from at least one sensor coupled to the imaging arm, pose data of the imaging arm during the manual rotation. The method can further include generating, based on the images and the pose data, a 3D representation of the anatomic region.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Pulmera, Inc.Inventors: Bryan I. Hartley, Rene Vargas-Voracek, Ke Li
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Patent number: 11921057Abstract: An X-ray imaging device that includes an X-ray source, an X-ray sensor that acquires intensity information of X-rays, a distance sensor that obtains distance information to a surface of an imaging object, and an information processing device that obtains imaging information by using the intensity information and the distance information. The information processing device includes an extraction unit that extracts information used in generation of the imaging information from the intensity information by using at least the distance information, and a reconstruction unit that generates the imaging information by using the intensity information.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, ANSEEN INC.Inventors: Toru Aoki, Katsuyuki Takagi, Akifumi Koike
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Patent number: 11906674Abstract: The present technology relates to nanomaterials and methods of their use, and more specifically to methods and structures using nanomaterials to fiducially measure radiation dosing.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventor: Ting Guo