Patents Examined by Don K. Wong
  • Patent number: 11937965
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Masataka Sugahara
  • Patent number: 11940394
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CANON ANELVA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeo Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 11940383
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Guardian Glass, LLC
    Inventor: Okan Agbuga
  • Patent number: 11931193
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: OXOS Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Ruff, Gregory Paul Kolovich, Dev Mandavia, Dhruv Vishwakarma, Igor Zamlinsky, Sean Dolan
  • Patent number: 11918391
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
    Inventors: Shameem Kabir Chaudhury, Thomas Hilderscheid, Christian Holland-Nell, Daniel Mueller
  • Patent number: 11918395
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Pulmera, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan I. Hartley, Rene Vargas-Voracek, Ke Li
  • Patent number: 11921065
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rigaku Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Hara, Yasujiro Yamada, Kenji Kodama, Makoto Doi
  • Patent number: 11921057
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, ANSEEN INC.
    Inventors: Toru Aoki, Katsuyuki Takagi, Akifumi Koike
  • Patent number: 11906674
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventor: Ting Guo
  • Patent number: 11890122
    Abstract: A medical imaging system includes a movable station having a C-arm, a collector, an X-ray beam emitter, and a controller. The collector is attached to a first end of the C-arm. The X-ray beam emitter faces the collector to emit an X-ray beam in a direction of the collector and is attached to a second end of the C-arm. The controller moves one of the X-ray beam emitter and the collector to a first offset position along a lateral axis orthogonal to the arc, and obtains a first set of images by rotating the collector and the X-ray beam emitter along the arc about a scanned volume. The controller moves the one of the X-ray beam emitter and the collector to a second offset position along the lateral axis, and obtains a second set of images. The controller combines the first and second set of images to generate a three-dimensional image of the scanned volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: 11890120
    Abstract: A compression arm device for compressing a breast in an imaging system with a compression paddle. The compression arm device includes a drive for moving the compression paddle towards the breast such that the drive provides a variable resistance during a contact of the compression paddle with the breast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Defreitas, Alan Rego
  • Patent number: 11883226
    Abstract: An x-ray apparatus includes an x-ray source capable of producing an x-ray beam with a focal spot having a spatial shape that is selected to pre-amplify predetermined spatial frequencies exceeding half a cutoff frequency as compared to spatial frequencies below half the cutoff frequency; an x-ray detector capable of detecting the x-ray beam; and a processor adapted to reconstruct an image from the detected x-ray beam using a filter that compensates the pre-amplified predetermined spatial frequencies. The spatial shape comprises two or more disconnected regions that preferably have widths less than that of a nominal focal spot, combined widths greater than or equal to that of a nominal focal spot, and are separated by less than three times a width of a nominal focal spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Norbert J. Pelc, Adam S. Wang
  • Patent number: 11879844
    Abstract: An example device includes an array of sensor modules. A sensor module includes a body to be positioned in alignment with a planar target, a light source coupled to the body to emit light to the planar target along a source optical path, and a plurality of light sensors coupled to the body. Each light sensor is to sense a different wavelength of light received from the planar target along a sensor optical path. The sensor optical path is different from the source optical path. The bodies of the array of sensor modules are arranged in a planar tiling pattern with respect to a longitudinal axis of the planar target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexander Govyadinov, Brett E. Dahlgren, Brian John Keefe
  • Patent number: 11875909
    Abstract: Pulse generators and radiation systems having the same are provided. A pulse generator may include a shielding device and a control device operably connected with the shielding device. The control device may be configured to control the shielding device to intermittently shield radiation emitted from the radiation source to produce pulsed radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chenglong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11871897
    Abstract: An information processing device including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a radiographic image captured by irradiating a breast compressed by a compression member with radiation; generate a projection image, which includes guide information serving as a guide in a case in which the breast is compressed and is capable of identifying whether the guide information is related to a right breast or a left breast, on the basis of a shape of the breast in the compressed state indicated by the radiographic image; and control an image projection unit which projects the projection image onto a first projection surface of the compression member such that the projection image is projected onto the first projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshie Fujimoto, Shinichiro Konno, Shunsuke Kodaira
  • Patent number: 11867646
    Abstract: Provided is a total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometer which has high analysis sensitivity and analysis speed. The total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometer includes: an X-ray source that has an electron beam focal point having an effective width in a direction parallel to a surface of a sample, and orthogonal to an X-ray irradiation direction, that is larger than a dimension in the irradiation direction; a reflective optic that has an effective width in the orthogonal direction that is larger than that of the electron beam focal point, and has a curved surface in the irradiation direction; and a plurality of detectors that are arranged in a row in the orthogonal direction, and are configured to measure intensities of fluorescent X-rays emitted from the sample irradiated with primary X-rays focused by the reflective optic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: RIGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kambe, Kazuhiko Omote, Toshifumi Higuchi, Tsutomu Tada, Hajime Fujimura, Masahiro Nonoguchi, Licai Jiang, Boris Verman, Yuriy Platonov
  • Patent number: 11864933
    Abstract: A system for imaging a breast includes a gantry and a tube head rotatably coupled thereto. An x-ray source is disposed within the tube head. A support arm is movably coupled to the gantry and includes a breast support platform. An x-ray detector is disposed within the breast support platform and a compression arm is movably coupled to the support arm. An opaque breast compression paddle is coupled to the compression arm. The breast support platform and the opaque compression paddle at least partially define a compression volume for compressing a breast and a camera is arranged to capture images of the compression volume. An image display is at least partially disposed on the system and is configured to display the images of the compression volume captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Harold Paige
  • Patent number: 11864937
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OXOS Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Evan Ruff, Gregory Kolovich, Dev Mandavia, Dhruv Vishwakarma, Igor Zamlinsky, Sean Dolan
  • Patent number: 11860333
    Abstract: Examples are directed toward systems and methods relating to security screening. For example, a screening system includes a sensor array to sense a gravitational field caused by an item, and a conveyor to convey the item through sensing positions for scanning by the sensor array. A controller acquires weight measurement information from sensor elements, and gravitational measurement information from the sensor array. The conveyor incrementally advances the item through additional sensing positions to acquire weight measurement information and gravitational measurement information. The controller performs tomographic reconstruction to generate a tomographic image of the item, using a generated weight map as a static weight input vector and using a generated mass map as a static mass input vector for the tomographic reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventor: James Henry Remer
  • Patent number: 11860100
    Abstract: Microscopy with Ultraviolet Surface Excitation (MUSE) for use in the classroom to enhance life sciences education and curricula, or for other applications, including without limtiation the operating room, other medical environments, research environments, and low resource environments. MUSE's suitability is based on multiple key factors including its simplicity of use, the incorporation of inexpensive hardware including LED illumination, and very basic tissue preparation. The ultraviolet excitation acts as passive optical sectioning confining the generated fluorescence signal to only a few micrometers below the tissue surface thus eliminating the out of focus signals. This facilitates image capture of tissue microstructure and organization from specimens at the intact or sliced surface arising from varying fluorophore concentration within the different cellular compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    Inventors: Stavros G. Demos, Chi Huang