Patents Examined by Wyatt A Stoffa
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Patent number: 11614450Abstract: The present invention in general relates to a method of localization and structural characterization of peptides in a formaldehyde-fixed paraffin-embedded biological sample using matrix assisted ionization (such as in MALDI). Specifically, the invention relates to the combination of the development of a sample preparation protocol which does not require any enzymatic digestion nor antigen-retrieval steps, with highly sensitive mass spectrometry.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Inventor: Peter Dominiek Emiel Maria Verhaert
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Patent number: 11614552Abstract: A volume interrogation system can use an accelerated beam of charged particles to interrogate objects using charged-particle attenuation and scattering tomography to screen items such as portable electronic devices, packages, baggage, industrial products, or food products for the presence of materials of interest inside. The exemplary systems and methods in this patent document can be employed in checkpoint applications to scan items. Such checkpoint applications can include border crossings, mass transit terminals (subways, buses, railways, ferries, etc.), and government and private-sector facilities.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Decision Sciences International CorporationInventors: Robert D. Penny, Michael James Sossong, Matthew Steiger, Young K. Lee
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Patent number: 11615938Abstract: A thermal field emitter, an apparatus, and a method for generating multiple beams for an e-beam tool are provided. The thermal field emitter includes an electron emitting portion configured to emit an electron beam and a nano-aperture array (NAA) having a plurality of openings. The NAA is positioned in a path of the electron beam. The NAA is configured to form multiple beams. The multiple beams include electrons from the electron beam that pass through the plurality of openings.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: NuFlare Technology, Inc., NuFlare Technology America, Inc.Inventors: John Hartley, Victor Katsap
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Patent number: 11610757Abstract: A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) system is disclosed. The SEM system includes an electron source configured to generate an electron beam and a set of electron optics configured to scan the electron beam across the sample and focus electrons scattered by the sample onto one or more imaging planes. The SEM system includes a first detector module positioned at the one or more imaging planes, wherein the first detector module includes a multipixel solid-state sensor configured to convert scattered particles, such as electrons and/or x-rays, from the sample into a set of equivalent signal charges. The multipixel solid-state sensor is connected to two or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) configured to process the set of signal charges from one or more pixels of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: KLA CorporationInventor: Marcel Trimpl
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Patent number: 11598733Abstract: The invention relates to a method of examining a sample using a charged particle microscope, comprising the steps of providing a charged particle beam, as well as a sample; scanning said charged particle beam over said sample; and detecting, using a first detector, emissions of a first type from the sample in response to the beam scanned over the sample. Spectral information of detected emissions of the first type is used for assigning a plurality of mutually different phases to said sample. In a further step, a corresponding plurality of different color hues—with reference to an HSV color space—are associated to said plurality of mutually different phases. Using a second detector, emissions of a second type from the sample in response to the beam scanned over the sample are detected. Finally an image representation of said sample is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: FEI CompanyInventors: Tomas Tûma, Jan Klusá{hacek over (c)}ek, Jiri Petrek
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Patent number: 11598734Abstract: A method for in-situ joint nanoscale three-dimensional imaging and chemical analysis of a sample. A single charged particle beam device is used for generating a sequence of two-dimensional nanoscale images of the sample, and for sputtering secondary ions from the sample, which are analysed using a secondary ion mass spectrometry device. The two-dimensional images are combined into a three-dimensional volume representation of the sample, the data of which is combined with the results of the chemical analysis.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)Inventors: Tom Wirtz, Florian Vollnhals
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Patent number: 11600481Abstract: In accordance with the purpose(s) of the present disclosure, as embodied and broadly described herein, the disclosure, in one aspect, relates to a vibrating sharp edge spray ionization (VSSI) method suitable for coupling with a mass spectrometer, a VSSI method modified with a capillary suitable for use with continuous-flow separation methods such as liquid chromatography, and a VSSI method suitable for coupling with a capillary electrophoresis (CE) device in order to introduce the CE sample flow into a mass spectrometer. Also disclosed herein are devices for carrying out these methods and methods of making the same. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: West Virginia UniversityInventors: Peng Li, Xiaojun Li, Stephen J. Valentine, Lisa Holland
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Patent number: 11594396Abstract: A multi-beam inspection apparatus supporting a plurality of operation modes is disclosed. The charged particle beam apparatus for inspecting a sample supporting a plurality of operation modes comprises a charged particle beam source configured to emit a charged particle beam along a primary optical axis, a movable aperture plate, movable between a first position and a second position, and a controller having circuitry and configured to change the configuration of the apparatus to switch between a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the movable aperture plate is positioned in the first position and is configured to allow a first charged particle beamlet derived from the charged particle beam to pass through. In the second mode, the movable aperture plate is positioned in the second position and is configured to allow the first charged particle beamlet and a second charged particle beamlet to pass through.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Weiming Ren, Xuedong Liu, Xuerang Hu, Zhong-Wei Chen
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Patent number: 11590364Abstract: A system for treating a patient during radiation therapy is disclosed. The system includes a shell, a plurality of material inserts disposed in the shell, where each material insert of the plurality of material inserts respectively shapes a distribution of a dose delivered to the patient by a respective beam of a plurality of beams emitted from a nozzle of a radiation treatment system, and a scaffold component disposed in the shell that holds the plurality material inserts in place relative to the patient such that each material insert lies on a path of at least one of the beams.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: Varian Medical Systems International AG, Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH & Co. KG, Varian Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Eric Abel, Corey Zankowski, Jessica Perez, Anthony Magliari, Christel Smith, Michael Folkerts, Bill Hansen, Reynald Vanderstraeten, Timo Koponen
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Patent number: 11583805Abstract: An isotope ratio spectrometer is operated for measurement of a sample. First isotope ratios and first signal intensities are measured for a reference in the spectrometer, over a first measurement time period. A first relationship comprising a relationship between the first isotope ratios and the first signal intensities is determined. Sample isotope ratios and sample signal intensities are measured in the spectrometer, over a second measurement time period subsequent to the first measurement time period. Second isotope ratios and second signal intensities for a reference are measured in the spectrometer, over a third measurement time period subsequent to the second measurement time period. A second relationship comprising a relationship between the second isotope ratios and the second signal intensities is determined. A reference isotope ratio is estimated for a time X within the second measurement time period, based on the first relationship and the second relationship.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbHInventors: Nils Stöbener, Jens Radke, Johannes Schwieters, Holger Jeglinski
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Patent number: 11587774Abstract: A method includes obtaining a first mass spectrum; selecting a first peak of the first mass spectrum; fragmenting and analyzing ions of the first peak to obtain a second mass spectrum; performing a real-time spectral search for compounds corresponding to peaks in the second mass spectrum; identifying fragments for the compounds identified based on the real-time spectral search; adding mass-to-charge ratios for the fragments to an exclusion list; selecting a second peak present in the first mass spectrum and not on the exclusion list; and fragmenting and analyzing ions of the second peak to obtain a third mass spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Thermo Finnigan LLCInventor: Graeme C. McAlister
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Patent number: 11565010Abstract: A shopping cart sanitization device, including a main body to receive at a first end at least one shopping cart therein, and a primary sanitization unit disposed within at least at least one portion of an interior of the main body, the primary sanitization unit including a sanitization body to automatically move from a second end of the main body to the first end of the main body in response to the main body receiving the at least one shopping cart, and at least one illumination unit disposed on at least at least one portion of the sanitization body to automatically illuminate UV light on the at least one shopping cart in response to the main body receiving the at least one shopping cart, such that the at least one illumination unit eliminates a pathogen.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Inventors: Nazih Ibrahim, Sami Ibrahim, Errin Gnadinger
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Patent number: 11569062Abstract: An ion implantation system includes an ion implanter containing an ion source unit and a dopant source gas supply system. The system includes a dopant source gas storage tank inside a gas box container located remotely to the ion implanter and a dopant source gas supply pipe configured to supply a dopant source gas from the dopant source gas storage tank to the ion source unit. The dopant source gas supply pipe includes an inner pipe, an outer pipe enclosing the inner pipe, a first pipe adaptor coupled to first end of respective inner and outer pipes, and a second pipe adaptor coupled to seconds end of respective inner and outer pipes opposite the first end. The first pipe adaptor connects the inner pipe to the dopant source gas storage tank and the second pipe adaptor connects the inner pipe to the ion source unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hom-Chung Lin, Jih-Churng Twu, Yi-Ting Chang, Chao-Po Lu, Tsung-Min Lin
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Patent number: 11567087Abstract: A method of ionising a sample is disclosed comprising nebulising a sample which includes monoclonal antibody (“mAb”) molecules. A stream of monoclonal antibody droplets or charged droplets is directed so as to impact upon a target or electrode so as to form intact parent monoclonal antibody ions, intact minus light chain parent monoclonal antibody ions or light chain (“LC”) fragment monoclonal antibody ions.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Micromass UK LimitedInventors: Steven Bajic, Jeffrey Mark Brown
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Patent number: 11558954Abstract: A non-resonance photo-neutralizer for negative ion-based neutral beam injectors. The non-resonance photo-neutralizer utilizes a nonresonant photon accumulation, wherein the path of a photon becomes tangled and trapped in a certain space region, i.e., the photon trap. The trap is preferably formed by two smooth mirror surfaces facing each other with at least one of the mirrors being concave. In its simplest form, the trap is elliptical. A confinement region is a region near a family of normals, which are common to both mirror surfaces. The photons with a sufficiently small angle of deviation from the nearest common normal are confined. Depending on specific conditions, the shape of the mirror surface may be one of spherical, elliptical, cylindrical, or toroidal geometry, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Alexander V. Burdakov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Sergey S. Popov
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Patent number: 11545349Abstract: The present invention relates to a matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry method and, specifically, a mass spectrometry method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: acquiring a mass spectrum of an analyte by performing matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization of the analyte, wherein a detection spectrum, which is the mass spectrum of the analyte, is acquired using each of two or more matrixes different from one another; and removing, from each detection spectrum, a peak of a corresponding matrix to obtain a matrix-removed spectrum, and then acquiring a corrected mass spectrum of the analyte on the basis of a matrix-removed spectrum for each of different matrixes.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: BIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Taeman Kim, Do Hoon Kim, Jong Rok Ahn, Han-Oh Park
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Patent number: 11545351Abstract: An electrospray apparatus including a plurality of emitters, disposed on a substrate, wherein the plurality of emitters can have a narrow parameter distribution.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Accion Systems, Inc.Inventors: Louis Perna, Christy Petruczok, Alexander Bost
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Patent number: 11543368Abstract: A method for x-ray based evaluation of a status of a structure of a substrate, the method may include acquiring an electron image of a region of the substrate, the region comprises the structure; acquiring an x-ray image of the structure; and evaluating the status of the structure, wherein the evaluating is based at least on a number of x-ray photons that were emitted from the structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD.Inventor: Dror Shemesh
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Patent number: 11534518Abstract: An integrated sterilization lamp module integrated in a vehicle, including: a sterilization lamp which is configured for emitting sterilization light rays to sterilize surfaces in the vehicle at which they arrive; an attachment device which is configured for attaching the integrated sterilization lamp module to the vehicle; and an automatic controller which is configured for controlling the sterilization lamp so that it can automatically perform a sterilization operation. The application also relates to a vehicle including the integrated sterilization lamp module.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Lijun Qiu, Heng Zhao, Yong Chen
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Patent number: 11537973Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein are directed to an autonomous vehicle food locker system that may include environmentally controlled storage compartments for storing and/or transporting perishable food items to be delivered to end consumers. The storage compartments may provide ultraviolet light controls and surfaces that provide sanitized food storage areas for a delivery vehicle. Computing processor(s) may be configured for determining a sanitization procedure for sanitizing the interior portion of the food storage locker based on sensor information received from internal and external sensors, video feeds, photographs, and other information. The processor(s) may determine one or more sanitation characteristics that can indicate or inform cleanliness of the interior portion of the food storage locker, and perform automated sanitization procedures that can include activating a chemical layer disposed on the interior portion of the food storage locker.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart Salter, Kendra White, Kristopher Karl Brown, Zeljko Deljevic, Paul Kenneth Dellock