Patents by Inventor Dale Anders Wade

Dale Anders Wade has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Processing of spectrometer pile-up events
    Patent number: 8027811
    Abstract: In an energy dispersive spectrometer wherein event (particle/photon) detection is performed by counting events spaced by greater than a shaping time, events which are spaced by less than the shaping time are also collected and counted. These “combined events” are treated similarly to “single events” which are spaced by greater than the shaping time, and can be used to generate combined-event spectra for comparison and/or use with the conventional single-event spectra. The combined-event spectra can be compared to the single-event spectra to provide an indication of data quality; can be subtracted from the single-event spectra to remove artifacts, and/or can be deconvolved into a single-event spectrum to increase the resolution of the single-event spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Paul Camus, Gregory S. Fritz, Thomas B. Jacobs, Dean A. Stocker, Dale Anders Wade
  • PROCESSING OF SPECTROMETER PILE-UP EVENTS
    Publication number: 20080319714
    Abstract: In an energy dispersive spectrometer wherein event (particle/photon) detection is performed by counting events spaced by greater than a shaping time, events which are spaced by less than the shaping time are also collected and counted. These “combined events” are treated similarly to “single events” which are spaced by greater than the shaping time, and can be used to generate combined-event spectra for comparison and/or use with the conventional single-event spectra. The combined-event spectra can be compared to the single-event spectra to provide an indication of data quality; can be subtracted from the single-event spectra to remove artifacts, and/or can be deconvolved into a single-event spectrum to increase the resolution of the single-event spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Patrick Paul Camus, Gregory S. Fritz, Thomas B. Jacobs, Dean A. Stocker, Dale Anders Wade