Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Bostrom
Jeffrey A. Bostrom 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).
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Publication number: 20230346325Abstract: A lighting arrangement for a medical imaging system having a cylindrical wall that forms a tunnel that receives a patient to be scanned. The lighting arrangement includes a light transmitting section aligned on a longitudinal axis of the imaging system wherein the light transmitting section forms a part of the tunnel. The lighting arrangement also includes a reflector section that is radially outside the light transmitting section. In addition, the lighting arrangement includes at least one lighting device located between the reflector section and light transmitting section wherein the lighting device emits light that is reflected by the reflector section onto the light transmitting section and wherein the light is then transmitted through the light transmitting section and into the tunnel to circumferentially illuminate the tunnel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Ziad Burbar, James L. Corbeil, Jeffrey Bostrom, James Williams, Michael Dulude, Keith Gerlach
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Patent number: 11793474Abstract: A lighting arrangement for a medical imaging system having a cylindrical wall that forms a tunnel that receives a patient to be scanned. The lighting arrangement includes a transparent wall section formed in the wall, wherein the transparent wall section extends along a transparent portion of a wall circumference. The imaging system also includes a lighting device located adjacent an outer surface of the transparent wall section. The lighting device extends along a device portion of a wall circumference corresponding to the transparent portion wherein light emitted by the lighting device is transmitted through the transparent wall section in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the tunnel to circumferentially illuminate the tunnel. In addition, a system status is indicated by a color of light emitted by the LEDs. Further, light emitted by the lighting device varies in intensity to indicate a changing count rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Inventors: Ziad Burbar, James L. Corbeil, Jeffrey Bostrom, James Williams
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Publication number: 20230218246Abstract: A lighting arrangement for a medical imaging system having a cylindrical wall that forms a tunnel that receives a patient to be scanned. The lighting arrangement includes a transparent wall section formed in the wall, wherein the transparent wall section extends along a transparent portion of a wall circumference. The imaging system also includes a lighting device located adjacent an outer surface of the transparent wall section. The lighting device extends along a device portion of a wall circumference corresponding to the transparent portion wherein light emitted by the lighting device is transmitted through the transparent wall section in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the tunnel to circumferentially illuminate the tunnel. In addition, a system status is indicated by a color of light emitted by the LEDs. Further, light emitted by the lighting device varies in intensity to indicate a changing count rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Ziad Burbar, James L. Corbeil, Jeffrey Bostrom, James Williams
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Patent number: 11647971Abstract: A lighting arrangement for a medical imaging system having a cylindrical wall that forms a tunnel that receives a patient to be scanned. The lighting arrangement includes a transparent wall section formed in the wall, wherein the transparent wall section extends along a transparent portion of a wall circumference. The imaging system also includes a lighting device located adjacent an outer surface of the transparent wall section. The lighting device extends along a device portion of a wall circumference corresponding to the transparent portion wherein light emitted by the lighting device is transmitted through the transparent wall section in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the tunnel to circumferentially illuminate the tunnel. In addition, a system status is indicated by a color of light emitted by the LEDs. Further, light emitted by the lighting device varies in intensity to indicate a changing count rate.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Inventors: Ziad Burbar, James L. Corbeil, Jeffrey Bostrom, James Williams
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Publication number: 20220117565Abstract: A lighting arrangement for a medical imaging system having a cylindrical wall that forms a tunnel that receives a patient to be scanned. The lighting arrangement includes a transparent wall section formed in the wall, wherein the transparent wall section extends along a transparent portion of a wall circumference. The imaging system also includes a lighting device located adjacent an outer surface of the transparent wall section. The lighting device extends along a device portion of a wall circumference corresponding to the transparent portion wherein light emitted by the lighting device is transmitted through the transparent wall section in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the tunnel to circumferentially illuminate the tunnel. In addition, a system status is indicated by a color of light emitted by the LEDs. Further, light emitted by the lighting device varies in intensity to indicate a changing count rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Ziad Burbar, James L. Corbeil, Jeffrey Bostrom, James Williams
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Patent number: 11154262Abstract: Detector heads in a gantry of a medical imaging apparatus are pivotally-coupled to mounting rails oriented axially about the gantry's axial centerline. Radial alignment blocks facilitate alignment and fixation of detector faces circumferentially transverse and normal to a radius projecting from the gantry's axial centerline. A column of detector heads on a common rail are separated by axial stop blocks, for precise axial separation. Abutting detector heads on a common mounting rail are slaved to another previously transverse-aligned detector through a common, shared radial alignment block. Plural, stacked gantry backplanes are fabricated simultaneously, assuring common circumferential and radial co-registration of plural mounting rails relative to the axial centerline of the gantry. Adjustable orientation of the detector heads compensates for tolerance stack up during final assembly of the gantry, so that the detector heads are mutually aligned in a uniform grid of axial columns and circumferential rows.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Inventors: James L. Corbeil, Nicholas Gullette, Jeffrey Bostrom
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Patent number: 10993684Abstract: Disclosed is a PET detector assembly in a combined PET/CT scanner system having a backplane structure for supporting two or more PET detector rings that provides substantially balanced load on the gantry backplane while accommodating the varying number of PET detector rings between short axial PET FOV system as well as long axial PET FOV system.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.Inventors: Ziad Burbar, James L. Corbeil, Jeffrey Bostrom
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Patent number: 5156639Abstract: A loader backhoe having a rear railgear assembly wherein the rear railgear assembly comprises two rail engaging wheels, a stationary frame having a cantilevered portion, a pivotable axle to which the rail engaging wheels are attached, and a hydraulic cylinder positioned between the cantilevered member and the pivotable axle. The stationary frame is bolted to the rear axle. The rail engaging wheels are pivoted from a storage position located between the front and rear wheels of the loader backhoe to a rail engaging position located behind the rear wheels. The dipperstick of the backhoe is provided with a grapple attachment for grabbing ties and removing them in a perpendicular motion.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1991Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Jeffrey A. Bostrom