Patents by Inventor Joseph John Manak
Joseph John Manak 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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Patent number: 10372874Abstract: Embodiments for aggregating multiple data sources on a single display device are provided. In one example, a computing device comprises at least one input configured to receive data from one or more data sources, a user interface to receive user input, and instructions to identify an event of a procedure based on one or more of data received from the one or more data sources and user input received via the user interface, and arrange one or more display information elements on a display device based on the identified event and a workflow protocol.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Adrian F. Warner, Joseph John Manak, Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Daniel Richard Schneidewend, Hao Lai
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Publication number: 20160048635Abstract: Embodiments for aggregating multiple data sources on a single display device are provided. In one example, a computing device comprises at least one input configured to receive data from one or more data sources, a user interface to receive user input, and instructions to identify an event of a procedure based on one or more of data received from the one or more data sources and user input received via the user interface, and arrange one or more display information elements on a display device based on the identified event and a workflow protocol.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Adrian F. Warner, Joseph John Manak, Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Daniel Richard Schneidewend, Hao Lai
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Publication number: 20160048636Abstract: Embodiments for aggregating multiple data sources on a single display device are provided. In one example, a computing device comprises a plurality of inputs each configured to receive data output from a respective data source, a display output to send a multiple element screen for display on a display device, and instructions to capture digitized data received from each of the data sources via the plurality of inputs into respective screen elements. The computing device includes further instructions to, for a selected captured screen element, process the captured screen element, select at least a portion of the captured screen element for inclusion in a display information element of the multiple element screen, and output the multiple element screen to the display device via the display output.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: Adrian F. Warner, Joseph John Manak, Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Daniel Richard Schneidewend, Hao Lai
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Patent number: 9055913Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to X-ray imaging systems, and more specifically to digital X-ray imaging systems. In one embodiment, an imaging system includes an X-ray source configured to emit X-rays. The imaging system also includes an X-ray detector configured to detect the emitted X-rays and produce a corresponding electrical signal. The imaging system also includes a gantry configured to at least partially revolve the X-ray source and the X-ray detector about a primary rotational axis. The X-ray detector is coupled to the gantry so that a diagonal of the X-ray detector is oriented substantially perpendicular to the primary rotational axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Joseph John Manak, Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Jens Rittscher, Hao Lai, Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Kedar Bhalchandra Khare, Cyril Riddell, Yves Lucien Trousset
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Publication number: 20150095397Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of integrated or consolidated systems for use in interventional systems. By way of example, in a procedure room a single console or platform may be provided (as opposed to multiple stand-alone platforms) having interventional tools (such as imaging, monitoring, or navigational tools) for use with a patient in the procedure room. Other components of the systems may be provided at different locations, such as in a technical or control room, depending on their function and/or whether the components need to be in a particular location, such as proximate to the patient or to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: April 2, 2015Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, James Vradenburg Miller, Joseph John Manak
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Publication number: 20140135623Abstract: An imaging assembly is provided including a paddle assembly, an X-ray detection unit, an ultrasound module, and a control module. The paddle assembly includes first and second plates that are articulable with respect to each other and configured to receive and compress an object to be imaged. The X-ray detection unit is mounted proximate to at least one of the first and second plates. The ultrasound module is configured to acquire ultrasound information of the object to be imaged and includes an ultrasound transducer articulably mounted to at least one of the first and second plates. The control module is configured to position the ultrasound transducer to scan a region of interest identified using X-ray information received from the X-ray detection unit, while not scanning at least a portion of the object outside of the region of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph John Manak, Kai Thomenius, Robert Wodnicki, Scott Zelakiewicz, Ying Fan, Andrea Schmitz, Weston Blaine Griffin
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Publication number: 20120275563Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to X-ray imaging systems, and more specifically to digital X-ray imaging systems. In one embodiment, an imaging system includes an X-ray source configured to emit X-rays. The imaging system also includes an X-ray detector configured to detect the emitted X-rays and produce a corresponding electrical signal. The imaging system also includes a gantry configured to at least partially revolve the X-ray source and the X-ray detector about a primary rotational axis. The X-ray detector is coupled to the gantry so that a diagonal of the X-ray detector is oriented substantially perpendicular to the primary rotational axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph John Manak, Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Jens Rittscher, Hao Lai, Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Kedar Bhalchandra Khare, Cyril Riddell, Yves Lucien Trousset
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Patent number: 8038347Abstract: An imaging system includes a portable litter including a structural housing and a digital detector positioned in the structural housing to detect X-ray signals corresponding to a region of interest to be imaged. The imaging system further includes at least one X-ray source for generating the X-ray signals, the at least one X-ray source positioned above the portable litter on an open gantry arrangement and configured to generate X-rays from different focal spot locations.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph John Manak, David Allen Langan, Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus
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Patent number: 7950849Abstract: A technique is provided for geometrical analysis and calibration of a volumetric imaging system. The technique includes computing a projection error between estimated locations of a set of markers of a phantom based on a estimated imaging geometry and observed locations of the respective markers for at least one projection image, decomposing the computed projection error into one or more error components corresponding to respective geometric parameters of the imaging geometry, and updating at least one parameter of the estimated imaging geometry based on the one or more error components.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2005Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Joseph John Manak
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Publication number: 20100310044Abstract: An imaging system includes a portable litter including a structural housing and a digital detector positioned in the structural housing to detect X-ray signals corresponding to a region of interest to be imaged. The imaging system further includes at least one X-ray source for generating the X-ray signals, the at least one X-ray source positioned above the portable litter on an open gantry arrangement and configured to generate X-rays from different focal spot locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Joseph John Manak, David Allen Langan, Bernard Erich Hermann Claus
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Patent number: 7366374Abstract: An optic device, system and method for imaging are described. The optic device includes a first solid phase layer having a first index of refraction with a first photon transmission property and a second solid phase layer having a second index of refraction with a second photon transmission property, the solid phase layers being situated between an output face and a non-flat input face. The first and second layers are conformal to each other. The imaging system includes a source of electrons and a target, with an array of the optic devices coupled thereto to form limited cone beams of X-ray radiation.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Susanne Madeline Lee, Forrest Frank Hopkins, Peter Michael Edic, Joseph John Manak, William Eugene Powell, III
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Patent number: 7310408Abstract: A system for generating a tunable X-ray pulse comprises a first electron beam source configured to direct a first electron pulse of predetermined energy and pulse length towards a first interaction zone, a laser beam source configured to direct a first photon pulse of predetermined energy and pulse length towards the first interaction zone to interact with the first electron pulse. The first interaction produces a substantially monochromatic second photon pulse of higher photon energy directed towards a second interaction zone, and a second electron beam source configured to direct a second electron pulse of predetermined energy and pulse length towards the second interaction zone so that the second interaction produces an X-ray pulse of predetermined energy and pulse length in a cascaded inverse Compton scattering (ICS) configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert John Filkins, John Scott Price, Brian Lee Lawrence, Matthew Christian Nielsen, Joseph John Manak, Bruce Matthew Dunham
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Patent number: 7072444Abstract: Briefly in accordance with one embodiment, the present technique provides an X-ray source. The X-ray source includes an electron source configured to generate an electron beam. The X-ray source also includes an ultra-violet photon source configured to generate one or more mono-energetic streams of ultra-violet photons. The X-ray source further includes an interaction region configured to facilitate interaction of the electron beam and the one or more mono-energetic streams of ultra-violet photons to generate X-rays having a substantially monochromatic or multimodal distribution.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joseph John Manak, Jr., John Scott Price