Patents by Inventor Michael Dean Wright

Michael Dean Wright 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).

  • Targeting method for microbeam radiosurgery
    Patent number: 9248315
    Abstract: A method of performing microbeam radiosurgery on a patient whereby opposing portions of target tissue within a patient are exposed to a flux of high energy quanta via microbeam envelopes. The microbeam envelopes are applied in multiple non-parallel orientations such that the exposed portions of the target tissue define a substantially closed volume. The tissue remaining inside is thereby denied blood flow and dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Dean Wright
  • High energy microbeam radiosurgery
    Patent number: 9227086
    Abstract: A method of performing microbeam radiosurgery on a patient whereby target tissue within a patient is irradiated with high energy electromagnetic radiation via one or more microbeam envelopes with photons having respective energy magnitudes in excess of 200 keV, and maximum defined beam widths sufficiently narrow to yield a biological damage width which does not exceed a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Dean Wright
  • TARGETING METHOD FOR MICROBEAM RADIOSURGERY
    Publication number: 20140061511
    Abstract: A method of performing microbeam radiosurgery on a patient whereby opposing portions of target tissue within a patient are exposed to a flux of high energy quanta via microbeam envelopes. The microbeam envelopes are applied in multiple non-parallel orientations such that the exposed portions of the target tissue define a substantially closed volume. The tissue remaining inside is thereby denied blood flow and dies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Dean WRIGHT
  • HIGH ENERGY MICROBEAM RADIOSURGERY
    Publication number: 20130329857
    Abstract: A method of performing microbeam radiosurgery on a patient whereby target tissue within a patient is irradiated with high energy electromagnetic radiation via one or more microbeam envelopes with photons having respective energy magnitudes in excess of 200 keV, and maximum defined beam widths sufficiently narrow to yield a biological damage width which does not exceed a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Dean WRIGHT
  • METHOD OF PERFORMING MICROBEAM RADIOSURGERY
    Publication number: 20130281999
    Abstract: A method of performing microbeam radiosurgery on a patient whereby target tissue within a patient is irradiated with high energy electromagnetic radiation from an inverse Compton scattering radiation source via microbeam envelopes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: John R. ADLER, Michael Dean WRIGHT
  • Integrated MIS photosensitive device using continuous films
    Patent number: 8067813
    Abstract: An integrated photosensitive device with a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) photodiode constructed with one or more substantially continuous layers of semiconductor material and with a substantially continuous layer of dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Varian Medical Systems Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Dean Wright
  • Integrated MIS photosensitive device using continuous films
    Patent number: 7208810
    Abstract: An integrated photosensitive device with a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) photodiode constructed with one or more substantially continuous layers of semiconductor material and with a substantially continuous layer of dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Varian Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Dean Wright