Patents by Inventor Michael E. Reed
Michael E. Reed 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: 8496586Abstract: Navigation among breast ultrasound volumes derived from different volumetric ultrasonic scans of a same breast is described. On a display of a breast ultrasound workstation, a first image derived from a first ultrasonic volume is displayed. A user election of a source region of interest (ROI) in the first image is received. A destination ROI within a second ultrasonic volume is identified that at least roughly corresponds to a same locality of tissue in the breast as the source ROI. A second image derived from the second ultrasonic volume and including the destination ROI is displayed, the destination ROI being highlighted.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: U Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Jiayu Chen, Thomas P. Neff, Michael E. Reed, Jeanine M. Rader, Douglas G. Summers, Shih-Ping Wang, Tor C. Anderson, Zengpin Yu, Tommy Earl Cupples
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Patent number: 8162833Abstract: Displaying breast ultrasound information on an interactive user interface is described, the user interface being useful in adjunctive ultrasound mammography environments and/or ultrasound-only mammography environments. Bilateral comparison is facilitated by a pairwise display of thick-slice images corresponding to analogous slab-like subvolumes in the left and right breasts. Coronal thick-slice imaging and convenient navigation on and among coronal thick-slice images is described. In one preferred embodiment, a nipple marker is displayed the coronal thick-slice image representing a projection of a nipple location thereupon. A convenient breast icon is also displayed including a cursor position indicator variably disposed thereon in a manner that reflects a relative position between the cursor and the nipple marker. Preferably, the breast icon is configured to at least roughly resemble a clock face, the center of the clock face representing the nipple marker location.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: U-Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Jiayu Chen, Zengpin Yu, Tommy Earl Cupples, Thomas P. Neff, Michael E. Reed
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Publication number: 20110098566Abstract: Displaying breast ultrasound information on an interactive user interface is described, the user interface being useful in adjunctive ultrasound mammography environments and/or ultrasound-only mammography environments. Bilateral comparison is facilitated by a pairwise display of thick-slice images corresponding to analogous slab-like subvolumes in the left and right breasts. Coronal thick-slice imaging and convenient navigation on and among coronal thick-slice images is described. In one preferred embodiment, a nipple marker is displayed the coronal thick-slice image representing a projection of a nipple location thereupon. A convenient breast icon is also displayed including a cursor position indicator variably disposed thereon in a manner that reflects a relative position between the cursor and the nipple marker. Preferably, the breast icon is configured to at least roughly resemble a clock face, the center of the clock face representing the nipple marker location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: U-SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Wei ZHANG, Shih-Ping Wang, Jiayu Chen, Zengpin Yu, Tommy Earl Cupples, Thomas P. Neff, Michael E. Reed
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Patent number: 7828733Abstract: Displaying breast ultrasound information on an interactive user interface is described, the user interface being useful in adjunctive ultrasound mammography environments and/or ultrasound-only mammography environments. Bilateral comparison is facilitated by a pairwise display of thick-slice images corresponding to analogous slab-like subvolumes in the left and right breasts. Coronal thick-slice imaging and convenient navigation on and among coronal thick-slice images is described. In one preferred embodiment, a nipple marker is displayed the coronal thick-slice image representing a projection of a nipple location thereupon. A convenient breast icon is also displayed including a cursor position indicator variably disposed thereon in a manner that reflects a relative position between the cursor and the nipple marker. Preferably, the breast icon is configured to at least roughly resemble a clock face, the center of the clock face representing the nipple marker location.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: U-Systems Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Jiayu Chen, Zengpin Yu, Tommy Earl Cupples, Thomas P. Neff, Michael E. Reed
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Publication number: 20100280375Abstract: Navigation among breast ultrasound volumes derived from different volumetric ultrasonic scans of a same breast is described. On a display of a breast ultrasound workstation, a first image derived from a first ultrasonic volume is displayed. A user election of a source region of interest (ROI) in the first image is received. A destination ROI within a second ultrasonic volume is identified that at least roughly corresponds to a same locality of tissue in the breast as the source ROI. A second image derived from the second ultrasonic volume and including the destination ROI is displayed, the destination ROI being highlighted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: U-SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Jiayu Chen, Thomas P. Neff, Michael E. Reed, Jeanine M. Rader, Douglas G. Summers, Shih-Ping Wang, Tor C. Anderson, Zengpin Yu, Tommy Earl Cupples
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Patent number: 7727151Abstract: Navigation among breast ultrasound volumes derived from different volumetric ultrasonic scans of a same breast is described. On a display of a breast ultrasound workstation, a first image derived from a first ultrasonic volume is displayed. A user selection of a source region of interest (ROI) in the first image is received. A destination ROI within a second ultrasonic volume is identified that at least roughly corresponds to a same locality of tissue in the breast as the source ROI. A second image derived from the second ultrasonic volume and including the destination ROI is displayed, the destination ROI being highlighted.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2006Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: U-Systems Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Jiayu Chen, Thomas P. Neff, Michael E. Reed, Jeanine M. Rader
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Publication number: 20100040274Abstract: Displaying breast ultrasound information on an interactive user interface is described, the user interface being useful in adjunctive ultrasound mammography environments and/or ultrasound-only mammography environments. Bilateral comparison is facilitated by a pairwise display of thick-slice images corresponding to analogous slab-like subvolumes in the left and right breasts. Coronal thick-slice imaging and convenient navigation on and among coronal thick-slice images is described. In one preferred embodiment, a nipple marker is displayed the coronal thick-slice image representing a projection of a nipple location thereupon. A convenient breast icon is also displayed including a cursor position indicator variably disposed thereon in a manner that reflects a relative position between the cursor and the nipple marker. Preferably, the breast icon is configured to at least roughly resemble a clock face, the center of the clock face representing the nipple marker location.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Applicant: U-SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Wei ZHANG, Shih-Ping WANG, Jiayu CHEN, Zengpin YU, Tommy Earl CUPPLES, Thomas P. NEFF, Michael E. REED
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Publication number: 20100003414Abstract: A spray box assembly including, in combination, a top spray box, a bottom spray box, the boxes being juxtapositioned to define a pathway therebetween, at least one spray assembly positioned within at least one of the boxes and a supply assembly for supplying a treating solution to the spray assembly to coat product with the treating solution as the product is fed through the pathway and also including a method of coating a product with a treating solution, comprising the steps of feeding the product into a pathway between top spray box and a bottom spray box and spraying the treating solution within at least one of the boxes about the pathway to coat the product with the treating solution as the product is fed through the pathway.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventors: Michael E. Reed, David E. Reed, Dale Collins
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Patent number: 7615008Abstract: Displaying breast ultrasound information on an interactive user interface is described, the user interface being useful in adjunctive ultrasound mammography environments and/or ultrasound-only mammography environments. Bilateral comparison is facilitated by a pairwise display of thick-slice images corresponding to analogous slab-like subvolumes in the left and right breasts. Coronal thick-slice imaging and convenient navigation on and among coronal thick-slice images is described. In one preferred embodiment, a nipple marker is displayed the coronal thick-slice image representing a projection of a nipple location thereupon. A convenient breast icon is also displayed including a cursor position indicator variably disposed thereon in a manner that reflects a relative position between the cursor and the nipple marker. Preferably, the breast icon is configured to at least roughly resemble a clock face, the center of the clock face representing the nipple marker location.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2004Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: U-Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wei Zhang, Shih-Ping Wang, Jiayu Chen, Zengpin Yu, Tommy Earl Cupples, Thomas P. Neff, Michael E. Reed
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Patent number: 7534299Abstract: A spray box assembly including, in combination, a top spray box, a bottom spray box, the boxes being juxtapositioned to define a pathway therebetween, at least one spray assembly positioned within at least one of the boxes and a supply assembly for supplying a treating solution to the spray assembly to coat product with the treating solution as the product is fed through the pathway and also including a method of coating a product with a treating solution, comprising the steps of feeding the product into a pathway between top spray box and a bottom spray box and spraying the treating solution within at least one of the boxes about the pathway to coat the product with the treating solution as the product is fed through the pathway.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Rhino Hide LLCInventors: Michael E. Reed, David E. Reed, Dale Collins
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Publication number: 20090056199Abstract: A rivet formed of an adhesive to form a mechanical attachment to a bait station which is then adhered by the adhesive to a substrate at the intended location of use. In another embodiment, adhesive rivet is also mechanically attached to the substrate. The invention also comprises a ballasted bait station of a sufficient weight to immobilize the bait station. The ballasted bait station may then simply be placed in the intended location.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventor: Michael E. Reed
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Patent number: 5681668Abstract: A battery shield for a storage battery includes first and second members which are dimensioned to fit around the battery, forming a shield structure, that is open at its top and encloses the battery on all four sides and on the bottom, forming a heat shield for protecting the battery from hot temperatures, the first and second members being hinged to a common base and are adapted to be pivoted about respective hinges outwardly away from another to an open position to facilitate installation of a battery in the shield and to then be moved upwardly and toward one another, in the manner of a "clamshell", to a closed position for enclosing the battery within the battery shield, the bottom of the storage battery having a plurality of transverse channels therein extending between opposing sides for permitting air flow around the bottom of the storage battery when the battery is enclosed within the battery shield.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignee: Globe-Union, Inc.Inventors: Michael E. Reed, Thomas J. Dougherty, Mark S. Inkmann, Debra L. Smith, Michael T. Reher
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Patent number: 4353455Abstract: A potato handling apparatus includes a roller conveyor for receiving a continuous stream of irregularly sized potatoes with an aligning section at the upstream end of the conveyor which includes a series of two parallel flaps for turning and pushing the potatoes lengthwise into the valleys of the roller conveyor. To eliminate all but one potato from each valley, a singulating section is provided. The singulating section includes a rod longitudinally disposed adjacent one edge of the roller conveyor and a series of parallel overlapping sprocket-like discs which extend diagonally across the conveyor to a downstream position which is inwardly spaced from said edge of the conveyor. Each disc has cogs formed on the periphery thereof which perforate the valleys in succession to a depth which prevents the potatoes from being pinched between the discs and rollers.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1977Date of Patent: October 12, 1982Assignee: FMC CorporationInventors: Harold J. Mumma, Michael E. Reed