Patents by Inventor Nicholas Bennett MacKinnon

Nicholas Bennett MacKinnon 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).

  • Publication number: 20240027417
    Abstract: A system for assessing biological tissue is disclosed. The system contains an illumination hardware arrangement comprising transmission and sensing hardware, the illumination hardware arrangement configured to inspect a biological tissue using at least two modes from a group containing: a three dimensional stereo imaging mode; a fluorescence imaging mode; a reflectance imaging mode; and a thermal imaging mode; and processing hardware configured to operate the illumination hardware arrangement according to a protocol comprising inspection settings of the at least two modes, wherein the processing hardware receives scan results for the at least two modes from the illumination hardware arrangement and identifies attributes of the biological tissue by constructing a three dimensional dataset from the scan results for the at least two modes and analyzing the three dimensional dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Fartash Vasefi, Kenneth Edward Barton, Nicholas Bennett MacKinnon, Abdolrahim Zandi, Kouhyar Tavakolian
  • Publication number: 20210228757
    Abstract: A device is disclosed. The device contains a first light source configured to excite fluorescence emission of a first contaminant on a surface, and a first optical sensor configured to capture one or more images of the fluorescence emission of the first contaminant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Fartash Vasefi, Kenneth Edward Barton, Nicholas Bennett MacKinnon, David Carroll, Sava Marinkovich