Patents by Inventor Paul J. Cronin
Paul J. Cronin 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: 9995681Abstract: Device and methods for detecting/quantifying a fluorescent taggant in a liquid sample. Generally, the liquid samples are fuels having low concentrations (measured in ppb) of a fluorescent taggant. The detection/quantification generates a predicted concentration of the fluorescent tagging compound using a process selected from the group of a multivariate process, a background subtraction process, or a combination of both. The invention addresses the detection of an adulteration of gasoline and diesel fuels.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Authentix, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Conroy, Philip B. Forshee, Paul J. Cronin, Olusola Soyemi
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Patent number: 9588099Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for the imaging of structures in deep tissue within biological specimens, using spectral imaging to provide highly sensitive detection. By acquiring data that provides a plurality of images of the sample with different spectral weightings, and subsequent spectral analysis, light emission from a target compound is separated from autofluorescence in the sample. With the autofluorescence reduced or eliminated, an improved measurement of the target compound is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Cambridge Research & Intrumentation, Inc.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin
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Patent number: 9220446Abstract: A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as banknotes moving along a document conveyer.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Authentix, Inc.Inventors: Paul J. Cronin, Chester Wildey, Alan K. Hunt
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Publication number: 20150355091Abstract: Device and methods for detecting/quantifying a fluorescent taggant in a liquid sample. Generally, the liquid samples are fuels having low concentrations (measured in ppb) of a fluorescent taggant. The detection/quantification generates a predicted concentration of the fluorescent tagging compound using a process selected from the group of a multivariate process, a background subtraction process, or a combination of both. The invention addresses the detection of an adulteration of gasoline and diesel fuels.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Jeffrey L. CONROY, Philip B. FORSHEE, Paul J. CRONIN, Olusola SOYEMI
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Publication number: 20150056690Abstract: The invention features a method including: (i) providing spectrally resolved information about light coming from different spatial locations in a sample comprising deep tissue in response to an illumination of the sample, wherein the light includes contributions from different components in the sample; (ii) decomposing the spectrally resolved information for each of at least some of the different spatial locations into contributions from spectral estimates associated with at least some of the components in the sample; and (iii) constructing a deep tissue image of the sample based on the decomposition to preferentially show a selected one of the components.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin, Kirk William Gossage, Clifford C. Hoyt
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Patent number: 8879812Abstract: The invention features a method including: (i) providing spectrally resolved information about light coming from different spatial locations in a sample comprising deep tissue in response to an illumination of the sample, wherein the light includes contributions from different components in the sample; (ii) decomposing the spectrally resolved information for each of at least some of the different spatial locations into contributions from spectral estimates associated with at least some of the components in the sample; and (iii) constructing a deep tissue image of the sample based on the decomposition to preferentially show a selected one of the components.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin, Kirk William Gossage, Clifford C. Hoyt
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Publication number: 20140293270Abstract: A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as banknotes moving along a document conveyer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Paul J. CRONIN, Chester WILDEY, Alan K. HUNT
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Patent number: 8786839Abstract: A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as banknotes moving along a document conveyer.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Authentix, Inc.Inventors: Paul J. Cronin, Chester Wildey, Alan K. Hunt
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Publication number: 20140134713Abstract: The invention features a method including: (i) providing spectrally resolved information about light coming from different spatial locations in a sample comprising deep tissue in response to an illumination of the sample, wherein the light includes contributions from different components in the sample; (ii) decomposing the spectrally resolved information for each of at least some of the different spatial locations into contributions from spectral estimates associated with at least some of the components in the sample; and (iii) constructing a deep tissue image of the sample based on the decomposition to preferentially show a selected one of the components.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin, Kirk William Gossage, Clifford C. Hoyt
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Patent number: 8634607Abstract: The invention features a method including: (i) providing spectrally resolved information about light coming from different spatial locations in a sample comprising deep tissue in response to an illumination of the sample, wherein the light includes contributions from different components in the sample; (ii) decomposing the spectrally resolved information for each of at least some of the different spatial locations into contributions from spectral estimates associated with at least some of the components in the sample; and (iii) constructing a deep tissue image of the sample based on the decomposition to preferentially show a selected one of the components.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin, Kirk William Gossage, Clifford C. Hoyt
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Publication number: 20140009752Abstract: A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as banknotes moving along a document conveyer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: AUTHENTIX, INC.Inventors: PAUL J. CRONIN, CHESTER WILDEY, ALAN K. HUNT
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Publication number: 20130300848Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for the imaging of structures in deep tissue within biological specimens, using spectral imaging to provide highly sensitive detection. By acquiring data that provides a plurality of images of the sample with different spectral weightings, and subsequent spectral analysis, light emission from a target compound is separated from autofluorescence in the sample. With the autofluorescence reduced or eliminated, an improved measurement of the target compound is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin
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Patent number: 8547537Abstract: A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as banknotes moving along a document conveyer.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Authentix, Inc.Inventors: Paul J. Cronin, Chester Wildey, Alan K. Hunt
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Patent number: 8391961Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for the imaging of structures in deep tissue within biological specimens, using spectral imaging to provide highly sensitive detection. By acquiring data that provides a plurality of images of the sample with different spectral weightings, and subsequent spectral analysis, light emission from a target compound is separated from autofluorescence in the sample. With the autofluorescence reduced or eliminated, an improved measurement of the target compound is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2006Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin
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Patent number: 8385615Abstract: The invention features a method including: (i) providing spectrally resolved information about light coming from different spatial locations in a sample comprising deep tissue in response to an illumination of the sample, wherein the light includes contributions from different components in the sample; (ii) decomposing the spectrally resolved information for each of at least some of the different spatial locations into contributions from spectral estimates associated with at least some of the components in the sample; and (iii) constructing a deep tissue image of the sample based on the decomposition to preferentially show a selected one of the components.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin, Kirk William Gossage, Clifford C. Hoyt
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Publication number: 20120250002Abstract: A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as banknotes moving along a document conveyer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: AUTHENTIX, INC.Inventors: PAUL J. CRONIN, CHESTER WILDEY, ALAN K. HUNT
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Publication number: 20090245605Abstract: The invention features a method including: (i) providing spectrally resolved information about light coming from different spatial locations in a sample comprising deep tissue in response to an illumination of the sample, wherein the light includes contributions from different components in the sample; (ii) decomposing the spectrally resolved information for each of at least some of the different spatial locations into contributions from spectral estimates associated with at least some of the components in the sample; and (iii) constructing a deep tissue image of the sample based on the decomposition to preferentially show a selected one of the components.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin, Kirk William Gossage, Clifford C. Hoyt
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Publication number: 20080294032Abstract: The invention features a method including: (i) providing spectrally resolved information about light coming from different spatial locations in a sample comprising deep tissue in response to an illumination of the sample, wherein the light includes contributions from different components in the sample; (ii) decomposing the spectrally resolved information for each of at least some of the different spatial locations into contributions from spectral estimates associated with at least some of the components in the sample; and (iii) constructing a deep tissue image of the sample based on the decomposition to preferentially show a selected one of the components.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2004Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH AND INSTRUMENTATION, INC.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin, Kirk William Gossage, Clifford C. Hoyt
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Publication number: 20080119832Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure is directed to a multi-modal, scanning, confocal, adaptive-optic macroscope system and related methods of use. Embodiments of the present disclosure improve upon existing photodynamic therapy methods and compete with more invasive oncology procedures (such as surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy) by providing deeper light penetration within the human body, giving medical personnel the ability to treat forms of cancer previously untreatable with existing photodynamic therapies, and with less damage to healthy tissue than current procedures. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used for other medical purposes including internal artery and vein cauterizing (photo-coagulation), laser pulse induced sonication for dissolving kidney stones, removal of birth marks or tattoos, and/or for photo-biostimulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: MOLTEN LABS, INC.Inventor: Paul J. Cronin
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Patent number: 7321791Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for the imaging of structures in deep tissue within biological specimens, using spectral imaging to provide highly sensitive detection. By acquiring data that provides a plurality of images of the sample with different spectral weightings, and subsequent spectral analysis, light emission from a target compound is separated from autofluorescence in the sample. With the autofluorescence reduced or eliminated, an improved measurement of the target compound is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2003Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: Cambridge Research and Instrumentation, Inc.Inventors: Richard Levenson, Paul J. Cronin