Patents by Inventor Ryan Lee Smith

Ryan Lee Smith 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: 20240105346
    Abstract: A message processing facility is described. The facility receives user input defining a textual message intended for an addressee service principal. Before sending the defined textual message, the facility analyzes the defined textual message to determine a textual message category to which the defined textual message belongs among a plurality of textual message categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Wayne T. Foley, Adam Benjamin Smith-Kipnis, Lisa Dione Mason, Billy Lee Jackson, Syneva Runyan, Ryan Alexander Untalan, Yoomi Robin Kang
  • Patent number: 9785806
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power source, a transmitter to transmit a unique identifier, and a receiver operatively coupled to the transmitter and to receive low-frequency signals from an active RFID transceiver located in the vicinity. The transmitter is activated by the power source responsive to the receiver receiving a wake up command at a predetermined low frequency from the active RFID transceiver. An RFID transceiver includes an antenna, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions and a transmitter to transmit low-frequency signals to RFID tags through the antenna. A processing device of the RFID transceiver can execute the instructions to insert a station identifier (ID) into the low-frequency signals that direct the RFID tags to retransmit the station ID, wherein the station ID identifies an approximate location of the RFID tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: IMSAR LLC
    Inventors: David Baird Bartholomew, Gus Ryan German, Ryan Lee Smith, Caleb Hunter Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 9636523
    Abstract: A system, method and device for brachytherapy treatment verification is described herein. The verification may be in real time and may provide verification of one or more of dose, source position, dwell time and source activity. In one embodiment the invention provides a method for verifying a brachytherapy radiation treatment including processing a distribution of exposure to a brachytherapy radiation source of a two dimensional imaging array to determine a region of high exposure; obtaining one or more distribution of exposure profiles through the region of high exposure; determining a region of high value in the one or more distribution of exposure profiles; and using the determined region of high exposure and/or high value to calculate one or more brachytherapy radiation source position and/or one or more brachytherapy radiation source distance to thereby verify at least a part of the brachytherapy radiation treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan Lee Smith, Rick Don Franich
  • Publication number: 20160203347
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a power source, a transmitter to transmit a unique identifier, and a receiver operatively coupled to the transmitter and to receive low-frequency signals from an active RFID transceiver located in the vicinity. The transmitter is activated by the power source responsive to the receiver receiving a wake up command at a predetermined low frequency from the active RFID transceiver. An RFID transceiver includes an antenna, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions and a transmitter to transmit low-frequency signals to RFID tags through the antenna. A processing device of the RFID transceiver can execute the instructions to insert a station identifier (ID) into the low-frequency signals that direct the RFID tags to retransmit the station ID, wherein the station ID identifies an approximate location of the RFID tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: David Baird Bartholomew, Gus Ryan German, Ryan Lee Smith, Caleb Hunter Chamberlain
  • Publication number: 20130303902
    Abstract: A system, method and device for brachytherapy treatment verification is described herein. The verification may be in real time and may provide verification of one or more of dose, source position, dwell time and source activity. In one embodiment the invention provides a method for verifying a brachytherapy radiation treatment including processing a distribution of exposure to a brachytherapy radiation source of a two dimensional imaging array to determine a region of high exposure; obtaining one or more distribution of exposure profiles through the region of high exposure; determining a region of high value in the one or more distribution of exposure profiles; and using the determined region of high exposure and/or high value to calculate one or more brachytherapy radiation source position and/or one or more brachytherapy radiation source distance to thereby verify at least a part of the brachytherapy radiation treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: RMIT UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ryan Lee Smith, Rick Don Franich
  • Patent number: 7755533
    Abstract: An interferometric switched beam radar apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, a selected antenna of a planar array of beam forming antennas is activated with a substantially continuous frequency modulated transmit signal and a return signal is received from at least two return antennas that have a known offset distance relative to each other. Phase information is extracted from each return signal and used to present information regarding an operating environment to a user. Each beam forming antenna within the array may correspond to a particular viewing angle within the operating environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: ImSAR LLC
    Inventors: Logan Carl Harris, Ryan Lee Smith
  • Publication number: 20080174474
    Abstract: An interferometric switched beam radar apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, a selected antenna of a planar array of beam forming antennas is activated with a substantially continuous frequency modulated transmit signal and a return signal is received from at least two return antennas that have a known offset distance relative to each other. Phase information is extracted from each return signal and used to present information regarding an operating environment to a user. Each beam forming antenna within the array may correspond to a particular viewing angle within the operating environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: imSAR
    Inventors: Logan Carl Harris, Ryan Lee Smith