Patents by Inventor William W. Craig

William W. Craig 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).

  • Patent number: 7960700
    Abstract: A network of radiation detection instruments, each having a small solid state radiation sensor module integrated into a cellular phone for providing radiation detection data and analysis directly to a user. The sensor module includes a solid-state crystal bonded to an ASIC readout providing a low cost, low power, light weight compact instrument to detect and measure radiation energies in the local ambient radiation field. In particular, the photon energy, time of event, and location of the detection instrument at the time of detection is recorded for real time transmission to a central data collection/analysis system. The collected data from the entire network of radiation detection instruments are combined by intelligent correlation/analysis algorithms which map the background radiation and detect, identify and track radiation anomalies in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: William W. Craig, Simon E. Labov
  • Patent number: 7545269
    Abstract: A network of radiation detection instruments, each having a small solid state radiation sensor module integrated into a cellular phone for providing radiation detection data and analysis directly to a user. The sensor module includes a solid-state crystal bonded to an ASIC readout providing a low cost, low power, light weight compact instrument to detect and measure radiation energies in the local ambient radiation field. In particular, the photon energy, time of event, and location of the detection instrument at the time of detection is recorded for real time transmission to a central data collection/analysis system. The collected data from the entire network of radiation detection instruments are combined by intelligent correlation/analysis algorithms which map the background radiation and detect, identify and track radiation anomalies in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: William W. Craig, Simon E. Labov
  • Patent number: 7148484
    Abstract: A network of radiation detection instruments, each having a small solid state radiation sensor module integrated into a cellular phone for providing radiation detection data and analysis directly to a user. The sensor module includes a solid-state crystal bonded to an ASIC readout providing a low cost, low power, light weight compact instrument to detect and measure radiation energies in the local ambient radiation field. In particular, the photon energy, time of event, and location of the detection instrument at the time of detection is recorded for real time transmission to a central data collection/analysis system. The collected data from the entire network of radiation detection instruments are combined by intelligent correlation/analysis algorithms which map the background radiation and detect, identify and track radiation anomalies in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: William W. Craig, Simon E. Labov
  • Patent number: 6949748
    Abstract: Imaging of radiation sources located in a subject is explored for medical applications. The approach involves using grazing-incidence optics to form images of the location of radiopharmaceuticals administered to a subject. The optics are “true focusing” optics, meaning that they project a real and inverted image of the radiation source onto a detector possessing spatial and energy resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Ziock, William W. Craig, Bruce Hasegawa, Michael J. Pivovaroff
  • Publication number: 20040149918
    Abstract: A network of radiation detection instruments, each having a small solid state radiation sensor module integrated into a cellular phone for providing radiation detection data and analysis directly to a user. The sensor module includes a solid-state crystal bonded to an ASIC readout providing a low cost, low power, light weight compact instrument to detect and measure radiation energies in the local ambient radiation field. In particular, the photon energy, time of event, and location of the detection instrument at the time of detection is recorded for real time transmission to a central data collection/analysis system. The collected data from the entire network of radiation detection instruments are combined by intelligent correlation/analysis algorithms which map the background radiation and detect, identify and track radiation anomalies in the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: William W. Craig, Simon E. Labov
  • Publication number: 20030194054
    Abstract: Imaging of radiation sources located in a subject is explored for medical applications. The approach involves using grazing-incidence optics to form images of the location of radiopharmaceuticals administered to a subject. The optics are “true focusing” optics, meaning that they project a real and inverted image of the radiation source onto a detector possessing spatial and energy resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Ziock, William W. Craig, Bruce Hasegawa, Michael J. Pivovaroff