Patents by Inventor ZEESHAN AHMED
ZEESHAN AHMED 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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Publication number: 20240133746Abstract: A photonic thermometer module assembly includes: a sheath; a sheath bottom plug; a sheath top flange; a top sealing flange; a heat exchanger; a photonic thermometer disposed on the heat exchanger such that the photonic thermometer determines a temperature of the sheath; and an optical fiber array in optical communication with the photonic thermometer and that optically couples the photonic thermometer to an exterior environment of the photonic thermometer module assembly, wherein the photonic thermometer module assembly is compatible with International Temperature Scale of 0 (ITS-90) fixed-point cell infrastructure and conventional drywell and oil-bath calibrations, and the photonic thermometer module assembly provides temperature measurements from ?200° C. to +700° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Nikolai Nikolaevich Klimov, Tobias Kent Herman, Zeeshan Ahmed
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Publication number: 20230405346Abstract: The present application provides a delivery device (10) for percutaneously implanting a medical implant (1) in tissue of a patient. The delivery device comprises a delivery sheath (12, 13, 53, 61, 62, 65, 66) adapted to at least partially surround the medical implant and carry the medical implant for percutaneous delivery in the patient's tissue. The delivery device also includes a power delivery system (37) adapted to provide electric power to the medical implant within the delivery sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Capri Medical LimitedInventors: Fergal Ward, Richard LeBaron, Zeeshan Ahmed, Ross Lewis, Donogh O'Sullivan
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Patent number: 11720754Abstract: Claim verification is facilitated by identifying a selection of textual content within a user interface, accessing a claim detection module, inputting the textual content into the claim detection module to detect one or more claims within the selection of textual content, accessing an evidence extraction module, using the evidence extraction module to automatically search one or more reference repositories for one or more related references that have content that is related to the detected one or more claims, automatically determining whether the content in the one or more related references supports or refutes the one or more claims using a claim verification module, and, in response to determining a set of references of the one or more related references supports or refutes the one or more claims, presenting a support indicator or a refute indicator within the user interface in association with the one or more claims.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robin Abraham, Liang Du, Zeeshan Ahmed
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Patent number: 11624664Abstract: A pH photothermal spectrometer includes a container that receives an analyte medium and pH-sensitive chromophore. An excitation fiber and optical thermometer are disposed in the container. The optical thermometer include a light receiver disposed on a temperature detector fiber.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: Zeeshan Ahmed, Matthew Robert Hartings
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Patent number: 11600089Abstract: Procedural optimization is facilitated by receiving user input for creating or modifying a body of text comprising a procedure, detecting one or more procedural steps associated with the procedure using a procedural step detection module, automatically searching within a corpus of references for one or more related procedural steps using a related procedural step extraction module, automatically identifying one or more outcomes within the corpus of references associated with the one or more related procedural steps using an outcome extraction module, automatically determining whether the one or more outcomes comprise detrimental results using an outcome analysis module, and, in response to determining a set of detrimental outcomes from the one or more outcomes that comprise detrimental results, presenting a detriment indicator within the user interface in association with the one or more procedural steps.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Robin Abraham, Liang Du, Zeeshan Ahmed
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Publication number: 20220237422Abstract: Procedural optimization is facilitated by receiving user input for creating or modifying a body of text comprising a procedure, detecting one or more procedural steps associated with the procedure using a procedural step detection module, automatically searching within a corpus of references for one or more related procedural steps using a related procedural step extraction module, automatically identifying one or more outcomes within the corpus of references associated with the one or more related procedural steps using an outcome extraction module, automatically determining whether the one or more outcomes comprise detrimental results using an outcome analysis module, and, in response to determining a set of detrimental outcomes from the one or more outcomes that comprise detrimental results, presenting a detriment indicator within the user interface in association with the one or more procedural steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Robin ABRAHAM, Liang DU, Zeeshan AHMED
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Publication number: 20220237382Abstract: Claim verification is facilitated by identifying a selection of textual content within a user interface, accessing a claim detection module, inputting the textual content into the claim detection module to detect one or more claims within the selection of textual content, accessing an evidence extraction module, using the evidence extraction module to automatically search one or more reference repositories for one or more related references that have content that is related to the detected one or more claims, automatically determining whether the content in the one or more related references supports or refutes the one or more claims using a claim verification module, and, in response to determining a set of references of the one or more related references supports or refutes the one or more claims, presenting a support indicator or a refute indicator within the user interface in association with the one or more claims.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Robin ABRAHAM, Liang DU, Zeeshan AHMED
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Publication number: 20220099503Abstract: A pH photothermal spectrometer includes a container that receives an analyte medium and pH-sensitive chromophore. An excitation fiber and optical thermometer are disposed in the container. The optical thermometer include a light receiver disposed on a temperature detector fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Zeeshan Ahmed, Matthew Robert Hartings
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Patent number: 11255746Abstract: A photonic resonator analyzer characterizes a photonic resonator and incudes a light source that provides a probe light; a photonic resonator that receives the probe light and produces product light; an optical detector that receives the product light and produces a product signal; a mode analyzer that receives the product signal and produces a resonator spectrum; and a spectral analyzer that receives the resonator spectrum, performs regression by fitting a non-parametric model to the resonator spectrum, and produces a thermal response function of the photonic resonator from fitting the non-parametric model to the resonator spectrum to characterize the photonic resonator.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventor: Zeeshan Ahmed
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Publication number: 20210172833Abstract: A photonic resonator analyzer characterizes a photonic resonator and incudes a light source that provides a probe light; a photonic resonator that receives the probe light and produces product light; an optical detector that receives the product light and produces a product signal; a mode analyzer that receives the product signal and produces a resonator spectrum; and a spectral analyzer that receives the resonator spectrum, performs regression by fitting a non-parametric model to the resonator spectrum, and produces a thermal response function of the photonic resonator from fitting the non-parametric model to the resonator spectrum to characterize the photonic resonator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventor: Zeeshan Ahmed
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Patent number: 10955617Abstract: A high-resolution photonic thermometer article performs high-resolution thermometry and includes: a light source; a photonic thermometer with a waveguide and a photonic crystal cavity that stores light; a photodetector in communication with the photonic thermometer; a phase sensitive detector in communication with the photodetector and that: receives the photodetector signal from the photodetector; receives a reference frequency signal; and produces a lock signal from the photodetector signal, based on the reference frequency signal; a local oscillator in communication with the phase sensitive detector and that produces the reference frequency signal; and a servo controller in communication with the phase sensitive detector and local oscillator and that: receives the lock signal from the phase sensitive detector; receives the reference frequency signal from the local oscillator; and produces the control signal such that absorption power of the photonic crystal is maximized through wavelength control of the liType: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: Nikolai Nikolaevich Klimov, Kevin O'Connell Douglass, Zeeshan Ahmed
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Patent number: 10935370Abstract: A deformometer includes: a cavity body; entry and exit optical cavity optics, such that the optical cavity produces filtered combined light from combined light; a first laser that provides first light; a second laser that provides second light; an optical combiner that: receives the first light; receives the second light; combines the first light and the second light; produces combined light from the first light and the second light; and communicates the combined light to the entry optical cavity optic; a beam splitter that: receives the filtered combined light; splits the filtered combined light; a first light detector in optical communication with the beam splitter and that: receives the first filtered light from the beam splitter; and produces a first cavity signal from the first filtered light; and a second light detector that: receives the second filtered light; and produces a second cavity signal from the second filtered light.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: Zeeshan Ahmed, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen P. Eckel, Patrick F. Egan, Jay H. Hendricks, Jack A. Stone, Jr.
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Patent number: 10816325Abstract: A deformometer includes: a cavity body; entry and exit optical cavity optics, such that the optical cavity produces filtered combined light from combined light; a first laser that provides first light; a second laser that provides second light; an optical combiner that: receives the first light; receives the second light; combines the first light and the second light; produces combined light from the first light and the second light; and communicates the combined light to the entry optical cavity optic; a beam splitter that: receives the filtered combined light; splits the filtered combined light; a first light detector in optical communication with the beam splitter and that: receives the first filtered light from the beam splitter; and produces a first cavity signal from the first filtered light; and a second light detector that: receives the second filtered light; and produces a second cavity signal from the second filtered light.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: Zeeshan Ahmed, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen P. Eckel, Patrick F. Egan, Jay H. Hendricks, Jack A. Stone, Jr.
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Patent number: 10782421Abstract: A photonic calorimeter converts ionizing radiation dose to heat and includes: a radiation absorber, a temperature compensator disposed within the radiation absorber, a compensation waveguide, a compensation resonator, a compensation resonator, a thermal isolator on which the radiation absorber is disposed and that thermally isolates the radiation absorber from heat loss by thermal transfer due to physical contact by an object, and the temperature compensator changes the optical resonance of the compensation resonator in response to a change in temperature of the radiation absorber due to absorption of the ionizing radiation by the radiation absorber.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: Ronald Tosh, Zeeshan Ahmed, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Nikolai Klimov
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Patent number: 10718872Abstract: A photonic dosimeter accrues cumulative dose and includes: a substrate; a waveguide disposed on the substrate and that: receives a primary input light; transmits secondary input light from the primary input light to a dosimatrix; receives a secondary output light from the dosimatrix; and produces primary output light from the secondary output light; the dosimatrix disposed on the substrate and in optical communication with the waveguide and that: receives the secondary input light from the waveguide; produces the secondary output light that is communicated to the waveguide; and includes an active element that undergoes conversion from a prime state to a dosed state in response to receipt, by the active element, of a dose of radiation; and a cover layer disposed on waveguide and the dosimatrix.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS RESPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: Ronald Tosh, Zeeshan Ahmed, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Nikolai Klimov
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Publication number: 20200103594Abstract: A high-resolution photonic thermometer article performs high-resolution thermometry and includes: a light source; a photonic thermometer with a waveguide and a photonic crystal cavity that stores light; a photodetector in communication with the photonic thermometer; a phase sensitive detector in communication with the photodetector and that: receives the photodetector signal from the photodetector; receives a reference frequency signal; and produces a lock signal from the photodetector signal, based on the reference frequency signal; a local oscillator in communication with the phase sensitive detector and that produces the reference frequency signal; and a servo controller in communication with the phase sensitive detector and local oscillator and that: receives the lock signal from the phase sensitive detector; receives the reference frequency signal from the local oscillator; and produces the control signal such that absorption power of the photonic crystal is maximized through wavelength control of the liType: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Nikolai Nikolaevich Klimov, Kevin O'Connell Douglass, Zeeshan Ahmed
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Publication number: 20200041256Abstract: A deformometer includes: a cavity body; entry and exit optical cavity optics, such that the optical cavity produces filtered combined light from combined light; a first laser that provides first light; a second laser that provides second light; an optical combiner that: receives the first light; receives the second light; combines the first light and the second light; produces combined light from the first light and the second light; and communicates the combined light to the entry optical cavity optic; a beam splitter that: receives the filtered combined light; splits the filtered combined light; a first light detector in optical communication with the beam splitter and that: receives the first filtered light from the beam splitter; and produces a first cavity signal from the first filtered light; and a second light detector that: receives the second filtered light; and produces a second cavity signal from the second filtered light.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Zeeshan Ahmed, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen P. Eckel, Patrick F. Egan, Jay H. Hendricks, Jack A. Stone, JR.
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Publication number: 20200041255Abstract: A deformometer includes: a cavity body; entry and exit optical cavity optics, such that the optical cavity produces filtered combined light from combined light; a first laser that provides first light; a second laser that provides second light; an optical combiner that: receives the first light; receives the second light; combines the first light and the second light; produces combined light from the first light and the second light; and communicates the combined light to the entry optical cavity optic; a beam splitter that: receives the filtered combined light; splits the filtered combined light; a first light detector in optical communication with the beam splitter and that: receives the first filtered light from the beam splitter; and produces a first cavity signal from the first filtered light; and a second light detector that: receives the second filtered light; and produces a second cavity signal from the second filtered light.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Zeeshan Ahmed, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen P. Eckel, Patrick F. Egan, Jay H. Hendricks, Jack A. Stone, JR.
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Publication number: 20190293809Abstract: A photonic calorimeter converts ionizing radiation dose to heat and includes: a radiation absorber, a temperature compensator disposed within the radiation absorber, a compensation waveguide, a compensation resonator, a compensation resonator, a thermal isolator on which the radiation absorber is disposed and that thermally isolates the radiation absorber from heat loss by thermal transfer due to physical contact by an object, and the temperature compensator changes the optical resonance of the compensation resonator in response to a change in temperature of the radiation absorber due to absorption of the ionizing radiation by the radiation absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Ronald Tosh, Zeeshan Ahmed, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Nikolai Klimov
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Publication number: 20190293808Abstract: A photonic dosimeter accrues cumulative dose and includes: a substrate; a waveguide disposed on the substrate and that: receives a primary input light; transmits secondary input light from the primary input light to a dosimatrix; receives a secondary output light from the dosimatrix; and produces primary output light from the secondary output light; the dosimatrix disposed on the substrate and in optical communication with the waveguide and that: receives the secondary input light from the waveguide; produces the secondary output light that is communicated to the waveguide; and includes an active element that undergoes conversion from a prime state to a dosed state in response to receipt, by the active element, of a dose of radiation; and a cover layer disposed on waveguide and the dosimatrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Ronald Tosh, Zeeshan Ahmed, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Nikolai Klimov