Patents Assigned to Ziteo, Inc.
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Patent number: 12239301Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to a scanning sufficiency apparatus that computes whether a handheld scanning device has scanned a volume for a sufficiently long time for there to be detections and then indicate to the user that the time is sufficient in 3-D rendered voxels. Also described is a hand held medical navigation apparatus with system and methods to map targets inside a patient's body.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Ziteo, Inc.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Michael J. Quinlan, Victor Arie Negut
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Patent number: 11883214Abstract: Improved imaging devices and methods. A portable SPECT imaging device may co-register with imaging modalities such as ultrasound. Gamma camera panels including gamma camera sensors may be connected to a mechanical arm. A coded aperture mask may be placed in front of a gamma-ray photon sensor and used to construct a high-resolution three-dimensional map of radioisotope distributions inside a patient, which can be generated by scanning the patient from a reduced range of directions around the patient and with radiation sensors placed in close proximity to this patient. Increased imaging sensitivity and resolution is provided. The SPECT imaging device can be used to guide medical interventions, such as biopsies and ablation therapies, and can also be used to guide surgeries.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Ziteo, Inc.Inventors: Michael Quinlan, Lucian Mihailescu, Andrei Claudiu Cosma
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Patent number: 11678804Abstract: A shared-housing ultrasound transducer and machine-vision camera system is disclosed for registering the transducer's x, y, z position in space and pitch, yaw, and roll orientation with respect to an object, such as a patient's body. The position and orientation are correlated with transducer scan data, and scans of the same region of the object are compared in order to reduce ultrasound artifacts and speckles. The system can be extended to interoperative gamma probes or other non-contact sensor probes and medical instruments. Methods are disclosed for computer or remote guiding of a sensor probe or instrument with respect to saved positions and orientations of the sensor probe.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Ziteo, Inc.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Victor Arie Negut
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Patent number: 11464503Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to a scanning sufficiency apparatus that computes whether a handheld scanning device has scanned a volume for a sufficiently long time for there to be detections and then indicate to the user that the time is sufficient in 3-D rendered voxels. Also described is a hand held medical navigation apparatus with system and methods to map targets inside a patient's body.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: ZITEO, INC.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Michael J. Quinlan, Victor Arie Negut
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Patent number: 11439358Abstract: Improved imaging devices and methods. A portable SPECT imaging device may co-register with imaging modalities such as ultrasound. Gamma camera panels including gamma camera sensors may be connected to a mechanical arm. A coded aperture mask may be placed in front of a gamma-ray photon sensor and used to construct a high-resolution three-dimensional map of radioisotope distributions inside a patient, which can be generated by scanning the patient from a reduced range of directions around the patient and with radiation sensors placed in close proximity to this patient. Increased imaging sensitivity and resolution is provided. The SPECT imaging device can be used to guide medical interventions, such as biopsies and ablation therapies, and can also be used to guide surgeries.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Ziteo, Inc.Inventors: Michael Quinlan, Lucian Mihailescu, Andrei Claudiu Cosma
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Patent number: 10617401Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to a scanning sufficiency apparatus that computes whether a handheld scanning device has scanned a volume for a sufficiently long time for there to be detections and then indicate to the user that the time is sufficient in 3-D rendered voxels. Also described is a hand held medical navigation apparatus with system and methods to map targets inside a patient's body.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: ZITEO, INC.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Michael J. Quinlan, Victor Arie Negut
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Publication number: 20190336004Abstract: A shared-housing ultrasound transducer and machine-vision camera system is disclosed for registering the transducer's x, y, z position in space and pitch, yaw, and roll orientation with respect to an object, such as a patient's body. The position and orientation are correlated with transducer scan data, and scans of the same region of the object are compared in order to reduce ultrasound artifacts and speckles. The system can be extended to interoperative gamma probes or other non-contact sensor probes and medical instruments. Methods are disclosed for computer or remote guiding of a sensor probe or instrument with respect to saved positions and orientations of the sensor probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: Ziteo, Inc.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Victor Arie Negut
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Patent number: 10426350Abstract: A shared-housing ultrasound transducer and machine-vision camera system is disclosed for registering the transducer's x, y, z position in space and pitch, yaw, and roll orientation with respect to an object, such as a patient's body. The position and orientation are correlated with transducer scan data, and scans of the same region of the object are compared in order to reduce ultrasound artifacts and speckles. The system can be extended to interoperative gamma probes or other non-contact sensor probes and medical instruments. Methods are disclosed for computer or remote guiding of a sensor probe or instrument with respect to saved positions and orientations of the sensor probe.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: ZITEO, INC.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Victor Arie Negut
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Patent number: 9561019Abstract: A shared-housing ultrasound transducer and machine-vision camera system is disclosed for registering the transducer's x, y, z position in space and pitch, yaw, and roll orientation with respect to an object, such as a patient's body. The position and orientation are correlated with transducer scan data, and scans of the same region of the object are compared in order to reduce ultrasound artifacts and speckles. The system can be extended to interoperative gamma probes or other non-contact sensor probes and medical instruments. Methods are disclosed for computer or remote guiding of a sensor probe or instrument with respect to saved positions and orientations of the sensor probe.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: ZITEO, INC.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Victor Arie Negut
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Publication number: 20160242744Abstract: A shared-housing ultrasound transducer and machine-vision camera system is disclosed for registering the transducer's x, y, z position in space and pitch, yaw, and roll orientation with respect to an object, such as a patient's body. The position and orientation are correlated with transducer scan data, and scans of the same region of the object are compared in order to reduce ultrasound artifacts and speckles. The system can be extended to interoperative gamma probes or other non-contact sensor probes and medical instruments. Methods are disclosed for computer or remote guiding of a sensor probe or instrument with respect to saved positions and orientations of the sensor probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Ziteo, Inc.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Victor Arie Negut
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Publication number: 20160135762Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in part, to a scanning sufficiency apparatus that computes whether a handheld scanning device has scanned a volume for a sufficiently long time for there to be detections and then indicate to the user that the time is sufficient in 3-D rendered voxels. Also described is a hand held medical navigation apparatus with system and methods to map targets inside a patient's body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Applicant: Ziteo, Inc.Inventors: Lucian Mihailescu, Michael J. Quinlan, Victor Arie Negut