Patents Examined by David P. Porta
  • Patent number: 11766226
    Abstract: A digital dental x-ray sensor device includes a rounded, three-dimensional housing that lacks corners, edges, or other relatively sharp features that are known to cause discomfort when used in a patient's mouth. The rounded housing can be spherical, ellipsoid, or any similar regular or irregular rounded shape, and can be formed by ensuring that all curves of the surface of the rounded housing have a minimum radius that is sufficient to prevent features that can dig into the soft tissue of the inside of a patient's mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Shayda Cullen
  • Patent number: 11761911
    Abstract: A CT-device evaluation phantom to be placed between a light source for emitting a probe light and a two-dimensional detector when in use, including a ring-shaped supporting base and three or more absorbing objects whose transmittance to the probe light is equal to or lower than that of the supporting base. The CT-device evaluation phantom has a sufficient level of mechanical strength regardless of its size, and is also easy to create.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Shuhei Onishi
  • Patent number: 11762123
    Abstract: An X-ray scanner includes a frame; an X-ray generator mounted within the frame, and outputting a vertical fan-shaped beam toward an object; the X-ray generator configured to rotate in a left-right direction; a linear vertical X-ray detector mounted in the frame beyond the object, the linear vertical X-ray detector configured to slide in sync with a rotation of the X-ray generator; a first flat panel X-ray detector below the object, the first flat panel X-ray detector being stationary; a second flat panel X-ray detector above the object, the second flat panel X-ray detector being stationary; a workstation that integrates scans from the first flat panel X-ray detector, the second flat panel X-ray detector and the linear vertical X-ray detector to generate a full-body scan of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Linev Systems US, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir N. Linev, Dzmitryi Bairashewski
  • Patent number: 11765323
    Abstract: A camera assembly, including: an enclosure having at least two mounting surfaces that are orthogonal to each other for alignment with at least two orthogonal surfaces against which the camera assembly is to be mounted; at least one imaging apparatus disposed within the enclosure and having a predetermined orientation with respect to the enclosure; and a communication device disposed within the enclosure; and a server disposed at a location remote from where the camera is mounted. The camera assembly and the server communicate over a computer communication network to identify at least one mounting measurement of the camera assembly to establish a mapping from an image coordinate system for images generated by the imaging apparatus and a real world coordinate system aligned with an orientation defined by the at least two orthogonal surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Calumino Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Marek Steffanson, Gabrielle de Wit
  • Patent number: 11761896
    Abstract: An analyzing system includes a detection area with a transparent window past which an analyte moves and emits or transmits light. One or more polarizing elements receive and polarize the light into respective two or more different polarization components. One or more optical detectors receive the respective two or more polarization components and generate respective at least two signals in response. A processor is coupled to the optical detectors and configured to determine a polarization status of the light from the analyte based on the at least two signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qiushu Chen, Peter Kiesel, Jacob N. Chamoun, Norman Nan Shi, Noble M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11761818
    Abstract: The present invention provides a temperature control method for a heating element, a night vision system calibration device and a system. The night vision system calibration device includes: a first housing, a heating element and a second housing covering the first housing. The heating element includes a heating area, a shape of the heating area being a shape of a target heating body used when a night vision system is calibrated. The second housing and the first housing form an accommodating cavity, and the heating element is disposed in the accommodating cavity. The second housing is provided with a through hole communicating with the accommodating cavity and adapted to the shape of the heating area, and the heating area is configured to emit infrared radiation through the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AUTEL INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Chen, Xinguang Tang
  • Patent number: 11759154
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved barrier-contained radiological sensor holder. In particular, the present invention is directed to radiological sensor holder contained in a barrier sheath to reduce or prevent contamination. The radiological sensor holder preferably comprises a sensor holder at least partly contained within a barrier sheath having a closed end and an open end. The barrier sheath preferably comprises elastomer latex material and the sensor holder preferably comprises an exterior attachment and an interior container, where the exterior attachment presses a portion of the barrier sheath into a gapped attachment port on the interior container. The sensor holder may alternately include an expansion slit along the opposing face. The sensor holder can also have snap on articles for positioning the sensor for posterior, anterior and vertical image capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Mitchell C Calderwood
  • Patent number: 11761821
    Abstract: A system with a detector array, a processor unit and a signal interface. The detector array includes a plurality of bolometric measuring cells and a base body. Each measuring cell is configured to detect infrared radiation and to transmit a measurement signal, which is representative of the readings of the measuring cells, to the processor unit. The processor unit is configured to determine a body heat stored by the base body, to determine a predictive value compensated according to the time delay of the respective measuring cell for each current reading, to determine a temperature value corrected according to the measurement error for each current predictive value, and to determine a thermal image based on the current temperature values, allowing an image signal representing the thermal image to be sent from the signal interface. A corresponding method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Basler AG
    Inventor: Julian Wingert
  • Patent number: 11759277
    Abstract: Removable barrier devices (e.g., sleeves) for covering medical scanning devices to reduce the chance of cross-contamination between patients and/or to protect the scanning devices from physical damage. The barrier device can include a cover that has an integrated window for passing optical signals between the scanning device and an external environment. The cover can include a sleeve that covers a handle portion of the scanning device to prevent contamination of the handle from a user's hand or glove. The cover and sleeve may both be formed of the same flexible material, or the cover may be rigid to maintain the window in a fixed position and the sleeve may be flexible to allow a user to activate a button or touchpad on the handle. An interface region between the cover and sleeve may provide a hermetic seal. The window may include a nanostructured antireflective material to limit internal reflections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ariel Shalev, Eran Green, Zakhar Ginzburg, Matthew Durban, Roee Gorfinkel, Ofer Saphier, Tal Verker, Nir Makmel, Eran Ishay, Raphael Levy
  • Patent number: 11759162
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to removing scatter from a SPECT scan by utilizing a radiative transfer equation (RTE) method. An attenuation map and emission map are acquired for generating scatter sources maps and scatter on detectors using the RTE method. The estimated scatter on detectors can be removed to produce an image of a SPECT scan with less scatter. Both first-order and multiple-order scatter can be estimated and removed. Additionally, scatter caused by multiple tracers can be determined and removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wenyuan Qi, Yujie Lu, Ryo Okuda, Evren Asma, Manabu Teshigawara, Jeffrey Kolthammer
  • Patent number: 11759163
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system operable to generate a plurality of radiation images based on different radiation energies, comprises: a communication unit configured to obtain at set communication intervals a temperature of a radiation tube by communication with a radiation generating unit; and a control unit configured to control, based on comparison of the temperature obtained at the communication intervals and a change rate of the temperature and respectively set threshold ranges, an operation for maintaining a driving state of the radiation tube or execution of image processing for obtaining a substance amount of a substance that forms an object using the plurality of radiation images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Kawanishi
  • Patent number: 11759164
    Abstract: An X-ray detector integral with an automatic exposure control (AEC) device can include an X-ray detection part configured to detect X-rays irradiated from an X-ray source and generate X-ray image data; and an automatic exposure detection board located below the X-ray detection part and configured to generate an X-ray sensing signal for automatic exposure control based on residual X-rays which have passed by or through the X-ray detection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC
    Inventors: Youngjun Jung, Seungchan Baek, Taehyung Kim, Sangjun Park, Mikiko Ito, Hyoungjoon Jo
  • Patent number: 11754539
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for forecasting calibration spectra including a step of providing a machine learning model trained using historical calibration data corresponding to different gas species at different pressures. The computer-implemented method also includes steps of performing a calibration scan of one gas species at one pressure using an analyzer and generating calibration curves for the analyzer corresponding to one or multiple gas species at multiple pressures using the machine learning model and the calibration scan. Thereafter, a spectrum is obtained using the analyzer, and a concentration measurement is generated using the spectrum and at least one of the calibration curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Optical Analysis, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Ludlum, Marc Winter, Benjamin Scherer, Xiang Liu
  • Patent number: 11754847
    Abstract: For forming and shifting a light intensity distribution in a focal area of an objective lens, portions of coherent input light are one by one directed into non-identical two-dimensional pupil areas of a pupil of the objective lens. Each of the portions of coherent input light is collimated in the pupil. The pupil areas include a pair of two pupil areas which are axially symmetrically arranged on opposite sides of an optical axis of the objective lens. At least one of the two discrete portions of coherent input light that are directed into the pair of pupil areas is separately modulated with regard to its phase by means of an electro optical modulator such as to form the light intensity distribution in the focal area with a local intensity minimum delimited by intensity maxima and to shift the local intensity minimum laterally with regard to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
    Inventors: Johann Engelhardt, Stefan W. Hell
  • Patent number: 11754742
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for inspecting object using a plurality of interlacing radiation energies. The system comprising a radiation module configured for producing and capturing radiation in multiple energy levels to scan the content of the cargo and converting the captured radiation into a plurality of images; and a controller configured for signalling the radiation module to start or to stop producing radiation and for controlling the energy level and pulse frequency of the radiation produced by the radiation module. The system further comprising a processor configured for determining whether the cargo contains any contraband or not by analysing the plurality of images, classifying the cargo based on types of materials and substance groups and highlighting region on an analysed image of the same substance by bounding perimeter of the object within a material-colour image for the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BILLION PRIMA SDN. BHD
    Inventors: Chu Leong Goh, Yuh Jiunn Lee, Joanne Zi En Soh, Heng Kwan Tan
  • Patent number: 11757046
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a thin film transistor array substrate for a digital X-ray detector device and the digital X-ray detector device and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin film transistor array substrate comprises: a base substrate comprising a driving area and a non-driving area; at least one PIN diode disposed within the driving area of the base substrate and comprising a lower electrode, a PIN layer, and an upper electrode; and at least one align mark disposed within the non-driving area of the base substrate, wherein the align mark comprises a first align mark layer, an align PIN layer, and a second align mark layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeho Yoon, Moonsoo Kang, Donghyeon Jang, Shihyung Park
  • Patent number: 11751833
    Abstract: A training method (10) and system for a collimator border detection method. The training method (10) comprises the following steps: obtaining an original image acquired by an X-ray imaging system and a processed image obtained after processing the original image (11); determining on the basis of the processed image whether the processed image is a valid image (12); and extracting coordinates of a collimator border of a valid processed image, putting into a training pool the extracted coordinates of the collimator border and the original image corresponding to the valid processed image, and when the number of valid original images in the training pool reaches a preset threshold value, starting the training of the collimator border detection method (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Buer Qi, Dejun Wang, Wei Zhao, Huanzhong Li
  • Patent number: 11754731
    Abstract: A coded mask apparatus is provided for gamma rays. The apparatus uses nested masks, at least one of which rotates relative to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
    Inventors: David Boardman, Adam Sarbutt, Alison Flynn, Dale Prokopovich
  • Patent number: 11754729
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a nuclear detection simulation device based on a nanosecond light source and a nuclear signal inversion technology. Electronic circuits and nuclear pulse current signals are used to drive blue LEDs to emit nuclear pulse optical signals, so as to simulate a scintillator to receive ? radiation to emit light, and can simulate point sources and area sources, organic scintillator detectors and inorganic scintillators, scintillation efficiency and detection efficiency, radioactive sources, fast components and slow components, multi-type nuclear pulse signals, a statistical fluctuation phenomenon of nuclear pulses, the electron pair effect, the Compton effect, the photoelectric effect, and self-radiation of the scintillator, generate single or piled-up pulse signals, corresponding energy spectrum curves, and an environmental background spectral line. 3D visualization configuration and a nuclear signal detection process can be subjected to animated demonstration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Chengdu University of Technology
    Inventors: Guoqiang Zeng, Chuanhao Hu, Qing Li, Min Gu, Xiaofeng Yang, Shimin Hu, Jian Yang
  • Patent number: 11754448
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal detector (1) for detecting electromagnetic radiation, comprising: a readout substrate (10); a membrane (20) suspended above the readout substrate, comprising: a thermometric transducer (23), and a resistive load (25) that is formed from a track that extends longitudinally to form a closed continuous loop; a collecting antenna (16), which is located away from the suspended membrane (20) and coupled to the resistive load (25), and which comprises a coupling track (16.1), which track is located plumb with the resistive load (25) and extends longitudinally to form an open continuous loop, thus permitting inductive coupling between the coupling track (16.1) and the resistive load (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Laurent Dussopt