Patents Examined by David P. Porta
  • Patent number: 11712587
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are radiotherapy methods and systems that can display a workflow-oriented graphical user interface(s). In an embodiment, a method comprises presenting, by a server, for display on a graphical user interface, an image of a position of a patient on a couch of a radiotherapy machine, whereby at least a gantry of the radiotherapy machine is configured to rotate around the patient; calculating, by the server, one or more predicted collisions between a part of the radiotherapy machine and at least one of (a) the patient or (b) another part of the radiotherapy machine; and when a portion of the patient is calculated to be in a collision with the part of the radiotherapy machine, revising, by the server, the graphical user interface such that the portion of the patient calculated to be in the collision is visually distinct in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Filip Vojan, Brian Spatola
  • Patent number: 11714073
    Abstract: A method of detecting gas includes determining and storing, by a controller, a zero level of a photoionization detector using ambient air inflow when an ultraviolet lamp is in a turned OFF state, wherein the stored zero level is based on an ambient temperature; sampling, by the controller, an output of a detector electrode of the photoionization detector when the ultraviolet lamp is in a turned ON state; and comparing the sampled output of the detector electrode to the stored zero level to determine if a threshold concentration of a gas is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Guangli Xie, Bo Chen, Zhanghua Wu, Yaofu Gong
  • Patent number: 11715577
    Abstract: A neutron detector is disclosed herein. The neutron detector can include a housing defining a cavity, wherein the housing is configured to permit an amount of neutrons emitted from a core of a nuclear reactor to enter the cavity. The neutron detector can also include an amount of a neutron sensitive material dispositioned within the cavity, wherein the neutron sensitive material is configured to generate and emit gamma rays upon interacting with the amount of neutrons. The neutron detector can further include an amount of electron emissive material configured to generate and emit a current of electrons upon interacting with the emitted gamma rays, wherein the current of electrons is indicative of the amount of neutrons emitted from the core of the nuclear reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
    Inventor: Michael D. Heibel
  • Patent number: 11712211
    Abstract: The invention concerns a storage device for cleaning and charging portable X-ray detectors, and an X-ray system comprising such storage device. The storage device comprises a receiving unit for receiving at least one portable X-ray detector, a cleaning unit for cleaning the portable X-ray detector when being received by the receiving unit, and a charging unit for charging the portable X-ray detector, wherein the cleaning unit is configured for mechanically and/or chemically cleaning the portable X-ray detector. Further, the invention concerns a method of cleaning and charging a portable X-ray detector in a storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Köpnick, Eugen Hermann, Hanns-Ingo Maack
  • Patent number: 11714202
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are variations of megavoltage (MV) detectors that may be used for acquiring high resolution dynamic images and dose measurements in patients. One variation of a MV detector comprises a scintillating optical fiber plate, a photodiode array configured to receive light data from the optical fibers, and readout electronics. In some variations, the scintillating optical fiber plate comprises one or more fibers that are focused to the radiation source. The diameters of the fibers may be smaller than the pixels of the photodiode array. In some variations, the fiber diameter is on the order of about 2 to about 100 times smaller than the width of a photodiode array pixel, e.g., about 20 times smaller. Also disclosed herein are methods of manufacturing a focused scintillating fiber optic plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: RefleXion Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Manat Maolinbay
  • Patent number: 11714271
    Abstract: A multi-depth confocal imaging system includes at least one light source configured to provide excitation beams and an objective lens. The excitation beams are focused into a sample at a first plurality of focus depths along an excitation direction through the objective lens. An image sensor receives emissions from the sample via the objective lens, wherein the emissions define foci relative to the image sensor at a second plurality of focus depths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Singular Genomics Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hu Cang, Eli N. Glezer
  • Patent number: 11709229
    Abstract: A laser radar device includes: a modulator (8) for causing a transmission seed light beam to branch, and giving different offset frequencies to a plurality of the transmission seed light beams having branched, and then modulating the plurality of transmission seed light beams into pulsed light beams and outputting the pulsed light beams, or for modulating the transmission seed light beam into a pulsed light beam, causing the pulsed light beam to branch, and giving the different offset frequencies to a plurality of the pulsed light beams having branched, and then outputting the plurality of pulsed light beams; a band pass filter (14) in which a frequency band including frequencies of signal components included in a plurality of beat signals detected by an optical heterodyne receiver (13) is set as a pass band and a frequency band not including the frequencies of the signal components is set as a cutoff band; and an ADC (15) for sampling the beat signals passing through the band pass filter (14) at a sampling f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ando, Eisuke Haraguchi, Hitomi Ono
  • Patent number: 11709136
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for inferring protein binding based on rotational diffusion of a collection of fluorophores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: CALICO LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Gregory York, Maria Del Mar Ingaramo
  • Patent number: 11707239
    Abstract: A radiological imaging device configured to analyze a limb includes a first module that includes a source configured to emit radiation, a second module that includes a detector configured to receive radiation from the source that has passed through the limb, a control station connected to the first and second modules for controlling movement of the first and second modules and acquiring images from the second module, and a platform having an outer support surface to support the first and second modules. The control station includes a casing and a connecting member that is connected to the casing to attach the platform. The platform is suitable to rotate around an axis approximately parallel to the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: IMAGINALIS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Leonardo Manetti, Massimiliano Leonori, Damiano Fortuna
  • Patent number: 11709139
    Abstract: An example system for detecting pipe defects is provided. The system includes a transmitter, a receiver and a processing device. The transmitter is oriented to transmit Terahertz (THz) waveform pulses towards at least one of an outer surface of a pipe or an inner surface of the pipe. The receiver is oriented to receive reflected Terahertz (THz) waveform pulses from at least one of the outer surface of the pipe or the inner surface of the pipe. The processing device configured is to receive as input the Terahertz (THz) waveform pulses transmitted from the transmitter and the reflected Terahertz (THz) waveform pulses received by the receiver and, based on the received input, determine if a defect in the pipe exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Inventors: John F. Federici, Louis Rizzo, Ian Gatley, Samuel Gatley, Joseph Maillia
  • Patent number: 11709098
    Abstract: A device for detecting energy beam is provided. The device comprises a carbon nanotube structure, a support structure and an infrared detector. The carbon nanotube structure comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes, and an extending direction of each carbon nanotube is parallel to a direction of an energy beam to be detected. The support structure is configured to support the carbon nanotube structure, and make a portion of the carbon nanotube structure suspended in the air. The infrared detector is located below and spaced apart from the carbon nanotube structure. The infrared detector is configured to detect a temperature of a suspended portion of the carbon nanotube structure, and image according to a temperature distribution of the carbon nanotube structure. A method for detecting energy beam is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ke Zhang, Guo Chen, Peng Liu, Kai-Li Jiang, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Patent number: 11703443
    Abstract: The disclosed flow cytometer includes a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM). The WDM includes an extended light source providing light that forms an object, a collimating optical element that captures light from the extended light source and projects a magnified image of the object as a first light beam, and a first focusing optical element configured to focus the first light beam to a size smaller than the object of the extended light source to a first semiconductor detector. The disclosed flow cytometer further includes a composite microscope objective to direct light emitted by a particle in a flow channel in a viewing zone of the composite microscope to the extended light source, a fluidic system and a peristaltic pump configured to supply liquid sheath and liquid sample to the flow channel, and a laser diode system to illuminate the particle in the flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: IRIS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Yong Qin Chen
  • Patent number: 11703605
    Abstract: A system and method for imaging by gamma radiation detection having at least one processing unit analyzing at least one signal provided by at least one set of detection modules mounted on a frame and including, on the one hand, at least one module of Compton camera type having a field of view directed towards a volume delimited by the frame and, on the other hand, at least one pair of coincidence detection PET modules, diametrically opposite to each other on the frame and defining an imaging axis, the processing unit analyzing the signal derived from the Compton-type module to determine the intersection of the imaging axis with the field of view and to determine the optimal orientations and/or locations of the various detection modules on the frame so that the imaging axis passes through the source of the gamma radiation in the object to be imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: A.N.D.R.A., DAMAVAN IMAGING
    Inventor: Alain Iltis
  • Patent number: 11703390
    Abstract: A cigarette temperature detection device including multiple cylindrical convex lenses is provided, wherein each of the cylindrical convex lenses has a thicker central wall between two thinner end walls formed by rotating a parallel line at a predetermined distance around a long axis of an elliptical-like section resulting from cutting the circular convex lens by a plane perpendicular to a centerline. The disclosed cigarette temperature detection device allows accurate and reliable detection of a temperature of an entire circumferential surface of a cigarette on site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ze Liu, Yuanzhen Zhou
  • Patent number: 11701947
    Abstract: A system and method for robust automatic control of an air-conditioning system in a vehicle includes at least one sensor configured to continuously capture technical driving parameters of the vehicle. The system has a computing unit configured to determine a current air quality from the captured technical driving parameters by way of a suitable algorithm. The system has a control unit configured to control the air-conditioning system in the vehicle, wherein the control of the air-conditioning system includes activating the recirculation circuit of the air-conditioning system and/or activating the fresh-air circuit of the air-conditioning system with reference to the determined air quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Nemmer, Marcus Rehwinkel, Gerald Ruehl
  • Patent number: 11703572
    Abstract: A component assembly for a LIDAR sensor including a stator; a rotor; a detector system having at least one first detector; and a first optical waveguide including an input and an output and light-conducting fibers, the first optical waveguide being situated inside the rotor and disposed so as to be able to rotate along with the rotor, and the first optical waveguide is developed to receive a first light beam coming from a surrounding area via the input at the light-conducting fibers and to guide them via the light-conducting fibers out of the output in the direction of the first detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Klaus Stoppel
  • Patent number: 11701076
    Abstract: An operating device for a medical system for imaging and/or intervention is disclosed. In an embodiment, the operating device includes a housing; a grip region; a coupling unit; and a connecting unit. The connecting unit is configured to releasably connect to a holding structure for the operating device and, via the coupling unit, is coupled to the grip region such that a releasing of a releasable connection is caused by a gripping of the grip region with one hand of a person and an establishing of the releasable connection is caused by a letting go of the grip region. Further, the grip region is configured for carrying of the operating device by a gripping the grip region with one hand of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Arnulf Daum, Kay Uwe Seemann, Thorsten Büttner
  • Patent number: 11703442
    Abstract: Provided is a high efficiency and high sensitivity particle capture type terahertz sensing system. The particle capture type terahertz sensing system includes a sensing substrate to capture particles, and a terahertz sensor to emit terahertz electromagnetic waves to the sensing substrate to sense the particles, wherein the sensing substrate includes a base substrate and a particle capture structure layer formed on the base substrate, the particle capture structure layer includes a plurality of slits for focusing the terahertz electromagnetic waves, the particle capture structure layer captures the particles in the plurality of slits using dielectrophoresis, and an area in which the terahertz electromagnetic waves converge to the plurality of slits matches an area in which the particles are captured in the plurality of slits through the dielectrophoresis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Minah Seo, Yong-Sang Ryu, Eui-Sang Yu, Taikjin Lee, Hyun Seok Song
  • Patent number: 11703448
    Abstract: A sample signal amplification method using a terahertz band graphene absorber is provided. The method comprises: fabricating a graphene absorber through steps of metal evaporation, graphene transfer and the like; preparing sample solutions having different concentrations; dropwise adding a sample solution to the surface of the graphene absorber, and then drying in the air at room temperature; collecting terahertz time-domain signals of all sample points to be detected and reference sample points on the surface of the graphene absorber; and calculating absorption rates of all the sample points to be detected and the reference sample points according to the terahertz time-domain signals, and calculating the intensity change of an absorption peak according to the intensity value corresponding to the highest point of the absorption peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yibin Ying, Wendao Xu, Lijuan Xie
  • Patent number: 11703440
    Abstract: A method for determining porosity of a part is provided. The method includes: determining scan data of the part, the scan data including data of a plurality of sequential segments; determining a background model for the part, the scan data, or both; and determining a bulk porosity based on a difference between the scan data and the background model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Frank Ferro, Christopher Michael Meier