Patents Examined by David P. Porta
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Patent number: 11841321Abstract: A system for biomolecule identification by terahertz sensing, an asymmetric triple split-rectangular (ATSR) metamaterial biosensor, and a method for biomolecule identification by terahertz sensing are presented. The asymmetric triple split-rectangular (ATSR) metamaterial biosensor includes three gap areas which highly confine an electric field. The biosensor includes an E-shaped structure facing an inverted E-shaped structure with gaps between the respective legs. Each leg has a specially designed extension on either side which increases the electric field. A terahertz laser interrogates an analyte upon the metamaterial structure with a plurality of frequencies. The amplitude difference is estimated by an amplitude difference referencing technique. The amplitude difference is matched to a database record to identify the biomolecule analyte.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal UniversityInventor: Ibraheem Abdalwahhab Ibraheem Al-Naib
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Patent number: 11841470Abstract: Provided area device for detecting sub-atomic particles and method of fabrication thereof. The device includes a plurality of scintillators, a detector provided on a first end of the plurality of scintillators and a prismatoid provided on a second end of the plurality of scintillators. The prismatoid redirects light between adjacent scintillators of the plurality of scintillators.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New YorkInventors: Amirhossein Goldan, Andrew Labella, Wei Zhao, Anthony Lubinsky
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Patent number: 11835668Abstract: A circuit for receiving signals from a photodetector array arranged to detect signals generated by a crystal includes a plurality of summing circuits having weighting circuits, the summing circuits being configured to produce outputs corresponding to a total energy of the signals, a position of the signals in a first dimension of the photodetector array, a position of the signals in a second dimension of the photodetector array, and a radius of a charge distribution of the signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yi Qiang, Kent C. Burr, Peng Peng, Xiaoli Li
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Patent number: 11835442Abstract: A flow imaging system based on matrix laser scanning are provided. In the system, a beam splitter component modulates continuous laser generated by a laser source, and the continuous laser is focused on a focal plane by an illumination objective to form matrix spots. The matrix spots are irradiated on a single-cell axial flow of a fluid focusing component. When cells in the single-cell axial flow pass through the matrix spots, a fluorescent signal and a scattered light signal generated are received by a light collecting objective, and then sent to a photoelectric detector through a condenser. The photoelectric detector converts the fluorescence and scattered light signals excited into voltage signals, and the collecting card collects and converts the signals into digital signals, and sends the digital signals to a computer to be recovered through the computer, so as to obtain a cell image.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYInventors: Zheng You, Yong Han, Jingjing Zhao
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Patent number: 11832977Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for producing a 2D panoramic image of an oral cavity comprising the steps: A) provision of a plurality of projection images acquired during an at least partial revolution of a recording unit comprising a radiation source and an electronic image sensor about the oral cavity in a given position; B) calculation of an image including at least one anatomical feature from the plurality of projection images using a calculation rule with reconstruction parameters; C) provision of a model of the at least one anatomical feature, which describes the at least one anatomical feature in a target position in an image; D) identification of the at least one anatomical feature in the calculated image; E) determination of a deviation between an actual position of the at least one identified anatomical feature in the calculated image and the target position of the at least one anatomical feature in the model by applying a metric; F) variation of at least one of the reconstruction parameterType: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.Inventors: Susanne Maur, Stefan Eichner
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Patent number: 11835452Abstract: A system includes a first transmission unit configure to emit a first terahertz wave, a second transmission unit disposed at a position different from a position of the first transmission unit and configured to emit a second terahertz wave, a detection unit for detecting at least one of a first reflected terahertz wave that is a part of the first terahertz wave reflected from an object, or a second reflected terahertz wave that is a part of the second terahertz wave reflected from the object, and outputting image data based on the detected terahertz wave, and a first control unit configured to, under a condition set based on the image data, control at least one of an operation of the first transmission unit or an operation of the second transmission unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeaki Itsuji, Noriyuki Kaifu, Eiichi Takami
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Patent number: 11832978Abstract: An X-ray computed tomography apparatus according to an embodiment includes an X-ray detector and a processing circuitry. The X-ray detector includes a plurality of detection elements arranged in a plurality of rows at least in a channel direction. The processing circuitry acquires an estimated count number of X-rays incident on the X-ray detector for each of the plurality of detection elements and determines a bit number for transmission for detection data indicating a count number of each of the plurality of detection elements based on the estimated count number.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Okajima, Akihiro Ishida, Hiroaki Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11835474Abstract: An X-ray scattering apparatus having a sample holder for aligning and/or orienting a sample to be analyzed by X-ray scattering, a first X-ray beam delivery system having a first X-ray source, and a first monochromator being arranged upstream of the sample holder for generating and directing a first X-ray beam along a beam path in a propagation direction towards the sample holder is disclosed. A distal X-ray detector arranged downstream of the sample holder and being movable, in particular in a motorized way, along the propagation direction as to detect the first X-ray beam and X-rays scattered at different scattering angles from the sample as the first X-ray beam delivery system is configured to focus the first X-ray beam onto a focal spot on or near the distal X-ray detector when placed at its largest distance from the sample holder is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: XENOCS SASInventors: Karsten Joensen, Peter Hoghoj, Ronan Mahe
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Patent number: 11835477Abstract: A method and a device for the detection of radioactive sources, based on the simultaneous use of two or more radiation detectors of different types and the composition of the data collected by the two or more radiation detectors.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CAEN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Massimo Morichi
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Patent number: 11832980Abstract: A radiography apparatus includes an operation controller that invalidates an operation of a collimator using a first operating unit in a case where a radiation generation unit is present vertically downward relatively to a radiography unit, and validates the operation of the collimator using the first operating unit in a case where the radiation generation unit is present vertically upward relatively to the radiography unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yuji Ikeda, Masahito Sambuichi, Hisatsugu Horiuchi, Masayoshi Matsuura, Ryo Imamura
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Patent number: 11835476Abstract: A single-crystal X-ray structure analysis apparatus capable of surely and easily performing operations of removing/attaching a sample soaked in a crystalline sponge from/to the apparatus, and a sample holder attaching device thereof, are provided. There are provided a sample holder attaching device comprising a sample holder attaching mechanism 600 that attaches the sample holder 250 to a goniometer 12 in the single-crystal X-ray structure analysis apparatus in a state where the sample holder 250 is removed from the applicator 300; wherein the sample holder 250 comprises a porous complex crystal capable of soaking the sample in a plurality of fine pores formed therein, and the porous complex crystal is fixed at a position of the sample holder 250 to which X-rays are irradiated from an X-ray irradiation section, in a state where the sample holder 250 is attached to the goniometer 12.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Rigaku CorporationInventor: Takashi Sato
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Patent number: 11836109Abstract: A method includes receiving fluid property data of a fluid and receiving material property data for materials in the fluid. The method includes detecting material sensor data from at least one sensor and applying an inverse model and a forward model to the fluid property data and the material property data to provide at least in part synthetic spectral channel data for the materials.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dingding Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Jing Shen, Anthony Van Zuilekom
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Patent number: 11835669Abstract: A method of normalizing detector elements in an imaging system is described herein. The method includes a line source that is easier to handle for a user, and decouples the normalization of the detector elements into a transaxial domain and an axial domain in order to isolate errors due to positioning of the line source. Additional simulations are performed to augment the real scanner normalization. A simulation of a simulated line source closely matching the real line source can be performed to isolate errors due to physical properties of the crystals and position of the crystals in the system, wherein the simulated detector crystals are otherwise modeled uniformly. A simulation of a simulated cylinder source can be performed to determine errors due to other effects stemming from gaps between the detector crystals.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Wenyuan Qi, Yi Qiang, Evren Asma, Xiaoli Li, Li Yang, Peng Peng, Jeffrey Kolthammer
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Patent number: 11835391Abstract: A radiation detection device includes a plurality of field effect transistors (FETs) arranged to form a resonant cavity. The cavity includes a first end and a second end. The plurality of FETs provide an electromagnetic field defining an standing wave oscillating at a resonant frequency defined by a characteristic of the cavity. A radiation input passing through the cavity induces a perturbation of the electromagnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TIMBRE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Saeed Assadi, James Pogge
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Patent number: 11835451Abstract: Provided is a gas sensor comprising first and second light emitting parts, first and second light receiving parts, a first optical path region and a second optical path region, wherein the optical path regions have a common region, an optical path length of the first optical path region is longer than that of the second optical path region, a rate of change of an output signal with respect to a gas to be measured of the first light receiving part is larger than that of the second light receiving part, a rate of change of an output signal with respect to an interference gas of the second light receiving part is larger than that of the first light receiving part, and a sensitivity peak wavelength of the second light receiving part overlaps with an absorption wavelength of water vapor.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices CorporationInventors: Edson Gomes Camargo, Shota Isshiki
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Patent number: 11826190Abstract: A system and method for generating reports on perfusion blood volume from computed tomography (CT) data acquired from a subject. The method includes receiving multi-faceted CT data acquired from the subject using one of a multi-energy or polychromatic CT acquisition and deriving an iodine concentration in an artery feeding a volume of interest (VOI) in the multi-faceted CT data. The method further includes determining an effective atomic number of a spatial distribution in the VOL calculating a perfused blood volume of the VOI using the iodine concentration and the effective atomic number, and generating a report of the perfused blood volume of the VOI.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Guang-Hong Chen, Ke Li, Thomas Grist
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Patent number: 11828680Abstract: Sub-diffraction limited fluorescent images using a fiber-based stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscope are reported. Both excitation and depletion beams are transported through polarization-maintaining fiber and a lateral resolution of 100 nm has been achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body CorporateInventors: Juliet T. Gopinath, Brendan M. Heffernan, Robert Niederriter, Stephanie A. Meyer, Diego Restrepo, Emily A. Gibson, Mark E. Siemens
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Patent number: 11828887Abstract: The present invention relates to a radioactivity measurement method and a radioactivity measurement system. A radioactivity measurement method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: measuring radioactivity while performing energy scanning and temporal scanning; preparing a database from a time-energy-related data set obtained in result of the scanning; and obtaining a radioactivity measurement value of desired time from the database.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER CO., LTDInventor: Seung Chan Lee
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Patent number: 11828888Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus that is used in a radiation imaging system. The radiation imaging apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to output an image signal based on radiation transmitted through an object and offset data which is acquired by a plurality of acquisition modes and used for correcting the image signal, and a determination unit configured to determine which of a plurality of waiting modes is to be used to make the image capturing unit wait. The determination unit makes a determination based on the acquisition mode of the offset data.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Motoki Tagawa
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Patent number: 11830905Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a terahertz detector based on a Schottky contact grating structure. THz response frequency points are adjusted by adjusting parameters (a grating width, a grating length, a grating region area, a grating period, and a grating pattern form) of the Schottky contact grating structure (in the detector design stage, the grating structure parameters can be adjusted according to the actually required detection frequency points (single frequency point or multiple frequency points)), thereby realizing single-frequency detection or realizing that one detector supports the detection of multiple frequency points. The grating is introduced into the Schottky Barrier Diode, so that the grated Schottky contact resonates with the terahertz waves, the plasma resonance effect is enhanced, and the detection sensitivity is further improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Guangdong University of TechnologyInventors: Jianguo Ma, Shaohua Zhou