Patents Examined by Djura Malevic
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Patent number: 11726035Abstract: A method of foreign object debris discrimination incudes illuminating particulates located within a sensing volume with a first electromagnetic radiation pulse emitted from a first source, and illuminating the particulates within the sensing volume with a second electromagnetic radiation pulse emitted from a second source, wherein the second electromagnetic radiation pulse has a second wavelength range within the terahertz (THz) regime. The first electromagnetic radiation returns and the second electromagnetic radiation returns are compared to determine a scattering ratio from the comparing step. The scattering ratio is then utilized to determine a resultant foreign object debris type of the solid objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: David L. Lincoln, Jose-Rodrigo Castillo-Garza
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Patent number: 11726037Abstract: Compositions, articles, systems, and methods for sensing and/or authentication using luminescence imaging are generally provided. In some embodiments, an article (or packaging material of an article) is associated with an emissive material comprising an emissive species (e.g., a luminescent species). In some cases, the emissive species has an emission lifetime of at least 10 nanoseconds (ns). In some cases, a characteristic of an article (e.g., identity, authenticity, age, quality, purity) may be determined by obtaining an image (or series of images) comprising time-dependent information related to an emissive species. In certain instances, for example, the emission lifetime of an emissive species may be determined from an image (or series of images). Since the emission lifetime of an emissive species may be modified by a number of factors, including but not limited to binding or proximity to other molecules (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: C2Sense, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Manning Swager, Jason R. Cox, Robert Deans
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Patent number: 11719835Abstract: A radiation-sensing device is provided. The radiation-sensing device includes a substrate, a first scintillator layer, a second scintillator layer, and an array layer. The first scintillator is disposed on a first side of the substrate, and includes a plurality of first blocking walls and a plurality of first scintillator elements. The plurality of first scintillator elements are located between the plurality of first blocking walls. The second scintillator layer is disposed on a second side of the substrate, and the second side is opposite to the first side. The array layer is located between the first scintillator layer and the second scintillator layer, and has a plurality of photosensitive elements. In addition, a projection of at least one of the plurality of first blocking walls on the substrate overlaps with a projection of at least one of the plurality of photosensitive elements on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: InnoCare Optoelectronics CorporationInventor: Chih-Hao Wu
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Patent number: 11712211Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Johannes Köpnick, Eugen Hermann, Hanns-Ingo Maack
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Patent number: 11714271Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Singular Genomics Systems, Inc.Inventors: Hu Cang, Eli N. Glezer
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Patent number: 11709136Abstract: Methods and apparatus for inferring protein binding based on rotational diffusion of a collection of fluorophores.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: CALICO LIFE SCIENCES LLCInventors: Andrew Gregory York, Maria Del Mar Ingaramo
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Patent number: 11709139Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: New Jersey Institute of TechnologyInventors: John F. Federici, Louis Rizzo, Ian Gatley, Samuel Gatley, Joseph Maillia
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Patent number: 11693128Abstract: A dosimeter includes a housing and a printed circuit board positioned within the housing. A silicon photomultiplier is operably connected to the printed circuit board. A scintillator formed of Ce-activated lithium aluminosilicate glass is positioned on the silicon photomultiplier. An optical coupling is positioned between the scintillator and the silicon photomultiplier, and an optical reflector surrounds the scintillator.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC MESSTECHNIK GMBHInventors: Erich Leder, Michael Iwatschenko-Borho, Norbert Trost, Reinhard Buchhold
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Patent number: 11692937Abstract: Provided are a spectral calibration apparatus and a spectral calibration method capable of performing spectral calibration with high accuracy even when peaks appear simultaneously between fluorescent dyes. The spectral calibration apparatus for calculating a color conversion matrix used in color conversion processing, includes a spectral signal acquisition unit that acquires a spectral signal of fluorescence detected over time, a candidate calculation unit that calculates a candidate of the color conversion matrix for each value of a parameter, which depends on a frequency at which fluorescence peaks of fluorescent dyes appear at the same time, based on the spectral signal, and a selection unit that selects a color conversion matrix based on an evaluation value calculated for each candidate.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Kawaguchi, George Chalkidis, Tomohiro Yasuda
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Patent number: 11680897Abstract: A sample cell includes an annular support surrounding a sample region. A set of reflectors of the annular support define an optical path that reflects a source beam in a sequence of alternating directions through the sample region at a plurality of different angles such that the source beam exits the set of reflectors after having passed through the sample region a plurality of times. A micro-cell is positionable in the sample region including multi-dimensionally distributed nano-pores. A slidingly adjustable lens forms part of source and detector photomixing packages.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Inventor: Joseph R. Demers
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Patent number: 11675103Abstract: A method for making natural gamma ray measurements includes deploying a logging while drilling tool including an electrical neutron output of the electrical neutron source is modulated and the natural gamma ray sensor is used to make a corresponding gamma ray measurement during at least a portion of the modulation. The gamma ray measurement is processed to obtain a corrected total natural gamma ray measurement of the subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Fabien Haranger, Marie-Laure Mauborgne
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Patent number: 11656221Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for identifying compounds that cause structural changes in a protein bound to an actin filament. The methods include the use of cells that include two actin-binding proteins, each labeled with a chromophore, and exposing the cells to a test compound. The method further includes detecting a change in fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between the chromophores.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAInventors: Adam William Avery, Thomas S. Hays, David D. Thomas, Michael E. Fealey, Robyn T. Rebbeck
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Patent number: 11651492Abstract: In one embodiment, an X-ray inspection system may nondestructively inspect a printed circuit board to measure a number of dimensions at a number of pre-determined locations of the printed circuit board. The X-ray inspection system may generate a data set for the printed circuit board based on the measured dimensions. The X-ray inspection system may calculate one or more drilling values based on the data set of the printed circuit board. The X-ray inspection system may provide, to a drilling machine, instructions for drilling a number of plated-through vias based on the calculated drilling values for the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Bruker Nano, Inc.Inventors: David Lewis Adler, Scott Joseph Jewler, Freddie Erich Babian, Andrew George Reid, Benjamin Thomas Adler
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Patent number: 11647970Abstract: A nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a scintillator configured to emit self-radiation, storage, and processing circuitry. The storage stores first detection efficiency correction data that is generated based on an external radiation source or a simulation and first detection efficiency data per scintillator that is calculated based on radiation that is emitted from the scintillator. The processing circuitry calculates second detection efficiency data per scintillator that is calculated based on radiation that is emitted from the scintillator and generates second detection efficiency correction data based on the first detection efficiency correction data, the first detection efficiency data, and the second detection efficiency data.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Masaki Miyahara
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Patent number: 11652179Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein facilitates the monitoring of direct ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation exposure by a person via a system having a sensor (such as Lanthanum doped lead zirconate titanate (PLZT) thin-film sensors or other ferroelectric-based sensors) sensitive to UVB radiation. The system beneficially provides current real-time dosage information associated with Vitamin D production by the person as well as real-time indication of safe exposure and/or harmful exposure to current UVB radiation conditions while also, in some embodiments, takes into consideration a person's age, skin type and sensitivity, body surface area exposed.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: The Board of Trustees of The University of AlabamaInventors: Sushma Kotru, Vaishali Batra
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Patent number: 11644429Abstract: A method for calculating a laminate state of a CFRP laminate according to an embodiment includes acquiring a plurality of images of a cross section of the CFRP laminate orthogonal to a lamination direction by imaging the CFRP laminate with X-rays at a plurality of different positions in the lamination direction, the CFRP laminate including first layers including carbon fibers oriented in a first direction orthogonal to the lamination direction and second layers including carbon fibers oriented in a second direction orthogonal to the lamination direction and different from the first direction, and calculating a parameter correlated with a quantity of voids formed in the first layers and the second layers from the plurality of acquired images, and distinguishing between the first layers and the second layers using the calculated parameter.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Omoto, Yuzo Miura, Yuichi Nagamatsu
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Patent number: 11638840Abstract: 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, a graphical user interface for display on a screen positioned on a gantry of a radiotherapy machine, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a page corresponding to a radiotherapy treatment of a patient, wherein the page comprises a first graphical element indicating at least one attribute of alignment data corresponding to the radiotherapy treatment of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Filip Vojan, Brian Spatola
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Patent number: 11635380Abstract: A system and method for calibration of a fluorometer using a calibration cell comprising a sealed container housing one or more calibration solutions of known fluorescence. The inventive calibration device includes a sealed calibration cell housed in a storage chamber that may be permanently or temporarily affixed to the top of a fluorometer such that the calibration solution can be moved by manual or automated means directly from the storage chamber to the fluorometer cell for a calibration operation. All of the solution needed for any given calibration can be contained exclusively, in small quantity, inside the calibration cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Inventors: Ke Qiu, Shunong Yang, Daniel Paik, Xin Gao, Dimitri Kouznetsov, Thomas McNeel, Michael Willer
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Patent number: 11635532Abstract: There is provided a mechanism that enables a camera apparatus to record an appropriate video image relating to circumstances in which radiation imaging is performed in an imaging room. A radiation imaging system includes a radiation generating apparatus configured to generate radiation toward an object, a radiation detecting apparatus configured to detect, as an image signal, the radiation incident thereto, a camera apparatus configured to record a video image relating to circumstances in which radiation imaging is performed using the radiation in an imaging room, and a camera control apparatus configured to control the camera apparatus. The camera control apparatus recognizes an imaging location at which the radiation imaging is performed in the imaging room, and sets a parameter of the camera apparatus in accordance with the recognized imaging location.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoki Kimura
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Patent number: 11627920Abstract: An apparatus comprising a radiation source, coincident positron omission detectors configured to detect coincident positron annihilation emissions originating within a coordinate system, and a controller coupled to the radiation source and the coincident positron emission detectors, the controller configured to identify coincident positron annihilation emission paths intersecting one or more volumes in the coordinate system and align the radiation source along an identified coincident positron annihilation emission path.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: RefleXion Medical, Inc.Inventor: Samuel Mazin