Patents Examined by Edwin C Gunberg
  • Patent number: 12242005
    Abstract: A fault checker system for an X-ray detector, comprising an input interface (IN) for receiving readings acquired by a target detector pixel not exposed to X-radiation. A converter (CV) is configured to convert the readings into a metric. A thresholder (CP) is configured to compare the metric against at least one threshold and, based on the comparing, provide an indication on whether the detector pixel is faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Inon Berent, David Finzi
  • Patent number: 12243904
    Abstract: Microbolometer systems and methods are provided herein. For example, an infrared imaging device includes a microbolometer array. The microbolometer array includes a plurality of microbolometers. Each microbolometer includes a microbolometer bridge that includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a resistive layer configured to capture infrared radiation. The second portion includes a second portion having a plurality of perforations defined therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Teledyne FLIR Commercial Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric A. Kurth, Marin Sigurdson, Robert F. Cannata
  • Patent number: 12226659
    Abstract: A neutron capture therapy system is provided, which may prevent a material of a beam shaping assembly from deformation and damaged, and improve the flux and quality of neutron sources. A boron neutron capture therapy system (100) includes a neutron generating device (10) and a beam shaping assembly (20). The neutron generating device (10) includes an accelerator (11) and a target (T). A charged particle beam (P) generated by acceleration of the accelerator (11) acts with the target (T) to generate neutrons. The neutrons form a neutron beam (N). The neutron beam (N) defines a main axis (X). The beam shaping assembly (20) includes a support part (21) and a main part (23) filled within the support part (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NEUBORON THERAPY SYSTEM LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Lin Chen, Tao Jiang, Fa-Zhi Yan
  • Patent number: 12213820
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a device that includes a cavity formed by a plurality of rails, the plurality of rails connected to both a first support and a second support, each at predetermined intervals about a circumference of the first support and the second support; and at least one particle detection device operably connected to each rail of the plurality of rails. The disclosure is also directed to a scanner that includes the device, and a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    Inventors: Andrew Labella, Amirhossein Goldan, Wei Zhao, Eric Petersen
  • Patent number: 12213826
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining true coincidence events. The systems and methods may determine original coincidence events based on time of occurrence of a plurality of single events. The systems and methods may also determine random coincidence events by processing the plurality of single events based on cycle offsets of detector units that detect the plurality of single events. A difference of any two cycle offsets may be greater than a predetermined coincidence window width. The systems and methods may then determine the true coincidence events based on the original coincidence events and the random coincidence events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Li, Wei Zheng, Longzi Yang, Shitao Liu
  • Patent number: 12210124
    Abstract: A management system includes a monitoring device and at least one detection device. The monitoring device projects detection light for detecting a monitoring target, and identifies the monitoring target based on a detection pattern of reflected light of the detection light. The detection device is installed on the monitoring target. The detection device receives the detection light projected by the monitoring device, and reflects the detection light at a timing set to the detection device in a predetermined period starting from a timing at which the detection light is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Imamura, Koya Takata, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 12207955
    Abstract: A radiation detector according to an embodiment includes a housing, an array substrate that is located inside the housing and includes multiple detecting parts detecting radiation directly or in collaboration with a scintillator, a circuit board that is located inside the housing and electrically connected with the array substrate, and a conductive part located between a ground and a plate-shaped body inside the housing, wherein the ground is film-shaped and is located in the circuit board, and the plate-shaped body is conductive and is located in the housing. The conductive part is conductive and includes a softer material than a material of the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CANON ELECTRON TUBES & DEVICES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Kawabata, Ryo Mibuka
  • Patent number: 12208283
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for coupling Monte Carlo source modeling with deterministic dose calculations. An internal volumetric first scatter distributed source of a patient is determined using Monte Carlo simulations and ingested into one or more dosing algorithms. The dosing algorithms use the source model to determine a dose deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Alexander Maslowski, Douglas Allen Barnett, Todd Wareing
  • Patent number: 12203874
    Abstract: An EUV microscope apparatus utilizing a source of EUV light. The light is sent to a collector which creates a first focused EUV beam. A monochromator module receives the first focused EUV beam and produces a second focused EUV beam that is passed to an illumination module. The output of the illumination module is reflected off a mask. The reflected beam from the mask is sent to a zone-plate and a detector to produce an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: EUV Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Chami N. Perera, David C. Houser, Charles G. Murray, Alexander N. Khodarev, Travis W. Grodt
  • Patent number: 12205974
    Abstract: An electronic device including a substrate, a silicon transistor disposed on the substrate, an oxide transistor disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the silicon transistor, and a sensor configured to receive a light and output a signal. The silicon transistor and the oxide transistor are operated corresponding to the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
    Inventors: Chandra Lius, Kuan-Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 12193856
    Abstract: A device for implementing a latching function of an adjustment axis of an X-ray C-arm comprises at least two magnetic bodies and two components of the adjustment axis that are movable relative to one another. A first component of the two relatively movable components of the adjustment axis is operatively connected to a magnetic body of the at least two magnetic bodies. A second component of the components of the adjustment axis movable relative to one another is a component of the X-ray C-arm system and the second magnetic of the at least two magnetic bodies is operatively connected to this component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Ziehm Imaging GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Sander
  • Patent number: 12196898
    Abstract: A signal processing system and method for a radiation detector based on a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor are disclosed. The signal processing system includes a power supply generation module, an analog signal processing module, and a digital signal acquiring-processing module. The power supply generation module provides a novel power supply method, and converts a positive high voltage power supply into a negative high voltage power supply to supply power to a last dynode of a photomultiplier tube (PMT). The analog signal processing module converts a negative current pulse signal into a voltage difference signal. The digital signal acquiring-processing module acquires a signal of the analog signal processing module, and converts the signal into a digital signal for identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE CHINESE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, TIANJIN HUAFANG TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY, YANTAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TIANJIN ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING CENTER
    Inventors: Qiang Liu, Zhenhua Lin, Jinhan Wang, Kunliang Yao, Yudong Luo, Sheng Wu, Yongjie Wang, Jianzheng Gao, Ming Cui
  • Patent number: 12196892
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method (200) of radiation events localizations is indicated for a pixelated radiation detector (10) having a scintillator array (24) of scintillator array elements (26) arranged in an (m)×(n) array, and an optical sensor array (28) of optical sensors (30) arranged in a (q)×(z) array and coupled to the scintillator array (24) in light sharing mode. The method includes the steps of sampling (72) spatial intensity distributions of scintillation photons emitted by the scintillator array (24) in response to multiple incident radiation events; performing a clustering analysis (76) based on the sampled spatial intensity distributions, to obtain clusters (84) of radiation events attributed to scintillator array elements (26), wherein the dimension of the sampled spatial intensity distributions correspond to the (q)×(z) dimensions of the optical sensor array (28), and determining the localization of the radiation events based on the clustering analysis (76).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ETH Zurich
    Inventors: Max Ludwig Ahnen, Jannis Nikolaus Rudolf Fischer
  • Patent number: 12200368
    Abstract: A radiation detection apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information representing a setting of a target region that is a target of automatic exposure control, and information representing a radiation transmission characteristic of an object corresponding to the target region, a setting unit configured to set a candidate region based on the target region, a monitoring unit configured to monitor a radiation dose during incidence in the candidate region, a specifying unit configured to specify, as a detection region, a region where the monitored radiation dose falls within a range determined in accordance with the radiation transmission characteristic, and an output unit configured to output the radiation dose monitored in the detection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12177601
    Abstract: A control apparatus connected to a plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, includes a receiver that receives state information indicating whether a state is a first state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is not connected to or synchronized with a specific synchronization source or a second state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is connected to and synchronized with the specific synchronization source, from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, a hardware processor that makes a first determination that at least one of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses is in the first state or a second determination that all of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses are in the second state, based on the state information received from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, and an outputter that outputs whether a determination result by the hardware processor is the first determination or the second determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masahiro Kuwata
  • Patent number: 12169261
    Abstract: A radiation detection module according to an embodiment includes an array substrate including multiple photoelectric converters, a scintillator that covers a region in which the multiple photoelectric converters are located and that has larger dimensions than the region in which the multiple photoelectric converters are located when viewed in plan, and a light-absorbing part that is located on the scintillator and is capable of absorbing visible light. The light-absorbing part is located outward of the region in which the multiple photoelectric converters are located when viewed in plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: CANON ELECTRON TUBES & DEVICES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aida, Hiroshi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 12164066
    Abstract: Methods of scintillation, scintillation devices, and metal halide hybrids that may be used as X-ray scintillators. The metal halide hybrids may include organic metal halide hybrids, inorganic metal halide hybrids, or organic-inorganic metal halide hybrids. The metal halide hybrids may have a 0D structure. The metal halide hybrids may be in the form of one or more discrete crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Biwu Ma, Liang-Jin Xu, Qingquan He
  • Patent number: 12161499
    Abstract: Systems and methods for four-dimensional CT scan are provided. The methods may include determining a first region of a subject and a second region. A movement of the subject may occur within the second region. The methods may further include generating a first image set by performing, based on a first operation parameter corresponding to a first scan, the first scan on the first region of the subject, and generating a second image set by performing, based on a second operation parameter corresponding to a second scan, the second scan on a second region of the subject. The methods may further include obtaining movement information corresponding to the movement of the subject and determining a final image set based on the first image set, the movement information, and the second image set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Buliang Sun, Wei Zhang, Jonathan Maltz
  • Patent number: 12158375
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an outer case, a circuit substrate, a thermopile sensor chip, a filter structure, and a waterproof structure. The outer case has an opening. The circuit substrate is disposed inside the outer case. The thermopile sensor chip is disposed on the circuit substrate. The filter structure is disposed above the thermopile sensor chip. The waterproof structure is surroundingly connected between the filter structure and the outer case, wherein the waterproof structure has a through hole for exposing the filter structure and communicated with the opening of the outer case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Ming-Han Tsai, Chih-Ming Sun, Jian-Cheng Liao
  • Patent number: 12153173
    Abstract: An object is to improve the reliability of output information by simplifying a wiring route. A radiation image sensor includes a radiation detector in which a plurality of pixels of a charge generator for generating a charge corresponding to energy or the number of particles of incident radiation and a plurality of read circuits for outputting a digital value based on the charge generated by each pixel of the charge generator are mutually stacked and two-dimensionally disposed, and a circuit board on which a plurality of radiation detectors is disposed, in which the plurality of read circuits of one radiation detector is configured to transfer data indicating a digital value in the plurality of read circuits and then output the data to another adjacent radiation detector in response to a control signal from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, ANSEEN INC
    Inventors: Toru Aoki, Katsuyuki Takagi, Akifumi Koike