Patents Examined by Hugh H Maupin
  • Patent number: 10281610
    Abstract: A system includes a data processing system including a processor operatively coupled to a memory. The processor is configured to receive a first dataset indicative of spectral information regarding photons received from a first detector of a formation density tool. The processor is configured to receive a second dataset indicative of a total count rate of photons from a second detector of the formation density tool. The processor is configured to determine physical characteristics of a geological formation based on the spectral information and the total count rate. The processor is configured to display the physical characteristics of the geological formation in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Avtandil Tkabladze, Sicco Beekman
  • Patent number: 10267685
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting a focal length of a mirror are provided. Some systems can include an adjustment device having an slot, a mirror that is rotatable about an axis, and a drive coupled to the mirror and configured to engage the slot, wherein movement of the adjustment device can cause the drive to move within the slot upwards or downwards in accordance with a slope of the slot, thereby rotating the mirror about the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Guobin Xu, Haidong Xu, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 10247931
    Abstract: An optical measurement method and an optical measurement device for determining the spatial or spatiotemporal distribution of a sample, the sample comprising at least one retransmission source retransmitting light depending on light projected onto the sample according to a predetermined law. The method has steps of projection onto the sample of at least two compact light distributions belonging to different topological families, which propagate along the same optical path; detection of the light retransmitted by said at least one retransmission source of the sample; generation of at least one optical image from the detected light; and algorithmic analysis of the optical images for obtaining location data on said at least one retransmission source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Bioaxial SAS
    Inventor: Gabriel Y. Sirat
  • Patent number: 10231647
    Abstract: A person support apparatus includes one or more thermal image sensors whose outputs are analyzed to perform one or more functions. Such functions include automatically turning on a brake, automatically turning on one or more lights, detecting when a patient associated with the person support apparatus has fallen, enabling a propulsion system of the patient support apparatus to be used, automatically controlling one or more environmental controls, and/or automatically arming an exit detection system after entry of a patient onto the person support apparatus. Multiple thermal images may be generated from multiple sensors to generate stereoscopic thermal images of portions of the person support apparatus and its surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Marko N. Kostic, Jonathan Mark Greenbank, Christopher J. Cummings
  • Patent number: 10234573
    Abstract: A dual-mode, hand-held, digital probe, designed to rapidly localize tissues of interest through gamma detection, and provide high-resolution, real-time images of the suspect area by sensing beta radiation is presented. A position-sensitive solid-state photomultiplier is optically bonded with a hybrid scintillator including a thin Crystalline Microcolumnar Structure (CMS) CsI:T1 scintillator, vapor-deposited directly onto a monolithic (polycrystalline) LYSO scintillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Vivek V. Nagarkar, Bipin Singh, Hamid Sabet, Haris Kudrolli
  • Patent number: 10234667
    Abstract: A method for evaluating signals of fluorescence scanning microscopy with simultaneous excitation and detection of fluorescence in different focal planes of a sample by means of confocal laser scanning microscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Yauheni Novikau, Thomas Kalkbrenner, Tiemo Anhut, Daniel Schwedt, Matthias Wald
  • Patent number: 10234571
    Abstract: A radiation detector including a scintillator; a wavelength shifting portion to cause a wavelength shift in photons emitted by the scintillator; and a photodetector optically coupled to the scintillator to receive the wavelength shifted photons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn Robert Tornga, Markus Peter Hehlen, Edward McKigney, Nickolaus Smith, Christopher Hamilton, Daniel Tyler Wakeford, Jillian Cathleen Adams, Olivia Carol Trautschold
  • Patent number: 10222204
    Abstract: Provided is a high-speed 3D imaging system using continuous-wave THz beam scan, and more particularly, a high-speed 3D imaging system using continuous-wave THz beam scan capable of acquiring a 3D image for a sample at a high speed and high precision by measuring a signal reflected from a sample using the continuous-wave THz beam generated from a wavelength-fixed laser and a wavelength-swept laser and having a frequency varying at a high speed to obtain depth direction information on a sample and performing a 2D scan on the sample using a THz beam scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
    Inventors: Ji Sang Yahng, Dae-Su Yee
  • Patent number: 10209174
    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: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Iris International, Inc.
    Inventor: Yong Qin Chen
  • Patent number: 10209373
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a photodetector includes a first photoelectric conversion element, a second photoelectric conversion element, and an absorption layer. The first photoelectric conversion element includes a first photoelectric conversion layer for converting energy of radiation into electric charges. The second photoelectric conversion element includes a second photoelectric conversion layer for converting energy of radiation into electric charges. The absorption layer is arranged between the first photoelectric conversion element and the second photoelectric conversion element to absorb radiation having energy equal to or lower than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Kobayashi, Rei Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10209360
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique to use only two phase captures per frequency capture to perform calculations to generate a depth frame (i.e. a total of 4 captures/depth frame). By using only two phase captures, a depth sensing system can reduce power consumption in the phase-ToF sensor, system memory bandwidth, and processor computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Michael Bleyer, Denis Demandolx, Jian Zhao
  • Patent number: 10210460
    Abstract: A technique relates to a microwave detection device. A quantum non-demolition microwave photon detector is connected to a quadrature microwave hybrid coupler connected. A dispersive nonlinear element is coupled to the quadrature microwave hybrid coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Baleegh Abdo
  • Patent number: 10203248
    Abstract: An electro-optic detector for detecting terahertz radiation comprising an electro-optic material through which the terahertz radiation passes; a probe for transmitting probe radiation into the electro-optic material; an optical arrangement for causing the probe radiation to make multiple passes through the electro-optic material and a radiation detector for detecting the probe radiation after the multiple passes are made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventor: Malcolm Harry Dunn
  • Patent number: 10197651
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid medical PET-SPECT/MR imaging device comprising at least one scintillating crystal and at least one module for detecting radiation which contains at least one matrix of photodetectors and an electronics section, such that said module has a mechanical structure, the external, internal or both surfaces of which are divided into at least two sections, of which at least one is coated in graphene, and the rest in non-ferromagnetic conductive material, or all the sections are coated in graphene, and such that the coating forms a Faraday cage. The invention also relates to a shielding against radiofrequency for a medical imaging device, comprising a graphene coating, which is continuous or in bands, on all the faces of the mechanical structure of the detection module of the device, or a graphene coating, continuous or in bands, on at least one face, combined with a coating of non-ferromagnetic conductive materials on the remaining faces, and said shielding forming a Faraday cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: General Equipment for Medical Imaging S.A., Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Bruker BioSpin AG
    Inventors: Juan Pablo Rigla Perez, Antonio Javier Gonzalez Martinez, Jose Maria Benlloch Baviera
  • Patent number: 10191162
    Abstract: Disclosed is a detector system for x-ray imaging. The detector system includes a detector having a plurality of edge-on detector modules. Each of the edge-on detector modules includes a first edge that is adapted to be oriented towards an x-ray source and a front-side running essentially parallel to the direction of incoming x-rays. The front-side includes at least one charge collecting electrode. At least a subset of the plurality of edge-on detector modules being pairwise arranged, front-side to front-side, whereby a front-side to front-side gap is defined between the front-sides of the pairwise arranged edge-on detector modules. The pairwise arranged edge-on detector modules are associated with an anti-scatter collimator arranged in the x-ray path between the x-ray source and the edge-on detector modules and overlapping the front-side to front-side gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: PRISMATIC SENSORS AB
    Inventors: Mats Danielsson, Staffan Karlsson, Cheng Xu, Martin Sjolin
  • Patent number: 10184904
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a core holder for a micron CT observation and an experimental method thereof. The core holder for a micron CT observation comprises: a carbon fiber pipe and a base; the base comprises a fluid injection channel therein; the carbon fiber pipe is provided with a core mounting cavity and a carbon fiber plunger therein; the carbon fiber pipe is a tubular structure with one end closed and the other end open; the carbon fiber plunger can fix the core between the closed end of the carbon fiber pipe and the carbon fiber plunger; the other end of the carbon fiber pipe is in a detachable sealed connection with an outlet of the fluid injection channel of the base. The core holder for a micron CT observation reduces the distance between the core and the micron CT radiation source, and improves the resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: PETROCHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yanjie Gong, Mengjun Zhao, Qingong Zhuo, Xuesong Lu, Lin Jiang
  • Patent number: 10175172
    Abstract: A multicolor detection device includes: a condensing lens array 17 in which a plurality of condensing lenses 18, each of which turns light emitted from each of a plurality of light emitting points 1 individually into parallel light beams, are arranged, the light emitting points being arranged in a light emitting point array; at least one spectroscopic element on which the parallel light beams are incident in parallel, the at least one spectroscopic element being common; and at least one sensor on which light beams spectrally separated by the spectroscopic element are incident in parallel, the at least one sensor being common.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Anazawa, Satoshi Takahashi, Motohiro Yamazaki, Yoshitaka Kodama
  • Patent number: 10168281
    Abstract: A multicolor fluorescence analysis device 11 is for detecting fluorescence emitted, as a result of excitation light irradiation, from a plurality of types of fluorophores included in a sample s, and is provided with an irradiation optical unit 520 for irradiating light emitted from a light source 510 onto a sample s as excitation light, a fluorescence condensation unit 530 having a fluorescence filter 531 that transmits light emitted from the sample s and transmits light of transmission wavelength bands different from the excitation wavelength bands, and a two-dimensional detector 554 that has a plurality of types of transmission filters 556 for transmitting prescribed wavelengths of light and detects the intensity of the light of the prescribed wavelength for each transmission filter 556, and the light emitted from at least two fluorophores from among the plurality of types of fluorophores is detected simultaneously and the fluorophore types are identified accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Shoji, Junji Shiokawa, Akihito Nishizawa, Hirokazu Kato, Junji Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 10161905
    Abstract: An example smoke detector includes (i) a chamber; (ii) a first electrode disposed within the chamber; (iii) a second electrode disposed within the chamber, wherein gas is disposed in an inner space of the chamber between the first electrode and the second electrode; (iv) a radioactive source generating alpha particles within inner space of the chamber; and (v) a magnet coupled to the chamber, where the magnet generates a magnetic field in the inner space of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Brian Tillotson
  • Patent number: 10161858
    Abstract: An in-situ process-monitoring device for measuring a curing state of components coated with a UV-curable lacquer. The device includes at least one radiation source for curing the lacquer, as well as at least one signal source and at least one spectrometer for measuring radiation of the signal source reflected from the components, in order to determine the curing state. The measuring is carried out in a contactless manner, and the at least one signal source for the measuring is identical to the at least one radiation source for the curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKON
    Inventor: Othmar Zueger