Patents Examined by John M Royston
  • Patent number: 11630038
    Abstract: A method and system are described for processing tissues according to particular processing protocols that are established based on time-of-flight measurements as a processing fluid is diffused into a tissue sample. In one embodiment, measurement of the time it takes about 70% ethanol to diffuse into a tissue sample is used to predict the time it will take to diffuse other processing fluids into the same or similar tissue samples. Advantageously, the disclosed method and system can reduce overall processing times and help ensure that only samples that require similar processing conditions are batched together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bauer, Michael Otter
  • Patent number: 11629982
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a magnetic-inductive flowmeter for measuring flow velocity of a medium, comprising a measuring tube; an apparatus positioned toward a cross-section of the measuring tube for producing a magnetic field extending perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, wherein the apparatus includes a segment coupling the magnetic field into the medium, wherein the segment surrounds the measuring tube over a first angle; and an electrode system having at least two electrode pairs adapted to register a voltage induced in the medium, wherein a second angle defines a minimum circular sector in which the electrodes located on one side of the measuring tube are distributed, wherein first and second angles are so matched to one another that the flowmeter is insensitive to departures from a rotationally symmetric flow such that the flowmeter in a test measurement has a measurement error of flow velocity less than 1.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
    Inventor: Simon Mariager
  • Patent number: 11598625
    Abstract: An apparatus for deformation measurement and a method for deformation measurement are provided. The apparatus includes a housing, a sample holder, a moving mechanism, a first heating device and a second heating device. The sample holder is in the housing. The moving mechanism is over the sample holder. The first heating device is on the moving mechanism. The second heating device is below the sample holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Yu Chen, Ming-Han Wang
  • Patent number: 11585334
    Abstract: A vapor recovery system comprises a vapor recovery unit, environmental tank, control system, vent line, environmental tank line, main vapor recovery unit inlet line, and a discharge line. The vapor recovery unit comprises a vapor recovery vessel and a vapor recovery compressor comprising a motor. The main vapor recovery unit inlet line is fluidly connected to the vapor recovery vessel. The vent line comprises a valve adapted to regulate packing case vapor flow through the vent line to the main vapor recovery unit inlet line. The environmental tank line is fluidly connected to the main vapor recovery unit inlet line. The control system is adapted to monitor a vapor recovery vessel input pressure and control the vapor recovery compressor. The control system is further adapted to control a vapor recovery vessel output to the discharge line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventor: Randy Swan
  • Patent number: 11573197
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes a sensor element, a tubular body made of metal, and a sealing material. The sensor element has a surface. The tubular body has a through hole which is formed along the axial direction and through which the sensor element is inserted. The sealing material is placed inside the through hole and between the inner peripheral surface of the through hole and the sensor element. The sealing material covers a part of the surface of the sensor element. When the sensor element is viewed in cross section from a second direction perpendicular to a first direction corresponding to the longitudinal direction of the sensor element, the sealing material forms a first inclination angle of not less than 10° and not more than 80° with respect to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Niizuma, Yusuke Watanabe, Toshihiro Hirakawa, Hayami Aota
  • Patent number: 11567024
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to detection of concentration of micro and nano particles in a fluid environment. An acoustic transmitter array is selective coated with polymer and receiver array is deployed at a random location in a conduit. The acoustic transmitter array on the conduit is insonified at a predetermined frequency to obtain a plurality of reflected signals. A plurality of key features pertinent to the conduit are extracted from the plurality of reflected signals to obtain a plurality of acoustic signals. A correlation model is configured by inputting, at least one feature associated with the pre-processed acoustic signals. A known concentrations of nano and micro particles are trained with an artificial neural network algorithm and calibrated with ground truth data. The location of the transmitter array and receiver array and the correlation model are finalized for detecting concentration of the particular micro and nano particles in the fluid environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Parijat Dilip Deshpande, Jayita Dutta, Beena Rai
  • Patent number: 11567038
    Abstract: Described are an apparatus, computer program product, and associated methods for shaped waveform acoustic interrogation of substances and materials to determine one or more properties of the materials or substances. In some embodiments, a shaped waveform is formed by summing two or more different waveforms and an acoustic wave is generated according to the shaped waveform. The acoustic wave is transmitted by one or more transmitting transducers through the substance or material and received by one or more receiving transducers. The shaped waveform acoustic wave can have a duration or a period that is less than about 20 ?s and can comprise predetermined frequency content. Characteristics of the shaped waveform acoustic wave, as received at the receiving transducer(s), including characteristics such as amplitude, frequency, time of flight, etc., can be associated with said one or more properties of the substance or material to provide for real-time monitoring of these properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Dipen N. Sinha, Cristian Pantea
  • Patent number: 11567037
    Abstract: Sensors, methods, and computer program products for air bubble detection and fluid composition determinations are provided. An example sensor device for use with fluid flow systems includes a force pulse generator coupled with a fluid flow system that emits a force pulse and a force pulse sensor coupled with the fluid flow system. The force pulse sensor receives the force pulse emitted by the force pulse generator and determines the fluid flow system's transient response to the force pulse. Based upon the transient response, the force pulse sensor determines an operating condition of the fluid flow system. The operating condition may be indicative of the presence of an air bubble within the fluid flow system or may be indicative of a composition of a fluid within the fluid flow system. The force pulse sensor may further determine the amplitude and rate of decay of the transient response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Kuna Venkat Satya Rama Kishore, Kaligaselvi Lenin, Kumaran S. Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 11561208
    Abstract: A thermoresistive gas sensor includes two identical, flat meshes that consist of a semiconductor material with a predetermined type of conductivity and that are interconnected in sections of an electric measuring bridge that are diametrically opposite one another, wherein each mesh of the two identical, flat meshes has mesh webs that extend parallel, adjacent to one another and that are connected electrically in parallel at the ends, where the mesh webs of the two meshes extend alternately adjacent to one another in a shared mesh plane horizontally across a window opening in a carrier plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Klehr, Günter Marcaux
  • Patent number: 11554049
    Abstract: In some examples, a distributed acoustic detector system may include a frame structure and multiple acoustic detectors. The frame structure may be configured to be retained in a laser-based ophthalmo-logical surgical system aligned to an eye of a patient during therapeutic treatment of the eye of the patient with the laser-based ophthalmological surgical system. The acoustic detectors may be coupled to the frame structure and may be spaced apart from each other and electrically separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: LUTRONIC VISION INC.
    Inventors: Dayan Ban, Mordehai Margalit, Taeho Ha
  • Patent number: 11555755
    Abstract: There is provided a method of calibrating multiple chamber pressure sensors of a substrate processing system. The substrate processing system includes: multiple chambers; multiple chamber pressure sensors; multiple gas suppliers configured to supply a gas to an internal space of the multiple chambers; multiple exhausters connected to the internal spaces of the multiple chambers via multiple exhaust flow paths; and multiple first gas flow paths. The method includes: acquiring a third volume, which is a sum of a first volume and a second volume; acquiring a first pressure change rate of the internal space of a selected chamber; calculating a second pressure change rate of the internal space of the selected chamber; and calibrating the selected chamber pressure sensor such that a difference between the first pressure change rate and the second pressure change rate is within a preset range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Risako Matsuda, Keita Shouji
  • Patent number: 11548031
    Abstract: An array-type ultrasonic sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a first sensing array, and a second sensing array. The first sensing array includes a plurality of first ultrasonic sensing units. Each of the first ultrasonic sensing units includes a first positive electrode and a first negative electrode. The first positive electrodes are connected in series with each other, and the first negative electrodes are connected in series with each other. The second sensing array includes a plurality of second ultrasonic sensing units. Each of the second ultrasonic sensing units includes a second positive electrode and a second negative electrode. The second positive electrodes are connected in series with each other, and the second negative electrodes are connected in series with each other. One of the first sensing array and the second sensing array is configured to transmit ultrasonic waves, and the other is configured to receive reflected ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONICMEMS (ZHENGZHOU) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Hsiang Chiu, Hung-Ping Lee
  • Patent number: 11543272
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for measuring a flow of a fluid using a magnetic flow sensor, including: introducing a magnetic flow sensor into a fluid, wherein the fluid has a flow path, wherein the magnetic flow sensor comprises a coil and metallic field disrupter; positioning the magnetic flow sensor such that a distal end of the magnetic flow sensor is parallel with the flow path of the fluid; and measuring a flow of the fluid by measuring a voltage received from the magnetic flow sensor. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MCCROMETER, INC.
    Inventors: David Christian Wick, Matt Holmes, Javier Tornero-Guerrero, James Takao Prince
  • Patent number: 11543335
    Abstract: A tensile test fixture for quick testing of materials with low transverse strength and relatively high longitudinal strength. After the tensile test fixture is loaded into a universal testing machine, such as a two-part load frame, a first test specimen is aligned and tensile tested. Alignment of the first test specimen ensures that all consecutive test specimens are aligned within the tensile test fixture without further alignment required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    Inventor: Raphael Kampmann
  • Patent number: 11542590
    Abstract: A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate; a functional layer formed of a metal, an alloy, or a metal compound, on one surface of the substrate; and a resistor formed of material including at least one from among chromium and nickel, on one surface of the functional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asakawa, Yuta Aizawa, Shinya Toda, Shintaro Takata, Shinichi Niwa
  • Patent number: 11543394
    Abstract: A combined analyzer includes a thermal analyzer, a trap, a gas chromatograph, a mass spectrometer, a first flow path to which a gas generated in the thermal analyzer is supplied, a second flow path that branches from the first flow path and is connected to the mass spectrometer, a third flow path that branches from the first flow path and is connected to the trap, a fourth flow path that connects the trap and a column included in the gas chromatograph, and a fifth flow path that connects the column and the mass spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuta Shibutani, Kazuteru Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11531002
    Abstract: A gas sensor (100) extending in an axial direction AX including: a gas sensor element (120) which detects the concentration of a specific gas in a gas under measurement; a tubular metallic shell (110) having a polygonal tool engagement portion (110B) surrounding the gas sensor element (120); a tubular outer tube (103) which extends rearward from the metallic shell (110), surrounds the gas sensor element (120), and has an opening (103E) at a rear end thereof; a sealing member (191) which seals the opening (103E); and a tubular heat dissipating member (104) which surrounds the outer tube (103) and reduces the amount of heat transferred from the forward end side of the gas sensor (100) through the outer tube (103) to the sealing member (191). The maximum diameter D1 of the heat dissipating member (104) is equal to or less than the opposite side dimension D2 of the tool engagement portion (110B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Matsuyama, Masahiro Asai, Masashi Nomura, Yuto Inose
  • Patent number: 11519880
    Abstract: An automated device for non-destructive testing for the detection of defects of a complex tubular product includes at least one ultrasound transducer arranged to emit an ultrasound beam having an emission orientation. The automated device further includes control and processing electronics configured to define at least one ultrasound burst parameter as a function of the longitudinal and/or circumferential position of the ultrasound emission means, so as to detect defects in the tube wall. The at least one parameter being chosen from the burst emission orientation, the gain or the position of the temporal filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: VALLOUREC TUBES FRANCE
    Inventor: Olivier Lazzari
  • Patent number: 11519766
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement of a flow measuring device with a testing device. The flow measuring device comprises an inlet section and an outlet section. A rotor is arranged between the inlet section and the outlet section. The rotor is designed for a rotational movement in the event of a fluid flow between the inlet section and the outlet section. At least one indicator element is arranged on the rotor. The flow measuring device further comprises a measuring element, which is adapted to detect a movement of the indicator element. The indicator element comprises a magnetic material. The testing device is designed to set the rotor in rotational motion, preferably without contact. The invention further relates to a method for the functional testing of a flow measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: INNOVATIVE TAP SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Hermann Redl
  • Patent number: 11513105
    Abstract: A composition of a focused portion corresponding to a portion of a molecular ion is estimated as a partial composition based on a mass of the focused portion. An initial composition search range is modified based on the partial composition. A composition of the molecular ion is estimated as an overall composition based on a mass of the molecular ion under a modified composition search range. A way of modifying the composition search range may include a method for modifying a lower limit to a range of the number of atoms and a method for adding a new range of the number of atoms associated with a new chemical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: JEOL Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayumi Kubo, Masaaki Ubukata