Patents by Inventor Alan C. Samuels

Alan C. Samuels has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Sensor system and method for the panoramic standoff detection of chemical contaminants on terrestrial surfaces
    Patent number: 9322768
    Abstract: A pseudo-active chemical imaging sensor including irradiative transient heating, temperature nonequilibrium thermal luminescence spectroscopy, differential hyperspectral imaging, and artificial neural network technologies integrated together. The sensor may be applied to the terrestrial chemical contamination problem, where the interstitial contaminant compounds of detection interest (analytes) comprise liquid chemical warfare agents, their various derivative condensed phase compounds, and other material of a life-threatening nature. The sensor measures and processes a dynamic pattern of absorptive-emissive middle infrared molecular signature spectra of subject analytes to perform its chemical imaging and standoff detection functions successfully.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Arthur H. Carrieri, Tudor N. Buican, Erik S. Roese, James Sutter, Alan C. Samuels
  • Air sampling method and sensor system for spectroscopic detection and identification of chemical and biological contaminants
    Patent number: 7295308
    Abstract: A continuous monitoring method and system wherein a porous substrate or film is used. The air from the environment is drawn through a region of the porous substrate by a simple air pump and the substances in the air are deposited or chemically adsorbed onto the surface of the substrate. The region of the substrate where the environmental air is drawn through is continuously monitored by an optical or spectrometric method. The substrate is in the form of a tape supplied by a feed reel in a reel-to-reel cartridge and taken up by a take-up reel as found in a film cartridge or a magnetic tape cartridge. The cartridge can be replaceable. A variety of materials may be employed as the substrate with an adequate surface area to effect accumulation of solid, liquid, aerosol, or gas phase compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Alan C. Samuels
  • Air sampling method and sensor system for spectroscopic detection and identification of chemical and biological contaminants
    Patent number: 6985818
    Abstract: A continuous monitoring method and system wherein a porous substrate or film is used. The air from the environment is drawn through a region of the porous substrate by a simple air pump and the substances in the air are deposited or chemically adsorbed onto the surface of the substrate. The region of the substrate where the environmental air is drawn through is continuously monitored by an optical or spectrometric method. The substrate is in the form of a tape supplied by a feed reel in a reel-to-reel cartridge and taken up by a take-up reel as found in a film cartridge or a magnetic tape cartridge. The cartridge can be replaceable. A variety of materials may be employed as the substrate with an adequate surface area to effect accumulation of solid, liquid, aerosol, or gas phase compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Alan C. Samuels
  • Methods and apparatus for detecting lesion-induced resonances in deoxyribonucleic acid via millimeter or submillimeter wave spectroscopy
    Patent number: 6500618
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for measuring the millimeter or submillimeter wave absorption spectra in a sample of DNA molecules are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignees: Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology, The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Dwight L. Woolard, James O. Jensen, William R. Loerop, David L. Rhodes, Hong-Liang Cui, Janet L. Jensen, Alan C. Samuels, Thomas Koscica, Harry Salem