Patents by Inventor Amir Berger
Amir Berger 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).
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Publication number: 20220202648Abstract: A pharmaceutical compounding system includes a plurality of vials and a receptacle. The system is arranged to remove substances stored within the vials and combine them within the receptacle to form a medication, and each vial is continuously maintained gripped within the system during preparation of the medication.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Amir BERGER, Eli LESHEM, Boris RAPOPORT, Gilad EINY
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Patent number: 11207464Abstract: An apparatus for filling a syringe with a verified dose of radiant fluid has a container holder that holds a container of the radiant fluid wherein a syringe oriented at a septum of the container can penetrate the septum. The syringe holder is configured to continuously grip the syringe, to drive the syringe to the container holder and penetrate the septum, to fill the syringe with a dose of the radiant fluid from the container, to drive the syringe to a transfer post, to drive the syringe to a metering zone of a metering station in order to verify that measured radiation is compatible with the dose, and to release the continuous grip.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Rescue Dose LTDInventors: Amir Berger, Gilad Einy, Eli Leshem, Boris Rapoport
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Publication number: 20210121629Abstract: An apparatus for filling a syringe with a verified dose of radiant fluid has a container holder that holds a container of the radiant fluid wherein a syringe oriented at a septum of the container can penetrate the septum. The syringe holder is configured to continuously grip the syringe, to drive the syringe to the container holder and penetrate the septum, to fill the syringe with a dose of the radiant fluid from the container, to drive the syringe to a transfer post, to drive the syringe to a metering zone of a metering station in order to verify that measured radiation is compatible with the dose, and to release the continuous grip.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Amir BERGER, Gilad EINY, Eli LESHEM, Boris RAPOPORT
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Patent number: 9626613Abstract: A system and method for obtaining an intra-oral X-ray image of a patient. The system includes an information carrier plate having an affixed NFC/RFID tag. The NFC/RFID tag includes a memory. A primary tagging device reads and writes temporary information into the tag's memory over a first communication channel. A scanner is in communication with a secondary tagging device to read and write the temporary information saved in the tag's memory over a second communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventors: Amir Berger, Dmitry Teif, Yuval Ben-Ze'ev
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Patent number: 9245161Abstract: A method for obtaining an X-ray image of a subject on a flexible information carrier plate for computed radiography. A memory is affixed to a surface of the plate, wherein the affixed memory stores information about the plate and is in wireless communication with a computer. A first scan date is stored in the affixed memory. Obtaining the X-ray image uses steps of storing at least a job identifier and a scan status for the plate in the affixed memory; acquiring image data from a scan of the plate following exposure to X-rays, acquiring at least the job identifier from the affixed memory, and associating the acquired image data with the acquired job identifier; incrementing a scan count value and updating the scan status in the affixed memory; erasing image content from the plate; and storing the acquired image data in a second, computer-accessible memory according to the acquired job identifier.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventors: Amir Berger, Bruno Ehrmann, Oded Wigderson, Dmitry Teif, Jean-Marc Inglese
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Publication number: 20150324680Abstract: A system and method for obtaining an intra-oral X-ray image of a patient. The system includes an information carrier plate having an affixed NFC/RFID tag. The NFC/RFID tag includes a memory. A primary tagging device reads and writes temporary information into the tag's memory over a first communication channel. A scanner is in communication with a secondary tagging device to read and write the temporary information saved in the tag's memory over a second communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Amir Berger, Dmitry Teif, Yuval Ben-Ze'ev
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Publication number: 20150238162Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining an intraoral x-ray image from a patient, the apparatus has an x-ray source and a radio-frequency transceiver coupled to the x-ray source and energizable to transmit an interrogation signal, wherein the transceiver is in signal communication with four or more antennae. An intraoral image detector forms an image upon exposure to radiation received from the x-ray source. A radio-frequency transponder is coupled to the image detector and is configured to respond to the interrogation signal by transmitting a wireless response signal. A control logic processor is in communication with the transceiver and provides an output signal indicative of the spatial position of the image detector according to response signals received from the transponder at the four or more antennae. An indicator responds to the output signal by indicating the relative position of the image detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Amir BERGER, Shmuel YITZHAKI, Arkadi KANOVICH
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Patent number: 9055923Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining an intraoral x-ray image from a patient, the apparatus has an x-ray source and a radio-frequency transceiver coupled to the x-ray source and energizable to transmit an interrogation signal, wherein the transceiver is in signal communication with four or more antennae. An intraoral image detector forms an image upon exposure to radiation received from the x-ray source. A radio-frequency transponder is coupled to the image detector and is configured to respond to the interrogation signal by transmitting a wireless response signal. A control logic processor is in communication with the transceiver and provides an output signal indicative of the spatial position of the image detector according to response signals received from the transponder at the four or more antennae. An indicator responds to the output signal by indicating the relative position of the image detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventors: Amir Berger, Shmuel Yitzhaki, Arkadi Kanovich
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Patent number: 8833647Abstract: A method for licensing a system for obtaining an X-ray image of a subject. The system employs flexible information carrier plates for computed radiography, which are exposed to X-rays and then scanned in a scanner. A license media is provided with a RFID transponder, which stores in its memory identification information referring to the system components as well as information referring to an amount of valid licenses available for use of the system components. When the identification information stored in the memory of the license media RFID transponder matches the identification information transmitted to the scanner by a processing and acquisition station the carrier plates are scanned automatically.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventors: Amir Berger, Dmitry Teif, Yuval Ben-Ze'ev
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Publication number: 20140191852Abstract: A method for obtaining an intra-oral X-ray image of a subject on a flexible information carrier plate for computed radiography affixes a memory to a surface of the information carrier plate, wherein the affixed memory stores information about the plate and wherein the affixed memory is in wireless communication with a computer, stores at least a first scan date in the affixed memory, exposes the subject and obtains the intra-oral X-ray image of the subject using steps of: (i) storing identification data about the subject and about the image exposed in the affixed memory; (ii) acquiring image data from a scan of the flexible information carrier plate following exposure to X-rays, acquiring at least the stored identification data from the affixed memory, and associating the acquired image data with the acquired identification data; (iii) erasing image content from the flexible information carrier plate; and (iv) storing the acquired image data in a second, computer-accessible memory according to the acquired idType: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Inventors: Jean-Marc Inglese, Bruno Ehrmann, Alice G. Moon, Amir Berger
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Publication number: 20140112439Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining an intraoral x-ray image from a patient, the apparatus has an x-ray source and a radio-frequency transceiver coupled to the x-ray source and energizable to transmit an interrogation signal, wherein the transceiver is in signal communication with four or more antennae. An intraoral image detector forms an image upon exposure to radiation received from the x-ray source. A radio-frequency transponder is coupled to the image detector and is configured to respond to the interrogation signal by transmitting a wireless response signal. A control logic processor is in communication with the transceiver and provides an output signal indicative of the spatial position of the image detector according to response signals received from the transponder at the four or more antennae. An indicator responds to the output signal by indicating the relative position of the image detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventors: Amir Berger, Shmuel Yitzhaki, Arkadi Kanovich
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Patent number: 8658996Abstract: A scanner for processing intra-oral flexible information carrier plate exposed to X-rays and an envelope for the plate. The scanner comprises housing with an opening for entering an enveloped plate. The envelope is provided with a protrusion and the opening of the scanner is provided with a shoulder. When the enveloped plate is entered in the opening the protrusion abuts the shoulder such that the plate is allowed to exit from the envelope and pass inside the housing while the envelope is retained outside the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventors: Amir Berger, Amit Schnell
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Publication number: 20140049380Abstract: A method for obtaining an X-ray image of a subject on a flexible information carrier plate for computed radiography. A memory is affixed to a surface of the plate, wherein the affixed memory stores information about the plate and is in wireless communication with a computer. A first scan date is stored in the affixed memory. Obtaining the X-ray image uses steps of storing at least a job identifier and a scan status for the plate in the affixed memory; acquiring image data from a scan of the plate following exposure to X-rays, acquiring at least the job identifier from the affixed memory, and associating the acquired image data with the acquired job identifier; incrementing a scan count value and updating the scan status in the affixed memory; erasing image content from the plate; and storing the acquired image data in a second, computer-accessible memory according to the acquired job identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventors: Amir Berger, Bruno Ehrmann, Oded Wigderson, Dmitry Teif, Jean-Marc Inglese
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Patent number: 8558207Abstract: A photostimulable plate reading device. The device includes: at least one photostimulable plate carrying image data and having two opposite surfaces; an illuminator for homogeneously illuminating a first one of the two opposite surfaces of the at least one photostimulable plate with light emitted in a first wavelength range, the illumination causing the at least one photostimulable plate both to emit light in a second wavelength range by photostimulated luminescence and to scatter light in the first wavelength range; a filter for preventing the light scattered in the first wavelength range from passing and for allowing the light emitted in the second wavelength range to pass, the filter facing a second one of the two opposite surfaces of the at least one photostimulable plate; and a detector composed of a two dimensional array of pixels for detecting the light allowed to pass and for obtaining image data therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventors: Amir Berger, Jean Marc Inglese, Sergey Zaslavsky, Moshe Cohen-Erner, Tan Wang
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Publication number: 20130193206Abstract: A method for licensing a system for obtaining an X-ray image of a subject. The system employs flexible information carrier plates for computed radiography, which are exposed to X-rays and then scanned in a scanner. A license media is provided with a RFID transponder, which stores in its memory identification information referring to the system components as well as information referring to an amount of valid licenses available for use of the system components. When the identification information stored in the memory of the license media RFID transponder matches the identification information transmitted to the scanner by a processing and acquisition station the carrier plates are scanned automatically.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2012Publication date: August 1, 2013Inventors: Amir Berger, Dmitry Teif, Yuval Ben-Ze'ev
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Publication number: 20120236998Abstract: A scanner for processing intra-oral flexible information carrier plate exposed to X-rays and an envelope for the plate. The scanner comprises housing with an opening for entering an enveloped plate. The envelope is provided with a protrusion and the opening of the scanner is provided with a shoulder. When the enveloped plate is entered in the opening the protrusion abuts the shoulder such that the plate is allowed to exit from the envelope and pass inside the housing while the envelope is retained outside the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2011Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventors: Amir Berger, Amit Schnell
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Publication number: 20120001737Abstract: A method for obtaining an X-ray image of a subject on a flexible information carrier plate for computed radiography. A memory is affixed to a surface of the plate, wherein the affixed memory stores information about the plate and is in wireless communication with a computer. A first scan date is stored in the affixed memory. Obtaining the X-ray image uses steps of storing at least a job identifier and a scan status for the plate in the affixed memory; acquiring image data from a scan of the plate following exposure to X-rays, acquiring at least the job identifier from the affixed memory, and associating the acquired image data with the acquired job identifier; incrementing a scan count value and updating the scan status in the affixed memory; erasing image content from the plate; and storing the acquired image data in a second, computer-accessible memory according to the acquired job identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Inventors: Amir Berger, Bruno Ehrmann, Oded Wigderson, Dmitry Teif, Jean Mark Inglese
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Publication number: 20110073787Abstract: A photostimulable plate reading device. The device includes: at least one photostimulable plate carrying image data and having two opposite surfaces; an illuminator for homogeneously illuminating a first one of the two opposite surfaces of the at least one photostimulable plate with light emitted in a first wavelength range, the illumination causing the at least one photostimulable plate both to emit light in a second wavelength range by photostimulated luminescence and to scatter light in the first wavelength range; a filter for preventing the light scattered in the first wavelength range from passing and for allowing the light emitted in the second wavelength range to pass, the filter facing a second one of the two opposite surfaces of the at least one photostimulable plate; and a detector composed of a two dimensional array of pixels for detecting the light allowed to pass and for obtaining image data therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventors: Amir Berger, Jean Marc Inglese, Sergey Zaslavsky, Moshe Cohen-Erner, Tan Wang
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Patent number: 7211785Abstract: A scanning apparatus including a cylindrical member and an optical system. The cylindrical member rotates about a rotational axis and has an outer surface to support a storage phosphor sample thereon. The optical system moves in translation parallel to the rotational axis to scan the sample. The optical system comprises an opening, an excitation beam, an integrating member, and a single detector. The excitation beam is directed through the opening to impinge on a sample and cause light to be emitted from the sample. The integrating member reflects the emitted light using an interior three-dimensional polynomial surface providing diffuse reflection. The single detector is disposed adjacent the integrating member for collecting the reflected emitted light.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2006Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Amir Berger, Moshe B. Haim, Sergey Zaslavasky
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Patent number: 7030404Abstract: Methods and apparatus that facilitate exposure and/or automatic transfer of an image recording medium from an apparatus adapted to handle the image recording medium, such as a cassette, to an image acquisition system, such as an image reader. In one exemplary implementation, a side-access cassette for handling an image recording medium is provided that facilitates the automatic transfer of the image recording medium from the cassette into an automatic loader and from the automatic loader into the cassette. The cassette may further include a radiation conversion window to attenuate radiation during high energy X-ray imaging such that the cassette and automatic loader may be employed in a variety of X-ray imaging processes and techniques. In one aspect, such a conversion window allows recording media such as phosphor plates to be exposed using source radiation incident to the cassette having energy levels on the order of MeV, which is significantly higher than that typically used to expose phosphor plates.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Amir Berger, Boris Rapoport, Jacob Koren