Patents by Inventor Andreas Zimbal

Andreas Zimbal 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).

  • Publication number: 20050195932
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for conducting non-destructive chemical analysis of test objects (1) by irradiating the test object (1) with neutrons and measuring the quantity of gamma photon radiation, which is emitted by the test object (1) immediately after irradiation, based on the number of gamma photon quanta of the respective photon energy (E?) in order to record a photon energy spectrum (6). The inventive method has the following steps: determining characteristic photon energies (E?) based on the gamma photon radiation quantities of the photon energy spectrum (6) which exceed a background photon radiation, and; determining the elements and/or isotopes of the test object (1) by assigning the characteristic photon energies (E?) to corresponding elements and/or isotopes that are each stored distinctly at a photon energy (E?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Uwe Keyser, Annette Rottger, Stefan Rottger, Andreas Zimbal