Patents by Inventor Barbara Dale Boyan

Barbara Dale Boyan 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).

  • Protein delivery from stem cell microcarriers
    Patent number: 10441610
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions of microbead carriers for delivery of cells and other biologically active substances to diseased or damaged tissue in a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Barbara Dale Boyan, Zvi Schwartz, Christopher S. D. Lee, Shirae Kerisha Leslie, Ramsey C. Kinney
  • Cranial suture snake algorithm
    Patent number: 9135713
    Abstract: The invention is directed toward methods for assisting in interpreting medical images, especially useful for segmenting images produced by computed tomography or micro-computed tomography. In one embodiment, the invention is directed to method comprising initially identifying the images of the bones from a medical image, estimating a preliminary boundary of the bones, and subsequently segmenting the bones using a snake algorithm initialized by the preliminary boundary of the bones. The results can then be used to establish morphometric measurements from the medical images based on the segmented bone boundaries. In one embodiment of the present invention, the snake algorithm used is a continuous parametric Fourier series representation to fit and optimize the preliminary boundary of the bones to a more accurate representation of the segmented bone boundary from the data included in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Douglas Hermann, Barbara Dale Boyan, Zvi Schwartz
  • PROTEIN DELIVERY FROM STEM CELL MICROCARRIERS
    Publication number: 20140370111
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions of microbead carriers for delivery of cells and other biologically active substances to diseased or damaged tissue in a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Barbara Dale Boyan, Zvi Schwartz, Christopher S.D. Lee, Shirae Kerisha Leslie, Ramsey C. Kinney
  • CRANIAL SUTURE SNAKE ALGORITHM
    Publication number: 20130195324
    Abstract: The invention is directed toward methods for assisting in interpreting medical images, especially useful for segmenting images produced by computed tomography or micro-computed tomography. In one embodiment, the invention is directed to method comprising initially identifying the images of the bones from a medical image, estimating a preliminary boundary of the bones, and subsequently segmenting the bones using a snake algorithm initialized by the preliminary boundary of the bones. The results can then be used to establish morphometric measurements from the medical images based on the segmented bone boundaries. In one embodiment of the present invention, the snake algorithm used is a continuous parametric Fourier series representation to fit and optimize the preliminary boundary of the bones to a more accurate representation of the segmented bone boundary from the data included in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Douglas Hermann, Barbara Dale Boyan, Zvi Schwartz
  • Microencapsulation of cells in hydrogels using electrostatic potentials
    Patent number: 8202701
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing encapsulated cells having an average diameter of less than about 200 ?m are provided. Methods for using the disclosed encapsulated cells are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Barbara Dale Boyan, Ramsey Christian Kinney, Zvi Schwartz