Patents by Inventor Bentley Laaksonen

Bentley Laaksonen 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: 20150208983
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for non-invasive determination of attributes of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy to clinically relevant levels of precision and accuracy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectrum, high signal- to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance problems, and calibration transfer problems. The subsystems include an illumination/modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a calibration maintenance subsystem, an FTIR spectrometer subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, and a computing subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Trent Ridder, Ben Ver Steeg, Mike Mills, Bentley Laaksonen
  • Publication number: 20140171759
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for non-invasive determination of hydration, hydration state, total body water, or water concentration by quantitative spectroscopy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectroscopy, high signal-to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance, and calibration transfer. The subsystems include an illumination subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a spectrometer subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, a computing subsystem, and a calibration subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Craig William White, Trent Daniel Ridder, Derek F. Treese, Glenn Leo Price, Benjamin Ver Steeg, Bentley Laaksonen
  • Publication number: 20140155760
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for non-invasive determination of hydration, hydration state, total body water, or water concentration by quantitative spectroscopy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectroscopy, high signal-to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance, and calibration transfer. The subsystems include an illumination subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a spectrometer subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, a computing subsystem, and a calibration subsystem. The system can include a plurality of measurement devices, configured to communicate with each other and with a remote receiver or centralized server. The invention contemplates novel ways to arrange various subsystems and to provide operability and communication among them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventors: Trent Daniel Ridder, Benjamin Ver Steeg, Bentley Laaksonen
  • Patent number: 8174394
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for noninvasive determination of analyte properties of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy to clinically relevant levels of precision and accuracy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectrum, high signal-to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance problems, and calibration transfer problems. The subsystems can include an illumination/modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, a computing subsystem, and a calibration subsystem. The invention can provide analyte property determination and identity determination or verification from the same spectroscopic information, making unauthorized use or misleading results less likely than in systems that use separate analyte and identity determinations. The invention can be used to control and monitor individuals accessing controlled environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: TruTouch Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Trent Ridder, Ben ver Steeg, Mike Mills, Bentley Laaksonen, James McNally, John Maynard, Russell Abbink
  • Publication number: 20120078473
    Abstract: The present invention discloses apparatuses and methods for non-invasive determination of attributes of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy. The embodiments of the present invention include subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue measurements. The subsystems can include an illumination/modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a calibration maintenance subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, and a computing subsystem. Embodiments of the present invention provide analyte property determination and identity determination or verification from the same spectroscopic information, making unauthorized use or misleading results less likely that in systems that include separate analyte and identity determinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Trent Ridder, Bentley Laaksonen, Ben Ver Steeg
  • Publication number: 20110282167
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for non-invasive determination of attributes of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy to clinically relevant levels of precision and accuracy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectrum, high signal- to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance problems, and calibration transfer problems. The subsystems include an illumination/modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a calibration maintenance subsystem, an FTIR spectrometer subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, and a computing subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Trent Ridder, Ben Ver Steeg, Mike Mills, Bentley Laaksonen
  • Publication number: 20110178420
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for improving the performance and utility of breath alcohol measurements through the use of multivariate spectroscopy. In some embodiments, the spectroscopic breath measurement can be combined with multivariate spectroscopic tissue alcohol and/or tissue biometric measurements in order to overcome the limitations encountered by existing breath alcohol measurement devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Trent Ridder, Bill Kardeen, Bentley Laaksonen, Ben Ver Steeg, James McNally, Mike Mills
  • Publication number: 20100010325
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for noninvasive determination of analyte properties of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy to clinically relevant levels of precision and accuracy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of the tissue spectrum, high signal-to-noise ratio and photometric accuracy requirements, tissue sampling errors, calibration maintenance problems, and calibration transfer problems. The subsystems can include an illumination/modulation subsystem, a tissue sampling subsystem, a data acquisition subsystem, a computing subsystem, and a calibration subsystem. The invention can provide analyte property determination and identity determination or verification from the same spectroscopic information, making unauthorized use or misleading results less likely than in systems that use separate analyte and identity determinations. The invention can be used to control and monitor individuals accessing controlled environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Trent Ridder, Ben ver Steeg, James McNally, John Maynard, Russell Abbink, Mike Mills, Bentley Laaksonen