Patents by Inventor Carl G. Sapp

Carl G. Sapp 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).

  • Method and apparatus for mobile disaster victim identification
    Patent number: 9582639
    Abstract: Mobile telecommunications or personal computing apparatus may be specially programmed for predicting whether an unknown biological specimen of an individual to be identified originates from or is related to a member of a particular family. The apparatus may comprise an input device including a barcode reader and a virtual touch screen keyboard whereby DNA profile or mass spectrometry test data may be entered among other data for an individual to be identified, for example, a missing person, victim, crime perpetrator or other unknown individual in hypothetical relationship to another individual or to a family pedigree of typed family members. The typed family pedigree in relation to the individual to be identified in hypothetical relation may be displayed on an output display of the apparatus including at least two different profile typing indicators for each displayed member of the pedigree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: J. Douglas Birdwell, Carl G. Sapp, N. Quentin Haas, Scott Hansen, Timothy R. Wentz
  • Method and apparatus for classifying known specimens and media using spectral properties and identifying unknown specimens and media
    Patent number: 8429153
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for determining a metric for use in predicting properties of an unknown specimen belonging to a group of reference specimen electrical devices comprises application of a network analyzer for collecting impedance spectra for the reference specimens and determining centroids and thresholds for the group of reference specimens so that an unknown specimen may be confidently classified as a member of the reference group using the metric. If a trait is stored with the reference group of electrical device specimens, then, the trait may be predictably associated with the unknown specimen along with any traits identified with the unknown specimen associated with the reference group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army, University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: John Douglas Birdwell, Carl G. Sapp, Tse-wei Wang, David J. Icove, Roger Horn, Mark S. Rader, Dale V. Stansberry
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING KNOWN SPECIMENS AND MEDIA USING SPECTRAL PROPERTIES AND IDENTIFYING UNKNOWN SPECIMENS AND MEDIA
    Publication number: 20130054603
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for determining a metric for use in predicting properties of an unknown specimen belonging to a group of reference specimen electrical devices comprises application of a network analyzer for collecting impedance spectra for the reference specimens and determining centroids and thresholds for the group of reference specimens so that an unknown specimen may be confidently classified as a member of the reference group using the metric. If a trait is stored with the reference group of electrical device specimens, then, the trait may be predictably associated with the unknown specimen along with any traits identified with the unknown specimen associated with the reference group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicants: U.S. GOVT. AS REPR. BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: J. Douglas Birdwell, Carl G. Sapp, Tse-wei Wang, David J. Icove, Roger Horn, Mark S. Rader, Dale V. Stansberry