Patents by Inventor Daniel E. Mason

Daniel E. Mason 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 system for mining mass spectral data
    Patent number: 7158862
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for mining mass spectral data to detect chemical-specific characteristic features in large databases and/or files, including specifying spectral characteristics of mass spectra to mine, specifying a relationship between the spectral characteristics, searching the mass spectra for portions of the mass spectra which match the spectral characteristics based on the relationship, and assigning scores to the portions of mass spectra to indicate a degree of correlation between the portions of mass spectra and the spectral characteristics. Exemplary embodiments encompass a user specification of the spectral characteristics and their relationships used to mine the mass spectral data, automated specification of the spectral characteristics and their relationships used to mine the data, and real-time data mining wherein the mass spectrometer is adjusted based on the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventors: Daniel C. Liebler, Beau T. Hansen, Daniel E. Mason, Sean W. Davey, Juliet A. Jones, Thomas McClure
  • Method and system for mining mass spectral data
    Publication number: 20020023078
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for mining mass spectral data to detect chemical-specific characteristic features in large databases and/or files, including specifying spectral characteristics of mass spectra to mine, specifying a relationship between the spectral characteristics, searching the mass spectra for portions of the mass spectra which match the spectral characteristics based on the relationship, and assigning scores to the portions of mass spectra to indicate a degree of correlation between the portions of mass spectra and the spectral characteristics. Exemplary embodiments encompass a user specification of the spectral characteristics and their relationships used to mine the mass spectral data, automated specification of the spectral characteristics and their relationships used to mine the data, and real-time data mining wherein the mass spectrometer is adjusted based on the result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Applicant: THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS...OF ARIZONA
    Inventors: Daniel C. Liebler, Beau T. Hansen, Daniel E. Mason, Sean N. Davey, Juliet A. Jones, Thomas McClure