Patents by Inventor Dennis Smith

Dennis Smith 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: 20250069729
    Abstract: A system can be configured to: (i) obtain a set of input images images depicting one or more bodily structures of a patient; (ii) determine whether one or more key structures are represented within the set of input images by utilizing a key structure detection module; (iii) determine one or more key images of the one or more images of the set of input images by utilizing a key image localization module; (iv) determine key structure segmentation by utilizing a key structure segmentation module; (v) determine one or more patient condition metrics using the key structure segmentation; and (vi) generate a report associated with the patient based upon the one or more patient condition metrics, or generate an entry at one or more practitioner worklists based upon the one or more patient condition metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Dennis Smith, Steven Adam Rothenberg, Yujan Shrestha
  • Patent number: 12236584
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for facilitating opportunistic screening for cardiomegaly includes obtaining a set of computed tomography (CT) images. The set of CT images captures at least a portion of a heart of a patient, and the set of CT images is captured for a purpose independent of assessing cardiomegaly. The method further includes using the set of CT images as an input to an artificial intelligence (AI) module configured to determine a heart measurement based on CT image set input. The method also includes obtaining heart measurement output generated by the AI module and, based on the heart measurement output, classifying the patient into one of a plurality of risk levels for cardiomegaly. The classification is operable to trigger additional action based on the corresponding risk level for the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: AI METRICS, LLC, THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Andrew Dennis Smith, Robert B. Jacobus, Jr., Paige Elaine Severino
  • Patent number: 12205276
    Abstract: A system for facilitating lesion analysis accesses a first data structure comprising a plurality of entries including anatomic location information and annotation information associated with a plurality of lesions represented in a first set of cross-sectional images. The system displays a respective representation of each of the plurality of entries and presents a second set of cross-sectional images. The system receives user input triggering selection of a particular entry of the plurality of entries of the first data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: AI METRICS, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Dennis Smith
  • Patent number: 12198799
    Abstract: A system can be configured to: (i) obtain a set of input images depicting one or more bodily structures of a patient; (ii) determine whether one or more key structures are represented within the set of input images by utilizing a key structure detection module; (iii) determine one or more key images of the one or more images of the set of input images by utilizing a key image localization module; (iv) determine key structure segmentation by utilizing a key structure segmentation module; (v) determine one or more patient condition metrics using the key structure segmentation; and (vi) generate a report associated with the patient based upon the one or more patient condition metrics, or generate an entry at one or more practitioner worklists based upon the one or more patient condition metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: Body Check, LLC, The UAB Research Foundation
    Inventors: Andrew Dennis Smith, Steven Adam Rothenberg, Yujan Shrestha
  • Patent number: 12148154
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining pulmonary fibrosis disease progression or treatment response includes obtaining a first set of computed tomography (CT) images of a lung and determining a first Pulmonary Surface Index (PSI) score for the lung by detecting a first actual lung boundary of the lung within the first set of CT images, determining a first approximated lung boundary within the first set of CT images, and determining the PSI score using inputs based on the first actual lung boundary and the first approximated lung boundary. The method also includes obtaining a second set of CT images of the lung and determining a second PSI score for the lung using inputs based on a second actual lung boundary and a second approximated lung boundary. The method also includes assessing pulmonary fibrosis treatment response or disease progression based on the first PSI score and the second PSI score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventor: Andrew Dennis Smith
  • Publication number: 20240257947
    Abstract: A system can be configured to: (i) obtain a set of input images depicting one or more bodily structures of a patient; (ii) determine whether one or more key structures are represented within the set of input images by utilizing a key structure detection module; (iii) determine one or more key images of the one or more images of the set of input images by utilizing a key image localization module; (iv) determine key structure segmentation by utilizing a key structure segmentation module; (v) determine one or more patient condition metrics using the key structure segmentation; and (vi) generate a report associated with the patient based upon the one or more patient condition metrics, or generate an entry at one or more practitioner worklists based upon the one or more patient condition metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Dennis Smith, Steven Adam Rothenberg, Yujan Shrestha
  • Patent number: 12036485
    Abstract: A method of separating trichomes from cannabis plant flowers that begins with delivering the cannabis plant material to a hopper and continuously moving the cannabis material from the hopper to a porous container in a bath of cold water, at a controllable rate, and moving the cannabis material contained in the porous container, through the cold bath from an entrance end, to an exit end, thereby removing trichomes, which exit the porous container into the cold water. The remaining cannabis plant material is moved out of the exit end of the bath, at substantially the same rate as the cannabis plant material enters the bath. Finally, the water from the bath is substantially continuously filtered thereby separating the trichomes from the cold water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Green Vault Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dennis Smith, Arnar Kristjan Olgeirsson, Birgir G. Johannesson, Eric Kwan Wylie
  • Publication number: 20240079105
    Abstract: A method for generating a medical record note comprises (i) accessing a corpus of medical documentation for a particular patient; (ii) receiving, at a user interface, chief complaint input indicating a chief complaint associated with the particular patient; (iii) utilizing (a) the chief complaint and (b) at least a portion of the corpus of medical documentation for the particular patient as input to a set of artificial intelligence (AI) modules, the set of AI modules being trained to generate medical record note output in response to medical documentation input; and (iv) generate a medical record note for the particular patient based on output of the set of AI modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Andrew Dennis Smith
  • Patent number: 11862419
    Abstract: A vacuum interrupter has a toroidal portion at one or both ends that achieves higher dielectric levels and hence higher interruption levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Ganesh Kumar Balasubramanian, Eric Dennis Smith, Louis G. Campbell, Wangpei Li, Xin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11860016
    Abstract: A mass flow controller assembly includes a housing defining a cavity, a plurality of internal passages, a first inlet, a first outlet, a second inlet, and a second outlet. A valve is connected to the housing, has an inlet fluidly coupled to the second outlet of the housing and an outlet fluidly coupled to the second inlet of the housing. The valve is configured to control fluid flow from the second outlet of the housing to the second inlet of the housing. A microelectromechanical (MEMS) Coriolis flow sensor is arranged in the cavity, includes an inlet fluidly coupled by at least one of the plurality of internal passages to the first inlet of the housing and is configured to measure at least one of a mass flow rate and density of fluid flowing through the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor. An outlet of the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor is fluidly coupled by at least one of the plurality of internal passages to the second outlet of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dennis Smith, Peter Reimer, Sudhakar Gopalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11830607
    Abstract: A system for facilitating image finding analysis includes one or more processors and one or more hardware storage devices storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to configure the system to perform acts such as (i) presenting an image on a user interface, the image being one of a plurality of images provided on the user interface in a navigable format, (ii) obtaining a voice annotation for the image, the voice annotation being based on a voice signal of a user, and (iii) binding the voice annotation to at least one aspect of the image, wherein the binding modifies metadata of the image based on the voice annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: AI METRICS, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Dennis Smith, Robert B. Jacobus, Paige Elaine Severino
  • Patent number: 11827544
    Abstract: A method of degrading 1,4-dioxane in the wastewater produced during the manufacture of alkyl ether sulfates is disclosed. The method includes the steps of (a) mixing from 100 to 10,000 ppm, preferably 1,000 to 4,000 ppm of ozone with the wastewater; (b) introducing H2O2 into the wastewater in an amount of 0.01 to 10, preferably 0.1 to 0.5 molar equivalents of H2O2 to ozone, and (c) mixing the ozone, H2O2, and wastewater to generate hydroxyl radicals reactive with the 1,4-dioxane, without the addition of a metal catalyst. The hydroxyl radicals react with the 1,4-dioxane and degrade it into carbon dioxide, water and/or carbonate. The method is effective to reduce a concentration of 1,4-dioxane in the wastewater from a range of about 10 ppm to about 1000 ppm of dioxane down to less than 5 ppb of 1,4-dioxane after treatment. The method is also effective for removing hydrocarbon species that may be present in the wastewater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Stepan Company
    Inventors: Matthew V. Vollmer, Donald E. Oulman, Aaron Brown, Dennis Smith, Doug Gustafson, Terry Applebury
  • Publication number: 20230256157
    Abstract: The Ear Canal Cleaning and Cerumen Sample Collecting Apparatus is either a manual pulsing or a recirculating fluid transfer syringe used to clean and remove cerumen from the ear as well as collect a sample of cerumen for testing. The Ear Canal Cleaning and Cerumen Sample Collecting Apparatus can be fully automated, and cordless. The Ear Canal Cleaning and Cerumen Sample Collecting Apparatus can be arranged into any ergonomic shape or configured as a single hand, double hand, palm held, or headphone-like device to clean, remove, and sample cerumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Ronald Dennis Smith, JR.
  • Patent number: 11662237
    Abstract: A fluid delivery system includes N first valves. Inlets of the N first valves are fluidly connected to N gas sources, respectively, where N is an integer greater than zero. N mass flow controllers include a microelectromechanical (MEMS) Coriolis flow sensor having an inlet in fluid communication with an outlet of a corresponding one of the N first valves. A second valve has an inlet in fluid communication with an outlet of the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor and an outlet supplying fluid to treat a substrate arranged in a processing chamber. A controller in communication with the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor is configured to determine at least one of a mass flow rate and a density of fluid flowing through the MEMS Coriolis flow sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iqbal A. Shareef, Dennis Smith, John E. Daugherty
  • Publication number: 20230154706
    Abstract: A vacuum interrupter has a toroidal portion at one or both ends that achieves higher dielectric levels and hence higher interruption levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Ganesh Kumar Balasubramanian, Eric Dennis Smith, Louis G. Campbell, Wangpei Li, Xin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230116436
    Abstract: A method of degrading 1,4-dioxane in the wastewater produced during the manufacture of alkyl ether sulfates is disclosed. The method includes the steps of (a) mixing from 100 to 10,000 ppm, preferably 1,000 to 4,000 ppm of ozone with the wastewater; (b) introducing H2O2 into the wastewater in an amount of 0.01 to 10, preferably 0.1 to 0.5 molar equivalents of H2O2 to ozone, and (c) mixing the ozone, H2O2, and wastewater to generate hydroxyl radicals reactive with the 1,4-dioxane, without the addition of a metal catalyst. The hydroxyl radicals react with the 1,4-dioxane and degrade it into carbon dioxide, water and/or carbonate. The method is effective to reduce a concentration of 1,4-dioxane in the wastewater from a range of about 10 ppm to about 1000 ppm of dioxane down to less than 5 ppb of 1,4-dioxane after treatment. The method is also effective for removing hydrocarbon species that may be present in the wastewater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew V. Vollmer, Donald E. Oulman, Aaron Brown, Dennis Smith, Doug Gustafson, Terry Applebury
  • Publication number: 20230081544
    Abstract: A component for use inside a semiconductor chamber with a laser textured surface facing a vacuum region inside the semiconductor chamber is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Pylin SAROBOL, Eric SAMULON, Pankaj HAZARIKA, Dennis SMITH, Kurt KERN, Debanjan DAS, Darrell EHRLICH, Eric A. PAPE, Matthew Brian SCHICK
  • Publication number: 20230076821
    Abstract: A system for facilitating image finding analysis includes one or more processors and one or more hardware storage devices storing instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to configure the system to perform acts such as (i) presenting an image on a user interface, the image being one of a plurality of images provided on the user interface in a navigable format, (ii) obtaining a voice annotation for the image, the voice annotation being based on a voice signal of a user, and (iii) binding the voice annotation to at least one aspect of the image, wherein the binding modifies metadata of the image based on the voice annotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew Dennis Smith, Robert B. Jacobus, Paige Elaine Severino
  • Publication number: 20220409589
    Abstract: The invention relates to heterocyclic compounds consisting of a core nitrogen atom surrounded by three pendant groups, wherein two of the three pendant groups are preferably benzimidazolyl methyl and tetrahydroquinolyl, and the third pendant group contains N and optionally contains additional rings. The compounds bind to chemokine receptors, including CXCR4 and CCR5, and demonstrate protective effects against infection of target cells by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Gary J. Bridger, Renato T. Skerlj, Al Kaller, Curtis Harwig, David Bogucki, Trevor R. Wilson, Jason B. Crawford, Ernest J. McEachern, Bem Atsma, Siqiao Nan, Yuanxi Zhou, Dominique Schols, Christopher Dennis Smith, Maria Rosaria Di Fluri
  • Publication number: 20220384145
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for manufacturing a showerhead for a semiconductor manufacturing system. One method includes an operation for drilling first holes on a faceplate made of a first material, where the first holes have a first diameter. Further, the method includes an operation for cladding the first holes and the faceplate with a second material to cover the first holes and the faceplate with the second material. Further yet, the method includes drilling second holes concentric with the first holes resulting in a part with holes coated with the second material. The second holes have a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter. Additionally, the method includes an operation for creating the showerhead utilizing the part, where gas is deliverable through the second holes of the faceplate in the showerhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Seyedalireza Torbatisarraf, Kurt Alan Kern, Dennis Smith