Patents by Inventor Francis A. Cucinotta

Francis A. Cucinotta 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).

  • Apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest
    Patent number: 8117013
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest. Boundaries are defined for calculation of a high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest; the high-energy neutron/ion transport to the target of interest is calculated using numerical procedures selected to reduce local truncation error by including higher order terms and to allow absolute control of propagated error by ensuring truncation error is third order in step size, and using scaling procedures for flux coupling terms modified to improve computed results by adding a scaling factor to terms describing production of j-particles from collisions of k-particles; and the calculated high-energy neutron/ion transport is provided to modeling modules to control an effective radiation dose at the target of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Adminstrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: John W. Wilson, Ram K. Tripathi, Francis F. Badavi, Francis A. Cucinotta
  • Apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest
    Publication number: 20080249753
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest. Boundaries are defined for calculation of a high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest; the high-energy neutron/ion transport to the target of interest is calculated using numerical procedures selected to reduce local truncation error by including higher order terms and to allow absolute control of propagated error by ensuring truncation error is third order in step size, and using scaling procedures for flux coupling terms modified to improve computed results by adding a scaling factor to terms describing production of j-particles from collisions of k-particles; and the calculated high-energy neutron/ion transport is provided to modeling modules to control an effective radiation dose at the target of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: U.S of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics &Space Administration
    Inventors: John W. Wilson, Ram K. Tripathi, Francis F. Badavi, Francis A. Cucinotta