Patents by Inventor Gustaaf C. VanCauter

Gustaaf C. VanCauter 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).

  • Patent number: 5198670
    Abstract: A system for in-situ measurement of the radioactivity of multiple samples while the samples are in a multiple-well sample tray, with a scintillator in each sample-containing well for producing light pulses in response to radiation from the respective samples. Multiple photomultiplier tubes are positioned adjacent to the sample wells containing the scintillator for simultaneously measuring the radioactivity of multiple samples with only a single photomultiplier tube sensing the scintillations from each well and converting the sensed scintillations into corresponding electrical pulses. The electrical pulses from each photomultiplier tube are processed to discriminate between pulses attributable to sample events within the wells and pulses attributable to non-sample events such as photomultipler tube noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Packard Instrument Company
    Inventors: Gustaaf C. VanCauter, Donald E. Osten, John D. Tomisek