Patents by Inventor Hoke S. Trammell

Hoke S. Trammell 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: 7705731
    Abstract: An inspection system including a first subsystem including a first identity verification system and a passenger screening system each configured to receive information from a passenger and store the verified information in a database, and a second subsystem including at least a second identity verification system configured to receive information from the passenger, the second subsystem configured to compare the verified identity information to the information received from the passenger at the second subsystem to verify the identity of the passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Morpho Detection, Inc.
    Inventor: Hoke S. Trammell, III
  • Patent number: 7047059
    Abstract: A probe instrument using room-temperature sensor(s) that can measure variations in magnetic susceptibilities. The instrument has sufficient resolution to monitor paramagnetic materials in a human body, such as iron in a human liver, by noninvasively examining patients with iron-overload diseases. The instrument includes room temperature magnetic sensors, and detects the sample, that is, the tissue response to an alternating current field applied by an applied field coil. The applied field coil dimensions are chosen so that the applied field is optimized for maximum response from the liver while minimizing the effects due to the overlying abdominal tissue and at the same time not unduly increasing the sensitivity of the instrument to the lung. To overcome variations in the sensor output due to fluctuations in the applied field, change in the ambient temperature and mechanical relaxation of the instrument, the sensor-sample distance is modulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Quantum Magnetics, Inc
    Inventors: William F. Avrin, Sankaran Kumar, Peter V. Czipott, Walter N. Freeman, Hoke S. Trammell, III
  • Publication number: 20010029329
    Abstract: A probe instrument using room-temperature sensor(s) that can measure variations in magnetic susceptibilities. The instrument has sufficient resolution to monitor paramagnetic materials in a human body, such as iron in a human liver, by noninvasively examining patients with iron-overload diseases. The instrument includes room temperature magnetic sensors, and detects the sample, that is, the tissue response to an alternating current field applied by an applied field coil. The applied field coil dimensions are chosen so that the applied field is optimized for maximum response from the liver while minimizing the effects due to the overlying abdominal tissue and at the same time not unduly increasing the sensitivity of the instrument to the lung. To overcome variations in the sensor output due to fluctuations in the applied field, change in the ambient temperature and mechanical relaxation of the instrument, the sensor-sample distance is modulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: William F. Avrin, Sankaran Kumar, Peter V. Czipott, Walter N. Freeman, Hoke S. Trammell