Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Beckstead
Jeffrey Beckstead 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).
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Publication number: 20230017411Abstract: A system may be provided which comprises an illumination source adapted to simultaneously illuminate a surgical site with spectral light comprising a first wavelength of light and a second wavelength of light, a first set of sensors comprising sensors adapted to detect visible light, and a second set of sensors comprising sensors adapted to detect the first wavelength of light; and sensors adapted to detect the second wavelength of light. In such a case, the system may also comprise a display coupled to a processor configured to display an enhanced image of the surgical site comprising a visible light image from data detected by the first set of sensors and an overlay identifying a target structure based on light detected by the second set of sensors while the surgical site is illuminated by spectral light comprising the first and second wavelengths of light.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Tarik Yardibi, Emir Osmanagic, Patrick J. Treado, Shawna K. Tazik, Matthew P. Nelson, Jeffrey Beckstead
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Publication number: 20230020346Abstract: A method of operating a surgical visualization system includes illuminating an anatomical field of a patient using a waveform transmitted by an emitter. The method also includes capturing an image of the anatomical field based on the waveform using a receiver. The emitter and the receiver are configured for multispectral imaging or hyperspectral imaging. The method also includes determining an adjustment to at one operating parameter of the surgical visualization system based on at least one environmental scene parameter. The method also includes automatically implementing the adjustment to the at least one operating parameter to aid in identification of at least one anatomical structure in the anatomical field.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Tarik Yardibi, Emir Osmanagic, Patrick J. Treado, Jeffrey Beckstead, Matthew P. Nelson, Alyssa Zrimsek, Nathaniel Gomer
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Publication number: 20220412151Abstract: An engineered slope sill structure that include a first lateral edge next to the interior side of a building. The structure including a second lateral edge next to the exterior side of a building. The structure also includes a support surface extending from a first portion of the first lateral edge to a second portion of the second lateral edge where the support surface is designed to support a flow control device located in an opening formed by the building. The structure further includes a sloped surface located adjacent to the support surface and extending from a third portion of the first lateral edge to a fourth portion of the second lateral edge where the sloped surface has a first curved slope from the third portion of the first lateral edge to the fourth portion of the second lateral edge to direct moisture to the exterior of the building.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventor: Jeffrey Beckstead
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Publication number: 20220176687Abstract: An autonomous application machine installs screen protectors on mobile devices, such as cell phones. The machine has an enclosure with an interior. A cleaning station has a cleaning implement to contact a screen of the mobile device. A magazine carries a plurality of screen protectors. A lamination station has an applicator to place a screen protector from the magazine on the screen of the mobile device. A vision inspection station has a light source and a camera to initially visually inspect the screen of mobile device prior to cleaning in the cleaning station and to verify that the screen is undamaged and free of an existing screen protector; and subsequently visually inspect the screen protector on the mobile device after installation in the lamination station and to verify that the screen protector has been properly installed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Matthew DiPrimio, Patrick Keenan, Bryce Craig, Victor J. Eggenberger, Jeffrey Beckstead, Manuel Carreon, Kirk A. Young
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Patent number: 8553210Abstract: A system and method for locating and identifying unknown samples. A targeting mode may be utilized to scan regions of interest for potential unknown materials. This targeting mode may interrogate regions of interest using SWIR and/or fluorescence spectroscopic and imaging techniques. Unknown samples detected in regions of interest may be further interrogated using a combination of Raman and LIBS techniques to identify the unknown samples. Structured illumination may be used to interrogate an unknown sample. Data sets generated during interrogation may be compared to a reference database comprising a plurality of reference data sets, each associated with a known material. The system and method may be used to identify a variety of materials including: biological, chemical, explosive, hazardous, concealment, and non-hazardous materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: ChemImage CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Beckstead, Patrick Treado, Matthew Nelson
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Patent number: 8547540Abstract: A system and method for locating and identifying unknown samples. A targeting mode may be utilized to scan regions of interest for potential unknown materials. This targeting mode may interrogate regions of interest using SWIR and/or fluorescence spectroscopic and imaging techniques. Unknown samples detected in regions of interest may be further interrogated using a combination of Raman and LIBS techniques to identify the unknown samples. Structured illumination may be used to interrogate an unknown sample. Data sets generated during interrogation may be compared to a reference database comprising a plurality of reference data sets, each associated with a known material. The system and method may be used to identify a variety of materials including: biological, chemical, explosive, hazardous, concealment, and non-hazardous materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: ChemImage CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Beckstead, Patrick Treado, Matthew Nelson
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Patent number: 8436987Abstract: A system and method for locating and identifying unknown samples. A targeting mode may be utilized to scan regions of interest for potential unknown materials. This targeting mode may interrogate regions of interest using SWIR and/or fluorescence spectroscopic and imaging techniques. Unknown samples detected in regions of interest may be further interrogated using a combination of Raman and LIBS techniques to identify the unknown samples. Structured illumination may be used to interrogate an unknown sample. Data sets generated during interrogation may be compared to a reference database comprising a plurality of reference data sets, each associated with a known material. The system and method may be used to identify a variety of materials including: biological, chemical, explosive, hazardous, concealment, and non-hazardous materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: ChemImage CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Beckstead, Patrick Treado, Matthew Nelson
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Publication number: 20120154792Abstract: The disclosure provides for a portable device for detecting hazardous agents, including explosives using SWIR hyperspectral imaging. The device may comprise a collection optics, a SWIR multi-conjugate filter, a SWIR camera, and a display. The device may also comprise an RGB camera. The disclosure also provides for a method of using said portable device wherein interacted photons are collected and passed through a SWIR multi-conjugate filter. The interacted photons are detected to generate at least one SWIR hyperspectral image. The SWIR hyperspectral image may be analyzed to determine the presence or absence of a hazardous agent on a target. An RGB image of a target may also be generated and analyzed to survey a sample scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: ChemImage CorporationInventors: Patrick J. Treado, Matthew Nelson, Charles W. Gardner, JR., Thomas Voigt, Jeffrey Beckstead
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Publication number: 20120062874Abstract: A system and method for locating and identifying unknown samples. A targeting mode may be utilized to scan regions of interest for potential unknown materials. This targeting mode may interrogate regions of interest using SWIR and/or fluorescence spectroscopic and imaging techniques. Unknown samples detected in regions of interest may be further interrogated using a combination of Raman and LIBS techniques to identify the unknown samples. Structured illumination may be used to interrogate an unknown sample. Data sets generated during interrogation may be compared to a reference database comprising a plurality of reference data sets, each associated with a known material. The system and method may be used to identify a variety of materials including: biological, chemical, explosive, hazardous, concealment, and non-hazardous materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: ChemImage CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Beckstead, Patrick Treado, Matthew Nelson
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Publication number: 20120038908Abstract: A system and method for locating and identifying unknown samples. A targeting mode may be utilized to scan regions of interest for potential unknown materials. This targeting mode may interrogate regions of interest using SWIR and/or fluorescence spectroscopic and imaging techniques. Unknown samples detected in regions of interest may be further interrogated using a combination of Raman and LIBS techniques to identify the unknown samples. Structured illumination may be used to interrogate an unknown sample. Data sets generated during interrogation may be compared to a reference database comprising a plurality of reference data sets, each associated with a known material. The system and method may be used to identify a variety of materials including: biological, chemical, explosive, hazardous, concealment, and non-hazardous materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Chemlmage CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Beckstead, Patrick Treado, Matthew Nelson
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Patent number: 7999928Abstract: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for interrogating a sample by: illuminating a first region of the sample with a first illumination pattern to obtain a plurality of first sample photons; illuminating a second region of the sample with a second illumination pattern to obtain a plurality of second sample photons; processing the plurality of first sample photons to obtain a characteristic atomic emission of the first region and processing the plurality of second sample photons to obtain a Raman spectrum; and identifying the sample through at least one of the characteristic atomic emission of the first region or the Raman spectrum of the second region of the sample.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: ChemImage CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Beckstead, Patrick J. Treado, Matthew Nelson
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Publication number: 20110033082Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a system and method for analyzing questioned documents. A sample document is illuminated to thereby generate a first plurality of interacted photons. The first plurality of interacted photons are detected at a first detector to thereby generate a digital image. The digital image is analyzed to thereby identify at least one region of interest of the sample document. This region of interest is illuminated to thereby generate a second plurality of interacted photons. This second plurality of interacted photons are passed through a tunable filter and detected at a second detector to thereby generate a hyperspectral image representative of the region of interest. The hyperpsectral image may then be analyzed to evaluate changes to or differentiate different inks present in the sample document. Chemometric techniques such as k-means clustering, PCA, and/or PLSDA may also be applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: ChemImage CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Beckstead, Arjun Bangalore
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Patent number: 7876948Abstract: An imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus may find an area in which a specimen is present, then focus on the specimen and capture images of the specimen during continuous stage motion.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbHInventors: Arthur W. Wetzel, John R. Gilbertson, II, Jeffrey A. Beckstead, Patricia A. Feineigle, Christopher R. Hauser, Frank A. Palmieri, Jr.
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Patent number: 7869641Abstract: A system for determining tissue locations on a slide.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbHInventors: Arthur W. Wetzel, John R. Gilbertson, II, Jeffrey A. Beckstead, Patricia A. Feineigle, Christopher R. Hauser
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Publication number: 20100271629Abstract: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for interrogating a sample by: illuminating a first region of the sample with a first illumination pattern to obtain a plurality of first sample photons; illuminating a second region of the sample with a second illumination pattern to obtain a plurality of second sample photons; processing the plurality of first sample photons to obtain a characteristic atomic emission of the first region and processing the plurality of second sample photons to obtain a Raman spectrum; and identifying the sample through at least one of the characteristic atomic emission of the first region or the Raman spectrum of the second region of the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2007Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventors: Jeffrey Beckstead, Patrick J. Treado, Matthew Nelson
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Publication number: 20100060729Abstract: An imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus may find an area in which a specimen is present, then focus on the specimen and capture images of the specimen during continuous stage motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2009Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Arthur W. Wetzel, John R. Gilbertson, II, Jeffrey A. Beckstead, Patricia A. Feineigle, Christopher R. Hauser, Frank A. Palmieri, JR.
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Publication number: 20100002918Abstract: A system for determining tissue locations on a slide.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventors: Arthur W. Wetzel, John R. Gilbertson, II, Jeffrey A. Beckstead, Patricia A. Feineigle, Christopher R. Hauser
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Patent number: 7421102Abstract: A system for determining tissue locations on a slide.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging AIS, Inc.Inventors: Arthur W. Wetzel, John R. Gilbertson, II, Jeffrey A. Beckstead, Patricia A. Feineigle, Christopher R. Hauser, Frank A. Palmieri, Jr.
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Publication number: 20080123919Abstract: A system for determining tissue locations on a slide.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventors: Arthur W. Wetzel, John R. Gilbertson, Jeffrey A. Beckstead, Patricia A. Feineigle, Christopher R. Hauser, Frank A. Palmieri
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Patent number: 7212660Abstract: Imaging apparatuses and methods that capture a low-resolution image of a slide, identify a region of interest, and capture a high-resolution image of the region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2005Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Clarient, Inc.Inventors: Arthur W. Wetzel, John R. Gilbertson, II, Jeffrey A. Beckstead, Patricia A. Feineigle, Christopher R. Hauser, Frank A. Palmieri, Jr.