Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Mast
Jeffrey Mast 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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Patent number: 6984210Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for investigating tissue in which acoustic data are derived from scattering a plurality of pulsed spherical or cylindrical acoustic waves from a plurality of transmission elements through the tissue to a plurality of receiving elements. The acoustic data, which include a mix of reflected and transmitted acoustic waves, are received and digitized, and a representation of a portion of the tissue is generated from the digitized acoustic data.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2002Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer InstituteInventors: David H. Chambers, Jeffrey Mast, Stephen G. Azevedo, Frank Wuebbeling, Frank Natterer, Neb Duric, Peter J. Littrup, Earle Holsapple
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Publication number: 20050166015Abstract: An electromechanical data storage arrangement is interfaced with a host. The interface may include a conductor that carries read and write gate signals. Another conductor carries both a servo sync mark and an error signal. The storage arrangement includes an external serial interface connected to a host serial interface applying a device identification to a portion of serial control-related data that travels over the interface. A serial router in the storage arrangement uses the device identification to manage the control-related data between the interface and a number of serial devices and associated interfaces within the storage arrangement. The serial router is in selective data communication with each of the device serial interfaces, for using the device identification to direct a host-asserted command to a targeted device where each device is controlled by a different command set such that the system can be customized for different command sets of different devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2005Publication date: July 28, 2005Inventors: Curtis Bruner, Lance Carlson, Jeffrey Mast
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Publication number: 20050160220Abstract: An electromechanical data storage arrangement is interfaced with a host. The interface may include a conductor that carries read and write gate signals. Another conductor carries both a servo sync mark and an error signal. The storage arrangement includes an external serial interface connected to a host serial interface applying a device identification to a portion of serial control-related data that travels over the interface. A serial router in the storage arrangement uses the device identification to manage the control-related data between the interface and a number of serial devices and associated interfaces within the storage arrangement. The serial router is in selective data communication with each of the device serial interfaces, for using the device identification to direct a host-asserted command to a targeted device where each device is controlled by a different command set such that the system can be customized for different command sets of different devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Inventors: Curtis Bruner, Lance Carlson, Jeffrey Mast
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Publication number: 20050160195Abstract: An electromechanical data storage arrangement is interfaced with a host. The interface may include a conductor that carries read and write gate signals. Another conductor carries both a servo sync mark and an error signal. The storage arrangement includes an external serial interface connected to a host serial interface applying a device identification to a portion of serial control-related data that travels over the interface. A serial router in the storage arrangement uses the device identification to manage the control-related data between the interface and a number of serial devices and associated interfaces within the storage arrangement. The serial router is in selective data communication with each of the device serial interfaces, for using the device identification to direct a host-asserted command to a targeted device where each device is controlled by a different command set such that the system can be customized for different command sets of different devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Inventors: Curtis Bruner, Lance Carlson, Jeffrey Mast
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Publication number: 20050154824Abstract: An electromechanical data storage arrangement is interfaced with a host. The interface may include a conductor that carries read and write gate signals. Another conductor carries both a servo sync mark and an error signal. The storage arrangement includes an external serial interface connected to a host serial interface applying a device identification to a portion of serial control-related data that travels over the interface. A serial router in the storage arrangement uses the device identification to manage the control-related data between the interface and a number of serial devices and associated interfaces within the storage arrangement. The serial router is in selective data communication with each of the device serial interfaces, for using the device identification to direct a host-asserted command to a targeted device where each device is controlled by a different command set such that the system can be customized for different command sets of different devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2005Publication date: July 14, 2005Inventors: Curtis Bruner, Lance Carlson, Jeffrey Mast
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Publication number: 20050154823Abstract: An electromechanical data storage arrangement is interfaced with a host. The interface may include a conductor that carries read and write gate signals. Another conductor carries both a servo sync mark and an error signal. The storage arrangement includes an external serial interface connected to a host serial interface applying a device identification to a portion of serial control-related data that travels over the interface. A serial router in the storage arrangement uses the device identification to manage the control-related data between the interface and a number of serial devices and associated interfaces within the storage arrangement. The serial router is in selective data communication with each of the device serial interfaces, for using the device identification to direct a host-asserted command to a targeted device where each device is controlled by a different command set such that the system can be customized for different command sets of different devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2005Publication date: July 14, 2005Inventors: Curtis Bruner, Lance Carlson, Jeffrey Mast
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Publication number: 20040167396Abstract: A quantitative imaging method and system for surrounding a target region with a plurality of transducers such that an acoustic pulse transmitted from one of the transducers may be received as pulse-derived temporal data at the receiving transducers. A controller operably connects to the transducers for selecting different transmission locations around the target region from where acoustic pulses may be transmitted. A signal processor connected to the transducers operates to remove from the received pulse-derived data of each receiving transducer a record of the pulse directly transmitted to the receiving transducer. And the pulse-derived temporal data modified in this manner is used by the data processor to determine preliminary values for a compressibility term and a density term for each point of the target region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: David H. Chambers, Stephen Gerard Azevedo, Jeffrey Mast
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Publication number: 20040122325Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for investigating tissue in which acoustic data are derived from scattering a plurality of pulsed spherical or cylindrical acoustic waves from a plurality of transmission elements through the tissue to a plurality of receiving elements. The acoustic data, which include a mix of reflected and transmitted acoustic waves, are received and digitized, and a representation of a portion of the tissue is generated from the digitized acoustic data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicant: Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer InstituteInventors: David H. Chambers, Jeffrey Mast, Stephen G. Azevedo, Frank Wuebbeling, Frank Natterer, Nebojsa Duric, Peter J. Littrup, Earle Holsapple