Patents by Inventor John Scott Price
John Scott Price 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: 20240062983Abstract: A system for melting, sintering, or heat treating a material is provided. The system includes a cathode, an anode, and a focus coil assembly having a quadrupole magnet. The quadrupole magnet includes four poles and a yoke. The four poles are spaced apart and surround a beam cavity. Each of the four poles includes a pole face proximate the beam cavity and an end opposite the pole face. The first and third poles are aligned along an x-axis and configured to have a first magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and a second magnetic polarity opposite the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The second and fourth poles are aligned along a y-axis and configured to have the second magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The yoke surrounds the poles and is coupled to the poles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Scott Price, Ye Bai, Antonio Caiafa, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Uwe Wiedmann
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Patent number: 11837428Abstract: A system for melting, sintering, or heat treating a material is provided. The system includes a cathode, an anode, and a focus coil assembly having a quadrupole magnet. The quadrupole magnet includes four poles and a yoke. The four poles are spaced apart and surround a beam cavity. Each of the four poles includes a pole face proximate the beam cavity and an end opposite the pole face. The first and third poles are aligned along an x-axis and configured to have a first magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and a second magnetic polarity opposite the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The second and fourth poles are aligned along a y-axis and configured to have the second magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The yoke surrounds the poles and is coupled to the poles.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Scott Price, Ye Bai, Antonio Caiafa, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Uwe Wiedmann
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Patent number: 11782181Abstract: A downhole multi-modality inspection system includes a first imaging device operable to generate first imaging data and a second imaging device operable to generate second imaging data. The first imaging device includes a first source operable to emit energy of a first modality, and a first detector operable to detect returning energy induced by the emitted energy of the first modality. The second imaging device includes a second source operable to emit energy of a second modality, and a second detector operable to detect returning energy induced by the emitted energy of the second modality. The system further includes a processor configured to receive the first imaging data and the second imaging data, and integrate the first imaging data with the second imaging data into an enhanced data stream. The processor correlates the first imaging data and the second imaging data to provide enhanced data for detecting potential wellbore anomalies.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: GE Energy Oilfield Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ansas Matthias Kasten, Yuri Plotnikov, Sudeep Mandal, Sarah Lillian Katz, Frederick Wheeler, William Robert Ross, John Scott Price
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Publication number: 20230050180Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for a biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same. In one example, a cathode assembly of an X-ray tube comprises an emitter assembly including an emitter coupled to an emitter support structure, and an electrode assembly including an electrode stack and a plurality of bias electrodes. The emitter assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together. The electrode assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together, and the emitter assembly being coupled to the electrode assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Andrew Thomas Cross, Uwe Wiedmann, Marshall Gordon Jones, Carey Rogers, John Scott Price, Joseph Darryl Michael, Sergio Lemaitre, Fulton Jose Lopez, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Steve Buresh, David Wagner
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Patent number: 11515117Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for a biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same. In one example, a cathode assembly of an X-ray tube comprises an emitter assembly including an emitter coupled to an emitter support structure, and an electrode assembly including an electrode stack and a plurality of bias electrodes. The emitter assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together. The electrode assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together, and the emitter assembly being coupled to the electrode assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Andrew Thomas Cross, Uwe Wiedmann, Marshall Gordon Jones, Carey Rogers, John Scott Price, Joseph Darryl Michael, Sergio Lemaitre, Fulton Jose Lopez, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Steve Buresh, David Wagner
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Patent number: 11413698Abstract: A system and method for monitoring and controlling build quality during electron beam manufacturing of a build part. The system may include at least one electron beam source to direct at least one electron beam onto a plurality of deposited layers of metallic powder to form a melt pool, a detector to detect in real-time backscattered energy ejected from the melt pool and indicative of a defect in the build part and generate a detection signal representative of the defect. A controller receives and analyzes the detection signal and generates a corrective signal for control of at least one of the actuator and the at least one electron beam source to direct the at least one electron beam onto the plurality of deposited layers of metallic powder to sequentially consolidate patterned portions of the plurality of deposited metallic powder layers to adaptively form the three-dimensional build part.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Vladimir Anatolievich Lobastov, Vincent Scott Smentkowski, John Scott Price, Vance Scott Robinson
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Publication number: 20220068585Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for a biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same. In one example, a cathode assembly of an X-ray tube comprises an emitter assembly including an emitter coupled to an emitter support structure, and an electrode assembly including an electrode stack and a plurality of bias electrodes. The emitter assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together. The electrode assembly including a plurality of independent components that are coupled together, and the emitter assembly being coupled to the electrode assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Andrew Thomas Cross, Uwe Wiedmann, Marshall Gordon Jones, Carey Rogers, John Scott Price, Joseph Darryl Michael, Sergio Lemaitre, Fulton Jose Lopez, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Steve Buresh, David Wagner
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Publication number: 20220037105Abstract: A system for melting, sintering, or heat treating a material is provided. The system includes a cathode, an anode, and a focus coil assembly having a quadrupole magnet. The quadrupole magnet includes four poles and a yoke. The four poles are spaced apart and surround a beam cavity. Each of the four poles includes a pole face proximate the beam cavity and an end opposite the pole face. The first and third poles are aligned along an x-axis and configured to have a first magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and a second magnetic polarity opposite the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The second and fourth poles are aligned along a y-axis and configured to have the second magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The yoke surrounds the poles and is coupled to the poles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: John Scott Price, Ye Bai, Antonio Caiafa, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Uwe Wiedmann
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Publication number: 20200232938Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the design of phantoms configurable using one or more inserts and to their use in generating images that may be used to compare image quality between different imaging systems. Such phantoms may have a modular design with inserts that may be exchanged one for another within a phantom body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Paul Francis Fitzgerald, John Scott Price, William Robert Ross, Mingye Wu, Lin Fu, Michelle Brault, Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Xin Li
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Publication number: 20200194212Abstract: An X-ray source target includes a structure configured to generate X-rays when impacted by an electron beam. The structure has an X-ray generating layer comprising X-ray generating material, and a thermally-conductive layer is adjacent to and in thermal communication with the X-ray generating layer. A stress relieving layer is adjacent to the thermally-conductive layer. The thermally-conductive layer is sandwiched between the X-ray generating layer and the stress relieving layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: George Theodore Dalakos, Scott Andrew Weaver, John Scott Price, Stephen Lourenco Araujo, Sathyanarayanan Raghavan
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Publication number: 20190283169Abstract: A system and method for monitoring and controlling build quality during electron beam manufacturing of a build part. The system may include at least one electron beam source to direct at least one electron beam onto a plurality of deposited layers of metallic powder to form a melt pool, a detector to detect in real-time backscattered energy ejected from the melt pool and indicative of a defect in the build part and generate a detection signal representative of the defect. A controller receives and analyzes the detection signal and generates a corrective signal for control of at least one of the actuator and the at least one electron beam source to direct the at least one electron beam onto the plurality of deposited layers of metallic powder to sequentially consolidate patterned portions of the plurality of deposited metallic powder layers to adaptively form the three-dimensional build part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Vladimir Anatolievich Lobastov, Vincent Scott Smentkowski, John Scott Price, Vance Scott Robinson
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Patent number: 10400574Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting integrity of a multi-barrier wellbore is described. The apparatus includes at least one source to generate radiation to impinge a target volume of the wellbore. The apparatus includes a source collimator having a plurality of alternating blocking channels and passing channels to direct radiation to impinge the target volume, such that the radiation directed from each passing channel forms a plurality of field of views extending radially into the target volume. The apparatus further includes at least one detector to receive backscatter rays arising from each respective field of view from the plurality of field of views and to generate an image representative of an inspected portion of the wellbore. The apparatus is useful for inspecting very small volumes in the multiple barriers of the wellbore and determine the integrity of the wellbore based on the different densities in the image of the inspected portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ansas Matthias Kasten, Juan Pablo Cilia, John Scott Price, William Robert Ross, Chengbao Wang, Sudeep Mandal
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Patent number: 10373792Abstract: A cathode assembly design is provided that includes two flat emitters, a longer emitter filament and a shorter emitter filament. In one implementation the focal spot sizes produced by the long and short emitters overlap over a range. Thus, one emitter filament may be suitable for generating small and concentrated focal spot sizes while the other emitter filament is suitable for generating small and large focal spots sizes.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: John Scott Price, Xi Zhang
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Publication number: 20190063208Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting integrity of a multi-barrier wellbore is described. The apparatus includes at least one source to generate radiation to impinge a target volume of the wellbore. The apparatus includes a source collimator having a plurality of alternating blocking channels and passing channels to direct radiation to impinge the target volume, such that the radiation directed from each passing channel forms a plurality of field of views extending radially into the target volume. The apparatus further includes at least one detector to receive backscatter rays arising from each respective field of view from the plurality of field of views and to generate an image representative of an inspected portion of the wellbore. The apparatus is useful for inspecting very small volumes in the multiple barriers of the wellbore and determine the integrity of the wellbore based on the different densities in the image of the inspected portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Ansas Matthias Kasten, Juan Pablo Cilia, John Scott Price, William Robert Ross, Chengbao Wang, Sudeep Mandal
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Patent number: 10208587Abstract: A detector assembly includes scintillators configured to generate a light signal in response to an impinging backscatter signal, where the scintillators are arranged in a first pattern, a plurality of first detectors, where each first detector is coupled to a scintillator and configured to receive a first portion of a light signal from that scintillator, and where the first detectors are arranged in a second pattern aligned with the first pattern, a plurality of second detectors, where each second detector is disposed adjacent a scintillator and configured to receive a second portion of the light signal from that scintillator, and where the plurality of second detectors is arranged in a third pattern, and a scintillator collimator including a plurality of openings and configured to selectively receive the backscatter signal, where the detector assembly is configured to provide depth resolution, azimuthal resolution, a defect type, a defect size, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ansas Matthias Kasten, John Scott Price, Juan Pablo Cilia, Chengbao Wang, William Robert Ross, Brian David Yanoff, Stanislav Ivanovich Soloviev, Sudeep Mandal
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Publication number: 20190049622Abstract: A downhole multi-modality inspection system includes a first imaging device operable to generate first imaging data and a second imaging device operable to generate second imaging data. The first imaging device includes a first source operable to emit energy of a first modality, and a first detector operable to detect returning energy induced by the emitted energy of the first modality. The second imaging device includes a second source operable to emit energy of a second modality, and a second detector operable to detect returning energy induced by the emitted energy of the second modality. The system further includes a processor configured to receive the first imaging data and the second imaging data, and integrate the first imaging data with the second imaging data into an enhanced data stream. The processor correlates the first imaging data and the second imaging data to provide enhanced data for detecting potential wellbore anomalies.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: GE Energy Oilfield Technology, Inc.Inventors: Ansas Matthias Kasten, Yuri Plotnikov, Sudeep Mandal, Sarah Lillian Katz, Frederick Wheeler, William Robert Ross, John Scott Price
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Patent number: 10024999Abstract: A detector assembly includes a scintillator configured to generate a light signal in response to an impinging radiation signal from an object, where the scintillator has a first end and a second end. Further, the detector assembly includes a first detector disposed adjacent the scintillator and configured to receive a first portion of the light signal from the scintillator and a second detector operatively coupled to the second end of the scintillator and configured to receive a second portion of the light signal from the scintillator. The detector assembly also includes a reflector operatively coupled to the scintillator and the first detector and configured to guide the light signal from the scintillator to the first detector, where the reflector is configured to redirect the first portion of the light signal by a determined amount to reduce a path length between a radiation source, the object, and the scintillator.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Ansas Matthias Kasten, John Scott Price, Juan Pablo Cilia
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Patent number: 9953797Abstract: A flat emitter configured for use in an X-ray tube is presented. The X-ray tube includes a first conductive section including a first terminal. Further, the X-ray tube includes a second conductive section including a second terminal. Also, the X-ray tube includes a third conductive section disposed between the first conductive section and the second conductive section, wherein the third conductive section is configured to emit electrons toward a determined focal spot, and wherein the third conductive section includes a plurality of slits subdividing the third conductive section into a winding track coupled to the first conductive section and the second conductive section, wherein at least two of the plurality of slits are interwound spirally to compose the winding track, and wherein the winding track is configured to expand and contract based on heat provided to the third conductive section.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Xi Zhang, Mark Alan Frontera, Sergio Lemaitre, John Scott Price, Uwe Wiedmann
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Publication number: 20170372863Abstract: A cathode assembly design is provided that includes two flat emitters, a longer emitter filament and a shorter emitter filament. In one implementation the focal spot sizes produced by the long and short emitters overlap over a range. Thus, one emitter filament may be suitable for generating small and concentrated focal spot sizes while the other emitter filament is suitable for generating small and large focal spots sizes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: John Scott Price, Xi Zhang
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Patent number: 9746583Abstract: A well integrity inspection system configured to inspect a well structure including multiple concentric layers. The well integrity inspection system includes an inspection probe positioned in the well structure. The inspection probe includes a plurality of excitation assemblies for transmitting a plurality of radiation emissions into the well structure. The plurality of excitation assemblies includes at least a neutron excitation assembly and an X-ray excitation assembly. The inspection probe also includes a plurality of detection assemblies configured to receive a plurality of backscatter radiation returns from the well structure. The plurality of detection assemblies includes at least a neutron detection assembly and an X-ray detection assembly. The well integrity inspection system further including a processor operatively coupled to the inspection probe.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Inventors: Ertugrul Berkcan, John Scott Price, Edward James Nieters, William Robert Ross, Clifford Bueno, Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov, Susanne Madeline Lee