Patents by Inventor Joshua Kempner

Joshua Kempner 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: 12236583
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for 3D luminescence imaging, by identifying a preferred optical pair and optimizing a scanned image using the preferred optical pair. An optimal filter pair may be selected from a list of two or more optical filters. An acceptable threshold of information may be obtained using a subset of the list of two or more optical filters (e.g., an optimal filter pair). An imaging device may be configured with the optimal filter pair to produce a pair of luminescence images of a target sample. In addition, luminescence images may be pre-processed to reduce the time-cost of conventional processing techniques of luminescence images. One or more computing devices may generate initial prior data based on a pair of luminescence images. An output may include one or more output luminescent sources that have been refined and/or optimized from the initial prior data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Revvity Health Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Kempner, Jorge Ripoll
  • Patent number: 11903675
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for in vivo tomographic imaging of fluorescent probes and/or bioluminescent reporters, wherein a fluorescent probe and a bioluminescent reporter are spatially co-localized (e.g., located at distances equivalent to or smaller than the scattering mean free path of light) in a diffusive medium (e.g., biological tissue). Measurements obtained from bioluminescent and fluorescent modalities are combined per methods described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael Yared, Joshua Kempner, Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Alicia Arranz
  • Publication number: 20230160826
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for 3D luminescence imaging, by identifying a preferred optical pair and optimizing a scanned image using the preferred optical pair. An optimal filter pair may be selected from a list of two or more optical filters. An acceptable threshold of information may be obtained using a subset of the list of two or more optical filters (e.g., an optimal filter pair). An imaging device may be configured with the optimal filter pair to produce a pair of luminescence images of a target sample. In addition, luminescence images may be pre-processed to reduce the time-cost of conventional processing techniques of luminescence images. One or more computing devices may generate initial prior data based on a pair of luminescence images. An output may include one or more output luminescent sources that have been refined and/or optimized from the initial prior data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Joshua Kempner, Jorge Ripoll
  • Patent number: 11219424
    Abstract: Presented herein are efficient and reliable systems and methods for calculating and extracting three-dimensional central axes of bones of animal subjects—for example, animal subjects scanned by in vivo or ex vivo microCT platforms—to capture both the general and localized tangential directions of the bone, along with its shape, form, curvature, and orientation. With bone detection and segmentation algorithms, the skeletal bones of animal subjects scanned by CT or microCT scanners can be detected, segmented, and visualized. Three dimensional central axes determined using these methods provide important information about the skeletal bones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Behrooz, Joshua Kempner
  • Publication number: 20200337559
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for in vivo tomographic imaging of fluorescent probes and/or bioluminescent reporters, wherein a fluorescent probe and a bioluminescent reporter are spatially co-localized (e.g., located at distances equivalent to or smaller than the scattering mean free path of light) in a diffusive medium (e.g., biological tissue). Measurements obtained from bioluminescent and fluorescent modalities are combined per methods described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Wael Yared, Joshua Kempner, Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Alicia Arranz
  • Patent number: 10743768
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for in vivo tomographic imaging of fluorescent probes and/or bioluminescent reporters, wherein a fluorescent probe and a bioluminescent reporter are spatially co-localized (e.g., located at distances equivalent to or smaller than the scattering mean free path of light) in a diffusive medium (e.g., biological tissue). Measurements obtained from bioluminescent and fluorescent modalities are combined per methods described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael Yared, Joshua Kempner, Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Alicia Arranz
  • Publication number: 20200178919
    Abstract: Presented herein are efficient and reliable systems and methods for calculating and extracting three-dimensional central axes of bones of animal subjects—for example, animal subjects scanned by in vivo or ex vivo microCT platforms—to capture both the general and localized tangential directions of the bone, along with its shape, form, curvature, and orientation. With bone detection and segmentation algorithms, the skeletal bones of animal subjects scanned by CT or microCT scanners can be detected, segmented, and visualized. Three dimensional central axes determined using these methods provide important information about the skeletal bones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Ali Behrooz, Joshua Kempner
  • Patent number: 10667693
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, devices, and computer-readable media for interference filter correction based on angle of incidence. In some examples, a sample emits an emission spectrum that is filtered by an emission filter to provide a transmission spectrum. The emission spectrum illuminates the emission filter at multiple angles of incidence. The angles of incidence result in a spectral shifting of the transmission spectrum. Based on this spectral shifting, the intensity of the transmission spectrum is corrected. An image corresponding to the corrected intensity of the transmission spectrum may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Meganck, Joshua Kempner, Matthew Royal
  • Publication number: 20200155006
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, devices, and computer-readable media for interference filter correction based on angle of incidence. In some examples, a sample emits an emission spectrum that is filtered by an emission filter to provide a transmission spectrum. The emission spectrum illuminates the emission filter at multiple angles of incidence. The angles of incidence result in a spectral shifting of the transmission spectrum. Based on this spectral shifting, the intensity of the transmission spectrum is corrected. An image corresponding to the corrected intensity of the transmission spectrum may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Jeffrey Meganck, Joshua Kempner, Matthew Royal
  • Patent number: 10548553
    Abstract: Presented herein are efficient and reliable systems and methods for calculating and extracting three-dimensional central axes of bones of animal subjects—for example, animal subjects scanned by in vivo or ex vivo microCT platforms—to capture both the general and localized tangential directions of the bone, along with its shape, form, curvature, and orientation. With bone detection and segmentation algorithms, the skeletal bones of animal subjects scanned by CT or microCT scanners can be detected, segmented, and visualized. Three dimensional central axes determined using these methods provide important information about the skeletal bones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Behrooz, Joshua Kempner
  • Publication number: 20190046144
    Abstract: Presented herein are efficient and reliable systems and methods for calculating and extracting three-dimensional central axes of bones of animal subjects—for example, animal subjects scanned by in vivo or ex vivo microCT platforms—to capture both the general and localized tangential directions of the bone, along with its shape, form, curvature, and orientation. With bone detection and segmentation algorithms, the skeletal bones of animal subjects scanned by CT or microCT scanners can be detected, segmented, and visualized. Three dimensional central axes determined using these methods provide important information about the skeletal bones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Ali Behrooz, Joshua Kempner
  • Patent number: 10136869
    Abstract: Presented herein are efficient and reliable systems and methods for calculating and extracting three-dimensional central axes of bones of animal subjects—for example, animal subjects scanned by in vivo or ex vivo microCT platforms—to capture both the general and localized tangential directions of the bone, along with its shape, form, curvature, and orientation. With bone detection and segmentation algorithms, the skeletal bones of animal subjects scanned by CT or microCT scanners can be detected, segmented, and visualized. Three dimensional central axes determined using these methods provide important information about the skeletal bones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Behrooz, Joshua Kempner
  • Patent number: 9901254
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for tomographic imaging of a subject comprising diffuse media by converting measurements of electromagnetic radiation, e.g., fluorescent light, obtained in free space exterior to the subject into data that would be measured if the subject were surrounded by an infinite and homogeneous diffusive medium, e.g., a medium with optical properties equal to the average optical properties of the subject. After applying a transformation to convert measurements to virtually-matched values, propagation of light is simulated from the index-matched surface to a set of virtual detectors exterior to the subject and arranged in a geometrically advantageous fashion, for example, in a planar array, thereby facilitating the use of fast reconstruction techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Wael I. Yared, Joshua Kempner
  • Publication number: 20170273651
    Abstract: Presented herein are efficient and reliable systems and methods for calculating and extracting three-dimensional central axes of bones of animal subjects—for example, animal subjects scanned by in vivo or ex vivo microCT platforms—to capture both the general and localized tangential directions of the bone, along with its shape, form, curvature, and orientation. With bone detection and segmentation algorithms, the skeletal bones of animal subjects scanned by CT or microCT scanners can be detected, segmented, and visualized. Three dimensional central axes determined using these methods provide important information about the skeletal bones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Ali Behrooz, Joshua Kempner
  • Patent number: 9311722
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for altering an image to compensate for variation in one or more physical and/or supervenient properties (e.g., optical absorption and/or scattering) in heterogeneous, diffuse tissue, thereby attenuating the effects of tissue waveguiding. The methods enable the proper identification of emission image regions that evidence waveguiding of electromagnetic radiation, and enables compensation of emission images for such waveguiding. The methods preserve the depth localization accuracy of the FMT approach and improve optical reconstruction in the targeted areas while eliminating spurious components of fluorescence from the acquired data set. Calibration methods for probe concentration mapping are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael I. Yared, Pouyan Mohajerani, Joshua Kempner
  • Publication number: 20140243661
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for altering an image to compensate for variation in one or more physical and/or supervenient properties (e.g., optical absorption and/or scattering) in heterogeneous, diffuse tissue, thereby attenuating the effects of tissue waveguiding. The methods enable the proper identification of emission image regions that evidence waveguiding of electromagnetic radiation, and enables compensation of emission images for such waveguiding. The methods preserve the depth localization accuracy of the FMT approach and improve optical reconstruction in the targeted areas while eliminating spurious components of fluorescence from the acquired data set. Calibration methods for probe concentration mapping are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael I. Yared, Pouyan Mohajerani, Joshua Kempner
  • Publication number: 20140105825
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for in vivo tomographic imaging of fluorescent probes and/or bioluminescent reporters, wherein a fluorescent probe and a bioluminescent reporter are spatially co-localized (e.g., located at distances equivalent to or smaller than the scattering mean free path of light) in a diffusive medium (e.g., biological tissue). Measurements obtained from bioluminescent and fluorescent modalities are combined per methods described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael Yared, Joshua Kempner, Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Alicia Arranz
  • Patent number: 8653480
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for altering an image to compensate for variation in one or more physical and/or supervenient properties (e.g., optical absorption and/or scattering) in heterogeneous, diffuse tissue, thereby attenuating the effects of tissue waveguiding. The methods enable the proper identification of emission image regions that evidence waveguiding of electromagnetic radiation, and enables compensation of emission images for such waveguiding. The methods preserve the depth localization accuracy of the FMT approach and improve optical reconstruction in the targeted areas while eliminating spurious components of fluorescence from the acquired data set. Calibration methods for probe concentration mapping are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael I. Yared, Pouyan Mohajerani, Joshua Kempner
  • Publication number: 20140003692
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for altering an image to compensate for variation in one or more physical and/or supervenient properties (e.g., optical absorption and/or scattering) in heterogeneous, diffuse tissue, thereby attenuating the effects of tissue waveguiding. The methods enable the proper identification of emission image regions that evidence waveguiding of electromagnetic radiation, and enables compensation of emission images for such waveguiding. The methods preserve the depth localization accuracy of the FMT approach and improve optical reconstruction in the targeted areas while eliminating spurious components of fluorescence from the acquired data set. Calibration methods for probe concentration mapping are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael I. Yared, Pouyan Mohajerani, Joshua Kempner
  • Patent number: 8492734
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, the invention relates to systems and methods for altering an image to compensate for variation in one or more physical and/or supervenient properties (e.g., optical absorption and/or scattering) in heterogeneous, diffuse tissue, thereby attenuating the effects of tissue waveguiding. The methods enable the proper identification of emission image regions that evidence waveguiding of electromagnetic radiation, and enables compensation of emission images for such waveguiding. The methods preserve the depth localization accuracy of the FMT approach and improve optical reconstruction in the targeted areas while eliminating spurious components of fluorescence from the acquired data set. Calibration methods for probe concentration mapping are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: VisEn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael I. Yared, Pouyan Mohajerani, Joshua Kempner