Patents by Inventor Kenneth M. Jacobs

Kenneth M. Jacobs 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: 9013692
    Abstract: A flow cytometer assembly includes a fluid controller configured to form a hydrodynamically focused flow stream including an outer sheath fluid and an inner core fluid. A coherent light source is configured to illuminate a particle in the inner core fluid. A detector is configured to detect a spatially coherent distribution of elastically scattered light from the particle excited by the coherent light source. An analyzing module configured to extract a three-dimensional morphology parameter of the particle from a spatially coherent distribution of the elastically scattered light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: East Carolina University
    Inventors: Xin-Hua Hu, Kenneth M. Jacobs, Jun O. Lu
  • Publication number: 20110090500
    Abstract: A flow cytometer assembly includes a fluid controller configured to form a hydrodynamically focused flow stream including an outer sheath fluid and an inner core fluid. A coherent light source is configured to illuminate a particle in the inner core fluid. A detector is configured to detect a spatially coherent distribution of elastically scattered light from the particle excited by the coherent light source. An analyzing module configured to extract a three-dimensional morphology parameter of the particle from a spatially coherent distribution of the elastically scattered light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Xin-Hua Hu, Kenneth M. Jacobs, Jun O. Lu
  • Patent number: 6959927
    Abstract: A gaming system and method based on a Blackjack card game using a dealer hold criteria and allowing a single player at a location to play blackjack against a plurality of dealers from a casino. The system and method allows the player to select the number of dealer hand positions, a player hand position, wager placement positions corresponding with each dealer hand position. The system compares, based on the rules of Blackjack, the player hold hand to each dealer hold hand to determine if the player hold hand wins over any of the dealer hold hands. The single player is then credited for each dealer hold hand that is beat by the player hold hand and the casino is credited for each dealer hold hand that is not beat by a player hold hand, so that the single player carries out multiple games of blackjack based on the player hold hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas W. Jacobs, Kenneth M. Jacobs