Patents by Inventor Kenneth Turteltaub

Kenneth Turteltaub 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).

  • Spectroscopic quantification of extremely rare molecular species in the presence of interfering optical absorption
    Patent number: 9645077
    Abstract: Optical spectrometer apparatus, systems, and methods for analysis of carbon-14 including a resonant optical cavity configured to accept a sample gas including carbon-14, an optical source configured to deliver optical radiation to the resonant optical cavity, an optical detector configured to detect optical radiation emitted from the resonant cavity and to provide a detector signal; and a processor configured to compute a carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal, wherein computing the carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal includes fitting a spectroscopic model to a measured spectrogram, wherein the spectroscopic model accounts for contributions from one or more interfering species that spectroscopically interfere with carbon-14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Picarro, Inc.
    Inventors: Ted Ognibene, Graham Bench, Alan Daniel McCartt, Kenneth Turteltaub, Chris W. Rella, Sze Tan, John A. Hoffnagle, Nabil Saad, Eric Crosson
  • SPECTROSCOPIC QUANTIFICATION OF EXTREMELY RARE MOLECULAR SPECIES IN THE PRESENCE OF INTERFERING OPTICAL ABSORPTION
    Publication number: 20160011101
    Abstract: Optical spectrometer apparatus, systems, and methods for analysis of carbon-14 including a resonant optical cavity configured to accept a sample gas including carbon-14, an optical source configured to deliver optical radiation to the resonant optical cavity, an optical detector configured to detect optical radiation emitted from the resonant cavity and to provide a detector signal; and a processor configured to compute a carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal, wherein computing the carbon-14 concentration from the detector signal includes fitting a spectroscopic model to a measured spectrogram, wherein the spectroscopic model accounts for contributions from one or more interfering species that spectroscopically interfere with carbon-14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Ted Ognibene, Graham Bench, Alan Daniel McCartt, Kenneth Turteltaub, Chris W. Rella, Sze Tan, John A. Hoffnagle, Nabil Saad, Eric Crosson
  • Interface for the rapid analysis of liquid samples by accelerator mass spectrometry
    Patent number: 8642953
    Abstract: An interface for the analysis of liquid sample having carbon content by an accelerator mass spectrometer including a wire, defects on the wire, a system for moving the wire, a droplet maker for producing droplets of the liquid sample and placing the droplets of the liquid sample on the wire in the defects, a system that converts the carbon content of the droplets of the liquid sample to carbon dioxide gas in a helium stream, and a gas-accepting ion source connected to the accelerator mass spectrometer that receives the carbon dioxide gas of the sample in a helium stream and introduces the carbon dioxide gas of the sample into the accelerator mass spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Turteltaub, Ted Ognibene, Avi Thomas, Paul F. Daley, Gary A Salazar Quintero, Graham Bench
  • INTERFACE FOR THE RAPID ANALYSIS OF LIQUID SAMPLES BY ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
    Publication number: 20120235031
    Abstract: An interface for the analysis of liquid sample having carbon content by an accelerator mass spectrometer including a wire, defects on the wire, a system for moving the wire, a droplet maker for producing droplets of the liquid sample and placing the droplets of the liquid sample on the wire in the defects, a system that converts the carbon content of the droplets of the liquid sample to carbon dioxide gas in a helium stream, and a gas-accepting ion source connected to the accelerator mass spectrometer that receives the carbon dioxide gas of the sample in a helium stream and introduces the carbon dioxide gas of the sample into the accelerator mass spectrometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Turteltaub, Ted Ognibene, Avi Thomas, Paul F. Daley, Gary A. Salazar Quintero, Graham Bench