Patents by Inventor Kirk Beach

Kirk Beach 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: 5409010
    Abstract: An ultrasonic pulse-echo medical device for determining the angular heading and magnitude of the velocity of blood flowing through a blood vessel by transmitting a pulsed ultrasonic beam from a single transmitting transducer and receiving echoes from sample volumes along such beam by a plurality of ultrasound receiving transducers. Independent motions in the same sample volume, such as those of a moving vessel wall and the motion of blood flowing through the blood vessel, can be separately analyzed and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Washington
    Inventors: Kirk Beach, John Overbeck
  • Patent number: 5162828
    Abstract: A display system for conventional eyewear having a transparency that defines a field of view and a frame for supporting the transparency on a user's head is shown. The display system includes a light transmissive display mounted on the frame of the eyewear and optics for collimating light to project an image of the displayed information at a distance from the user in the periphery of the field of view defined by the transparency. The optics may include a single mirror that receives the information directly from the display wherein the mirror is toroidal or the like so as to project an enlarged image at an apparent optical distance from the user that is greater than the actual optical path. Alternatively, a planar mirror may be employed with a collimating lens to project the image at a desired distance from the user. The mirror may be fully reflective or partially reflective so as to superimpose the image of the displayed information on the scene viewed by the user through the transparency of the eyewear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Inventors: Thomas A. Furness, Robert E. Fischer, Peter K. Purdy, Kirk Beach