Patents by Inventor Lance W. Smith

Lance W. Smith 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).

  • MULTIPLE-EXCITATION MULTIPLE-RECEIVING (MEMR) CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY
    Publication number: 20150338364
    Abstract: A method for operating a sensor, including simultaneously exciting a first set of electrodes and sensing an output of each electrode of a second set of electrodes, storing output data corresponding to the output of each electrode of the second set of electrodes in a memory storage device, shifting at least one electrode from the first set of electrodes to the second set of electrodes and at least one electrode from the second set of electrodes to the first set of electrodes, and repeating the simultaneously exciting and sensing, the storing, and the shifting until an output data has been stored for each possible pair of electrodes in the first and second set of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Zhaoyan Fan, Robert X. Gao, Jeffery A. Lovett, Lance W. Smith