Patents by Inventor Laust Pedersen
Laust Pedersen 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).
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Patent number: 8172741Abstract: The invention provides magazines for radioactive brachytherapy seeds. The seed magazines provided herein include housing, seed holder, and pusher components, and optionally have a slidable shield to protect a user from radiation.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Core Oncology, Inc.Inventors: Jerry R. Barber, Charles R. Pitman, Laust Pedersen
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Patent number: 7859257Abstract: The invention concerns a system suited for carrying out eddy current measurements on components for nuclear reactors when these components are located in water. The system comprises a control unit, a measurement probe and a first cable suited to constitute at least a part of the connection between the control unit and the measurement probe. The system also comprises a switching unit, suited to be located in water and arranged to be connected with said first cable, and to be connected with the measurement probe. The switching unit has a switching device which can assume at least a first and a second state. In the first state, the first cable is connected with the measurement probe. In the second state, the first cable is not connected with the measurement probe. The invention also concerns the use of the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Sweden ABInventors: Kurt-Åke Magnusson, Laust Pedersen, Lennart Ahlén, Bjorn Näsström, Holger Wiese
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Publication number: 20090187061Abstract: The invention provides magazines for radioactive brachytherapy seeds. The seed magazines provided herein include housing, seed holder, and pusher components, and optionally have a slidable shield to protect a user from radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2009Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: Core Oncology, Inc.Inventors: Jerry R. Barber, Charles R. Pitman, Laust Pedersen
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Patent number: 7513862Abstract: The invention provides magazines for radioactive brachytherapy seeds. The seed magazines provided herein include housing, seed holder, and pusher components, and optionally have a slidable shield to protect a user from radiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2005Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Core Oncology, Inc.Inventors: Jerry R. Barber, Charles R. Pitman, Laust Pedersen
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Publication number: 20080278155Abstract: The invention concerns a system suited for carrying out eddy current measurements on components for nuclear reactors when these components are located in water. The system comprises a control unit, a measurement probe and a first cable suited to constitute at least a part of the connection between the control unit and the measurement probe. The system also comprises a switching unit, suited to be located in water and arranged to be connected with said first cable, and to be connected with the measurement probe. The switching unit has a switching device which can assume at least a first and a second state. In the first state, the first cable is connected with the measurement probe. In the second state, the first cable is not connected with the measurement probe. The invention also concerns the use of the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2006Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC SWEDEN ABInventors: Kurt-Ake Magnusson, Laust Pedersen, Lennart Ahlen, Bjorn Nasstrom, Holger Wiese
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Publication number: 20070185368Abstract: The invention provides brachytherapy applicators and brachytherapy applicator chucks configured to reduce or prevent accumulation of blood and other contaminants therein. The brachytherapy applicator chucks can be disposable.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2007Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Laust Pedersen, Jerry Barber, Charles Pitman, Michael Collinson, Russel Redmond, Claude Vidal
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Publication number: 20050267320Abstract: The invention provides magazines for radioactive brachytherapy seeds. The seed magazines provided herein include housing, seed holder, and pusher components, and optionally have a slidable shield to protect a user from radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Inventors: Jerry Barber, Charles Pitman, Laust Pedersen
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Patent number: 6953426Abstract: The invention provides magazines for radioactive brachytherapy seeds. The seed magazines provided herein include housing, seed holder, and pusher components, and optionally have a slidable shield to protect a user from radiation.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2003Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: Mentor CorporationInventors: Jerry R. Barber, Charles R. Pitman, Laust Pedersen
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Publication number: 20050075529Abstract: The invention provides brachytherapy applicators and brachytherapy applicator chucks configured to reduce or prevent accumulation of blood and other contaminants therein. The brachytherapy applicator chucks can be disposable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: April 7, 2005Inventors: Laust Pedersen, Jerry Barber, Charles Pitman, Michael Collinson, Russel Redmond, Claude Vidal
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Publication number: 20040147800Abstract: The invention provides magazines for radioactive brachytherapy seeds. The seed magazines provided herein include housing, seed holder, and pusher components, and optionally have a slidable shield to protect a user from radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Jerry R. Barber, Charles R. Pitman, Laust Pedersen
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Publication number: 20040007254Abstract: The invention features cleaning tools for brachytherapy applicators. In particular, the invention features devices that are useful for flushing areas within and adjacent to a magazine receiving well of a brachytherapy applicator in order to remove debris and contaminants. Such tools can be used to restore the function of magazine retaining structures of brachytherapy applicators.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2002Publication date: January 15, 2004Inventors: Laust Pedersen, Charles Pitman
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Patent number: 6656107Abstract: The invention features brachytherapy applicators for delivering radioactive seeds to a patient. Specifically, the invention provides brachytherapy applicators in which a seed magazine is removably held within a chuck by a magazine retaining structure. The magazine retaining structures described herein are designed such that a seed magazine can be readily inserted into or removed from a brachytherapy applicator. In addition, magazine retaining structures are designed such that they will not become jammed, even when blood cells or other particles enter the applicator during a brachytherapy procedure and become lodged near the seed magazine and the magazine retaining structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2002Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Mentor CorporationInventors: Laust Pedersen, Jerry R. Barber
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Publication number: 20030220533Abstract: The invention features brachytherapy applicators for delivering radioactive seeds to a patient. Specifically, the invention provides brachytherapy applicators in which a seed magazine is removably held within a chuck by a magazine retaining structure. The magazine retaining structures described herein are designed such that a seed magazine can be readily inserted into or removed from a brachytherapy applicator. In addition, magazine retaining structures are designed such that they will not become jammed, even when blood cells or other particles enter the applicator during a brachytherapy procedure and become lodged near the seed magazine and the magazine retaining structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2002Publication date: November 27, 2003Inventors: Laust Pedersen, Jerry R. Barber
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Patent number: 6639237Abstract: The invention relates to brachytherapy devices, methods for making brachytherapy devices, and methods for using brachytherapy devices. For example, the invention provides brachytherapy devices such as staging-sterilization devices and insert devices that can be used in various brachytherapy procedures.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Mentor CorporationInventors: Laust Pedersen, Jerry Barber, Ronald Crouther, Dennis Femrite, Scott Henderson, Charles Pitman, Martin T. Steele, Sr.
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Publication number: 20030088143Abstract: The invention relates to brachytherapy devices, methods for making brachytherapy devices, and methods for using brachytherapy devices. For example, the invention provides brachytherapy devices such as staging-sterilization devices and insert devices that can be used in various brachytherapy procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2001Publication date: May 8, 2003Inventors: Laust Pedersen, Jerry Barber, Ronald Crouther, Dennis Femrite, Scott Henderson, Charles Pitman, Martin T. Steele
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Patent number: 5782213Abstract: An improved internal combustion engine is disclosed. The disclosed engine comprises several preferred embodiments, each including a first piston reciprocating in a first cylinder along a first axis, a second piston reciprocating in a second cylinder along a second axis, said second axis being orthagonal to said first axis, and a flying crankshaft orbiting around a third axis, said third axis being orthagonal to said first and second axis'. Also disclosed are two opposing piston-pairs, reciprocating in cylinders along said first and second axis', each piston in a pair connected to the other piston by a connecting means further defined by a crank aperture within which said flying crankshaft orbits. The disclosed engine further may include at least one ring bearing and/or at least one ring gear within which said crankshaft orbits.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1997Date of Patent: July 21, 1998Inventor: Laust Pedersen