Patents by Inventor Leigh A. Neumayer

Leigh A. Neumayer 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).

  • Method and system with oppositely-facing ultrasonic transducers for determining tissue pathology
    Patent number: 10041910
    Abstract: A method for determining a pathology of a tissue sample. The method includes steps of coupling the tissue sample between two oppositely-facing ultrasonic transducers; acquiring a pulse-echo ultrasonic measurement and a through-transmission ultrasonic measurement of the tissue sample using the ultrasonic transducers; analyzing at least one of the pulse-echo ultrasonic measurement and the through-transmission ultrasonic measurement using time domain analysis; analyzing at least one of the through-transmission ultrasonic measurements and the pulse-echo ultrasonic measurements using frequency domain analysis; and determining the pathology of the tissue sample based on at least one of the time domain analysis and the frequency domain analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Timothy E. Doyle, Leigh A. Neumayer
  • ULTRASONIC METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TISSUE PATHOLOGY
    Publication number: 20130269441
    Abstract: A method for determining a pathology of a tissue sample. The method includes steps of coupling the tissue sample between two oppositely-facing ultrasonic transducers; acquiring a pulse-echo ultrasonic measurement and a through-transmission ultrasonic measurement of the tissue sample using the ultrasonic transducers; analyzing at least one of the pulse-echo ultrasonic measurement and the through-transducer transmission ultrasonic measurement using time domain analysis; analyzing at least one of the through-transmission ultrasonic measurements and the pulse-echo ultrasonic measurements using frequency domain analysis; and determining the pathology of the tissue sample based on at least one of the time domain analysis and the frequency domain analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicants: UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Timothy E. Doyle, Leigh A. Neumayer