Patents by Inventor Lusia Halina Guthrie

Lusia Halina Guthrie 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).

  • Image capture and lighting apparatus
    Patent number: 9470624
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in analysing microbial growth on a solid culture medium in a culture plate, the apparatus including an image capture device, a support for supporting the culture plate for the image capture device to capture an image of the solid culture medium and any microbial growth, a ring light between the image capture device and the support, for diffusely illuminating one side of the culture plate, and a frame for positioning the image capture device, support and ring light relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: LBT Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Lusia Halina Guthrie, John Hughes Glasson, Graeme John Bullock, Graeme Cross, Rhys Ernst Hill
  • Method and software for analysing microbial growth
    Patent number: 9292729
    Abstract: A method for analysing microbial growth on a solid culture medium, the method including obtaining image data of the solid culture medium and any microbial growth, generating an associated feature vector of values obtained by applying one or more filters to the image data, using a classifier to classify each pixel in a plurality of pixels in the image data based on the associated feature vector, analysing results of pixel classifications of each said pixel to derive a microbiological assessment of the solid culture medium and any microbial growth, and outputting the microbiological assessment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: LBT Innovations Limited
    Inventors: Lusia Halina Guthrie, John Hughes Glasson, Anton John van den Hengel, Rhys Ernst Hill, Benjamin William Stephen Ward
  • IMAGE CAPTURE AND LIGHTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140227774
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in analysing microbial growth on a solid culture medium in a culture plate, the apparatus including an image capture device, a support for supporting the culture plate for the image capture device to capture an image of the solid culture medium and any microbial growth, a ring light between the image capture device and the support, for diffusely illuminating one side of the culture plate, and a frame for positioning the image capture device, support and ring light relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventors: Lusia Halina Guthrie, John Hughes Glasson, Graeme John Bullock, Graeme Cross, Rhys Ernst Hill
  • METHOD AND SOFTWARE FOR ANALYSING MICROBIAL GROWTH
    Publication number: 20140219538
    Abstract: A method for analysing microbial growth on a solid culture medium, the method including obtaining image data of the solid culture medium and any microbial growth, generating an associated feature vector of values obtained by applying one or more filters to the image data, using a classifier to classify each pixel in a plurality of pixels in the image data based on the associated feature vector, analysing results of pixel classifications of each said pixel to derive a microbiological assessment of the solid culture medium and any microbial growth, and outputting the microbiological assessment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Lusia Halina Guthrie, John Hughes Glasson, Anton John van den Hengel, Rhys Ernst Hill, Benjamin William Stephen Ward