Patents by Inventor Mary Beth Smrtic

Mary Beth Smrtic 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).

  • Universal Visualization Platform
    Publication number: 20100268691
    Abstract: The invention relates to a framework system and methods for connecting a plurality of tools. The system comprises a plug-in mechanism configured to dynamically load the plurality of tools, a data pool having storage space configured to store data sets associated with the plurality of tools, a linking mechanism configured to establish communications links between the loaded plurality of tools to enable coordinated operation of the loaded plurality of tools, a session component configured to record the process history of the operations of the loaded plurality of tool and the system states corresponding to the process history of the operations and an annotation module configured to associate user-provided data corresponding to one or more of the stored data sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    Inventors: Georges Grinstein, Alexander Gee, Urska Cvek, Howard Goodell, Hongli Li, Min Yu, Jianping Zhou, Vivek Gupta, Mary Beth Smrtic, Christine Lawrence, Chih-Hung Chiang
  • Universal visualization platform
    Patent number: 7734607
    Abstract: The invention relates to a framework system and methods for connecting a plurality of tools. The system comprises a plug-in mechanism configured to dynamically load the plurality of tools, a data pool having storage space configured to store data sets associated with the plurality of tools, a linking mechanism configured to establish communications links between the loaded plurality of tools to enable coordinated operation of the loaded plurality of tools, a session component configured to record the process history of the operations of the loaded plurality of tool and the system states corresponding to the process history of the operations and an annotation module configured to associate user-provided data corresponding to one or more of the stored data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Georges Grinstein, Alexander Gee, Urska Cvek, Howard Goodell, Hongli Li, Min Yu, Jianping Zhou, Vivek Gupta, Mary Beth Smrtic, Christine Lawrence, Chih-Hung Chiang