Patents by Inventor Michael James Deweert

Michael James Deweert 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).

  • Dual mode real-time screening and rapid full-area, selective-spectral, remote imaging and analysis device and process
    Patent number: 6678398
    Abstract: The invention provides a device and process for real-time screening of areas that can be identified as suspicious either through image segmentation utilizing image processing techniques or through treatment with an exogenous fluorescent marker that selectively localizes in abnormal areas. If screening detects a suspicious area, then the invention allows acquiring of autofluorescence images at multiple selected narrow differentiating spectral bands so that a “virtual biopsy” can be obtained to differentiate abnormal areas from normal areas based on differentiating portions of autofluorescence spectra. Full spatial information is collected, but autofluorescence data is collected only at the selected narrow spectral bands, avoiding the collection of full spectral data, so that the speed of analysis is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: STI Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rolf Holger Wolters, Joseph Allen Sweat, Michael James Deweert, Robert Benton Seiple, Jr., David George Shibasaki Walton
  • Dual mode real-time screening and rapid full-area, selective-spectral, remote imaging and analysis device and process
    Publication number: 20030158470
    Abstract: The invention provides a device and process for real-time screening of areas that can be identified as suspicious either through image segmentation utilizing image processing techniques or through treatment with an exogenous fluorescent marker that selectively localizes in abnormal areas. If screening detects a suspicious area, then the invention allows acquiring of autofluorescence images at multiple selected narrow differentiating spectral bands so that a “virtual biopsy” can be obtained to differentiate abnormal areas from normal areas based on differentiating portions of autofluorescence spectra. Full spatial information is collected, but autofluorescence data is collected only at the selected narrow spectral bands, avoiding the collection of full spectral data, so that the speed of analysis is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: STI MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Rolf Holger Wolters, Joseph Allen Sweat, Michael James Deweert, Robert Benton Seiple, David George Shibasaki Walton