Patents by Inventor Scott A. Spooner

Scott A. Spooner 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).

  • Automated brachytherapy seed production system
    Patent number: 6608277
    Abstract: An automated system, method and apparatus for producing welded end closures in thin-walled metal tubes, preferably sealing a radioactive source inside the tubes, by use of an electronically controlled robot that grasps and sequentially repositions the tube through a series of stations in which the tube is bottom-welded, inspected, filled, inspected, top welded and inspected, and wherein the tube bottom and top are welded using multi-directional laser beams generated by a single laser light source and discharged through a plurality of spaced-apart laser welder heads. Brachytherapy seeds containing radiolabeled microspheres are produced using the system, method and apparatus of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Bard Acquisition Sub. Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Spooner, Tommy L. Thompson, Michael L. Vinson
  • Automated brachytherapy seed production system
    Publication number: 20020162828
    Abstract: An automated system, method and apparatus for producing welded end closures in thin-walled metal tubes, preferably sealing a radioactive source inside the tubes, by use of an electronically controlled robot that grasps and sequentially repositions the tube through a series of stations in which the tube is bottom-welded, inspected, filled, inspected, top welded and inspected, and wherein the tube bottom and top are welded using multi-directional laser beams generated by a single laser light source and discharged through a plurality of spaced-apart laser welder heads. Brachytherapy seeds containing radiolabeled microspheres are produced using the system, method and apparatus of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Inventors: Scott A. Spooner, Tommy L. Thompson, Michael L. Vinson
  • System and automated method for producing welded end closures in thin-walled metal tubes
    Patent number: 6403916
    Abstract: An automated system, method and apparatus for producing welded end closures in thin-walled metal tubes, preferably sealing a radioactive source inside the tubes, by use of an electronically controlled robot that grasps and sequentially repositions the tube through a series of stations in which the tube is bottom-welded, inspected, filled, inspected, top welded and inspected, and wherein the tube bottom and top are welded using multi-directional laser beams generated by a single laser light source and discharged through a plurality of spaced-apart laser welder heads. Brachytherapy seeds containing radiolabeled microspheres are produced using the system, method and apparatus of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Isostar International, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Spooner, T. L. Thompson, Michael L. Vinson