Patents by Inventor Shaun S. Gleason
Shaun S. Gleason 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).
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Patent number: 10678937Abstract: A system and method that provides access to remote data locally by identifying and downloading linked content from a plurality of remote sources through a communication network; decomposing the downloaded content into local content elements by intercepting links between the content elements and mapping the intercepted links to redirected links that locate the same download content in a local cache or a local server proxy; identifying remote devices requesting access to the local cache or the local server proxy and the device's functionality through a tracking code stored on the remote devices and a probabilistic tracking; and providing access to the local cache or the local server proxy in response to authorizations associated with the identified devices and a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLCInventors: Jeff W. Smith, Shaun S. Gleason, Michael L. Baker, David L. Bond, Gregory L. Capps, Robert A. Franklin, Kimberly B. Jeskie
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Publication number: 20180204019Abstract: A system and method that provides access to remote data locally by identifying and downloading linked content from a plurality of remote sources through a communication network; decomposing the downloaded content into local content elements by intercepting links between the content elements and mapping the intercepted links to redirected links that locate the same download content in a local cache or a local server proxy; identifying remote devices requesting access to the local cache or the local server proxy and the device's functionality through a tracking code stored on the remote devices and a probabilistic tracking; and providing access to the local cache or the local server proxy in response to authorizations associated with the identified devices and a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2017Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Jeff W. Smith, Shaun S. Gleason, Michael L. Baker, David L. Bond, Gregory L. Capps, Robert A. Franklin, Kimberly B. Jeskie
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Patent number: 8248614Abstract: An optical system performs imaging in a transmissive and reflective mode. The system includes an optical interferometer that generates interference phenomena between optical waves to measure multiple distances, thicknesses, and indices of refraction of a sample. Measurements are made through a galvanometer that scans a pre-programmed angular arc. An excitation-emission device allows an electromagnetic excitation and emission to pass through an objective in optical communication with the sample. An electromagnetic detector receives the output of the optical interferometer and the excitation-emission device to render a magnified three dimensional image of the sample.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLCInventors: Christopher J. Mann, Philip R. Bingham, Shaun S. Gleason
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Publication number: 20120106814Abstract: A method and related system for generating motion corrected tomographic images includes the steps of illuminating a region of interest (ROI) to be imaged being part of an unrestrained live subject and having at least three spaced apart optical markers thereon. Simultaneous images are acquired from a first and a second camera of the markers from different angles. Motion data comprising 3D position and orientation of the markers relative to an initial reference position is then calculated. Motion corrected tomographic data obtained from the ROI using the motion data is then obtained, where motion corrected tomographic images obtained therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2005Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: UT-BATTELLE, LLCInventors: Shaun S. Gleason, James S. Goddard, JR.
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Patent number: 8170302Abstract: A method and related system for generating motion corrected tomographic images includes the steps of illuminating a region of interest (ROI) to be imaged being part of an unrestrained live subject and having at least three spaced apart optical markers thereon. Simultaneous images are acquired from a first and a second camera of the markers from different angles. Motion data comprising 3D position and orientation of the markers relative to an initial reference position is then calculated. Motion corrected tomographic data obtained from the ROI using the motion data is then obtained, where motion corrected tomographic images obtained therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLCInventors: Shaun S. Gleason, James S. Goddard, Jr.
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Publication number: 20100231895Abstract: An optical system performs imaging in a transmissive and reflective mode. The system includes an optical interferometer that generates interference phenomena between optical waves to measure multiple distances, thicknesses, and indices of refraction of a sample. Measurements are made through a galvanometer that scans a pre-programmed angular arc. An excitation-emission device allows an electromagnetic excitation and emission to pass through an objective in optical communication with the sample. An electromagnetic detector receives the output of the optical interferometer and the excitation-emission device to render a magnified three dimensional image of the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Christopher J. Mann, Philip R. Bingham, Shaun S. Gleason
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Patent number: 7218772Abstract: A method for identification of anomalous structures, such as defects, includes the steps of providing a digital image and applying fractal encoding to identify a location of at least one anomalous portion of the image. The method does not require a reference image to identify the location of the anomalous portion. The method can further include the step of initializing an active contour based on the location information obtained from the fractal encoding step and deforming an active contour to enhance the boundary delineation of the anomalous portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2002Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Ut-Battelle LLCInventors: Shaun S. Gleason, Hamed Sari-Sarraf
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Patent number: 7209579Abstract: A novel functional imaging system for use in the imaging of unrestrained and non-anesthetized small animals or other subjects and a method for acquiring such images and further registering them with anatomical X-ray images previously or subsequently acquired. The apparatus comprises a combination of an IR laser profilometry system and gamma, PET and/or SPECT, imaging system, all mounted on a rotating gantry, that permits simultaneous acquisition of positional and orientational information and functional images of an unrestrained subject that are registered, i.e. integrated, using image processing software to produce a functional image of the subject without the use of restraints or anesthesia. The functional image thus obtained can be registered with a previously or subsequently obtained X-ray CT image of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2003Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Jefferson Solence Ass. LLCInventors: Andrew G. Weisenberger, Stanislaw Majewski, Michael J. Paulus, Shaun S. Gleason
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Publication number: 20030228051Abstract: A method for identification of anomalous structures, such as defects, includes the steps of providing a digital image and applying fractal encoding to identify a location of at least one anomalous portion of the image. The method does not require a reference image to identify the location of the anomalous portion. The method can further include the step of initializing an active contour based on the location information obtained from the fractal encoding step and deforming an active contour to enhance the boundary delineation of the anomalous portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2002Publication date: December 11, 2003Inventors: Shaun S. Gleason, Hamed Sari-Sarraf
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Patent number: 6456899Abstract: Automatic detection of defects during the fabrication of semiconductor wafers is largely automated, but the classification of those defects is still performed manually by technicians. This invention includes novel digital image analysis techniques that generate unique feature vector descriptions of semiconductor defects as well as classifiers that use these descriptions to automatically categorize the defects into one of a set of pre-defined classes. Feature extraction techniques based on multiple-focus images, multiple-defect mask images, and segmented semiconductor wafer images are used to create unique feature-based descriptions of the semiconductor defects. These feature-based defect descriptions are subsequently classified by a defect classifier into categories that depend on defect characteristics and defect contextual information, that is, the semiconductor process layer(s) with which the defect comes in contact.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1999Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLCInventors: Shaun S. Gleason, Martin A. Hunt, Hamed Sari-Sarraf
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Patent number: 6421409Abstract: A method for ultra-high resolution computed tomography imaging, comprising the steps of: focusing a high energy particle beam, for example x-rays or gamma-rays, onto a target object; acquiring a 2-dimensional projection data set representative of the target object; generating a corrected projection data set by applying a deconvolution algorithm, having an experimentally determined a transfer function, to the 2-dimensional data set; storing the corrected projection data set; incrementally rotating the target object through an angle of approximately 180°, and after each the incremental rotation, repeating the radiating, acquiring, generating and storing steps; and, after the rotating step, applying a cone-beam algorithm, for example a modified tomographic reconstruction algorithm, to the corrected projection data sets to generate a 3-dimensional image. The size of the spot focus of the beam is reduced to not greater than approximately 1 micron, and even to not greater than approximately 0.5 microns.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2000Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: UT-Battelle LLCInventors: Michael J. Paulus, Hamed Sari-Sarraf, Kenneth William Tobin, Jr., Shaun S. Gleason, Clarence E. Thomas, Jr.
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Patent number: 6370223Abstract: At least two linear arrays of x-ray detectors are placed below a conveyor belt in a poultry processing plant. Multiple-energy x-ray sources illuminate the poultry and are detected by the detectors. Laser profilometry is used to measure the poultry thickness as the x-ray data is acquired. The detector readout is processed in real time to detect the presence of small highly attenuating fragments in the poultry, i.e., bone, metal, and cartilage.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2001Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLCInventors: Shaun S. Gleason, Michael J. Paulus, James A. Mullens
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Patent number: 5982920Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing automated defect spatial signature alysis on a data set representing defect coordinates and wafer processing information includes categorizing data from the data set into a plurality of high level categories, classifying the categorized data contained in each high level category into user-labeled signature events, and correlating the categorized, classified signature events to a present or incipient anomalous process condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corp. Oak Ridge National LaboratoryInventors: Kenneth W. Tobin, Jr., Shaun S. Gleason, Thomas P. Karnowski, Hamed Sari-Sarraf