Patents by Inventor Shiaofen Fang

Shiaofen Fang 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).

  • Publication number: 20150119289
    Abstract: A panel of lymphoma related biomarkers are provided. The panel allows the identification of a subject at risk for a lymphoma. Further provided are methods of optimizing therapeutic efficacy associated with treatment of a lymphoma related disorder. Methods of identifying biomarkers affiliated with a condition of interest are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Jake Yue Chen, Shiaofen Fang
  • Patent number: 6556199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for voxelizing geometric and volumetric models of objects in 3D space, i.e. converting these 3D models into a voxel-based volume representation. Based on an unconventional way of using the 3D graphics hardware in modern graphics workstations, the present invention generates slices of the model as frame buffer images, and then stores the slices in a 3D texture memory for interactive volume rendering. Since most of the computation is carried out directly by hardware, the voxelization algorithms of the present invention are much faster than existing algorithms, and are able to achieve interactive volume rendering and manipulation of complex 3D scenes consisting of intermixed geometric models and sampled volume data sets (e.g. CT and MRI scans).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Research and Technology Institute
    Inventors: Shiaofen Fang, Hongsheng Chen