Patents by Inventor Troy S. Bergquist

Troy S. Bergquist 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).

  • Method for identifying implanted reconstructive prosthetic devices
    Patent number: 8249318
    Abstract: A method for identifying implanted reconstructive prosthetic devices comprising obtaining a digital radiographic image of a prosthetic implant that has been implanted in a person or animal for which the manufacturer and/or model is unknown; allowing a user to enter into a computer metadata relating to the implant for use as metadata feature values; cleaning up the unknown implant image; rotating, flipping and/or scaling the unknown implant image; extracting features from the unknown implant image according to one or more feature extraction algorithms; and comparing the metadata and extracted feature values for the unknown implant image to feature values for other implant images according to a comparison algorithm to create an overall likelihood score for each of the other implant images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: OsteoWare, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Schmitt, Troy S. Bergquist, Brian Smithgall
  • METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING IMPLANTED RECONSTRUCTIVE PROSTHETIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20100080426
    Abstract: A method for identifying implanted reconstructive prosthetic devices comprising obtaining a digital radiographic image of a prosthetic implant that has been implanted in a person or animal for which the manufacturer and/or model is unknown; allowing a user to enter into a computer metadata relating to the implant for use as metadata feature values; cleaning up the unknown implant image; rotating, flipping and/or scaling the unknown implant image; extracting features from the unknown implant image according to one or more feature extraction algorithms; and comparing the metadata and extracted feature values for the unknown implant image to feature values for other implant images according to a comparison algorithm to create an overall likelihood score for each of the other implant images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: OsteoWare, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Schmitt, Troy S. Bergquist, Brian Smithgall