Patents by Inventor Vitaliy Ziskin
Vitaliy Ziskin 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: 10641918Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to methods and apparatus for cargo inspection and, more particularly, to X-ray based inspection systems providing radiographic imaging and material discrimination with adaptive control of X-ray source dependent upon characteristics of the cargo under inspection. X-rays are generated utilizing a dual energy interlaced betatron by generation of X-ray pulses with lower- and higher-energies during the same betatron acceleration cycle.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Radiabeam Technologies, LLCInventors: Anatoli Arodzero, Sergey V. Kutsaev, Vitaliy Ziskin, Salime Boucher, Finn O'Shea
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Patent number: 10481113Abstract: Apparatus and methods for Compton scattering radiography employing a variable energy X-ray source and a detector capable of detecting the temporal intensity profile of scattered X-ray pulses disposed on one side of an object to be imaged. Based on analysis of the measurement of the instantaneous intensity of the detected photons and the beam position relative to the object, an image is generated. Each voxel can be reconstructed to yield a measure of variation in the density of the material of the object.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Radiabeam Technologies, LLCInventors: Anatoli Arodzero, Sergey V. Kutsaev, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Publication number: 20190259565Abstract: A particle beam device including a magnet, the device including: a particle beam source configured to emit electron and ion beams; a plurality of yokes arranged in a substantially rectangular shape; a coil set including a plurality of coils, wherein windings of the plurality of coils are uniformly distributed across and wound around the plurality of yokes, wherein the coil set is configured to produce both dipole and quadrupole fields, wherein the magnet is configured to deflect and focus electron and ion beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: IMATREX INC.Inventors: Roy E. RAND, Vitaliy ZISKIN
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Publication number: 20190198286Abstract: A particle beam device including a magnet, the device including: a particle beam source configured to emit electron and ion beams; a plurality of yokes arranged in a substantially rectangular shape; a coil set including a plurality of coils, wherein windings of the plurality of coils are uniformly distributed across and wound around the plurality of yokes, wherein the coil set is configured to produce both dipole and quadrupole fields, wherein the magnet is configured to deflect and focus electron and ion beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: IMATREX, INC.Inventors: Roy E. RAND, Vitaliy ZISKIN
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Patent number: 10332718Abstract: A particle beam device including a magnet, the device including: a particle beam source configured to emit electron and ion beams; a plurality of yokes arranged in a substantially rectangular shape; a coil set including a plurality of coils, wherein windings of the plurality of coils are uniformly distributed across and wound around the plurality of yokes, wherein the coil set is configured to produce both dipole and quadrupole fields, wherein the magnet is configured to deflect and focus electron and ion beams.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: IMATREX, INC.Inventors: Roy E. Rand, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Patent number: 10290463Abstract: A particle beam device including a magnet, the device including: a particle beam source configured to emit electron and ion beams; a plurality of yokes arranged in a substantially rectangular shape; a coil set including a plurality of coils, wherein windings of the plurality of coils are uniformly distributed across and wound around the plurality of yokes, wherein the coil set is configured to produce both dipole and quadrupole fields, wherein the magnet is configured to deflect and focus electron and ion beams.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: IMATREX, INC.Inventors: Roy E. Rand, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Publication number: 20190129060Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to methods and apparatus for cargo inspection and, more particularly, to X-ray based inspection systems providing radiographic imaging and material discrimination with adaptive control of X-ray source dependent upon characteristics of the cargo under inspection. X-rays are generated utilizing a dual energy interlaced betatron by generation of X-ray pulses with lower- and higher-energies during the same betatron acceleration cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: Radiabeam Technologies, LLCInventors: Anatoli Arodzero, Sergey V. Kutsaev, Vitaliy Ziskin, Salime Boucher, Finn O'Shea
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Publication number: 20180315578Abstract: A particle beam device including a magnet, the device including: a particle beam source configured to emit electron and ion beams; a plurality of yokes arranged in a substantially rectangular shape; a coil set including a plurality of coils, wherein windings of the plurality of coils are uniformly distributed across and wound around the plurality of yokes, wherein the coil set is configured to produce both dipole and quadrupole fields, wherein the magnet is configured to deflect and focus electron and ion beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Roy E. RAND, Vitaliy ZISKIN
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Publication number: 20170336526Abstract: Apparatus and methods for Compton scattering radiography employing a variable energy X-ray source and a detector capable of detecting the temporal intensity profile of scattered X-ray pulses disposed on one side of an object to be imaged. Based on analysis of the measurement of the instantaneous intensity of the detected photons and the beam position relative to the object, an image is generated. Each voxel can be reconstructed to yield a measure of variation in the density of the material of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Radiabeam Technologies, LLCInventors: Anatoli Arodzero, Sergey V. Kutsaev, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Patent number: 9239303Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for material discrimination. The systems and methods include a single source that generates both neutrons and photons, and a single imaging array with a common detector that detects the neutrons and the photons generated from the single source. The systems and methods allow for a determination of the contents, and/or the effective atomic number (āZā) of the contents, of an object without physical inspection of the interior of the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: Vitaliy Ziskin, David Perticone
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Publication number: 20140198899Abstract: An inspection system that makes dual energy measurements with a detector array that has selective placement of filter elements adjacent a subset of detectors in the array to provide at least two subsets of detector elements sensitive to X-rays of different energies. Dual energy measurements may be made on objects of interest within an item under inspection by forming a volumetric image using measurements from detectors in a first of the subsets and synthetic readings computed from measurements made with detectors in the array, including those that are filtered. The volumetric image may be used to identify the objects of interest to and source points that, for each object of interest, provide a low interference path to one of the detectors in the second of the subsets. Measurements made with radiation emanating from those source points are used for dual energy analysis of the objects of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: Vitaliy Ziskin, Boris Oreper
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Patent number: 8724872Abstract: A signal is reconstructed from multiple radiation sources. Data detected by a detector is accessed. The data includes a combined representation of radiation emitted concurrently from two sources of radiation. A representation of the radiation emitted from one of the two sources of radiation is determined from the data.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: Vitaliy Ziskin, Boris Oreper
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Patent number: 8644549Abstract: A system and method for forming volumetric images of an imaged object based on multiple radiation measurements of the object taken from different angles. A first volumetric image of the object may be calculated using a direct reconstruction method from a plurality of radiation measurements of the object. At least one iteration of an iterative reconstruction method may be performed to compute a second volumetric image of the object. The iterative reconstruction method may be initialized with the first volumetric image of the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: Andrew D. Foland, Boris Oreper, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Publication number: 20130056643Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for material discrimination. The systems and methods include a single source that generates both neutrons and photons, and a single imaging array with a common detector that detects the neutrons and the photons generated from the single source. The systems and methods allow for a determination of the contents, and/or the effective atomic number (āZā) of the contents, of an object without physical inspection of the interior of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: Vitaliy Ziskin, David Perticone
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Patent number: 8345812Abstract: A first pulsed beam of charged particles from a particle accelerator is accelerated toward a first target that is configured to emit a fast neutron beam in response to being struck by an accelerated particle such that the fast neutron beam is directed toward a physical region. The last neutron beam includes a neutron having an energy sufficient to cause fission in a fissionable material. Data from a sensor configured to detect radiation of a fission product is accessed, and before accelerating a second pulsed beam of charged particles, whether the physical region includes a fissionable material based on the data from the sensor is determined.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: David Perticone, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Publication number: 20120195458Abstract: A system and method for forming volumetric images of an imaged object based on multiple radiation measurements of the object taken from different angles. A first volumetric image of the object may be calculated using a direct reconstruction method from a plurality of radiation measurements of the object. At least one iteration of an iterative reconstruction method may be performed to compute a second volumetric image of the object. The iterative reconstruction method may be initialized with the first volumetric image of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems Inc.Inventors: Andrew D. Foland, Boris Oreper, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Publication number: 20120119103Abstract: Fissionable materials are distinguished from other high-effective atomic number materials by producing dual-energy x-ray radiation sufficient to cause fission in fissionable materials and directing the dual-energy x-ray radiation sufficient to cause fission in fissionable materials towards a physical region. X-ray radiation and a product of fission from the physical region are sensed. An absorption of the dual-energy x-ray radiation by the physical region is determined based on the sensed x-ray radiation, and whether the physical region includes fissionable material is determined based on the presence of a product of fission.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: David Perticone, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Patent number: 8106365Abstract: Fissionable materials are distinguished from other high-effective atomic number materials by producing dual-energy x-ray radiation sufficient to cause fission in fissionable materials and directing the dual-energy x-ray radiation sufficient to cause fission in fissionable materials towards a physical region. X-ray radiation and a product of fission from the physical region are sensed. An absorption of the dual-energy x-ray radiation by the physical region is determined based on the sensed x-ray radiation, and whether the physical region includes fissionable material is determined based on the presence of a product of fission.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: David Perticone, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Publication number: 20110186739Abstract: Apparatus for scanning large cargo to detect concealed contents include a mobile platform configured to carry and position at least one X-ray or gamma-ray source and at least one detector array at a plurality of positions with respect to a stationary cargo. The detector array may be mounted on a boom moveably affixed to the mobile platform. Multiple measurements of radiation passing through the cargo for various source-detector orientations can be used to compute volumetric images of concealed content within the cargo.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems Inc.Inventors: Andrew D. Foland, Richard Franklin Eilbert, Michael R. Gambini, Nicholas Danvers Penrose Gillett, Ronald S. McNabb, Boris Oreper, David Perticone, Vitaliy Ziskin
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Patent number: 7864924Abstract: X-ray radiation is generated at a target that emits x-ray radiation in response to being struck by accelerated electrons, the electrons being emitted by a cathode that emits electrons in response to being illuminated by electromagnetic radiation from a source, and the x-ray radiation is moved by orienting a surface that directs the electromagnetic radiation from the source toward the cathode.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc.Inventors: Vitaliy Ziskin, Boris Oreper, Andrew Dean Foland