Patents by Inventor Wesley Snyder

Wesley Snyder 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).

  • Patent number: 7865002
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for computer analysis of lesions in digitized film-based and/or digital mammograms is described, wherein diagnostic information is combined from two different 2-D mammographic views with the information obtained from one view (or field of view) or mammographic position is processed with information obtained from a second (or a plurality of) related mammographic views to reduce false-positive findings (increase specificity) while preserving or improving diagnostic sensitivity. The digital mammograms or digitized film-based mammograms used, are those that are in current use, and those that conform to the requirements of the American College of Radiology and the Mammography Quality Standards Acts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Carolina Imaging Specialists, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert F. Basilico, Wesley Snyder, Albert Basilico
  • Publication number: 20080281623
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method provides illustrations of college expense funding for a plurality of college students who attend an institution of higher education and who pay at least some college expenses using proceeds from parental college-related loans. The payments on the loans are reimbursed by the institution only if the student does not drop out of the institution. A computer-implemented apparatus administers a financial aid program for the students based on this methodology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventor: Wesley A. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20070280525
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for computer analysis of lesions in digitized film-based and/or digital mammograms is described, wherein diagnostic information is combined from two different 2-D mammographic views with the information obtained from one view (or field of view) or mammographic position is processed with information obtained from a second (or a plurality of) related mammographic views to reduce false-positive findings (increase specificity) while preserving or improving diagnostic sensitivity. The digital mammograms or digitized film-based mammograms used, are those that are in current use, and those that conform to the requirements of the American College of Radiology and the Mammography Quality Standards Acts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Robert F. Basilico, Wesley Snyder, Albert Basilico
  • Publication number: 20070112669
    Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus creates a financial plan for parental funding of a student's college education. The plan includes a variable life insurance policy, a schedule of estimated college loans to be applied for by the parent for each of the years of attendance by the student, consolidation loan recommendations for consolidation of the annual college loans, including monthly debt servicing amounts for the consolidation loan, and debt servicing recommendations for making withdrawals or loans against the accumulated value of the life insurance policy to pay at least some of the monthly debt servicing amounts of the consolidation loan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventor: Wesley Snyder
  • Patent number: 7158950
    Abstract: A computer-implemented process creates a financial plan for parental funding of a student's college education. The plan includes a variable life insurance policy, a schedule of estimated college loans to be applied for by the parent for each of the years of attendance by the student, consolidation loan recommendations for consolidation of the annual college loans, including monthly debt servicing amounts for the consolidation loan, and debt servicing recommendations for making withdrawals or loans against the accumulated value of the life insurance policy to pay at least some of the monthly debt servicing amounts of the consolidation loan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Inventor: Wesley A. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20050171820
    Abstract: A computer-implemented process creates a financial plan for parental funding of a student's college education. The plan includes a variable life insurance policy, a schedule of estimated college loans to be applied for by the parent for each of the years of attendance by the student, consolidation loan recommendations for consolidation of the annual college loans, including monthly debt servicing amounts for the consolidation loan, and debt servicing recommendations for making withdrawals or loans against the accumulated value of the life insurance policy to pay at least some of the monthly debt servicing amounts of the consolidation loan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventor: Wesley Snyder