Patents by Inventor Yves Pierre Charon

Yves Pierre Charon 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).

  • Device for non-invasive analysis by radio-imaging, in particular for the in vivo examination of small animals, and method of use
    Patent number: 6407391
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for use on a collimator of a radio-imaging device. The system includes a stack of plates provided with perforations, the thickness (d) of the plates being less than the diameter of the perforations in the internal entry face of the collimator. The thickness of the span between the perforations is made greater than the thickness of the plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Lydie Ploux, Yves Pierre Charon, Laurent Pinot, Luc Valentin, Alejandro Anibal Valda Ochoa, Rainer Siebert, Philippe Laniece, Hervé Tricoire
  • Non-invasive radio-imaging analysis, in particular for examining small animals in vivo, and method for using same
    Patent number: 6225631
    Abstract: A non-invasive analysis device including a plurality of sensors (110) combined with collimating structures (120) having a common source focus (O) and processing means (300) providing an AND-type combinational logic function of the output of the sensors (110) for sensing two coincidently transmitted beams that are at least slightly angularly correlated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
    Inventors: Roland Mastrippolito, Lydie Ploux, Yves Pierre Charon, Laurent Pinot, Luc Valentin, Alejandro Anibal Valda Ochoa, Rainer Siebert, Philippe Laniece, Hervé Tricoire