Redshift Bioanalytics, Inc.

Redshift Systems Corporation

Lockheed Martin Ir Imaging Systems, Inc.

Radeum, Inc.

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Phatrat Technology, Inc.

Raysecur, Inc

Honeywell G.m.b.h.

Aura Communications, Inc.

Aura Communications Technology, Inc.

Phatrat Technologies, Inc.

Charles McAlister Marshall

Donald Kuehl

Jeffrey Guasto

Eugene Yi-Shan Ma

Curtis A Vock

Matthias Wagner

Vincent Palermo

Dennis M Darcy

Peter Flentov

Andrew Bodkin

Timothy E White

Kevin J Grealish

Jeffrey R LaFranchise

John F Heanue

Neal R Butler

Alexander Georg Sappok

Robert D Frey, Jr

Eugene Y Ma

Richard Blackwell

Marc Terroux

Shuyun Wu

George S Nauck

Andrew Ziegler

Andrew Jones

Perry Youngs

Adrian F Larkin

Linda Marchese

Jerry E Hurst

Richard C Sharp

Shawn Burke

Francois Berthiaume

Steven Finberg

Stephen A Voegelin

Michael R Dynok

Jeffrey L McClelland, Deceased

Vlorent Morina

Frederick Milton Blodgett, Jr

William Dean Plummer

There is provided object scanning apparatus and methods of scanning objects. The object scanning apparatus may include a THz source emitting an optical beam; an electromagnetic energy source for generating a radiation signal at a wavelength other than terahertz, such as RF or MMW radiation; an optical system for directing the optical beam; a zone for inspecting objects wherein the optical beam and radiation signal interact with the object; a motion device for changing the spatial or temporal interaction of the object and optical beam and the radiation signal; at least one transducer, the at least one transducer including an imaging transducer for converting the optical beam energy and radiation signal after interaction with the object to an electronic image; and a processor for performing processing of the image for use in characterization of the object or its interior contents or composition.

Multi-mode object detection

There is provided an object scanning apparatus. The object scanning apparatus may include a THz source emitting a THz beam; an optical system for directing the THz beam; a zone for inspecting objects wherein the optical beam interacts with the object; a motion device for changing the spatial or temporal interaction of the object and optical beam; at least one transducer, the at least one transducer including an imaging transducer for converting the optical beam energy after interaction with the object to an electronic image; and a processor for performing processing of the image for use in characterization of the object or its interior contents or composition.

Techniques for dynamic object detection

A well plate includes a frame section that defines a plane, and a plurality of well structures. Each well structure extends in a direction away from the plane defined by the frame section, and each well structure defines a well for holding a fluid. The well plate further includes an artifact connected to at least one well structure. The artifact uniquely identifies a type of the well plate among other types of well plates. Along these lines, a result of a well plate type identification operation, which indicates whether the well plate includes the artifact, may determine whether a predefined pressure is applied to the well plate to facilitate fluid sampling in response to the result, whether fluid level sensing can be performed to gauge amounts of fluids drawn from the wells and/or identify how much fluid is left in the wells, etc.

Utilizing well plates with embedded artifacts

A fluid analyzer includes an optical source and detector defining a beam path of an optical beam, and a fluid flow cell on the beam path defining an interrogation region in a fluid channel in which the optical beam interacts with fluids. One or more flow-control devices conduct a particle in a fluid through the fluid channel. A motion system moves the interrogation region relative to the fluid channel in response to a motion signal, and a controller (1) generates the motion signal having a time-varying characteristic, (2) samples an output signal from the optical detector at respective intervals of the motion signal during which the interrogation region contains and does not contain the particle, and (3) determines from output signal samples a measurement value indicative of an optically measured characteristic of the particle.

Motion modulation fluidic analyzer system

A tunable laser has a solid state laser medium with optical gain region and generates coherent radiation through a facet. A lens collects the coherent radiation and generates a collimated light beam. An external cavity includes a reflective surface and an optical filter, the reflective surface reflecting the collimated beam back to the lens and laser medium, the optical filter positioned between the reflective surface and the lens and having two surfaces and a thermally tunable optical transmission band within the optical gain region of the laser medium. The optical filter (1) transmits a predominant portion of the collimated beam at a desired wavelength of operation, and (2) specularly reflects a remaining portion of the collimated beam from each surface, the collimated beam being incident on the optical filter such that the reflected collimated beams propagate at a non-zero angle with respect to the incident collimated beam.

Thermo-optically tunable laser system

A fluid analyzer includes an optical source and an optical detector defining an optical beam path through an interrogation region of a fluid flow cell. Flow-control devices conduct analyte and reference fluids through a channel and the interrogation region, and manipulate fluid flow in response to control signals to move a fluid boundary separating the analyte and reference fluids across the interrogation region. A controller generates control signals to (1) cause the fluid boundary to be moved across the interrogation region accordingly, (2) sample an output signal from the optical detector at a first interval during which the interrogation region contains more analyte fluid than reference fluid and at a second interval during which the interrogation region contains more reference fluid than analyte fluid, and (3) determine from samples of the output signal a measurement value indicative of an optically measured characteristic of the analyte fluid.

Fluid analyzer with modulation for liquids and gases

A microfluidic analyzer includes optical sources and optical detectors, the sources generating optical beams, and a multi-chamber fluid cell mounted for relative movement of the fluid cell and the beams to selectively align fluid chambers with beam paths for obtaining optical-response measurements. The cell is configured to reduce differential optical-response measurement between fluid chambers not attributed to a differential analyte in chamber fluids. A controller (1) generates actuator control signals to produce the relative movement of the fluid cell and beams through a sequence of measurement positions, (2) for each measurement position, obtains a set of detector output values, and (3) applies processing to the detector output values to obtain differential optical-response measurements for characterizing a differential analyte between chamber fluids of the cell.

Actuated multi-chamber cells for fluid analysis

A tunable laser has a solid state laser medium having an optical gain region and generates coherent radiation through a facet. A lens collects the coherent radiation and generates a collimated light beam. Components of an external cavity include a reflective surface and an optical filter, the reflective surface reflecting the collimated beam back to the lens and the laser medium, the optical filter positioned between the reflective surface and the lens and having two surfaces with a thermally tunable optical transmission band within the optical gain region of the laser medium. The optical filter (1) transmits a predominant portion of the collimated beam at a desired wavelength of operation, and (2) specularly reflects a remaining portion of the collimated beam from each surface, the collimated beam being incident on the optical filter such that the reflected collimated beams propagate at a non-zero angle with respect to the incident collimated beam.

A fluid analyzer includes an optical source and an optical detector defining an optical beam path through an interrogation region of a fluid flow cell. Motion control devices determine position of the interrogation region. Flow-control devices conduct analyte and reference fluids and manipulate fluid flow in response to control signals to position a fluid boundary across the interrogation region. A controller (1) generates a time-varying motion modulation signal to move the interrogation region across the fluid boundary, (2) samples an output signal from the optical detector at one time in which the interrogation region contains more analyte fluid than reference fluid and at a time at which the interrogation region contains more reference fluid than analyte fluid, thereby generating corresponding output signal samples, and (3) determines from the output signal samples a measurement value indicative of an optically measured characteristic of the analyte fluid.

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