The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2011
Applicant:
Lawrence J. Karr, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Inventor:
Lawrence J. Karr, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Assignee:
Empire Technology Development LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 9/02091 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is disclosed of detecting the presence of an organism in a medium. In some embodiments, the method includes: obtaining a series of optical coherence tomography measurements of a region of the medium; processing the series of optical coherence tomography measurements to determine information indicative of translational and rotational motion of an object in the region of the medium; identifying the object as organism based on the information indicative of translational and rotational motion of the object; and outputting information indication of the presence of the organism.