During my work with the Celadon Research Division of Ellumen Inc., I was a co-inventor on a patent titled “Phase Confocal Method for Near-Field Microwave Imaging” that issued on October 8, 2019. This is the fifth patent I have been a co-inventor on. If you are interested in learning more about my prior four patents see the post titled “Description of Three Patents Named Co-Inventor On Assigned to Ellumen Inc” and also the post titled “Microwave Imaging Device Patent Named Co-Inventor on Assigned to Ellumen Inc.”
This patent builds upon work presented in 2017 in a paper titled paper titled “A Phase Confocal Method for Near-Field Microwave Imaging” published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. The patent describes a frequency domain based method that uses electromagnetic waves transmitted and received by antennas to estimate a phase shift caused by an object in the path of the electromagnetic waves. The phase is reversed to allow for an image to be constructed.
The patent provides protection for a system and method for producing microwave images that calculates phase shifts based on a propagation distance from a receiver to a transmitter, compensating a phase using the phase shift, and calculating a variance of the phase shift using an inverse summation. Further, the patent provides protection for a method for producing images that calculates phase shifts based on a propagation distance from a receiver to a transmitter, compensating a phase using the phase shift, and utilizing complex-number detected microwave signals as unit vectors when producing an image. Additionally, the patent provides protection for a method for producing images that calculates phase shifts based on a propagation distance from a receiver to a transmitter and compensating a phase using the phase shift along with information from a phase change in a connector on both the transmitter and receiver end and a phase change in the transmitter and receiver. The patent also provides protection for methods for utilizing multiple frequencies. The high efficiency of the method allows for real-time imaging.
Below is a patent certificate that was created to celebrate the accomplishment of having the patent granted. This is the first patent I have had issued since after the USPTO celebrated the issuance of 10 million patents and changed the patent cover design.
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