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US 10386230
Near-infrared time-of-flight remote sensing
Current assignee: Omni Medsci Inc
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
US10386230B1 — "Near-infrared time-of-flight remote sensing"
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US10386230](/patent/US10386230)/en
Bibliographic data (from excerpt)
- Patent number: US10386230B1; application US16/188,194
- Inventor: Mohammed N. Islam
- Current assignee / original assignee: Omni Medsci Inc
- Filing date: 2018-11-12; granted/publication date: 2019-08-20
- Priority date (listed as an assumption): 2012-12-31; priority claimed from US14/650,981
- Anticipated expiration: 2033-12-17; legal status: Expired – Fee Related
- The excerpt also lists a "First worldwide family litigation filed" link and numerous later continuations/priorities; per instruction, no litigation or transfer analysis is made here.
Purpose and plain-language scope (as supported by the excerpt)
The title indicates near-infrared time-of-flight remote sensing. The excerpt's prior-art keywords are light, laser diodes, remote sensing, detection system, and wavelength, and its indexed subject matter indicates a detection method involving measurement and synchronized effects. Associated terms include spectroscopy, absorption, reflectance, and chemical imaging, with applications spanning gases (methane, natural gas, hydrocarbons, ethane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, nitrous oxide), materials (water, oil, soil, rock, minerals, gypsum, plastics, paint, explosives such as TNT and PETN, illicit drugs), and biological/medical topics (tissue, cells, collagen, glucose, HbA1c, breast cancer). Laser-gain terms appear (erbium, ytterbium, fused silica). This is a keyword-level view of the disclosure, not a restatement of the claims.
What the excerpt does not establish
It contains no claim text, no abstract, no detailed description, and no figures. Therefore it does not establish the actual claimed scope, the specific time-of-flight measurement or synchronization architecture, the particular wavelengths, the laser-diode configuration, or any limits on detection methods. Priority, expiration, and legal-status entries are expressly assumptions in the source and are not legal conclusions. No statement here addresses validity, infringement, prior art, ownership transfers, or litigation.
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