Bruno H Haider

6346079, Feb 12, 2002

May 25, 2000

09/577849

Bruno Hans Haider - Ballston Lake NY
Kenneth Wayne Rigby - Clifton Park NY

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

A61B 0800

600443, 600447

A method and an apparatus for dynamically optimizing the frame rate as a function of an estimate of the target motion. First, the target motion is estimated, and then this estimate is used to control the number of firings per frame and/or the degree of frame-averaging. Preferably, the motion of the target is estimated by measuring pixel brightness variations on a frame-to-frame, region-to-region or line-to-line basis. Then the degree of frame-averaging is adjusted as a function of the motion estimate. Alternatively, target motion can be estimated by calculating the Doppler signal. Other imaging parameters, such as number of transmit firings per frame, size of the transmit aperture, and transmit excitation frequency, can be adjusted as a function of estimated target motion.

6565510, May 20, 2003

Mar 22, 2000

09/532316

Bruno Hans Haider - Ballston Lake NY

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

A61B 800

600437, 600447

A remotely located ultrasound beamformer is serviced from a central service facility via a network in a manner that compensates for defective beamformer channels in an ultrasound imaging system at the remote location. The central service facility produces beamformer control software (i. e. , beamforming parameters) that is optimized for the existing functional channels. The optimized beamformer control software is generated based on diagnostic feedback received from the remotely located system via the network, and is downloaded to the remote system via the same network.

6506160, Jan 14, 2003

Sep 25, 2000

09/668980

Nick Andrew Van Stralen - Clifton Park NY
Ralph Thomas Hoctor - Saratoga Springs NY
Richard Louis Frey - Delanson NY
Bruno Hans Haider - Ballston Lake NY
John Erik Hershey - Ballston Lake NY

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

A61B 814

600459

Received echo data are transferred from an ultrasound probe to the signal processing circuitry of an ultrasound imaging system by use of a reduced number of multiple coaxial cables. The system operates by frequency division multiplexing of the analog output signals produced by multiple individual array elements in the probe onto a single coaxial cable, which connects the probe to the central host computer or console for conventional signal processing and imaging.

6789427, Sep 14, 2004

Sep 16, 2002

10/244637

Thomas James Batzinger - Burnt Hills NY
Wei Li - Niskayuna NY
Robert Snee Gilmore - Burnt Hills NY
Edward James Nieters - Burnt Hills NY
William Thomas Hatfield - Schenectady NY
Richard Eugene Klaassen - West Chester OH
James Norman Barshinger - Aaronsburg PA
Bruno Hans Haider - Ballston Lake NY
Carl Lawrence Chalek - Glenville NY
Robert John McElligott - Loveland OH
David Charles Franklin - Cincinnati OH

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

G01N 924

73614, 73618, 73625

A method for inspecting a component includes exciting a number of transducers forming an array to produce an ultrasonic transmission beam (beam) focused into the component. The array and the component are separated by a standoff. A number of echo signals are generated using the transducers, and the echo signals are processed in a number of channels. The processing includes both dynamical focus and providing a dynamic aperture on receive, both of which compensate for refraction of the beam at the component/standoff interface. A single-turn inspection method includes: (a) positioning the array facing the component, (b) exciting the transducers, (c) generating a number of echo signals, (d) changing the relative angular orientation of the array and the component around an axis and repeating steps (b) and (c), and (e) processing the echo signals to form at least one processed echo signal.

7105986, Sep 12, 2006

Aug 27, 2004

10/929019

Douglas Glenn Wildes - Ballston Lake NY, US
Charles Edward Baumgartner - Niskayuna NY, US
Petrus Joannes Joseph Moeleker - Latham NY, US
Bruno Hans Haider - Ballston Lake NY, US

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

H01L 41/08

310327, 310334, 310346

A composite structure of a backing material with enhanced conductivity for use in a transducer is presented. The composite structure includes a plurality of layers of backing material alternatingly arranged with a plurality of thermal conductive elements, wherein the plurality of thermal conductive elements are configured to transfer heat from a center of the transducer to a plurality of points on the composite structure of backing material.

7229292, Jun 12, 2007

Dec 22, 2005

11/315641

Bruno Hans Haider - Ballston Lake NY, US
Douglas Glenn Wildes - Ballston Lake NY, US
Robert Stephen Lewandowski - Amsterdam NY, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

H01R 12/00

439 67, 310334

An interconnect assembly is presented. The assembly includes an interconnect structure including a plurality of interconnect layers disposed in a spaced relationship, where each of the plurality of interconnect layers comprises a plurality of conductive traces disposed thereon. Furthermore, the assembly includes a redistribution layer disposed proximate the interconnect structure, where the redistribution layer is configured to facilitate coupling the interconnect structure to the one or more transducer elements on the transducer array.

7367945, May 6, 2008

Mar 29, 2004

10/812243

Samhita Dasgupta - Niskayuna NY, US
Matthew Christian Nielsen - Scotia NY, US
Min-Yi Shih - Niskayuna NY, US
Robert John Filkins - Niskayuna NY, US
Todd Ryan Tolliver - Clifton Park NY, US
Bruno Hans Haider - Ballston Lake NY, US

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

A61B 8/00

600443

An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound probe configured for sensing and transmitting ultrasound signals. The ultrasound system further includes an optical conduit configured for coupling a light source and an optical detector in an optical path. The optical conduit includes electro-optic modulators configured for modulating optical signals on the optical conduit with at least one of the electrical signals configured to generate corresponding optically modulated analog signals on the optical conduit. In one example, the electro-optic modulators comprise electro-optic polymer modulators.

7443765, Oct 28, 2008

Dec 21, 2004

11/018238

Kai Erik Thomenius - Clifton Park NY, US
Rayette Ann Fisher - Niskayuna NY, US
Robert Gideon Wodnicki - Niskayuna NY, US
Christopher Robert Hazard - Niskayuna NY, US
Lowell Scott Smith - Niskayuna NY, US
Bruno Hans Haider - Ballston Lake NY, US
Kenneth Wayne Rigby - Clifton Park NY, US

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

G10K 11/00
H04R 17/00

367154, 367153, 600447

A reconfigurable linear array of sensors (e. g. , optical, thermal, pressure, ultrasonic). The reconfigurability allows the size and spacing of the sensor elements to be a function of the distance from the beam center. This feature improves performance for imaging systems having a limited channel count. The improved performance, for applications in which multiple transmit focal zones are employed, arises from the ability to adjust the aperture for a particular depth.