Patents by Inventor Jason W. Sickler
Jason W. Sickler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20220120685Abstract: Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecule and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An apparatus can include an assay chip that includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which, when excited, emits emission energy; at least one element for directing the emission energy in a particular direction; and a light path along which the emission energy travels from the sample well toward a sensor. The apparatus also includes an instrument that interfaces with the assay chip. The instrument includes an excitation light source for exciting the sample in each sample well; a plurality of sensors corresponding the sample wells. Each sensor may detect emission energy from a sample in a respective sample well. The instrument includes at least one optical element that directs the emission energy from each sample well towards a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid, Paul E. Glenn, Lawrence C. West, Benjamin Cipriany, Keith G. Fife
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Patent number: 11299778Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument for biological or chemical analyses. The pulsed laser may produce sub-100-ps optical pulses at a repetition rate commensurate with electronic data-acquisition rates. The optical pulses may excite samples in reaction chambers of the instrument, and be used to generate a reference clock for operating signal-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Paul E. Glenn, Jack Jewell, John Glenn, Jose Camara, Jeremy Christopher Jordan, Todd Rearick, Farshid Ghasemi, Jonathan C. Schultz, Keith G. Fife
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Publication number: 20220099575Abstract: System and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An integrated device includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which when excited, emits radiation. The integrated device includes at least one waveguide configured to propagate excitation energy to the sample wells from a region of the integrated device configured to couple with an excitation energy source. A pixel may also include at least one element for directing the emission energy towards a sensor within the pixel. The system also includes an instrument that interfaces with the integrated device. The instrument may include an excitation energy source for providing excitation energy to the integrated device by coupling to an excitation energy coupling region of the integrated device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid, Lawrence C. West, Keith G. Fife, Benjamin Cipriany, Farshid Ghasemi
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Patent number: 11287382Abstract: Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecule and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An apparatus can include an assay chip that includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which, when excited, emits emission energy; at least one element for directing the emission energy in a particular direction; and a light path along which the emission energy travels from the sample well toward a sensor. The apparatus also includes an instrument that interfaces with the assay chip. The instrument includes an excitation light source for exciting the sample in each sample well; a plurality of sensors corresponding the sample wells. Each sensor may detect emission energy from a sample in a respective sample well. The instrument includes at least one optical element that directs the emission energy from each sample well towards a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid, Benjamin Cipriany, Jack Jewell, Lawrence C. West, Michael Ferrigno, Paul E. Glenn, Adam Ezra Cohen, Anthony Bellofiore
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Patent number: 11226290Abstract: System and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An integrated device may include multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which when excited, emits radiation. The integrated device includes a surface having a trench region recessed from a portion of the surface and an array of sample wells, disposed in the trench region. The integrated device also includes a waveguide configured to couple excitation energy to at least one sample well in the array and positioned at a first distance from a surface of the trench region and at a second distance from the surface in a region separate from the trench region. The first distance is smaller than the second distance. The system also includes an instrument that interfaces with the integrated device. The instrument may include an excitation energy source for providing excitation energy to the integrated device by coupling to an excitation energy coupling region of the integrated device.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Gerard Schmid, Keith G. Fife, James Beach, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Paul E. Glenn, Kyle Preston, Farshid Ghasemi, Benjamin Cipriany, Jeremy Lackey
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Patent number: 11181477Abstract: System and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An integrated device includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which when excited, emits radiation. The integrated device includes at least one waveguide configured to propagate excitation energy to the sample wells from a region of the integrated device configured to couple with an excitation energy source. A pixel may also include at least one element for directing the emission energy towards a sensor within the pixel. The system also includes an instrument that interfaces with the integrated device. The instrument may include an excitation energy source for providing excitation energy to the integrated device by coupling to an excitation energy coupling region of the integrated device.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid, Lawrence C. West, Keith G. Fife, Benjamin Cipriany, Farshid Ghasemi
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Patent number: 11175227Abstract: Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An apparatus can include an assay chip that includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which, when excited, emits emission energy; at least one element for directing the emission energy in a particular direction; and a light path along which the emission energy travels from the sample well toward a sensor. The apparatus also includes an instrument that interfaces with the assay chip. The instrument includes an excitation light source for exciting the sample in each sample well; a plurality of sensors corresponding the sample wells. Each sensor may detect emission energy from a sample in a respective sample well. The instrument includes at least one optical element that directs the emission energy from each sample well towards a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid, Paul E. Glenn, Lawrence C. West, Benjamin Cipriany, Keith G. Fife
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Publication number: 20210277463Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument for biological or chemical analyses. The pulsed laser may produce sub-100-ps optical pulses at a repetition rate commensurate with electronic data-acquisition rates. The optical pulses may excite samples in reaction chambers of the instrument, and be used to generate a reference clock for operating signal-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: Quantum-Si InvorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Paul E. Glenn, Jack Jewell, John Glenn, Jose Camara, Jeremy Christopher Jordan, Todd Rearick, Farshid Ghasemi, Jonathan C. Schultz, Keith G. File
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Publication number: 20210148821Abstract: System and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An integrated device may include multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which when excited, emits radiation. The integrated device includes a surface having a trench region recessed from a portion of the surface and an array of sample wells, disposed in the trench region. The integrated device also includes a waveguide configured to couple excitation energy to at least one sample well in the array and positioned at a first distance from a surface of the trench region and at a second distance from the surface in a region separate from the trench region. The first distance is smaller than the second distance. The system also includes an instrument that interfaces with the integrated device. The instrument may include an excitation energy source for providing excitation energy to the integrated device by coupling to an excitation energy coupling region of the integrated device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Gerard Schmid, Keith G. Fife, James Beach, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Paul E. Glenn, Kyle Preston, Farshid Ghasemi, Benjamin Cipriany, Jeremy Lackey
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Publication number: 20210124235Abstract: Devices and systems having a vertical waveguide array are provided having a plurality of vertical waveguides disposed on a support substrate in an array, where each vertical waveguide further includes a reflective region positioned to reflect impinging light toward the support substrate, a core region extending from the reflective region to the support substrate, the core region further comprising, a first contact region and a second contact region electrically isolated from one another disposed between the reflective region and the support substrate, and a light concentrator disposed between the first contact region and the second contact region. The first contact region and the second contact region are operable to create a voltage drop across the light concentrator and the light concentrator has a lower refractive index compared to the refractive indexes of the first contact region and the second contact region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventor: Jason W. Sickler
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Publication number: 20200371034Abstract: An active-source-pixel, integrated device capable of performing biomolecule detection and/or analysis, such as single-molecule nucleic acid sequencing, is described. An active pixel of the integrated device includes a sample well into which a sample to be analyzed may diffuse, an excitation source for providing excitation energy to the sample well, and a sensor configured to detect emission from the sample. The sensor may comprise two or more segments that produce a set of signals that are analyzed to differentiate between and identify tags that are attached to, or associated with, the sample. Tag differentiation may be spectral and/or temporal based. Identification of the tags may be used to detect, analyze, and/or sequence the biomolecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid
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Publication number: 20200335933Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument. The mode-locked laser can produce sub-50-ps optical pulses at a repetition rates between 200 MHz and 50 MHz, rates suitable for massively parallel data-acquisition. The optical pulses can be used to generate a reference clock signal for synchronizing data-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the portable instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Paul E. Glenn, Jack Jewell, John Glenn, Jose Camara, Jeremy Christopher Jordan, Todd Rearick, Farshid Ghasemi, Jonathan C. Schultz, Keith G. Fife, Benjamin Cipriany
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Patent number: 10741990Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument. The mode-locked laser can produce sub-50-ps optical pulses at a repetition rates between 200 MHz and 50 MHz, rates suitable for massively parallel data-acquisition. The optical pulses can be used to generate a reference clock signal for synchronizing data-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the portable instrument.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Paul E. Glenn, Jack Jewell, John Glenn, Jose Camara, Jeremy Christopher Jordan, Todd Rearick, Farshid Ghasemi, Jonathan C. Schultz, Keith G. Fife, Benjamin Cipriany
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Patent number: 10712273Abstract: An active-source-pixel, integrated device capable of performing biomolecule detection and/or analysis, such as single-molecule nucleic acid sequencing, is described. An active pixel of the integrated device includes a sample well into which a sample to be analyzed may diffuse, an excitation source for providing excitation energy to the sample well, and a sensor configured to detect emission from the sample. The sensor may comprise two or more segments that produce a set of signals that are analyzed to differentiate between and identify tags that are attached to, or associated with, the sample. Tag differentiation may be spectral and/or temporal based. Identification of the tags may be used to detect, analyze, and/or sequence the biomolecule.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid
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Patent number: 10712274Abstract: An active-source-pixel, integrated device capable of performing biomolecule detection and/or analysis, such as single-molecule nucleic acid sequencing, is described. An active pixel of the integrated device includes a sample well into which a sample to be analyzed may diffuse, an excitation source for providing excitation energy to the sample well, and a sensor configured to detect emission from the sample. The sensor may comprise two or more segments that produce a set of signals that are analyzed to differentiate between and identify tags that are attached to, or associated with, the sample. Tag differentiation may be spectral and/or temporal based. Identification of the tags may be used to detect, analyze, and/or sequence the biomolecule.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid
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Publication number: 20200220317Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument. The mode-locked laser can produce sub-50-ps optical pulses at a repetition rates between 200 MHz and 50 MHz, rates suitable for massively parallel data-acquisition. The optical pulses can be used to generate a reference clock signal for synchronizing data-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the portable instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Paul E. Glenn, Jack Jewell, John Glenn, Jose Camara, Jeremy Christopher Jordan, Todd Rearick, Farshid Ghasemi, Jonathan C. Schultz, Keith G. Fife, Benjamin Cipriany
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Publication number: 20200158640Abstract: Compact optical sources and methods for producing short and ultrashort optical pulses are described. A semiconductor laser or LED may be driven with a bipolar waveform to generate optical pulses with FWHM durations as short as approximately 85 ps having suppressed tail emission. The pulsed optical sources may be used for fluorescent lifetime analysis of biological samples and time-of-flight imaging, among other applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Brendan Huang, Paul E. Glenn, Jonathan C. Schultz, Jose Camara
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Patent number: 10605730Abstract: Compact optical sources and methods for producing short and ultrashort optical pulses are described. A semiconductor laser or LED may be driven with a bipolar waveform to generate optical pulses with FWHM durations as short as approximately 85 ps having suppressed tail emission. The pulsed optical sources may be used for fluorescent lifetime analysis of biological samples and time-of-flight imaging, among other applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Brendan Huang, Paul E. Glenn, Jonathan C. Schultz, Jose Camara
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Publication number: 20200088639Abstract: System and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An integrated device includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which when excited, emits radiation. The integrated device includes at least one waveguide configured to propagate excitation energy to the sample wells from a region of the integrated device configured to couple with an excitation energy source. A pixel may also include at least one element for directing the emission energy towards a sensor within the pixel. The system also includes an instrument that interfaces with the integrated device. The instrument may include an excitation energy source for providing excitation energy to the integrated device by coupling to an excitation energy coupling region of the integrated device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid, Lawrence C. West, Keith G. Fife, Benjamin Cipriany, Farshid Ghasemi
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Publication number: 20200088643Abstract: Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecule and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An apparatus can include an assay chip that includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which, when excited, emits emission energy; at least one element for directing the emission energy in a particular direction; and a light path along which the emission energy travels from the sample well toward a sensor. The apparatus also includes an instrument that interfaces with the assay chip. The instrument includes an excitation light source for exciting the sample in each sample well; a plurality of sensors corresponding the sample wells. Each sensor may detect emission energy from a sample in a respective sample well. The instrument includes at least one optical element that directs the emission energy from each sample well towards a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ali Kabiri, Jason W. Sickler, Brett J. Gyarfas, Jeremy Lackey, Gerard Schmid, Benjamin Cipriany, Jack Jewell, Lawrence C. West, Michael Ferrigno, Paul E. Glenn, Adam Ezra Cohen, Anthony Bellofiore