Patents Assigned to Agilent Technolgies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8765642
    Abstract: Provided herein is a set of reagents comprising: a plurality of at least three probe libraries, wherein each library of the plurality comprises one or more probe sets that are each specific for a target; and at least one of the libraries comprises a probe set that is present in another of the libraries. The plurality of libraries can be hybridized to spatially separated targets, simultaneously or sequentially. The identity of a spatially separated target can be determined by identifying which combination of the multiple libraries hybridize thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Agilent Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventor: Bo U. Curry
  • Patent number: 7671690
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a signal control system has a signal output and includes: 1) a phase-locked loop (PLL) having a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a phase error detector, an oscillating output coupled to the signal output of the signal control system, and a programmable frequency divider coupled in a feedback path between the oscillating output and the phase error detector; 2) at least one automatic level controller (ALC), coupled to the oscillating output; and 3) a plurality of switchable integrators, including first and second switchable integrators that are respectively coupled between the phase error detector and the VCO, and in the at least one ALC. Each of the switchable integrators is switchable between a narrow bandwidth mode that provides for stable operation of the signal control system, and a wide bandwidth mode that enables fast signal transitions at the signal output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Agilent Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Lameiro, Michal B. Krombholz, Michael S. Foster, Jeffrey E. Nelson, Stephen T. Sparks
  • Patent number: 6834381
    Abstract: A novel method and apparatus is presented for controlling the slew rate of a transitioning signal on an integrated circuit transmission line. The signal driver which drives the signal onto the transmission line is connected to the transmission line via redistribution metal characterized by a characteristic capacitance appropriate to adjust the RC time constant of the transmission line to shape the signal edges to a slope resulting in the desired slew rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Agilent Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 6723509
    Abstract: Methods of end-labeling ribonucleic acids with non-radioactively labeled ribonucleotides, and particularly fluorescently labeled ribonucleotides, are provided. In the subject methods, a ribonucleic acid is contacted with a non-radioactively labeled ribonucleotide in the presence of a prokaryotic, usually bacterial, poly(A) polymerase under conditions sufficient for covalent bonding of the labeled ribonucleotide to the 3′ end of the ribonucleic acid to occur. Also provided are kits for practicing the subject method. The subject methods and kits find use in a variety of applications where labeling of the 3′ end of a ribonucleic acid with a non-radioactive label, particularly a fluorescent label, is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Agilent Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Ach
  • Patent number: 6644862
    Abstract: An optical mount has a frame and a barrel moveably positioned within the frame, the barrel including an optical connector housing optical wave-guide. The optical connector is mounted within the barrel at a mount angle, the optical connector having an end face polished at a polish angle relative to the axis of the optical connector. The frame has two angled contact surfaces symmetric relative to each other across a plane of symmetry, a leaf spring having an end adapted to maintain contact with the barrel along a plane of symmetry. The barrel is axially and rotationally moveable within the frame allowing for precise positioning of the optical wave-guide relative to the frame thereby minimizing polarization dependent loss (PDL). A focus tool having an offset eccentric pin can be used with a circumferential groove of the barrel to allow for precise axial movements of the barrel within the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Agilent Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Berto, Scott Alan Robertson
  • Patent number: 6320994
    Abstract: An optical switch that is constructed on a substrate having first and second waveguides that intersect at a gap having a predetermined width. The first and second waveguides are positioned such that light traversing the first waveguide enters the second waveguide when the gap is filled with a liquid having a first index of refraction. The gap is part of a trench in the substrate having a first region that includes the gap and a second region adjacent to the first region. The second region has a width greater than the width of the first region. A liquid having the first index of refraction is disposed in the first region. The liquid generates a gas when heated to a predetermined temperature. A first heater is disposed in the first region for heating the liquid to the predetermined temperature thereby generating a gas bubble in the liquid at the gap. Light traversing the first waveguide is reflected by the gap when the gap is filled with a gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Agilent Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventors: David K. Donald, Julie E. Fouquet, Mark A. Troll
  • Patent number: 6090687
    Abstract: A palladium contact and a gasket are formed on a first wafer. The gasket and contact are simultaneously engaged with a silicon layer of a second wafer. The wafers are then heated to a temperature that both forms a bond between the palladium contact of the first wafer with the silicon layer of the second wafer and that fuses the gasket to the second wafer. Therefore, when the temperature is decreased, the palladium-silicon bond maintains the alignment of the two wafers with respect to one another, and the gasket hardens to form seal around a periphery of the two wafers. By placing the two wafers in a vacuum environment prior to engaging the two wafers, the space encompassed by the gasket and the two wafers forms a sealed vacuum during the heating process. Therefore, the heating process not only forms a palladium-silicon bond between the two wafers, but it also forms a vacuum seal around selected components included within either of the two wafers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Agilent Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul P. Merchant, Storrs Hoen