Patents by Inventor Bryan Chin
Bryan Chin 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: 20230149946Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, an electromagnetic filter may include a transfer pipe and multiple electromagnetic filter elements positioned in an interior volume of the pipe. Each electromagnetic filter element includes a support comb, a solenoid coupled to the support comb, and multiple magnetic members arranged in a planar array positioned within an opening of the support comb. Each magnetic member may rotate about an end that is coupled to the support comb. The magnetic members may be magnetostrictive sensors and may include a biorecognition element to bind with a target microorganism. A method for fluid filtration includes coupling the electromagnetic filter between a fluid source and a fluid destination, energizing the solenoids of each electromagnetic filter elements, and flowing a fluid media through the transfer pipe of the electromagnetic filter. The fluid media may be liquid food such as fruit juice. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Bryan A. Chin, Shin Horikawa, Steve R. Best, I-Hsuan Chen, Zhongyang Cheng, Songtao Du
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Patent number: 11541399Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, an electromagnetic filter may include a transfer pipe and multiple electromagnetic filter elements positioned in an interior volume of the pipe. Each electromagnetic filter element includes a support comb, a solenoid coupled to the support comb, and multiple magnetic members arranged in a planar array positioned within an opening of the support comb. Each magnetic member may rotate about an end that is coupled to the support comb. The magnetic members may be magnetostrictive sensors and may include a biorecognition element to bind with a target microorganism. A method for fluid filtration includes coupling the electromagnetic filter between a fluid source and a fluid destination, energizing the solenoids of each electromagnetic filter elements, and flowing a fluid media through the transfer pipe of the electromagnetic filter. The fluid media may be liquid food such as fruit juice. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Auburn UniversityInventors: Bryan A. Chin, Shin Horikawa, Steve R. Best, I-Hsuan Chen, Zhongyang Cheng, Songtao Du
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Publication number: 20220326408Abstract: A system for analyzing soil content of a field includes a data acquisition unit configured to detect gamma spectra of each of a plurality of soil samples, wherein a surface area of the field is divided into a plurality of portions and the plurality of soil samples comprises at least one soil sample from each of the plurality of portions, a navigation unit configured to detect geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of soil samples, a data analysis unit configured to associate the detected gamma spectra of each of the plurality of soil samples with the geographic coordinates of the soil sample and determine a weight percent of at least one element within each of the soil samples based on the detected gamma spectra, and an element content map unit configured to generate a map indicating concentration of the at least one element within the soil of the field.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Bryan A. CHIN, Henry Allen TORBERT, III, Galina N. YAKUBOVA, Aleksandr KAVETSKIY, Nikolay SARGSYAN
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Patent number: 11397277Abstract: A system for analyzing soil content of a field includes a data acquisition unit configured to detect gamma spectra of each of a plurality of soil samples, wherein a surface area of the field is divided into a plurality of portions and the plurality of soil samples comprises at least one soil sample from each of the plurality of portions, a navigation unit configured to detect geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of soil samples, a data analysis unit configured to associate the detected gamma spectra of each of the plurality of soil samples with the geographic coordinates of the soil sample and determine a weight percent of at least one element within each of the soil samples based on the detected gamma spectra, and an element content map unit configured to generate a map indicating concentration of the at least one element within the soil of the field.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignees: AUBURN UNIVERSITY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTUREInventors: Bryan A. Chin, Henry Allen Torbert, III, Galina N. Yakubova, Aleksandr Kavetskiy, Nikolay Sargsyan
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Publication number: 20210138483Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, an electromagnetic filter may include a transfer pipe and multiple electromagnetic filter elements positioned in an interior volume of the pipe. Each electromagnetic filter element includes a support comb, a solenoid coupled to the support comb, and multiple magnetic members arranged in a planar array positioned within an opening of the support comb. Each magnetic member may rotate about an end that is coupled to the support comb. The magnetic members may be magnetostrictive sensors and may include a biorecognition element to bind with a target microorganism. A method for fluid filtration includes coupling the electromagnetic filter between a fluid source and a fluid destination, energizing the solenoids of each electromagnetic filter elements, and flowing a fluid media through the transfer pipe of the electromagnetic filter. The fluid media may be liquid food such as fruit juice. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Bryan A. Chin, Shin Horikawa, Steve R. Best, I-Hsuan Chen, Zhongyang Cheng, Songtao Du
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Publication number: 20210086113Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, an electromagnetic filter may include a pipe and a magnetic field generator such as an array of permanent magnets. The magnetic field generator generates a magnetic field through a filter section of the pipe. Multiple filter elements are positioned within the filter section of the pipe. The filter elements include a magnetic material and a biorecognition element to bind with a microorganism. The biorecognition element may be a bacteriophage that is genetically engineered to bind with the microorganism. The magnetic field forces the filter elements to positions within the filter section of the pipe. A fluid media may be flowed from an inlet of the pipe to an outlet of the pipe, through the filter section. The fluid media may be a liquid food such as fruit juice. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Bryan A. Chin, Zhongyan Cheng, Songtao Du, Pengyu Chen
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Patent number: 10940486Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, an electromagnetic filter may include a transfer pipe and multiple electromagnetic filter elements positioned in an interior volume of the pipe. Each electromagnetic filter element includes a support comb, a solenoid coupled to the support comb, and multiple magnetic members arranged in a planar array positioned within an opening of the support comb. Each magnetic member may rotate about an end that is coupled to the support comb. The magnetic members may be magnetostrictive sensors and may include a biorecognition element to bind with a target microorganism. A method for fluid filtration includes coupling the electromagnetic filter between a fluid source and a fluid destination, energizing the solenoids of each electromagnetic filter elements, and flowing a fluid media through the transfer pipe of the electromagnetic filter. The fluid media may be liquid food such as fruit juice. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Auburn UniversityInventors: Bryan A. Chin, Shin Horikawa, Steve R. Best, I-Hsuan Chen, Zhongyang Cheng, Songtao Du
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Patent number: 10782896Abstract: A method for managing an observed order of instructions in a computing system includes utilizing an overloaded memory barrier instruction to specify whether a global ordering constraint or a local ordering constraint is enforced.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Inventors: Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee, Richard Eugene Kessler, Mike Bertone, Chris Comis, Bryan Chin
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Publication number: 20200252434Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support flexible reconfiguration of a network chip by an external entity, such as a baseboard management controller (BMC), while maintaining a secured environment for the chip so that it can booted securely. Specifically, the network chip is configured to designate one or more of its networking ports to the BMC and allow the BMC to configure the designated networking ports without violating the secure areas of the network chip. To this end, the network chip is configured to allow the BMC to access a plurality of registers of the network chip via an Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) block of the network chip by issuing a plurality NC-SI compliant commands. By configuring the designated networking ports, the BMC is configured to establish a data path to a management software of a platform that includes the network chip though the designated networking ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Isam Akkawi, Darren Braun, Wilson Parkhurst Snyder, II, Bryan Chin
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Publication number: 20200178459Abstract: A system for analyzing soil content of a field includes a data acquisition unit configured to detect gamma spectra of each of a plurality of soil samples, wherein a surface area of the field is divided into a plurality of portions and the plurality of soil samples comprises at least one soil sample from each of the plurality of portions, a navigation unit configured to detect geographic coordinates of each of the plurality of soil samples, a data analysis unit configured to associate the detected gamma spectra of each of the plurality of soil samples with the geographic coordinates of the soil sample and determine a weight percent of at least one element within each of the soil samples based on the detected gamma spectra, and an element content map unit configured to generate a map indicating concentration of the at least one element within the soil of the field.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Bryan A. Chin, Henry Allen Torbert, III, Galina N. Yakubova, Aleksandr Kavetskiy, Nikolay Sargsyan
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Patent number: 10666682Abstract: A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support flexible reconfiguration of a network chip by an external entity, such as a baseboard management controller (BMC), while maintaining a secured environment for the chip so that it can be booted securely. The network chip is configured to designate one or more of its networking ports to the BMC and allow the BMC to configure the designated networking ports without violating the secure areas of the network chip. The network chip is configured to allow the BMC to access a plurality of registers of the network chip via a Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) block of the network chip by issuing a plurality NC-SI compliant commands. By configuring the designated networking ports, the BMC is configured to establish a data path to a management software of a platform that includes the network chip though the designated networking ports.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Inventors: Isam Akkawi, Darren Braun, Wilson Parkhurst Snyder, II, Bryan Chin
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Publication number: 20190374957Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, an electromagnetic filter may include a transfer pipe and multiple electromagnetic filter elements positioned in an interior volume of the pipe. Each electromagnetic filter element includes a support comb, a solenoid coupled to the support comb, and multiple magnetic members arranged in a planar array positioned within an opening of the support comb. Each magnetic member may rotate about an end that is coupled to the support comb. The magnetic members may be magnetostrictive sensors and may include a biorecognition element to bind with a target microorganism. A method for fluid filtration includes coupling the electromagnetic filter between a fluid source and a fluid destination, energizing the solenoids of each electromagnetic filter elements, and flowing a fluid media through the transfer pipe of the electromagnetic filter. The fluid media may be liquid food such as fruit juice. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Bryan A. Chin, Shin Horikawa, Steve R. Best, I-Hsuan Chen, Zhongyang Cheng, Songtao Du
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Patent number: 10422770Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, a system may include a basin that includes an index plate positioned at a bottom of the basin. The basin is configured to receive a liquid analyte, such as a liquid food product or a nutrient broth. The index plate includes an array of multiple wells. Each well opens into an interior of the basin and is sized to receive a magnetostrictive sensor in a predetermined orientation. One or more sensor coils is positionable beneath each well. The basin may be filled with liquid analyte and magnetostrictive sensors may be positioned in the wells. The liquid analyte may be allowed to incubate at a controlled temperature. A controller may position a sensor coil beneath a well, apply a varying magnetic field to a magnetostrictive sensor in the well, and detect a frequency response of the magnetostrictive sensor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Auburn UniversityInventors: Bryan A. Chin, Shin Horikawa, Zhongyang Cheng
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Publication number: 20190287655Abstract: A method for efficiently processing and storing large data sets associated with a multi-stage bioinformatics analysis of genomic data is disclosed. The present method increases the efficiency of the electronic storage of these large data sets by automatically deleting or compressing intermediate data or a portion of output data and compressing input data, where both deletion and compression are based on predetermined characteristics of said data. When necessary, such data can be recovered using generated metadata associated with the data. Doing so, not only improves the storage efficiency of massively large genomic datasets, but also allows for the consistent reproduction of output data with the re-processing of intermediate data based on information stored in metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Timothy Wesselman, Jeremy Davis-Turak, Roshni Patel, Bryan Chin, Ali Tajeldin, Jean Lozach
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Patent number: 10406533Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, an electromagnetic filter may include a transfer pipe and multiple electromagnetic filter elements positioned in an interior volume of the pipe. Each electromagnetic filter element includes a support comb, a solenoid coupled to the support comb, and multiple magnetic members arranged in a planar array positioned within an opening of the support comb. Each magnetic member may rotate about an end that is coupled to the support comb. The magnetic members may be magnetostrictive sensors and may include a biorecognition element to bind with a target microorganism. A method for fluid filtration includes coupling the electromagnetic filter between a fluid source and a fluid destination, energizing the solenoids of each electromagnetic filter elements, and flowing a fluid media through the transfer pipe of the electromagnetic filter. The fluid media may be liquid food such as fruit juice. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Auburn UniversityInventors: Bryan A. Chin, Shin Horikawa, Steve R. Best, I-Hsuan Chen, Zhongyang Cheng, Songtao Du
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Patent number: 10331848Abstract: A method for efficiently processing and storing large data sets associated with a multi-stage bioinformatics analysis of genomic data is disclosed. The present method increases the efficiency of the electronic storage of these large data sets by automatically deleting or compressing intermediate data or a portion of output data and compressing input data, where both deletion and compression are based on predetermined characteristics of said data. When necessary, such data can be recovered using generated metadata associated with the data. Doing so, not only improves the storage efficiency of massively large genomic datasets, but also allows for the consistent reproduction of output data with the re-processing of intermediate data based on information stored in metadata.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: ONRAMP BIOINFORMATICS, INC.Inventors: Timothy Wesselman, Jeremy Davis-Turak, Roshni Patel, Bryan Chin, Ali Tajeldin, Jean Lozach
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Publication number: 20190138232Abstract: A method for managing an observed order of instructions in a computing system includes utilizing an overloaded memory barrier instruction to specify whether a global ordering constraint or a local ordering constraint is enforced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee, Richard Eugene Kessler, Mike Bertone, Chris Comis, Bryan Chin
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Patent number: 10216430Abstract: A method for managing an observed order of instructions in a computing system includes utilizing an overloaded memory barrier instruction to specify whether a global ordering constraint or a local ordering constraint is enforced.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Cavium, LLCInventors: Shubhendu Sekhar Mukherjee, Richard Eugene Kessler, Mike Bertone, Chris Comis, Bryan Chin
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Publication number: 20180218114Abstract: A method for efficiently processing and storing large data sets associated with a multi-stage bioinformatics analysis of genomic data is disclosed. The present method increases the efficiency of the electronic storage of these large data sets by automatically deleting or compressing intermediate data or a portion of output data and compressing input data, where both deletion and compression are based on predetermined characteristics of said data. When necessary, such data can be recovered using generated metadata associated with the data. Doing so, not only improves the storage efficiency of massively large genomic datasets, but also allows for the consistent reproduction of output data with the re-processing of intermediate data based on information stored in metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Timothy Wesselman, Jeremy Davis-Turak, Roshni Patel, Bryan Chin, Ali Tajeldin, Jean Lozach
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Publication number: 20170370883Abstract: In at least one illustrative embodiment, a method for contaminant detection includes distributing multiple magnetostrictive sensors on a nonmagnetic index plate. The index plate includes multiple wells formed in a top surface that are each sized to receive a magnetostrictive sensor. The method further includes placing a magnetic backing plate below the index plate, inverting the index plate and the magnetic backing plate, and then placing the inverted index plate on a sample surface. The sample surface may be two-dimensional food such as fresh vegetable leaves. The method may further include placing the index plate and the magnetic backing plate on a nonmagnetic cover plate that is positioned above a sensor coil. The method further includes removing the magnetic backing plate, removing the index plate, and applying a varying magnetic field with the sensor coil to a magnetostrictive sensor positioned on the cover plate. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Bryan A. Chin, Shin Horikawa, Stevie R. Best, I-Hsuan Chen, Howard C. Wikle, Zhongyang Cheng, Yuzhe Liu, Jiajia Hu, Fengen Wang