Patents by Inventor Edgar Gutierrez
Edgar Gutierrez 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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Patent number: 11969702Abstract: The present invention provides methods, systems and kits for performing microwell analysis in sealed small volumes. The microwells of the invention are sealed through the pairing of microwell and bead geometry wherein the diameter of the beads is greater than the diameter of the bottom of the microwells. Loading the beads into the microwells seals samples within an analytical space between the bottom of a nested bead and the bottom of the subject microwell.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: Celldom, Inc., The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Natalia Tkachenko, Eugene Tkachenko, Alexander Groisman, Edgar Gutierrez
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Patent number: 11911760Abstract: This disclosure provides for devices and methods for conduction assays for combinatorial libraries. The devices comprise a multiplicity of wells and a removable cap.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Plexium, Inc.Inventors: Kapil Mahakalkar, Kenneth Chng, Jesse Lu, Edgar Gutierrez, Yi Zhang
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Publication number: 20240060961Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for cell-based drug screening with high-density arrays of conical microwells and slow-drug-release beads.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Eugene Tkachenko, Natalia Tkachenko, Edgar Gutierrez, Alexander Groisman
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Publication number: 20240036228Abstract: Processes utilize collected resistivity data from an ultra-deep resistivity tool located downhole a borehole. A machine learning system (MLS) can be utilized to analyze and process the resistivity data. Directions can be generated using the resistivity data that is communicated to other systems, such as a geo-steering, an evaluation, or other borehole systems. In some aspects, a recommendation can be generated that includes subterranean formation characteristics with the directions. The recommendation can be used by a user system to approve or reject the directions prior to being communicated to a borehole system or geo-steering system. In some aspects, a confidence level can be generated with the directions or recommendation, and the confidence level can be evaluated whether it satisfies a confidence level threshold. In some aspects, when the confidence level threshold is satisfied, the directions can be automatically communicated to the geo-steering system without user review.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Jeremy James Combs, Edgar Gutierrez Gonzalez
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Publication number: 20230228901Abstract: The disclosure presents processes that utilize collected resistivity data, for example, from an ultra-deep resistivity tool located downhole a borehole. In some aspects, each slice of resistivity data can generate multiple distribution curves that can be overlaid offset resistivity logs. In some aspects, an analysis can be performed to identify trends in the distribution curves that can be used to identify approximate locations of subterranean formation surfaces, shoulder beds, obstacles, proximate boreholes, and other borehole and geological characteristics. As the number of distribution curves generated increase, the confidence in the analysis also increases. In some aspects, the number of distribution curves can be twenty, one hundred, one hundred and one, or other counts of distribution curves. In some aspects, the resistivity data can be used to generate two or more synchronized view perspectives of a specific location along the borehole, where each view perspective uses the same focus area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Vladimir Kiselev, Robert Gillson, III, Edgar Gutierrez Gonzalez, Jeremy James Combs
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Publication number: 20230228902Abstract: The disclosure presents processes that utilize collected resistivity data, for example, from an ultra-deep resistivity tool located downhole a borehole. In some aspects, each slice of resistivity data can generate multiple distribution curves that can be overlaid offset resistivity logs. In some aspects, an analysis can be performed to identify trends in the distribution curves that can be used to identify approximate locations of subterranean formation surfaces, shoulder beds, obstacles, proximate boreholes, and other borehole and geological characteristics. As the number of distribution curves generated increase, the confidence in the analysis also increases. In some aspects, the number of distribution curves can be twenty, one hundred, one hundred and one, or other counts of distribution curves. In some aspects, the resistivity data can be used to generate two or more synchronized view perspectives of a specific location along the borehole, where each view perspective uses the same focus area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: David Franklin Anthony, Edgar Gutierrez Gonzalez, Vladimir Kiselev, Jeremy James Combs
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Publication number: 20230146199Abstract: A method for fluid transport includes receiving fluid at an inlet port of an inlet. The fluid is outputted through an opening of the inlet into a channel. A first ratio of a first distance to a second distance is substantially equal to a cubic root of a second ratio between a first length dimension and a second length dimension of the inlet, the first distance being measured from an entrance of the inlet port to a first position within the inlet, the second distance being measured from the entrance of the inlet port to a second position within the inlet, the first length dimension and the second length dimension each being measured along a direction orthogonal to a measurement direction along the first distance and the second distance, the first length dimension and the second length dimension being measured at the first position and the second position, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Edgar Gutierrez, Jesse Lu
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Patent number: 11642675Abstract: A microfluidic system for fluid transport is provided. The microfluidic system includes a microfluidic device. The microfluidic device includes an inlet body including an inlet. The microfluidic device includes a base supporting the inlet body. The base includes a channel in fluid communication with the inlet. The base includes one or more sensors formed on a surface of the channel, or one or more sensors formed in one or more wells formed in the surface of the channel. The channel is configured to facilitate flow of the fluid. The fluid includes a plurality of beads. The fluid includes a plurality of suspended cells. The inlet is configured to receive the fluid at an inlet port. The inlet is configured to output the fluid through an opening in fluid communication with the channel. The inlet is configured to provide substantially uniform flow of the fluid across a substantial portion of a horizontal dimension of the channel. The device is configured to compensate for edge effects otherwise present therein.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Plexium, Inc.Inventors: Edgar Gutierrez, Jesse Lu
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Publication number: 20230054204Abstract: A flow cell that includes (a) a gasket interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein the gasket, the first substrate and the second substrate are impermeable to aqueous liquid and liquid adhesive, wherein the gasket has a footprint on the first substrate that delineates a channel for containing the aqueous liquid; (b) a via in the gasket, the via containing a solidified liquid adhesive that bonds the first substrate to the second substrate, wherein the solidified liquid adhesive in the via is separated from the channel by the gasket; and (c) a channel port connecting the channel to the exterior of the flow cell, wherein the channel port is permeable to the aqueous liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Alex NEMIROSKI, Drew Ival FRERICHS, Julian Sean ALBERNI, Luke DAENITZ, Edgar GUTIERREZ, Arnold OLIPHANT
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Publication number: 20210402404Abstract: A microfluidic system for fluid transport is provided. The microfluidic system includes a microfluidic device. The microfluidic device includes an inlet body including an inlet. The microfluidic device includes a base supporting the inlet body. The base includes a channel in fluid communication with the inlet. The base includes one or more sensors formed on a surface of the channel, or one or more sensors formed in one or more wells formed in the surface of the channel. The channel is configured to facilitate flow of the fluid. The fluid includes a plurality of beads. The fluid includes a plurality of suspended cells. The inlet is configured to receive the fluid at an inlet port. The inlet is configured to output the fluid through an opening in fluid communication with the channel. The inlet is configured to provide substantially uniform flow of the fluid across a substantial portion of a horizontal dimension of the channel. The device is configured to compensate for edge effects otherwise present therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Edgar Gutierrez, Jesse Lu
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Publication number: 20210308668Abstract: This disclosure provides for devices and methods for conduction assays for combinatorial libraries. The devices comprise a multiplicity of wells and a removable cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Kapil Mahakalkar, Kenneth Chung, Jesse Lu, Edgar Gutierrez, Yi Zhang
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Patent number: 11040343Abstract: This disclosure provides for devices and methods for conducting assays for combinatorial libraries. The devices comprise a multiplicity of wells and a removable cap.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Plexium, Inc.Inventors: Kapil Mahakalkar, Kenneth Chung, Jesse Lu, Edgar Gutierrez, Yi Zhang
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Publication number: 20190137481Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for cell-based drug screening with high-density arrays of conical microwells and slow-drug-release beads.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Eugene Tkachenko, Natalia Tkachenko, Edgar Gutierrez, Alexander Groisman
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Patent number: 8372358Abstract: In a microfluidic system, a magnetic clamp for sealing a flexible microchannel chip includes a base formed from a magnetically-attractable material. The base supports a window for viewing the face of the microfluidic chip. A ring with magnets uniformly distributed around it is disposed over the base. A transparent disk attached to the top of the ring has an inlet and an outlet for introducing and removing a fluid medium into a cavity defined the disk, the window, the center opening of the ring and the base. An elastomer cushion is attached to the inner surface of the disk. The magnetic force between the base and the magnets on the ring compresses the cushion against the microfluidic chip so that the microchannels are sealed against the window with a uniform and reproducible pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Alexander Groisman, Edgar Gutierrez, Eugene Tkachenko, Mark H. Ginsberg
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Publication number: 20110044865Abstract: In a microfluidic system, a magnetic clamp for sealing a flexible microchannel chip includes a base formed from a magnetically-attractable material. The base supports a window for viewing the face of the microfluidic chip. A ring with magnets uniformly distributed around it is disposed over the base. A transparent disk attached to the top of the ring has an inlet and an outlet for introducing and removing a fluid medium into a cavity defined the disk, the window, the center opening of the ring and the base. An elastomer cushion is attached to the inner surface of the disk. The magnetic force between the base and the magnets on the ring compresses the cushion against the microfluidic chip so that the microchannels are sealed against the window with a uniform and reproducible pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Alexander Groisman, Edgar Gutierrez, Eugene Tkachenko, Mark H. Ginsberg