Patents by Inventor Erik Miller

Erik Miller 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).

  • Patent number: 12275088
    Abstract: A laser processing head includes first and second contact points connected to a power source. The power source generates a current to flow through an electrode wire between the first and second contact points to heat the electrode wire. A laser source generates one or more laser beams having lasing power sufficient to at least partially melt the electrode wire. A coaxial laser head focuses the one or more laser beams at one or more focal points on a workpiece to at least partially melt the electrode wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Inventors: Shuang Liu, Erik Miller
  • Patent number: 12233391
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems for distributing nucleic acids into array regions are provided. The methods, compositions, and systems utilize nucleic acid condensing agents to increase efficiency of distribution of the nucleic acids into the array regions. Various methods for facilitating distribution of the nucleic acids to the array regions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
    Inventors: Lei Sun, Jaime Juan Benitez-Marzan, Natasha Popovich, Sassan Sheikholeslami, Steven Lin, Aparna Vedula, Michael W. Hunkapiller, Erik Miller, Satwik Kamtekar
  • Publication number: 20250002878
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing. Such properties include increased resistance to photodamage, and can also include enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased thermostability, increased accuracy, increased speed, increased readlength, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Arek Bibillo, Keith Bjornson, Fred Christians, Colleen Cutcliffe, Jeremiah Hanes, Lei Jia, Walter Lee, Erik Miller, Pranav Patel
  • Patent number: 12162903
    Abstract: Compositions, methods, and systems are provided for fluorescent polymerase enzyme substrates comprising protein shields for improving enzyme photostability in single molecule real time sequencing. Fluorescent polymerase enzyme substrates of the invention have a protein shield between the fluorescent dye moieties and nucleotide moieties of the polymerase enzyme substrate. The polymerase enzyme substrates have a nucleotide component and a dye component, each attached to a protein. The attachments can be covalent. The protein can, for example, prevent the direct interaction of the fluorescent dye moiety with the enzyme when carrying out nucleotide synthesis, preventing photodamage to the enzyme. The polymerase enzyme substrates of the invention can have multiple dyes and multiple nucleotide moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: PACIFIC BIOSCIENCES OF CALIFORNIA, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Bjornson, Jeremiah Hanes, Erik Miller, Satwik Kamtekar, Lubomir Sebo, Louis Brogley
  • Patent number: 12162092
    Abstract: A welding or cladding apparatus in which one or more energy beam emitters are used to generate a wide beam spot transverse to a welding or cladding path, and one or more wide feeders feed wire to the spot to create a wide welding or cladding puddle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Giese, Erik Miller, Kirk Stema, Shuang Liu
  • Patent number: 12162094
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an enclosure providing a sealed environment. The enclosure employs movable paneling that seals an area for a laser welding cell, while allowing access for an operator to load a workpiece in and unload the workpiece from a welding cell. Barriers are arranged on the enclosure, such that in a closed configuration activation of a pneumatic tube forces the barriers to extend toward a rotated paneling, such that the edges of the enclosure contact or overlap with the edges of the paneling to result in a light-tight seal. Presence of the fluid increases the pressure in the tube such that an external boundary of the tube expands, forcing the barrier toward the edges of the paneling, thereby closing the gap and providing a light-tight enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Miller, Brian Atkinson, Kevin Pagano
  • Publication number: 20240309892
    Abstract: A pneumatic circuit for a pneumatic drive apparatus is disclosed. The pneumatic circuit includes a reservoir, a pump, and first, second and third valves. The first valve selectively provides a fluid connection between an inlet of the pump and the reservoir. The second valve selectively provides a fluid connection between an outlet of the pump and the reservoir. The third valve selectively provides a fluid connection between the reservoir and an actuation port. The pneumatic circuit is configured such that the first and second valves can selectively pressurise the reservoir, and such that the third valve can selectively communicate pressure from the reservoir to the actuation port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Erik Miller, David Manura, Florent Junod
  • Patent number: 12090583
    Abstract: A welding-type system includes a power supply configured to control preheating of an electrode wire. A controller is configured to receive a plurality of power values corresponding to a power output of the power supply and calculate an arc power value corresponding to an arc condition at the preheated electrode wire based on a rate of change of the plurality of power values. A target power output value is determined based on the calculated arc power value, and the power output is adjusted based on the determined target power value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Doyle, Shuang Liu, Erik Miller, Adam E Anders
  • Publication number: 20240271108
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing. Such properties can include enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased thermostability, increased accuracy, increased speed, increased readlength, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Lei Jia, Robin Emig, Erik Miller
  • Publication number: 20240271203
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing or nucleic acid amplification. Such properties include enhanced performance with large nucleotide analogs, increased stability, increased readlength, and improved detection of modified bases, and can also include resistance to photodamage, enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased accuracy, altered speed, increased cosolvent resistance, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Erik Miller
  • Patent number: 12018296
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing. Such properties include increased resistance to photodamage, and can also include enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased thermostability, increased accuracy, increased speed, increased readlength, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Erik Miller, Pranav Patel
  • Publication number: 20240189942
    Abstract: Systems and methods of a laser welding device are disclosed. The laser welding device includes a laser generator configured to generate welding-type lasing power. A lens focuses the welding-type lasing power at a focal point on a workpiece to generate a puddle during a welding-type operation. A wire feeder is configured to feed wire to the puddle generated by the laser generator. A laser scanner controls the lens to move the focal point of the welding-type lasing power in multiple dimensions over the workpiece during the welding-type operation. In some examples, the feed wire is used in an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Shuang Liu, Erik Miller, Brian Doyle
  • Publication number: 20240191287
    Abstract: Compositions comprising covalently modified and mutated biotin-binding proteins, particularly biotin-binding proteins having a negative charge at physiological pH, are provided. Methods of producing such proteins are also provided, as are methods of immobilizing, sequencing, and making nucleic acids employing such proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Lubomir Sebo, Leewin Chern, Thomas Linsky, Jeremiah Hanes, Erik Miller, Ying Yang, Stephen Yue
  • Patent number: 11919103
    Abstract: Systems and methods of a laser welding device are disclosed. The laser welding device includes a laser generator configured to generate welding-type lasing power. A lens focuses the welding-type lasing power at a focal point on a workpiece to generate a puddle during a welding-type operation. A wire feeder is configured to feed wire to the puddle generated by the laser generator. A laser scanner controls the lens to move the focal point of the welding-type lasing power in multiple dimensions over the workpiece during the welding-type operation. In some examples, the feed wire is used in an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Shuang Liu, Erik Miller, Brian Doyle
  • Publication number: 20240060301
    Abstract: The present technology is generally directed to centralized appliance hubs with enhanced acoustic performance and related methods. In at least some embodiments, an appliance hub includes a frame, one or more panels attached to the first side of the frame, and an insulating layer attached to the second side of the frame opposite the first side. The insulating layer can be tuned or otherwise configured to absorb and/or attenuate sound within a first frequency range, and all or a subset of the one or more panels can be configured to absorb and/or attenuate sound within a second frequency range different than the frequency range. In some embodiments, at least one of the panels may be made of a perforated metal having perforations arranged in a manner to attenuate sound within the predetermined frequency range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Jay Martin, Erik Hanson, James Rooney, Josh Bolton, Jon McClure, Erik Miller-Klein
  • Patent number: 11891659
    Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising recombinant DNA polymerases that include amino acid substitutions, insertions, deletions, and/or exogenous features that confer modified properties upon the polymerase for enhanced single molecule sequencing or nucleic acid amplification. Such properties include enhanced performance with large nucleotide analogs, increased stability, increased readlength, and improved detection of modified bases, and can also include resistance to photodamage, enhanced metal ion coordination, reduced exonuclease activity, reduced reaction rates at one or more steps of the polymerase kinetic cycle, decreased branching fraction, altered cofactor selectivity, increased yield, increased accuracy, altered speed, increased cosolvent resistance, and the like. Also provided are nucleic acids which encode the polymerases with the aforementioned phenotypes, as well as methods of using such polymerases to make a DNA or to sequence a DNA template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Satwik Kamtekar, Erik Miller
  • Publication number: 20240035085
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems are provided that allow for reliable sequencing of the initial sequence region of a sequence of interest. The methods of the invention allow for more reliable barcoding of subpopulations of nucleic acids to be sequenced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Tyson A. Clark, Jonas Korlach, Cheryl Heiner, Kevin Travers, Erik Miller
  • Publication number: 20230416817
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, and systems for distributing polymerase compositions into array regions. In particular, the described methods, compositions, and systems utilize density differentials and/or additives to increase efficiency in the distribution of polymerase compositions to a surface as compared to methods utilizing only diffusion control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventor: Erik Miller
  • Publication number: 20230405544
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems for distributing nucleic acids into array regions are provided. The methods, compositions, and systems utilize nucleic acid condensing agents to increase efficiency of distribution of the nucleic acids into the array regions. Various methods for facilitating distribution of the nucleic acids to the array regions are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Lei Sun, Jaime Juan Benitez-Marzan, Natasha Popovich, Sassan Sheikholeslami, Steven Lin, Aparna Vedula, Michael W. Hunkapiller, Erik Miller, Satwik Kamtekar
  • Publication number: 20230365614
    Abstract: Compositions, methods, and systems are provided for fluorescent polymerase enzyme substrates comprising protein shields for improving enzyme photostability in single molecule real time sequencing. Fluorescent polymerase enzyme substrates of the invention have a protein shield between the fluorescent dye moieties and nucleotide moieties of the polymerase enzyme substrate. The polymerase enzyme substrates have a nucleotide component and a dye component, each attached to a protein. The attachments can be covalent. The protein can, for example, prevent the direct interaction of the fluorescent dye moiety with the enzyme when carrying out nucleotide synthesis, preventing photodamage to the enzyme. The polymerase enzyme substrates of the invention can have multiple dyes and multiple nucleotide moieties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Keith Bjornson, Jeremiah Hanes, Erik Miller, Satwik Kamtekar, Lubomir Sebo, Louis Brogley