Patents by Inventor Francis Lee

Francis Lee 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: 11967400
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed for presenting, on a computing device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a therapeutic tool. The method includes presenting, in a first screen of the GUI, a design space for a protein for an application, where the design space includes a set of sequences, where each sequence contains a respective set of activities pertaining to the application. The method also includes receiving, via a graphical element in the first screen, a selection of one or more query parameters of the design space, and presenting, in a second screen of the GUI, a solution space that includes a subset of the set of sequences, where each sequence contains the respective set of activities, where the subset of the set of sequences is selected based on the one or more query parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Patent number: 11931513
    Abstract: A patient interface for delivery of a supply of pressurised air or breathable gas to an entrance of a patient's airways comprising: a cushion member that includes a retaining structure and a seal-forming structure permanently connected to the retaining structure; a frame member attachable to the retaining structure; and a positioning and stabilising structure attachable to the frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Rupert Christian Scheiner, William Laurence Hitchcock, Anthony Paul Barbara, Adam Francis Barlow, Craig David Edwards, Lachlan Richard Goldspink, Kirrily Michele Haskard, Murray William Lee, Frederick Arlet May, Gerard Michael Rummery, Shiva Kumar Shanmuga Sundara, Chia Ik Tan, Stewart Joseph Wagner, Alicia Kristianne Wells, Martin Forrester, Ralph Jourdan
  • Publication number: 20240090123
    Abstract: In some embodiments, nested filters can be implemented as a radio-frequency device that includes a substrate, and first and second filter devices mounted on the substrate with respective support structures, such that at least a portion of the second filter device is positioned in a space defined by an underside of the first filter device and the support structures for the first filter device. Such a radio-frequency device can be, for example, a packaged module for use in an electronic device such as a wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Francis DARVEAUX, Ki Wook LEE, Takeshi FURUSAWA, Sundeep Nand NANGALIA, Russ Alan REISNER, John C. BALDWIN
  • Patent number: 11930482
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) user equipment (UE) may communicate, using a first SIM, on a plurality of component carriers. The multi-SIM UE may select a first subset of component carriers from the plurality of component carriers based at least in part on a component carrier prioritization. The multi-SIM UE may identify an amount of memory available to a second SIM. The multi-SIM UE may tune away, based at least in part on the amount of memory available to the second SIM, from a second subset of component carriers The first subset of component carriers may be different from the second subset of component carriers. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Arnaud Meylan, Suli Zhao, Liangchi Hsu, Cheol Hee Park, Qingxin Chen, Jun Hu, Leena Zacharias, Pulkit Hanswal, Reza Shahidi, Thawatt Gopal, Raghu Narayan Challa, Heechoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20240002431
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed of making and using platforms for peptide synthesis and compositions thereof, such peptide-anchored resins or beads for use in solid-phase peptide synthesis. The platform includes a plurality of platform particles, which particles are insoluble carrier material particles (microparticles/nanoparticles) having a plurality of different linkers coupled to them. The plurality of linkers includes, in various combinations and combinations, (a) Fmoc-2,4-dimethoxy-4?-(carboxymethyloxy)-benzhydrylamine (Rink amide linker); (b) 4-Formyl-3-methoxy-phenoxyacetic acid; (c) 2-Hydroxy-5-dibenzosuberone; (d) 4-Hydroxymethylbenzoic acid (HMBA); (e) 4-Hydroxymethyl-phenoxyacetic acid (HMP linker); (f) 4-(Fmoc-hydrazino)-benzoic acid; (g) 4(4-(1-hydroxyethyl)-2-methoxy-5-nitrophenoxy)-butyric acid; and (h) Fmoc-Suberol (5-Fmoc-amino-2-carboxymethoxy-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a,d] cycloheptene).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: PEPTILOGICS, INC.
    Inventor: Francis Lee
  • Patent number: 11848076
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed for presenting, on a computing device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a therapeutic tool. The method includes presenting, in a first screen of the GUI, a design space for a protein for an application, where the design space includes a set of sequences, where each sequence contains a respective set of activities pertaining to the application. The method also includes receiving, via a graphical element in the first screen, a selection of one or more query parameters of the design space, and presenting, in a second screen of the GUI, a solution space that includes a subset of the set of sequences, where each sequence contains the respective set of activities, where the subset of the set of sequences is selected based on the one or more query parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Publication number: 20230207066
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed wherein an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled automated flow synthesis platform is configured to generate optimized synthesizing recipes which enable a sequence to be synthesized using an automated flow process. The method includes receiving a synthesizing recipe including parameters used during the automated flow process to synthesize the sequence, receiving spectral data from detectors monitoring the automated flow process in a reaction chamber, where the spectral data corresponds to a reaction point in the automated flow process, and determining, based on indicators associated with the spectral data, characteristics of a chemical reaction at the reaction point in the automated flow process. An artificial intelligence engine determines the chemical reaction. The method includes associating, based on the spectral data, the synthesizing recipe with the chemical reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Patent number: 11587643
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed wherein an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled automated flow synthesis platform is configured to generate optimized synthesizing recipes which enable a sequence to be synthesized using an automated flow process. The method includes receiving a synthesizing recipe including parameters used during the automated flow process to synthesize the sequence, receiving spectral data from detectors monitoring the automated flow process in a reaction chamber, where the spectral data corresponds to a reaction point in the automated flow process, and determining, based on indicators associated with the spectral data, characteristics of a chemical reaction at the reaction point in the automated flow process. An artificial intelligence engine determines the chemical reaction. The method includes associating, based on the spectral data, the synthesizing recipe with the chemical reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Publication number: 20230037376
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed for presenting, on a computing device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a therapeutic tool. The method includes presenting, in a first screen of the GUI, a design space for a protein for an application, where the design space includes a set of sequences, where each sequence contains a respective set of activities pertaining to the application. The method also includes receiving, via a graphical element in the first screen, a selection of one or more query parameters of the design space, and presenting, in a second screen of the GUI, a solution space that includes a subset of the set of sequences, where each sequence contains the respective set of activities, where the subset of the set of sequences is selected based on the one or more query parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Publication number: 20220415446
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed for presenting, on a computing device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a therapeutic tool. The method includes presenting, in a first screen of the GUI, a design space for a protein for an application, where the design space includes a set of sequences, where each sequence contains a respective set of activities pertaining to the application. The method also includes receiving, via a graphical element in the first screen, a selection of one or more query parameters of the design space, and presenting, in a second screen of the GUI, a solution space that includes a subset of the set of sequences, where each sequence contains the respective set of activities, where the subset of the set of sequences is selected based on the one or more query parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Publication number: 20220399082
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes generating a design space for a peptide for an application. The generating includes identifying sequences for the peptide, and updating the sequences by determining, for each of the sequences, a respective set of activities pertaining to the application. The updating produces updated sequences each having updated respective activities. The method includes generating, based on the updated sequences, a solution space within the design space. The solution space includes a target subset of the updated sequences. The method includes performing, using a machine learning model to process the solution space, trials to identify a candidate drug compound that represents a sequence having a level of activity that exceeds a threshold level, and determining metrics pertaining to the machine learning model and a second machine learning model that performs the trials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Publication number: 20220387997
    Abstract: A method of conducting a biological assay, comprises obtaining data corelative to a temperature of a reagent, mixing the reagent with a sample to provide a mixture, receiving from the mixture a signal indicative of an amount of an analyte in the sample, and correcting the amount based on the obtained data and on a type of the reagent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: MeMed Diagnostics Ltd.
    Inventors: Omer Nahum KATZENELSON, Meytal SHRAGA, James Douglas D'arcy MCCULLY, Timothy Francis LEE, Oren ZARCHIN, Roy NAVON, Itay GISSIS
  • Publication number: 20220384058
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed for using dialects to generate candidate drug compounds. The dialects describe sequences of the candidate drug compounds and activities associated with the sequences. The method includes receiving a data set, training, using the data set, first layers of a machine learning model to determine relationships of components of a portion of a string described by a first dialect. The components pertain to amino acids associated with first activity level information of the sequences. The method includes training, using the data set and the portion of the string, a final layer to generate a remainder of the string. The remainder pertains to second activity level information of the sequences. The method includes generating, using the first and final layer, the string comprising the portion and the remainder. The string represents a candidate drug compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste, Steven Mason
  • Patent number: 11512345
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computer-implemented automated flow synthesis platform configured to use an artificial intelligence (AI) engine is disclosed and includes a reaction chamber configured to synthesize a sequence, detectors configured to monitor the synthesis of the sequence in the reaction chamber, wherein the synthesis uses an automated flow process, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the detectors. The computing device receives measurements from the one or more detectors, wherein the measurements comprise a spectral profile at each coupling of each amino acid in the sequence, trains, using training data comprising the measurements, machine learning models to determine a synthesizing recipe that enables the sequence to be synthesized, wherein the synthesizing recipe comprises parameters used during the automated flow process to synthesize the sequence, and controls, using the synthesizing recipe, the synthesis of the sequence in the reaction chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Publication number: 20220364166
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computer-implemented automated flow synthesis platform configured to use an artificial intelligence (AI) engine is disclosed and includes a reaction chamber configured to synthesize a sequence, detectors configured to monitor the synthesis of the sequence in the reaction chamber, wherein the synthesis uses an automated flow process, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the detectors. The computing device receives measurements from the one or more detectors, wherein the measurements comprise a spectral profile at each coupling of each amino acid in the sequence, trains, using training data comprising the measurements, machine learning models to determine a synthesizing recipe that enables the sequence to be synthesized, wherein the synthesizing recipe comprises parameters used during the automated flow process to synthesize the sequence, and controls, using the synthesizing recipe, the synthesis of the sequence in the reaction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Publication number: 20220359041
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed wherein an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled automated flow synthesis platform is configured to generate optimized synthesizing recipes which enable a sequence to be synthesized using an automated flow process. The method includes receiving a synthesizing recipe including parameters used during the automated flow process to synthesize the sequence, receiving spectral data from detectors monitoring the automated flow process in a reaction chamber, where the spectral data corresponds to a reaction point in the automated flow process, and determining, based on indicators associated with the spectral data, characteristics of a chemical reaction at the reaction point in the automated flow process. An artificial intelligence engine determines the chemical reaction. The method includes associating, based on the spectral data, the synthesizing recipe with the chemical reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Patent number: 11462304
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence engine architecture for generating candidate drugs is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating, via a creator module, a candidate drug compound including a sequence of a candidate drug compound, including the candidate drug compound as a node in a knowledge graph; generating, via a descriptor module, a description of the candidate drug compound at the node in the knowledge graph, wherein the description comprises drug compound structural information, drug compound activity information, and drug compound semantic information; based on the description, performing, via a scientist module, a benchmark analysis of a parameter of the creator module; and modifying, based on the benchmark analysis, the creator module to change the parameter in a desired way during a subsequent benchmark analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste
  • Publication number: 20220288010
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for inhibiting monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) in order to attenuate the rewarding effects of and delay tolerance to the analgesic properties of opioids such as morphine without reducing their analgesic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Anjali M. Rajadhyaksha, Arlene Martinez-Rivera
  • Patent number: 11442772
    Abstract: This invention is a fully functional workflow platform or middleware on a mobile device that is able to create, modify and execute its own workflow scripts and synchronize with external services on the mobile device or on a remote back-end such as a server using asynchronous and/or synchronous communications. This invention also includes a back-end computing platform that integrates with the mobile device. The back-end platform also provides a marketplace and tools for multiple parties to develop and trade configurations of the platform and software that may be used to extend the capabilities of the workflow platform and license the use of the platform's complete set of capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventor: Francis Lee
  • Patent number: 11436246
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is disclosed for presenting, on a computing device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a therapeutic tool. The method includes presenting, in a first screen of the GUI, a design space for a protein for an application, where the design space includes a set of sequences, where each sequence contains a respective set of activities pertaining to the application. The method also includes receiving, via a graphical element in the first screen, a selection of one or more query parameters of the design space, and presenting, in a second screen of the GUI, a solution space that includes a subset of the set of sequences, where each sequence contains the respective set of activities, where the subset of the set of sequences is selected based on the one or more query parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Peptilogics, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis Lee, Jonathan D. Steckbeck, Hannes Holste