Patents by Inventor John Mulligan

John Mulligan 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).

  • Publication number: 20250041820
    Abstract: A system includes a synthesizer unit having a fluid input to receive fluids and a communication input to receive commands to synthesize data-encoded DNA sequences and cleave the DNA. A first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module may be fluidically coupled to the synthesizer unit to receive the data-encoded DNA sequences and amplify the sequences. A deposition unit may be fluidically coupled to the first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module to receive the amplified DNA sequences and encapsulate the amplified DNA sequences into one or more wells in a storage plate for storage and retrieval to and from a plate storage unit. Retrieved DNA may be processed and read by further units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Bichlien H. NGUYEN, Douglas P. KELLEY, Karin STRAUSS, Robert CARLSON, Hsing-Yeh PARKER, John MULLIGAN, Luis H. CEZE, Yuan-Jyue CHEN, Douglas CARMEAN
  • Patent number: 12157102
    Abstract: A system includes a synthesizer unit having a fluid input to receive fluids and a communication input to receive commands to synthesize data-encoded DNA sequences and cleave the DNA. A first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module may be fluidically coupled to the synthesizer unit to receive the data-encoded DNA sequences and amplify the sequences. A deposition unit may be fluidically coupled to the first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module to receive the amplified DNA sequences and encapsulate the amplified DNA sequences into one or more wells in a storage plate for storage and retrieval to and from a plate storage unit. Retrieved DNA may be processed and read by further units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bichlien H. Nguyen, Douglas P. Kelley, Karin Strauss, Robert Carlson, Hsing-Yeh Parker, John Mulligan, Luis H. Ceze, Yuan-Jyue Chen, Douglas Carmean
  • Publication number: 20220347645
    Abstract: A system includes a synthesizer unit having a fluid input to receive fluids and a communication input to receive commands to synthesize data-encoded DNA sequences and cleave the DNA. A first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module may be fluidically coupled to the synthesizer unit to receive the data-encoded DNA sequences and amplify the sequences. A deposition unit may be fluidically coupled to the first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module to receive the amplified DNA sequences and encapsulate the amplified DNA sequences into one or more wells in a storage plate for storage and retrieval to and from a plate storage unit. Retrieved DNA may be processed and read by further units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Bichlien H. NGUYEN, Douglas P. KELLEY, Karin STRAUSS, Robert CARLSON, Hsing-Yeh PARKER, John MULLIGAN, Luis H. CEZE, Yuan-Jyue CHEN, Douglas CARMEAN
  • Patent number: 11439970
    Abstract: A system includes a synthesizer unit having a fluid input to receive fluids and a communication input to receive commands to synthesize data-encoded DNA sequences and cleave the DNA. A first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module may be fluidically coupled to the synthesizer unit to receive the data-encoded DNA sequences and amplify the sequences. A deposition unit may be fluidically coupled to the first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module to receive the amplified DNA sequences and encapsulate the amplified DNA sequences into one or more wells in a storage plate for storage and retrieval to and from a plate storage unit. Retrieved DNA may be processed and read by further units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Bichlien H Nguyen, Douglas P Kelley, Karin Strauss, Robert Carlson, Hsing-Yeh Parker, John Mulligan, Luis H Ceze, Yuan-Jyue Chen, Douglas Carmean
  • Patent number: 10749841
    Abstract: A system for indirect border gateway routing comprising a provider edge router; at least one virtual routing and forwarding instance in communication with the provider edge router, each virtual routing and forwarding instance including a route target; a pointer identification list in communication with the provider edge router, the pointer identification list containing at least one route target associated with a virtual routing and forwarding instance; and a virtual routing and forwarding import instance adapted to receive a route from the provider edge router, the route including a pointer identification directing the virtual routing and forwarding import instance to scan the pointer identification list for the route target associated with the plural virtual routing and forwarding instance, and wherein the virtual routing and forwarding import instance is further adapted to import the route to the at least one virtual routing and forwarding instance having a route target on the pointer identification list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ron R. Kulper, Vatsal Parikh, Don Moloney, Jonathan Pang, Diana Toll, John Mulligan, Mateusz Szela
  • Publication number: 20190358604
    Abstract: A system includes a synthesizer unit having a fluid input to receive fluids and a communication input to receive commands to synthesize data-encoded DNA sequences and cleave the DNA. A first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module may be fluidically coupled to the synthesizer unit to receive the data-encoded DNA sequences and amplify the sequences. A deposition unit may be fluidically coupled to the first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module to receive the amplified DNA sequences and encapsulate the amplified DNA sequences into one or more wells in a storage plate for storage and retrieval to and from a plate storage unit. Retrieved DNA may be processed and read by further units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Bichlien H. Nguyen, Douglas P. Kelley, Karin Strauss, Robert Carlson, Hsing-Yeh Parker, John Mulligan, Luis H. Ceze, Yuan-Jyue Chen, Douglas Carmean
  • Publication number: 20180295099
    Abstract: A system for indirect border gateway routing comprising a provider edge router; at least one virtual routing and forwarding instance in communication with the provider edge router, each virtual routing and forwarding instance including a route target; a pointer identification list in communication with the provider edge router, the pointer identification list containing at least one route target associated with a virtual routing and forwarding instance; and a virtual routing and forwarding import instance adapted to receive a route from the provider edge router, the route including a pointer identification directing the virtual routing and forwarding import instance to scan the pointer identification list for the route target associated with the plural virtual routing and forwarding instance, and wherein the virtual routing and forwarding import instance is further adapted to import the route to the at least one virtual routing and forwarding instance having a route target on the pointer identification list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Ron R. KULPER, Vatsal PARIKH, Don MOLONEY, Jonathan PANG, Diana TOLL, John MULLIGAN, Mateusz SZELA
  • Patent number: 9397924
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that manage routing information in an IP network using extensible indexing and use the indexing to control the network. The indexing and associated controls apply to any router within the routing domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Mulligan, Han Q. Nguyen, Samir Saad, Jacobus Van Der Merwe, Simon Zelingher
  • Patent number: 9021290
    Abstract: A system and method of dynamically managing a power supply allocation for each one of the server blades in a blade server includes a blade server system having a blade chassis, multiple server blades coupled to the blade chassis, a power supply system coupled to the blade chassis, a chassis management module coupled to the blade chassis, wherein the blade chassis includes electrical and data communication interconnections between the server blades, the redundant power supply system and the chassis management module. The chassis management module includes computer readable media having program instructions for dynamically managing a power supply allocation for each one of the server blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Hueston, Julia D. Harper, John Mulligan, Michael Banatt
  • Patent number: 8580201
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include processing steps and subsystems, within automated-biopolymer-synthesis systems and within other automated systems for organic-chemistry-based processing, for removing reagent solutions and solvents from reaction chambers following various synthetic reaction steps and washing steps undertaken during biopolymer synthesis. Embodiments of the present invention employ any of various different types of liquid-absorbing materials to wick, or remove by capillary action, liquids from reaction chambers. Wicking-based methods and subcomponents of the present invention remove significantly greater fractions of solutions from reaction chambers than conventional methods and subsystems and, in addition, are mechanically simpler and produce fewer deleterious side effects than currently used methods and subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: OligoCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsing-Yeh Parker, John C. Tabone, John Mulligan
  • Publication number: 20130268779
    Abstract: A system and method of dynamically managing a power supply allocation for each one of the server blades in a blade server includes a blade server system having a blade chassis, multiple server blades coupled to the blade chassis, a power supply system coupled to the blade chassis, a chassis management module coupled to the blade chassis, wherein the blade chassis includes electrical and data communication interconnections between the server blades, the redundant power supply system and the chassis management module. The chassis management module includes computer readable media having program instructions for dynamically managing a power supply allocation for each one of the server blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Robert J. Hueston, Julia D. Harper, John Mulligan, Michael Banatt
  • Patent number: 8361396
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to automated-polymer-synthesis systems that include discrete reagent-solution-addition, wait-time, and reagent-solution-draining sub-systems which together significantly increase throughput and decrease sub-system idle time. The automated-polymer-synthesis systems that represent embodiments of the present invention additionally include switches at points in which carriers can be received from multiple input paths or output to multiple different output paths. The automated-polymer-synthesis systems that represent embodiments of the present invention generally include an input spur and output spur in addition to a main loop, allowing carriers containing only completed polymers to be removed and new carriers input, so that carriers traverse the automated-polymer-synthesis systems independently from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Oligoco, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsing-Yeh Parker, John C. Tabone, John Mulligan
  • Patent number: 8351435
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that manage routing information in an IP network using extensible indexing and use the indexing to control the network. The indexing and associated controls apply to any router within the routing domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Mulligan, Han Q. Nguyen, Samir Saad, Jacobus Van Der Merwe, Simon Zelingher
  • Publication number: 20110256031
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to automated-polymer-synthesis systems that include discrete reagent-solution-addition, wait-time, and reagent-solution-draining sub-systems which together significantly increase throughput and decrease sub-system idle time. The automated-polymer-synthesis systems that represent embodiments of the present invention additionally include switches at points in which carriers can be received from multiple input paths or output to multiple different output paths. The automated-polymer-synthesis systems that represent embodiments of the present invention generally include an input spur and output spur in addition to a main loop, allowing carriers containing only completed polymers to be removed and new carriers input, so that carriers traverse the automated-polymer-synthesis systems independently from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Hsing-Yeh Parker, John C. Tabone, John Mulligan
  • Publication number: 20110236270
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include processing steps and subsystems, within automated-biopolymer-synthesis systems and within other automated systems for organic-chemistry-based processing, for removing reagent solutions and solvents from reaction chambers following various synthetic reaction steps and washing steps undertaken during biopolymer synthesis. Embodiments of the present invention employ any of various different types of liquid-absorbing materials to wick, or remove by capillary action, liquids from reaction chambers. Wicking-based methods and subcomponents of the present invention remove significantly greater fractions of solutions from reaction chambers than conventional methods and subsystems and, in addition, are mechanically simpler and produce fewer deleterious side effects than currently used methods and subsystems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Hsing-Yeh Parker, John C. Tabone, John Mulligan
  • Publication number: 20110145409
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that manage routing information in an IP network using extensible indexing and use the indexing to control the network. The indexing and associated controls apply to any router within the routing domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: John Mulligan, Han Q. Nguyen, Samir Saad, Jacobus Van Der Merwe, Simon Zelingher
  • Patent number: 7916735
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that manage routing information in an IP network using extensible indexing and use the indexing to control the network. The indexing and associated controls apply to any router within the routing domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Mulligan, Han Q. Nguyen, Samir Saad, Jacobus Van Der Merwe, Simon Zelingher
  • Publication number: 20100135304
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that manage routing information in an IP network using extensible indexing and use the indexing to control the network. The indexing and associated controls apply to any router within the routing domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: John Mulligan, Han Q. Nguyen, Samir Saad, Jacobus Van Der Merwe, Simon Zelingher
  • Publication number: 20080009613
    Abstract: Methods and compounds, including compositions therefrom, are provided for determining the sequence of nucleic acid molecules. The methods permit the determination of multiple nucleic acid sequences simultaneously. The compounds are used as tags to generate tagged nucleic acid fragments which are complementary to a selected target nucleic acid molecule. Each tag is correlative with a particular nucleotide and, in a preferred embodiment, is detectable by mass spectrometry. Following separation of the tagged fragments by sequential length, the tags are cleaved from the tagged fragments. In a preferred embodiment, the tags are detected by mass spectrometry and the sequence of the nucleic acid molecule is determined therefrom. The individual steps of the methods can be used in automated format, e.g., by the incorporation into systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Operon Biotechnologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Van Ness, John Tabone, J. Howbert, John Mulligan
  • Publication number: 20060233801
    Abstract: A novel class or family of TGF-? binding proteins is disclosed. Also disclosed are assays for selecting molecules for increasing bone mineralization and methods for utilizing such molecules. In particular, compositions and methods relating to antibodies that specifically bind to TGF-beta binding proteins are provided. These methods and compositions relate to altering bone mineral density by interfering with the interaction between a TGF-beta binding protein sclerostin and a TGF-beta superfamily member, particularly a bone morphogenic protein. Increasing bone mineral density has uses in diseases and conditions in which low bone mineral density typifies the condition, such as osteopenia, osteoporosis, and bone fractures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Mary Brunkow, David Galas, Brian Kovacevich, John Mulligan, Bryan Paeper, Jeffrey Ness, David Winkler