Patents by Inventor Luis Ceze

Luis Ceze 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: 20240371470
    Abstract: A technique for clustering DNA reads from polynucleotide sequencing is described. DNA reads with a level of difference that is likely caused by errors in sequencing are grouped together in the same cluster. DNA reads that represent reads of different DNA molecules are placed in different clusters. The clusters are based on edit distance, which is the number of changes necessary to convert a given DNA read into another. The process of forming clusters may be performed iteratively and may use other types of distance that serve as an approximation for edit distance. Well clustered DNA reads provide a starting point for further analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Luis CEZE, Sergey YEKHANIN, Siena Dumas ANG, Karin STRAUSS, Cyrus RASHTCHIAN, Ravindran KANNAN, Konstantin MAKARYCHEV
  • Publication number: 20240303549
    Abstract: A facility for automatically adapting machine learning models for operation or execution on resources is described. The facility receives an indication of a machine learning model and resource constraints for the machine learning model. The facility determines which resources should be allocated for operation of the machine learning model based on the resource constraints and an indication of two or more resources. The facility causes the determined resources to be provisioned for operation of the machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Jason Knight, Luis Ceze, Itay Neeman, Jared Roesch, Spencer Krum
  • Patent number: 12009062
    Abstract: A technique for clustering DNA reads from polynucleotide sequencing is described. DNA reads with a level of difference that is likely caused by errors in sequencing are grouped together in the same cluster. DNA reads that represent reads of different DNA molecules are placed in different clusters. The clusters are based on edit distance, which is the number of changes necessary to convert a given DNA read into another. The process of forming clusters may be performed iteratively and may use other types of distance that serve as an approximation for edit distance. Well clustered DNA reads provide a starting point for further analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Luis Ceze, Sergey Yekhanin, Siena Dumas Ang, Karin Strauss, Cyrus Rashtchian, Ravindran Kannan, Konstantin Makarychev
  • Patent number: 11989216
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques are provided for conducting similarity-based searches using DNA. In some embodiments, sets of features that represent stored data sets are encoded in DNA sequences such that a hybridization yield between a molecule having a given stored DNA sequence and a molecule having a reverse complement of a DNA sequence that encodes a set of features that represent a query data set reflects an amount of similarity between the set of features that represent the query data set and the set of features encoded in the given stored DNA sequence. In some embodiments, machine learning techniques are used to determine the DNA sequence encoding. In some embodiments, machine learning techniques are used to predict hybridization yields between DNA molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: University of Washington, Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, Georg Seelig, Callie Bee, Yuan-Jyue Chen
  • Publication number: 20230351208
    Abstract: Neural networks can be implemented with DNA strand displacement (DSD) circuits. The neural networks are designed and trained in silico taking into account the behavior of DSD circuits. Oligonucleotides comprising DSD circuits are synthesized and combined to form a neural network. In an implementation, the neural network may be a binary neural network in which the output from each neuron is a binary value and the weight of each neuron either maintains the incoming binary value or flips the binary value. Inputs to the neural network are one more oligonucleotides such as synthetic oligonucleotides containing digital data or natural oligonucleotides such as mRNA. Outputs from the neural networks may be oligonucleotides that are read by directly sequencing or oligonucleotides that generate signals such as by release of fluorescent reporters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Karin STRAUSS, Luis CEZE, Johannes Staffan Anders LINDER
  • Patent number: 11729407
    Abstract: Examples of systems and methods described herein may provide saliency-based video compression. A saliency map associated with a video may be generated and/or provided. A tile configuration may be selected for the video and quality settings assigned to each tile in accordance with the saliency map. The video may then be compressed (e.g., encoded) in tiles in accordance with the quality settings. Compressed videos may be stored together with saliency metadata, facilitating storage management and/or re-compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Amrita Mazumdar, Luis Ceze, Mark H. Oskin
  • Patent number: 11704575
    Abstract: Neural networks can be implemented with DNA strand displacement (DSD) circuits. The neural networks are designed and trained in silico taking into account the behavior of DSD circuits. Oligonucleotides comprising DSD circuits are synthesized and combined to form a neural network. In an implementation, the neural network may be a binary neural network in which the output from each neuron is a binary value and the weight of each neuron either maintains the incoming binary value or flips the binary value. Inputs to the neural network are one more oligonucleotides such as synthetic oligonucleotides containing digital data or natural oligonucleotides such as mRNA. Outputs from the neural networks may be oligonucleotides that are read by directly sequencing or oligonucleotides that generate signals such as by release of fluorescent reporters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze, Johannes Staffan Anders Linder
  • Publication number: 20220179891
    Abstract: In some embodiments, techniques are provided for conducting similarity-based searches using DNA. In some embodiments, sets of features that represent stored data sets are encoded in DNA sequences such that a hybridization yield between a molecule having a given stored DNA sequence and a molecule having a reverse complement of a DNA sequence that encodes a set of features that represent a query data set reflects an amount of similarity between the set of features that represent the query data set and the set of features encoded in the given stored DNA sequence. In some embodiments, machine learning techniques are used to determine the DNA sequence encoding. In some embodiments, machine learning techniques are used to predict hybridization yields between DNA molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicants: University of Washington, Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, Georg Seelig, Callie Bee, Yuan-Jyue Chen
  • Publication number: 20220014764
    Abstract: Examples of systems and methods described herein may provide saliency-based video compression. A saliency map associated with a video may be generated and/or provided. A tile configuration may be selected for the video and quality settings assigned to each tile in accordance with the saliency map. The video may then be compressed (e.g., encoded) in tiles in accordance with the quality settings. Compressed videos may be stored together with saliency metadata, facilitating storage management and/or re-compression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: University of Washington
    Inventors: Amrita Mazumdar, Luis Ceze, Mark H. Oskin
  • Patent number: 10930370
    Abstract: Artificial polynucleotides may have different characteristics than natural polynucleotides so conventional base-calling algorithms may make incorrect base calls. However, because artificial polynucleotides are typically designed to have certain characteristics, the known characteristics of the artificial polynucleotide can be used to modify the base-calling algorithm. This disclosure describes polynucleotide sequencers adapted to sequence artificial polynucleotides by modifying a base-calling algorithm of the polynucleotide sequencer according to known characteristics of the artificial polynucleotides. The base-calling algorithm analyzes raw data generated by a polynucleotide sequencer and identifies which nucleotide base occupies a given position on a polynucleotide strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Karin Strauss, Siena Dumas Ang, Luis Ceze, Yuan-Jyue Chen, Hsing-Yeh Parker, Bichlien Nguyen, Robert Carlson
  • Publication number: 20210035657
    Abstract: A technique for clustering DNA reads from polynucleotide sequencing is described. DNA reads with a level of difference that is likely caused by errors in sequencing are grouped together in the same cluster. DNA reads that represent reads of different DNA molecules are placed in different clusters. The clusters are based on edit distance, which is the number of changes necessary to convert a given DNA read into another. The process of forming clusters may be performed iteratively and may use other types of distance that serve as an approximation for edit distance. Well clustered DNA reads provide a starting point for further analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Luis CEZE, Sergey YEKHANIN, Siena Dumas ANG, Karin STRAUSS, Cyrus RASHTCHIAN, Ravindran KANNAN, Konstantin MAKARYCHEV
  • Publication number: 20200202223
    Abstract: Neural networks can be implemented with DNA strand displacement (DSD) circuits. The neural networks are designed and trained in silico taking into account the behavior of DSD circuits. Oligonucleotides comprising DSD circuits are synthesized and combined to form a neural network. In an implementation, the neural network may be a binary neural network in which the output from each neuron is a binary value and the weight of each neuron either maintains the incoming binary value or flips the binary value. Inputs to the neural network are one more oligonucleotides such as synthetic oligonucleotides containing digital data or natural oligonucleotides such as mRNA. Outputs from the neural networks may be oligonucleotides that are read by directly sequencing or oligonucleotides that generate signals such as by release of fluorescent reporters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Karin STRAUSS, Luis CEZE, Johannes Staffan Anders LINDER
  • Publication number: 20180253528
    Abstract: Artificial polynucleotides may have different characteristics than natural polynucleotides so conventional base-calling algorithms may make incorrect base calls. However, because artificial polynucleotides are typically designed to have certain characteristics, the known characteristics of the artificial polynucleotide can be used to modify the base-calling algorithm. This disclosure describes polynucleotide sequencers adapted to sequence artificial polynucleotides by modifying a base-calling algorithm of the polynucleotide sequencer according to known characteristics of the artificial polynucleotides. The base-calling algorithm analyzes raw data generated by a polynucleotide sequencer and identifies which nucleotide base occupies a given position on a polynucleotide strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Karin Strauss, Siena Dumas Ang, Luis Ceze, Yuan-Jyue Chen, Hsing-Yeh Parker, Bichlien Nguyen, Robert Carlson
  • Publication number: 20180211001
    Abstract: Polynucleotide sequencing generates multiple reads of a polynucleotide molecule. Many or all of the reads may contain errors. Trace reconstruction takes multiple reads generated by a polynucleotide sequencer and uses those multiple reads to reconstruct accurately the nucleotide sequence. The types of errors are substitutions, deletions, and insertions. The location of an error in a read is identified by comparing the sequence of the read to the other reads. The type of error is determined by comparing both the base call of the read at the error location and base calls of the read and other reads in a look-ahead window that includes base calls adjacent to the error location. A consensus output sequence is developed from the sequences of the multiple reads and identification of the error types for errors in the reads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Parikshit S. Gopalan, Sergey Yekhanin, Siena Dumas Ang, Nebojsa Jojic, Miklos Racz, Karen Strauss, Luis Ceze
  • Patent number: 9819687
    Abstract: Methods, servers, and systems for using signatures/certifications embedded in pre-processed code to enable use or reuse of pre-processed code to obviate the need to perform some operations or execute some scripts within the web page content. One or more operations may be performed within an executable script in web page content and signing the result of the operation in a manner that can be used to verify that the corresponding operation may be skipped by a browser. A browser receiving signed pre-processed code may use a signature verification process to determine whether the browser can bypass executing corresponding scripts in the web page content or perform alternative operations. Operations may be pre-performed and the results signed by off-line tools and included in the web page content. Results of operations may be stored in memory along with a signature so the results of the operation can be reused in the future.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Luis Ceze, Gheorghe C. Cascaval, Mohammad H. Reshadi
  • Patent number: 9336125
    Abstract: Devices and methods of providing hardware support for dynamic type checking are provided. In some embodiments, a processor includes a type check register and support for one or more checked load instructions. In some embodiments, normal load instructions are replaced by a compiler with the checked load instructions. In some embodiments, to perform a checked load, an error handler instruction location is stored in the type check register, and a type tag operand is compared to a type tag stored in the loaded memory location. If the comparison succeeds, execution may proceed normally. If the comparison fails, execution may be transferred to the error handler instruction. In some embodiments, type prediction is performed to determine whether a checked load instruction is likely to fail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization
    Inventors: Susan J. Eggers, Luis Ceze, Emily Fortuna, Owen Anderson
  • Patent number: 9171097
    Abstract: Methods and devices for accelerating webpage rendering by a browser store document object model (DOM) tree structures and computations of rendered pages, and compare portions of a DOM tree of pages being render to determining if portions of the DOM tree structures match. If a DOM tree of a webpage to be rendered matches a DOM tree stored in memory, the computations associated with the match DOM tree may be recalled from memory, obviating the need to perform the calculations to render the page. A tree isomorphism algorithm may be used to recognize DOM trees stored in memory that match the DOM tree of the webpage to be rendered. Reusing rendering computations may significantly reducing the time and resources required for rendering web pages. Identifying reusable portions of calculation results based on DOM tree isomorphism enables the browser to reuse stored webpage rendering calculations even when URLs do not match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Luis Ceze, Gheorghe C. Cascaval, Bin Wang, Michael P. Mahan, Chettan S. Dhillon, Wendell Ruotsi, Vikram Mandyam
  • Patent number: 9146737
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting concurrency bugs are provided. In some embodiments, context-aware communication graphs that represent inter-thread communication are collected during test runs, and may be labeled according to whether the test run was correct or failed. Graph edges that are likely to be associated with failed behavior are determined, and probable reconstructions of failed behavior are constructed to assist in debugging. In some embodiments, software instrumentation is used to collect the communication graphs. In some embodiments, hardware configured to collect the communication graphs is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization
    Inventors: Luis Ceze, Brandon Lucia
  • Patent number: 9063749
    Abstract: The aspects enable a computing device to execute traditionally software-based JavaScript® operations in hardware. Each JavaScript® object is hashed into a master hashtable that may be stored in the software. A portion of the software hashtable may be pushed to a hardware hashtable using special instruction set registers dedicated to hashtable processing. Each time a software process requests a hashtable operation (e.g., lookup) the hardware hashtable is checked to determine if the value exists in hardware. If the requested value is in the hardware hashtable, the requested value is accessed in a single operation step. If the requested value is not in the hardware hashtable, the requested value is extracted from the master hashtable in the software and a portion of the master hashtable containing the extracted value is pushed to the hardware using special instruction set registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Luis Ceze, Mohammad H. Reshadi, Thomas Sartorius
  • Publication number: 20140359577
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting concurrency bugs are provided. In some embodiments, context-aware communication graphs that represent inter-thread communication are collected during test runs, and may be labeled according to whether the test run was correct or failed. Graph edges that are likely to be associated with failed behavior are determined, and probable reconstructions of failed behavior are constructed to assist in debugging. In some embodiments, software instrumentation is used to collect the communication graphs. In some embodiments, hardware configured to collect the communication graphs is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Luis Ceze, Brandon Lucia