Patents by Inventor Mark T. Reed

Mark T. Reed 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: 12136098
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may provide capabilities for multi-source data gathering, adaptive item cross referencing, data preparation and data extraction. These capabilities may allow the creation item master records which can provide richer information than available from any one discrete source. Additional functionality which may be provided in some embodiments could also include providing commodity based predictive pricing and/or a visual spend map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Coupa Software Incorporated
    Inventors: Micky G. Keck, Jeffrey T. Crowder, Sundaresan R. Kadayam, John M. Kitson, Mark W. Reed
  • Publication number: 20240189817
    Abstract: A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic device positioned thereon. The device holder also includes a plurality of reference surfaces facing in respective directions along an XY-plane. The device holder also includes an alignment assembly having an actuator and a movable locator arm that is operatively coupled to the actuator. The locator arm has an engagement end. The actuator moves the locator arm between retracted and biased positions to move the engagement end away from and toward the reference surfaces. The locator arm is configured to hold the fluidic device against the reference surfaces when the locator arm is in the biased position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
  • Patent number: 11938479
    Abstract: A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic device positioned thereon. The device holder also includes a plurality of reference surfaces facing in respective directions along an XY-plane. The device holder also includes an alignment assembly having an actuator and a movable locator arm that is operatively coupled to the actuator. The locator arm has an engagement end. The actuator moves the locator arm between retracted and biased positions to move the engagement end away from and toward the reference surfaces. The locator arm is configured to hold the fluidic device against the reference surfaces when the locator arm is in the biased position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
  • Publication number: 20230311119
    Abstract: A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic device positioned thereon. The device holder also includes a plurality of reference surfaces facing in respective directions along an XY-plane. The device holder also includes an alignment assembly having an actuator and a movable locator arm that is operatively coupled to the actuator. The locator arm has an engagement end. The actuator moves the locator arm between retracted and biased positions to move the engagement end away from and toward the reference surfaces. The locator arm is configured to hold the fluidic device against the reference surfaces when the locator arm is in the biased position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
  • Patent number: 11697116
    Abstract: A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic device positioned thereon. The device holder also includes a plurality of reference surfaces facing in respective directions along an XY-plane. The device holder also includes an alignment assembly having an actuator and a movable locator arm that is operatively coupled to the actuator. The locator arm has an engagement end. The actuator moves the locator arm between retracted and biased positions to move the engagement end away from and toward the reference surfaces. The locator arm is configured to hold the fluidic device against the reference surfaces when the locator arm is in the biased position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
  • Patent number: 11559805
    Abstract: A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic device positioned thereon. The device holder also includes a plurality of reference surfaces facing in respective directions along an XY-plane. The device holder also includes an alignment assembly having an actuator and a movable locator arm that is operatively coupled to the actuator. The locator arm has an engagement end. The actuator moves the locator arm between retracted and biased positions to move the engagement end away from and toward the reference surfaces. The locator arm is configured to hold the fluidic device against the reference surfaces when the locator arm is in the biased position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
  • Publication number: 20190151845
    Abstract: A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic device positioned thereon. The device holder also includes a plurality of reference surfaces facing in respective directions along an XY-plane. The device holder also includes an alignment assembly having an actuator and a movable locator arm that is operatively coupled to the actuator. The locator arm has an engagement end. The actuator moves the locator arm between retracted and biased positions to move the engagement end away from and toward the reference surfaces. The locator arm is configured to hold the fluidic device against the reference surfaces when the locator arm is in the biased position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
  • Patent number: 10220386
    Abstract: A fluidic device holder configured to orient a fluidic device. The device holder includes a support structure configured to receive a fluidic device. The support structure includes a base surface that faces in a direction along the Z-axis and is configured to have the fluidic device positioned thereon. The device holder also includes a plurality of reference surfaces facing in respective directions along an XY-plane. The device holder also includes an alignment assembly having an actuator and a movable locator arm that is operatively coupled to the actuator. The locator arm has an engagement end. The actuator moves the locator arm between retracted and biased positions to move the engagement end away from and toward the reference surfaces. The locator arm is configured to hold the fluidic device against the reference surfaces when the locator arm is in the biased position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Erik Williamson, Bryan Crane, Patrick Leung, Drew Verkade, Mark T. Reed
  • Patent number: 10029882
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a looped pile film roll core used for winding a polymeric film, a method of winding film on the looped pile film roll core, and a roll of film that includes the looped pile film roll core. The disclosure describes an article and a process to reduce the core impressions created by the starting end of a web on the adjacent web layers next to the core. In one particular embodiment, the present disclosure can lead to a reduction in the amount and severity of such core impressions on a wound polymeric film, by reducing the amount of stress in adjacent layers of wound web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kevin B. Newhouse, Bruce E. Tait, Terence A. Lee, Michael L. Smith, Kyle Taggart, Stanley T. Mann, Ronald L. Holmes, Timothy J. Edman, Mark T. Reed, Carsten Franke, Chris J. Tanley
  • Patent number: 9492820
    Abstract: A filling apparatus for filling a microplate. The microplate can comprise a plurality of wells each sized to receive an assay. A substrate can comprise a first surface and an opposing second surface, a first assay input port for receiving the assay disposed on the first surface, a plurality of staging capillaries extending through the substrate, and a first plurality of microfluidic channels fluidly coupling the first assay input port with at least one of the plurality of staging capillaries. Each of the plurality of staging capillaries can comprise an inlet and an outlet and be sized to receive the assay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC
    Inventors: Mark T. Reed, Albert L. Carrillo, Ian A. Harding
  • Patent number: 9457351
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for carrying out of chemical or biological reactions with a reaction vessel receiving element for receiving a microtiter plate with several reaction vessels, wherein the reaction vessel receiving element has several recesses arranged in a regular pattern to receive the respective reaction vessels, a heating device for heating the reaction vessel receiving element, and a cooling device for cooling the reaction vessel. The invention is characterized by the fact that the reaction vessel receiving element is divided into several segments. The individual segments are thermally decoupled from one another, and each segment is assigned a heating device which may be actuated independently of the others. By means of the segmentation of the reaction vessel receiving element, it is possible for zones to be set and held at different temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Applied Biosystems, LLC
    Inventors: Lim Hi Tan, Jew Kwee Ngui, Hon Siu Shin, Ui Leng Soh, Yang Hooi Kee, Hock Lai Khoo, Mark T. Reed, Wolfgang Heimberg
  • Patent number: 9415368
    Abstract: The present invention comprises systems and devices for isothermal amplification of polynucleotide sequences to produce DNA cluster arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark T. Reed, Andrea Sabot
  • Patent number: 9347440
    Abstract: A flow cell for use in a microfluidic detection system. The flow cell includes a flow cell body having a channel that extends along the flow cell body. The flow cell body has a substrate material that extends along the channel and that is transparent to at least one of excitation light or light emissions. The channel has a functionalized channel surface that includes reactive groups configured to attach to molecules for biochemical analysis. The flow cell also includes fluidic inlet and fluidic outlet ports provided on the flow cell body and an electroosmotic (EO) pump held within the flow cell body in fluid communication with the channel. The EO pump is operable to induce flow of a solution from the inlet port to the outlet port and along the functionalized channel surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Michal Lebl, Dale Buermann, Mark T. Reed, David L. Heiner, Alexander Triener
  • Publication number: 20150298088
    Abstract: The present invention comprises systems and devices for isothermal amplification of polynucleotide sequences to produce DNA cluster arrays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: MARK T. REED, ANDREA SABOT
  • Publication number: 20150274483
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a looped pile film roll core used for winding a polymeric film, a method of winding film on the looped pile film roll core, and a roll of film that includes the looped pile film roll core. The disclosure describes an article and a process to reduce the core impressions created by the starting end of a web on the adjacent web layers next to the core. In one particular embodiment, the present disclosure can lead to a reduction in the amount and severity of such core impressions on a wound polymeric film, by reducing the amount of stress in adjacent layers of wound web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Kevin B. Newhouse, Bruce E. Tait, Terence A. Lee, Michael L. Smith, Kyle Taggart, Stanley T. Mann, Ronald L. Holmes, Timothy J. Edman, Mark T. Reed, Carsten Franke, Chris J. Tanley
  • Patent number: D865220
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oliver Davidson, Sandro Klein, Patrick Leung, Mark T. Reed, David Marran
  • Patent number: D874959
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Creighton Buie, Albert Carrillo, Mark T. Reed
  • Patent number: D895144
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Earl Zergiebel, Nathan Kane, Mark T. Reed, David Marran
  • Patent number: D912269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Marran, Earl Zergiebel, Jamsheed Ghadiri, Mark T. Reed
  • Patent number: D914909
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Marran, Jon A. Hoshizaki, Earl Zergiebel, Mark T. Reed