Patents by Inventor Philippe Lacroute
Philippe Lacroute 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).
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Patent number: 11390916Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Patent number: 11091804Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Patent number: 10597708Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Patent number: 10597709Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Publication number: 20190256894Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Patent number: 10351906Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Patent number: 9992133Abstract: A switching device in a network system for transferring data includes one or more source line cards, one or more destination line cards and a switching fabric coupled to the source line cards and the destination line cards to enable data communication between any source line card and destination line card. Each source line card includes a request generator to generate a request signal to be transmitted in order to obtain an authorization to transmit data. Each destination line card includes a grant generator to generate and send back a grant signal to the source line card in response to the request signal received at the destination line card to authorize the source line card to transmit a data cell to the destination line card.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Pradeep S. Sindhu, Philippe Lacroute, Matthew A. Tucker, John D. Weisbloom, David B. Winters
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Patent number: 9677118Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Publication number: 20170145474Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Patent number: 9479462Abstract: A switching device in a network system for transferring data includes one or more source line cards, one or more destination line cards and a switching fabric coupled to the source line cards and the destination line cards to enable data communication between any source line card and destination line card. Each source line card includes a request generator to generate a request signal to be transmitted in order to obtain an authorization to transmit data. Each destination line card includes a grant generator to generate and send back a grant signal to the source line card in response to the request signal received at the destination line card to authorize the source line card to transmit a data cell to the destination line card.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Pradeep S. Sindhu, Philippe Lacroute, Matthew A. Tucker, John D. Weisbloom, David B. Winters
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Publication number: 20150322507Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd, Alexander Wong
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Patent number: 8811391Abstract: A switching device includes multiple interfaces and a switch fabric. The switch fabric includes switch integrated circuits arranged in a number of stages. Multiple virtual switch planes may be implemented in the switch fabric. Data traffic received at the interfaces is selectively assigned to different ones of the virtual switch planes.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Philippe Lacroute, Matthew A. Tucker, John D. Weisbloom, Anjan Venkatramani, Jayabharat Boddu, Stefan Dyckerhoff
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Publication number: 20140141981Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Bernhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd
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Publication number: 20140094373Abstract: The invention provides methods for simultaneously amplifying multiple nucleic acid regions of interest in one reaction volume as well as methods for selecting a library of primers for use in such amplification methods. The invention also provides library of primers with desirable characteristics, such as minimal formation of amplified primer dimers or other non-target amplicons.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Natera, Inc.Inventors: Berhard Zimmermann, Matthew Hill, Philippe Lacroute, Michael Dodd
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Patent number: 8611216Abstract: Ordering logic ensures that data items being processed by a number of parallel processing units are unloaded from the processing units in the original per-flow order that the data items were loaded into the parallel processing units. The ordering logic includes a pointer memory, a tail vector, and a head vector. Through these three elements, the ordering logic keeps track of a number of “virtual queues” corresponding to the data flows. A round robin arbiter unloads data items from the processing units only when a data item is at the head of its virtual queue.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Dennis C. Ferguson, Philippe Lacroute, Chi-Chung Chen, Gerald Cheung, Tatao Chuang, Pankaj Patel, Viswesh Ananthakrishnan
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Patent number: 8516151Abstract: A switch fabric includes input links, output links, and at least one switching element. The input links are configured to receive data items that include destination addresses. At least some of the data items have different priority levels. The output links are configured to output the data items. Each of the output links is assigned multiple ones of the destination addresses. Each of the destination addresses corresponds to one of the priority levels. The switching element(s) is/are configured to receive the data items from the input links and send the data items to ones of the output links without regard to the priority levels of the data items.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Philippe Lacroute, Matthew A. Tucker
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Patent number: 8320369Abstract: A switching device includes multiple interfaces and a switch fabric. The switch fabric includes switch integrated circuits arranged in a number of stages. Multiple virtual switch planes may be implemented in the switch fabric. Data traffic received at the interfaces is selectively assigned to different ones of the virtual switch planes.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Philippe LaCroute, Matthew A Tucker, John D Weisbloom, Anjan Venkatramani, Jayabharat Boddu, Stefan Dyckerhoff
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Patent number: 8233496Abstract: A network device constructs a notification corresponding to a received multicast data unit, where the notification includes administrative data associated with the multicast data unit that does not include a payload of the multicast data unit. The network device replicates the notification at least three different processing elements at different locations in a processing path of the network device to produce multiple replicated data items and produces a copy of the multicast data unit for each of replicated notifications. The network device forwards each copy of the multicast data unit towards a multicast destination.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Pradeep Sindhu, Debashis Basu, Pankaj Patel, Raymond Lim, Avanindra Godbole, Tatao Chuang, Chi-Chung K. Chen, Jeffrey G. Libby, Dennis Ferguson, Philippe Lacroute, Gerald Cheung
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Patent number: 8059543Abstract: Ordering logic ensures that data items being processed by a number of parallel processing units are unloaded from the processing units in the original per-flow order that the data items were loaded into the parallel processing units. The ordering logic includes a pointer memory, a tail vector, and a head vector. Through these three elements, the ordering logic keeps track of a number of “virtual queues” corresponding to the data flows. A round robin arbiter unloads data items from the processing units only when a data item is at the head of its virtual queue.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Dennis C. Ferguson, Philippe Lacroute, Chi-Chung Chen, Gerald Cheung, Tatao Chuang, Pankaj Patel, Viswesh Anathakrishnan
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Patent number: 7870291Abstract: A switch fabric includes input links, output links, and at least one switching element. The input links are configured to receive data items that include destination addresses. At least some of the data items have different priority levels. The output links are configured to output the data items. Each of the output links is assigned multiple ones of the destination addresses. Each of the destination addresses corresponds to one of the priority levels. The switching element(s) is/are configured to receive the data items from the input links and send the data items to ones of the output links without regard to the priority levels of the data items.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Philippe Lacroute, Matthew A. Tucker