Patents by Inventor Ram Santhanam
Ram Santhanam 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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Publication number: 20230019117Abstract: This disclosure provides a decentralized workflow for analyzing single cell gene expression. The workflow makes use of pre-templated instant partitions to segregate cells into separate compartments to individually capture and barcode RNA from single cells in a massively parallel single tube format. The workflow includes steps for processing the RNA from the single cells for sequencing. Separate portions of the decentralized workflow are performed by a research lab and a core facility, allowing increased flexibility in time and location of protocol steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Sepehr Kiani, Ram Santhanam, Robert Meltzer, Kristina Fontanez
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Publication number: 20220323969Abstract: Present disclosure discloses a method and a system for enhancing the efficiency of froth flotation process for coal beneficiation. The method receives a water hardness value and an agitator speed value corresponding to water and an agitator involved in the froth floatation process. The water hardness value is received from a hardness analyzer. Thereafter, the method analyzes the agitator speed value vis-à-vis an optimal speed value required to achieve one or more target parameter values during the froth floatation process based on the water hardness value. Subsequently, the method implements a pretrained model, based on the analyzing, to adjust the agitator speed value to the optimal speed value in such a manner that the one or more target parameter values are achieved during the froth floatation process. This approach allows continuous optimization of the agitator speed value, which in turn enhances the efficiency of froth flotation process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Vipin Raghavan, Ram Santhanam
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Publication number: 20190054761Abstract: A heat transfer sheet assembly and method is disclosed for improving the process of removing the carrier layer from a facestock layer. The heat transfer sheet assembly may include a heat transfer facestock layer and a carrier layer. The facestock layer may be attached to the carrier layer and include an indicia receptive surface along a side opposite the carrier layer. The carrier layer may include at least one peel line that extends from opposite edges of the assembly wherein the peel line assist to remove the carrier layer from the heat transfer facestock layer once indicia is printed on the facestock layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Sharis Krekian, Gerardo Veyna, Francisco Romano, Le-Hoa Hong, Doug Wilson, Ram Santhanam
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Patent number: 6948798Abstract: An apparatus for horizontally loading and unloading an ink-jet print cartridge from a carriage in a printer. The apparatus includes a generally rectangular print cartridge, an elongate supporting lip located on a side wall of the print cartridge, a carriage body, a chute mounted on the carriage for receiving the print cartridge, and a generally horizontal rail on a side wall of the chute for guiding the print cartridge into the carriage. In operation, the apparatus horizontally loads a print cartridge into a carriage by translating the print cartridge horizontally forward into a carriage, engaging a lip on the print cartridge with a guide rail on the carriage, sliding the print cartridge up and over a datum on the carriage with the guide rail and latching the print cartridge in the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Daniel S Kline, Ram Santhanam, Junji Yamamoto, Chee Meng Chen
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Patent number: 6733115Abstract: A technique for dispensing ink into an inkjet cartridge. An ink filling kit includes an ink supply including at least one ink chamber for holding a fill supply of liquid ink, and at least one protruding needle in communication with each ink chamber. The kit can include a vacuum system for applying a vacuum to the nozzle array of the printhead nozzle array to draw air through the nozzle array. A method for filling an inkjet cartridge includes providing an ink supply including at least one ink chamber for holding a fill supply of liquid ink, and at least one protruding needle in communication with the ink chamber, holding the inkjet cartridge in a position during a fill procedure relative to the ink supply, wherein the needle extends into internal ink reservoir, dispensing ink from the ink supply through the needle into the ink reservoir, and applying a vacuum to the nozzle array of the printhead nozzle array during the fill procedure to draw air through the nozzle array.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ram Santhanam, Jose L. Ortega
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Publication number: 20030169318Abstract: An apparatus for horizontally loading and unloading an ink-jet print cartridge from a carriage in a printer. The apparatus includes a generally rectangular print cartridge, an elongate supporting lip located on a side wall of the print cartridge, a carriage body, a chute mounted on the carriage for receiving the print cartridge, and a generally horizontal rail on a side wall of the chute for guiding the print cartridge into the carriage. In operation, the apparatus horizontally loads a print cartridge into a carriage by translating the print cartridge horizontally forward into a carriage, engaging a lip on the print cartridge with a guide rail on the carriage, sliding the print cartridge up and over a datum on the carriage with the guide rail and latching the print cartridge in the carriage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Inventors: Daniel S. Kline, Ram Santhanam, Junji Yamamoto, Chee Meng Chen
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Patent number: 6568793Abstract: A carriage assembly for holding one or more inkjet print cartridges. A mechanical key on a carriage chute is formed in a predetermined pattern having a plurality of columns such that at least one of the columns acts as a barrier preventing a non-compatible print cartridge from staying in a secured mounting position.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ram Santhanam, Marcus Scholz, Junji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6547378Abstract: A mechanical key scheme is integrated into a composite pattern on both a print cartridge and its corresponding printer carriage chute. In a preferred embodiment the pattern incorporates a plurality of adjacent contiguous columns on both sides of a latch, with each column capable of defining multiple position bits in order to precisely differentiate between different types and/or different families of print cartridges.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ram Santhanam, Marcus Scholz, Junji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20020196317Abstract: A technique for dispensing ink into an inkjet cartridge. An ink filling kit includes an ink supply including at least one ink chamber for holding a fill supply of liquid ink, and at least one protruding needle in communication with each ink chamber. The kit can include a vacuum system for applying a vacuum to the nozzle array of the printhead nozzle array to draw air through the nozzle array. A method for filling an inkjet cartridge includes providing an ink supply including at least one ink chamber for holding a fill supply of liquid ink, and at least one protruding needle in communication with the ink chamber, holding the inkjet cartridge in a position during a fill procedure relative to the ink supply, wherein the needle extends into internal ink reservoir, dispensing ink from the ink supply through the needle into the ink reservoir, and applying a vacuum to the nozzle array of the printhead nozzle array during the fill procedure to draw air through the nozzle array.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2002Publication date: December 26, 2002Inventors: Ram Santhanam, Jose L. Ortega
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Patent number: 6471334Abstract: An apparatus for horizontally loading and unloading an ink-jet print cartridge from a carriage in a printer. The apparatus includes a generally rectangular print cartridge, an elongate supporting lip located on a side wall of the print cartridge, a carriage body, a chute mounted on the carriage for receiving the print cartridge, and a generally horizontal rail on a side wall of the chute for guiding the print cartridge into the carriage. In operation, the apparatus horizontally loads a print cartridge into a carriage by translating the print cartridge horizontally forward into a carriage, engaging a lip on the print cartridge with a guide rail on the carriage, sliding the print cartridge up and over a datum on the carriage with the guide rail and latching the print cartridge in the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Daniel S Kline, Ram Santhanam, Junji Yamamoto, Chee Meng Chen
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Patent number: 6457819Abstract: An ink-jet print cartridge includes a body with a lid. The body defines a vent structure communicating between ambient and an ink reservoir internally of the body. One embodiment of the vent structure includes a straight cylindrical bore opening through the lid of the print cartridge body between ambient and the ink reservoir. This vent structure includes a tapered annular surface surrounding the opening of the straight cylindrical bore on a surface of the lid, so as to direct ink away from the opening of the bore. An annular ink well surrounds the tapered annular surface so as to catch and hold ink flowing along this surface away from the opening of the straight cylindrical bore.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventor: Ram Santhanam
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Patent number: 6457804Abstract: A spring for latching a print cartridge in a carriage in a facsimile printer mechanism. The spring is a cantilever that is doubled back on itself to obtain a long effective length is a short space.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2000Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Marcus Scholz, Daniel S. Kline, Junji Yamamoto, Ram Santhanam
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Patent number: 6435662Abstract: An ink-jet print cartridge is especially configured for loading and unloading into and from an inkjet print cartridge by use of substantially only horizontal translational movements relative to a carriage of the printer. The apparatus includes a generally rectangular prismatic print cartridge having its major axis of elongation disposed horizontally. The print cartridge includes a pair of outwardly extending elongate horizontal supporting lips located one on each of the opposite side walls of the print cartridge, a carriage body, a chute mounted on the carriage for receiving the print cartridge, and a generally horizontal guide rail on each of the pair of side walls of the chute. The guide rails guide the print cartridge into the carriage by supportingly engaging the lips.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2001Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Daniel S. Kline, Junji Yamamoto, Ram Santhanam, Marcus Scholz
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Patent number: 6380511Abstract: The disclosure describes a method for the solderless laser welding of two materials by using a laser light beam attached to a fiber optic system which directs the light to a region where the laser beam can shine through one of the materials to create a seam weld. By using a fiber optic system the laser beam is optimally converted into thermal energy and weld flaws due to underheating or destruction of the materials due to overheating does not occur. The method and apparatus provide rapid, reproducible laser welding even for the smallest of contact geometries. For example, the method results in solderless gold-to-gold compression laser welding of a silicon substrate to the material contained in a polymer flex circuit tape, such as a polyimide, without damaging the tape. A strong solderless gold-to-gold bond can be formed between a gold bond line, or complex weld seam pattern, on the flex circuit tape and a mating gold bond line or weld seam pattern on a semiconductor chip.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 1998Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventor: Ram Santhanam
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Publication number: 20020041314Abstract: A mechanical key scheme is integrated into a composite pattern on both a print cartridge and its corresponding printer carriage chute. In a preferred embodiment the pattern incorporates a plurality of adjacent contiguous columns on both sides of a latch, with each column capable of defining multiple position bits in order to precisely differentiate between different types and/or different families of print cartridges.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Inventors: Ram Santhanam, Marcus Scholz, Junji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20020039128Abstract: A mechanical key scheme is integrated into a composite pattern on both a print cartridge and its corresponding printer carriage chute. In a preferred embodiment the pattern incorporates a plurality of adjacent contiguous columns on both sides of a latch, with each column capable of defining multiple position bits in order to precisely differentiate between different types and/or different families of print cartridges.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2001Publication date: April 4, 2002Inventors: Ram Santhanam, Marcus Scholz, Junji Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20020030718Abstract: An apparatus for horizontally loading and unloading an ink-jet print cartridge from a carriage in a printer. The apparatus includes a generally rectangular print cartridge, an elongate supporting lip located on a side wall of the print cartridge, a carriage body, a chute mounted on the carriage for receiving the print cartridge, and a generally horizontal rail on a side wall of the chute for guiding the print cartridge into the carriage. In operation, the apparatus horizontally loads a print cartridge into a carriage by translating the print cartridge horizontally forward into a carriage, engaging a lip on the print cartridge with a guide rail on the carriage, sliding the print cartridge up and over a datum on the carriage with the guide rail and latching the print cartridge in the carriage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventors: Daniel S. Kline, Ram Santhanam, Junji Yamamoto, Chee Meng Chen
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Publication number: 20020005883Abstract: A vent for an ink-jet print cartridge having a body and a lid. A straight bore communicates through the lid and a tapered annular surface surrounds the opening of the bore to direct ink away from the opening of the bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2001Publication date: January 17, 2002Inventor: Ram Santhanam
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Patent number: 6332676Abstract: An ink-jet print cartridge includes a body with a lid. The body defines a vent structure communicating between ambient and an ink reservoir internally of the body. One embodiment of the vent structure includes a straight cylindrical bore opening through the lid of the print cartridge body between ambient and the ink reservoir. This vent structure includes a tapered annular surface surrounding the opening of the straight cylindrical bore on a surface of the lid, so as to direct ink away from the opening of the bore. An annular ink well surrounds the tapered annular surface so as to catch and hold ink flowing along this surface away from the opening of the straight cylindrical bore.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2000Date of Patent: December 25, 2001Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventor: Ram Santhanam
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Patent number: 6296345Abstract: An apparatus for horizontally loading and unloading an ink-jet print cartridge from a carriage in a printer. The apparatus includes a generally rectangular print cartridge, an elongate supporting lip located on a side wall of the print cartridge, a carriage body, a chute mounted on the carriage for receiving the print cartridge, and a generally horizontal rail on a side wall of the chute for guiding the print cartridge into the carriage. In operation, the apparatus horizontally loads a print cartridge into a carriage by translating the print cartridge horizontally forward into a carriage, engaging a lip on the print cartridge with a guide rail on the carriage, sliding the print cartridge up and over a datum on the carriage with the guide rail and latching the print cartridge in the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2000Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Daniel S Kline, Ram Santhanam, Junji Yamamoto, Chee Meng Chen