Patents by Inventor Randall A. Smith
Randall A. Smith 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: 20240132361Abstract: A carbon pitch or dry coke is produced by reacting a mixture of carbon dioxide and hydrogen in a reactor at a predetermined temperature and pressure with an iron catalyst being fed into the reactor, using a process that also involves production of methane from the reaction gases. The reaction product is cooled. The reaction product may be graphitized in a reaction vessel under reduced pressure, heating the vessel at a predetermined rate and injecting an inert gas flow. The vessel is heated to a temperature of between 1600° C. and 2800° C. and maintained at that temperature for hours. The vessel is cooled and the reaction products removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Seerstone LLCInventor: Randall Smith
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Patent number: 11952619Abstract: An array includes a support including a plurality of discrete wells, a gel material positioned in each of the plurality of discrete wells, and a quality control tracer grafted to the gel material in each of the plurality of discrete wells. The quality control tracer comprises (a) a cleavable nucleotide sequence comprising a cleavage site and (b) a detectable label; and in some aspects, is a cleavable nucleotide sequence with a detectable label and a non-reactive nucleotide sequence or a primer nucleotide sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Illumina, Inc.Inventors: Peyton Shieh, John M. Beierle, Michael S. Graige, Alexander Fuhrmann, Randall Smith, Wei Wei, Naiqian Zhan
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Patent number: 11944922Abstract: The disclosure includes a water system that includes a feed water heat exchanger including a feed water heat exchanger above a water collection tank and a feed water heat exchanger/steam generator connected to the feed water heat exchanger. The feed water heat exchanger/steam generator includes a heat exchanger, coils, boiler burners, and emissions control. The water system includes a brine/waste water feed water heat exchanger positioned within brine/waste water tank enclosure, which includes a brine/waste water tank that is in fluidic connection with the feed water heat exchanger/steam generator. The water system includes a preheater in fluidic connection with the brine/waste water feed water heat exchanger, and a post-preheater heat exchanger enclosure including a post-preheater heat exchanger, post-preheater coils, post-preheater burner and post-preheater emissions control, the post-preheater heat exchanger in fluidic connection with the pre-heater.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Inventor: Randall Smith
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Publication number: 20240094125Abstract: There is set forth herein a device comprising structure defining a detector surface configured for supporting biological or chemical substances, and a sensor array comprising light sensors and circuitry to transmit data signals using photons detected by the light sensors. The device can include one or more features for reducing fluorescence range noise in a detection band of the sensor array.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Tracy H. FUNG, Poorya SABOUNCHI, Bernard HIRSCHBEIN, Joseph PINTO, Tarun KHURANA, Randall SMITH, Wenyi FENG
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Patent number: 11915775Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for bad row mode. The memory may prevent proper access operations (e.g., read operations) from being performed on a selected bad row of the memory as part of a bad row mode. For example, the memory may store a bad row address and when an access address matches the bad row address, may suppress one or more signals, change data read from the address, or combinations thereof. The bad row mode may be used to provide a positive control for post package repair (PPR) operations on the memory. A controller may enter the memory into bad row mode and then test the memory to determine if the selected bad row can be located and repaired via PPR.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jack Riley, Scott Smith, Christian Mohr, Gary Howe, Joshua Alzheimer, Yoshinori Fujiwara, Sujeet Ayyapureddi, Randall Rooney
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Patent number: 11852586Abstract: There is set forth herein a device comprising structure defining a detector surface configured for supporting biological or chemical substances, and a sensor array comprising light sensors and circuitry to transmit data signals using photons detected by the light sensors. The device can include one or more features for reducing fluorescence range noise in a detection band of the sensor array.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.Inventors: Tracy H. Fung, Poorya Sabounchi, Bernard Hirschbein, Joseph Pinto, Tarun Khurana, Randall Smith, Wenyi Feng
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Patent number: 11827932Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for detecting multiple different nucleotides in a sample. In particular, the disclosure provides for detection of multiple different nucleotides in a sample utilizing fewer detection moieties than the number of nucleotides being detected and/or fewer imaging events than the number of nucleotides being detected.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Illumina, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Kain, Xiaohai Liu, Wenyi Feng, Bernard Hirschbein, Helmy A. Eltoukhy, Xiaolin Wu, Geoffrey Paul Smith, Jonathan Mark Boutell, Thomas Joseph, Randall Smith, Min-Jui Richard Shen, Carolyn Tregidgo, Kay Klausing
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Patent number: 11530169Abstract: A plant nutrient composition comprises both fertilizer and microorganisms bound together so that the advantages of fertilizer and microorganisms for plant growth and soil health can be obtained by a one-step administration of the plant nutrient composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Bio-Soil Enhancers, Inc.Inventors: Nolan Wayne Wade, Janiece McWilliams, Charles Grantham, H. Randall Smith, Louis H. Elwell, III
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Publication number: 20220380844Abstract: In one example, a method of preparing a fluidic channel includes covalently coupling a first region of a substrate to a first region of a cover using first moieties covalently coupled to the first region of the substrate and second moieties covalently coupled to the first region of the cover. The covalent coupling between the first region of the substrate and the first region of the cover suspends a second region of the cover over a second region of the substrate to form a fluidic channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicants: ILLUMINA, INC., ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITEDInventors: Steven Modiano, Silke Musa, Lewis Kraft, Randall Smith, Sara Bakhshi, Brian Mather, Wayne George, Maxwell Zimmerley
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Publication number: 20220260492Abstract: There is set forth herein a device comprising structure defining a detector surface configured for supporting biological or chemical substances, and a sensor array comprising light sensors and circuitry to transmit data signals using photons detected by the light sensors. The device can include one or more features for reducing fluorescence range noise in a detection band of the sensor array.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Tracy H. FUNG, Poorya SABOUNCHI, Bernard HIRSCHBEIN, Joseph PINTO, Tarun KHURANA, Randall SMITH, Wenyi FENG
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Publication number: 20220250066Abstract: An interposer for a flow cell comprises a base layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The base layer comprises black polyethylene terephthalate (PET). A first adhesive layer is disposed on the first surface of the base layer. The first adhesive layer comprises methyl acrylic adhesive. A second adhesive layer is disposed on the second surface of the base layer. The second adhesive layer comprises methyl acrylic adhesive. A plurality of microfluidic channels extends through each of the base layer, the first adhesive layer, and the second adhesive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: ILLUMINA, Inc.Inventors: Maxwell Zimmerley, LiangLiang Qiang, M. Shane Bowen, Steven H. Modiano, Dajun Yuan, Randall Smith, Arthur J. Pitera, Hai Quang Tran, Gerald Kreindl
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Publication number: 20220220242Abstract: In one example, an unsaturated cyclic dione is coupled to the substrate, and is reacted with an indole or indazole including a first functional group to form a first adduct coupling the first functional group to the substrate. In another example, an unsaturated cyclic dione is coupled to a substrate and reacted with a diene including a functional group to form an adduct coupling the functional group to the substrate. In another example, an indole or indazole is coupled to a substrate, and is reacted with an unsaturated cyclic dione including an oligonucleotide to form an adduct coupling the oligonucleotide to the substrate. In another example, a diene is coupled to a substrate, and is reacted with an unsaturated cyclic dione including an oligonucleotide to form an adduct coupling the oligonucleotide to the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicants: ILLUMINA, INC., ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITEDInventors: Randall Smith, Wayne George, Andrew Brown
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Patent number: 11333604Abstract: There is set forth herein a device comprising structure defining a detector surface configured for supporting biological or chemical substances, and a sensor array comprising light sensors and circuitry to transmit data signals using photons detected by the light sensors. The device can include one or more features for reducing fluorescence range noise in a detection band of the sensor array.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.Inventors: Tracy H. Fung, Poorya Sabounchi, Bernard Hirschbein, Joseph Pinto, Tarun Khurana, Randall Smith, Wenyi Feng
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Publication number: 20220134333Abstract: A method for patterning flow cell substrates using photo-initiated chemical reactions that includes fabricating a planar waveguide flow cell by forming a layer of light coupling gratings on a glass substrate layer; depositing a core layer on the layer of light coupling gratings; depositing a cladding layer on the core layer; and forming nanowells in the cladding layer; silanizing the cladding layer; coating the silanized cladding layer and nanowells with a first group of reactants; introducing a second group of reactants into the nanowells, wherein the second group of reactants includes a target reactant and a light-sensitive photoinitiator system; coupling a light source to the light coupling gratings and directing light internally within the planar waveguide flow cell for photo-initiating a chemical reaction between the first and second groups of reactants, wherein the photo-initiated chemical reaction covalently binds the target reactant to only the bottom portion of each nanowell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Steven Modiano, Dajun Yuan, Randall Smith
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Publication number: 20220090179Abstract: A method for detecting an abasic site is provided. The method may include flowing a solution over a substrate having a plurality of oligonucleotides coupled thereto. At least one of the oligonucleotides includes an abasic site. The solution may include a fluorophore coupled to a reactive group. The method may include reacting the reactive group with the abasic site to couple the fluorophore to the abasic site; and detecting the abasic site using fluorescence from the fluorophore.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: ILLUMINA, INC.Inventors: Jie Mao, Randall Smith
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Patent number: 11074516Abstract: Dynamic generation and implementation of assignment mappings of data items in large data files to distributed processors to achieve objectives such as reduced overall processing time like. Any appropriate key (e.g., character string) can be identified or obtained for each data item in a data file and the file can be segmented into sequential data blocks, where each data block includes a set of data items. The data items in each of a first plurality of the blocks (e.g., sampled block set) may be initially sorted into one of a plurality of key ranges of a search space (each corresponding to a different respective processor) and analyses conducted on the data items totals in each key range. The key range boundaries can be adjusted by accounting for uncertainty in the sample estimates to more evenly distribute data items from all blocks sent to each processor and thereby achieve the objective.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Randall Smith, Suratna Budalakoti, Alan Wood
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Publication number: 20210139978Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for detecting multiple different nucleotides in a sample. In particular, the disclosure provides for detection of multiple different nucleotides in a sample utilizing fewer detection moieties than the number of nucleotides being detected and/or fewer imaging events than the number of nucleotides being detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Robert C. Kain, Xiaohai Liu, Wenyi Feng, Bernard Hirschbein, Helmy A. Eltoukhy, Xiaolin Wu, Geoffrey Paul Smith, Jonathan Mark Boutell, Thomas Joseph, Randall Smith, Min-Jui Richard Shen, Carolyn Tregidgo, Kay Klausing
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Publication number: 20210053831Abstract: Methods of forming solid carbon products include disposing a plurality of nanotubes in a press, and applying heat to the plurality of carbon nanotubes to form the solid carbon product. Further processing may include sintering the solid carbon product to form a plurality of covalently bonded carbon nanotubes. The solid carbon product includes a plurality of voids between the carbon nanotubes having a median minimum dimension of less than about 100 nm. Some methods include compressing a material comprising carbon nanotubes, heating the compressed material in a non-reactive environment to form covalent bonds between adjacent carbon nanotubes to form a sintered solid carbon product, and cooling the sintered solid carbon product to a temperature at which carbon of the carbon nanotubes do not oxidize prior to removing the resulting solid carbon product for further processing, shipping, or use.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Dallas B. Noyes, Randall Smith
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Patent number: 10900077Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for detecting multiple different nucleotides in a sample. In particular, the disclosure provides for detection of multiple different nucleotides in a sample utilizing fewer detection moieties than the number of nucleotides being detected and/or fewer imaging events than the number of nucleotides being detected.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.Inventors: Robert C. Kain, Xiaohai Liu, Wenyi Feng, Bernard Hirschbein, Helmy A. Eltoukhy, Xiaolin Wu, Geoffrey Paul Smith, Jonathan Mark Boutell, Thomas Joseph, Randall Smith, Min-Jui Richard Shen, Carolyn Tregidgo, Kay Klausing
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Publication number: 20210003505Abstract: There is set forth herein a device comprising structure defining a detector surface configured for supporting biological or chemical substances, and a sensor array comprising light sensors and circuitry to transmit data signals using photons detected by the light sensors. The device can include one or more features for reducing fluorescence range noise in a detection band of the sensor array.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Tracy H. FUNG, Poorya SABOUNCHI, Bernard HIRSCHBEIN, Joseph PINTO, Tarun KHURANA, Randall SMITH, Wenyi FENG