Patents by Inventor Samira A. Nedungadi

Samira A. Nedungadi 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).

  • Systems and methods for optimizing an instrument system workflow
    Patent number: 11802883
    Abstract: A system and a method for dynamically optimizing an instrument system workflow based on operational monitoring and managing of a workflow for a hardware system. The system includes instrument resources and sample chambers, each resource and chamber with a dedicated sensor configured to acquire data. The system further includes a computing device communicatively connected to the instrument resources and sample chambers. The computing device includes a software application or program comprising a workflow builder, an execution engine, an analytics engine, a virtual system modeling engine, and an optional machine learning engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Berkeley Lights, Inc.
    Inventors: Darshan Thaker, Matthew E. Fowler, Samira A. Nedungadi, Daniel A. Banda Villanueva, Brandon R. Bruhn, Nenad Bozinovic, Kellen C. Mobilia
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING AN INSTRUMENT SYSTEM WORKFLOW
    Publication number: 20200371126
    Abstract: A system and a method for dynamically optimizing an instrument system workflow based on operational monitoring and managing of a workflow for a hardware system. The system includes instrument resources and sample chambers, each resource and chamber with a dedicated sensor configured to acquire data. The system further includes a computing device communicatively connected to the instrument resources and sample chambers. The computing device includes a software application or program comprising a workflow builder, an execution engine, an analytics engine, a virtual system modeling engine, and an optional machine learning engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Darshan Thaker, Matthew E. Fowler, Samira A. Nedungadi, Daniel Banda, JR., Brandon R. Bruhn, Nenad Bozinovic, Kellen C. Mobilia
  • Biological Process Systems and Methods Using Microfluidic Apparatus Having an Optimized Electrowetting Surface
    Publication number: 20200171501
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices having an electrowetting configuration and an optimized droplet actuation surface are provided for processing biological cells, e.g., for use in nucleic acid library preparation and/or synthesis (including amplification). The devices include a dielectric layer, a hydrophobic layer covalently bonded to the dielectric layer, and a first electrode. Methods of nucleic acid library preparation and/or synthesis can involve providing reagents to cells or nucleic acids by merging appropriate droplets on a droplet actuation surface within a water-immiscible organic liquid and can be performed in the presence of appropriate surfactants. The hydrophobic layer features self-associating molecules covalently bonded to a surface of the dielectric layer in a manner that produces a densely-packed monolayer that resists intercalation and or penetration by polar molecules or species.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Berkeley Lights, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. McEwen, Magali Soumillon, Shao Ning Pei, Randall D. Lowe, Jr., Samira A. Nedungadi, Volker L.S. Kurz, Jian Gong, Yara X. Mejia Gonzalez, Mckenzi S. Toh, Brian A. Rabkin, Jason C. Briggs, Darcy K. Kelly-Greene, James M. Porter, Jr.