Patents by Inventor Stephen Chou

Stephen Chou 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).

  • Publication number: 20210312621
    Abstract: The present invention is related to, among other things, the devices and methods that improve the accuracy and reliability of an assay, even when the assay device and/or the operation of the assay device has certain errors, and in some embodiments the errors are random.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wu CHOU, Xing LI, Hongbing LI, Yuechang Zhang, Mingquan WU, Wei DING, Jun TIAN
  • Publication number: 20210308666
    Abstract: The present invention is related to the field of bio/chemical sampling, sensing, assays and applications. More particularly, one aspect of the present invention is related to bio/chemical assays, including how to separate two plates, how to separate a certain component from a composite liquid sample and obtain a liquid sample free of the component therein, and how to deposit sample and how operate plates for facilitating assaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING
  • Publication number: 20210270722
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is to provide systems and methods that improve the accuracy of an assay that comprise at least one or more parameters each having a random error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Wu CHOU, Jun TIAN, Yuecheng ZHANG, Mingquan WU, Xing LI
  • Publication number: 20210273977
    Abstract: A system to control access to domains, servers, or content, among other things. There may be individualized or global policies. Policy servers or other devices may interface with databases, DNS servers, firewalls, programmable virtualized routers, or dynamic host configuration protocol servers, among other devices to dynamically update various policy enforcement elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Anestis Karasaridis, Stephen Chou, Aleksandr Zelezniak
  • Publication number: 20210263294
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for imaging: a side-view of a object on a surface, a Contact Angle of a liquid object, the color of an object, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Wu CHOU, Ji QI, Jun TIAN, Yuecheng ZHANG, Mingquan WU
  • Publication number: 20210255177
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for performing biological and chemical assays, such as immunoassays and nucleic acid assays, more particularly a homogeneous assay that does not use a wash step by using the aggregation and de-aggregation processes of microparticles or nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji LI
  • Publication number: 20210247276
    Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for analyzing an analyte, such as white blood cells in liquid samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji Qi
  • Publication number: 20210247317
    Abstract: The present invention provides, among other things, devices, kits, apparatus, and methods for rapid homogenous cell staining and imaging. Particularly, in some embodiments, the present invention can immunochemically stain a cell or a tissue in less than 60 seconds without washing. In some embodiments, the present invention stains and observers analyte (protein or nucleic acid) inside a cell in 60 seconds without wash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji LI, Shengjian Cai, Yufan Zhang, Jia Peng
  • Publication number: 20210181095
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical system for interrogating a sample, an optical system for measuring the spectrum of a beam of light, an optical system for measuring the spectrum of two beams of light, a compact imaging-based sensor or sensors, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji Qi, Jun TIAN
  • Publication number: 20210181086
    Abstract: The present invention is related to correct the errors in instruments, operation, and others using intelligent monitoring structures and machine learning, and others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Wu CHOU, Jun TIAN, Yuecheng ZHANG, Mingquan WU, Xing LI
  • Publication number: 20210181085
    Abstract: Among other things, the present invention is related to devices and methods of performing biological and chemical assays, in particular, of platelets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING
  • Publication number: 20210162402
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is to provide the device and methods for performing an assay that uses the multiplexing of sample thicknesses on the same plate. The sample thickness multiplexing can offer many information that are unavailable in using a single sample thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji Qi, Yufan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10955334
    Abstract: Among other things, the present invention is related to devices and methods for improving optical analysis of a thin layer of a sample sandwiched between containing between two plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Chou, Wei Ding, Ji Qi, Jun Tian, Wu Chou
  • Publication number: 20210069709
    Abstract: Among other things, the present invention is related to devices and methods of performing biological and chemical assays, particularly an easy sample manipulation and/or a rapid change or a rapid thermal cycling of a sample temperature is needed (e.g. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for amplifying nucleic acids).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji QI, Hua Tan, Yufan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210018407
    Abstract: The present invention provides, among other things, devices, methods and applications of collecting, preserving, transporting, and analyzing tiny body fluids which have targeted biomarkers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Yufan Zhang, Ji Qi
  • Publication number: 20210011001
    Abstract: Among other things, the present invention is related to bio/chemical sampling, sensing, assays and applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji LI, Yufan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200378886
    Abstract: Among other things, the present invention is related to devices and methods for improving optical analysis of a thin layer of a sample sandwiched between containing between two plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji QI, Jun Tian, Wu Chou
  • Publication number: 20200378875
    Abstract: Devices and systems are provided herein relating to a novel and rapid assay for tissue staining. Methods for using the devices and systems for analyzing tissue samples are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji LI
  • Publication number: 20200363408
    Abstract: Among other things, the present disclosure is related to devices and methods of performing biological and chemical assays, such as but not limited to immunoassays and nucleic assay acid, particularly a homogeneous assay that does not use a wash step and that is fast (e.g., 60 seconds from dropping a sample to displaying results). The present disclosure is related to both competitive and non-competitive homogeneous assays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen CHOU, Wei DING, Ji LI, Yufan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10834114
    Abstract: A processing system having at least one processor may obtain domain name system (DNS) traffic records of a DNS platform, the DNS traffic records associated with a source device having a first status and that is submitting DNS queries, where a first-tier DNS authoritative server of the DNS platform is configured to forward the DNS queries from the source device to at least a first second-tier DNS authoritative server of the DNS platform designated for the first status. The processing system may further detect anomalous DNS traffic records from the DNS traffic records, identify a change of the source device from a first status to a second status, based upon the detecting the anomalous DNS traffic records, and reconfigure the first-tier DNS authoritative server to redirect the DNS queries from the source device to at least a second second-tier DNS authoritative server designated for the second status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Anestis Karasaridis, Eric Noel, Stephen Chou, Patrick Velardo