Patents by Inventor Steven Lin

Steven Lin 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).

  • Patent number: 10576471
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, systems and methods for conducting a reaction using electrowetting in a vertical or substantially vertical position. Some embodiments disclosed herein provide fluidic cartridges for use in a substantially vertical position comprising: (a) a front substrate; (b) a back substrate; (c) a droplet operations gap formed between the front substrate and the back substrate; and (d) a plurality of electrodes on the front substrate or the back substrate, wherein the plurality of electrodes are configured to transport a droplet along a substantially vertical plane defined by the front substrate and the back substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: James Osmus, Richard L. Lemoine, Jian Gong, Sz-Chin Steven Lin
  • Patent number: 10570418
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA, or a protein associated with a target DNA, in a eukaryotic cell. The present disclosure provides methods of binding a target DNA in a eukaryotic cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Jennifer A. Doudna, Steven Lin, Brett T. Staahl
  • Patent number: 10543836
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine and a torque converter are presented. In one example, slip of a torque converter is adjusted via at least partially closing or opening a torque converter clutch in response to vehicle vibration. The vehicle vibration may be based on road surface conditions and an actual total number of operating cylinders of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Lin, John Eric Rollinger, Adam J. Richards, Justin Cartwright
  • Publication number: 20190388469
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for highly efficient delivery of Cas9 and Cas9 ribonucleoproteins to cells, including primary hematopoietic cells and primary hematopoietic stem cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Alexander Marson, Jennifer Doudna, Jeffrey Bluestone, Kathrin Schumann, Steven Lin
  • Publication number: 20190354254
    Abstract: An input is received from a user selecting one or more of a plurality of icons on a non-wearable user device display. A wearable device is instructed to display the selected icons on a wearable device display. A vehicle component is actuated based on a second input selecting one of the icons displayed on the wearable device display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Yifan CHEN, Qianyi WANG, Steven LIN, Abhishek SHARMA
  • Publication number: 20190299210
    Abstract: A cartridge assembly comprises a housing having an illumination chamber and a well plate. The well plate is maintained within the housing and has liquid wells to receive desired amounts of liquids. The well plate includes a fluidics analysis station aligned with the illumination chamber, and an interface window and interface ports located at the fluidics analysis station. The well plate includes a valve station and pump station. A piercer unit is provided in the housing and positioned proximate to the wells. The piercer unit includes a piercer element and is to be moved to a piercing position where the piercer element pierces a cover for the corresponding well. A pump assembly on the well plate at the pump station manages fluid flow through the channels between the pump station and the fluidics analysis station. The housing includes a flow cell chamber to receive a removable flow cell cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Richard L. Lemoine, James Osmus, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Beng Keong Ang
  • Publication number: 20190303771
    Abstract: An online social networking system collects data relating to members, and clusters the data into a plurality of clusters. The system identifies anomalous activity by a member in a cluster, and predicts an update to a profile of the member based on the identified anomalous activity of the member. The system presents to the member a proposed update to the profile of the member based on the prediction, receives input from the member in response to the proposed update, and updates the profile of the member based on the input received from the member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Ken Soong, Damien Albert Louis Coullon, Luis Steven Lin, Michael Maczka
  • Patent number: 10343160
    Abstract: A cartridge assembly that comprises a housing, including a flow cell chamber to receive a flow cell, and a well plate having liquid wells to receive desired amounts of liquids. The well plate includes a valve station, a pump station and a fluidics analysis station, and channels associated therewith. A pump assembly to manage fluid flow through the channels between the pump station and the fluidics analysis station. A rotary valve assembly that includes a rotor shaft and rotor valve positioned to rotate about a rotational axis and to selectively couple the wells to the pump station. The rotor shaft includes a dual spline configuration at the distal end thereof. The dual spline configuration has first and second sets of splines. The first set of splines forms a drive interface and the second set of splines forms a position encoding interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: ILLUMINA, INC., ILLUMINA, SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Richard L. Lemoine, James Osmus, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Beng Keong Ang
  • Publication number: 20190001905
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive a user-selected vehicle-detectable state and corresponding user-defined state-variable value. The processor is also configured to receive a user-defined vehicle-enactable action. The processor is further configured to save the state-variable value as a condition for enacting the vehicle-enactable action saved in conjunction with the state-variable value. The processor is additionally configured to monitor the vehicle-detectable state and enact the vehicle-enactable action upon determining via the monitoring that the vehicle-detectable state corresponds to the user-defined state-variable value saved in conjunction with the state-variable value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Steven Lin, Yifan Chen
  • Publication number: 20180334162
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine and a torque converter are presented. In one example, slip of a torque converter is adjusted via at least partially closing or opening a torque converter clutch in response to vehicle vibration. The vehicle vibration may be based on road surface conditions and an actual total number of operating cylinders of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Steven Lin, John Eric Rollinger, Adam J. Richards, Justin Cartwright
  • Patent number: 10006379
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine in a variety of different cylinder operating modes are presented. In one example, an actual total number of available cylinder modes is increased in response to a vehicle's suspension setting and road roughness. By increasing the available cylinder modes, the engine may be operated in a higher number of modes where one or more engine cylinders may be deactivated to conserve fuel. The number of cylinder modes is increased during conditions where vehicle occupants may be less likely to object to operating the engine with fewer active cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Eric Rollinger, Adam J. Richards, Robert Michael Grant, Steven Lin, Matthew Gerow
  • Publication number: 20180117587
    Abstract: A cartridge assembly that comprises a housing, including a flow cell chamber to receive a flow cell, and a well plate having liquid wells to receive desired amounts of liquids. The well plate includes a valve station, a pump station and a fluidics analysis station, and channels associated therewith. A pump assembly to manage fluid flow through the channels between the pump station and the fluidics analysis station. A rotary valve assembly that includes a rotor shaft and rotor valve positioned to rotate about a rotational axis and to selectively couple the wells to the pump station. The rotor shaft includes a dual spline configuration at the distal end thereof. The dual spline configuration has first and second sets of splines. The first set of splines forms a drive interface and the second set of splines forms a position encoding interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Richard L. Lemoine, James Osmus, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Beng Keong ANG
  • Publication number: 20180111126
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, systems and methods for conducting a reaction using electrowetting in a vertical or substantially vertical position. Some embodiments disclosed herein provide fluidic cartridges for use in a substantially vertical position comprising: (a) a front substrate; (b) a back substrate; (c) a droplet operations gap formed between the front substrate and the back substrate; and (d) a plurality of electrodes on the front substrate or the back substrate, wherein the plurality of electrodes are configured to transport a droplet along a substantially vertical plane defined by the front substrate and the back substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: James OSMUS, Richard L. LEMOINE, Jian GONG, Sz-Chin Steven LIN
  • Publication number: 20180104930
    Abstract: This invention relates to clear, semicrystalline, strain induced crystallized polyester films heat laminated onto metal substrates. The films contain at least one polyester which comprises at least of one or more monomers selected from 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol or 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol. The articles of the present invention exhibit enhanced mechanical properties useful for the fabrication of thin metal articles such as metal cans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Xue Guang Steven Lin, Fan Liang Meng, Zhong Zhong Johnny Qian, Yu-Hwey Chuang, Emmett Dudley Crawford, Michael Eugene Donelson, Steven Lee Stafford, James Carl Williams
  • Publication number: 20180058346
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine in a variety of different cylinder operating modes are presented. In one example, an actual total number of available cylinder modes is increased in response to a vehicle's suspension setting and road roughness. By increasing the available cylinder modes, the engine may be operated in a higher number of modes where one or more engine cylinders may be deactivated to conserve fuel. The number of cylinder modes is increased during conditions where vehicle occupants may be less likely to object to operating the engine with fewer active cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: John Eric Rollinger, Adam J. Richards, Robert Michael Grant, Steven Lin, Matthew Gerow
  • Publication number: 20180044700
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods of site-specific modification of a target DNA, or a protein associated with a target DNA, in a eukaryotic cell. The present disclosure provides methods of binding a target DNA in a eukaryotic cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Jennifer A. DOUDNA, Steven LIN, Brett T. STAAHL
  • Publication number: 20180023134
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, compositions, and systems for distributing molecules and complexes into reaction sites. In particular, the methods, compositions, and systems of the present invention result in an active loading of molecules and complexes into reaction sites with improved efficiency over loading by passive diffusion methods alone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Jeremiah Hanes, Satwik Kamtekar, Yufeng Qian, Keith Bjornson, Thang Pham, David Rank, Paul Peluso, Erik Miller, Kristin Gleitsman, Leewin Chern, Steven Lin, Stephen Turner
  • Patent number: 9832099
    Abstract: Techniques are described for implementing one or more logical routers within a single physical routing device. These logical routers, as referred to herein, are logically isolated in the sense that they achieve operational and organizational isolation within the routing device without requiring the use of additional or redundant hardware, e.g., additional hardware-based routing controllers. The routing device may, for example, include a computing platform, and a plurality of software process executing within the computing platform, wherein the software processes operate as logical routers. The routing device may include a forwarding component shared by the logical routers to forward network packets received from a network in accordance with the forwarding tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul S. Traina, Manoj Leelanivas, Steven Lin, Nischal Sheth, Wing Eng, Andrew H. Heffernan
  • Publication number: 20170136433
    Abstract: Methods, compositions, and systems for distributing nucleic acids into array regions are provided. The methods, compositions, and systems utilize nucleic acid condensing agents to increase efficiency of distribution of the nucleic acids into the array regions. Various methods for facilitating distribution of the nucleic acids to the array regions are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Lei Sun, Jaime Juan Benitez-Marzan, Natasha Popovich, Sassan Sheikholeslami, Steven Lin, Aparna Vedula, Yufeng Qian
  • Publication number: 20170036238
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device and method for powder distribution and an additive manufacturing method, wherein different size or kind of powders could be chosen to be accommodated within a receptacle. The receptacle can uniformly mix the powder by a rotation movement, pour out the powders by the rotation movement and distribute the powders for forming a layer by a translation movement. In another embodiment, the receptacle further comprises a heating element for preheating the powders. Not only can the present disclosure uniformly mix the powders so as to reduce the thermal deformation and distribute the powder layer compactly, but also can the present disclosure distribute different kinds of powder in different layer so as to increase the diversity in additive manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chuan-Sheng ZHUANG, Ching-Chih LIN, Steven LIN, Wei-Lun TAI, Wen-Peng TSENG, Ji-Bin HORNG