Silicon quantum device structures defined by metallic structures
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11778927
A silicon-based quantum device is provided. The device comprises: a first metallic structure (501); a second metallic structure (502) laterally separated from the first metallic structure; and an L-shaped elongate channel (520) defined by the separation between the first and second metallic structures; wherein the elongate channel has a vertex (505) connecting two elongate parts of the elongate channel. The device further comprises: a third metallic structure (518), mediator gate,…
Thermal and electrical management of battery packs
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11777153
Provided are battery packs and interface modules for electrically interconnecting electrochemical cells in the packs and for providing heat distribution with the packs. An interface module interfaces one side of all electrochemical cells in a battery pack. The interface module may have a substantially planar shape such that the space occupied by the module in the battery pack is minimal. Most, if not all, conductive components of the interface module may be formed from the same sheet of…
Method for modeling of a system by means of a quantum computer
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775711
For manufacturing-related reasons, the qubits of known quantum computers are not to be regarded as equivalent, but instead a standard quantum computer has not only high-performance qubits with long decoherence times and good fidelities of operation but also low-performance qubits with short decoherence times and poor fidelities of operation. The invention utilizes these by subdividing a system to be modeled with such a quantum computer into a bath part of low relevance and a cluster part…
Apparatuses, systems, and/or interfaces for embedding selfies into or onto images captured by mobile or wearable devices and method for implementing same
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775074
Systems, apparatuses and interfaces and methods for implementing same including a mobile device having a camera system, where the systems, apparatuses, interfaces, and methods capture an image and embed the image into a background image selected from a group of background images generated by the systems, apparatuses, interfaces, and methods based on a location, a surroundings and an environment.
Optical waveguides and couplers for delivering light to an array of photonic elements
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11774674
Optical waveguides and couplers for delivering light to an array of photonic elements in a photonic integrated device. The photonic integrated device and related instruments and systems may be used to analyze samples in parallel. The photonic integrated device may include a grating coupler configured to receive light from an external light source and optically couple with multiple waveguides configured to optically couple with sample wells of the photonic integrated device.
Insulated window and door opening assemblies with high-density insulating cores
Granted: September 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11761258
Window and door opening assemblies are disclosed herein that incorporate one or more high-density insulation cores and methods for constructing thereof. The high-density insulation cores are comprised of polyurethane foam with uniform high density and high structural integrity.
Method for preparing graphene material from industrial hemp by laser induction
Granted: September 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11760638
Provided is a method for preparing a graphene material from an industrial hemp material by laser induction, which uses a skin, a stem and/or a root of industrial hemp as a carbon precursor-containing material and reduce the carbon precursor-containing material into graphene by laser induction, so as to prepare graphene, graphene quantum dots, a graphene mesoporous material and a graphene composite material.
Automatic registration of a robot arm for a medical intervention
Granted: September 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11759267
The invention relates to a method for positioning an articulated arm of a medical robot assisted by a navigation system comprising an electromagnetic field generator and two sensors. The generated field forms a measurement zone in which the position of a sensor can be determined by the navigation system and communicated to the robot. A first sensor is positioned at an anatomical location of interest of a patient. A second sensor is positioned on the articulated arm. When the two sensors…
Quantum mechanical/X-ray crystallography diagnostic for proteins
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11688488
An analytic method for improving the efficiency in identifying protein molecular effect information using low resolution x-ray crystallography, by selecting and imaging a protein sample with low resolution x-ray crystallography and assaying the data thus generated as to local ligand strain energy value, followed by calculating a real-space difference density Z for each element and compiling ZDD data therefrom, followed by determining the true protomer/tautomer state of the protein sample…
System and method for evaluating the internal state of a media library
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11689818
A state evaluator for use in a media library includes a housing and a first camera that is coupled to the housing. In some embodiments, the state evaluator can also include one or more of a light assembly, an indicator assembly to indicate different conditions associated with the state evaluator, an input assembly, an internal power source, and a power module. The power source can be rechargeable and/or removable. The first camera can capture visible light, infrared light, and/or…
Partitioned data-based TDS compensation using joint temporary encoding and environmental controls
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11688426
A method for providing enhanced readability of data written to a magnetic tape, includes the steps of (i) writing data to a first tape partition using a tape drive, the data being written under a first dimensional stability condition; (ii) monitoring an ambient dimensional stability condition with a condition monitor to determine if the ambient dimensional stability condition has moved at least a predetermined threshold value from the first dimensional stability condition toward a…
Cyphergenics-based decoding and encoding of executable instructions
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687792
A method for executing computer programs in a trusted execution environment of a device is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a genomic differentiation object corresponding to a computer program that comprises a set of encoded executable instructions. The method further includes modifying the genomic differentiation object based on genomic regulation instructions (GRI) to obtain a modified genomic differentiation object, wherein the GRI were used to encode the set of encoded…
Virtual trusted execution domains
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687791
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a device is disclosed. In embodiments, the device stores a computer program comprised of a set of encoded executable instructions; a genomic differentiation object and genomic regulation instructions (GRI) that were used to encode the set of encoded executable instructions. The device further includes a processing system comprising a VDAX and a set of processing cores. The VDAX is configured to: receive encoded instructions to be…
Techniques for determining a nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation time and/or a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of a probe
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11686796
A system and method for determining a nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation time of a probe includes polarizing first nuclei and second nuclei by applying a longitudinal static magnetic field to the probe, exchanging the polarizations of the first nuclei and the second nuclei by irradiating a swap sequence of transverse magnetic field pulses, transversely magnetizing the second nuclei by irradiating at least one excitation pulse and measuring the resulting magnetization signal of the…
Superconducting compounds and methods for making the same
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11683997
A superconducting article includes a substrate and a superconducting metal oxide film formed on the substrate. The metal oxide film including ions of an alkali metal, ions of a transition metal, and ions of an alkaline earth metal or a rare earth metal. For instance, the metal oxide film can include Rb ions, La ions, and Cu ions. The superconducting metal oxide film can have a critical temperature for onset of superconductivity of greater than 250 K, e.g., greater than room temperature.
File level recovery using virtual machine image level backup with selective compression
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11681590
Example apparatus and methods process virtual machine image level backups that may include files that are compressed and files that are not compressed. Example apparatus and methods may produce virtual machine image level backups by selectively compressing some files associated with the image while leaving other files in their uncompressed state. Example apparatus and methods may selectively recover a file or even an entire disk image from an image level backup that may include both…
Sensing signals that include radio frequency pulses
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11681016
In a general aspect, a radar system includes a vapor cell sensor system and a radio frequency (RF) optic. The vapor cell sensor system includes a vapor cell sensor, and the RF optic is configured to direct an RF field onto the vapor cell sensor. The RF field includes one or more RF pulses that define a radar signal. The radar system also includes a signal processing system configured to perform operations that include generating a digital signal based on a signal from the vapor cell…
Fabrication of films having controlled stoichiometry using molecular beam epitaxy
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11680337
A method of forming a film comprises growing, using a deposition system, at least a portion of the film and analyzing, using a RHEED instrument, the at least a portion of the film. Using a computer, data is acquired from the RHEED instrument that is indicative of a stoichiometry of the at least a portion of the film. Using the computer, adjustments to one or more process parameters of the deposition system are calculated to control stoichiometry of the film during subsequent deposition.…
Quantum printing nanostructures within carbon nanopores
Granted: June 20, 2023
Patent Number:
11680317
The invention includes apparatus and methods for instantiating and quantum printing materials, such as elemental metals, in a nanoporous carbon powder.
Large form factor extended tape path magnetic tape storage device
Granted: June 13, 2023
Patent Number:
11676635
A tape library having a robot zone and a robot on the robot zone, movable in the robot zone of the tape rack in at least a first direction and a second direction. A tape drive, which has an opening to receive cartridges, is positioned so that the robot nears the tape drive when the robot moves in a second direction. A width of the tape drive is wider than a width of the robot zone. This tape drive design is called the “Sideways Format Path for 19? Rack Libraries.” It is achieved by…
