Device for lifting and transporting sheet material
Granted: June 4, 2019
Patent Number:
10309116
A device for lifting and transporting sheet material includes a base portion; wheels on which the base portion is supported; a mast that extends upwardly from the base portion; a boom that extends from a first end outwardly from the mast to a second end; a supporting head that is configured to support sheet material; and a pivot coupling at the second end of the boom. The pivot coupling is arranged to couple the supporting head to the boom, and enable the supporting head to be rotated…
Garnet materials for Li secondary batteries and methods of making and using garnet materials
Granted: May 28, 2019
Patent Number:
10305141
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable…
Systems and methods for the remote detection of greenhouse atmospheric gas
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10295410
Disclosed systems and methods for the remote detection of atmospheric gas may include (1) receiving, at a collector, thermal infrared energy from at least one atmospheric column, (2) receiving, at optical subsystems, the thermal infrared energy over optical paths, (3) focusing the thermal infrared energy onto diffraction gratings that disperse the thermal infrared energy at a wavelength within a mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) spectral region and a wavelength within a long-wavelength…
Device for extracting water from the environment
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10295203
The present invention corresponds to a device for extracting water from the environment by means of a liquid desiccant. The device comprises a means for capturing water from the environment using a liquid desiccant, an extraction chamber, a first duct through which liquid desiccant with water flows from the capture means to the extraction chamber, a second duct through which liquid desiccant flows from the extraction chamber to the capture means, a reservoir for depositing water…
Charged particle radiation measuring method and charged particle radiation measuring device
Granted: May 21, 2019
Patent Number:
10294419
[Problem] To provide highly heat-resistant and radiation-resistant radiation measuring equipment. [Solution] Provided are a charged particle radiation measuring method and a charged particle radiation measuring device using a scintillator comprising a phosphor in which the main component is a SiAlON phosphor.
Integrated device with external light source for probing detecting and analyzing molecules
Granted: May 14, 2019
Patent Number:
10288565
System and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An integrated device includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which when excited, emits radiation. The integrated device includes at least one waveguide configured to propagate excitation energy to the sample wells from a region of the integrated device configured to couple with an excitation energy source. A pixel may also include at least one element for directing…
Garnet materials for Li secondary batteries and methods of making and using garnet materials
Granted: May 14, 2019
Patent Number:
10290895
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable…
Apparatuses for controlling electrical devices and software programs and methods for making and using same
Granted: May 14, 2019
Patent Number:
10289204
An apparatus including a movement sensor and processing unit, where sensed movement, especially velocity and/or acceleration and changes thereof, is used to control real and/or virtual objects, where no hard selection protocol is used and output signals and/or commands occur with a change in velocity or acceleration.
Substrate deposition systems
Granted: May 14, 2019
Patent Number:
10288771
A substrate deposition system includes a system frame; a plurality of processing tanks carried by the system frame, the plurality of processing tanks adapted to contain liquid coating materials of different light refractive indexes; at least one actuator disposed in proximity to the plurality of processing tanks, the at least one actuator adapted to sequentially immerse at least one substrate in the liquid coating materials and transfer the at least one substrate between the plurality of…
Integrated device with external light source for probing detecting and analyzing molecules
Granted: May 14, 2019
Patent Number:
10288566
System and methods for analyzing single molecules and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An integrated device includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which when excited, emits radiation. The integrated device includes at least one waveguide configured to propagate excitation energy to the sample wells from a region of the integrated device configured to couple with an excitation energy source. A pixel may also include at least one element for directing…
Compact mode-locked laser module
Granted: May 7, 2019
Patent Number:
10283928
Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument. The mode-locked laser can produce sub-50-ps optical pulses at a repetition rates between 200 MHz and 50 MHz, rates suitable for massively parallel data-acquisition. The optical pulses can be used to generate a reference clock signal for synchronizing data-acquisition…
Metadata storage in unused portions of a virtual disk file
Granted: April 30, 2019
Patent Number:
10275157
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and method for storing metadata to unused portions of a virtual disk file. In a particular embodiment, a method provides selecting a virtual disk file stored on a data storage volume and identifying unused portions of the virtual disk file. The method further provides writing metadata for the virtual disk file in the unused portions of the virtual disk file.
Design, synthesis and use of synthetic nucleotides comprising charge mass tags
Granted: April 30, 2019
Patent Number:
10273261
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to reporter compositions which are synthetic nucleotides that comprise nucleotides with a high charge mass moiety attached thereto via a linker molecule. The linker molecules can vary in length in part to enable the high charge mass moiety to extend out from a DNA polymerase complex so that polymerization may not be influenced.
Liquid collecting apparatus and liquid collecting method
Granted: April 30, 2019
Patent Number:
10271782
A suction drain device of a disclosed liquid collecting apparatus actively pushes and pulls blood. This achieves liquid collection at high speed even under decreased pressure depending on a physiological state of an animal. Moreover, the liquid collecting apparatus includes a first flow path and a second flow path having a given length. Accordingly, the flow path with a given length set in advance and thus a known volume allows collection of a given amount volume of blood without…
Apparatuses, systems and methods for constructing unique identifiers
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10263967
An apparatus for producing unique user specific identifiers including capturing user specific biometric data, kinetic data, biokinetic data, kinetic data and biometric data, biokinetic data and biometric data, and kinetic data, biokinetic data and biometric data and generating unique user specific identifiers.
Nano-gap electrode pair and method of manufacturing same
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10261066
A system for detecting a biomolecule comprises a nano-gap electrode device including a first electrode and a second electrode adjacent to the first electrode. The first electrode can be separated from the second electrode by a nano-gap that is dimensioned to permit the biomolecule to flow through the nano-gap. The nano-gap can have at least a first gap region and a second gap region. The second gap region can be oriented at an angle that is greater than zero degrees with respect to a…
Ultra high pressure pump with an alternating rotation to linear displacement drive mechanism
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
10260488
A high pressure pump including a linear actuator having a servo motor to axially rotate a hollow rotor shaft in alternating directions, the servo motor having a stator positioned co-axially around the hollow rotor shaft with an interior of the rotor shaft being co-axially coupled to a drive member to convert axial rotation into reciprocal displacement, the drive member being constrained against linear movement and supporting a shaft. At least one piston is coupled to the shaft and the…
Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface
Granted: April 16, 2019
Patent Number:
D845970
Pulsed laser and bioanalytic system
Granted: April 2, 2019
Patent Number:
10246742
Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument for biological or chemical analyses. The pulsed laser may produce sub-100-ps optical pulses at a repetition rate commensurate with electronic data-acquisition rates. The optical pulses may excite samples in reaction chambers of the instrument, and be used to generate…
Photon sources with multiple cavities for generation of individual photons
Granted: April 2, 2019
Patent Number:
10247969
A photon source device includes a substrate and a first waveguide arranged on the substrate. The first waveguide is coupled with a first pair of reflectors defining a first resonant cavity in the first waveguide. The first resonant cavity is configured for outputting a first output wavelength and a second output wavelength. The first pair of reflectors include a partial reflector for the first output wavelength and a partial reflector for the second output wavelength. The photon source…
