System and method for tape layout optimization
Granted: July 3, 2018
Patent Number:
10014025
A tape layout module for determining a tape layout allocation strategy for laying out data on tape, the data being organized into a plurality of fixed-size subdata sets with each of the plurality of subdata sets including a plurality of codeword interleaves, the tape including a plurality of media defect characteristics, includes a tape layout optimization system including a processor that receives information on the plurality of media defect characteristics. The tape layout optimization…
Garnet materials for Li secondary batteries and methods of making and using garnet materials
Granted: June 26, 2018
Patent Number:
10008742
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. Also 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…
Method for forming and processing antiperovskite material doped with aluminum material
Granted: June 26, 2018
Patent Number:
10008736
The present invention is related to formation and processing of antiperovskite material. In various embodiments, a thin film of aluminum doped antiperovskite is deposited on a substrate, which can be an electrolyte material of a lithium-based electrochemical storage device.
Methods and systems for vectored data de-duplication
Granted: June 5, 2018
Patent Number:
9990390
The present invention is directed toward methods and systems for data de-duplication. More particularly, in various embodiments, the present invention provides systems and methods for data de-duplication that may utilize a vectoring method for data de-duplication wherein a stream of data is divided into “data sets” or blocks. For each block, a code, such as a hash or cyclic redundancy code may be calculated and stored. The first block of the set may be written normally and its…
Active-source-pixel, integrated device for rapid analysis of biological and chemical specimens
Granted: May 29, 2018
Patent Number:
9983135
An active-source-pixel, integrated device capable of performing biomolecule detection and/or analysis, such as single-molecule nucleic acid sequencing, is described. An active pixel of the integrated device includes a sample well into which a sample to be analyzed may diffuse, an excitation source for providing excitation energy to the sample well, and a sensor configured to detect emission from the sample. The sensor may comprise two or more segments that produce a set of signals that…
Method and apparatus for clearing a wellbore
Granted: May 29, 2018
Patent Number:
9982499
A method and a downhole apparatus for clearing a wellbore are disclosed. The method locates a mill in the wellbore about the obstructions, introduces a driving fluid flow along a driving flow path from surface to the mill, and introduces a circulation fluid flow along a circulation flow path from surface into a wellbore annulus at a location in the wellbore above the mill. Then the mill is driven by the introduced driving fluid flow to mill the obstructions; and milled obstructions are…
Dynamic environment for object and attribute display and interaction
Granted: May 15, 2018
Patent Number:
9971492
Systems, interfaces, and methods for implementing the systems and interfaces include a dynamic environment generation subsystem that changes objects and subobjects based on locations of the motion sensors and/or the nature, time and/or location of sensed motion and include selection attractive movement as the selection protocol, where a selection object is used to discriminate between selectable objects and attract a target object toward the selection objects, where the direction and…
Lithium stuffed garnet setter plates for solid electrolyte fabrication
Granted: May 15, 2018
Patent Number:
9970711
Setter plates are fabricated from Li-stuffed garnet materials having the same, or substantially similar, compositions as a garnet Li-stuffed solid electrolyte. The Li-stuffed garnet setter plates, set forth herein, reduce the evaporation of Li during a sintering treatment step and/or reduce the loss of Li caused by diffusion out of the sintering electrolyte. Li-stuffed garnet setter plates, set forth herein, maintain compositional control over the solid electrolyte during sintering when,…
Adaptive storage management for optimizing multi-tier data storage system
Granted: May 8, 2018
Patent Number:
9965389
Embodiments provide adaptive storage management for optimizing multi-tier data storage. A storage manager may interact with storage decision advisors. The manager may adaptively make storage management decisions (e.g., flush, evict, recall, delete) after considering recommendations from and the credibility of the storage decision advisors. The manager may update the credibility of storage decision advisors based on how their recommendations affected optimization. The manager may…
Annealed garnet electrolyte separators
Granted: May 8, 2018
Patent Number:
9966630
Set forth herein are pellets, thin films, and monoliths of lithium-stuffed garnet electrolytes having engineered surfaces. These engineered surfaces have a list of advantageous properties including, but not limited to, low surface area resistance, high Li+ ion conductivity, low tendency for lithium dendrites to form within or thereupon when the electrolytes are used in an electrochemical cell. Other advantages include voltage stability and long cycle life when used in electrochemical…
Power savings in cold storage
Granted: May 8, 2018
Patent Number:
9965351
Methods and apparatus associated with data cold storage are described. Example apparatus include an array of data storage devices arranged in rows and columns. Columns of the array are orthogonal to rows. A row has an associated row-centric power supply, and a column has an associated column-centric local electronics module (LEM) that controls a data storage device in the column independently of other data storage devices in the array. Example apparatus include logics that control a…
Battery systems having multiple independently controlled sets of battery cells
Granted: May 1, 2018
Patent Number:
9960458
Provided are battery systems having multiple independently controlled sets of battery cells and method of using these systems to power, for example, drive trains of electric and hybrid vehicles. A battery system includes two or more sets of battery cells. Each set can be discharged and/or charged independently of another set based on different factors, such as a current power demand, power output capabilities of each set, and other like factors. One or multiple sets can be used to…
Systems and methods for providing a file system viewing of a storeage environment
Granted: May 1, 2018
Patent Number:
9959131
A data identification system and method for operating the data identification system are provided. The method comprises identifying processing elements contained within the storage environment, identifying virtual processing elements contained within the processing elements, identifying virtual storage elements contained within the virtual processing elements, identifying contents of the virtual storage elements, generating the file system view of the storage environment, wherein the…
Waveguide structure for mid-IR multiwavelength concatenated distributed-feedback laser with an active core made of cascaded stages
Granted: April 17, 2018
Patent Number:
9948063
Concatenated distributed feedback lasers having novel waveguides are disclosed. The waveguides allow for coupling of the laser beam between active and passive waveguide structures and improved device design and output efficiency. Methods of making along with methods of using such devices are also disclosed.
Integrated device for temporal binning of received photons
Granted: April 17, 2018
Patent Number:
9945779
An integrated circuit includes a photodetection region configured to receive incident photons. The photodetection region is configured to produce a plurality of charge carriers in response to the incident photons. The integrated circuit also includes at least one charge carrier storage region. The integrated circuit also includes a charge carrier segregation structure configured to selectively direct charge carriers of the plurality of charge carriers into the at least one charge carrier…
Methods and kits for nucleic acid sequencing
Granted: April 10, 2018
Patent Number:
9938573
Various embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to molecular biological protocols, equipment and reagents for the sequencing of target nucleic acid (DNA, RNA, cDNA, etc) molecules.
System and method for slice processing computer-related tasks
Granted: April 3, 2018
Patent Number:
9936209
Methods and systems therefrom are provided for task processing in a computing environment. The method includes identifying a program to be executed by a processor for performing at least one task and determining that a memory requirement for the program does not exceed a capacity of a cache memory for the processor to perform the task. The method also includes, in response to determining that the memory requirement for the program does not exceed the capacity of the cache memory,…
Layered three-dimensional radiation position detector
Granted: April 3, 2018
Patent Number:
9933529
A layered three-dimensional radiation position detector includes two-dimensional scintillator arrays that are pixelated by optically discontinuous surfaces and stacked on a light receiving surface of a light receiving element, responses of scintillator elements detecting radiations being made identifiable on the light receiving surface to obtain a three-dimensional radiation detection position. A scintillator array lying on a radiation incident surface side has a pixel pitch smaller than…
Metal ion recovery device and metal ion recovery method
Granted: April 3, 2018
Patent Number:
9932653
Problem is to selectively and inexpensively recover a metal ion in a liquid. Solution is a metal ion recovery device, in which a permselective membrane for selectively permeating Li is used, and on both main faces of the plate-like permselective membrane, a mesh-like negative electrode and a positive electrode are formed, respectively. This structure is provided in a treatment tank, and in the treatment tank, the permselective membrane partitions between a stock solution containing a Li…
Optical system and assay chip for probing, detecting and analyzing molecules
Granted: March 20, 2018
Patent Number:
9921157
Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecule and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An apparatus can include an assay chip that includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which, when excited, emits emission energy; at least one element for directing the emission energy in a particular direction; and a light path along which the emission energy travels from the sample well toward a sensor. The apparatus also includes an instrument that interfaces…
