Efficient high/low energy zone solid state device data storage
Granted: December 19, 2017
Patent Number:
9846613
Methods and apparatus associated with storing data in high or low energy zones are described. Example apparatus include a data storage system (DSS) that protects a message using an erasure code (EC). A location in the DSS may have an energy efficiency rating or a latency. Example apparatus include circuits that produce EC encoded data that has a likelihood of use, that select a location to store the EC encoded data in the DSS based on the energy efficiency rating, the latency, or the…
Resonator device for electron spin resonance
Granted: December 12, 2017
Patent Number:
9841484
In some aspects, a resonator device for spin resonance applications is described. In some examples, the resonator device includes a substrate, terminals, and resonators. The terminals include a first terminal having first terminal segments disposed on a substrate surface, and a second terminal having second terminal segments disposed on the substrate surface opposite the first terminal segments. The resonators include conductors disposed on the substrate surface between the first and…
Battery thermal management system and methods of use
Granted: December 5, 2017
Patent Number:
9834114
Set forth herein are systems and methods for determining battery heating conditions and pre-heating lead times of at least a minute or more, based on input parameters and sets of input parameters, to predictively and dynamically heat a secondary battery so that the battery has a specific power output and performance level when used in an electric or hybrid vehicle application.
Solid state catholytes and electrolytes for energy storage devices
Granted: November 14, 2017
Patent Number:
9819024
The present invention provides an energy storage device comprising a cathode region or other element. The device has a major active region comprising a plurality of first active regions spatially disposed within the cathode region. The major active region expands or contracts from a first volume to a second volume during a period of a charge and discharge. The device has a catholyte material spatially confined within a spatial region of the cathode region and spatially disposed within…
Garnet materials for Li secondary batteries and methods of making and using garnet materials
Granted: October 31, 2017
Patent Number:
9806372
Disclosed 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 disclosed herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Also disclosed herein are methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also…
Clustered storage network
Granted: October 31, 2017
Patent Number:
9804804
A data storage network is provided. The network includes a client connected to the data storage network; a plurality nodes on the data storage network, wherein each data node has two or more RAID controllers, wherein a first RAID controller of a first node is configured to receive a data storage request from the client and to generate RAID parity data on a data set received from the client, and to store all of the generated RAID parity data on a single node of the plurality of nodes.
Doped boron carbides and thermoelectric applications
Granted: October 24, 2017
Patent Number:
9799815
A thermoelectric converter is provided where an n-type boron carbide element is paired with a p-type boron carbide element and placed between a eat sink and a high temperature are, such as the ocean in which a submarine operates, and the interior of that submarine, respectively. Boron carbide elements suitable for use in this invention are deposited from meta carborane (n-type) together with dopants to emphasize n-type character, such as chromocene, and orthocarborane, together with…
Combined asynchronous and synchronous fountain code storage in an object store
Granted: October 24, 2017
Patent Number:
9798617
Example apparatus and methods produce a set of rateless erasure codes (e.g., fountain codes) for a file stored in a primary data store (e.g., hard drive) or in an archive system. The archive system may store the file in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). A first subset of the rateless erasure codes are stored in an object storage using a synchronous protocol. A second subset of rateless erasure codes are stored in the object storage using an asynchronous protocol. The object…
Irradiation planning apparatus and charged particle irradiation system
Granted: October 24, 2017
Patent Number:
9795807
A planning apparatus (70) determines irradiation parameter data (67) for a charged particle irradiation system (1), which radiates charged particles generated by an ion source (2) to a target (80) by accelerating the charged particles by means of a linear accelerator (4) and a synchrotron (5). The planning apparatus is provided with: a planning program (73), which determines the irradiation parameter data (67) with respect to one target (80) by combining charged particles of a plurality…
Using a mesoscopic system to generate entanglement
Granted: October 17, 2017
Patent Number:
9792558
In some aspects, a mesoscopic system is used to generate entanglement, for example, on a pair of qubits. In some implementations, the mesoscopic system includes a first spin, a second spin and multiple other spins. The initial state of the first and second spins can be separable (non-entangled) states. Measurement outcomes are obtained by performing projective measurements on the mesoscopic system. Based on the measurement outcomes, an entangled state of the first and second spins is…
Tape storage device having at least one redundant read data element
Granted: October 17, 2017
Patent Number:
9792928
A technique includes in a data storage device, sensing a plurality of data streams from a track of storage media as the media moves in a given direction using a plurality of read elements such that at least one of the read elements is redundant. The technique includes combining the data streams to generate a data stream indicating data read from the track.
Iron, fluorine, sulfur compounds for battery cell cathodes
Granted: October 10, 2017
Patent Number:
9786905
Provided herein are energy storage device cathodes with high capacity electrochemically active material including compounds that include iron, fluorine, sulfur, and optionally oxygen. Batteries with active materials including a compound of the formula FeFaSbOc exhibit high capacity, high specific energy, high average discharge voltage, and low hysteresis, even when discharged at high rates. Iron, fluorine, and sulfur-containing compounds may be ionically and electronically conductive.
Integrated device with external light source for probing detecting and analyzing molecules
Granted: October 10, 2017
Patent Number:
9784679
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…
Combined amplitude-time and phase modulation
Granted: September 26, 2017
Patent Number:
9774348
A method for multi-dimensional modulation of a network protocol including control data and payload data. The method includes encoding a first sine wave with the control data; encoding a second sine wave with the payload data; and summing the first and second sine waves to generate a compound sine wave. In some embodiments, the control data is header information for a first Ethernet packet and post-payload data for a second Ethernet packet; and the payload data is payload data for the…
Laser
Granted: September 19, 2017
Patent Number:
9768579
A laser comprises a first end mirror and a second end mirror defining an optical cavity therebetween, a first gain medium and a second gain medium positioned in the optical cavity, at least one radiation source configured to provide pump radiation to the first and second gain media, wherein the pump radiation comprises a first pump beam directed to be incident on the first gain medium and a second pump beam directed to be incident on the second gain medium so as to stimulate emission of…
Pulse plating of lithium material in electrochemical devices
Granted: September 12, 2017
Patent Number:
9761861
The present invention is directed to battery system and operation thereof. In an embodiment, lithium material is plated onto the anode region of a lithium secondary battery cell by a pulsed current. The pulse current may have both positive and negative polarity. One of the polarities causes lithium material to plate onto the anode region, and the opposite polarity causes lithium dendrites to be removed. There are other embodiments as well.
Integrated device for temporal binning of received photons
Granted: September 12, 2017
Patent Number:
9759658
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…
Graphene field effect transistor
Granted: August 29, 2017
Patent Number:
9748340
Graphene FETs exhibit low power consumption and high switching rates taking advantage of the excellent mobility in graphene deposited on a rocksalt oxide (111) by chemical vapor deposition, plasma vapor deposition or molecular beam epitaxy. A source, drain and electrical contacts are formed on the graphene layer. These devices exhibit band gap phenomena on the order of greater than about 0.5 eV, easily high enough to serve as high speed low power logic devices. Integration of this…
Methods for controlling objects using a motion based control apparatus
Granted: August 29, 2017
Patent Number:
9746935
An electrical switch apparatus including a movement sensitive form is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, a motion sensor and a processing unit, where motion on, near or about the motion sensor is translated into output commands adapted for list scrolling, where the list can be arranged in a hierarchy such as menus or for changing a value of an attribute of a electrical device under the control of the switch.
Garbage collection and defragmentation for solid state drives (SSD) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drives
Granted: August 15, 2017
Patent Number:
9734051
Example apparatus and methods provide improved reclamation, garbage collection (GC) and defragmentation (defrag) for data storage devices including solid state drives (SSD) or shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drives. An erasure code (EC) layer that facilitates logically or physically erasing data from the SSD or SMR as a comprehensive GC or defrag is added to the SSD or SMR. Erased data may be selectively recreated from the EC layer as needed. Pre-planned EC write zones may be…
