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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2014
Elwha Llc, Bellevue, WA (US);
Philip Lionel Barnes, Seattle, WA (US);
Hon Wah Chin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Howard Lee Davidson, San Carlos, CA (US);
Kimberly D. A. Hallman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);
Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, CA (US);
Jordin T. Kare, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian Lee, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard T. Lord, Gig Harbor, WA (US);
Robert W. Lord, Seattle, WA (US);
Craig J. Mundie, Seattle, WA (US);
Nathan P. Myhrvold, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nicholas F. Pasch, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric D. Rudder, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Clarence T. Tegreene, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Marc Tremblay, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
David B. Tuckerman, Lafayette, CA (US);
Charles Whitmer, North Bend, WA (US);
Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
ELWHA LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for storing, reading, and writing data using particle-based acoustic wave driven shift registers. The shift registers may physically shift particles along rows and/or columns of wells through the interactions of two parallel surfaces. A transducer may generate an acoustic wave to displace one or more of the two parallel surfaces. The particles may be transferred to and/or otherwise constrained by a buffer surface during at least a portion of the acoustic wave, such that the particles may be shifted during one or more cycles of the acoustic wave. In various embodiments, the amplitude of the acoustic wave may correspond to the spacing distance between each of the wells. The wells may be physical and/or potential wells.