Patents by Inventor Andrew A. CHENG
Andrew A. CHENG has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240148999Abstract: A patient interface including a plenum chamber, a first seal-forming structure for forming a seal around the patient's mouth, and a second seal-forming structure for forming a seal around the patient's nares. The patient interface further includes at least one stopper rib disposed in the cavity of the plenum chamber spaced apart from the first seal-forming structure in a rest position. The first seal-forming structure configured to contact the at least one stopper rib in an operational position. The at least one stopper rib configured to oppose compression of the first seal-forming structure in an anterior direction. The second seal-forming structure is not configured to contact the at least one stopper rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Marvin Sugi HARTONO, Kyi Thu MAUNG, Lik Tze SEET, Jing CHEN, Beng Hai TAN, Han Cheng LIN, Chuan Foong LEE, Xiang Yu ONG, Shiva Kumar SHANMUGA SUNDARA, Hugh Francis Stewart THOMAS, Sebastien DEUBEL, Chee Keong ONG, Andrew James BATE, Matthew Robin WELLS, Paul Derrick WATSON, Shannon William PRIOR
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Patent number: 11979442Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for dynamically assigning participant video feeds within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a virtual space for virtual conferencing, an interface for configuring a set of rooms, each room being associated with a different number of participant video elements assignable to respective participant video feeds; receive, via the interface, an indication of user input for setting properties for the set of rooms; determine, in association with virtual conferencing, a first number of participants for a room; select a first room corresponding to the first number of participants; provide display of the first room; and assign, for each of the first number of participants, a participant video feed corresponding to the participant with a respective participant video element in the first room.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Emily Cho, Andrew Cheng-min Lin
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Patent number: 11979244Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for configuring 360-degree video within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a room for virtual conferencing, a first interface for configuring at least one participant video element which is assignable to a respective participant video feed; receive, via the first interface, an indication of user input for setting first properties for the at least one participant video element; provide, in association with designing the room for virtual conferencing, a second interface for configuring a 360-degree video element which is assignable to a 360-degree video source; receive, via the second interface, an indication of user input for setting second properties for the 360-degree video element; and provide, in association with virtual conferencing, display of the room based on the first properties and the second properties.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
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Patent number: 11975154Abstract: The invention relates to a breathing assistance apparatus that may be configured to reduce the risk of damage to electronics within the apparatus as a result of liquid leaks within the apparatus or impacts to the apparatus. In other forms, the apparatus may be configured to allow for easy assembly and/or safe operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Douglas Richard Wright, Peter Lawrence Grylls, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Philip John Dickinson, Yi-Cheng Sun, Silvan Terence Butler, Sergiu Constantin Filip, Samuel William Saunders, Andrew Martin Letton
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Publication number: 20240145584Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor (FET) with at least one Gate-All-Around (GAA) channel. A first conductive ferromagnetic Source/Drain contact is electrically connected with a first portion of the GAA channel. A second conductive ferromagnetic Source/Drain contact is electrically connected with a second portion of the GAA channel. A remanent magnetization of the first conductive ferromagnetic contact is oriented in a direction opposite to a remanent magnetization of the second conductive ferromagnetic contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Julien Frougier, Kangguo Cheng, Ruilong Xie, Chanro Park, Andrew Gaul, Min Gyu Sung
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Patent number: 11972173Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting change of presence sounds within a virtual working environment. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first client device of a first participant of a group of participants within a virtual working environment, interaction data relating to the first participant being present at the first client device, the group of participants having been selected from among plural participants of the virtual working environment; determining a change in presence of the first participant with respect to the first client device; generating, in response to the determining, a sound corresponding to the change in presence; and providing the generated sound to one or more second client devices of respective one or more second participants of the group of participants, for presentation on the one or more second client devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Brandon Francis, Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
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Patent number: 11973613Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting an overview of participant conversations within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for a virtual space comprising plural rooms, each room of the plural rooms being configured for virtual conferencing between respective participants; provide, for an administrator of the virtual space, display of a dashboard interface, the dashboard interface comprising a room preview element for each of the plural rooms, each room preview element corresponding to a live preview for a respective room of the plural rooms; determine metrics for each of the plural rooms; and provide for display of the metrics within the dashboard interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
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Patent number: 11968055Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for assigning participants to rooms within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for accessing, in association with a virtual space comprising plural rooms for virtual conferencing between plural participants, room occupancy preferences for occupying the plural rooms; accessing metadata associated with one or more participants of the plural participants; assigning, based on the room occupancy preferences and the metadata, the plural participants to one or more rooms of the plural rooms; and providing, based on the assigning, for virtual conferencing between the plural participants within the one or more rooms.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
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Publication number: 20240128346Abstract: A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a pFET located in a pFET device region, the pFET includes a first functional gate structure and a plurality of pFET semiconductor channel material nanosheets, and an nFET located in the nFET device region, the nFET includes a second functional gate structure and a plurality of pFET semiconductor channel material nanosheets. The pFET semiconductor channel material nanosheets can be staggered relative to, or vertically aligned in a horizontal direction with, the nFET semiconductor channel material nanosheets. When staggered, a bottom dielectric isolation structure can be located in both the device regions, and the second functional gate structures has a bottommost surface that extends beneath a topmost surface of the bottom dielectric isolation structure. When horizontally aligned, a vertical dielectric pillar is located between the two device regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Julien Frougier, Andrew M. Greene, Shogo Mochizuki, Ruilong Xie, Liqiao Qin, Gen Tsutsui, Nicolas Jean Loubet, Min Gyu Sung, Chanro Park, Kangguo Cheng, Heng Wu
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Publication number: 20240113213Abstract: A semiconductor device including a channel region of stacked semiconductor layers arranged in at least one cluster, wherein each cluster includes a pair of the semiconductor sheets with a dielectric material present therebetween. The semiconductor device further includes a gate structure encapsulating the channel region of stacked semiconductor sheets arranged in clusters. Source and drain regions are present on opposing sides of the channel region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Julien Frougier, Ruilong Xie, Kangguo Cheng, Andrew M. Greene, Sung Dae Suk
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Publication number: 20240100018Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of identifying a compound for treating or preventing an infection with an infectious microbe, such as a coronavirus, in a subject in need thereof. Also disclosed herein are compounds and compositions identified by said methods, and methods of use thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Mark E. SCHURDAK, Andreas VOGT, Andrew Michael STERN, Douglass Lansing TAYLOR, Fangyuan CHEN, Fen PEI, Hongying CHENG, Ivet BAHAR, Qingya SHI, Moshe ARDITI
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Publication number: 20240104143Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to store cluster information in a distributed datastore are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; programmable circuitry; and first instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: obtain second instructions to create a cluster of first hosts; determine second hosts of the cluster of the first hosts to implement a distributed datastore in the cluster; and cause transmission of third instructions to store cluster information corresponding to the cluster of the first hosts in datastores of the second hosts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Brian Masao Oki, Chaitanya Bandi, Subhankar Biswas, Austin Kramer, Leonid Livshin, Alkesh Shah, Pradyumna Agrawal, Cheng Cheng, Andrew Stone
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Publication number: 20240103708Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing bot participants for virtual conferencing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
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Publication number: 20240106875Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for dynamically assigning participant video feeds within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a virtual space for virtual conferencing, an interface for configuring a set of rooms, each room being associated with a different number of participant video elements assignable to respective participant video feeds; receive, via the interface, an indication of user input for setting properties for the set of rooms; determine, in association with virtual conferencing, a first number of participants for a room; select a first room corresponding to the first number of participants; provide display of the first room; and assign, for each of the first number of participants, a participant video feed corresponding to the participant with a respective participant video element in the first room.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Emily Cho, Andrew Cheng-min Lin
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Patent number: 11943072Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a room preview within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural rooms, the plural rooms being included within a virtual space for virtual conferencing; and for each of the plural participants, provide a first audio channel associated with audio output of the first room, provide display of a room preview element within the first room, the room preview element corresponding to a live preview of a second room of the plural rooms, and provide a second audio channel associated with audio output of the second room.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Andrew Cheng-Min Lin, Walton Lin
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Publication number: 20240094861Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for configuring a three-dimensional (3D) model within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a room for virtual conferencing, an interface for configuring a 3D model; receiving, via the interface, an indication of user input for setting properties for the 3D model, the properties specifying image data for projecting onto the 3D model; and in association with virtual conferencing, providing display of the room based on the properties for the 3D model, and causing the image data to be projected onto the 3D model within the room.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: William Chou, Andrew Cheng-min Lin
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Patent number: 11931512Abstract: A patient interface including a positioning and stabilizing structure that is configured to maintain a first seal-forming structure and a second seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position. The positioning and stabilizing structure comprises a frame coupled to the plenum chamber. The frame includes a central portion coupled to the plenum chamber outside of the cavity. The frame also includes a pair of arms that extend away from the central portion in a posterior direction past the second seal-forming structure. The pair of arms are more flexible than the central portion. The positioning and stabilizing structure also includes headgear straps coupled to the frame, which configured to provide a tensile force to the first seal-forming structure and to the second seal-forming structure into the patient's face via the frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Matthew Eves, Andrew James Bate, Sebastien Deubel, Paul Derrick Watson, Matthew Robin Wells, Beng Hai Tan, Chee Keong Ong, Marvin Sugi Hartono, Han Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 11935930Abstract: Embodiments herein describe FETs with channels that form wrap-around contacts (a female portion of a female/male connection) with metal contacts (a male portion of the female/male connection) in order to connect the channels to the drain and source regions. In one embodiment, a first conductive contact is formed underneath a dummy channel. In addition an encapsulation material wraps around the first conductive contact. The dummy channel and the encapsulation material can then be removed and replaced by the material of the channel which, as a result, include a female portion that wraps around the first conductive contact.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Julien Frougier, Ruilong Xie, Kangguo Cheng, Chanro Park, Andrew Gaul
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Publication number: 20240080215Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting an overview of participant reactions to a virtual conference. The program and method provide for a virtual conference between plural participants; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction buttons which are selectable by the participant to indicate different reactions to the virtual conference; receive indication of selections of the reaction buttons by one or more of the plural participants; store an indication of the selections over time in association with recording the virtual conference; generate a graphical overview of reactions to the virtual conference based on the stored indication of the selections; and provide, for a first participant of the plural participants, display of the graphical overview.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
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Patent number: D1025075Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Eric Wesley Bates, Mu-Hua Cheng, Sawyer Isaac Cohen, Markus Diebel, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Hugh J. Jay, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer