Patents by Inventor Ming Meng
Ming Meng 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: 20240167012Abstract: An aspartic protease and the use of the aspartic protease in the hydrolysis of gluten. This protease can hydrolyze gluten and the gluten-derived immunogenic peptides at pH 2.0˜4.0. Also provided are methods for the production of the aspartic protease, including recombinant plasmids, transformants, and a purification method thereof; methods of using the aspartic protease to prepare drugs and oral enzyme supplements for treatment of diseases or discomforts related to gluten ingestion, such as celiac disease; and a method of using the asparic protease in food-processing process to remove or reduce gluten in foods or beverages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Meng Hsiao MENG, Wei Ming LEU, Yu Han ZHANG
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TUNNEL OXIDE LAYER, N-TYPE BIFACIAL CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME
Publication number: 20240145610Abstract: A tunnel oxide layer, an N-type bifacial crystalline silicon solar cell and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method for manufacturing the tunnel oxide layer includes forming excess -OH on a back side of a silicon wafer, and depositing the tunnel oxide layer on the back side of the silicon wafer by a Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition method. The method for manufacturing the N-type bifacial crystalline silicon solar cell can include following steps: performing cleaning, texturing, boron diffusing, and alkaline polishing on an N-type silicon wafer, sequentially forming a P-type doped layer, a passivation layer, and an anti-reflection layer on a front side of the alkaline-polished N-type silicon wafer, and forming a tunnel oxide layer on a back side of the alkaline-polished N-type silicon wafer, followed by forming an N-type doped polysilicon layer, and after annealing, forming an anti-reflection layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Ming ZHANG, Xiajie MENG, Wenzhou XU, Hao CHEN, Mingzhang DENG, Guoqiang XING, Qian YAO -
Patent number: 11964243Abstract: An atomization generator and a special high-pressure atomization generation device for increasing oil and gas field recovery are provided. The special high-pressure atomization generation device for increasing oil and gas field recovery includes an agent pot assembly, a gear pump, a metering pump, an atomization generator and pipelines. The gear pump is connected with the agent pot assembly through an agent pot liquid inlet pipe. The metering pump is arranged between the agent pot assembly and the atomization generator which are connected through the low-pressure manifold pipeline and the high-pressure liquid inlet pipeline. The high-pressure liquid inlet pipeline is connected with the liquid inlet pipe. The liquid inlet pipes are connected with the metering pump. The gas inlet pipe is connected with the high-pressure gas source through the high-pressure gas inlet pipe. The gas inlet cap is provided with a gas inlet pipe.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Shandong Ruiheng Xingyu Petroleum Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dayong Li, Tongwu An, Xuegang Liu, Yonglin Zhong, Qiaoling Meng, Jiabu Wang, Jiankui Li, Mingqian Shen, Yuxin Dong, Dongsheng Zhang, Fulin Zheng, Ming Wei
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Publication number: 20240118862Abstract: A computer system and a processing method thereof of sound signal are provided. The computer system includes a platform path controller (PCH), a high-definition audio (HDA) codec, and a digital microphone. The HDA codec is coupled to the PCH. The digital microphone is coupled to the PCH and the HDA codec. The digital microphone is used to generate sound signal. The HDA codec processes the sound signal from the digital microphone. Accordingly, the audio recording with high quality could be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Po-Jen Tu, Jia-Ren Chang, Kai-Meng Tzeng, Ming-Chun Yu
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Patent number: 11948393Abstract: A display substrate and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of sub-pixels arranged on the base substrate, wherein the sub-pixels each include a sub-pixel driving circuit; a plurality of fingerprint recognition structures arranged on the base substrate, wherein the fingerprint recognition structures each include a control circuit and a fingerprint recognition electrode, the fingerprint recognition electrode is located on a side of the control circuit facing away from the base substrate, the control circuit is coupled to the fingerprint recognition electrode, and the control circuit is used for outputting a sensing signal from the fingerprint recognition electrode; wherein the control circuit and the sub-pixel driving circuit are arranged in a direction parallel to the base substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hao Liu, Mei Li, Jiuzhen Wang, Zunqing Song, Qiuhua Meng, Caiyu Qu, Ming Liu
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Publication number: 20240098814Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive link capability information from a second UE that has a cellular wireless connection with a network entity of a cellular wireless network. The link capability information may be associated with a subscription of the second UE to the cellular wireless network. The first UE may establish a local wireless connection with the second UE based on the link capability information associated with the subscription of the second UE to the cellular wireless network. The first UE may communicate one or more messages with the network entity of the cellular wireless network via the second UE using first subscriber identity module (SIM) credentials of the first UE or second SIM credentials of the second UE based on establishing the local wireless connection with the second UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Karthika Paladugu, Hong Cheng, Soumya Das, Deviprasad Putchala, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Shailesh Patil
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Publication number: 20240098183Abstract: A marking method on image combined with sound signal, a terminal apparatus, and a server are provided. In the method, a first image is displayed. A selection command is detected. A target sound signal is embedded into a speech signal so as to generate a combined sound signal. The combined sound signal is transmitted. The selection command corresponds to a target region in the first image, and the selection command is generated selecting the target region through an input operation. The target sound signal corresponds to the target region of the selection command, and the speech signal is obtained by receiving sound. Accordingly, all attendants in the video conference are able to make makings on a shared screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Po-Jen Tu, Ming-Chun Fang, Jia-Ren Chang, Kai-Meng Tzeng, Chao-Kuang Yang
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Publication number: 20240090267Abstract: The present disclosure provides a displaying backplane and a displaying device, and relates to the technical field of displaying. The displaying backplane includes: a substrate base plate; a first active layer and a second active layer that are provided on the substrate base plate, wherein the material of the first active layer and the second active layer is an oxide semiconductor, the first active layer has a first channel region and first no-channel regions, and the second active layer has a second channel region and second no-channel regions; a first grid insulating layer covering the first active layer and the second active layer; and a first grid and a second grid that are provided on the first grid insulating layer; wherein the oxygen-vacancy concentration of the first channel region is greater than the oxygen-vacancy concentrations of the first no-channel regions, the second no-channel regions and the second channel region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jing Wang, Hongwei Tian, Ming Liu, Jia Zhao, Qiuhua Meng, Ziang Han
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Patent number: 11930482Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) user equipment (UE) may communicate, using a first SIM, on a plurality of component carriers. The multi-SIM UE may select a first subset of component carriers from the plurality of component carriers based at least in part on a component carrier prioritization. The multi-SIM UE may identify an amount of memory available to a second SIM. The multi-SIM UE may tune away, based at least in part on the amount of memory available to the second SIM, from a second subset of component carriers The first subset of component carriers may be different from the second subset of component carriers. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Arnaud Meylan, Suli Zhao, Liangchi Hsu, Cheol Hee Park, Qingxin Chen, Jun Hu, Leena Zacharias, Pulkit Hanswal, Reza Shahidi, Thawatt Gopal, Raghu Narayan Challa, Heechoon Lee
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Patent number: 11929788Abstract: Disclosed is a microwave photonic Ising machine, including: a closed loop including a phase and electro-optical conversion module and a storage, correlation and photoelectric conversion module connected in turn; a laser light source configured to generate and input an optical signal to the phase and electro-optical conversion module; and a microwave pulse local oscillator source configured to generate and input a microwave pulse signal to the phase and electro-optical conversion module. The phase and electro-optical conversion module is configured to modulate the microwave pulse signal, the optical signal, and a phase-specific two-phase microwave pulse spin electrical signal input from the storage, correlation and photoelectric conversion module to obtain and input a phase-specific two-phase microwave pulse spin optical signal to the storage, correlation and photoelectric conversion module for storage and correlation.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Ming Li, Tengfei Hao, Yao Meng, Qizhuang Cen, Yitang Dai, Nuannuan Shi, Wei Li
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Publication number: 20240072736Abstract: An amplifier DC bias protection circuit includes an amplifier module, a filter module and a comparator module. The amplifier module converts an input signal into a non-inverting signal and an inverting signal. The filter module blocks AC signals in the non-inverting signal and the inverting signal, thereby providing a first DC bias signal and a second DC bias signal accordingly. The comparator module is configured to determine whether the absolute value of a DC bias difference signal is greater than a predetermined value, and output a determination signal for deactivating the amplifier module when the absolute value of the DC bias difference signal is greater than the predetermined value. The DC bias difference signal is associated with the voltage difference between the first DC bias signal and the second DC bias signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: ACER INCORPORATEDInventors: Po-Jen Tu, Jia-Ren Chang, Kai-Meng Tzeng, Ming-Chun Yu
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Publication number: 20230345452Abstract: Aspects relate to wireless communication at a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may include a transmitter configured to communicate using a first communication protocol, a receiver configured to communicate using a second communication protocol, different from the first communication protocol, a first antenna coupled to the transmitter, a second antenna coupled to the receiver and physically separated from the first antenna by a variable distance. The wireless communication device transmits, via the first antenna, a first transmission within a first frequency range, and receives via the second antenna, a second transmission within a second frequency range that overlaps the first frequency range.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Francis Ming-Meng NGAI, Eric TSOU, Michael KOHLMANN, Olaf Josef HIRSCH, Shriram GURUMOORTHY, Steve Andre BEAUDIN, Vikram PHOGAT
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Patent number: 11736172Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform, to a first base station and via a first radio frequency (RF) chain associated with a first subscription, a first uplink transmission based at least in part on one or more of an uplink carrier aggregation capability of the UE or an uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capability of the UE. The UE may perform, to the first base station or to a second base station, and via a second RF chain associated with a second subscription and configured to operate simultaneously with the first RF chain, a second uplink transmission based at least in part on one or more of the uplink carrier aggregation capability of the UE or the uplink MIMO capability of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: James Beckman, Reza Shahidi, Cheol Hee Park, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Aamod Khandekar, Krishna Chaitanya Mukkera
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Publication number: 20230216535Abstract: In one implementation, a wireless communication device includes a first transceiver configured to generate a transmit signal and a band pass filter (BPF) select circuit configured to filter the transmit signal by a one of a first BPF with a relatively high-frequency passband or a second BPF with a relatively low-frequency passband. The wireless communication device includes a second transceiver configured to receive a received signal filtered by the other one of the first or second BPF. Having the transmit and received signals filtered by two different passband filters improves the isolation between the transmitter and receiver. Another implementation configures the first transceiver to include its own set of first and second BPFs, and the second transceiver to also include its own first and second BPFs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Shaofeng WANG, Rongliang YANG, Devdutt PATNAIK, Rohit TRIPATHI, Francis Ming-Meng NGAI
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Publication number: 20230180170Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may use multiple subscriber identification modules (SIMs) in dual-SIM dual-active (DSDA) communications. A DSDA UE may support identification of a set of available radio frequency (RF) resources for communications, where the set of available RF resources include multiple RF components (e.g., transmit/receive antennas), RF baseband resources (e.g., processing resources that support processing and decoding of transmissions), or combinations thereof. The set of available resources may be shared between multiple SIMs, and the UE may identify different resource partitions of the set of available resources, with different resource partitions used to provide concurrent communications of both the first SIM and the second SIM based on parameters of each SIM.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Mutaz Zuhier Afif Shukair, Qingxin Chen, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai, Reza Shahidi, Cheol Hee Park, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt
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Publication number: 20230048785Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) user equipment (UE) may communicate, using a first SIM, on a plurality of component carriers. The multi-SIM UE may select a first subset of component carriers from the plurality of component carriers based at least in part on a component carrier prioritization. The multi-SIM UE may identify an amount of memory available to a second SIM. The multi-SIM UE may tune away, based at least in part on the amount of memory available to the second SIM, from a second subset of component carriers The first subset of component carriers may be different from the second subset of component carriers. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Francis Ming-Meng NGAI, Arnaud MEYLAN, Suli ZHAO, Liangchi HSU, Cheol Hee PARK, Qingxin CHEN, Jun HU, Leena ZACHARIAS, Pulkit HANSWAL, Reza SHAHIDI, Thawatt GOPAL, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Heechoon LEE
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Publication number: 20220294510Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform, to a first base station and via a first radio frequency (RF) chain associated with a first subscription, a first uplink transmission based at least in part on one or more of an uplink carrier aggregation capability of the UE or an uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capability of the UE. The UE may perform, to the first base station or to a second base station, and via a second RF chain associated with a second subscription and configured to operate simultaneously with the first RF chain, a second uplink transmission based at least in part on one or more of the uplink carrier aggregation capability of the UE or the uplink MIMO capability of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: James BECKMAN, Reza SHAHIDI, Cheol Hee PARK, Francis Ming-Meng NGAI, Aamod KHANDEKAR, Krishna Chaitanya MUKKERA
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Publication number: 20220295422Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) may configure a first initial set of maximum transmit powers for a first subscriber module. The UE may configure a second initial set of maximum transmit powers for a second subscriber module. The UE may configure a first maximum transmit power associated with a first connection for the first subscriber module. The UE may configure, independently of the configuration of the first maximum transmit power, a second maximum transmit power associated with the second connection. The UE may transmit based at least in part on at least one of the first maximum transmit power or the second maximum transmit power. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Shanshan WANG, Reza SHAHIDI, Francis Ming-Meng NGAI, Akhil DEODHAR, Troy CURTISS, Bhupesh Manoharlal UMATT, Lan LAN, Qingxin CHEN, Leena ZACHARIAS, Cheol Hee PARK, Farhad MESHKATI, Dinesh Kumar DEVINENI, Tienyow LIU, Tianpei CHEN, Jagadish NADAKUDUTI, Lin LU
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Patent number: 11362692Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure related to communications apparatus provides isolation between wireless protocols when operating currently while incurring the additional insertion loss based on providing the isolation only when needed. In an aspect, an apparatus include a switched filter coupled to an antenna where the switched filter includes a filter and a bypass line along with switching circuitry configured to selectively establish a bypass signal path including the bypass line or a filtered signal path including the filter. The apparatus further includes a switched filter controller configured to cause the switching circuitry to selectively connect a transceiver unit to the antenna via the bypass signal path or via the filtered signal path based at least on a frequency band of a carrier signal and a bandwidth of the carrier signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Steve Andre Beaudin, Patric Heide, Wai San Wong, Michael Kohlmann, David Maldonado, Ryan Scott Castro Spring, Stefan Freisleben, Mykola Shevelov, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai
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Patent number: 10308140Abstract: A renewable energy-based hybrid bi-directionally interactive DC traction power supply system includes two traction substations. Each substation includes transformers, rectifiers, bidirectional AC-DC converters, a DC bus, a catenary, a steel rail and a section post. A DC bus between two adjacent traction substations is provided with a DC renewable energy system constructed by an electric vehicle charging-discharging system, a distributed generation and more than one low voltage DC microgrid. The DC renewable energy system is connected to the DC bus between two adjacent traction substations through a high voltage DC bus, thus a DC circular microgrid being formed in a power supply section post. The electric vehicle charging-discharging system is formed by more than one bidirectional DC-DC charging-discharging equipments which are intended for in connection with the power batteries of the electric vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignees: State Grid Corporation of China, North China Electric Power University, State Grid Liaoning Electric Power Company Limited Economic Research InstituteInventors: Ming Meng, Jian Liu, Xiping Wang, Dalong Hu, Li Jiang, Yingwei Song, Yan Liu, Liaoyi Ning