Patents by Inventor Ming Zhou

Ming Zhou 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).

  • Publication number: 20240079784
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element and a light source module mounted to a flexible printed circuit and a metal cowling. The module may emit light through a rear housing wall. The printed circuit may be interposed between the metal cowling and a conductive support plate in the rear housing wall. The printed circuit may include a ground trace coupled to the resonating element. A dimpled pad may couple the ground trace to the support plate. Compressive foam may be used to exert a force against the flexible printed circuit that presses the dimpled pad against the conductive support plate. The ground trace and the dimpled pad may form a return path to ground for the resonating element. The dimpled pad may occupy less height within the device than other structures such as metal springs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Han Wang, Victor C. Lee, Jingni Zhong, Ming Chen, Bhaskara R. Rupakula, Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Christopher Q. Ma, Zhiheng Zhou, Sherry Cao, Kevin M. Froese, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11923041
    Abstract: A device includes a memory array, bit line pairs, word lines, a modulation circuit and a control signal generator. The memory array has bit cells arranged in rows and columns. Each bit line pair is connected to a respective column of bit cells. Each word line is connected to a respective row of bit cells. The modulation circuit is coupled with at least one bit line pair. The control signal generator is coupled with the modulation circuit. The control signal generator includes a tracking wiring with a tracking length positively correlated with a depth distance of the word lines. The control signal generator is configured to produce a control signal, switching to a first voltage level for a first time duration in reference with the tracking length, for controlling the modulation circuit. A method of controlling aforesaid device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., TSMC NANJING COMPANY LIMITED, TSMC CHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiu-Li Yang, He-Zhou Wan, Mu-Yang Ye, Lu-Ping Kong, Ming-Hung Chang
  • Patent number: 11921782
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution of multi-modal chatting, which may provide response to user query by using multi-modal response in the interaction between chatbot and human beings, so that the expressing ways and the expressed content by the chatbot could be richer by using such response in a multi-modal way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nan Duan, Lei Ji, Ming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11920472
    Abstract: A reasonable millisecond time control method for excavation blasting of a tunnel is provided, and includes: acquiring physical mechanical parameters to establish a millisecond blasting model, and designing four dimensions blasting parameters of explosive quantity, hole number, inter-hole millisecond and inter-row millisecond; simulating, based on the millisecond blasting model, a blasting process of an explosive package using blasting parameters to obtain a blasting vibration curve; obtaining single-hole blasting vibration waveforms, solving a vibration synthesis curve through a vibration synthesis theory; comparing the vibration synthesis curve with the blasting vibration curve to obtain a coupling relationship of blasting parameters; determining a target group of explosive quantity and hole numbers, determining a target millisecond through the coupling relationship of blasting parameters, and relating a millisecond blasting control strategy to control, and it is used for tunneling project to reduce cut blas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA RAILWAY ELEVENTH BUREAU GROUP CO., LTD, CHINA RAILWAY ELEVENTH BUREAU GROUP FOURTH ENGINEERING CO., LTD., WUJIU RAILWAY PASSENGER DEDICATED LINE HUBEI CO., LTD, CHINA RAILWAY FOURTH BUREAU GROUP CO., LTD, ANHUI CHINA RAILWAY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CO., LTD, WUHAN INSTITUTE OF GEOTECHNICAL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CHINA RAILWAY SOUTHWEST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jun Gao, Liyun Yang, Xiao Lin, Ming Zhang, kaiwen Liu, Xiaowei Zuo, Bin Zhou, Feng Wang, Yuxin Gao, Dan Xu, Ling Wang, Zhengyi Wang, Xiaokai Wen, Yongtai Wang, Huiling Xue
  • Publication number: 20240069426
    Abstract: A projection curtain is provided in the present invention. The projection curtain at least comprises a reflective layer and one of a colored layer, a diffusion layer, and a Fresnel lens layer. The Fresnel lens layer is a spherical Fresnel lens layer or an aspherical Fresnel lens layer. The Fresnel lens layer comprises a plurality of annular protrusions protruding from a plane, the plurality of annular protrusions are arranged in circular bands. A cross-sectional shape of each annular protrusion along a cross section perpendicular to the plane is a triangular shape or a multi-step shape or a free surface shape. The width of one side of each cross-sectional shape parallel to the plane gradually changes, and gradual change of the cross-sectional shape and the width thereof determines light gathering characteristics of the spherical Fresnel lens layer or the aspherical Fresnel lens layer. A surface of each annular protrusion has scattered microstructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: IVTECH JIANGSU CO., LTD., IVTOUCH CO., LTD., SVG TECH GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohong ZHOU, Ming ZHU, Donglin PU, Pengfei ZHU, Haoshu ZHU, Rubin SUN, Linsen Chen
  • Publication number: 20240053384
    Abstract: A wedge amplitude-modulation probe card and a main body thereof. The probe card includes a probe card main body, upper wedge plates and lower wedge plates. Several upper wedge plates and several lower wedge plates are slidably arranged inside the probe card main body, and the several upper wedge plates and the several lower wedge plates are sequentially arranged at intervals in a staggered manner, so that by means of inserting different numbers of upper wedge plates between the lower wedge plates, probes on the upper wedge plates can be inserted into or shifted out of a probe queue thereunder, so as to increase or decrease the number of probes for testing, and thus, the testing amplitude of a single probe card can be adjusted, such that the probe card has universality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: MAXONE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haichao YU, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240049056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to terminal devices, multi-link communication methods, and chips. In one example method, when a terminal device supports Wi-Fi and D2D (for example, V2X) communication, the terminal device may communicate with another terminal device in a multi-link collaborative transmission manner such as a Wi-Fi link and a D2D link to implement multi-link accelerated transmission in a local area network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Haw-Wei SHU, Tongbo WANG, Ming ZHOU, Ronggui XIE
  • Patent number: 11894399
    Abstract: Hyperspectral resonant cavity imaging spectrometers and imaging systems incorporating the resonant cavity spectrometers are provided. The spectrometers include an array of photodetectors based on photosensitive semiconductor nanomembranes disposed between two dielectric spacers, each of the dielectric spacers having a thickness gradient along a lateral direction, such that the resonant cavity height differs for different photodetectors in the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Zhenqiang Ma, Zhenyang Xia, Ming Zhou, Qiaoqiang Gan, Zongfu Yu
  • Publication number: 20240033652
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides processes and systems for ethanol production. In one embodiment, a first beer column receives a first portion of a feed mixture including ethanol and water to form a first beer column bottom stream and a first beer column vaporous overhead stream. A beer column receives a second portion of the feed mixture. A first portion of the first beer column bottom stream is forwarded to a first beer column reboiler. A second portion of the first beer column bottom stream is forwarded to a plurality of evaporators. A condensed portion of the first beer column vaporous overhead stream is forwarded to a stripper column. The stripper column forms a feed stream, which is contacted with a separation system, thereby forming a permeate and a retentate. The permeate is forwarded directly to at least one selected from the first beer column and the stripper column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Whitefox Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Virginia Andrade, Jin Ming ZHOU, Stephan Rudiger BLUM
  • Patent number: 11882521
    Abstract: A mode switching method in a WI-FI network includes after a terminal device accesses a WI-FI network, the terminal device communicates, in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mode, with an access point that provides an access service of the WI-FI network. The terminal device obtains first received signal strength and a first throughput of the WI-FI network in the MIMO mode, and when the first received signal strength is greater than a first strength threshold and the first throughput is less than a first throughput threshold, the terminal device switches from the MIMO mode to the single-input single-output (SISO) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tongbo Wang, Ming Zhou, Ji Ding
  • Publication number: 20240022646
    Abstract: A chaos engineering experimentation method for a system, a device and a storage medium. Minimum experimental traffic of a service request required by a chaos engineering experiment is determined as target service request traffic; service request traffic is adjusted for a canary cluster in a to-be-tested server cluster according to the target service request traffic, where the canary cluster is a cluster formed by servers in the to-be-tested server cluster, the servers being used for canary release when a service is upgraded; an experimental task of the chaos engineering experiment is executed in the canary cluster, and an experimental result is outputted. The chaos engineering experiment is conducted on the canary cluster, and the service request traffic of the canary cluster is adjusted to the minimum experimental traffic of the service request required by the chaos engineering experiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Weijie NI, Jinlie LIN, Ming ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11876050
    Abstract: Semiconductor fabrication method for manufacturing an interconnect structure is provided. The semiconductor fabrication method for manufacturing an interconnect structure includes providing a substrate structure comprising a substrate, a first dielectric layer on the substrate, and a metal interconnect line extending through the first dielectric layer; removing a portion of the first dielectric layer on the metal interconnect line to form a recess exposing a surface of the metal interconnect line; forming a graphene layer on the exposed surface of the metal interconnect line; and forming a second dielectric layer filling the recess and covering the graphene layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (BEIJING) CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11877016
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution of live comments generating, which may acquire candidate texts highly similar with segments of video as live comments of corresponding segments by matching the candidate texts with the segments, and further generate new live comments based on video segments and existed live comments to enrich the live comments information of related video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lei Cui, Furu Wei, Shaohan Huang, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240001485
    Abstract: A laser etching method for MEMS probes belongs to the technical field of semiconductor processing and testing; first, the MEMS probe laser etching method performs the parameter calculation to obtain the step angle of the motor according to the etching spacing of the single crystal silicon wafer; then it performs the initial position adjustment to rotate the spiral through-groove plate to the initial position and move the first etching point to the optical axis, and adjust the four-dimensional stage; and then it performs the laser etching and progress judgment; and finally adjusts the four-dimensional stage and the motor, including the downward movement distance, left movement distance and clockwise rotation angle of the four-dimensional stage and the rotation angle of the motor; the MEMS probe laser etching method, combined with the MEMS probe laser etching device, not only has higher etching accuracy, but also continuously adjusts the etching spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: MAXONE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haichao YU, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230394333
    Abstract: A knowledge injection model for generative commonsense reasoning. In examples, an encoder-decoder model is used to generate a model output (204) a plausible description for a set of concepts. A prototype (218) is generated from an in-domain or out-of-domain knowledge corpus, which is further used as input (202) for the encoder-decoder model. Concept input tokens and prototype input tokens are scaled to limit potential skew that may be introduced by the prototype (218). Additionally, position indicators are generated for each input token, which indicate the relative position each respective input token as compared to other input tokens. As such, when decoding the scaled encoded input tokens, the decoder (214) may be more attuned to the scenario bias that is introduced by the prototype (218) when generating a model output (204). Thus, the encoder-decoder model need not rely solely on the set of concepts when generating the model output (204).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jian JIAO, Yeyun GONG, Nan DUAN, Yameng HUANG, Ruofei ZHANG, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230394489
    Abstract: The present application provides an application method, system, medium and device of digital assets based on digital product. This method includes: receiving a request from a requester for the display of a digital asset; sending a first identity authentication instruction to the owner of the digital asset according to the display request; receiving a first identity verification instruction sent by the owner of the digital asset according to the first identity authentication instruction; displaying the digital asset to the requester according to the first identity verification instruction, and recording the display of the digital asset to the requester on a transaction block of the blockchain platform. The application can not only improve the security performance of the transaction, but also improve the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Ming Zhou, Zhen Hua, Yongsheng Wang
  • Publication number: 20230385315
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating a keyword sequence from an input query. A first text sequence corresponding to an input query may be received and encoded into a source sequence representation using an encoder of a machine learning model. A keyword sentence may then be generated from the source sequence representation using a decoder of the machine learning model. The decoder may generate a modified generation score for a plurality of prediction tokens, wherein the modified generation score is based on the respective prediction token generation score and a maximum generation score for a suffix of each prediction token. The decoder may then select the prediction token of the plurality of prediction tokens based on the modified generation score, and add the selected prediction token to the previously decoded partial hypothesis provided by the decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jian JIAO, Yeyun GONG, Nan DUAN, Ruofei ZHANG, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230370920
    Abstract: This application provides a communication method, a terminal device, and a storage medium. The communication method includes: A first terminal device performs a Wi-Fi P2P service in response to a first operation of a user, where the first terminal device uses a first channel to perform the Wi-Fi P2P service, and a bandwidth of the first channel is a maximum bandwidth supported by the first terminal device, and is 80 MHz or 160 MHz. When detecting that a signal-to-noise ratio and/or a channel load of the first channel meet a first preset condition, the first terminal device switches from the first channel to a second channel to perform the Wi-Fi P2P service, where a bandwidth of the second channel is 20 MHz or 40 MHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Zhou, HAW-WEI SHU, Meng Meng
  • Publication number: 20230322877
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant fusion protein comprising a fragment of the cardioprotective protein neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) fused to a monoclonal antibody (mAb) backbone and to a method of treating a disease or condition in a subject in need thereof comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of the recombinant fusion protein or the pharmaceutical composition comprising the recombinant fusion protein disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: John Li, Shengwei Li, Dixiang Luo, Yiran Wu, Ming Zhou, Yang Wang, Xiaolei Zhuang, Liang Hua, Pengyi Luo
  • Patent number: 11779858
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides processes and systems for ethanol production. In one embodiment, a first beer column receives a first portion of a feed mixture including ethanol and water to form a first beer column bottom stream and a first beer column vaporous overhead stream. A beer column receives a second portion of the feed mixture. A first portion of the first beer column bottom stream is forwarded to a first beer column reboiler. A second portion of the first beer column bottom stream is forwarded to a plurality of evaporators. A condensed portion of the first beer column vaporous overhead stream is forwarded to a stripper column. The stripper column forms a feed stream, which is contacted with a separation system, thereby forming a permeate and a retentate. The permeate is forwarded directly to at least one selected from the first beer column and the stripper column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: WHITEFOX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Virginia Andrade, Jin Ming Zhou, Stephan Rudiger Blum