Patents by Inventor Qing Liu

Qing Liu 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).

  • Patent number: 11515418
    Abstract: A tunneling transistor is implemented in silicon, using a FinFET device architecture. The tunneling FinFET has a non-planar, vertical, structure that extends out from the surface of a doped drain formed in a silicon substrate. The vertical structure includes a lightly doped fin defined by a subtractive etch process, and a heavily-doped source formed on top of the fin by epitaxial growth. The drain and channel have similar polarity, which is opposite that of the source. A gate abuts the channel region, capacitively controlling current flow through the channel from opposite sides. Source, drain, and gate terminals are all electrically accessible via front side contacts formed after completion of the device. Fabrication of the tunneling FinFET is compatible with conventional CMOS manufacturing processes, including replacement metal gate and self-aligned contact processes. Low-power operation allows the tunneling FinFET to provide a high current density compared with conventional planar devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Qing Liu, John H. Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220364014
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing industrial products from plant lipids, particularly from vegetative parts of plants. In particular, the present invention provides oil products such as biodiesel and synthetic diesel and processes for producing these, as well as plants having an increased level of one or more non-polar lipids such as triacylglycerols and an increased total non-polar lipid content. In one particular embodiment, the present invention relates to combinations of modifications in two or more of lipid handling enzymes, oil body proteins, decreased lipid catabolic enzymes and/or transcription factors regulating lipid biosynthesis to increase the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content and/or mono-unsaturated fatty acid content in plants or any part thereof. In an embodiment, the present invention relates to a process for extracting lipids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Thomas VANHERCKE, James Robertson PETRIE, Anna EL TAHCHY, Surinder Pal SINGH, Kyle REYNOLDS, Qing LIU, Benjamin Aldo LEITA
  • Patent number: 11473407
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable medium, and method for identifying drilling events in drilling reports, of which the method includes receiving one or more drilling reports including text data representing one or more observations recorded during a drilling activity, identifying a drilling event, a drilling activity, or both from the text data using a model, obtaining feedback based at least in part on the drilling event, the drilling activity, or both that were identified, and training the model based on the feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin Tang, Qing Liu, Paul Bolchover, Di Cao, Jean-Pierre Poyet, Benoit Foubert, Ping Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220325885
    Abstract: A low-carbon energy utilization system for steam and power cogeneration of oil field is provided, which includes a first water pump device, a second water pump device, electric heating devices, a liquid mixer, a fossil-fuel steam injection boiler, a steam mixer, a super-heater, and a new energy generation station. The electric heating devices are connected to the first water pump device. The liquid mixer is connected to the second water pump device and the electric heating devices. The fossil-fuel steam injection boiler is connected to the liquid mixer. The steam mixer is connected to the electric heating devices and the fossil-fuel steam injection boiler. The super-heater is connected to the steam mixer. The new energy generation station is used for supplying power to the electric heating devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Yuxin WU, Qi LIU, Junfu LV, Man ZHANG, Yang ZHANG, Zhong HUANG, Tuo ZHOU, Qing LIU
  • Publication number: 20220290550
    Abstract: A method can include receiving data for a bottom hole assembly of a drillstring and a drill plan; generating candidate trajectories using at least a portion of the data; generating drill command schedules for the candidate trajectories; ranking the candidate trajectories based at least in part on the drill command schedules; and outputting at least a top ranked candidate trajectory and its corresponding drill command schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Samba Ba, Lu Jiang, Adrien Chassard, Magnus Hedlund, Maja Ignova, Katharine Mantle, Jinsoo Kim, Tao Yu, Farid Toghi, Hendrik Suryadi, Qing Liu, Diego Medina
  • Patent number: 11435791
    Abstract: A detachable cage includes a cage body, a handle, two holding structures, and a button. The handle is pivotally connected to the cage boy. The two holding structures are disposed on the cage body and the handle respectively and are detachably engaged with each other. The button is movably disposed on the handle. The button is operable to be pressed to push against one of the two holding structures to disengage the two holding structures from each other, so as to allow the handle to rotate outward relative to the cage body. An electronic apparatus casing includes a casing frame and the detachable cage. The casing frame has a bracket. The detachable cage is detachably disposed on the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Qing Liu, Qi Liu, Xiu-Jie Liang, Chen-Yang Wu
  • Publication number: 20220268147
    Abstract: Techniques for determining trajectories for a plurality of wells while avoiding collision between wells are presented. The techniques can include determining a zone of uncertainty for individual wells of the plurality of wells, determining a minimum separation factor for individual wells of the plurality of wells, determining a gradient of a separation factor for at least one pair of wells the plurality of pairs of wells, updating a nudge position for at least one well, and providing nudge positions for the individual wells of the plurality of wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Xin Chen, Qing Liu, Lu Jiang, XiaoWei Sheng, Paul Bolchover
  • Publication number: 20220268448
    Abstract: A kitchen air conditioner and a control method thereof, where the kitchen is equipped with a range hood, the air conditioner including a housing and a current detection device. An electric control board is disposed in the housing, and the current detection device is disposed outside the housing and electrically connected to the electric control board. The current detection device is used for detecting a current of the range hood and determining whether the range hood works.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Min Zhou, Huandi Yang, Qing Liu, Yaosheng Tan
  • Publication number: 20220266557
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are three-dimensional porous tubular scaffolds for cardiovascular, periphery vascular, nerve conduit, intestines, bile conduct, urinary tract, and bone repair/reconstruction applications, and methods and apparatus for making the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Qing Liu, Zongsen Wang, Wing K. Lau
  • Patent number: 11414650
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a construction method of a Mucor circinelloides cell factory for producing dihomo-?-linolenic acid and a fermentation technology, belonging to the field of genetic engineering. In the present disclosure, ?-linolenic acid elongase gene glelo is obtained from Mortierella alpine by cloning, the gene is ligated to an integrative plasmid pMAT1552, and transformed into a Mucor circinelloides defective strain Mu402, and the gene glelo is integrated into Mucor circinelloides genome through homologous recombination, to obtain the recombinant strain Mc-glelo, and finally, the expression of the gene glelo in Mucor circinelloides is realized. The lipid content in the recombinant strain Mc-glelo is not obviously different from that in the control strain Mc1552, however, the lipid composition changes greatly, and dihomo-?-linolenic acid appears in the lipids of the recombinant strain Mc-glelo, and the content thereof reaches 5.7% of the total fatty acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yuanda Song, Md. Ahsanul Kabir Khan, Junhuan Yang, Huaiyuan Zhang, Wu Yang, Qing Liu
  • Patent number: 11385257
    Abstract: An apparatus for testing electronic components includes a base, a screw rod structure, a first sliding portion, a second sliding portion, a vacuum-based or similar adsorption structure, and a probe. The screw rod structure is fixedly connected to one side of the base. The first sliding portion is slidably positioned on the screw rod structure. The second sliding portion is slidably positioned on the first sliding portion. The adsorption structure is arranged on the second sliding portion. The adsorption structure gathers and holds an electronic component. The probe and the electronic component are arranged to correspond. The probe is electrically connected to a test device. The test device tests the electronic component through the probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS (ZHENGZHOU) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Chen, Wei Wu, Yan-Fang Yan, Zhen-Ke Zhang, Zhi-Qing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220212048
    Abstract: A fire suppression composition comprises CF3I and CO2, wherein said CF3I is present in an amount of from 23 mol. % to 39 mol. %, based on the total moles of CF3I and CO2 present in the fire suppression composition. Alternatively, the fire suppression composition comprises CF3I and CO2, wherein said CF3I is present in an amount of from 53 mol. % to 85 mol. %, based on the total moles of CF3I and CO2 present in the fire suppression composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Adam Chattaway, Terry Simpson, Mark P. Fazzio, Eli Baldwin, Marios C. Soteriou, Paul Papas, Qing Liu
  • Publication number: 20220206578
    Abstract: A method for generating a haptic feedback can be applied to a terminal, and include: in response to an interface element on a display interface of the terminal being touched, determining a first interface element type corresponding to the interface element, and determining a first haptic effect corresponding to the first interface element type based on a matchup between interface element types and haptic effects, where different interface element types correspond to different haptic effects; generating a haptic feedback of the first haptic effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhe LIANG, Qiaozhuo CHEN, Huiying YANG, Fan JIN, Wenwen LI, Yuefeng MA, Yixin ZHAO, Rong LIU, Liang XUAN, Qing LIU
  • Patent number: 11374111
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that a fin structure, and a gate structure present on a channel region of the fin structure. A composite spacer is present on a sidewall of the gate structure including an upper portion having a first dielectric constant, a lower portion having a second dielectric constant that is less than the first dielectric constant, and an etch barrier layer between sidewalls of the first and second portion of the composite spacer and the gate structure. The etch barrier layer may include an alloy including at least one of silicon, boron and carbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC., STMICROELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Xiuyu Cai, Chun-Chen Yeh, Qing Liu, Ruilong Xie
  • Publication number: 20220198289
    Abstract: A recommendation model training method, a selection probability prediction method, and an apparatus are provided. The training method includes obtaining a training sample, where the training sample includes a sample user behavior log, position information of a sample recommended object, and a sample label. The training method further includes performing joint training on a position aware model and a recommendation model by the training sample, to obtain a trained recommendation model, where the position aware model predicts probabilities that a user pays attention to a target recommended object when the target recommended object is at different positions, and the recommendation model predicts, when the user pays attention to the target recommended object, a probability that the user selects the target recommended object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huifeng Guo, Jinkai Yu, Qing Liu, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He
  • Patent number: 11365369
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing industrial products from plant lipids, particularly from vegetative parts of plants. In particular, the present invention provides oil products such as biodiesel and synthetic diesel and processes for producing these, as well as plants having an increased level of one or more non-polar lipids such as triacylglycerols and an increased total non-polar lipid content. In one particular embodiment, the present invention relates to combinations of modifications in two or more of lipid handling enzymes, oil body proteins, decreased lipid catabolic enzymes and/or transcription factors regulating lipid biosynthesis to increase the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content and/or mono-unsaturated fatty acid content in plants or any part thereof. In an embodiment, the present invention relates to a process for extracting lipids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Kyle Reynolds, Qing Liu, Benjamin Aldo Leita
  • Publication number: 20220188644
    Abstract: Computer-implemented machines, systems and methods for providing insights about misalignment in a latent space of a machine learning model. A method includes initializing a second weight matrix of a second artificial neural network based on a first weight matrix from a first artificial neural network. The method further includes applying transfer learning between the first artificial neural network and the second artificial neural network. The method further includes comparing the first latent space with the second latent space. The method further includes determining, responsive to the comparing, a first score indicating alignment of the first latent space and the second latent space. The method further includes determining, and responsive to the first score satisfying a threshold, an appropriateness of the machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Scott M. ZOLDI, Jeremy SCHMITT, Qing LIU
  • Patent number: 11350858
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of material fabrication, and particularly relates to an ultra-sensitive glucose sensor based on a graphene and carbon fiber substrate and a fabrication method thereof. The method includes fabricating a carbon fiber cloth with vertical graphene growth on a surface thereof, performing pretreatment to make the carbon fiber cloth hydrophilic, directly soaking the carbon fiber cloth in a PBS solution of glucose oxidase with the pH of 7.4, and then taking out and drying the carbon fiber cloth at room temperature to obtain a glucose sensor. According to the present invention, the lower limit of glucose detection reaches about 0.1 mM, and the glucose sensor also has multistage corresponding characteristics, so that different detection coefficients and capabilities can be achieved in different glucose concentration ranges. The application range and precision of the glucose sensor are greatly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SHENZHEN
    Inventors: Huanhuan Feng, Qing Liu, Xing Ma, Tingting Zheng, Weiwei Zhao, Jiaheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11355632
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a top surface, pillar structures formed on top of the substrate, a gate conductor, a drain/source region and a source/drain region. Each pillar structure of the pillar structures includes a first end and a second end, and the first end is closer to the substrate than the second end. The gate conductor surrounds each of the pillar structures disposed between the first end and the second end. The drain/source region is at the top surface of the substrate and in contact with the first end of a first pillar structure of the pillar structures, and the source/drain region is at the top surface of the substrate and in contact with the first end of a second pillar structure of the pillar structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventor: Qing Liu
  • Patent number: 11354540
    Abstract: In an approach, a processor detects at least one training message delivered by a user on a social media application, the training message being accessible by an operator. A processor records training feedback performed by the operator on the social media application regarding to the at least one training message. A processor trains an analysis engine module using (i) the at least one training message as input and (ii) the training feedback as output. A processor generates a predicted feedback for a subsequent message based on the trained analysis engine module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Qin Li, Jonathan D. Dunne, Guang Han Sui, Ping Xiao, Peng Hui Jiang, Niao Qing Liu, Xiang Zhou