Patents by Inventor Wei Zhou

Wei 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: 20240136310
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices including one or more interfacing segments patterned within an outer protective layer and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. The one or more interfacing segments may provide attachment interfaces/surfaces for connection pads. The one or more interfacing segments or a portion thereof may remain uncovered or exposed and provide warpage control for the corresponding semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Chien Wen Huang
  • Publication number: 20240137163
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission in a first slot, wherein the PDSCH transmission is associated with a codebook timespan. The UE may perform, to the network entity, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission in a subsequent slot based at least in part on an adjustment to the codebook timespan, wherein the PUCCH transmission indicates a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) associated with the PDSCH transmission. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Konstantinos DIMOU, Wei YANG, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20240133823
    Abstract: A processing device to be used for optical inspection of samples is configured to be communicatively coupled to a camera of an optical inspection device and to a user interface, to receive input data from the user interface and/or from the camera, to provide output data to the user interface, to be communicatively coupled to a storage device, to provide instructions, by accessing instruction data stored at the storage device, for optical quality inspection of samples to be performed by a user via the user interface. The instructions include instructions regarding what kind of optical quality inspection to be performed on which sample. The processing device is further configured to receive quality report data from the optical quality inspection via the user interface, and/or image data of images acquired by the camera, and to store the quality report data and/or the image data in the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Linqi JIAO, ChunXin YANG, Fei ZHANG, YuanPing ZHOU, Minquan LI, Wei ZHAO, Shengwei FENG
  • Publication number: 20240132925
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for preparing pyrrolidone, and the invention provides a method for catalytically preparing pyrrolidone with ?-aminobutyric acid in the presence of carnitine-CoA ligase CaiC. The carnitine-CoA ligase CaiC has an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1. The ligase has catalytic activity in the cyclization of ?-aminobutyric acid to produce pyrrolidone. The carnitine-CoA ligase provided in the present invention affords a yield of pyrrolidone of 3.26 g/L and a molar yield of 39.53% in 24 h when ?-aminobutyric acid is used as a substrate, thus reducing the production period, improving the production of pyrrolidone, and accelerating the industrialization process of producing pyrrolidone by enzymatic conversion method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jing WU, Xuling JIANG, Liming LIU, Wei SONG, Yiwen ZHOU, Xiulai CHEN, LIU Jia, Cong GAO
  • Publication number: 20240134480
    Abstract: An anti-mistouch method and apparatus, and an electronic device, are provided. The method includes: determining, by an electronic device, a folding angle of a foldable screen; determining a target region of the foldable screen according to the folding angle; and disabling a touch response function of the target region of the foldable screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11966516
    Abstract: Methods and systems for gesture-based control of a device are described. A virtual gesture-space is determined in a received input frame. The virtual gesture-space is associated with a primary user from a ranked user list of users. The received input frame is processed in only the virtual gesture-space, to detect and track a hand. Using a hand bounding box generated by detecting and tracking the hand, gesture classification is performed to determine a gesture input associated with the hand. A command input associated with the determined gesture input is processed. The device may be a smart television, a smart phone, a tablet, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juwei Lu, Sayem Mohammad Siam, Wei Zhou, Peng Dai, Xiaofei Wu, Songcen Xu
  • Patent number: 11966807
    Abstract: A multi-tag concurrent identification method and a system for a query tree based on feature groups are provided in this disclosure. In the disclosure, a whole data string space is divided into a plurality of disjoint subsets according to features of data strings returned by tags, where each of the subsets contains several different data strings, each of the data strings in the each of the subsets is regarded as a complete tag ID or a partial ID, and the each of the subsets corresponds to a unique query prefix, a length of the prefix is fixed and does not dynamically increase with an actual location of a collision, and when multiple data strings from a same subset return at a same time, a reader is capable of identifying them at a same time in a slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jian Su, Jialin Zhou, Wei Zhuang, Ling Tan
  • Publication number: 20240128403
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a micro light-emitting element, method for manufacturing a micro light-emitting element, and a light-emitting device. The micro light-emitting element includes a DBR structure layer, including a DBR adhesive layer, a DBR reflective layer, and a DBR sacrificial layer, where the DBR adhesive layer, the DBR reflective layer, and the DBR sacrificial layer are sequentially stacked. Subsequent structural coverage of a DBR reflective layer is improved by means of the DBR adhesion layer. Density of film layers of the DBR sacrificial layer, the DBR reflective layer, and the DBR adhesive layer are sequentially increased, so that etching rates of the DBR sacrificial layer, the DBR reflective layer, and the DBR adhesive layer are sequentially decreased during etching, thereby forming an inverted trapezoidal through hole which comprises an inclined side wall by an etching process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: XIAMEN CHANGELIGHT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei LIU, Weiwen LIU, Shaowen PENG, Fengjie LIN, Hongyi ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240123554
    Abstract: Disclosed are an active metal brazing paste composition, a brazing paste and a method for brazing ceramics and metals. The composition includes a binder and metal powder. The metal powder includes active metal brazing powder and brazing-aid metal powder. The brazing-aid metal powder contains copper powder and/or copper-silver alloy powder. The active metal brazing powder is alloy powder containing copper, silver, and an active metal. With the total weight of the metal powder as a reference, the content of the active metal is 1.5 wt % or more, the content of silver is 40 wt % to 90 wt %, and the content of oxygen is 0.5 wt % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei ZHOU, Yiming ZHU, Qiang XU, Wenyan ZHAO, Xiayang LI
  • Publication number: 20240125234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of mine fire prevention and extinguishing, in particular to a liquid nitrogen direct injection and low-temperature foaming intelligent filling system based on mine fire area characteristics and an application method, comprising a liquid nitrogen storage tank, a liquid nitrogen direct injection system and a low-temperature foaming system, wherein the liquid nitrogen storage tank communicates with a liquid nitrogen pressurizing device through a main pipeline; a temperature control unit is arranged on the main pipeline; and the liquid nitrogen pressurizing device is connected with the liquid nitrogen direct injection system and the low-temperature foaming system, respectively, liquid nitrogen is directly injected into a foam liquid, to prepare a low-temperature foam type fire preventing and extinguishing material by means of forced convection, membrane boiling, explosion boiling and nucleate boiling between the liquid nitrogen and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Xiangming HU, Di XUE, Yong ZHOU, Kuibin WU, Wei WANG, Lin ZHU, Peng LI, Xiangdong YAO, Weidong WANG, Wenqi SHAO, Chuncheng CAI, Fusheng WANG, Liwen GUO
  • Publication number: 20240126576
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an example method. The example method includes generating an initial user interface including a content assistant component. The example method include obtaining user input data. The example method includes processing, by a machine learned model interfacing with the content assistant component, the data indicative of the input received from the user. The method includes obtaining output data, from the machine learned model interfacing with the content assistant component, indicative of one or more content item components. The method includes transmitting data which causes the content item components to be provided for display via an updated user interface. The method includes obtaining data indicative of user selection of approval of the content item components. The method includes generating, in response to obtaining the data indicative of the user selection of the approval of the content item components, content items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sylvanus Garnet Bent, III, Xiaolan Zhou, Mehmet Levent Koc, Wei Luo
  • Publication number: 20240128616
    Abstract: A battery pack, comprising a first cell and a second cell connected in series, the first cell having a current cut-off device and having a first failure voltage, the current cut-off device being configured to be able to break a circuit in response to a voltage value of the first cell reaching or exceeding the first failure voltage, and the second cell having no current cut-off device. The battery pack may use a soft pack battery as the second cell, having advantages such as high energy density, low impedance, high discharge power, a low rate of temperature rise during high-rate discharge, and flexibility in dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yi ZHANG, Yun Yan JIA, Si Xing ZHOU, Jia Wei CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240126997
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an example method that includes obtaining via a conversational campaign assistant interface, by a custom language model, natural language input. The method includes generating, by the custom language model, an output comprising a predicted user intent. The method includes determining actions to perform and determining a natural language response. The method includes transmitting, to an action component, the action data structure comprising executable instructions that cause the action component to automatically perform operations associated with completing the action. The method includes transmitting to the conversation campaign assistant interface, the response data structure comprising the natural language response to be provided for display to a user via the conversational campaign assistant interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sylvanus Garnet Bent, III, Mehmet Levent Koc, Wei Luo, Xiaolan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11958850
    Abstract: Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions that modulate kinase activity, including mutant EGFR and mutant HER2 kinase activity, and compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treatment of diseases and conditions associated with kinase activity, including mutant EGFR and mutant HER2 activity, are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei-Sheng Huang, Yongjin Gong, Feng Li, Nicholas E. Bencivenga, David C. Dalgarno, Anna Kohlmann, William C. Shakespeare, Ranny M. Thomas, Xiaotian Zhu, Angela V. West, Willmen Youngsaye, Yun Zhang, Tianjun Zhou
  • Patent number: 11960030
    Abstract: The invention relates to the technical field of radar detection, in particular to a device for real-time detection of spectrum from airborne hyperspectral imaging LiDAR and method thereof. The device comprises a laser and a reference module; the reference module comprises a first reflecting mirror and a second reflecting mirror with a given transmittance; the first reflecting mirror and the second reflecting mirror are arranged with a focusing mirror and an optical fiber in sequence therebetween. The laser emits a laser light to the first reflecting mirror with a given transmittance, and the beam of the laser light transmitted through the first reflecting mirror after passing the focusing mirror is used as the reference beam after passing the optical fiber. The invention enables detection of the spectral line of each pulse and improves the precision of reflection spectrum of the ground object measured by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HEFEI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Dong Liu, Liyong Qian, Decheng Wu, Xiaojun Zhou, Liujun Zhong, Wei Wei, Wenju Wang, Yingjian Wang
  • Patent number: 11963356
    Abstract: Embodiments of structure and methods for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory device are provided. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a stack structure including a memory block including a plurality of memory cells. The 3D memory device also includes a first top select structure and a bottom select structure in the memory block and aligned with each other vertically; and a second top select structure in the memory block is separated from the first top select structure by at least one of the plurality of memory cells. The first top select structure, the bottom select structure, and the second top select structure each includes an insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zongliang Huo, Haohao Yang, Wei Xu, Ping Yan, Pan Huang, Wenbin Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240117011
    Abstract: Disclosed are monoclonal antibodies, antigen binding fragments, and bi-specific antibodies that specifically bind a coronavirus spike protein, such as SARS-CoV-2. Also disclosed is the use of these antibodies for inhibiting a coronavirus infection, such as a SARS-CoV-2 infection. In addition, disclosed are methods for detecting a coronavirus, such as SARS-CoV-2, in a biological sample, using the disclosed antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: The U.S.A., as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: John Misasi, Lingshu Wang, Chaim Aryeh Schramm, John R. Mascola, Daniel Cesar Douek, Nancy J. Sullivan, Amy Ransier Henry, Tongqing Zhou, Peter D. Kwong, Wei Shi, Yi Zhang, Eun Sung Yang, Mario Roederer, Rosemarie Diana Mason, Amarendra Pegu, Julie E. Ledgerwood
  • Publication number: 20240118818
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing memory usage in data learning operations. The method includes profiling one or more objects used for training in the data learning operation, in which the profiling includes determining an object size, a memory allocation timestamp, and a memory deallocation timestamp; and scheduling the memory usage. The scheduling includes grouping the one or more objects into the one or more groups based on the memory allocation and/or the memory deallocation timestamp of the one or more objects, and arranging the one or more objects in the one or more groups in descending order in a memory space. Two or more objects are provided in the descending order in the memory space, in which one of the objects having an earliest memory allocation timestamp is provided at a first value and the other object having a later memory allocation timestamp is provided at a second value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jin ZHOU, Tongping LIU, Yong FU, Ping ZHOU, Wei XU, Jianjun CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240121606
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a PC5 root key processing method, device, AUSF and remote terminal. The method includes: receiving, at AUSF, a relay key request message transmitted by a relay terminal; obtaining a PC5 root key of the remote terminal, according to the relay key request message; generating a first random number, and generating a relay key according to the first random number and the PC5 root key; and transmitting a relay key response message to the relay terminal through the target network element of the relay terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240118855
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video generation method, an apparatus, a system, a device and a storage medium. The method is applied to a video generation system, and the video generation system includes a first client and at least one second client. Specifically, the method includes: firstly, the first client creates a first virtual room and sets a target capturing effect for the first virtual room; then, the second client acquires a first video added with the target capturing effect after receiving a notification message that a current user has successfully joined the first virtual room, and uploads the first video to the first virtual room. Further, the first client acquires a target video from the first virtual room and generates a target result video based on the target video, and the target video includes the first video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zipei PENG, Jiawei Wang, Bo Qiu, Jianren Zhou, Jianfeng Zhang, Wenbin Wu, Leihe Zhao, Wei Wang