Patents by Inventor William Lin
William Lin 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: 11970992Abstract: An acoustic core may include an array of resonant cells configured as a plurality of resonant cell groups. The resonant cell groups may include a plurality of resonant cells configured as a partitioned resonant cell that include a converging resonant cell and a diverging resonant cell. The converging resonant cell and the diverging resonant cell may be defined by a plurality of cell walls integrally formed with one another and a partition integrally formed with the plurality of cell walls. The partition may at least partially delimit the converging resonant cell from the diverging resonant cell. The converging resonant cell may define an upper resonant space delimited by the partition and a top face of the array of resonant cells. The diverging resonant cell may define a lower resonant space delimited by the partition and a bottom face of the array of resonant cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Wendy Wenling Lin, David Herman, Trevor Howard Wood, Nikolai N. Pastouchenko, Kishore Ramakrishnan, Timothy Richard DePuy, Robert William Davidoff
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Publication number: 20240126147Abstract: An apparatus has a lens assembly which has: a front region with an entrance window of the lens assembly; a window structure at the entrance window; a back region; a lens between the window structure and the back region; and a heater coupled to heat the window structure. The lens assembly includes a reflective surface. The front region is on a first side of the reflective surface. The back region is on a second side of the reflective surface. The reflective surface reflects thermal radiation generated by the heater. The reflected radiation is reflected towards the first side. Other features are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Nile E. Fairfield, William J. Hall, Jace Dispenza, Sean Tauber, David Ovrutsky, Stephanie Lin
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Patent number: 11961334Abstract: The disclosure herein describes systems and methods for object data storage. In some examples, the method includes generating a profile for an object in a directory, the profile including a first feature vector corresponding to the object and a global unique identifier (GUID) corresponding to the first feature vector in the profile; generating a search scope, the search scope including at least the GUID corresponding to the profile; generating a second feature vector from a live image scan; matching the generated second feature vector from the live image scan to the first feature vector using the generated search scope; identifying the GUID corresponding to the first feature vector that matches the second feature vector; and outputting information corresponding to the object of the profile identified by the GUID corresponding to the first feature vector.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: William Louis Thomas, Jinyu Li, Yang Chen, Youyou Han Oppenlander, Steven John Bowles, Qingfen Lin
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Patent number: 11948792Abstract: Embodiments of a glass wafer for semiconductor fabrication processes are described herein. In some embodiments, a glass wafer includes: a glass substrate comprising: a top surface, a bottom surface opposing the top surface, and an edge surface between the top surface and the bottom surface; a first coating disposed atop the glass substrate, wherein the first coating is a doped crystalline silicon coating having a sheet-resistance of 100 to 1,000,000 ohm per square; and a second coating having one or more layers disposed atop the glass substrate, wherein the second coating comprises a silicon containing coating, wherein the glass wafer has an average transmittance (T) of less than 50% over an entire wavelength range of 400 nm to 1000 nm.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Ya-Huei Chang, Karl William Koch, III, Jen-Chieh Lin, Jian-Zhi Jay Zhang
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Patent number: 11950092Abstract: Techniques described herein provide means by which cell information indicative of a location of a UE may be conveyed to a location server over a 5G NR data connection using a SUPL message with an LTE cell ID data field. In some embodiments, for example, the UE may include the Cell ID of a LTE neighbor cell or information regarding a 5G NR serving cell, such as a portion of the 5G NR Cell ID or a reserved value or sequence identifying the 5G NR serving cell. The techniques may be applicable to the Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) solution defined by OMA and may enable a UE and a SUPL Location Platform (SLP) to support location of the UE using a version of SUPL without explicit support of 5G NR wireless access.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen William Edge, Srigouri Kamarsu, Ie-Hong Lin
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Publication number: 20240086737Abstract: A computer system is provided that is programmed to select feature sets from a large number of features. Features for a set are selected based on metagradient information returned from a machine learning process that has been performed on an earlier selected feature set. The process can iterate until a selected feature set converges or otherwise meets or exceeds a given threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Douglas HAMILTON, Michael O'ROURKE, Xuyang LIN, Hyunsoo JEONG, William DAGUE, Tudor MOROSAN
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Patent number: 11927184Abstract: A displacement pump is configured to mount to a drive housing. A reciprocating drive is connectable to a pump rod of the displacement pump and includes a connecting rod and a drive link that receives a head of the pump rod. A flange projects from a pump body of the pump and a ring projects from the pump body of the pump. A portion of the drive housing is received in a gap between the flange and the ring.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.Inventors: David J. Thompson, Christopher A. Lins, Andrew J. Kopel, Glen W. Davidson, Chad R. Taszarek, Chris W. Sydow, William M. Blenkush, Steve J. Wrobel
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Patent number: 11927382Abstract: A portable cooler container with active temperature control includes a double-walled insulated container body with a chamber to receive and hold temperature sensitive products. A control system is at least partially disposed between an outer wall and an inner wall of the container body. An electronic display screen on one of the lid and the container body configured to display shipping address information for the portable cooler container.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Ember Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Clayton Alexander, Daren John Leith, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Jacob William Emmert, Joseph Lyle Koch, Frank Victor Baumann, Clifton Texas Lin, Farzam Roknaldin, Mark Channing Stabb
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Patent number: 11927183Abstract: A fluid spraying system includes a displacement pump configured to mount to a drive housing. A reciprocating drive is connectable to a pump rod of the displacement pump and includes a connecting rod and a drive link that receives a head of the pump rod. A tightening ring that includes threading is configured to rotate about a cylinder of the pump and shift axially along the cylinder and engage with a bottom side of the drive housing to secure the displacement pump to the drive housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.Inventors: David J. Thompson, Christopher A. Lins, Andrew J. Kopel, Glen W. Davidson, Chad R. Taszarek, Chris W. Sydow, William M. Blenkush, Steve J. Wrobel
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Publication number: 20240078516Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to project management systems and milestone management. In example implementations, for input of a project having project data and employee data, such implementations involve executing feature extraction on the project data and the employee data to generate features; executing a self-profiling algorithm configured with unsupervised machine learning on the generated features to derive clusters and anomalies of the project; executing a performance monitoring process on the generated features to determine a probability of a transition to a milestone associated with a key performance indicator; and executing a supervised machine learning model on the generated features, the derived clusters, the derived anomalies, the probability of the transition to the milestone associated with a key performance indicator to generate a predicted performance of the project.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Yongqiang ZHANG, Wei LIN, Mohan WANG, William SCHMARZO
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Patent number: 11919580Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example vehicle disclosed herein includes a steering assist system, a steering wheel, and a steering controller to detect a request to move the steering wheel of the vehicle to a first rotational position, the steering wheel having a second rotational position, actuate, via the steering assist system, the steering wheel towards the first rotational position, determine, based on a relationship between a first parameter and a second parameter, a third rotational position, the third rotational position having an angular offset from the first rotational position, the first parameter corresponding to a position of the steering system, the second parameter corresponding to a load on the steering system, and in response to reaching the third rotational position, disengage the steering assist system, the disengagement causing the steering wheel to rotate to the first rotational position.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Zhongzhou Yang, Alex Parker, Zheng Tan, Bo Lin, Justin Sekula, William Bouse
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Patent number: 11916733Abstract: An example computing device is configured to (i) establish a connection to a secure wireless network (ii) determine that one or more playback devices of a media playback system are not connected to the secure wireless network (iii) receive, via a graphical display, a user input indicating a request to update the one or more playback devices with network configuration parameters for the secure wireless network, (iv) retrieve, from storage, a list of the one or more playback devices, (v) receive an input indicating a first playback device to be updated from the list, (vi) establish an initial communication path with the first playback device, (vii) transmit a set of one or more messages to the first computing device collectively comprising the network configuration parameters for the secure wireless network, and (viii) receive an indication that the first computing device has established a connection to the secure wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Sonos, Inc.Inventors: William Shoesmith, Ted Lin, Jeffrey M. Peters, Cameron Scott, James Babu, Andi Rusu, Bryan Cox
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Patent number: 11007215Abstract: A shear-thinning hydrogel composition includes: a first polymer chain including: (i) a first plurality of units each having at least one of a monosaccharide and an amino acid; and (ii) a cross-linking group bound to the at least one of the monosaccharide and the amino acid of one of the first plurality of units via conversion of a carboxyl group of the unit to a peptide bond; a second polymer chain including a second plurality of the units; and a cross-linking additive connecting one of the second plurality of units to the first polymer chain via the cross-linking group.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: OUROTECH, INC.Inventors: Duleeka Nimantha Bandara Ranatunga, Andrew Christopher Wenger, Zhi Yuan (William) Lin
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Publication number: 20200121713Abstract: A shear-thinning hydrogel composition includes: a first polymer chain including: (i) a first plurality of units each having at least one of a monosaccharide and an amino acid; and (ii) a cross-linking group bound to the at least one of the monosaccharide and the amino acid of one of the first plurality of units via conversion of a carboxyl group of the unit to a peptide bond; a second polymer chain including a second plurality of the units; and a cross-linking additive connecting one of the second plurality of units to the first polymer chain via the cross-linking group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Duleeka Nimantha Bandara RANATUNGA, Andrew Christopher WENGER, Zhi Yuan (William) LIN
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Patent number: 10548919Abstract: A shear-thinning hydrogel composition includes: a first polymer chain including: (i) a first plurality of units each having at least one of a monosaccharide and an amino acid; and (ii) a cross-linking group bound to the at least one of the monosaccharide and the amino acid of one of the first plurality of units via conversion of a carboxyl group of the unit to a peptide bond; a second polymer chain including a second plurality of the units; and a cross-linking additive connecting one of the second plurality of units to the first polymer chain via the cross-linking group.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: OUROTECH, INC.Inventors: Duleeka Nimantha Bandara Ranatunga, Andrew Christopher Wenger, Zhi Yuan (William) Lin
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Publication number: 20190374571Abstract: A shear-thinning hydrogel composition includes: a first polymer chain including: (i) a first plurality of units each having at least one of a monosaccharide and an amino acid; and (ii) a cross-linking group bound to the at least one of the monosaccharide and the amino acid of one of the first plurality of units via conversion of a carboxyl group of the unit to a peptide bond; a second polymer chain including a second plurality of the units; and a cross-linking additive connecting one of the second plurality of units to the first polymer chain via the cross-linking group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Duleeka Nimantha Bandara Ranatunga, Andrew Christopher Wenger, Zhi Yuan (William) Lin
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Patent number: 10413567Abstract: A shear-thinning hydrogel composition includes: a first polymer chain including: (i) a first plurality of units each having at least one of a monosaccharide and an amino acid; and (ii) a cross-linking group bound to the at least one of the monosaccharide and the amino acid of one of the first plurality of units via conversion of a carboxyl group of the unit to a peptide bond; a second polymer chain including a second plurality of the units; and a cross-linking additive connecting one of the second plurality of units to the first polymer chain via the cross-linking group.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: OUROTECH, INC.Inventors: Duleeka Nimantha Bandara Ranatunga, Andrew Christopher Wenger, Zhi Yuan (William) Lin
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Publication number: 20170312306Abstract: A shear-thinning hydrogel composition includes: a first polymer chain including: (i) a first plurality of units each having at least one of a monosaccharide and an amino acid; and (ii) a cross-linking group bound to the at least one of the monosaccharide and the amino acid of one of the first plurality of units via conversion of a carboxyl group of the unit to a peptide bond; a second polymer chain including a second plurality of the units; and a cross-linking additive connecting one of the second plurality of units to the first polymer chain via the cross-linking group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Duleeka Nimantha Bandara RANATUNGA, Andrew Christopher WENGER, Zhi Yuan (William) LIN
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Patent number: D1027211Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Therabody, Inc.Inventors: Jaime Sanchez Solana, Eduardo Merino, Zenger Zhou, Lymond Lin, Sunny Wang, Tony Zhong, Danny Zeng, William Webb, Phil Huang, Yano Pang