Patents Examined by Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 12660234
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a device with workfunction metal in a drift region and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a gate structure having at least a first workfunction metal in a channel region and a second workfunction metal, which is different from the first workfunction metal, in a trench in a drift region; and a sidewall spacer adjacent to the gate structure within the trench in the drift region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc
    Inventors: Shesh Mani Pandey, Rajendran Krishnasamy, Chung Foong Tan
  • Patent number: 12660681
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first main surface on which a semiconductor chip is mounted, a case adhered to a peripheral edge of the substrate to form a recess in which the semiconductor chip is disposed, a cover disposed in the case with a first gap in a direction parallel to the first main surface between the cover and the case such that a second main surface of the cover faces the first main surface, and a first adhesive layer embedded in the first gap. The first adhesive layer has a first protruding portion and/or a second protruding portion, the first and second protruding portions respectively protruding outside and inside the recess from the first gap while being in contact with the inner walls of the case and respectively a third main surface of the cover opposite to the second main surface, and the second main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Kimijima
  • Patent number: 12651308
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include a method performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a display device. The method includes obtaining, via the image sensor, an input image that includes an object. The method includes obtaining depth information characterizing the object, wherein the depth information characterizes a first distance between the image sensor and a portion of the object. The method includes determining a distance warp map for the input image based on a function of the depth information and a first offset value characterizing an estimated distance between eyes of a user and the display device. The method includes setting an operational parameter for the electronic device based on the distance warp map and generating, by the electronic device set to the operational parameter, a warped image from the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tobias Eble, Pedro Manuel Da Silva Quelhas, Raffi A. Bedikian
  • Patent number: 12639861
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for generating images based on generated clusters. The system retrieves, from an account of a user, historic events associated with the user and determines clusters of the historic events based on location and time data associated with the historic events. The system generates an input for a machine learning model for a first cluster of historic events, where the machine learning model has been trained to generate images based on clusters of historic events. The system then inputs the input into the machine learning model to cause the machine learning model to output images depicting locations associated with the first cluster of historic events. The system outputs the images in conjunction with the first cluster of historic events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Ermenildo Castro, Benjamin Eng, Youbing Yin
  • Patent number: 12628465
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an inorganic light emitter, include arranging an inorganic light emitting element on one surface of a substrate; separating the inorganic light emitting element from the substrate while forming an oxide layer on a first surface of the inorganic light emitting element by emitting laser light to the first surface under an atmosphere having an oxygen concentration higher than an oxygen concentration of air, the first surface contacting the one surface of the substrate; and stacking the inorganic light emitting element separated at the separating on an array substrate to manufacture the inorganic light emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Magnolia White Corporation
    Inventors: Masanobu Ikeda, Yasuhiro Kanaya
  • Patent number: 12615353
    Abstract: The technology described herein provides an improved framework for novel view synthesis utilizing scene-level features and pixel-level features. In particular, the technology provides semantic representations corresponding to the scene, along with semantic representations corresponding to the each pixel, so that inherent interconnections within objects in the scene can be determined by transformer encoders that would not otherwise be determined by the pixel-level feature representations alone. In this regard, the technology described herein improves the generalizability of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) based techniques to novel scenes to avoid the need for retraining for specific scenes and the few-shot capability of NeRF-based techniques to render novel views using a limited number of reference images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tianyu Ding, Haidong Zhu, Tianyi Chen, Ilya Dmitriyevich Zharkov, Luming Liang
  • Patent number: 12616076
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip each including a first main electrode on a bottom surface side and a second main electrode on a top surface side; a conductive member provided to electrically connect the first main electrode of the first semiconductor chip to the second main electrode of the second semiconductor chip; a first external terminal electrically connected to the second main electrode of the first semiconductor chip and partly opposed to the conductive member, and a resin member provided to be at least partly arranged between the conductive member and the first external terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taisuke Fukuda
  • Patent number: 12610535
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a base structure, a bit line structure and a spacer. The bit line structure is disposed over the base structure. The spacer is disposed around the bit line structure, and includes a first layer, a second layer and a third layer. The third layer is disposed over the second layer. A width of the third layer is substantially equal to a width of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hsu Chiang
  • Patent number: 12604497
    Abstract: The present application discloses a thin film transistor and an array substrate. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and at least one of the gate electrode, the source electrode, or the drain electrode is a composite film layer. The composite film layer includes a metal layer, a low reflection functional layer, and an alloy layer which are arranged in layers. The alloy layer covering a surface of the low reflection functional layer can enhance stability of the low reflection functional layer. Because adhesion between the alloy layer and dielectric layers such as silicon oxide, silicon nitride, and silicon oxynitride is stronger than that of the low reflection functional layer, the bulge phenomenon is not easy to occur under a high temperature environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaobo Hu
  • Patent number: 12597176
    Abstract: Provided is an information-processing device including: a CPU; and a memory storing instructions for causing the information-processing device, when executed by the CPU, to: output an intermediate heatmap for input of an input image by using at least one of a plurality of machine learning models; and generate a heatmap based on an attribute of the input image, which is provided independently of the input image, and the intermediate heatmaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Hiya Roy, Mitsuru Nakazawa, Bjorn Stenger
  • Patent number: 12589481
    Abstract: An inventory control system comprises a tool storage device including a drawer, a tray, or a shelf having a plurality of storage locations for storing a plurality of objects which define a silhouette in the tool storage device. The inventory control system comprises a sensing device configured to sense color, a display device configured to display information about the inventory control system, and a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions causing the processor to determine a plurality of colors of the plurality of objects stored in the tool storage device, which also causes the processor to generate an image in the form of an arrangement of colored blocks, wherein the display of color blocks represent associated color data of the plurality of objects and a size of each color block is proportional to the percentage of RGB color data in the silhouette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: David C. Fly, Matthew J. Lipsey, Preston C. Phillips, Traig E. Born, Frederick J. Rogers, Joseph Chwan, Gavin Pavlick, Cody Houston
  • Patent number: 12588347
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an organic insulating layer, a light reflecting layer, a light emitting element, a sealing layer having an inclined surface having a lower end and an upper end, and a coating layer. An interface between the inclined surface and the coating layer is configured to reflect light traveling through the sealing layer toward the light reflecting layer. The lower end is located below a middle of the light emitting element in a height direction of the light emitting element. The upper end is located above the middle of the light emitting element in the height direction of the light emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Akihiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12588223
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a FinFET MOS capacitor. In some embodiments, the FinFET MOS capacitor comprises a substrate and a capacitor fin structure extending upwardly from an upper surface of the substrate. The capacitor fin structure comprises a pair of dummy source/drain regions separated by a dummy channel region and a capacitor gate structure straddling on the capacitor fin structure. The capacitor gate structure is separated from the capacitor fin structure by a capacitor gate dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Hsin Yang, Jung-Chi Jeng, Ru-Shang Hsiao
  • Patent number: 12586265
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present application disclose a line drawing method, a line drawing apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. Under a condition that at least one of an abscissa transformation value and an ordinate transformation value is not less than a first set threshold, a corresponding line is drawn according to an association relationship among the abscissa transformation value, the ordinate transformation value, a preconfigured transformation value coefficient, and a transformation value threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HITEVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lisen Zhu, Hongwei Sun, Peiqi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12579715
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for obtaining an input image comprising a plurality of pixels. A machine learning model generates annotation information indicating whether each of the plurality of pixels is synthetically generated. A combined image is generated based on the annotation information. In some cases, the combined image shows a synthetically generated region of the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: David Charles Epstein, Richard Zhang, Ishan Kapil Jain
  • Patent number: 12573123
    Abstract: Techniques are described with respect to a system, method, and computer program product for visualizing weather in a digital environment. An associated method includes; receiving a plurality of weather data; converting the plurality of weather data for a texture model associated with a plurality of virtual objects associated with the digital environment; and visualizing at least one derivative of the conversion in the digital environment based on the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Inventors: Thai Quoc Tran, Qaish Shabbir Kanchwala, Prachi Shirish Khadke, Manan Goyal
  • Patent number: 12573104
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a graph drawing program for causing a computer to execute acquiring a plot point of a first graph by a handwriting input, regressively calculating a plurality of graph data by a plurality of regression models, based the acquired plot point, performing first determination to determine, in regard to each of the graph data, whether at least a partial data element is included in a predetermined range of coordinates, performing second determination to determine graph data having a good regression accuracy among the plurality of graph data, selecting one of the graph data, based on a result of the first determination and a result of the second determination and drawing a second graph in place of the first graph, based on the selected graph data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manato Ono
  • Patent number: 12567221
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a preparation surface of a tooth for preparing the tooth for receiving a dental restoration element. The method comprises receiving a three-dimensional digital tooth model, a three-dimensional digital restorative tooth model, a definition of a restoration area, a first value selected for a basic preparation depth of the preparation, and a second value selected for a restoration thickness of the dental restoration element. The method further comprises determining a first reference surface using the selected first value, determining a second reference surface using the selected second value, determining one or more preparation reference surface sections using the first and second reference surface, and determining the preparation surface of the tooth using the determined one or more preparation reference surface sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: EXOCAD GMBH
    Inventors: Maik Gerth, Esther Moll
  • Patent number: 12558167
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intelligent assistance (“IA”) or extended intelligence (“EI”) ecosystem to placement procedures for cardiac implantable electronic device (“CIED”). In various embodiments, a computing system might analyze received one or more first layer input data (i.e., room content-based data) and received one or more second layer input data (i.e., patient and/or tool-based data), and might generate one or more recommendations for guiding a medical professional in performing a CIED placement procedure in a heart of the patient, based at least in part on the analysis, the generated one or more recommendations comprising 3D or 4D mapped guides toward, in, and around the heart of the patient. The computing system might then generate one or more XR images, based at least in part on the generated one or more recommendations, and might present the generated one or more XR images using a UX device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Peter N. Braido, Randal C. Schulhauser, Xiaohong Zhou, Alan Cheng, Zhongping Yang
  • Patent number: 12555275
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a text-to-image model so that the text-to-image model generates images that each depict a variable instance of an object class when the object class without the unique identifier is provided as a text input, and that generates images that each depict a same subject instance of the object class when the unique identifier is provided as the text input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kfir Aberman, Nataniel Ruiz Gutierrez, Michael Rubinstein, Yuanzhen Li, Yael Pritch Knaan, Varun Jampani