Patents by Inventor A. Lin

A. 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).

  • Patent number: 9945681
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for verification of a generated route in computer assisted navigation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for verification of a generated route in computer assisted navigation is provided. The method includes receiving an origin and a destination in a mapping application executing in memory by a processor of a computer and generating a first route in the mapping application from the origin to the destination. The method also includes receiving a waypoint for the first route and determining whether or not the waypoint is proximate to the first route. Finally, the method includes validating the first route only if it is determined that the waypoint is proximate to the first route. In one aspect of the embodiment, the method also can include generating an alternative route to include the waypoint if it is determined that the waypoint is not proximate to the first route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Judith Helen Bank, Lisa Marie Wood Bradley, Lin Sun, ChunHui Yang
  • Patent number: 9949155
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a transportation vehicle are provided. One method includes collecting by a processor connection information for a plurality of user devices accessing a wireless network on a transportation vehicle; determining by the processor available bandwidth for the plurality of user devices depending on a connection type; monitoring currently used bandwidth by the plurality of user devices; receiving a request from a user device to access content via the wireless connection; determining by the processor additional bandwidth for accessing the content by the user device; and rejecting the request for accessing the content when the additional bandwidth and the currently used bandwidth equals or exceeds the available bandwidth for the plurality of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Avionics Corporation
    Inventor: Changhwa Lin
  • Patent number: 9948016
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a grounding plate, a first terminal module, a second terminal module, and a molding block. The first terminal module includes first plug terminals and a first combining block. The second terminal module includes second plug terminals and a second combining block. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell. The first and the second combining blocks are respectively combined with the first plug terminals and the second plug terminals by insert-molding techniques. Then, the first combining block and the second combining block are respectively assembled to the grounding plate. Next, the molding block is provided to combine the first combining block with the second combining block, so that an assembly of the first terminal module, the second terminal module, and the grounding plate can be firmly assembled to the rear of the insulated housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Tien Chen, Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Xiao-Juan Qi
  • Patent number: 9947090
    Abstract: The present invention involves a foreign object detection system and method which involves combining several algorithms specifically enhanced for foreign object detection to provide an improved detection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: RaPID Medical Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gady Agam, Gan Lin
  • Patent number: 9947558
    Abstract: A method for conditioning and cleaning a silicon part is provided. The silicon part is heated to a temperature of at least 300° C. in the presence of oxygen to form an outer surface of the silicon part into silicon oxide. The silicon part is placed in a wet bath wherein the bath is a solution that selectively etches silicon oxide with respect to silicon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Lin Xu, Hong Shih, Robin Koshy, John Daugherty, Satish Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 9945424
    Abstract: A method of assembling mating components includes the steps of heating an inner surface of a first cavity of a first part to generate a first expansion, heating an outer surface of a component surrounding an outer periphery of the first part to generate a second expansion of the component that corresponds to the first expansion of the first part, inserting a second part into the first cavity while the first part is in an expanded condition, and cooling the first part to contract around the second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Lin, Berci Cherpician
  • Patent number: 9944437
    Abstract: A cover structure of a container is provided. The cover structure has a bottom cover assembled on an opening of the container's body, a top cover openably and pivotally connected with the bottom cover to simultaneously cover the bottom cover and an outlet of a watering seat assembled on the opening of the container's body, and a latch mechanism disposed between the top cover and the bottom cover. The latch mechanism has a first latch seat assembled on the top cover, a second latch seat elastically, horizontally and movably assembled between a first position and a second position of the bottom cover, and a sliding latch bolt vertically and slidably assembled between a third position and a fourth position of the second latch seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Inventor: Tsai-Hui Lin
  • Patent number: 9948296
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a conductive film of a touch panel. The conductive film has a film and a plurality of a plurality of hydrophobic units. The film is used for sensing touch signals, and the hydrophobic units are disposed in the film with intervals. Conductive material of the conductive film of the touch panel is distributed outside the region of the hydrophobic units, and as the hydrophobic units have good light transmittance, the touch panel of the present disclosure has a characteristic of high light transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc.
    Inventors: Yuh-Wen Lee, Xianbin Xu, Keming Ruan, Fengming Lin
  • Patent number: 9944978
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions for determining the average length or abundance of a first target nucleic by calculating the abundance of a first target nucleic acid (T) relative to the average abundance (S) of a second and a third target nucleic acid, in a single well using a separate detection label for each target nucleic acid. In various aspects, the first target nucleic acid is a telomere. In exemplary aspects, the disclosed methods and compositions can be used to determine the average telomere length in a biological sample. The average telomere length determined using the disclosed methods and compositions can be correlated to a variety of clinically important conditions and indices. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: TELOMERE DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Calvin Harley, Jue Lin, Karl Guegler
  • Patent number: 9947601
    Abstract: An integrated circuit, in the form of a wafer, die, or chip, includes multiple standard cell-compatible fill cells, configured to enable non-contact electrical measurements. Such fill cells include mesh pads that contain at least three conductive stripes disposed between adjacent gate stripes. Such fill cells further include geometry to enable non-contact evaluation of side-to-side shorts and/or leakages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: PDF Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli, Indranil De, Kelvin Doong, Hans Eisenmann, Timothy Fiscus, Jonathan Haigh, Christopher Hess, John Kibarian, Sherry Lee, Marci Liao, Sheng-Che Lin, Hideki Matsuhashi, Kimon Michaels, Conor O'Sullivan, Markus Rauscher, Vyacheslav Rovner, Andrzej Strojwas, Marcin Strojwas, Carl Taylor, Rakesh Vallishayee, Larg Weiland, Nobuharu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9947792
    Abstract: A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first fin-shaped structure thereon; forming a spacer adjacent to the first fin-shaped structure; using the spacer as mask to remove part of the substrate for forming a second fin-shaped structure, in which the second fin-shaped structure comprises a top portion and a bottom portion; and forming a doped portion in the bottom portion of the second fin-shaped structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Li-Wei Feng, Shih-Hung Tsai, Chao-Hung Lin, Chih-Kai Hsu, Yu-Hsiang Hung, Jyh-Shyang Jenq
  • Patent number: 9944528
    Abstract: Methods of making carbon nanostructures are disclosed with including examples having heat treatment of a mixture having a fibrous organic reagent and a catalyst in the presence of a reducing agent for a time sufficient to produce a quantity of carbon nanostructures which may be nanotubes or other related structures. The reducing agent may be hydrogen, nitrogen or ammonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: Southern University, A&M College
    Inventors: Guang-Lin Zhao, Feng Gao, Zhou Wang
  • Patent number: 9945782
    Abstract: An optical sensing module is configured to detect a characteristic of a sample. The optical sensing module includes a light source, a light guide plate, a first cladding layer, a light converging layer, a filter layer, and a plurality of sensors. The light source is configured to provide an exciting beam. Positions of the sensors correspond to positions of the holes. After the exciting beam enters the light guide plate, at least one portion of the exciting beam is transmitted to the sample through a portion of the surface of the light guide plate exposed by the holes, the sample is excited by the exciting beam to emit a signal beam, and the signal beam passes through the light converging layer and the filter layer in an order and travels to the sensors. Another optical sensing module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Personal Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yi Hsieh, Sheng-Fu Lin, Teng-Chien Yu
  • Patent number: 9947540
    Abstract: Various methods and structures formed by those methods are described. In accordance with a method, a first metal-containing layer is formed on a substrate. A second metal-containing layer is formed on the substrate. A material of the first metal-containing layer is different from a material of the second metal-containing layer. A chlorine-based treatment is performed on the first metal-containing layer and the second metal-containing layer. A third metal-containing layer is deposited on the first metal-containing layer and the second metal-containing layer using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng-Yen Tsai, Da-Yuan Lee, JoJo Lee, Ming-Hsing Tsai, Hsueh Wen Tsau, Weng Chang, Ying-Chieh Hung, Yi-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 9946913
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed herein and includes a multi-functional power button and a processor, where the multi-functional power button includes a power switch and a fingerprint recognition module. The fingerprint recognition module is combined on the power switch, and the processor is coupled to the multi-functional power button. The fingerprint recognition module is configured to extract a fingerprint feature information. The processor is configured to determine whether the multi-functional power button is pressed or touched to respectively cause the power switch to generate a switching signal or cause the fingerprint recognition module to extract the fingerprint feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yun-Cheng Liu, Wan-Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 9947653
    Abstract: A high-voltage semiconductor device includes a MOS device and a resistor device. The MOS device has a source, a drain, a drain insulation region adjacent to the drain, and a gate adjacent to the source. The resistor device is formed on the drain insulation region and is electrically connected to the drain. The resistor device has a plurality of resistor sections connected in series, and each of the plurality of resistor sections has a curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: VANGAURD INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin-Cheng Lin, Hsiao-Ling Chiang
  • Patent number: 9947499
    Abstract: A rocker switch having a housing and a rocker extending from the housing. The rocker has a first side with a first end and a second end, a second side adjacent to the first side, and a channel. The channel is disposed on the second side of the rocker and has a first end and a second end. A pivot point is disposed on a crank. A pin, disposed on the crank, is located in a first side of the channel. The depression of the first end of the rocker causes a rotational movement of the channel in a curvilinear path around the pivot point, causing a rotational movement of the crank, moving the pin from the first end of the channel toward the second end of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Carling Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianzhuan Lin, Trevor Fitch, Michael Fasano
  • Patent number: 9947417
    Abstract: A memory management method, a memory storage device and a memory controlling circuit unit are provided. The method includes: programming data into a plurality of memory cells of a rewritable non-volatile memory module; determining whether a storage state of the data conforms with a first condition or a second condition based on a default bias range and a threshold voltage distribution of the memory cells storing the data; performing a first operation if the storage state of the data conforms with the first condition; and performing a second operation if the storage state of the data conforms with the second condition. Accordingly, the probability of misidentifying the valid data as the invalid data may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Wei Lin, Yu-Cheng Hsu
  • Patent number: 9948649
    Abstract: A device may receive a request to access a resource. The resource may be associated with resource information. The device may obtain rating information based on receiving the request. The rating information may identify a rating associated with the resource. The device may apply an access rule based on the rating information. The access rule may identify an access indicator to generate based on the rating information. The access indicator may indicate an action to perform related to the resource. The device may generate the access indicator based on applying the access rule to the rating information. The device may store, locally in one or more memories, information that indicates an association between the access indicator and the resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Zhao, Jun Yang, Tao Zhao, Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 9946682
    Abstract: One example provides a system. The system includes a serial port and a circuit coupled to the serial port. The circuit is to detect an installation or removal of a device to the serial port and to remove power provided to the serial port in response to the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Hsin-Tso Lin