Patents by Inventor Albert Liu

Albert 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).

  • Publication number: 20250151275
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes a memory cell included in a memory cell string; the memory cell including charge storage structure and channel structure separated from the charge storage structure by a dielectric structure; a first control gate associated with the memory cell and located on a first side of the charge storage structure and a first side of the channel structure; and a second control gate associated with the memory cell and electrically separated from the first control gate, the second control gate located on a second side of the charge storage structure and a second side of the channel structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Haitao Liu, Kamal M. Karda, Albert Fayrushin, Yingda Dong
  • Patent number: 12291091
    Abstract: A riding lawn mower comprising, a pair of rear drive wheels, a pair of front wheels, a deck positioned between the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear drive wheels, a rotatable cutting blade, and multiple battery packs removably coupled to the riding lawn mower and structured to provide power to the riding lawn mower, each battery pack graspable and removable by a user, wherein the multiple battery packs sequentially provide power to the riding lawn mower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Zeiler, Robert John Koenen, Jacob Schmalz, Albert Liu, Nick Zeidler, Scott Funke, David Procknow
  • Publication number: 20250077762
    Abstract: An effect stack for an abstracted text modification system and methods thereof. Instead of modifying text in-place, the effect stack maintains effects in a saved stack separately from the source text, allowing text to flow without modifying the ground truth until desired. This effect stack allows for effects to be applied and updated/edited after the fact for a powerful interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Adam SCHAUER, Huxley MARVIT, Selina MARVIT, Dylan WALLACE, Albert HUANG, Houjun LIU, Lachlan MARVIT, Yehong JIANG, Riley DENOYER, Oscar CAPRARO, Micah ROBINSON, Parley MARVIT
  • Publication number: 20250081460
    Abstract: A microelectronic device includes a stack structure, a cell pillar structure, doped semiconductor material, and control logic devices. The stack structure includes vertically neighboring tiers respectively including a conductive structure and an insulative structure vertically neighboring the conductive structure. The cell pillar structure vertically extends through the stack structure and includes a fill material, a channel material horizontally surrounding the fill material, and an outer material stack horizontally surrounding the channel material. The doped semiconductor material vertically overlies the stack structure and includes a first portion substantially continuously horizontally extending over the stack structure and the cell pillar structure, and a second portion vertically projecting from the first portion and in physical contact with the channel material of the cell pillar structure. The control logic devices vertically underlie and are coupled to the cell pillar structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Albert Fayrushin, Haitao Liu, Kunal R. Parekh
  • Publication number: 20240288838
    Abstract: A method includes identifying a material associated with a substrate processing operation of a recipe. The method further includes determining an expected total residual thickness value subsequent to the substrate processing operation. The method further includes determining, based on the expected total residual thickness value, an expected material thickness value of the material associated with the substrate processing operation. The method further includes updating the recipe based on the material and the expected material thickness value of the material to generate an updated recipe. The method further includes causing a substrate to be processed based on the updated recipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Albert Liu, Mitesh Harshad Sanghvi, Venkatanarayana Shankaramurthy, Yulian Yao, Xinhai Han
  • Publication number: 20230398732
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes materials, methods, and systems for three-dimensional printing. In one example, a three-dimensional printing kit can include a fusing agent and a microbe-inhibiting agent. The fusing agent can include water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber. The electromagnetic radiation absorber can absorb radiation and convert the radiation energy to heat. The microbe-inhibiting agent can include a liquid vehicle and a metal bis(dithiolene) complex. The disclosure also describes methods of three-dimensional printing that utilize a metal-containing microbe-inhibiting material, which can be a metal bis(dithiolene) complex or other materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: JARRID ALEXANDER WITTKOPF, KRISTOPHER J ERICKSON, EMRE HIRO DISCEKICI, STERLING CHAFFINS, KEVIN P DeKAM, RAGHUVIR N SENGUPTA, ALBERT LIU, ELIZABETH GALATI
  • Patent number: 11820218
    Abstract: A scalable power unit for powering one or more electric motors of a riding vehicle and/or a piece of outdoor power equipment includes a number of interconnected battery packs. The battery pack are received in a battery tray or stacked to form the scalable power unit. Each battery pack is configured to be removed and used separately or added to a combination of battery packs. A control unit selectively opens and closes switching elements to separately control the connections between the battery packs and an electrical load, such as a motor. During charging, the control unit opens and closes switching elements to control the charging rate of the individual battery packs. When the battery packs are connected to an electrical load, the control unit controls the state of the switching elements to selectively discharge the battery packs to power the riding vehicle and/or electric loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Zeiler, Robert John Koenen, Jacob Schmalz, Albert Liu, Nick Zeidler, Scott Funke, David Procknow
  • Publication number: 20230234432
    Abstract: A riding lawn mower comprising, a pair of rear drive wheels, a pair of front wheels, a deck positioned between the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear drive wheels, a rotatable cutting blade, and multiple battery packs removably coupled to the riding lawn mower and structured to provide power to the riding lawn mower, each battery pack graspable and removable by a user, wherein the multiple battery packs sequentially provide power to the riding lawn mower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Zeiler, Robert John Koenen, Jacob Schmalz, Albert Liu, Nick Zeidler, Scott Funke, David Procknow
  • Publication number: 20230158436
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a status detection method and apparatus for a filter. The filter filters a fluid in a sealed channel. At least a pressure sensor is further provided downstream of the filter in the sealed channel. The method includes: if a fluid flowing through a filter in a sealed channel is controlled to have a first flow rate, then acquiring a first pressure value measured by a pressure sensor; if the fluid flowing through the filter in the sealed channel is controlled to have a second flow rate, then acquiring a second pressure value measured by the pressure sensor; and determining a status of the filter according to a difference between the first pressure value and the second pressure value. Therefore, detection of the status of the filter is achieved, and an operator is prompted to maintain/replace the filter in time. In addition, an existing component can be used, so that applicability is high and detection costs are low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Cheng Hou, Albert Liu, Bin Tan, Mingming Meng, Kristen E. Nelson Mock
  • Patent number: 11642952
    Abstract: A riding lawn mower comprising, a pair of rear drive wheels, a pair of front wheels, a deck positioned between the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear drive wheels, a rotatable cutting blade, and multiple battery packs removably coupled to the riding lawn mower and structured to provide power to the riding lawn mower, each battery pack graspable and removable by a user, wherein the multiple battery packs jointly provide power to the riding lawn mower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Zeiler, Robert John Koenen, Jacob Schmalz, Albert Liu, Nick Zeidler, Scott Funke, David Procknow
  • Publication number: 20210354541
    Abstract: A riding lawn mower comprising, a pair of rear drive wheels, a pair of front wheels, a deck positioned between the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear drive wheels, a rotatable cutting blade, and multiple battery packs removably coupled to the riding lawn mower and structured to provide power to the riding lawn mower, each battery pack graspable and removable by a user, wherein the multiple battery packs jointly provide power to the riding lawn mower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: BRIGGS & STRATTON, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey ZEILER, Robert John KOENEN, Jacob SCHMALZ, Albert LIU, Nick ZEIDLER, Scott FUNKE, David PROCKNOW
  • Patent number: 10795750
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel architecture for debugging devices. This architecture includes numerous devices that without user intervention automatically detect and report bug events to a set of servers that aggregate and process the bug events. When a device detects a potential bug event, the device in some embodiments generates a description of the potential bug event, and sends the generated description to the server set through a network. In addition to generating such a description, the device in some embodiments directs one or more of its modules to gather and store a collection of one or more data sets that are relevant to the potential bug event, in case the event has to be further analyzed by the server set. In the discussion below, the generated bug-event description is referred to as the event signature, while the gathered collection of data sets for an event is referred to as the event's data archive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Henri S. Berger, Eisuke Arai, Amit K. Vyas, David S. Choi, Franco Travostino, Abhinav Pathak, Daniel Lertpratchya, Albert Liu, Anand Ramadurai, Olivier Mardinian, Vividh Siddha
  • Patent number: 10621026
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel architecture for debugging devices. This architecture includes numerous devices that without user intervention automatically detect and report bug events to a set of servers that aggregate and process the bug events. When a device detects a potential bug event, the device in some embodiments generates a description of the potential bug event, and sends the generated description to the server set through a network. In addition to generating such a description, the device in some embodiments directs one or more of its modules to gather and store a collection of one or more data sets that are relevant to the potential bug event, in case the event has to be further analyzed by the server set. In the discussion below, the generated bug-event description is referred to as the event signature, while the gathered collection of data sets for an event is referred to as the event's data archive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Henri S. Berger, Eisuke Arai, Amit K. Vyas, David S. Choi, Franco Travostino, Abhinav Pathak, Daniel Lertpratchya, Albert Liu, Anand Ramadurai, Olivier Mardinian, Vividh Siddha
  • Publication number: 20190160972
    Abstract: A scalable power unit for powering one or more electric motors of a riding vehicle and/or a piece of outdoor power equipment. The scalable power unit includes a number of interconnected battery packs. The battery packs can be received in a battery tray or stacked to form the scalable power unit. Each battery pack can be removed and used separately or added to a combination of battery packs. A control unit selectively opens and closes switching elements to separately control the connections between the battery packs and an electrical load, such as a motor. During charging, the control unit opens and closes the switching elements to control the charging rate of the individual battery packs. When the battery packs are connected to an electric load, the control unit controls the state of the switching elements to selectively discharge the battery packs to power the riding vehicle and/or electric loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Zeiler, Robert John Koenen, Jacob Schmalz, Albert Liu, Nick Zeidler, Scott Funke, David Procknow
  • Publication number: 20180349219
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel architecture for debugging devices. This architecture includes numerous devices that without user intervention automatically detect and report bug events to a set of servers that aggregate and process the bug events. When a device detects a potential bug event, the device in some embodiments generates a description of the potential bug event, and sends the generated description to the server set through a network. In addition to generating such a description, the device in some embodiments directs one or more of its modules to gather and store a collection of one or more data sets that are relevant to the potential bug event, in case the event has to be further analyzed by the server set. In the discussion below, the generated bug-event description is referred to as the event signature, while the gathered collection of data sets for an event is referred to as the event's data archive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Henri S. Berger, Eisuke Arai, Amit K. Vyas, David S. Choi, Franco Travostino, Abhinav Pathak, Daniel Lertpratchya, Albert Liu, Anand Ramadurai, Olivier Mardinian, Vividh Siddha
  • Publication number: 20180349218
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel architecture for debugging devices. This architecture includes numerous devices that without user intervention automatically detect and report bug events to a set of servers that aggregate and process the bug events. When a device detects a potential bug event, the device in some embodiments generates a description of the potential bug event, and sends the generated description to the server set through a network. In addition to generating such a description, the device in some embodiments directs one or more of its modules to gather and store a collection of one or more data sets that are relevant to the potential bug event, in case the event has to be further analyzed by the server set. In the discussion below, the generated bug-event description is referred to as the event signature, while the gathered collection of data sets for an event is referred to as the event's data archive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Henri S. Berger, Eisuke Arai, Amit K. Vyas, David S. Choi, Franco Travostino, Abhinav Pathak, Daniel Lertpratchya, Albert Liu, Anand Ramadurai, Olivier Mardinian, Vividh Siddha
  • Patent number: 9833488
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a topical composition and method of use, specifically an oil-in-water emulsion, comprised of sweet almond oil, lavender oil, rose oil, cinnamon bark oil, and coriander seed oil in a physiologically acceptable topical carrier. The composition is applied to a circumcised penis to enhance sensitivity, preferably twice daily for a time period of at least about two weeks. Thereafter a maintenance dose can be applied once a day to maintain a desired level of sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Centric Research Institute
    Inventors: Servet Buyuktimkin, Nadir Buyuktimkin, James L. Yeager, Albert Liu
  • Patent number: 9821021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a topical composition and method of use, specifically an oil-in-water emulsion, comprised of sweet almond oil, lavender oil, rose oil, cinnamon bark oil, and coriander seed oil in a physiologically acceptable topical carrier. The composition is applied to a circumcised human penis to enhance sensitivity, preferably twice daily for a time period of at least about two weeks. Thereafter a maintenance dose can be applied once a day to maintain a desired level of sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Centric Research Institute
    Inventors: Servet Buyuktimkin, Nadir Buyuktimkin, James L. Yeager, Albert Liu
  • Publication number: 20170224755
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a topical composition and method of use, specifically an oil-in-water emulsion, comprised of sweet almond oil, lavender oil, rose oil, cinnamon bark oil, and coriander seed oil in a physiologically acceptable topical carrier. The composition is applied to a circumcised human penis to enhance sensitivity, preferably twice daily for a time period of at least about two weeks. Thereafter a maintenance dose can be applied once a day to maintain a desired level of sensitivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Servet Buyuktimkin, Nadir Buyuktimkin, James L. Yeager, Albert Liu
  • Patent number: 9705123
    Abstract: A battery enclosure is provided that externally shorts the enclosed battery, or batteries, immediately prior to the battery being punctured. As a result, the battery's state-of-charge is decreased, leading to a less severe reaction when the battery case is punctured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: ATIEVA, INC.
    Inventors: Albert Liu, Guangyuan Zheng, Wilson Chou