Patents by Inventor Alex Fu

Alex Fu 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: 12255858
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying content feeds within a messaging system. The program and method provide for receiving, by a messaging application associated with a user, user input corresponding to a request for a first content feed, the first content feed comprising a first plurality of media content items provided by one or more friends of the user; providing for display of the first content feed; determining, by the messaging application, that display of the first content feed is complete; and providing, in response to determining that display of the first content feed is complete, for display of a second content feed, the second content feed comprising a second plurality of media content items provided by one or more content providers to which the user subscribes with respect to the messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Alex Beltyukov, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jacob Catalano, Wenbin Chen, Matthew Lee Cook, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Zuoyou Gu, Yue Hu, Timothy Kautz, Edward Koai, Jong-Hwi Lee, Chinmay Lonkar, Lu Lu, Zachary Lupei, Charles Melbye, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis, Chiung-Fu Shih, Brian Yee, Jiawen Zeng, Dongguang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10591019
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for balancer shaft assemblies featuring bearing caps. In one example, a system may include a bearing cap connected to a housing surrounding a balancer shaft. The bearing cap may have faces which contact components of the balancer shaft. This contact may prevent movement of the balancer shaft in a particular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xavier Demeulenaere, Thomas Fisk, Robert Davies, Alex Fu, Mark Michel
  • Publication number: 20180231101
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for balancer shaft assemblies featuring bearing caps. In one example, a system may include a bearing cap connected to a housing surrounding a balancer shaft. The bearing cap may have faces which contact components of the balancer shaft. This contact may prevent movement of the balancer shaft in a particular direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Xavier Demeulenaere, Thomas Fisk, Robert Davies, Alex Fu, Mark Michel
  • Publication number: 20100237186
    Abstract: A drag-stabilized water-entry projectile having a projectile body, one or more drag-stabilizing elements, such as fins, flares or canards, and one or more attachment members adapted to hold the one or more drag-stabilizing elements to the projectile body. The one or more attachment members are coated with a thermally reactive material. A projectile and cartridge assembly has a shear pin, a projectile having a first cutout portion, the cutout portion sized to receive the shear pin. The assembly also includes a sabot configured to house the projectile and having a second cutout portion, the second cutout portion sized to receive the shear pin. The cutout portion is positioned to provide an offset region between an aft end of the projectile and a base of the sabot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Jyun-Horng (Alex) Fu, Antonio Paulic
  • Patent number: 7779759
    Abstract: A water-entry projectile capable of supercavitation and spin-stabilization comprises a forward section having one or more forward stepped sections, each stepped section being symmetrical in rotation about an axis and having a radius at an aft end that is different from a radius of a front end of an adjacent rearwardly located stepped section; an aft section having an aft stepped section, the aft stepped section being symmetrical in rotation about the axis and having a maximum radius larger than a maximum radius of the forward section; and wherein the aft section is located substantially aft of a center of gravity of the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Paulic, Alex Fu
  • Publication number: 20100126372
    Abstract: A water-entry projectile capable of supercavitation and spin-stabilization comprises a forward section having one or more forward stepped sections, each stepped section being symmetrical in rotation about an axis and having a radius at an aft end that is different from a radius of a front end of an adjacent rearwardly located stepped section; an aft section having an aft stepped section, the aft stepped section being symmetrical in rotation about the axis and having a maximum radius larger than a maximum radius of the forward section; and wherein the aft section is located substantially aft of a center of gravity of the projectile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Paulic, Alex Fu
  • Patent number: 5748181
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method used in a cursor controlling apparatus for detecting a direction a cursor should move on a monitor which comprises steps of: intermittently receiving a light to obtain a series of different optical quantities; generating a series of voltage signals respectively responsive to the series of optical quantities; and determining a direction by detecting a sequence of the voltage signals. The present invention can reduce manufacturing cost, economize assembling time, and obtain a more accurate direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Alex Fu, David Wang, Chris Wu