Patents by Inventor An A. Wang

An A. Wang 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: 11954638
    Abstract: A task allocation method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving orders of merchandises stored on shelves; determining a merchandise picking time of each merchandise of the received orders; determining an order picking time for each received order according to the merchandise picking time of each merchandise; determining an order set according to the order picking time for each received order, and selecting orders from the order set as target orders; locating shelves on which merchandises in the target orders are stored; obtaining merchandise status of the merchandises in the target orders, and determining a target shelf according to the merchandise status; allocating, a picking task of the merchandises to the target shelf; determining a picking workstation corresponding to the target shelf; instructing the target shelf to move to the picking workstation to execute the picking task, and to leave the picking workstation after the picking task is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CAINIAO SMART LOGISTICS HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Haoyuan Hu, Longfei Wang
  • Patent number: 11955535
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes an active region including a channel region and a source/drain region adjacent the channel region, a gate structure over the channel region of the active region, a source/drain contact over the source/drain region, a dielectric feature over the gate structure and including a lower portion adjacent the gate structure and an upper portion away from the gate structure, and an air gap disposed between the gate structure and the source/drain contact. A first width of the upper portion of the dielectric feature along a first direction is greater than a second width of the lower portion of the dielectric feature along the first direction. The air gap is disposed below the upper portion of the dielectric feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Chang, Lin-Yu Huang, Sheng-Tsung Wang, Cheng-Chi Chuang, Yu-Ming Lin, Chih-Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 11952655
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are provided herein. For example, a physical vapor deposition processing chamber comprises a chamber body defining a processing volume, a substrate support disposed within the processing volume and comprising a substrate support surface configured to support a substrate, a power supply configured to energize a target for sputtering material toward the substrate, an electromagnet operably coupled to the chamber body and positioned to form electromagnetic filed lines through a sheath above the substrate during sputtering for directing sputtered material toward the substrate, and a controller operably coupled to the physical vapor deposition processing chamber for controlling the electromagnet based on a recipe comprising a pulsing schedule for pulsing the electromagnet during operation to control directionality of ions relative to a feature on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Kashefi, Xiaodong Wang, Suhas Bangalore Umesh, Zheng Ju, Jiajie Cen
  • Patent number: 11956860
    Abstract: A signal transmission method, signal detection method and apparatuses thereof and communication system. The signal transmission apparatus includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit a synchronization signal (SS) block to a user equipment within a time window of a predetermined position in an SS block transmission period. Hence, UE cell search and measurement time is reduced, complexity at the UE is lowered, power consumption of the UE is lowered, cell handover is sped up, communication interruption is avoided, and currently at least one of existing problems is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Qinyan Jiang, Meiyi Jia
  • Patent number: 11955328
    Abstract: A method for cleaning semiconductor wafer includes putting at least one wafer on a cassette bracket in a first cleaning tank filled with chemical solution; after said wafers have been processed in the first cleaning tank, transferring the wafers from the first cleaning tank to a second cleaning tank with the wafers immersing in the chemical solution; and after said wafers have been processed in the second cleaning tank, taking the wafers out of the second cleaning tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ACM RESEARCH (SHANGHAI), INC.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Xi Wang, Fuping Chen
  • Patent number: 11952367
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that modulate the activity of phosphoinositide 3-kinases-gamma (PI3K?) and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to the activity of PI3K? including, for example, autoimmune diseases, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Incyte Corporation
    Inventors: Richard B. Sparks, Stacey Shepard, Andrew P. Combs, Andrew W. Buesking, Lixin Shao, Haisheng Wang, Nikoo Falahatpisheh
  • Patent number: 11953125
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a detachable anti-vibration sealing protection device for a pipe flange. The protection device includes a casing, wherein left and right end surfaces of the casing have through holes for the pipeline to pass through, and the casing has an accommodation cavity for placing the flange; a first shock absorption assembly for radial shock absorption of the flange; and a second shock absorption assembly which is installed in a one-to-one correspondence with the flange and is configured for axial shock absorption of the corresponding flange. The first shock absorption assembly and the second shock absorption assembly are installed in the accommodation cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong Ji, Yuchen Liu, Ke Yang, Zhixiang Xing, Juncheng Jiang, Yinhan Zhao, Jie Guo, Ting Wang, Wencong Shen
  • Patent number: 11954020
    Abstract: A memory adaptive temperature controlling method, a storage device, and a control circuit unit are provided. In this exemplary embodiment, the temperature value is obtained according to the temperature measured by the thermal sensor, and the access speed to be reached is calculated according to the temperature change rate within the specific time range and the adjustment percentage when it is determined that the speed-down or speed-up operation is required to be performed. By adjusting the access speed of the memory storage device in a stepwise manner, the temperature of the memory storage device may be stabilized, thereby striking the balance between the temperature stability and the system performance of the memory storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hefei Core Storage Electronics Limited
    Inventors: Chih-Ling Wang, Qi-Ao Zhu, Xu Hui Cheng
  • Patent number: 11953774
    Abstract: A display substrate includes: a base substrate (100); a plurality of sub-pixels (R, G, B) located on the base substrate (100), every two rows of sub-pixels (R, G, B) constituting a pixel group; a plurality of first gate lines (Gate1) located at first row gaps between the pixel groups, two first gate lines (Gate1) being arranged at each first row gap; and a plurality of photosensors (101), the orthographic projection of each row of photosensors (101) on the base substrate (100) completely covering a second row gap in the pixel group and partially overlapping with the orthographic projections of the sub-pixels (R, G, B), thereby avoiding the bright and dark difference between adjacent rows and ensuring the aperture ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinlan Yang, Wenkai Mu, Yi Liu, Jun Fan, Bo Feng, Yang Wang, Zhan Wei, Tengfei Ding, Shijun Wang, Chengfu Xu
  • Patent number: 11956449
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing video processing techniques are described. In one example implementation, a method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video coded using a combined inter and intra prediction (CIIP) coding technique and a bitstream representation of the video, an intra-prediction mode of the current block independently from an intra-prediction mode of a neighboring block. The CIIP coding technique uses an intermedia inter prediction value and an intermedia intra prediction value to derive a final prediction value of the current block. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11956948
    Abstract: A memory device includes a substrate, a first transistor and a second transistor, a first word line, a second word line, and a bit line. The first transistor and the second transistor are over the substrate and are electrically connected to each other, in which each of the first and second transistors includes first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers, a gate structure, and source/drain structures, in which the first semiconductor layers are in contact with the second semiconductor layers, and a width of the first semiconductor layers is narrower than a width of the second semiconductor layers. The first word line is electrically connected to the gate structure of the first transistor. The second word line is electrically connected to the gate structure of the second transistor. The bit line is electrically connected to a first one of the source/drain structures of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsin-Wen Su, Yu-Kuan Lin, Shih-Hao Lin, Lien-Jung Hung, Ping-Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11956474
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus for video processing are described. The processing may include encoding, decoding or transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, and wherein the rule specifies that a syntax element is included in a profile, tier, level information syntax structure to indicate whether one or more general constraint information syntax elements are included in a general constraint information syntax structure and/or whether the general constraint information syntax structure is included in the profile, tier, level information syntax structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11955553
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to using an implantation process and a melting anneal process performed on a nanosecond scale to achieve a high surface concentration (surface pile up) dopant profile and a retrograde dopant profile simultaneously. In an embodiment, a method includes forming a source/drain structure in an active area on a substrate, the source/drain structure including a first region comprising germanium, implanting a first dopant into the first region of the source/drain structure to form an amorphous region in at least the first region of the source/drain structure, implanting a second dopant into the amorphous region containing the first dopant, and heating the source/drain structure to liquidize and convert at least the amorphous region into a crystalline region, the crystalline region containing the first dopant and the second dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-Hao Liu, Kuo-Ju Chen, Wen-Yen Chen, Ying-Lang Wang, Liang-Yin Chen, Li-Ting Wang, Huicheng Chang
  • Patent number: 11954415
    Abstract: An early warning method for safety production risk of tailings pond based on risk ranking is provided. The early warning method includes: monitoring and collecting internal basic data of a tailings pond in real-time, and performing a basic monitoring and a basic early warning; collecting geographical location data, meteorological data, and historical geological disaster data of an area where the tailings pond is located; performing risk ranking on a safety production risk of the tailings pond, thereby obtaining a risk level of the tailings pond; and collecting case data of global tailings pond accidents and hazard degree data thereof, acquiring accident solution strategies for the global tailings pond accidents, performing management and monitoring on the tailings pond, setting parameters in a process of the basic monitoring, and performing a ranked early warning on the safety production risk of the tailings pond based on the risk level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: China Academy of Safety Science and Technology, Jiangxi Emergency Management Science Research Institute
    Inventors: Youliang Chen, Haigang Li, Shigen Fu, Yanyu Chu, Qing Wang, Shouyin Wang, Zhentao Li, Yi Liu, Xiangliang Tian, Tao Chen, Jia Li, Xiaolong Zheng, Pangfeng Guo, Shuang Chen
  • Patent number: 11956288
    Abstract: A smart conference room system is provided. The smart conference room system includes an intelligent conference interactive panel including one or more processors configured to convert user input into a conference information, and a memory configured to store the conference information. The intelligent conference interactive panel is configured to transmit conference information to one or more terminal devices. The one or more terminal devices are configured to perform a controllable operation based on the conference information transmitted to the one or more terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangxiang Zou, Yangyang Zhang, Longyu Wang, Hailong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11956497
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application disclose a method for audio and video processing and an electronic device. A first decoding result corresponding to main channel audio and a second decoding result corresponding to audio description are acquired according to audio data in an audio and video file; and the first decoding result as well as an audio mixed result of the first decoding result and the second decoding result are output respectively through different audio output devices, so that in a scenario where a normal user and a visually impaired user watch audio and video at the same time, the normal user and the visually impaired user can select different audio output devices for audio listening to ensure that the two do not affect each other, which satisfies the needs of the normal user and the visually impaired user to watch at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: VIDAA (NETHERLANDS) INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, B.V.
    Inventors: Jiande Wei, Zhenju Wang
  • Patent number: 11951952
    Abstract: A bicycle retractable bicycle cross bar adaptor includes a bar having a first tube, a second tube and a control unit. The first tube has a first connection end and the second tube has a second connection end which is movably inserted into the first connection end. The second tube includes multiple holes. The control unit includes an inner part, a switch and a sleeve. A switch is pivotably connected to the inner part and the sleeve is mounted to the inner part and the switch. The sleeve includes a flexible tongue to pivot the switch. The switch includes a rod on one end thereof. When the switch is pivoted, the rod is inserted into one of the holes of the second tube to set the length of the bar. When the rod is removed from the hole, the second tube is moved relative to the first tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KING RACK INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chiu Kuei Wang
  • Patent number: 11954710
    Abstract: A media recommendation for a target item is provided while media information is displayed through an information display interface that includes detailed information of the target item when a display position of the media information meets a preset condition. A dynamic effect is displayed that the target item moves from the media information to a preset position in the detailed information while displaying the detailed information. The dynamic display of the target item enriches display of the target item to attract users' attention and focus, thereby improving the recommendation effect of the target item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rui Han, Liyun Wang, Si Lin Liu, Ren Jun Zheng, Tingting Li, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 11956667
    Abstract: A communication method and a device are described to compress and decompress a data packet including an ethernet header to reduce radio transmission resources of an air interface. The communication method includes determining, by a sending device, a to-be-sent data packet. The to-be-sent data packet is a data packet including an ethernet header. The method further includes determining, by the sending device, a field to be compressed in the header of the to-be-sent data packet; and compressing, by the sending device, the header of the to-be-sent data packet according to a preset method. The preset method includes: removing the field to be compressed from the header of the data packet, or replacing the field to be compressed with a corresponding short field; and sending, by the sending device, a data packet obtained after the compressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Xu, Bingzhao Li, Lei Chen, Xuelong Wang
  • Patent number: D1021432
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: La-Di-Da Baby Toy Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Junru Wang