Patents by Inventor An Trinh

An Trinh 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: 10804464
    Abstract: A structure and formation method of a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a lower electrode layer over a semiconductor substrate and forming a data storage layer over the lower electrode layer. The method also includes forming an ion diffusion barrier layer over the data storage layer and forming a capping layer over the ion diffusion barrier layer. The ion diffusion barrier layer is a metal material doped with nitrogen, carbon, or a combination thereof. The capping layer is made of a metal material. The method further includes forming an upper electrode layer over the capping layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hai-Dang Trinh, Hsing-Lien Lin, Cheng-Yuan Tsai
  • Patent number: 10795867
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining available remote storages in a network to use to replicate a file based on a geographical requirement with respect the file. A determination is made as whether available remote storages satisfy constraints associated with a document class of the file. The constraints include a geographical location at which to replicate the file and a minimum number of replications to create for the file. At least one remote storage of the available remote storages is selected that satisfies the constraints to store at least one copy of the file. The file is replicated to the selected at least one remote storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kenytt D. Avery, Edward L. Bader, Patricia V. Gatewood, Kevin N. Trinh
  • Patent number: 10796954
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a first substrate, a metallic pad disposed over the first substrate, a dielectric structure disposed over the first substrate and exposing a portion of the metallic pad, a bonding structure disposed over and electrically connected to the metallic pad, a barrier ring surrounding the bonding structure, and a through-hole penetrating the first substrate and the dielectric structure. The bonding structure includes a bottom and a sidewall, the bottom of the bonding structure is in contact with the metallic pad, a first portion of the sidewall of the bonding structure is in contact with the dielectric structure, and a second portion of the sidewall of the bonding structure is in contact with the barrier ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Gung-Pei Chang, Yao-Wen Chang, Hai-Dang Trinh
  • Publication number: 20200305710
    Abstract: A clinician eye camera apparatus, networked system, and medium, are disclosed herein, comprising: 1) a camera unit comprising an outer housing, and enclosing: a) a front PCB with a plurality of LED's and a middle aperture to fit a rear camera lens; b) a middle camera filter unit, comprising a plurality of light filters, and a servo motor with a propeller that rotates the light filters into position in front of a rear camera lens; c) the rear camera lens connected to a CMOS sensor, a rear PCB, and a battery; 2) a pivotable arm assembly comprising a top end unit attachable to the camera unit, and a middle handle unit pivotably attached to an arm unit. The arm assembly can be used in a straight handheld mode; or bent 90 degrees for mounting in a slit lamp. Images are transmitted to a clinician computer and/or a remoter server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Box Medical Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Andy Aoe, Mann Trinh, Viktor Kapiliovich
  • Patent number: 10790812
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a gate driver circuit that controls high side and low side transistors to operate in buck or boost mode. In buck operating mode, after switching off the low side transistor, the gate driver circuit controls the high side transistor in a constant current mode. After the low side transistor is disabled and no longer conducts current, then the gate driver circuit controls the high side transistor to operate in full-enhancement mode. In boost operating mode, after switching off the high side transistor, the gate driver circuit controls the low side transistor in a constant current mode. After the high side transistor is disabled, then the gate driver circuit controls the low side switching transistor to operate in full-enhancement mode. In both buck and boost operation, the gate driver circuit operates without dead time in which both the high side and low side transistors are off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Active-Semi, Inc.
    Inventors: Thinh Ba Nguyen, Thien Khanh Luong, Thuc Huu Lam, Hue Khac Trinh
  • Patent number: 10789261
    Abstract: A system represents data as visual distributed data frames (VDDFs) that comprise a dataset, metadata describing the data, and metadata describing visualization of the dataset. A VDDF may be extracted from charts displayed in markup language documents. A VDDF may be generated from different data sources including big data analysis systems. A VDDF workspace allows interaction with multiple VDDF objects extracted from multiple data sources and stored locally within the storage of the device. The VDDF workspace allows the user to interact with the VDDF objects, for example, by inspecting the metadata, modifying the data, adding new columns, changing the visualization, joining data from multiple charts, and sharing the VDDF objects with other documents. The processing of data of a VDDF is performed locally within a computing device, for example, in a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: ARIMO, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Nguyen, Anh H. Trinh, Bao Nguyen, Selene Chew
  • Publication number: 20200301916
    Abstract: A data analysis system allows users to interact with distributed data structures stored in-memory using natural language queries. The data analysis system receives a prefix of a natural language query from the user. The data analysis system provides suggestions of terms to the user for adding to the prefix. Accordingly, the data analysis system iteratively receives longer and longer prefixes of the natural language queries until a complete natural language query is received. The data analysis system stores natural language query templates that represent natural language queries associated a particular intent. For example, a natural language query template may represent queries that compare two columns of a dataset. The data analysis system compares an input prefix of natural language with the natural language query templates to determine the suggestions. The data analysis system receives user defined metrics or attributes that can be used in the natural language queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Nguyen, Anh H. Trinh, Khang Pham
  • Patent number: 10778079
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) comprises a regulator circuit, a bootstrap control circuit, and a gate driver that drives a transistor pair in buck or boost mode to switch current through an inductor. The IC has a VIN terminal coupled to receive a voltage generated from an AC power source, a STR terminal coupled to receive a voltage from a stored power source (e.g., a capacitor bank), and a HSB terminal that is capacitively coupled to the inductor. When bucking or boosting, the regulator circuit generates VDD supply voltage from the stored power source, supplies the VDD supply voltage onto the bootstrap control circuit, and the bootstrap control circuit generates a gate driver supply voltage that is supplied to the gate driver circuit. When not bucking or boosting, voltage on the HSB terminal is maintained between a voltage threshold from the AC power source without draining the stored power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Active-Semi, Inc.
    Inventors: Thuc Huu Lam, Khanh Quang Dinh, Tung Van Nguyen, Hue Khac Trinh
  • Patent number: 10770894
    Abstract: A power loss protection integrated circuit includes a VIN terminal, a VOUT terminal, an STR terminal, a switch circuit (eFuse), a control circuit, and a prebiasing circuit. In a normal mode, current flows from a power source, into VIN, through the eFuse, out of VOUT, and to the output node. A switching converter of which the control circuit is a part is disabled. If a switch over condition then occurs, the eFuse is turned off and the switching converter starts operating. The switching converter receives energy from STR and drives the output node. Switch over is facilitated by prebiasing. Prior to switch over, the prebiasing circuit prebiases a control loop node as a function of eFuse current flow prior to switch over. When the switching converter begins operating, the node is already prebiased for the proper amount of current to be supplied by the switching converter onto the output node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Active-Semi, Inc.
    Inventors: Thuc Huu Lam, Hue Khac Trinh, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10769491
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for identifying discriminative, fine-grained features of an object in an image. In one example, an input device receives an image. A machine learning system includes a model comprising a first set, a second set, and a third set of filters. The machine learning system applies the first set of filters to the received image to generate an intermediate representation of the received image. The machine learning system applies the second set of filters to the intermediate representation to generate part localization data identifying sub-parts of an object and one or more regions of the image in which the sub-parts are located. The machine learning system applies the third set of filters to the intermediate representation to generate classification data identifying a subordinate category to which the object belongs. The system uses the part localization and classification data to perform fine-grained classification of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Bogdan Calin Mihai Matei, Xiyang Dai, John Benjamin Southall, Nhon Hoc Trinh, Harpreet Sawhney
  • Patent number: 10761517
    Abstract: A network interface controller for a communication network of a substrate processing system includes a data collection module configured to monitor a communication bus to retrieve and store data frames transmitted between components of the substrate processing system. A user interface is configured to receive inputs for configuring extraction of data from the data frames. A data processing module is configured to store, based on a network configuration file, a map correlating data within the data frames to of the components of the substrate processing system, extract data from the data frames in accordance with the inputs received by the user interface and the map, and provide, to the user interface, the data as extracted from the data frames. The user interface is further configured to display the data as extracted from the data frames in accordance with the inputs received by the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Behzad Lajevardi, Willie Ku, Tom Trinh, Henry Chan
  • Publication number: 20200273443
    Abstract: A hearing protection headset that can be worn by a user includes left and right earcups. The headset includes a radio communication system enabling at least one radio signal to be received and played through one or both of the earcups. Noise control circuitry in the headset is configurable by a user between at least three active modes of operation—the circuitry having a first active mode in which the headset provides automatic noise reduction, a second active mode in which the headset provides automatic noise cancellation, and a third active mode in which the headset provides both automatic noise reduction and automatic noise cancellation. A switch is manually operable by the user to configure the circuitry between the first active mode and the second active mode and the third active mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: David Trinh Le, John Brad Medine, Peter Hoang
  • Publication number: 20200274058
    Abstract: A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a lower electrode over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first dielectric layer over the lower electrode, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer. Oxygen ions are bonded more tightly in the second dielectric layer than those in the first dielectric layer, and oxygen ions are bonded more tightly in the second dielectric layer than those in the third dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai-Dang Trinh, Hsing-Lien Lin, Chii-Ming Wu, Cheng-Yuan Tsai
  • Patent number: 10748798
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a process tool which includes a housing that defines a vacuum chamber. A wafer chuck is in the housing and a carrier wafer is on the wafer chuck. A camera is integrated on the wafer chuck such that the camera faces a top of the housing. The camera is configured to wirelessly capture images of an object of interest within the housing. Outside of the housing is a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver is configured to receive the images from the camera while the vacuum chamber is sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tzu-Chung Tsai, Chii-Ming Wu, Hai-Dang Trinh
  • Publication number: 20200253462
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a capsule endoscope with specific gravity control. The capsule endoscope comprises a housing to enclose various components, an inflatable device attached to a first longitudinal end of the capsule unit and an enteric coated shell attached to the first longitudinal end of the capsule unit to enclose the inflatable device between the enteric coated shell and the capsule unit. The various components include a camera sub-system for capturing image frames. The inflatable device comprises an inflatable membrane and an effervescent formulation inside the inflatable membrane. The enteric coated shell fits tightly onto the first longitudinal end of the capsule unit to prevent body liquid from leaking into a space between the enteric coated shell and the capsule unit when the capsule unit travels in human gastrointestinal tract after being swallowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Phat Bao Trinh, Amy Freitas, Mikael Trollsas
  • Patent number: 10740823
    Abstract: A user mobile device includes a network interface, an input/output (“I/O”) device configured to exchange data with a user, the I/O device including a display device configured to present a graphical user interface to the user, an imaging device configured to generate image data; and a processing circuit. The processing circuit comprising a memory and a processor. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive, by at least one of the network interface, I/O device, and imaging device, data indicative of spending behavior of the user, generate a user spending alert based on the received data, the user spending alert including a user photograph, and present, via the display device, the user spending alert to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Wayne Barakat, Thomas E. Gross, Darius Miranda, Marria Wairmola Rhodriquez, Andres J. Saenz, Sadie Salim, Duc M. Trinh
  • Patent number: 10741330
    Abstract: A multilayer chip capacitor includes electrodes comprised of numerous, closely spaced conductive layers. Adjacent conductive layers are essentially non-overlapping, so that fringe capacitance between opposing electrodes provides substantially all of the capacitance. The conductive layers may be shaped to form a non-planer boundary between electrodes. An additional high frequency integrated capacitor is formed from external electrode plates. The non-planar electrode boundary principle is also applied to discoidal capacitors in the form of a non-concentric electrode boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Presidio Components. Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Van Trinh, Alan Devoe
  • Publication number: 20200253017
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a lighting device having at least two illuminants with different emission characteristics, in a detection step, at least one actual temperature value, and, during a predeterminable detection period, at least one temperature-change information are detected, in a control-signal generating step dependent upon the at least ore detected actual temperature value and the at least one temperature-change information, new control signals are determined for the respective control of the at least two illuminants for the emission of a predetermined spectral power distribution are determined with the lighting device and in a control step, the new control signals are transmitted to an operating device by which the operating current for each illuminant is provided, in order to keep the spectral power distribution emitted by the lighting device possibly constant dining operation of the lighting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Tran Quoc KHANH, Trinh Quang VINH
  • Patent number: RE48181
    Abstract: An endoscopy capsule having an image collecting capacity includes a deformable member configured to inflate when exposed to body liquid. The deformable member includes an effervescent material. When the effervescent reacts with water the resulting Carbon-Dioxide gas reduces the specific gravity of the endoscopy capsule. The capsule is contained within a shell or dome when swallowed. The shell or dome is configured dissolve in either a low or high pH environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: CAPSOVISION INC
    Inventors: Mikael Trollsas, Phat Trinh, Mark Hadley, Kang-Huai Wang, Gordon Cook Wilson, Ganyu Lu
  • Patent number: D897626
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Frito-Lay North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Susan Parsons Gornell, Vivian Huang, Frederik Jensen, Ngoc Quyng Trinh