Patents by Inventor Andrew Lin

Andrew 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).

  • Publication number: 20250128319
    Abstract: Nanolattices exhibit attractive mechanical, energy conversion, and optical properties, but it is challenging to fabricate large nanolattices while maintaining the dense regular nanometre features that enable their properties. In this work, we report a crack-free self-assembly approach for fabricating centimetre-scale nickel nanolattices with a feature size of 100 nm and a grain size of 30 nm. The crack-free areas are 20,000 times larger than prior self-assembled nanolattices and contain 1,000 times the number of unit cells as 3D-printed nanolattices. These nickel nanolattices have a 260 MPa tensile strength, which approaches the theoretical strength limit for porous nickel and is 10 times the strength of prior nanolattices. The self-assembly method and porous metal mechanics reported in this work advances the fabrication and applications of high-strength multifunctional porous materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: James Henry PIKUL, Zhimin JIANG, David Aaron ISSADORE, Andrew LIN
  • Publication number: 20250110611
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and serving stylized map tiles for a social media platform's map-based graphical user interface. Multiple earth imagery tiles corresponding to a geographical area are retrieved, each comprising a photographic image of a corresponding portion of the Earth's surface. Based on the earth imagery tiles, multiple stylized map tiles are generated. In response to receiving a request from a user device for display of a target area in the map-based GUI, a set of stylized map tiles corresponding to the target area is retrieved and transmitted to the user device. The generation of stylized map tiles may include retrieving a target earth imagery tile together with neighboring tiles, generating an expanded earth imagery tile, stylizing the expanded tile, and cropping to produce the final stylized map tile. Different neural networks may be used for stylizing tiles at different zoom levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Nayana Samaranayake, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
  • Publication number: 20250081730
    Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels such as light-emitting diode pixels. The pixels may include multiple circuitry decks that each include one or more circuit components such as transistors, capacitors, and/or resistors. The circuitry decks may be vertically stacked. Each circuitry deck may include a planarization layer formed from a siloxane material that conforms to underlying components and provides a planar upper surface. In this way, circuitry components may be vertically stacked to mitigate the size of each pixel footprint. The circuitry components may include capacitors that include both a high-k dielectric layer and a low-k dielectric layer. The display pixel may include a via with a width of less than 1 micron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Lin, Alper Ozgurluk, Chao Liang Chien, Cheuk Chi Lo, Chia-Yu Chen, Chien-Chung Wang, Chih Pang Chang, Chih-Hung Yu, Chih-Wei Chang, Chin Wei Hsu, ChinWei Hu, Chun-Kai Tzeng, Chun-Ming Tang, Chun-Yao Huang, Hung-Che Ting, Jung Yen Huang, Lungpao Hsin, Shih Chang Chang, Tien-Pei Chou, Wen Sheng Lo, Yu-Wen Liu, Yung Da Lai
  • Patent number: 12223156
    Abstract: A server system for a map-based social media platform maintains user location information to enable the rendering of friend icons on a map at a corresponding display locations. The system maintains a per user access control list (ACL) that lists all users whose icons can be viewed by a requesting user. The ACL can include a designation of respective display granularity levels for different friend users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Nayana Samaranayake, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
  • Publication number: 20250021206
    Abstract: In a graphical user interface (GUI) for a social media platform, social media content is surfaced with variable visual attributes based on activity metrics. In a GUI for a social media platform, where the GUI provides access to posted social media items, an activity metric is determined for the underlying social media activity associated with each of multiple collections of social media items. The GUI displays user-selectable interface elements, such as icons, corresponding to these collections, with each icon having a visual attribute that varies depending on the activity metric. This results in visual differences between collection icons based on differences in their corresponding activity metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
  • Publication number: 20240402877
    Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for a public messaging platform allows a user location-based to their own expired ephemeral content. Such expired content is no longer available to other users for online viewing. The user can, however, switch the GUI between a live mode and a historical mode, access to their own expired content in the historical mode being facilitated in a manner closely similar to that for viewing live publicly available content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Maxwell Gale, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Daniel Vincent Grippi, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Sheridan Kates, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Gaurav Misra, Suraj Vindana Samaranayake, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20240393655
    Abstract: An integrated optical coupling switch, including two parallel optical waveguides, two electrostatically attracted electrodes and an insulating layer. The electrodes includes a lower electrode that is arranged on a silicon surface and avoids the optical waveguides, and an upper electrode that is arranged above the optical waveguides and formed as a micro-electromechanical architecture, and the upper electrode is attracted to come into contact with a surface of the optical waveguide when reaching a preset voltage value; the insulating layer is arranged on a surface of the lower electrode and used for preventing the upper electrode from contacting the lower electrode to form short circuit between the upper electrode and the lower electrode when the upper electrode is attracted to come into contact with the surface of the optical waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventor: Andrew LIN
  • Patent number: 12131003
    Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for a public messaging platform allows a user location-based to their own expired ephemeral content. Such expired content is no longer available to other users for online viewing. The user can, however, switch the GUI between a live mode and a historical mode, access to their own expired content in the historical mode being facilitated in a manner closely similar to that for viewing live publicly available content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Maxwell Gale, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Daniel Vincent Grippi, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Sheridan Kates, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Gaurav Misra, Suraj Vindana Samaranayake, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12112013
    Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface for a social media application displays to special social media activity information based on submission of geo-tagged social media items to the platform. For users and or submitted items that need predefined location fuzzing criteria, such activity is represented in the graphical user interface at an intentionally inaccurate position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung
  • Patent number: 12108632
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels that each have OLED layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. Voltage may be applied to the anode of each pixel to control the magnitude of emitted light. The conductivity of the OLED layers may allow leakage current to pass between neighboring anodes in the display. To reduce leakage current and the accompanying cross-talk in a display, the pixel definition layer may disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. The pixel definition layer may have an undercut to disrupt continuity of some but not all of the OLED layers. The undercut may be defined by three discrete portions of the pixel definition layer. The undercut may result in a void that is interposed between different portions of the OLED layers to break a leakage path formed by the OLED layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jaein Choi, Hairong Tang, Gloria Wong, Sunggu Kang, Younggu Lee, Gwanwoo Park, Chun-Yao Huang, Andrew Lin, Cheuk Chi Lo, Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Michael Slootsky, Rui Liu, Wendi Chang, Cheng Chen, Yusuke Fujino
  • Publication number: 20240315282
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of pet foods, and provides a composite nutritional freeze-dried snack containing a bacteriophage and a preparation method and a use thereof. The composite nutritional freeze-dried snack includes a nutritional mixture and an egg. A nutrition proportion provided by each plant extract in the composite nutritional freeze-dried snack provided by the present disclosure can achieve the effects of promoting growth of dogs and cats, resisting oxidation, strengthening immunity, resisting respiratory system infection, preventing pets from infection with pathogens and the like. Therefore, the composite nutritional freeze-dried snack has a good market prospect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Xudong Mao, John Pan, Helen Cao, Andrew Lin, Hans J. Vogel
  • Publication number: 20240314515
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for selective location-based identity communication. The systems and methods identify a current location of a mobile computing device and detect a selection of a user interface element associated with the current location. The systems and methods cause presentation of a set of display elements corresponding to the current location and detect selection of a display element of the set of display elements. The systems and methods modify a display characteristic for the current location of the mobile computing device within a set of mobile computing devices based on the selection of the display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Brody, Walton Lin, Andrew Lin, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20240310635
    Abstract: A hybrid display may include different display portions with different resolutions. The high resolution display portion may be positioned in a main viewing area for the viewer whereas the low resolution display portion may be positioned in a peripheral viewing area. The high resolution display portion may have a silicon backplane. The low resolution display portion may have a different type of backplane such as a thin-film transistor backplane. The different display portions may optionally share a common organic light-emitting diode layer such that light is emitted from the same plane across both display portions. The high resolution display portion may emit light through a transparent window in the low resolution display portion. A high resolution display may also be formed by separately forming a frontplane and a backplane. Conductive attachment structures such as indium bumps may be used to mechanically and electrically connect the backplane to the frontplane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: James E Pedder, Patrick B Bennett, Michael Slootsky, Graham B Myhre, Andrew Lin
  • Publication number: 20240302936
    Abstract: A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing social media content submitted for public accessibility via the social media platform supported by the map-based GUI. The GUI includes a map providing interactive location-based searching functionality in that selection of a target location by the user in the GUI, such as by tapping or clicking at the target location, triggers a search for social media content having geo-tag data indicating geographic locations within a geographical search area centered on the target location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Dale Brody, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Leonid Gorkin, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Evan Spiegel, Nayana Samaranayake
  • Publication number: 20240303052
    Abstract: Systems and methods for application/data dependency identification, visualization, and/or management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Yushen C. Michelsen, Chunlei Li, Subash Maharjan, Yuan Su, Andrew Lin, David Rollins
  • Patent number: 12086381
    Abstract: A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) with multiple geographically anchored icons that are selectable to trigger playback of respective galleries of ephemeral messages. Each of the plurality of location-based ephemeral galleries comprises media content contributed by multiple different users. The ephemeral galleries are compiled based on geotag data associated with respective ephemeral messages submitted by multiple users to be publicly viewable via the map-based GUI. Two or more different types of galleries are represented in the map-based GUI by different, visually distinct types of gallery icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12079445
    Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for a public messaging platform allows a user location-based to their own expired ephemeral content. Such expired content is no longer available to other users for online viewing. The user can, however, switch the GUI between a live mode and a historical mode, access to their own expired content in the historical mode being facilitated in a manner closely similar to that for viewing live publicly available content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Maxwell Gale, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Daniel Vincent Grippi, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Sheridan Kates, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Gaurav Misra, Suraj Vindana Samaranayake, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20240281114
    Abstract: A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) with multiple geographically anchored icons that are selectable to trigger playback of respective galleries of ephemeral messages. Each of the plurality of location-based ephemeral galleries comprises media content contributed by multiple different users. The ephemeral galleries are compiled based on geotag data associated with respective ephemeral messages submitted by multiple users to be publicly viewable via the map-based GUI. Two or more different types of galleries are represented in the map-based GUI by different, visually distinct types of gallery icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Dale Brody, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12058583
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for selective location-based identity communication. The systems and methods identify a current location of a mobile computing device and detect a selection of a user interface element associated with the current location. The systems and methods cause presentation of a set of display elements corresponding to the current location and detect selection of a display element of the set of display elements. The systems and methods modify a display characteristic for the current location of the mobile computing device within a set of mobile computing devices based on the selection of the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Brody, Walton Lin, Andrew Lin, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: D1066361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Perksy, Inc.
    Inventors: Nadia Masri, Andrew Lin