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).

  • Patent number: 12635356
    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, a cutting structure may disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. The cutting structure may have two undercuts to disrupt continuity of at least some of the OLED layers. The cutting structure may include a conductive portion that provides a cathode voltage to a cathode layer for the OLED pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    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
  • Patent number: 12635395
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James E Pedder, Patrick B Bennett, Michael Slootsky, Graham B Myhre, Andrew Lin, Cheuk Chi Lo, Guanjun Tan
  • Publication number: 20260119003
    Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface for a social media application displays an interactive map and enables access to ephemeral social media content submitted by multiple users. Ephemeral social media items with geotag data are grouped into location-based collections based on posting locations within common geographic areas, with collection icons displayed at corresponding map locations. Users can perform location-based searches for social media content, with search queries associated with a search area based on the geographical area currently displayed in the interactive map viewport. Search results identify social media items having geotag data indicating posting locations within the search area. Each ephemeral social media item is available for viewing only during a limited time period defined by an availability parameter, after which the item's availability is automatically terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Leonid Gorkin, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Evan Spiegel, Nayana Samaranayake
  • Publication number: 20260119586
    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. A search period for which content is returned is dynamically variable based on the duration for which the tap or click is held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Leonid Gorkin, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20260089462
    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: December 2, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Jonathan Brody, Walton Lin, Andrew Lin, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20260086404
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display panel. Light from the display panel may be focused by a lens assembly towards a viewer. A linear polarizer, liquid crystal cell, quarter wave plate, and geometric phase grating may be interposed between the display panel and the lens assembly. The display may be operable in multiple operating modes. In a high resolution operating mode, the liquid crystal cell may switch between first and second states. In a high refresh rate operating mode, the liquid crystal cell may operate in a third state. The display resolution may be twice as high in the high resolution operating mode than in the high refresh rate operating mode. The display refresh rate may be twice as high in the high refresh rate operating mode than in the high resolution operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Guanjun Tan, Andrew Lin, Lingtao Wang, Michael Slootsky, Cheuk Chi Lo, Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov, Luya Zhang, Fangwang Gou, Shengchang Cai, Sheng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20260082772
    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, a cutting structure may disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. The cutting structure may have two undercuts to disrupt continuity of at least some of the OLED layers. The cutting structure may include a conductive portion that provides a cathode voltage to a cathode layer for the OLED pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2025
    Publication date: March 19, 2026
    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: 20260052887
    Abstract: Pixels in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may be microcavity OLED pixels having optical cavities. The optical cavities may be defined by a partially transparent cathode layer and a reflective anode structure. The anode of the pixels may include both the reflective anode structure and one or more transparent anode structures that are used to tune the thickness of the optical cavity for each pixel. Organic light-emitting diode layers may be formed over the pixels and may have a uniform thickness in each pixel in the display. The display may include trenches in a substrate that create discontinuities in the reflective anode structures for the pixels. The anode stacks for the pixels may include one or more dielectric spacers with overhang portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2025
    Publication date: February 19, 2026
    Inventors: Roohollah Samadzadeh Tarighat, Anatole Huang, Andrew Lin, Arghavan Arjmand, Chang Ming Lu, Chao Liang Chien, Cheuk Chi Lo, Chi-Jui Chung, Chin-Wei Kang, Ching-Sang Chuang, Fu-Yu Teng, Jui-Chih Liao, Michael Slootsky, Sheng Hui Shen, Steven E Molesa, Takahide Kuranaga, Wookyung Bae, Yu-Wen Liu, Yuan-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 12542105
    Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels. A pixel can include an organic light-emitting diode, up to three thin-film transistors, and up to two capacitors. The pixel can include a drive transistor, an emission transistor, and a select transistor. The select transistor can be used to apply a reference voltage to the gate of the drive transistor during a global reset phase and during a global threshold voltage sampling phase and can also be used to apply a data voltage to the gate of the drive transistor during a data programming phase. The drive transistor can receive a power supply voltage that toggles between a low voltage during the global reset phase and a high voltage during other phases of operation. Configured and operated in this way, the pixel need not include separate dedicated anode reset and initialization transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alper Ozgurluk, Andrew Lin, Cheuk Chi Lo, Chun-Ming Tang, Shinya Ono, Chun-Yao Huang
  • Patent number: 12530408
    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. A search period for which content is returned is dynamically variable based on the duration for which the tap or click is held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Leonid Gorkin, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12523862
    Abstract: A micro-electronic non-landing mirror system includes a substrate, at least two supporting assemblies, at least two driving electrodes, a rotating mirror, and a driving circuit. The rotating mirror is elastically supported on the supporting assemblies through elastic reset assemblies. When the driving circuit applies a driving voltage, the rotating mirror moves closer to the driving electrode to which the driving voltage is applied within a range of movement that does not land on the substrate. When the driving circuit removes the driving voltage, the rotating mirror gets back to move away from the driving electrode under elastic restoring force of the elastic reset assemblies. Each elastic reset assembly includes at least two elastic reset units connected to different corners of the rotating mirror by a corresponding one supporting assembly. Each elastic reset unit is configured for providing the rotating mirror with at least two rotational degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: SHENZHEN LIGHTING INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Andrew Lin
  • Patent number: 12524128
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Timothy Jordan Garcia, Leonid Gorkin, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, Evan Spiegel, Nayana Samaranayake
  • Patent number: 12520101
    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: May 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Brody, Walton Lin, Andrew Lin, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20250377873
    Abstract: Methods for application and data dependency identification, visualization, and management. In some embodiments, a plurality of dependency harvester applications/plugins may be utilized to automatically source dependency data that is then translated and/or converted into a standardized format that is utilized to generate and/or identify dependency relationships, e.g., across disparate computing platforms and/or environments. The results of these automatically-identified dependencies may then be utilized, for example, to provide an interface to project implementation personnel that can point out and/or quantify predicted errors. Such an automated dependency identification/harvesting method can dramatically reduce both personnel and time-to-implementation costs of projects implemented in a computing environment, particularly where the computing environment comprises a plurality of complex data and/or application interdependencies and/or relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: Yushen C. Michelsen, Chunlei Li, Subash Maharjan, Yuan Su, Andrew Lin, David Rollins
  • Publication number: 20250377761
    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 geo-tag data associated with respective ephemeral messages submitted by multiple users to be publicly viewable via the map-based GUI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12468700
    Abstract: Technologies described reduce the amount of time between requesting content and receiving the requested content. In some embodiments, a client provides a search query. A search result page is generated and, prior to returning the search result page to the client, some or all of the search results are asynchronously pre-fetched and cached. The search query can include custom parameters that are also included in the pre-fetch requests. Web addresses in the search results page can be modified to indicate whether a prefetch operation was initiated. Once a user activates one of the search results, the responding web server uses the cached data while generating a response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh Periyathambi, Vineet Bindal, Naga Sita Raghuram Nimishakavi Venkata, Deepti Bhosale, Auston McReynolds, Andrew Lin, Lakshimi Duraivenkatesh
  • Patent number: 12436748
    Abstract: Systems for application and data dependency identification, visualization, and management. In some embodiments, a plurality of dependency harvester applications/plugins may be utilized to automatically source dependency data that is then translated and/or converted into a standardized format that is utilized to generate and/or identify dependency relationships, e.g., across disparate computing platforms and/or environments. The results of these automatically-identified dependencies may then be utilized, for example, to provide an interface to project implementation personnel that can point out and/or quantify predicted errors. Such an automated dependency identification/harvesting system can dramatically reduce both personnel and time-to-implementation costs of projects implemented in a computing environment, particularly where the computing environment comprises a plurality of complex data and/or application interdependencies and/or relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: The Travelers Indemnity Company
    Inventors: Yushen C. Michelsen, Chunlei Li, Subash Maharjan, Yuan Su, Andrew Lin, David Rollins
  • Patent number: 12393318
    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 geo-tag data associated with respective ephemeral messages submitted by multiple users to be publicly viewable via the map-based GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12340064
    Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface for a social media application displays to social media activity information based on submission of geo-tagged social media items to the platform. Geographical distributions of social activity is displayed on a map forming part of the application. A heatmap can represent posting density or unusualness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    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
  • Publication number: 20250165120
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for the dynamic generation of a map interface include generating temporal activity models by representing individual social media postings as having respective density distributions in time. Each posting's temporal density distribution spans multiple sequential time windows centered on the posting's timestamp, with density contributions decreasing in value for time windows further from the timestamp. The temporal models may be combined with spatial density distributions to generate comprehensive geo-temporal representations of social media activity. A graphical user interface displays an interactive map with overlay elements determined based on calculated activity attributes, including detected temporal patterns and anomalies identified by comparing current activity models against historical baselines. The modeling approach enables improved visualization of activity patterns while providing inherent privacy protection through probabilistic representation of individual posts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Amitay, Jonathan Brody, Leonid Gorkin, Jeffrey Arthur Johnson, Andrew Lin, Walton Lin, John Rauser, Amer Shahnawaz, Evan Spiegel, Marcel M. Yung