Patents by Inventor Chi-An Chen

Chi-An Chen 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: 20240124792
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for converting CO2 and a reduction gas such as H2 or a hydrocarbon to mixtures of paraffins and aromatics suitable for use as aviation fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Lubo Zhou, Chi Chen, Qiyuan Wu, Stafford W. Sheehan, Namal de Silva, Mahluli Moyo, Jihad Dakka, David DeVilliers
  • Publication number: 20240129741
    Abstract: An information security early warning device is provided, which includes a data capturing circuit, a memory and a processor. The processor is used for running a virtual user equipment, a virtual base station and a virtual core network, and performing the following operations: when the first data flow is detected as non-malicious and abnormal, simulating transmission of the first data flow from the virtual base station to the virtual core network, and determining whether a connection can be established; when the connection can be established, updating a setting of the anomaly detection by using the first data flow; when the connection cannot be established, selecting an error log including a first malicious procedure code from multiple detection logs generated by the virtual core network; and updating the malicious feature database by using the first malicious procedure code and the first data flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yu Chi TUNG, Ping-Chun CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240128214
    Abstract: An integrated circuit structure includes an aluminum pad layer on a dielectric stack, a passivation layer covering the aluminum pad layer, and an aluminum shield layer including aluminum routing patterns disposed directly above an embedded memory area and embedded in the dielectric stack. The aluminum shield layer is electrically connected to the uppermost copper layer through a plurality of tungsten vias. The plurality of tungsten vias is embedded in the dielectric stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Aaron Chen, Chi Ren, Yi Hsin Liu
  • Publication number: 20240125558
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided, including a first case, a second case, a substrate, an engaging structure, an evaporator, a condenser, a first tube, and a second tube. The first case includes a first plate structure and a first protruding structure. The first plate structure has a first inner surface. The first protruding structure protrudes from the first inner surface. The second case includes a second plate structure and a second protruding structure. The second plate structure has a second inner surface. The second protruding structure protrudes from the second inner surface. The substrate is engaged with the first inner surface, the first protruding structure, the second inner surface, and the second protruding structure via the engaging structure. The substrate is in contact with at least three different lateral surfaces of the engaging structure so that the substrate and the first case combine are bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Wu-Chi LEE, Jyun-Yao CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240125736
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Cu ion sensor, which greatly improves the sensitivity to Cu by a nitrogen-rich surface of a copper nitride thin film doped with a metal material. The present invention also relates to a Cu ion sensing method, in which Cu2+ is detected by contacting the Cu ion sensor of the present invention with the solution to be tested, and using the change in electrical conductivity of a copper nitride film doped with a metal material in the presence of Cu2+ in the solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sajal BIRING, Sheng-Chi Chen, Annada Sankar SADHU, Min-Chen Chuang, Kuan-Yu Chien
  • Patent number: 11958041
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides catalysts, reactor systems, and methods for the conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas into paraffins, olefins, and other hydrocarbon products. Methods for utilization of mixtures of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen gas in a manner distinct from legacy Fischer-Tropsch reactors to produce hydrocarbons is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Air Company Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Stafford W. Sheehan, Chi Chen, Mahlet Garedew-Ballard, Neva Luthria, Mihir R. Shah, Qiyuan Wu
  • Patent number: 11960253
    Abstract: A system and a method for parameter optimization with adaptive search space and a user interface using the same are provided. The system includes a data acquisition unit, an adaptive adjustment unit and an optimization search unit. The data acquisition unit obtains a set of executed values of several operating parameters and a target parameter. The adaptive adjustment unit includes a parameter space transformer and a search range definer. The parameter space transformer performs a space transformation on a parameter space of the operating parameters according to the executed values. The search range definer defines a parameter search range in a transformed parameter space based on the sets of the executed values. The optimization search unit takes the parameter search range as a limiting condition and takes optimizing the target parameter as a target to search for a set of recommended values of the operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Po-Yu Huang, Chun-Fang Chen, Hong-Chi Ku, Te-Ming Chen, Chien-Liang Lai, Sen-Chia Chang
  • Publication number: 20240118202
    Abstract: A rapid fresh digital-pathology (RFP) method for assessing an excised unfixed biological specimen stained with hematoxylin (H) or eosin (E) or both hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining dyes. The RFP method is assisted by a rapid tissue staining (RTS) procedure which is performed on the excised unfixed biological specimen, involving a short fixation; an H-staining; a rinsing; a bluing; an E-staining; a rinsing; and finally, a covering of a stained specimen with a coverslip. The RFP method is further assisted by a multimodal nonlinear optical laser-raster-scanning approach to provide with a nonlinear multi-harmonic generation and/or a nonlinear multi-photon excitation fluorescence signal(s) for multichannel digitization and real-time digital display of H- or E- or HE-specific histopathological features while providing a centimeter-scale imaging area, a submicron digital resolution, and a sustained effective data throughput of at least 500 Megabits per second (Mbps).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Chi-Kuang Sun, Bhaskar Jyoti Borah, Yao-Chen Tseng
  • Publication number: 20240120437
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a LED is disclosed. The method includes: providing a substrate with an upper surface; preparing a plurality of LEDs on the upper surface; wherein the upper surface is divided into a plurality of zones, the plurality of LEDs composes a plurality of LED groups, and each of the LED group is disposed in one of the plurality of zones; preparing a testing circuit to electrically connecting the plurality of LEDs in one of the plurality of LED groups; testing the plurality of LEDs in the one of the plurality of LED groups by the testing circuit to obtain photoelectrical characteristics of the plurality of LEDs in the one of the plurality of LED groups; and presenting the photoelectric characteristics in an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Chia-Chen TSAI, Jia-Liang TU, Chi-Ling LEE
  • Publication number: 20240118135
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a display panel having an active area that generates visual images and an inactive area disposed outside the active area. The inactive area having an alignment mark that is invisible to a naked eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hong-Ji Huang, Yu-Chen Liu, Kuo-Wei Tseng, Chun-Wei Huang, Chi-Fong Lee
  • Patent number: 11955664
    Abstract: A battery module includes an insulating base, a pair of electrodes and multiple battery packs. Each electrode is installed to the insulating base and has a bridge portion and a wire connecting part exposed from the insulating base, and a pair of lugs is extended smoothly from each battery pack, and an end of at least a part of the lugs is attached to each bridge portion correspondingly. Therefore, the lug is not being twisted or deformed easily, and the battery module may have good conductive efficiency, long service life, and convenience of changing the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AMITA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Chueh-Yu Ko, Hou-Chi Chen, Chia-Wen Yen, Ming-Hsiao Tsai
  • Patent number: 11955519
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an epitaxial substrate. The epitaxial substrate includes a substrate. A strain relaxed layer covers and contacts the substrate. A III-V compound stacked layer covers and contacts the strain relaxed layer. The III-V compound stacked layer is a multilayer epitaxial structure formed by aluminum nitride, aluminum gallium nitride or a combination of aluminum nitride and aluminum gallium nitride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Yu-Ming Hsu, Yu-Chi Wang, Yen-Hsing Chen, Tsung-Mu Yang, Yu-Ren Wang
  • Patent number: 11955515
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with dual side source/drain (S/D) contact structures and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a superlattice structure on the fin structure, forming first and second S/D regions within the superlattice structure, forming a gate structure between the first and second S/D regions, forming first and second contact structures on first surfaces of the first and second S/D regions, and forming a third contact structure, on a second surface of the first S/D region, with a work function metal (WFM) silicide layer and a dual metal liner. The second surface is opposite to the first surface of the first S/D region and the WFM silicide layer has a work function value closer to a conduction band energy than a valence band energy of a material of the first S/D region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Chuan Chiu, Chia-Hao Chang, Cheng-Chi Chuang, Chih-Hao Wang, Huan-Chieh Su, Chun-Yuan Chen, Li-Zhen Yu, Yu-Ming Lin
  • Patent number: 11953839
    Abstract: In a method of cleaning a lithography system, during idle mode, a stream of air is directed, through a first opening, into a chamber of a wafer table of an EUV lithography system. One or more particles is extracted by the directed stream of air from surfaces of one or more wafer chucks in the chamber of the wafer table. The stream of air and the extracted one or more particle are drawn, through a second opening, out of the chamber of the wafer table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Yu Tu, Shao-Hua Wang, Yen-Hao Liu, Chueh-Chi Kuo, Li-Jui Chen, Heng-Hsin Liu
  • Patent number: 11956310
    Abstract: A method and system for providing information management of data from hosted services receives information management policies for a hosted account of a hosted service, requests data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, receives data associated with the hosted account from the hosted service, and provides a preview version of the received data to a computing device. In some examples, the system indexes the received data to associate the received data with a user of an information management system, and/or provides index information related to the received data to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Commvault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Vijayan, Ho-Chi Chen, Deepak Raghunath Attarde, Hetalkumar N. Joshi
  • Patent number: 11955567
    Abstract: A wide-band gap semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The wide-band gap semiconductor device of the disclosure includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer, an array of merged PN junction Schottky (MPS) diode, and an edge termination area surrounding the array of MPS diode. The epitaxial layer includes a first plane, a second plane, and trenches between the first plane and the second plane. The array of MPS diode is formed in the first plane of the epitaxial layer. The edge termination area includes a floating ring region having floating rings formed in the second plane of the epitaxial layer, and a transition region between the floating ring region and the array of MPS diode. The transition region includes a PIN diode formed in the plurality of trenches and on the epitaxial layer between the trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LEAP Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Fan Chen, Kuo-Chi Tsai
  • Patent number: 11956553
    Abstract: An image sensor device has a first number of first pixels disposed in a substrate and a second number of second pixels disposed in the substrate. The first number is substantially equal to the second number. A light-blocking structure disposed over the first pixels and the second pixels. The light-blocking structure defines a plurality of first openings and second openings through which light can pass. The first openings are disposed over the first pixels. The second openings are disposed over the second pixels. The second openings are smaller than the first openings. A microcontroller is configured to turn on different ones of the second pixels at different points in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-Wei Cheng, Chun-Hao Chou, Kuo-Cheng Lee, Hsin-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 11952690
    Abstract: A breathable and waterproof non-woven fabric is manufactured by a manufacturing method including the following steps. Performing a kneading process on 87 to 91 parts by weight of a polyester, 5 to 7 parts by weight of a water repellent, and 3 to 6 parts by weight of a flow promoter to form a mixture, in which the polyester has a melt index between 350 g/10 min and 1310 g/10 min at a temperature of 270° C., and the mixture has a melt index between 530 g/10 min and 1540 g/10 min at a temperature of 270° C. Performing a melt-blowing process on the mixture, such that the flow promoter is volatilized and a melt-blown fiber is formed, in which the melt-blown fiber has a fiber body and the water repellent disposed on the fiber body with a particle size (D90) between 350 nm and 450 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ying-Chi Lin, Wei-Hung Chen, Li-Chen Chu, Rih-Sheng Chiang
  • Publication number: 20240111456
    Abstract: A method of a storage device controller includes: using an interface circuit for receiving and storing different write address information of different write command signals sent from a host device, the different write address information being out of sequence; and, using multiple processor cores to rearrange the different write address information in sequence and then write data into at least one storage zone according to the different write address information rearranged in sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Silicon Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Li-Chi Chen, Yen-Yu Jou
  • Publication number: 20240113512
    Abstract: An electronic device and a temperature detection device thereof are provided. The temperature detection device includes a differential stage circuit and an output stage circuit. The differential stage circuit includes a first differential end and a second differential end, and includes a cross-coupled transistor element, a first resistor and a second transistor. The cross-coupled transistor element receives a first voltage. The first resistor is coupled between the first differential end and a second voltage, and the first resistor is poly-silicon resistor. The second resistor is coupled between the second differential end and the second voltage, and the second resistor is a silicon carbide diffusion resistor. The output stage circuit generates a driving voltage according to a first control voltage on the first differential end and a second control voltage on the second differential end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: LEAP Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Wei-Fan Chen, Kuo-Chi Tsai