Patents by Inventor Eric Xu

Eric Xu 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: 20240144604
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, capturing a first depiction of an exhibit environment, wherein the first depiction of the exhibit environment comprises an image of at least one artifact and an image of at least one interface element, and wherein the at least one interface element is located in the exhibit environment at a first location relative to the at least one artifact; obtaining a first user profile of a first user, wherein the first user profile comprises at least one first preference of the first user, and wherein the first user is located in a first remote environment; and facilitating a presenting of a first modified version of the first depiction of the exhibit environment in the first remote environment, wherein the first modified version moves the image of the at least one interface element to a second location relative to the at least one artifact, wherein the second location is different than the first location, and wherein the second location is selected based upon
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Jean-Francois Paiement, Wen-Ling Hsu, Tan Xu, Aritra Guha, Qiong Wu
  • Patent number: 11973034
    Abstract: Exemplary methods of electroplating a metal with a nanotwin crystal structure are described. The methods may include plating a metal material into at least one opening on a patterned substrate, where at least a portion of the metal material is characterized by a nanotwin crystal structure. The methods may further include polishing an exposed surface of the metal material in the opening to reduce an average surface roughness of the exposed surface to less than or about 1 nm. The polished exposed surface may include at least a portion of the metal material characterized by the nanotwin crystal structure. In additional examples, the nanotwin-phased metal may be nanotwin-phased copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric J. Bergman, John L. Klocke, Marvin L. Bernt, Jing Xu, Kwan Wook Roh
  • Patent number: 11964673
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicle are provided. A method can include obtaining, by a computing system, data indicative of a plurality of objects in a surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, one or more clusters of the objects based at least in part on the data indicative of the plurality of objects. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, whether to enter an operation mode having one or more limited operational capabilities based at least in part on one or more properties of the one or more clusters. In response to determining that the operation mode is to be entered by the autonomous vehicle, the method can include controlling, by the computing system, the operation of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the one or more limited operational capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Brian C. Becker, Michael Lee Phillips, Yang Xu, Eric Michael Perko, Narek Melik-Barkhudarov
  • Publication number: 20240111755
    Abstract: System and method for managing different classes of storage input/output (I/O) requests for a two-phase commit operation in a distributed storage system assigns reserved log sequence values to each of storage I/O requests of a first class, which are added to a two-phase commit queue. The reserved log sequence values of the storage I/O requests of the first class in the two-phase commit queue are assigned to some of the storage I/O requests of the second class, which are added to the two-phase commit queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yiqi Xu, Eric Knauft, Enning Xiang
  • Patent number: 11947827
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes enhancing data durability of a base component using a delta component. A delta component is generated based on the base component becoming unavailable. The delta component is configured to include unwritten storage space with an address space matching the base component and a tracking bitmap associated with data blocks of the address space of the delta component. Write operations targeted for the base component are routed to the delta component. Based on the routed write operations, bits associated with data blocks affected by the write operations are changed in the tracking bitmap. Based on the base component becoming available, data blocks affected by routed write operations are identified based on the tracking bitmap and the identified data blocks are synchronized from the delta component to the base component. The delta component is then removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Knauft, Enning Xiang, Mansi Shah, Pascal Renauld, Yiqi Xu, Ojan Thornycroft, Pratik Desai, Zhihao Yao, Yizhou Luo
  • Patent number: 11927762
    Abstract: A display system comprising a steerable display having a monocular field of view of at least 1 degree, positioned within a scannable field of view of at least 20 degrees, the steerable display positioned for a user. In one embodiment, the steerable display is positioned for the user's fovea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Avegant Corp.
    Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Andrew John Gross, Christopher David Westra, D. Scott Dewald, Edward Chia Ning Tang, Joseph Roger Battelle, Kevin William King, Warren Cornelius Welch, III, Eric Richard David Frasch, David A. Henderson, Qin Xu
  • Publication number: 20240079777
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element formed from a segment of peripheral conductive housing structures. A speaker may be aligned with first openings in the segment. A vent may be aligned with second openings in the segment. A connector may protrude through the segment. A trace combiner for the antenna may be patterned onto the speaker and may be coupled to the segment. Tuners for the antenna may be disposed on first and second flexible printed circuits that extend along opposing sides of the connector. The tuners may be controlled through the speaker. The second flexible printed circuit may extend along the vent. The vent may have a vent cowling with a cut-out region next to the tuner on the second flexible printed circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Ming-Ju Tsai, Sidharath Jain, Haozhan Tian, Yuancheng Xu, Harlan S Dannenberg, Eric W Bates, Peter A Dvorak, Nicole E Cazares, Obinna O Onyemepu, Victor C Lee, Han Wang
  • Publication number: 20240079790
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures having a segment that forms a resonating element for an antenna. A speaker may be mounted to a mid-chassis of the electronic device. A printed circuit may be mounted to the speaker and may have a ground trace for the antenna. A conductive spring may extend through the printed circuit and the speaker to couple the ground trace to the mid-chassis. A conductive contact pad may be welded to an aluminum layer such as an aluminum layer used to form the mid-chassis. A conductive spring such as the conductive spring coupled to the ground traces may press against the contact pad. The contact pad may include gold or nickel-plated stainless steel. The contact pad may provide a strong electrical connection between the conductive spring and the aluminum layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Peter A Dvorak, Eric W Bates, McKinley McQuaide, Ronald Lam, Ana Papio Toda, Yiren Wang, Hao Xu, Han Wang, Yuan Tao, Jack R Lanzi, Jingni Zhong
  • Publication number: 20240079779
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a sensor module and an antenna having an antenna arm, ground structures, and a tuner. The tuner may be mounted to a printed circuit overlapping the sensor module. A spring may be mounted to the printed circuit and may couple the tuner to a conductive chassis of the sensor module. The sensor module may include optical sensors that gather sensor data through a display and may form ground paths from the tuner to the ground structures. Conductive interconnect structures such as springs may exert biasing forces in different directions to couple the ground paths to different layers of the ground structures. This may serve to couple the antenna to the ground structures as close as possible to the tuner, thereby maximizing antenna performance, despite the presence of the sensor module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yuan Tao, Yiren Wang, Ana Papio Toda, Jingni Zhong, Han Wang, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Mattia Pascolini, Eric W. Bates, Peter A. Dvorak, Allegra Shum
  • Publication number: 20240080976
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) printed circuit having conductive trace and a hole. A conductive flange may be soldered to the conductive trace and may extend into the hole. The end of the conductive flange may laterally surround a central opening within the hole. A conductive contact may be inserted into the central opening. Solder may be deposited over the conductive flange and in the central opening. The solder may couple the conductive contact to the conductive flange and thus the conductive trace. This may ensure a robust mechanical and electrical connection between the conductive contact and the conductive trace on the printed circuit despite the printed circuit being formed from LCP, which may not support copper-plated through vias for coupling to the conductive contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Peter A. Dvorak, Eric W. Bates, Ana Papio Toda, Yiren Wang, Hao Xu, Yuan Tao, Han Wang, Jack R Lanzi, Ronald Lam
  • Publication number: 20240079785
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element formed from a segment of peripheral conductive housing structures. A speaker may be aligned with first openings in the segment. A vent may be aligned with second openings in the segment. A connector may protrude through the segment. A trace combiner for the antenna may be patterned onto the speaker and may be coupled to the segment. Tuners for the antenna may be disposed on first and second flexible printed circuits that extend along opposing sides of the connector. The tuners may be controlled through the speaker. The second flexible printed circuit may extend along the vent. The vent may have a vent cowling with a cut-out region next to the tuner on the second flexible printed circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Hao Xu, Yuancheng Xu, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Nikolaj P. Kammersgaard, Eric W. Bates, Peter A. Dvorak, Victor C. Lee, Han Wang
  • Publication number: 20240079778
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element formed from a segment of peripheral conductive housing structures. A speaker may be aligned with first openings in the segment. A vent may be aligned with second openings in the segment. A connector may protrude through the segment. A trace combiner for the antenna may be patterned onto the speaker and may be coupled to the segment. Tuners for the antenna may be disposed on first and second flexible printed circuits that extend along opposing sides of the connector. The tuners may be controlled through the speaker. The second flexible printed circuit may extend along the vent. The vent may have a vent cowling with a cut-out region next to the tuner on the second flexible printed circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Ming-Ju Tsai, Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Hao Xu, Sidharath Jain, Haozhan Tian, Yuancheng Xu, Eric W. Bates, Peter A. Dvorak, Harlan S. Dannenberg, Rees S. Parker, Obinna O. Onyemepu, Victor C. Lee, Han Wang, Hongfei Hu
  • Patent number: 11918441
    Abstract: A highly extensible nonwoven web is provided. The highly extensible nonwoven web may include continuous multi-component fibers. The continuous multi-component fibers may include polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene has a crystallinity of less than about 41%. The polypropylene may have a melting temperature of less than about 161° C. The highly extensible nonwoven web may define a plurality of apertures. The apertures may be patterned. The highly extensible nonwoven web may form a portion of an absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Han Xu, Meganne Frisch, Jaroslav Kohut, Sascha Kreisel, Jiri Kummer, Fang Liu, Michael J. Roddy, Patricia Rolon, Eric R. Schurdak
  • Publication number: 20240065884
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing targeted temperature management (TTM) therapy to a patient. The TTM system can include multiple embodiments of a thermal pad including embodiments that are convertible from a first patient contact area to a second patient contact area. Embodiments of thermal pads can include pads that are expandable, extendable, and/or comprise attachable or removable portions. The TTM system can include embodiments where a second thermal pad is coupled to a first thermal pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Eric A. Fallows, Nicholas J. Jardine, Qihua Xu, Adam T. Martin, Sean E. Walker
  • Publication number: 20230281766
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein involves using a machine learning model (e.g., CNN) to expand lower dynamic-range image content (e.g., SDR images) into higher dynamic-range image content (e.g., HDR images). The machine learning model can take as input the lower dynamic-range image and can output multiple expansion maps that are used to make the expanded image appear more natural. The expansion maps may be used by image operators to smooth color banding and to dim overexposed regions or user interface elements in the expanded image. The expanded content (e.g., HDR image content) may then be provided to one or more devices for display or storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Shaveen Kumar, Anjul Patney, Eric Xu, Anton Moor
  • Patent number: 10954265
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel glucocorticoid compounds. The invention also relates to methods of using these compounds, the synthesis of these compounds, and to compositions and formulations comprising the glucocorticoid compounds, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Huaqiang Eric Xu, Yuanzheng He
  • Publication number: 20190263853
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel glucocorticoid compounds. The invention also relates to methods of using these compounds, the synthesis of these compounds, and to compositions and formulations comprising the glucocorticoid compounds, and uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Huaqiang Eric Xu, Yuanzheng He
  • Publication number: 20190054005
    Abstract: Pure oil-based personal care products containing less than or equal to 1 wt. % of water, contain alkyl glycoside modified polysiloxanes of Formula (I) where x, y and z are between 1 and 10,000, n and m are between 1 and 20, alkyl is a linear or branched C2-C20 hydrocarbon, and W is a linear or branched C2-C20 alkylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventors: Tracy WANG, Eric Xu
  • Patent number: 9975918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel glucocorticoid compounds. The invention also relates to methods of using these compounds, the synthesis of these compounds, and to compositions and formulations comprising the glucocorticoid compounds, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignees: VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Huaqiang Eric Xu, Yuanzheng He, Karsten Melcher, Wei Yi, Jingjing Shi
  • Patent number: 9832204
    Abstract: There is provided a method and system for managing security compatibility of electronic content. The method includes: receiving electronic content; parsing the electronic content into one or more elements; determining a content security profile of the electronic content; determining an element security profile of the one or more elements of the electronic content; determining whether the element security profile of the one or more elements is compatible with the content security profile; and for each of the one or more elements: if the element security profile is not compatible with the content security profile, modifying the element to have a compatible element security profile, otherwise, not modifying the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: D2L Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Cepuran, Ali Ghassemi, Nicholas Dingle, Jeffrey Geurts, David Lockhart, Matthew Campbell, Jeffrey Avis, David Batiste, Victor Sumner, Rylan Cottrell, Sean Yo, Johnson Hsu, Eric Xu