Patents by Inventor Feng-An Zhou

Feng-An Zhou 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: 20200403655
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU 106 may determine a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix for a precoding of one or more data streams for transmission on a plurality of antennas coupled to the gNB-DU. The precoding may be in accordance with a split functionality between the gNB-CU and the gNB-DU that includes: precoding by the gNB-CU with the first precoding matrix, and precoding by the gNB-DU with the second precoding matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Yushu Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Wenting Chang, Qian Li
  • Patent number: 10870918
    Abstract: A method of forming a carbonized composition includes providing an organic composition, forming a protective layer over the organic composition, increasing temperature to carbonize the organic composition and for a period of time to form the carbonized composition, and removing the protective layer from the carbonized composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Haitao Liu, Feng Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200395370
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device where memory cells and some logic devices are formed on bulk silicon while other logic devices are formed on a thin silicon layer over insulation over the bulk silicon of the same substrate. The memory cell stacks, select gate poly, and source regions for the memory devices are formed in the memory area before the logic devices are formed in the logic areas. The various oxide, nitride and poly layers used to form the gate stacks in the memory area are formed in the logic areas as well. Only after the memory cell stacks and select gate poly are formed, and the memory area protected by one or more protective layers, are the oxide, nitride and poly layers used to form the memory cell stacks removed from the logic areas, and the logic devices are then formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Silicon Storage Technology,Inc.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, XIAN LIU, FENG ZHOU, PARVIZ GHAZAVI, STEVEN LEMKE, NHAN DO
  • Patent number: 10868022
    Abstract: Flash memory devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided. An exemplary method includes providing discrete bit lines on a semiconductor substrate, a first dielectric layer on top surfaces of the bit lines, and a floating gate structure on the first dielectric layer, trenches being formed between adjacent bit lines and on the semiconductor substrate; forming a sacrificial layer with a top surface above the top surfaces of the bit lines in the trenches; forming a second dielectric layer on top and side surfaces of the floating gate structure and the top surface of the sacrificial layer; forming a control gate structure on the second dielectric layer; removing portions of the second dielectric layer, the floating gate structure and the first dielectric layer to expose a portion of the sacrificial layer; and removing the sacrificial layer from the adjacent bit lines and the semiconductor substrate, thereby forming air gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Fen Chiu, Liang Chen, Chao Feng Zhou, Xiao Bo Li
  • Publication number: 20200360353
    Abstract: The invention relates to modulators of Embryonic Ectoderm Development (EED) and/or Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) useful in the treatment of disorders and diseases associated with EEC and PRC2, being macrocyclic azolopyridine derivatives and compositions thereof of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, solvate, hydrate, enantiomer, isomer, or tautomer thereof, wherein X1, X2, X3, A1, A2, Y, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Ivan Viktorovich EFREMOV, Steven KAZMIRSKI, Qingyi LI, Lorin A. THOMPSON, III, Owen Brendan WALLACE, Shawn Donald JOHNSTONE, Feng ZHOU, Peter RAHL
  • Publication number: 20200345195
    Abstract: The present application discloses a processing station and a cleaning system. The cleaning system includes a processing station and a cleaning robot, the processing station for evacuating trash collected in the cleaning robot, and including a body formed with a sealing surface, a base located below the sealing surface and configured for supporting a trash cassette having an opening at a top, a suction mechanism and a filter, and an adjustment member connected the body with the base; the adjustment member urges the base to be vertically adjacent to the sealing surface to clamp the trash cassette between the base and the sealing surface, such that the opening edge of the trash cassette abuts against the sealing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventor: Feng ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10824920
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for recognizing video fine granularity, a computer device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: performing sampling processing for video to be recognized to obtain n frames of images, n being a positive integer larger than one; respectively obtaining a feature graph of each frame of image, and determining a summary feature according to respective feature graphs; determining a fine granularity recognition result of a target in the video according to the summary feature. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to enhance the accuracy of recognition result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao Tan, Feng Zhou, Hao Sun
  • Publication number: 20200339615
    Abstract: There are provided compounds of Formula I, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, used for inhibition or modulation of the activity of cyclin dependent kinases (CDK) and/or glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3), for the treatment of disease states or conditions mediated by cyclin dependent kinases and/or glycogen synthase kinase-3, including cancers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Jiasheng LU, Jiamin GU, Gang CHEN, Xiaolin ZHANG, Feng ZHOU, Xianqi KONG
  • Patent number: 10818680
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate having an upper surface with a plurality of upwardly extending fins. A memory cell formed on a first of the fins and including spaced apart source and drain regions in the first fin, with a channel region extending therebetween along top and side surfaces of the first fin, a floating gate that extends along a first portion of the channel region, a select gate that extends along a second portion of the channel region, a control gate that extends along and is insulated from the floating gate, and an erase gate that extends along and is insulated from the source region. A logic device formed on a second of the fins and including spaced apart logic source and logic drain regions in the second fin, with a logic channel region of the second fin extending therebetween, and a logic gate that extends along the logic channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Jinho Kim, Xian Liu, Serguei Jourba, Catherine Decobert, Nhan Do
  • Patent number: 10820454
    Abstract: A vapor chamber heat spreader includes a condenser arranged at a top end of the vapor chamber heat spreader, an evaporator arranged at an opposite end to the condenser; and multi-level wick structures. The multi-level structures include a first planar wick arranged adjacent to the condenser, a second planar wick arranged adjacent to the evaporator, a plurality of condenser posts for supplying liquid condensed by the condenser, a plurality of evaporator posts for supply the liquid towards the evaporator, and a mesh layer. The mesh layer is arranged between the condenser posts and the evaporator posts and configured to separate the condenser posts from the evaporator posts. The mesh layer includes a plurality of vent holes. The mesh layer is a porous layer having high permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Feng Zhou
  • Patent number: 10811828
    Abstract: A USB cable contains: a holder, a body, and a conductive assembly. The holder includes a protective shell, a connection disc, and a decoration cap. The protective shell has a first accommodation chamber, a fixing sheet, and a protection cap. The body includes a receiving seat, a male plug, a locking member, a fixer, a PCB, a resilient piece, and a covering member. The receiving seat has a second accommodation chamber. The conductive assembly includes a first lid, a second lid, a defining sheet, a PCB plug, and a retractable wire. The retractable wire is connected with the PCB of the body, the PCB plug is accommodated in the cross-cross groove of the covering member, the body is received in the first accommodation chamber of the protective shell of the holder, and the receiving seat is connected with the decoration cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Inventors: Wei-Feng Zhou, Chun-Wai Chan
  • Patent number: 10803556
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for image processing, applied in image processing field, where the method comprises: obtaining a first two-dimensional image and focusing information of the first two-dimensional image, obtaining depth information of a part or all of a content in the first two-dimensional image, determining a background area of the first two-dimensional image according to the focusing information, performing bokeh on the background area of the first two-dimensional image according to the depth information. The above method can reduce requirements for hardware, operate easily, and perform bokeh on the background quickly when performing bokeh on the background.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: ArcSoft Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Jianhua Lin, Li Yu, Feng Zhou
  • Patent number: 10792642
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of isobutylene preparation. Disclosed are a catalyst and preparation method thereof, and method for preparing isobutylene by applying the same; the catalyst has a core-shell structure, the core an amorphous silica-alumina particle and/or an aggregate molding thereof, and the shell aluminum oxide comprising silicon and tin; the weight ratio of aluminum oxide comprising silicon and tin to amorphous silica-alumina is 1:60-1:3; in the aluminum oxide comprising silicon and tin, on basis of the weight of aluminum oxide comprising silicon and tin, the content of silicon is 0.5-2 wt %, and of tin is 0.2-1 wt %. The catalyst of the present invention is used to catalyze a mixture of MTBE and TBA to prepare isobutylene, enabling the MTBE cleavage and TBA dehydration reactions to be conducted simultaneously to generate isobutylene, achieving higher conversion rates of TBA and MTBE, and higher selectivity for generating isobutylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, SINOPEC CORP.
    Inventors: Shumei Zhang, Feng Zhou, Kai Qiao, Qingtong Zhai, Chunmei Wang
  • Patent number: 10797142
    Abstract: A memory cell is formed on a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface with a plurality of upwardly extending fins. First and second fins extend in one direction, and a third fin extends in an orthogonal direction. Spaced apart source and drain regions are formed in each of the first and second fins, defining a channel region extending there between in each of the first and second fins. The source regions are disposed at intersections between the third fin and the first and second fins. A floating gate is disposed laterally between the first and second fins, and laterally adjacent to the third fin, and extends along first portions of the channel regions. A word line gate extends along second portions of the channel regions. A control gate is disposed over the floating gate. An erase gate is disposed over the source regions and the floating gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Serguei Jourba, Catherine Decobert, Feng Zhou, Jinho Kim, Xian Liu, Nhan Do
  • Patent number: 10790292
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device where memory cells and some logic devices are formed on bulk silicon while other logic devices are formed on a thin silicon layer over insulation over the bulk silicon of the same substrate. The memory cell stacks, select gate poly, and source regions for the memory devices are formed in the memory area before the logic devices are formed in the logic areas. The various oxide, nitride and poly layers used to form the gate stacks in the memory area are formed in the logic areas as well. Only after the memory cell stacks and select gate poly are formed, and the memory area protected by one or more protective layers, are the oxide, nitride and poly layers used to form the memory cell stacks removed from the logic areas, and the logic devices are then formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Xian Liu, Feng Zhou, Parviz Ghazavi, Steven Lemke, Nhan Do
  • Patent number: 10784115
    Abstract: A method of etching features in a silicon wafer includes coating a top surface and a bottom surface of the silicon wafer with a mask layer having a lower etch rate than an etch rate of the silicon wafer, removing one or more portions of the mask layer to form a mask pattern in the mask layer on the top surface and the bottom surface of the silicon wafer, etching one or more top surface features into the top surface of the silicon wafer through the mask pattern to a depth plane located between the top surface and the bottom surface of the silicon wafer at a depth from the top surface, coating the top surface and the one or more top surface features with a metallic coating, and etching one or more bottom surface features into the bottom surface of the silicon wafer through the mask pattern to the target depth plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ki Wook Jung, Ercan Mehmet Dede, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson
  • Patent number: 10771131
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU 106 may determine a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix for a precoding of one or more data streams for transmission on a plurality of antennas coupled to the gNB-DU. The precoding may be in accordance with a split functionality between the gNB-CU and the gNB-DU that includes: precoding by the gNB-CU with the first precoding matrix, and precoding by the gNB-DU with the second precoding matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Yushu Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Wenting Chang, Qian Li
  • Publication number: 20200280239
    Abstract: A cooling system simultaneously cools both a power module and a vehicle motor. A vehicle motor housing is provided in thermal communication with a plurality of manifolds. Each manifold defines a cooling fluid inlet, a cooling fluid outlet, and a distribution recess providing fluid communication. The distribution recess may be defined by a wall having an exterior major surface in thermal communication with the vehicle motor. A manifold fluid insert may be disposed within the distribution recess, defining a plurality of inlet branch channels and outlet branch channels. A power module may be coupled to the manifold and a heat sink feature. A flow of coolant fluid is provided from each cooling fluid inlet, through the inlet branch channels of the manifold fluid insert for impingement with the heat sink feature, returning through the outlet branch channels and to the cooling fluid outlet of the respective manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ercan Mehmet Dede
  • Patent number: D896856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Feng Zhou
  • Patent number: D905142
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Xiao Feng Zhou