Patents by Inventor Frank Yang
Frank Yang 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).
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Publication number: 20250085553Abstract: Display devices include waveguides with in-coupling optical elements that mitigate re-bounce of in-coupled light to improve in-coupling efficiency and/or uniformity. A waveguide receives light from a light source and includes an in-coupling optical element that in-couples the received light to propagate by total internal reflection within the waveguide. The in-coupled light may undergo re-bounce, in which the light reflects off a waveguide surface and, after the reflection, strikes the in-coupling optical element. Upon striking the in-coupling optical element, the light may be partially absorbed and/or out-coupled by the optical element, thereby reducing the amount of in-coupled light propagating through the waveguide.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Jeffrey Dean SCHMULEN, Neal Paul RICKS, Samarth BHARGAVA, Kevin MESSER, Victor Kai LIU, Matthew Grant DIXON, Xiaopei DENG, Marlon Edward MENEZES, Shuqiang YANG, Vikramjit SINGH, Kang LUO, Frank Y. XU
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Patent number: 12233639Abstract: A source wafer for use in a micro-transfer printing process. The source wafer comprising: a wafer substrate; a photonic component, provided in a device coupon, the device coupon being attached to the wafer substrate via a release layer; and one or more etch stop layers, located between the photonic component and the wafer substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Rockley Photonics LimitedInventors: Hua Yang, Mohamad Dernaika, Frank Peters, Guomin Yu
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Patent number: 12225999Abstract: A mirror assembly can include a mirror, a display device, a window configured to provide a view of the display device, and a display region disposed on the front surface of the mirror. The mirror can include a glass layer, a dielectric layer, and a metal layer. In some embodiments, the glass layer is disposed closest to a user. The dielectric layer can include one or more alternating layers of Titanium dioxide and Silicon dioxide. In some embodiments, the display region is positioned outside of a central region of the mirror. The mirror assembly can include a first mirror coupled to a second mirror. In some embodiments, the transmissivity of the second mirror is higher than the transmissivity of the first mirror. In some embodiments, the reflectance of the second mirror is higher than the reflectance of the first mirror.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: simplehuman, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Ryan Thomas Wong, Samuel F. Pellicori, Frederick Nicholas Bushroe
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Patent number: 12231934Abstract: Device, systems, and/or techniques for using sub-channel signaling information between an access point and a first station are disclosed. In one aspect, a method performed by a station (STA) includes: receiving, from a neighboring STA in an overlapping basic service set (OBSS), a physical (PHY) layer preamble that includes a signal field indicating a plurality of sub-bands and associated power thresholds for Uplink Orthogonal Frequency-Divisional Multiple Access (UL OFDMA) transmission, that are available for OBSS spatial reuse (SR) by the STA; and sending, to an AP with which the STA is associated, an UL OFDMA transmission using a sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands and an associated power threshold indicated in the signal field. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Hanqing Lou, Nirav B. Shah, Xiaofei Wang, Rui Yang, Guodong Zhang, Frank La Sita, Robert L. Olesen
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Patent number: 12225494Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for multiple AP coordination in wireless local area networks (WLANs). For example, a station (STA) may receive, from a first access points (APs), a probe response frame that includes one or more indicators indicating multiple AP operation capabilities of the first AP and a second AP. The STA may transmit, to at least one of the first AP or the second AP, a multiple AP association request frame that enables the first AP to be associated with the second AP for a multiple AP operation. The STA may receive, from the first AP, a first multiple AP association response frame indicating acceptance or rejection of the multiple AP operation with the first AP. The STA may receive, from the second AP, a second multiple AP association response frame indicating acceptance or rejection of the multiple AP operation with the second AP.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Alphan Sahin, Xiaofei Wang, Hanqing Lou, Li-Hsiang Sun, Rui Yang, Frank La Sita
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Patent number: 12223466Abstract: Cameras capture images of shelves/displays having items. The images are processed to identify real-time item counts on the shelves and/or empty or partially empty shelves with less than a configured number of items. Notifications or messages regarding item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are sent through an Application Programming Interface (API) to consuming services in accordance with custom defined rules. In an embodiment, real-time item counts and/or empty shelving conditions are dynamically reported through the API based on on-demand requests from the consuming services.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: NCR Voyix CorporationInventors: Qian Yang, Frank Douglas Hinek, Brent Vance Zucker
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Publication number: 20250035885Abstract: A mirror assembly can include a housing, a mirror, and a light source. In certain embodiments, the mirror is rotatable within a support portion of the mirror assembly. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly includes a light pipe configured to emit a substantially constant amount of light along a periphery of the mirror. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly includes a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly can be configured to adjust the amount of emitted light based on the position of a user in relation to the mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Frank Yang, William Patrick Conley, Adam Sbeglia
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Publication number: 20250028115Abstract: An augmented reality device includes a projector, projector optics optically coupled to the projector, and a substrate structure including a substrate having an incident surface and an opposing exit surface and a first variable thickness film coupled to the incident surface. The substrate structure can also include a first combined pupil expander coupled to the first variable thickness film, a second variable thickness film coupled to the opposing exit surface, an incoupling grating coupled to the opposing exit surface, and a second combined pupil expander coupled to the opposing exit surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Robert D. Tekolste, Ryan Jason Ong, Victor Kai Liu, Samarth Bhargava, Christophe Peroz, Vikramjit Singh, Marlon Edward Menezes, Shuqiang Yang, Frank Y. Xu
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Publication number: 20250020841Abstract: Diffraction gratings provide optical elements, e.g., in a head-mountable display system, that can affect light, for example by incoupling light into a waveguide, outcoupling light out of a waveguide, and/or multiplying light propagating in a waveguide. The diffraction gratings may be configured to have reduced polarization sensitivity such that light of different polarization states, or polarized and unpolarized light, is incoupled, outcoupled, multiplied, or otherwise affected with a similar level of efficiency. The reduced polarization sensitivity may be achieved through provision of a transmissive layer and a metallic layer on one or more gratings. A diffraction grating may comprise a blazed grating or other suitable configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Vikramjit Singh, Kang Luo, Xiaopei Deng, Shuqiang Yang, Frank Y. Xu, Kevin Messer
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Patent number: 12178363Abstract: A device may include an enclosure configured to receive, store, and dispense a cleaning fluid. A device may include a support base, wherein the enclosure and support base can be configured to support a roll of cleaning wipes in a manner that permits the roll to rotate when one or more cleaning wipes are removed from the roll, wherein the enclosure is configured to be securely attached to the support base by pushing the enclosure downward onto an attachment region of the support base; and wherein the enclosure is configured to be released from the support base by pushing the enclosure downward. A liquid dispenser can have an elongate interior reservoir, a protruding carry loop, and an engagement zone with contours that engage with a latch in a paper-towel holder. The dispenser can have a spray trigger underneath the carry loop and a protruding roll stop. It can be sized to fit within a cylindrical cardboard tube configured to hold paper towels. A paper-towel holder can support and engage a liquid dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: simplehuman, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Joseph Sandor, Myk Wayne Lum, Adam C. Wade
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Patent number: 12153284Abstract: A mirror assembly can include a housing, a mirror, and a light source. In certain embodiments, the mirror is rotatable within a support portion of the mirror assembly. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly includes a light pipe configured to emit a substantially constant amount of light along a periphery of the mirror. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly includes a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly can be configured to adjust the amount of emitted light based on the position of a user in relation to the mirror.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: SIMPLEHUMAN, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, William Patrick Conley, Adam Sbeglia
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Patent number: 12145795Abstract: Various trashcans, their coatings, and coatings for other household goods are disclosed. In certain implementations, the disclosed coatings are antimicrobial. Various methods for forming antimicrobial coatings for household goods are also disclosed. In some embodiments, the antimicrobial coating comprises a substrate and an antimicrobial agent. In certain implementations the coating can be applied to a household good where the coating leaves a substantially streak-free finish. Some embodiments pertain to protective films that can be removed from a coated household good without leaving residue.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: simplehuman, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Di-Fong Chang, Hon-Lun Chen
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Publication number: 20240374089Abstract: A device may include an enclosure configured to receive, store, and dispense a cleaning fluid. A device may include a support base, wherein the enclosure and support base can be configured to support a roll of cleaning wipes in a manner that permits the roll to rotate when one or more cleaning wipes are removed from the roll, wherein the enclosure is configured to be securely attached to the support base by pushing the enclosure downward onto an attachment region of the support base; and wherein the enclosure is configured to be released from the support base by pushing the enclosure downward. A liquid dispenser can have an elongate interior reservoir, a protruding carry loop, and an engagement zone with contours that engage with a latch in a paper-towel holder. The dispenser can have a spray trigger underneath the carry loop and a protruding roll stop. It can be sized to fit within a cylindrical cardboard tube configured to hold paper towels. A paper-towel holder can support and engage a liquid dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Frank Yang, Joseph Sandor, Myk Wayne Lum, Adam C. Wade
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Patent number: 12139328Abstract: Various embodiments of a trash can assembly (e.g., a receptacle configured to receive refuse, recycleable materials, or otherwise), and related methods, are provided. Some embodiments of the trash can assembly include a body component and a lid configured to move between an open position and a closed position. In some variants, the lid can be moved between the open and closed positions by a power operated driving mechanism, such as a motor and/or other drivetrain components. In certain embodiments, the trash can assembly includes a clutch mechanism to facilitate manual operation of the lid while inhibiting or preventing damage to the motor and/or other drivetrain components.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: simplehuman, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Joseph Sandor, Kenneth Yen, Orlando Cardenas, Michael Basha, Christopher Fruhauf
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Patent number: 12102211Abstract: A mirror assembly can include a housing, a mirror, and a light source. In some embodiments, the mirror comprises one or more adjustable sections. In certain embodiments, the mirror includes a light column configured to emit a substantially constant amount of light along a periphery of a mirror section. In some embodiments, the light column can produce various color temperatures. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly comprises a capacitive touch sensor that allows control of one or more features of the light emitted from the light source. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly includes a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly can be configured to control on/off settings and other features of the emitted light.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: SIMPLEHUMAN, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Tzu-Hao Wei, Guy Cohen, Joseph Sandor
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Publication number: 20240307570Abstract: This disclosure includes a description of a sanitizing system for sanitizing a mobile electronic device comprising: a housing; a sanitizer contained within the housing configured to emit radiation with a sanitizing effect; and an entry system with a default closed position, the entry system being configured to permit a mobile electronic device to pass through the entry system and then automatically return to the default closed position, the entry system comprising a first outer enclosure and a second inner obstruction; wherein the entry system blocks radiation emitted within the sanitizing system to a level acceptable for consumer use, or wherein the second inner obstruction provides more radiation attenuation than the first outer enclosure, and/or wherein the combination of the first outer enclosure and the second inner obstruction provides more radiation attenuation than the first outer enclosure by itself. Disclosed are internal reflectors to help distribute sanitizing radiation generally evenly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Frank Yang, Ryan Wong, Cory Bowman, Frederick Bushroe, William Patrick Conley, Nasser Pirshafiey
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Patent number: D1059051Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: simplehuman, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Tzu-Hao Wei, Daniel Ballou
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Patent number: D1061076Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2024Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: simplehuman, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Joseph Sandor, Myk Wayne Lum, Adam C. Wade
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Patent number: D1061258Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: simplehuman LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Joseph Sandor, Myk Wayne Lum, Adam C. Wade
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Patent number: D1063410Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: simplehuman, LLCInventors: Frank Yang, Tzu-Hao Wei, Daniel Ballou