Patents by Inventor Jen-Wei Kuo

Jen-Wei Kuo 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: 20230029739
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a pair of fin structures on a semiconductor substrate, each including a vertically stacked plurality of channel layers, a dielectric fin extending in parallel to and between the fin structures, and a gate structure on and extending perpendicularly to the fin structures, the gate structure engaging with the plurality of channel layers. The dielectric fin includes a fin bottom and a fin top over the fin bottom. The fin bottom has a top surface extending above a bottom surface of a topmost channel layer. The fin top includes a core and a shell, the core having a first dielectric material, the shell surrounding the core and having a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Chih-Chung Chang, Sung-En Lin, Chung-Ting Ko, You-Ting Lin, Yi-Hsiu Liu, Po-Wei Liang, Jiun-Ming Kuo, Yung-Cheng Lu, Chi On Chui, Yuan-Ching Peng, Jen-Hong Chang
  • Publication number: 20220376533
    Abstract: A battery capacity representation method for a computer system, is disclosed. The computer system includes a specific absorption rate (SAR) sensor, a battery module and a light-emitting diode (LED) module, and the battery capacity representation method includes performing an external environment sensing by the SAR sensor to determine whether a triggering condition is satisfied; sensing a battery capacity of the battery module when the triggering condition is satisfied; and determining a representation status of the LED module according to the battery capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Teng Shen, Liang-Fang Wan, Jen-Wei Kuo
  • Publication number: 20220367262
    Abstract: An opening is formed through a dielectric material layer to physically expose a top surface of a conductive material portion in, or over, a substrate. A metallic nitride liner is formed on a sidewall of the opening and on the top surface of the conductive material portion. A metallic adhesion layer including an alloy of copper and at least one transition metal that is not copper is formed on an inner sidewall of the metallic nitride liner. A copper fill material portion may be formed on an inner sidewall of the metallic adhesion layer. The metallic adhesion layer is thermally stable, and remains free of holes during subsequent thermal processes, which may include reflow of the copper fill material portion. An additional copper fill material portion may be optionally deposited after a reflow process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Cheng-Lun TSAI, Huei-Wen HSIEH, Chun-Sheng CHEN, Kai-Shiang KUO, Jen-Wei LIU, Cheng-Hui WENG, Chun-Chien LIN, Hung-Wen SU
  • Patent number: 11430692
    Abstract: An opening is formed through a dielectric material layer to physically expose a top surface of a conductive material portion in, or over, a substrate. A metallic nitride liner is formed on a sidewall of the opening and on the top surface of the conductive material portion. A metallic adhesion layer including an alloy of copper and at least one transition metal that is not copper is formed on an inner sidewall of the metallic nitride liner. A copper fill material portion may be formed on an inner sidewall of the metallic adhesion layer. The metallic adhesion layer is thermally stable, and remains free of holes during subsequent thermal processes, which may include reflow of the copper fill material portion. An additional copper fill material portion may be optionally deposited after a reflow process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Cheng-Lun Tsai, Huei-Wen Hsieh, Chun-Sheng Chen, Kai-Shiang Kuo, Jen-Wei Liu, Cheng-Hui Weng, Chun-Chieh Lin, Hung-Wen Su
  • Publication number: 20210208493
    Abstract: A projection device including a light combining system, an illumination system, and a projection lens is provided. The light combining system is configured to provide a combined beam. The illumination system is disposed on a transmission path of the combined beam and configured to receive the combined beam to generate an illumination beam. At least one light valve is disposed on a transmission path of the illumination beam and converts the illumination beam into an image beam. The projection lens is disposed on a transmission path of the image beam and configured to project the image beam out of the projection device. The light combining system is located in a first layer space. The at least one light valve is located in a second layer space. The first layer space is different from the second layer space. The first layer and second layer spaces overlap in the gravitational direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Wen-Chieh Chung, Jen-Wei Kuo, Tsung-Hsin Liao
  • Patent number: 10354380
    Abstract: A method to characterize shape variations in brain ventricles during embryonic growth in mammals, the method including extracting a brain ventricle skeleton from one or more images, calculating a volume profile for the skeleton using the extracted images, partitioning the brain ventricle based on the volume profile along the skeleton, the brain ventricle being partitioned into two lateral ventricles and a main ventricle, the main ventricle being further partitioned into three sub regions, determining volume vectors of the two lateral ventricles and the three sub regions, computing a means square error between the determined computed volume vectors and a pretrained mean volume vector of embryos during different gestational stages, and classifying the embryo to the gestational stage having the lowest mean square error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: Riverside Research Institute, New York University
    Inventors: Jen-wei Kuo, Jonathan Mamou, Jeffrey A. Ketterling, Orlando Aristizabal, Daniel H. Turnbull, Yao Wang
  • Patent number: 10157466
    Abstract: A method to segment images that contain multiple objects in a nested structure including acquiring an image; defining the multiple objects by layers, each layer corresponding to one region, where a region contains an innermost object and all the objects nested within the innermost object; stacking the layers in an order of the nested structure of the multiple objects, the stack of layers having at least a top layer and a bottom layer; extending each layer with padded nodes; connecting the top layer to a sink and the bottom layer to a source, wherein each intermediate layer between the top layer and the bottom layer are connected only to the adjacent layer by undirected links; and measuring a boundary length for each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: Riverside Research Institute, New York University
    Inventors: Jen-wei Kuo, Jonathan Mamou, Xuan Zhao, Jeffrey A. Ketterling, Orlando Aristizabal, Daniel H. Turnbull, Yao Wang
  • Patent number: 10140708
    Abstract: A method to characterize shape variations in brain ventricles during embryonic growth in mammals, the method including extracting a brain ventricle skeleton from one or more images, calculating a volume profile for the skeleton using the extracted images, partitioning the brain ventricle based on the volume profile along the skeleton, the brain ventricle being partitioned into two lateral ventricles and a main ventricle, the main ventricle being further partitioned into three sub regions, determining volume vectors of the two lateral ventricles and the three sub regions, computing a means square error between the determined computed volume vectors and a pretrained mean volume vector of embryos during different gestational stages, and classifying the embryo to the gestational stage having the lowest mean square error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Riverside Research Institute
    Inventors: Jen-wei Kuo, Jonathan Mamou, Jeffrey A. Ketterling, Orlando Aristizabal, Daniel H. Turnbull, Yao Wang
  • Publication number: 20180336681
    Abstract: A method to characterize shape variations in brain ventricles during embryonic growth in mammals, the method including extracting a brain ventricle skeleton from one or more images, calculating a volume profile for the skeleton using the extracted images, partitioning the brain ventricle based on the volume profile along the skeleton, the brain ventricle being partitioned into two lateral ventricles and a main ventricle, the main ventricle being further partitioned into three sub regions, determining volume vectors of the two lateral ventricles and the three sub regions, computing a means square error between the determined computed volume vectors and a pretrained mean volume vector of embryos during different gestational stages, and classifying the embryo to the gestational stage having the lowest mean square error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicants: Riverside Research Institute, New York University
    Inventors: Jen-wei Kuo, Jonathan Mamou, Jeffrey A. Ketterling, Orlando Aristizabal, Daniel H. Turnbull, Yao Wang
  • Publication number: 20170213340
    Abstract: A method to characterize shape variations in brain ventricles during embryonic growth in mammals, the method including extracting a brain ventricle skeleton from one or more images, calculating a volume profile for the skeleton using the extracted images, partitioning the brain ventricle based on the volume profile along the skeleton, the brain ventricle being partitioned into two lateral ventricles and a main ventricle, the main ventricle being further partitioned into three sub regions, determining volume vectors of the two lateral ventricles and the three sub regions, computing a means square error between the determined computed volume vectors and a pretrained mean volume vector of embryos during different gestational stages, and classifying the embryo to the gestational stage having the lowest mean square error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicants: Riverside Research Institute, New York University
    Inventors: Jen-wei Kuo, Jonathan Mamou, Jeffrey A. Ketterling, Orlando Aristizabal, Daniel H. Turnbull, Yao Wang
  • Publication number: 20170213349
    Abstract: A method to segment images that contain multiple objects in a nested structure including acquiring an image; defining the multiple objects by layers, each layer corresponding to one region, where a region contains an innermost object and all the objects nested within the innermost object; stacking the layers in an order of the nested structure of the multiple objects, the stack of layers having at least a top layer and a bottom layer; extending each layer with padded nodes; connecting the top layer to a sink and the bottom layer to a source, wherein each intermediate layer between the top layer and the bottom layer are connected only to the adjacent layer by undirected links; and measuring a boundary length for each layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicants: Riverside Research Institute, New York University
    Inventors: Jen-wei Kuo, Jonathan Mamou, Xuan Zhao, Jeffrey A. Ketterling, Orlando Aristizabal, Daniel H. Turnbull, Yao Wang
  • Publication number: 20150127796
    Abstract: When performing resource management between different service providers, a first interface and a second interface are provided simultaneously on an electronic device for connecting to a first service provider and a second service provider, respectively. The first interface is arranged to display the resource list of the first service provider as icons, and the second interface is arranged to display the resource list of the second service provider as icons. When a specific icon on one of the interfaces is selected and then dragged to the other interface, resource transmission between the first and second service providers may be activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Synology Incorporated
    Inventors: Shi-Shiuan Kao, Chih-Kuang Huang, Jen-Wei Kuo
  • Publication number: 20150121271
    Abstract: A method of managing icons is used on a screen of an electronic device which displays a first icon and a second icon. While dragging the first icon, the first and second icons are displayed on a first region of the screen and a group symbol is displayed on a second region of the screen. The first icon is dragged onto the group symbol and then released for creating a new group which contains the first icon. A group icon associated with the new group is then displayed on the second region of the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Synology Incorporated
    Inventors: Chih-Kuang Huang, Shi-Shiuan Kao, Jen-Wei Kuo, Yi-Yu Lin, Hsing-Hsing Hung
  • Patent number: 8938799
    Abstract: A unified security management system and related apparatus and methods for protecting endpoint computing systems and managing, providing, and obtaining security functions is described. Various forms of the system, apparatus and methods may be used for improved security, security provisioning, security management, and security infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Inventor: Jen-Wei Kuo
  • Publication number: 20080040790
    Abstract: A unified security management system and related apparatus and methods for protecting endpoint computing systems and managing, providing, and obtaining security functions is described. Various forms of the system, apparatus and methods may be used for improved security, security provisioning, security management, and security infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: Jen-Wei Kuo
  • Patent number: 5296643
    Abstract: A system and method for control of so-called KARAOKE equipment whereby the musical key of the pre-recorded accompaniment music may be altered automatically to substantially coincide with the analyzed or given vocal range of the singer, for example, soprano, tenor, mezzo-soprano, baritone, alto or bass, or with the preferred key to be sung entered by the singer, for example, E key, so as to eliminate the trial-and-error manual key adjustments during singing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Inventors: Jen-Wei Kuo, Tat N. Ho