Patents by Inventor Jian an Wang

Jian an Wang 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSERTING SYNCHRONIZATION STATEMENTS INTO A PROGRAM FILE TO MITIGATE RACE CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20140143755
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for inserting synchronization statements into a program file to mitigate race conditions. The method includes reading a program file and determining one or more convergent statements in the program file. The method also includes inserting one or more synchronization statements in the program file between the determined convergent statements. The method further includes removing one or more of the inserted synchronization statements and writing the modified program file. The method may include, after removing the inserted synchronization statements, identifying to a user any remaining inserted synchronization statements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Vinod Grover, Xiangyun Kong, Jae-Woo Lee, Manjunath Kudlur, Jian-Zhong Wang
  • Closed-system multi-stage nucleic acid amplification reactions
    Patent number: 8728765
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods, and apparatus for carrying out multi-stage amplification reactions, especially under fluidly closed conditions. In one aspect, methods of the invention are carried out in a fluidly closed reaction system that permits the isolation of a portion of a first (or prior) reaction mixture and its use as a sample or specimen in a second (or subsequent) reaction mixture, thereby substantially avoiding interfering effects that first reaction components may have in the second reaction if both reaction mixtures were simply combined together. In this aspect, systems, methods, and apparatus of the invention may be used with any amplification reaction that permits multiple stages of amplification based on the use of nested primers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Cepheid
    Inventors: Jesus Ching, Ronald Chang, Douglas Dority, Jian Ping Zhang, James Jian Quan Wang, Wendy Wong, Kendra Lara Paul, Reuel Van Atta
  • Body Coil for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    Publication number: 20140117990
    Abstract: A body coil includes a first end ring and a second end ring provided at two ends thereof. The first end ring and the second end ring are connected to each other with a plurality of legs. The first end ring or the second end ring has a structure with the current flow width in a direction parallel to the axis thereof being greater than that in a direction perpendicular to the axis thereof. Since the effective action width of the current is increased in the axial direction and the centralized flow of the current in the end ring is reduced, the local specific absorption rate of radio frequency induced by the magnetic field is therefore reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Yan Li Chen, Yu Tang, Markus Vester, Jian Min Wang, Zhibin Li
  • Methods for forming patterned structures
    Patent number: 8709703
    Abstract: In general, in a first aspect, the invention features a method that includes forming a first layer comprising a first material over a surface of a second layer, wherein forming the first layer includes sequentially forming a plurality of monolayers of the second material over the surface of the second layer, the second layer comprises a plurality of rows of a second material extending along a first direction and spaced from one another in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the first layer conforms to the surface of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Polarization Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Xuegong Deng, Jian Jim Wang, Lei Chen, Anguel N. Nikolov, Nada O'Brien, Xiaoming Liu
  • Method of establishing a gamma table
    Patent number: 8704740
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of method of establishing a gamma table using a system includes following steps. Providing a signal generator, a display device, and a color analyzer, consists of measuring luminance values of the images corresponding to a plurality of reference sampling points. Obtaining a luminance characteristic curve based on the reference sampling points and luminance values using Bezier curve interpolation. Locating the gray scales on the luminance characteristic curve with the same luminance values as the gray scales of a standard gamma table. And establishing a gamma table by comparing the gray scales of the standard gamma curve and the luminance characteristic curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Jian-Feng Wang
  • SEARCH COIL
    Publication number: 20140097829
    Abstract: A device includes an excitation coil, a detector coil, and a processing circuit. The excitation coil is aligned about a volume. The excitation coil is configured to carry a first and second biasing current and generate a magnetic field in the volume. The detector coil is configured to generate an electrical signal based on a detected field within the volume. The detected field is based on the magnetic field. The processing circuit is configured to generate data based on the electrical signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Liang Tu
  • GMR SENSOR
    Publication number: 20140099663
    Abstract: A system includes a first sensor, a field source, and a processor. The first sensor includes a surface and has an electrical resistance determined by a magnetic field at the surface. The field source is configured to provide a biasing magnetic field to the surface. The biasing magnetic field is aligned parallel to the surface and aligned perpendicular relative to the surface. The magnetic field has a frequency. The processor is coupled to the sensor and is configured to determine a parameter based on a measure of a change in the resistance. The change in the resistance corresponds to the resistance at a time before onset of a magnetic field perturbance at the surface and a time after the onset of the magnetic field perturbance at the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Yuanpeng Li
  • LOCATION-BASED SERVICE NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND NAVIGATION DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140058658
    Abstract: This invention discloses a location-based service (LBS) navigation system and a navigation display method thereof. The location-based service navigation system comprises a storage module, a processing module and a display module. Therein, the storage module stores a piece of local information and a local characteristic point based on by a command string. The processing module analyzes the command string of the local information to sequentially draw an indoor map, and the processing module compares the local characteristic point and the local information to analyze a current position. The display module displays the local information, the current position and the indoor map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicants: MITAC RESEARCH (SHANGHAI) LTD., MITAC INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: JIAN-AN WANG, KAI-MIN XU
  • Shoulder Coil and Transmitting Coil for Magnetic Resonance System
    Publication number: 20140058250
    Abstract: A shoulder coil for a magnetic resonance system includes a receiving part. The shoulder coil also includes a transmitting part used for coupling a radio-frequency magnetic field of a body coil of the magnetic resonance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Shu Du, Zeng He He, Wen Ming Li, Tong Tong, Jian Min Wang
  • TWO-PART LOCAL SHOULDER COIL, AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND METHOD EMPLOYING SAME
    Publication number: 20140051982
    Abstract: Improved patient comfort is provided by a symmetric local coil arrangement designed to support the production of an MRT image of a shoulder, wherein the housing of the local coil arrangement is composed of two separable parts. The symmetric local shoulder coil arrangement is designed to be useable for either of a right or left shoulder of a human subject by rotating the local coil arrangement about a rotational axis that is parallel to an axis of symmetry of the local shoulder coil and perpendicular to anterior and posterior members of the shoulder coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stephan Biber, Zeng He He, Li Ma, Hai Ning Wang, Jian Min Wang
  • Systems and methods for direct communication between magnetic tunnel junctions
    Patent number: 8634233
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable direct communications between magnetic tunnel junctions are provided. In one embodiment, a device includes multiple input magnetic tunnel junctions and an output magnetic tunnel junction. The multiple input magnetic tunnel junctions are connected in parallel, and the output magnetic tunnel junction is connected in series to the input magnetic tunnel junctions. In another embodiment, a device includes a first magnetic tunnel junction, a second magnetic tunnel junction, and a nano-magnetic channel. Each of the first and the second magnetic tunnel junctions has a free layer, a nonmagnetic layer, and a fixed layer. The nano-magnetic channel connects the free layer of the first magnetic tunnel junction to the free layer of the second magnetic tunnel junction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: David J. Lilja, Jian-Ping Wang, Andrew P. Lyle, Shruti R. Patil, Jonathan D. Harms, Xiaofeng Yao
  • Method for Simultaneous Transmission of High-Frequency Transmission Signals via a Common High-Frequency Line
    Publication number: 20140002087
    Abstract: A method for simultaneous transmission of at least two high-frequency transmission signals via a common high-frequency line includes providing at least two input signals at respective inlet ports. The input signals are signals of a same carrier frequency. From the input signals, respective transmission signals are provided with different transmission frequencies from each other and from the carrier frequency by mixing the input signals using one frequency mixer each. The frequency mixers are supplied with respective mixer oscillator signals. The transmission signals are transmitted via the common high-frequency line. The mixer oscillator signals are provided from a same oscillator signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Ralph Oppelt, Jian Min Wang
  • Magnetic tunnel junction device
    Patent number: 8604572
    Abstract: A magnetic tunnel junction device comprises a fixed magnetic layer having a first side and a second side, the fixed magnetic layer having a magnetic anisotropy that is out of the film plane of the fixed magnetic layer; a stack of a plurality of bilayers adjacent to the first side of the fixed magnetic layer, each bilayer comprising a first layer comprising at least one of cobalt, iron, a CoFeB alloy, or a CoB alloy and a second layer in contact with the first layer, the second layer comprising palladium or platinum, wherein the plurality of bilayers has a magnetic anisotropy that is out of the film plane of each of the bilayers, wherein the fixed magnetic layer is exchange coupled to the stack of the plurality of bilayers, and a tunnel barrier layer in contact with the second side of the fixed magnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Md. Tofizur Rahman
  • Carbon nanosphere with at least one opening, method for preparing the same, carbon nanosphere-impregnated catalyst using the carbon nanosphere, and fuel cell using the catalyst
    Patent number: 8603934
    Abstract: A carbon nanosphere has at least one opening. The carbon nanosphere is obtained by preparing a carbon nanosphere and treating it with an acid to form the opening. The carbon nanosphere with at least one opening has higher utilization of a surface area and electrical conductivity and lower mass transfer resistance than a conventional carbon nanotube, thus allowing for higher current density and cell voltage with a smaller amount of metal catalyst per unit area of a fuel cell electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyuk Chang, Chan-Ho Pak, Jian Nong Wang
  • RIGID WAVE PATTERN DESIGN ON CHIP CARRIER SUBSTRATE AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR AND ELECTRONIC SUB-SYSTEM PACKAGING
    Publication number: 20130299959
    Abstract: A rigid wave pattern formed on a first side of a substrate in a semiconductor die package. The rigid wave pattern aligns with and overlies the contact fingers formed on the second side of the substrate. The rigid wave pattern includes a first pattern with an etched portion and an unetched portion around the etched portion. When the substrate and dice are encased during the molding process, the rigid wave pattern effectively reduces deformation of and stresses on the dice, therefore substantially alleviating die cracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Chin-Tien Chiu, Chih-Chin Liao, Ken Jian Ming Wang, Han-Shiao Chen, Cheeman Yu, Hem Takiar
  • Liquid crystal display and method for controlling same
    Patent number: 8581817
    Abstract: An LCD includes an OSD system and a gamma correction circuit. The OSD system includes an input system for setting gamma values. The gamma correction circuit includes a look-up table. The look-up table includes a plurality of sub-look-up tables, each corresponding to a gamma value. Each sub-look-up table stores a plurality of original gray level values and a plurality of corrected gray level values corresponding to the original gray level values. The gamma correction-circuit receives an original gray level value corresponding to a video signal, and searches a sub-look-up table corresponding to a set gamma value for a corresponding corrected gray level value. A method for controlling the LCD is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux Corporation
    Inventor: Jian-Feng Wang
  • SOLAR MODULES WITH ENHANCED EFFICIENCIES VIA USE OF SPECTRAL CONCENTRATORS
    Publication number: 20130284264
    Abstract: Described herein are solar modules including spectral concentrators. In one embodiment, a solar module includes a set of photovoltaic cells and a spectral concentrator optically coupled to the set of photovoltaic cells. The spectral concentrator is configured to: (1) collect incident solar radiation; (2) convert the incident solar radiation into substantially monochromatic, emitted radiation; and (3) convey the substantially monochromatic, emitted radiation to the set of photovoltaic cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: William Matthew Pfenninger, John Midgley, Nemanja Vockic, John Kenney, Jian Jim Wang
  • Technetium- and rhenium-bis(heteroaryl) complexes and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 8562945
    Abstract: Complexes of heterocyclic radionuclides are prepared based upon ligands having substituted pyridyl and imidazolyl groups. The ligands are bifunctional, having amino acid residues that may act as a linker to a bioactive molecule, and a tridentate chelator that may complex the radionuclide. The bioactive molecule may be a peptide or somatostatin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: John W. Babich, Craig Zimmerman, John Joyal, Kevin P. Maresca, John Marquis, Genliang Lu, Jian-cheng Wang, Shawn Hillier
  • Moving object detection detection within a video stream using object texture
    Patent number: 8559670
    Abstract: An object detection method and an object detection system, suitable for detecting moving object information of a video stream having a plurality of images, are provided. The method performs a moving object foreground detection on each of the images, so as to obtain a first foreground detection image comprising a plurality of moving objects. The method also performs a texture object foreground detection on each of the images, so as to obtain a second foreground detection image comprising a plurality of texture objects. The moving objects in the first foreground detection image and the texture objects in the second foreground detection image are selected and filtered, and then the remaining moving objects or texture objects after the filtering are output as real moving object information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jian-Cheng Wang, Cheng-Chang Lien, Ya-Lin Huang, Yue-Min Jiang
  • QUICK ACCESS PANEL FOR DISPLAYNG A WEB PAGE ON A MOBILE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130262982
    Abstract: Embodiments of displaying a web page on a mobile device are provided. An aspect includes acquiring user interface elements that have a quick access attribute in the web page. Another aspect includes generating a quick access panel of the user interface elements having the quick access attributes, wherein a visible transparency of the generated quick access panel is not below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng Huang, Yu Liu, Jian Jun Wang, Yi Ren Yuan