Patents by Inventor Kai An
Kai An 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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Patent number: 11906428Abstract: Provided is a spectrofluorophotometer acquiring both a spectrum and a sample image in measurement of fluorescence of a liquid sample. A spectrofluorophotometer includes a light source, an excitation-side spectroscope that performs spectral dispersion of light of the light source and generates excitation light, a fluorescence-side spectroscope that performs spectral dispersion of fluorescence emitted from a sample irradiated with excitation light into monochromatic light, a sample container installation portion for holding a sample container which receives a liquid sample and is formed of a transparent material, a detector that detects fluorescence emitted from the liquid sample, and an image capturing device that captures a sample image of a sample emitting fluorescence.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH SCIENCE CORPORATIONInventors: Kai Maruyama, Jun Horigome, Hideyuki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11905448Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystal (LC) medium comprising polymerizable compounds, to its use for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PSA (polymer sustained alignment) or SA (self-aligning) mode, to an LC display of the PSA or SA mode comprising the LC medium, and to a process of manufacturing the LC display.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Hye-Ryung Park, Eun-Kyu Lee, Yen-Kai Huang
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Patent number: 11908818Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad over the semiconductor substrate, a conductive bump, a conductive cap over the conductive bump, and a passivation layer. The conductive pad is over the semiconductor substrate. The conductive bump is over the conductive pad, wherein the conductive bump has a stepped sidewall structure including a lower sidewall, an upper sidewall laterally offset from the lower sidewall, and an intermediary surface laterally extending from a bottom edge of the upper sidewall to a top edge of the lower sidewall. The conductive cap is over the conductive bump. The passivation layer is over the semiconductor substrate and laterally surrounds the conductive bump, wherein the passivation layer has a top surface higher than the intermediary surface of the stepped sidewall structure of the conductive bump and lower than a top surface of conductive cap.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng-Yu Wu, Ching-Hui Chen, Mirng-Ji Lii, Kai-Di Wu, Chien-Hung Kuo, Chao-Yi Wang, Hon-Lin Huang, Zi-Zhong Wang, Chun-Mao Chiu
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Patent number: 11904519Abstract: Present invention is related to an extrusion equipment for processing a fibre composite. The extrusion equipment comprises a decompression and a melt tank arranged and operated vertically along with the direction of gravity. The melt tank comprises a melt tank impregnation section and a melt tank control section with a melt tank cavity as a channel condition defined within. The channel has its inner diameter or passage gradually decreased from top to bottom. The extrusion equipment provided by the present invention is configured in the direction of gravity for processing the melted thermoplastic resin and the fibre vertically for avoiding fibre fracture or breakage and improving the quality of the final products. As the melted plastic is processed vertically along with the gravity, the melted plastic could transfer or pass through the channel quickly without resulting decomposition due to the high heat and the long retention time in the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Plastics Industry Development CenterInventors: Chia-Yu Yu, Li-Kai Lin, Chia-Hsin Tung, Wei-Cheng Chen
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Patent number: 11903591Abstract: A surgical power drill system includes a housing unit, a driving unit, a tool holder, and a screw member. The driving unit is movably mounted in the housing unit and includes a motor and a motor shaft coupled to the motor. The driving unit is movable relative to the housing unit between a distal position, where the driving unit is distal from a front end of the housing unit, and a proximate position, where the driving unit is proximate to the front end of the housing unit. The tool holder is coupled to a first end portion of the motor shaft. The screw member is coupled to a second end portion of the motor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: POINT ROBOTICS (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Chih-Wei Chen, Hao-Kai Chou, Xiu-Yun Xiao
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Patent number: 11908368Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device, wherein third openings are disposed in a region of a black matrix layer corresponding to a transition region in the display panel, so that external light can be reflected by the reflection structure through the third openings, to form reflected light, thereby increasing the light reflectivity of the transition region and improving the dimmer transition region when the panel is screen-off and screen-on.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Kai Hu
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Patent number: 11905697Abstract: A drain assembly comprises a drain pan, a trim member, and a drain cover. The drain pan has a base and a pan sidewall, and the trim member has a trim sidewall. The pan sidewall, at least a portion of the upper surface of the base, and the trim sidewall define a drain channel therebetween. The drain cover defines a plurality of apertures and is positionable above the drain pan. The trim member is configured to transition between a first position and a second position. In the first position of the trim member, the drain channel has a first width that extends in a transverse direction. In the second position of the trim member, the drain channel has a second width that extends in the transverse direction. The first width is different than the second width.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: OATEY CO.Inventors: Matthew Valore, Kai Zhang
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Patent number: 11910309Abstract: A base station may receive, from a wireless device, uplink data via a first configured grant resource of a first cell of a plurality of cells. The base station may determine a second cell from the plurality of cells to transition from a dormant state to a non-dormant state. The determining may be based on the second cell being configured with a control resource set for receiving uplink grants for retransmission of the uplink data. In response to the receiving, the base station may transition the second cell from the dormant state to the non-dormant state. The base station may transmit, to the wireless device via the second cell, an uplink grant indicating a radio resource. The base station may receive, from the wireless device via the radio resource, a retransmission of the uplink data.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Yunjung Yi, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kai Xu, Kyungmin Park
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Patent number: 11908787Abstract: A package structure includes a first and a second conductive feature structures, a die, an insulator, an encapsulant, an adhesive layer, and a first through via. The die is located between the first conductive feature structure and the second conductive feature structure. The die is electrically connected to the second conductive feature structure. The insulator is disposed between the die and the first conductive feature structure. The insulator has a bottom surface in physical contact with a polymer layer of the first conductive feature structure. The encapsulant is located between the first conductive feature structure and the second conductive feature structure. The encapsulant is disposed on the insulator and laterally encapsulates the die and the insulator. The adhesive layer is disposed between the die and the insulator. The first through via extends through the encapsulant to connect to the first conductive feature structure and the second conductive feature structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chuei-Tang Wang, Chun-Lin Lu, Kai-Chiang Wu
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Patent number: 11909980Abstract: A method of video processing is provided. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a video comprising a video unit and a bitstream of the video, whether a first coding tool is enabled for the video unit according to a rule. The rule specifies that the first coding tool and a second coding tool are mutually exclusively enabled. The first coding tool or the second coding tool comprises a sign data hiding tool. The method also includes performing the conversion according to the determining.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Yang Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 11907027Abstract: A portable information handling system supports a flexible OLED display film over housing portions rotationally coupled by a hinge by folding the OLED display film over the hinge. Hinge brackets that couple to the housing portions each have a gear member with a semicircular shape gear inner circumference that engages a gear subassembly of the hinge main body. Hinge bracket rotation translates through the gear subassembly for synchronized housing rotation. The hinge main body has first and second semicircular portions with a smooth surface defined to accept the outer circumference smooth surface of the gear member semicircular shape at first and second rotation axes about which the hinge brackets pivot so that the display film has space to fold in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Christopher A. Torres, Kevin M. Turchin, Enoch Chen, Anthony J. Sanchez, Kai-Cheng Chao, Chia-Hao Hsu, Chia-Huang Chan
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Patent number: 11908900Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a substrate having a first semiconductor material. A second semiconductor material is disposed on the first semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material is a group IV semiconductor or a group III-V compound semiconductor. A passivation layer is disposed on the second semiconductor material. The passivation layer includes the first semiconductor material. A first doped region and a second doped region extend through the passivation layer and into the second semiconductor material.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yin-Kai Liao, Sin-Yi Jiang, Hsiang-Lin Chen, Yi-Shin Chu, Po-Chun Liu, Kuan-Chieh Huang, Jyh-Ming Hung, Jen-Cheng Liu
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Patent number: 11910020Abstract: A video processing method is provided, including: performing a conversion between a coded representation of a video including one or more video regions and the video, wherein the coded representation includes reshaping model information applicable for in-loop reshaping (ILR) of some of the one or more video regions, wherein the reshaping model information provides information for a reconstruction of a video unit of a video region based on a representation in a first domain and a second domain and/or scaling chroma residue of a chroma video unit, wherein the reshaping model information includes a parameter set that includes a first syntax element that derives a number of bits used to represent a second syntax element specifying an absolute delta codeword value from a corresponding bin, and wherein the first syntax element has a value smaller than a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 11903571Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible surgical instrument system, comprising: a distal structural body comprising at least one distal structural segment, the at least one distal structural segment comprising a distal fixing disk and distal structural backbones; a proximal structural body comprising at least one proximal structural segment, the at least one proximal structural segment comprising a proximal fixing disk, proximal structural backbones, and driving backbones, the distal structural backbones being securely connected in one-to-one correspondence to or the same as corresponding proximal structural backbones, and a driving unit comprising a linear motion mechanism operable to convert a first rotary motion into linear motions to cooperatively push or pull a pair of driving backbones of the driving backbones to turn the at least one proximal structural segment.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BEIJING SURGERII ROBOTICS COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Kai Xu, Shu'an Zhang, Zhengchen Dai, Jiangran Zhao, Huan Liu, Yuyang Chen, Zhixiong Yang, Zhijun Zhu
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Patent number: 11910695Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mask plate, a display panel and a display device. The mask plate comprises: a transparent substrate; an opaque film layer, the opaque film layer being disposed on the transparent substrate. The opaque film layer includes a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions, a first sub-region in the first region and the second region are transmissive, and the remaining portion in the first region is semi-transmissive. The mask plate is used to form via holes in the planarization layer of the display panel by exposure, so that the angles between the metal electrode layers disposed in the via holes and the source/drain layers of the display panel are small and diversified, decreasing the visibility of the metal electrode layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Wenhui Gao, Kai Zhang, Erlong Song, Lingran Wang, Jianjie Liu
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Patent number: 11910420Abstract: Wireless communications may be used to support data processing. Data processing may be performed based on a priority indication (or lack thereof) in a message for processing data. At least one parameter may be used to determine a priority associated with data processing if a message does not comprise a priority indication.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Alireza Babaei, Ali Cagatay Cirik, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Yunjung Yi, Youngwoo Kwak, Kai Xu, Kyungmin Park
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Patent number: 11910450Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters indicating a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource for transmission of a message A (MsgA) payload of a contention-free two-step random-access procedure. The wireless device receives, from a radio resource control (RRC) layer of the wireless device, a request to reset a medium access control (MAC) layer of the wireless device. In response to the request and based on the configuration parameter indicating the PUSCH resource, the PUSCH resource for the MsgA transmission of the contention-free two-step random-access procedure is cleared.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., LtdInventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park, Kai Xu
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Patent number: 11905423Abstract: A polymerizable liquid useful for the production of a three-dimensional object comprised of silicone, or a copolymer thereof, which includes at least one constituent selected from the group consisting of (i) a blocked or reactive blocked siloxane-containing prepolymer, (ii) a blocked or reactive blocked siloxane-containing polyisocyanate, and (iii) a blocked or reactive blocked siloxane-containing polyisocyanate chain extender. Methods of using the same in additive manufacturing processes such as continuous liquid interface production are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Jessica D. Drazba, Kai Chen, Jason P. Rolland
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Patent number: 11907045Abstract: One embodiment provides a system for processing natural-language entries. The system obtains a plurality of historical natural-language entries associated with a first domain and pre-processes the historical natural-language entries to obtain a set of generic terms and a set of domain-specific terms. The system trains a machine learning model in the first domain using the plurality of historical natural-language entries associated with the first domain. The training comprises learning weight values of one or more generic terms, a weight value of a respective generic term indicating likelihood that the generic term is related to a trigger event. The system generalizes the machine learning model trained in the first domain, thereby allowing the model to be applied to a second domain.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Novity, Inc.Inventors: Evgeniy Bart, Kai Frank Goebel
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Patent number: D1015435Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Ching-Chi Chu, Kai-Wen Lu, Fu-Cheng Hsieh