Patents by Inventor Kevin Chen
Kevin Chen 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: 20240131660Abstract: Systems and methods for using high-impact fasteners to couple components of a solar power system together to prevent these components from any movement or slippage relative to each other. A strap may be secured over a top surface of the high-impact fasteners and around the components to prevent a disengagement of the high-impact fastener from the components and a separation of the components.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Nathan Schuknecht, Shuo Chen, Kevin Krautbauer, Benjamin de Fresart, Thierry Marin-Martinod
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Publication number: 20240124547Abstract: The present disclosure provides chimeric anti-gen receptor polypeptides having antigen recognition domains for CD2, CD3, CD4, CD5, CD7, CD8, and CD52 antigens, and polynucleotides encoding for the same. The present disclosure also provides for engineered cells expressing the poly-nucleotide or polypeptides. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods for treating diseases associated with CD2, CD3, CD4, CD5, CD7, CD8, and CD52 antigens.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Yupo MA, Kevin PINZ, Xun JIANG, Masayuki WADA, Kevin CHEN
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Patent number: 11962487Abstract: A method for configuring a user device to which a plurality of identifiers, each uniquely identifying the user in at least one communications network, is allocated. The method includes, for at least one application: obtaining at least one rule associating, with at least one flow of the application, at least one slice of the at least one communications network for routing data relating to the at least one flow and an item of information connecting the slice to an identifier from among the plurality of identifiers of the user; and configuring the user device with the at least one rule such that it executes the at least one rule when accessing the application.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ORANGEInventors: Pierre-Alexandre Masson, Xiaobao Chen, Antoine Mouquet, Kevin Derval
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Patent number: 11960334Abstract: Cable assemblies for providing electrical communication between hinged sections of an electronic device are described. The cable assemblies can include a cover that covers one or more cables that run through a hinge region of the electronic device. The cable and cover can be drawn over a mandrel of the hinge region. The cover and the portions of the mandrel can be visible to a user at the hinge region of the electronic device. The cover can be sufficiently rigid to guide a path of the cable and protect the cable from bending beyond a prescribed angle during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region. The cover can also be sufficiently rigid to prevent ceasing or folding of the cover and the cable during rotation of the electronic device at the hinge region.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mikael M. Silvanto, Bartley K. Andre, Adam T. Garelli, Simon Regis Louis Lancaster-Larocque, Robert Y. Cao, Dinesh C. Mathew, Jacob S. Kononiuk, Robert J. Lockwood, Bryan W. Posner, Kevin M. Keeler, Bruce E. Berg, Yi-Chen Kuo, Kevin M. Robinson, Houtan R. Farahani
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Patent number: 11959432Abstract: A method of operating an engine is provided. An exhaust valve actuation fault is detected for a first exhaust valve associated with a first cylinder during a first working cycle. In response to the detection of the exhaust valve actuation fault, fueling to at least the first cylinder is cut off. Actuation of the first exhaust valve is attempted in second working cycles that follow the first working cycle, wherein the second working cycles are not fueled. Whether or not the first exhaust valve actuated properly during the second working cycles is determined. Operation of the first cylinder is resumed when it is determined that the first exhaust valve actuated properly. Operation of the first cylinder is not resumed when it is determined that the first exhaust valve did not actuate properly.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Tula Technology, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Wang, Louis J. Serrano, Shikui Kevin Chen
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Patent number: 11955382Abstract: Methods and apparatus for forming a reverse selective etch stop layer are disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosure provide interconnects with lower resistance than methods which utilize non-selective (e.g., blanket) etch stop layers. Some embodiments of the disclosure utilize reverse selective etch stop layers within a subtractive etch scheme. Some embodiments of the disclosure selectively deposit the etch stop layer by passivating the surface of the metal material.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Kashefi, Alexander Jansen, Mehul Naik, He Ren, Lu Chen, Feng Chen
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Publication number: 20240108738Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides which are covalently bound to molecular scaffolds such that two or more peptide loops are subtended between attachment points to the scaffold. In particular, the invention describes peptides which bind to natural killer (NK) cells. The invention also includes multimeric binding complexes comprising at least two of said bicyclic peptide ligands. The invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising said peptide ligands or said multimeric binding complexes and the use of said peptide ligands, multimeric binding complexes and pharmaceutical compositions in preventing, suppressing or treating a disease or disorder mediated by natural killer (NK) cells, such as inflammatory disorders, autoimmune disease and cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Nicholas KEEN, Gemma MUDD, Fay DUFORT, Katie GAYNOR, Liuhong CHEN, Phil BRANDISH, Cris LEITHEISER, Sandra UHLENBROICH, Liz REPASH, Kevin MCDONNELL
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Publication number: 20240111826Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate hardware enhancements for double precision systolic support is disclosed. The apparatus includes matrix acceleration hardware having double-precision (DP) matrix multiplication circuitry including a multiplier circuits to multiply pairs of input source operands in a DP floating-point format; adders to receive multiplier outputs from the multiplier circuits and accumulate the multiplier outputs in a high precision intermediate format; an accumulator circuit to accumulate adder outputs from the adders with at least one of a third global source operand on a first pass of the DP matrix multiplication circuitry or an intermediate result from the first pass on a second pass of the DP matrix multiplication circuitry, wherein the accumulator circuit to generate an accumulator output in the high precision intermediate format; and a down conversion and rounding circuit to down convert and round an output of the second pass as final result in the DP floating-point format.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Jiasheng Chen, Kevin Hurd, Changwon Rhee, Jorge Parra, Fangwen Fu, Theo Drane, William Zorn, Peter Caday, Gregory Henry, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Farzad Chehrazi, Amit Karande, Turbo Majumder, Xinmin Tian, Milind Girkar, Hong Jiang
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Publication number: 20240111825Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate single precision support for systolic pipeline in a graphics environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising systolic array hardware including a plurality of data processing units, wherein the systolic array hardware is to: receive data for performance of a matrix multiplication operation in a first precision format; convert an original value of the data into two split values with a second precision format having a lower precision than the first precision format; perform the matrix multiplication operation using the two split values in the second precision format, the matrix multiplication operation comprising a split-term operation that utilizes two passes through the systolic array hardware with feedback wiring and local reduction; and generate an emulated result for the matrix multiplication operation in the first precision format.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Jiasheng Chen, Changwon Rhee, Kevin Hurd, Gregory Henry, Peter Caday, Kristopher Wong
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Patent number: 11948224Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising a memory stack including multiple memory dies and a parallel processor including a plurality of multiprocessors. Each multiprocessor has a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the parallel processor coupled to the memory stack via one or more memory interfaces. At least one multiprocessor comprises a multiply-accumulate circuit to perform multiply-accumulate operations on matrix data in a stage of a neural network implementation to produce a result matrix comprising a plurality of matrix data elements at a first precision, precision tracking logic to evaluate metrics associated with the matrix data elements and indicate if an optimization is to be performed for representing data at a second stage of the neural network implementation, and a numerical transform unit to dynamically perform a numerical transform operation on the matrix data elements based on the indication to produce transformed matrix data elements at a second precision.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, John C. Weast, Mike B. Macpherson, Dukhwan Kim, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Barath Lakshmanan, Liwei Ma, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland
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Publication number: 20240102102Abstract: Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of treatments, monitoring treatment or progression, or methods for detecting utDNA in a subject having or suspected of having a urinary tract-associated cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Washington UniversityInventors: Aadel Chaudhuri, Kevin Chen, Pradeep Chauhan, Zachary Smith, Vivek Arora
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Publication number: 20240103810Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate supporting vector multiply add with double accumulator access in a graphics environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor comprising processing resources, the processing resources comprising multiplier circuitry to: receive operands for a matrix multiplication operation, wherein the operands comprising two source matrices to be multiplied as part of the matrix multiplication operation; and issue a multiply and add vector (MADV) instruction for the multiplication operation utilizing a double accumulator access output, wherein the MADV instruction to multiply two vectors of the two source matrices in a single floating point (FP) pipeline of the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Jiasheng Chen, Supratim Pal, Changwon Rhee, Hong Jiang, Kevin Hurd, Shuai Mu
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Publication number: 20240101980Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, kits, systems and apparatus that are useful for nucleic acid polymerization. In particular, recombinant polymerases and biologically active fragments thereof are provided that allow for nucleic acid amplification. In some aspects, the disclosure provides recombinant polymerases that yield lower systematic error rates and/or improved accuracy, when used in sequencing by synthesis reactions as compared to a control polymerase. In one aspect, the disclosure relates to recombinant polymerases useful for nucleic acid sequencing, genotyping, copy number variation analysis, paired-end sequencing and other forms of genetic analysis. In another aspect, the recombinant polymerases are useful for the amplification of nucleic acid templates during PCR, emPCR, isothermal amplification, recombinase polymerase amplification, rolling circle amplification, strand displacement amplification and proximity ligation amplification.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Daniel MAZUR, Sihong CHEN, Peter VANDER HORN, Eileen TOZER, Guobin LUO, Joshua SHIRLEY, Kevin HEINEMANN
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Patent number: 11941065Abstract: Systems and methods are described for generating record clusters. The methods comprise receiving a plurality of records from data sources and providing at least a subset of the records to a scoring model that determines scores for various pairings of the records, a score for a given pair of the records representing a probability that the given pair of records contain data elements about the same entity. The method further comprises generating a graph data structure that includes a plurality of nodes, individual nodes representing a different record from the records. The method also comprises assigning a different unique identifier to individual clusters of the final clusters and responding to a request for data regarding a given entity by providing aggregated data elements from those records of the records associated with a cluster of the final clusters having an identifier that represents the given entity.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Hua Li, Sophie Liu, Yi He, Zhixuan Wang, Chi Zhang, Kevin Chen, Shanji Xiong, Christer Dichiara, Mason Carpenter, Mark Hirn, Julian Yarkony
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Patent number: 11933087Abstract: A storage console includes a housing with a storage chamber, two closure members connected to the housing, an actuator movably arranged in the housing and a latch mechanism rotatably connected to the housing. The two closure members can be rotated to open or close the storage chamber. The latch mechanism includes two latch members and a synchronizer connected between the two latch members. The movement of the actuator actuates the two latch members to rotate to a lock position in which the two latch members engage with the two closure members or a release position in which the two latch members are separated from the two closure members. The two closure members of the storage console can be opened synchronously by use of the actuator and closed independently of each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mona Li, Wei Xu, Leo Chen, Kevin Shen
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Patent number: 11934231Abstract: A housing of a device comprises a screw boss that extends outwardly from a first base plate proximate to a corner of the housing. Additionally, the housing of the device includes a force dissipation member. The force dissipation member includes a central portion that is sized to detachably attach around the screw boss. The force dissipation member further includes at least two arms that extend outwardly from the central portion, wherein each arm of the at least two arms is attached to a different side of the two walls of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Blake Edmund Dunbar, Dwight Linwood Franz, Ralph Chen, Yang Zhang, Robert Pierce, Mark Tentler, Sean Philip Kearney, Mark Howe, Kevin Sharpe, Paul Morris, Doyle Davis
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Patent number: 11934934Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate optimization of a convolutional neural network (CNN) is disclosed. The apparatus includes optimization logic to receive a CNN model having a list of instructions and including pruning logic to optimize the list of instructions by eliminating branches in the list of instructions that comprise a weight value of 0.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould- Ahmed-Vall, Barath Lakshmanan, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Jingyi Jin, Jeremy Bottleson, Mike B. Macpherson, Kevin Nealis, Dhawal Srivastava, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu
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Patent number: 11928966Abstract: A virtual railroad of vehicles is disclosed. In one aspect of the disclosure, a system includes one or more passenger vehicles of a peloton, and a first engine vehicle of the peloton. The first engine vehicle communicatively connected to the one or more passenger vehicles, wherein the first engine vehicle comprises: a processor communicatively connected to a memory and is configured to receive status information of the one or more passenger vehicles, determine, based on the received status information, a set of current values for a set of vehicle attributes for each of the one or more passenger vehicles, and adjust, based on the set of current values for the set of vehicle attributes, a position of a corresponding passenger vehicle of the one or more passenger vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kevin Robert Czinger, John Russell Bucknell, Jinbo Chen, Gregory S. Weaver
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Publication number: 20240079784Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element and a light source module mounted to a flexible printed circuit and a metal cowling. The module may emit light through a rear housing wall. The printed circuit may be interposed between the metal cowling and a conductive support plate in the rear housing wall. The printed circuit may include a ground trace coupled to the resonating element. A dimpled pad may couple the ground trace to the support plate. Compressive foam may be used to exert a force against the flexible printed circuit that presses the dimpled pad against the conductive support plate. The ground trace and the dimpled pad may form a return path to ground for the resonating element. The dimpled pad may occupy less height within the device than other structures such as metal springs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Han Wang, Victor C. Lee, Jingni Zhong, Ming Chen, Bhaskara R. Rupakula, Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Christopher Q. Ma, Zhiheng Zhou, Sherry Cao, Kevin M. Froese, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Mattia Pascolini
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Patent number: 11921434Abstract: An apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a reflective optical element arranged in the vacuum chamber and configured to reflect an extreme ultra-violet (EUV) light, and a cleaning module positioned in the vacuum chamber. the cleaning module is operable to provide a mitigation gas flowing towards the reflective optical element and provide a hydrogen-containing gas flowing towards the reflective optical element. The mitigation gas mitigates, by chemical reaction, contamination of the reflective optical element.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Shu-Hao Chang, Norman Chen, Jeng-Horng Chen, Kuo-Chang Kau, Ming-Chin Chien, Shang-Chieh Chien, Anthony Yen, Kevin Huang