Patents by Inventor Kuo Liu
Kuo Liu 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).
-
Patent number: 10510866Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed that includes the fin structure and the plurality of gates. The plurality of gates disposed with respect to the fin structure and including the first gate, the second gate, and the third gate. The spacing between the first gate and the second gate is smaller than the spacing between the second gate and the third gate. The second gate is disposed between the first gate and the third gate. The foot portion of the first gate, facing the second gate, and the first foot portion of the second gate, facing the first gate, have no lateral extension. The second foot portion of the second gate, facing the third gate, and the foot portion of the third gate, facing the second gate, have no lateral extension and/or cut.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuo-An Liu, Chan-Lon Yang, Bharath Kumar Pulicherla, Zhi-Qiang Wu, Chung-Cheng Wu, Chih-Han Lin, Gwan-Sin Chang
-
Publication number: 20190380191Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for remotely dimming lights are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light-dimming apparatus for placement within a lighting enclosure of a lighting fixture is disclosed. The light-dimming apparatus can comprise a plurality of input and output terminals, a dimmer module, one or more motion sensing modules, a fail-safe module, and a microcontroller unit comprising a plurality of wireless communication modules, and one or more processor cores. The one or more processor cores can be programmed to execute instructions to receive a dimming command from another device via at least one of the plurality of wireless communication modules, receive zero-crossing signals from the dimmer module, and transmit switching signals to the dimmer module to modulate the power supplied to the lighting load to dim the brightness of the lighting load.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Bitsysoft Technology Inc.Inventors: Yung-Wen WU, Thomas Kuo LIU
-
Patent number: 10458643Abstract: A breathing light assembly of an air purifier includes a front panel, a cover, a breathing light, a body cover, and a reflective strip. The cover includes a light transmission panel and a curved surface and is mounted to the front panel. The breathing light is mounted to the curved surface and faces the light transmission panel. The body cover cooperatively defines an optical channel with the cover. A surface of the body cover includes a light emitting zone within the optical channel. The light emitting zone faces the breathing light across the optical channel. Light emitted by the breathing light passes through the light transmission panel to the light emitting zone. The reflective strip is mounted on the light emitting zone and positioned at an end of the optical channel. The reflective strip reflects the light emitted by the breathing light.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Cheng-Kuo Liu, Chun-Kai Peng
-
Patent number: 10333892Abstract: A network-traversal method includes: receiving an address information of a network device from a link server; generating a port number sequence composed of port values according to an external port number of the address information; and sending a link packet to an external network address of the address information in an order of the port values in the port number sequence until receiving an acknowledgement packet from the network device. At least one of the port values is related to the external port number. A part of the rest port values is/are generated gradually based on the external port number, and the others of the rest port values is/are generated randomly.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignees: THROUGHTEK TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., THROUGHTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Kai-Kuo Liu
-
Patent number: 10306740Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for remotely dimming lights are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light-dimming apparatus for placement within a lighting enclosure of a lighting fixture is disclosed. The light-dimming apparatus can comprise an AC live input terminal, an AC neutral input terminal, an AC live output terminal, an AC neutral output terminal, a dimmer module, one or more motion sensing modules, and a microcontroller unit comprising a plurality of wireless communication modules, and one or more processor cores. The one or more processor cores can be programmed to execute instructions to receive a dimming command from another device via at least one of the plurality of wireless communication modules, receive zero-crossing signals from the dimmer module, and transmit switching signals to the dimmer module to modulate the power supplied to the lighting load to dim the brightness of the lighting load.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Bitsysoft Technology Inc.Inventors: Yung-Wen Wu, Thomas Kuo Liu
-
Publication number: 20190054576Abstract: A brazing material composition is provided, which may include Ge, Ag and Si, where the atomic percentage of Ge may be between 0<Ge?20 at %, the atomic percentage of Ag may be between 20?Ag<88 at %, and the atomic percentage of Si may be between 12<Si?60 at %. The thermo-physical properties of the brazing material composition can be easily adjusted; besides, the brazing material composition not only has low thermal expansion coefficient, but also has great structure stability and gas-tightness at elevated temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Liang-Wei Huang, Chien-Kuo Liu, Yung-Neng Cheng, Ruey-Yi Lee
-
Patent number: 10117297Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for remotely dimming lights are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light-dimming apparatus for placement within a lighting enclosure of a lighting fixture is disclosed. The light-dimming apparatus can comprise an AC live input terminal, an AC neutral input terminal, an AC live output terminal, an AC neutral output terminal, a dimmer module, and a microcontroller unit comprising a plurality of wireless communication modules, a first processor core, and a second processor core. The first processor core can be programmed to execute instructions to receive a dimming command from another device via at least one of the plurality of wireless communication modules and the second processor core can be programmed to execute further instructions to receive zero-crossing signals from the dimmer module and transmit switching signals to the dimmer module to modulate the power supplied to the lighting load to dim the brightness of the lighting load.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Bitsysoft Technology Inc.Inventors: Yung-Wen Wu, Thomas Kuo Liu
-
Patent number: 10116649Abstract: A establishing method for a P2P connection includes: receiving a connection request with a remote device from a client device, detecting a validation token in a network packet from the client device according to the connection request, and when the validation token is detected to be valid, executing a connection validation procedure including: receiving a first validation code and a first address information from the client device, reading a second validation code and a second address information from a storage unit, sending the first validation code and the first address information to the remote device, and sending the second validation code and the second address information to the client device. Therefore, the P2P connection between the client device and the remote device is established according to the first validation code, the second validation code, the first address information and the second address information.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignees: THROUGHTEK TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., THROUGHTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Kai-Kuo Liu
-
Patent number: 10020515Abstract: The present invention relates to a strontium magnesium molybdenum oxide material having perovskite structure and the method for preparing the same. Citric acid is adopted as the chelating agent. By using sol-gel pyrolysis and replacing a portion of strontium in Sr2MgMoO6-? by cerium and a portion of magnesium by copper, a material with a chemical formula of Sr2-xCexMg1-yCuyMoO6-? is produced, where 0?x<2, 0<y<1, and 0<?<6. Thereby, the electrical conductivity of the material is improved. The perovskite-type cerium- and copper-replaced strontium magnesium molybdenum oxide significantly increases the electrical conductivity of the material and can be applied as the anode material for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC).Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.Inventors: Tsui-Yun Chung, Chien-Kuo Liu, Jing-Kai Lin, Hui-Ping Tseng, Ruey-Yi Lee
-
Publication number: 20180019478Abstract: The present invention relates to a strontium magnesium molybdenum oxide material having perovskite structure and the method for preparing the same. Citric acid is adopted as the chelating agent. By using sol-gel pyrolysis and replacing a portion of strontium in Sr2MgMoO6-? by cerium and a portion of magnesium by copper, a material with a chemical formula of Sr2-xCexMg1-yCuyMoO6-? is produced, where 0?x<2, 0<y<1, and 0<?<6. Thereby, the electrical conductivity of the material is improved. The perovskite-type cerium- and copper-replaced strontium magnesium molybdenum oxide significantly increases the electrical conductivity of the material and can be applied as the anode material for solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: TSUI-YUN CHUNG, CHIEN-KUO LIU, JING-KAI LIN, HUI-PING TSENG, RUEY-YI LEE
-
Publication number: 20170295135Abstract: A network-traversal method includes: receiving an address information of a network device from a link server; generating a port number sequence composed of port values according to an external port number of the address information; and sending a link packet to an external network address of the address information in an order of the port values in the port number sequence until receiving an acknowledgement packet from the network device. At least one of the port values is related to the external port number. A part of the rest port values is/are generated gradually based on the external port number, and the others of the rest port values is/are generated randomly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventor: Kai-Kuo Liu
-
Publication number: 20160285853Abstract: A establishing method for a P2P connection includes: receiving a connection request with a remote device from a client device, detecting a validation token in a network packet from the client device according to the connection request, and when the validation token is detected to be valid, executing a connection validation procedure including: receiving a first validation code and a first address information from the client device, reading a second validation code and a second address information from a storage unit, sending the first validation code and the first address information to the remote device, and sending the second validation code and the second address information to the client device. Therefore, the P2P connection between the client device and the remote device is established according to the first validation code, the second validation code, the first address information and the second address information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventor: Kai-Kuo Liu
-
Patent number: 9291734Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for seismic imaging implements a seismic modeling algorithm utilizing Forward Wave Inversion technique for revising Reverse Time Migration models used for sub-surface modeling. The technique requires large communication bandwidth and low latency to convert a parallel problem into one solved using massive domain partitioning. The partitioning of a velocity model into processing blocks allows each sub-problem to fit in a local cache, increasing locality and bandwidth and reducing latency. The RTM seismic data processing utilizes data that includes combined shot data, i.e., shot data selected from amongst a plurality of shots that are combined at like spatial points of the volume. An iterative approach is applied such that the correction term RTM generates at each iteration in the iterative approach is used for refining the model, and the updated model is used for generating a further refined RTM model.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lurng-Kuo Liu, Ligang Lu, Michael P. Perrone
-
Patent number: 9112218Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid oxide fuel cell stack modular structure, in that, being an integration of a plurality of fuel cell modules, it can determine the amount of fuel cell modules to be stacked in the modular structure according to an actual power output demand while ensuring airtightness in the modular structure, and moreover, with the modularization design, each fuel cell module in the modular structure that is malfunctioning can be detached and removed easily from the stack individually so as to be replaced by another operative fuel cell module.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, EXECUTIVE YUANInventors: Wei-Ja Shong, Chien-Kuo Liu, Szu-Han Wu, Peng Yang, Chien-Hsiung Lee
-
Patent number: 9063248Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for seismic imaging implements a seismic imaging algorithm utilizing Reverse Time Migration technique requiring large communication bandwidth and low latency to convert a parallel problem into one solved using massive domain partitioning. Several aspects of the imaging problem are addressed, including very regular and local communication patterns, balanced compute and communication requirements, scratch data handling and multiple-pass approaches. The partitioning of the velocity model into processing blocks allows each sub-problem to fit in a local cache, increasing locality and bandwidth and reducing latency. The RTM seismic data processing utilizes data that includes combined shot data, i.e., shot data selected from amongst a plurality of shots that are combined at like spatial points of the volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Lurng-Kuo Liu, Ligang Lu, Michael P. Perrone
-
Patent number: 9002651Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for seismic imaging implements a seismic imaging algorithm utilizing Reverse Time Migration technique requiring large communication bandwidth and low latency to convert a parallel problem into one solved using massive domain partitioning. Several aspects of the imaging problem, including very regular and local communication patterns, balanced compute and communication requirements, scratch data handling and multiple-pass approaches. The partitioning of the velocity model into processing blocks allows each sub-problem to fit in a local cache, increasing locality and bandwidth and reducing latency.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lurng-Kuo Liu, Ligang Lu, Michael P. Perrone
-
Patent number: 8983779Abstract: A system and method implementing a hierarchical approach to RTM (Reverse Time Migration) seismic imaging at different granularity in space and time. An RTM seismic imaging algorithm utilizes RTM technique to convert a parallel problem into one solved using massive domain partitioning. In the method, a coarse-grain grid for the 3D volume of the geological subsurface structure under investigation is initially processed, permitting the RTM imaging process to be performed faster and produces lower level seismic image for inspection. Criteria are then applied to the first level of seismic image to determine whether to reject the image or whether a finer resolution seismic imaging is needed. In the case of finer resolution is needed, RTM resolution for the target volume is adjusted accordingly and RTM imaging process is applied with the new resolution. The process is repeated until either the image is accepted or rejected.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lurng-Kuo Liu, Ligang Lu, Michael P. Perrone
-
Patent number: 8892762Abstract: Stream processing is facilitated by distributing responsibility for processing the stream to multiple components of a computing environment. A programmable unit receives one or more streams and determines the operations to be performed for the one or more streams and which components of the computing environment are to perform those operations. It forwards data relating to the one or more streams to one or more components of the computing environment for processing and/or information purposes.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, Carl J. Parris, Charles Boice, Lurng-Kuo Liu
-
Patent number: 8874638Abstract: An end-to-end record, request, response token-based protocol is used to facilitate processing of client jobs. This allows the client to forward analytical tasks of a job directly to an analytics cluster and to record an indication of such at a server. The accelerators of the cluster to perform the tasks are specified in a token provided by the server to the client.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, Carl J. Parris, Charles Boice, Lurng-Kuo Liu
-
Patent number: 8819183Abstract: Request processing within a computing environment is facilitated. Request processing and analytics processing for the request are performed substantially concurrently in order to improve efficiency of request execution. The analytics processing is at least commenced, and may complete, prior to receiving an indication of success or failure of the request processing. If request processing fails, analytics processing ceases, if not already complete, and results of the analytic processing are not used.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rajaram B. Krishnamurthy, Carl J. Parris, Charles Boice, Lurng-Kuo Liu