Patents by Inventor Liang Tang
Liang Tang 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: 8609602Abstract: Disclosed are cleaning solutions. More particularly, non-toxic solutions of base, water, alcohol and detergent, that effectively and surprisingly eliminate contaminating aliphatic acids in aqueous solutions. When present as a foam or even a contaminating film remaining on various parts and surfaces, aliphatic acid contaminants can be present a large and costly problem in manufacturing operations, cleaning tasks, personal hygiene. The need to remove such contaminants arises in a myriad environments and situations, such as during the manufacture of detergents, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, coring and core analysis, manipulation of oils, fuels, fermentation applications, manufacture of emollients, moisturizers, liquors, foods such as seafood, milk, butter and other dairy products, water processing, paper products, tissue culture, reusable clinical equipment, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Anatrace Products, LLCInventors: Benjamin R. Travis, Ritesh Mittal, Seth M. Huff, Lijun M. Huang, Liang Tang
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Patent number: 8600108Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a data processing method comprising the steps of processing a first sample set associated with first results of tracking a target in a number of image frames using a first object classifier arranged to operate according to a first feature and processing a second sample set associated with second results of tracking the target in said number of image frames using a second object classifier arrange to operate according to a second feature, and using at least one of the first and second tracking results to influence at least one particle filter adapted to influence at least one of subsequent first and second tracking results.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Compant, L.P.Inventors: Liang Tang, Shan-Qing Li, Lei Wang, Ke-Yan Liu, Wei Liu
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Patent number: 8569471Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for selectively directing stem cells to a target tissue within a subject using a system that employs one or more vectors that contain a gene switch/biosensor, a tissue-specific promoter, a gene encoding a stem cell-attracting chemokine, and a gene amplification system. In one embodiment, a stem cell-attracting chemokine is expressed in damaged tissue using a stimulus-responsive vector system. The stimulus can be a physiological stimulus associated with cell injury, such as hypoxia or elevated glucose levels, for example. Expression of the chemokine increases the trafficking of stem cells to the damaged tissue.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: University of South FloridaInventors: M. Ian Phillips, Yao Liang Tang
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Publication number: 20130274445Abstract: This invention relates to Factor VIII muteins that are covalently bound, at a predefined site that is not an N-terminal amine, to one or more biocompatible polymers such as polyethylene glycol. The mutein conjugates retain FVIII procoagulant activity and have improved pharmacokinetic properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Clark Q Pan, John E. Murphy, Baisong Mei, Jonathan S. Strauss, Hendri Tjandra, Jianmin Chen, Thomas Barnett, Liang Tang, Deqian Wang
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Patent number: 8509385Abstract: In one embodiment, an X-ray tube includes an electron beam source including a primary cathode configured to emit an electron beam and an anode assembly including an anode configured to receive the electron beam and to emit X-rays when impacted by the electron beam. The X-ray tube also includes an enclosure, at least the primary cathode and the anode being disposed in the enclosure, and a secondary cathode disposed in the enclosure and configured to emit electrons to impact the anode for degassing the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Liang Tang, Eric Bruce Biehr, Richard Michael Roffers, Kalyan Koppisetty
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Patent number: 8503064Abstract: An electrical pressure-sensitive reflective display includes an array of display pixels, each with a transparent top surface, first electrode, second electrode, an elastic polymer medium, and metallic nanoparticles distributed in the elastic polymer medium. When a first voltage potential is applied between the first and second electrodes of each display pixel, a first color is reflected from the incident spectrum of light, assuming no pressure is applied on the top surface of each display pixel. When the top surface of a first display pixel is deformed in response to an applied pressure, the elastic polymer medium in the first display pixel is compressed, decreasing the metallic nanoparticle-to-metallic nanoparticle mean distance in the first display pixel. In response to decreasing the metallic nanoparticle-to-metallic nanoparticle mean distance, the color reflected from the incident spectrum of light by the second display pixel is changed from the first color to second color.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Liang Tang, Akinori Hashimura, Apostolos T. Voutsas
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Publication number: 20130140517Abstract: A material for use in electronic circuits. The material includes a thin layer of gallium nitride (GaN), the thin layer of GaN produced in a high-volume production setting without mechanical planarization having a thickness of as low as 10 nm and a defect density as low as 105 per cm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Liang Tang, Yuefeng Wang, Michael Manfra, Gary Cheng, Timothy Sands
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Publication number: 20130113616Abstract: Improved systems and techniques for identification and resolution of conditions affecting an information technology system. When an alert is received, it is identified as actionable or non-actionable and, if non-actionable, is subjected to a waiting time before a trouble ticket is created. If the alert has cleared by the time the waiting time expires, an event associated with the alert is discarded and no trouble ticket is created. Non-actionable alerts are identified using a system of predictive rules, with rules being generated according to appropriate criteria, such as the likelihood that an event identified by a rule will be non-actionable, and by the likelihood that an event will be identified by a rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Florian Pinel, Larisa Shwartz, Liang Tang
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Publication number: 20130096295Abstract: Disclosed are saccharide and phosphocholine derivatives. The derivatives include azide and alkyne derivatives which form one end of a variable length carbon chain. The opposite end of the variable length carbon chain is covalently linked to the saccharide or phosphocholine. The saccharide may be, for instance, a maltoside. The alkyne and azide derivatives of the saccharides and phosphocholine may be reacted together to form amphiphilic molecules useful in cellular membrane studies and applications. By adjusting the length of the carbon chain, the biochemical and biophysical properties of the resultant 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole compounds may be custom tailored for the intended application. Resultant molecules may form micelles, bicelle, lipid bilayers and other like structures useful in the isolation and purification of membrane bound or membrane associated proteins and biochemical components.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: AFFYMETRIX, INC.Inventors: Benjamin R. Travis, Ritesh Mittal, Lijun Huang, Liang Tang
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Patent number: 8422114Abstract: A plasmonic display device is provided that uses physical modulation mechanisms. The device is made from an electrically conductive bottom electrode and a first dielectric layer overlying the bottom electrode. The first dielectric layer is a piezoelectric material having an index of expansion responsive to an electric field. An electrically conductive top electrode overlies the first dielectric layer. A first plasmonic layer, including a plurality of discrete plasmonic particles, is interposed between the top and bottom electrodes and in contact with the first dielectric layer. In one aspect, the plasmonic particles are an expandable polymer material covered with a metal coating having a size responsive to an electric field.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Akinori Hashimura, Liang Tang, Apostolos T. Voutsas
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Publication number: 20130077036Abstract: A method is provided for improving metallic nanostructure stability. The method provides a substrate, and using a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process for example, deposits metallic nanostructures having a first diameter overlying the substrate. Some examples of metallic nanostructures include Ag, Au, and Al. The metallic nanostructures are annealed in an atmosphere including an inert gas and H2. The annealing temperature is less than the melting temperature the metal material in bulk form. In response to the annealing, stabilized metallic nanostructures are formed. If the stabilized metallic nanostructures are exposed to an ambient air environment the stabilized metallic nanostructure maintain the first diameter. Typically, the metallic nanostructures are initially formed having a rectangular shape with corners. After annealing, the stabilized metallic nanostructures have a dome shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: Akinori Hashimura, Liang Tang, David R. Evans
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Patent number: 8383432Abstract: Colloidal-processed Si particle devices, device fabrication, and device uses have been presented. The generic device includes a substrate, a first electrode overlying the substrate, a second electrode overlying the substrate, laterally adjacent the first electrode, and separated from the first electrode by a spacing. A colloidal-processed Si particle layer overlies the first electrode, the second electrode, and the spacing between the electrodes. The Si particle layer includes a first plurality of nano-sized Si particles and a second plurality of micro-sized Si particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Jiandong Huang, Liang Tang, Changqing Zhan, Chang-Ching Tu
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Patent number: 8368998Abstract: A method is provided for color tuning a plasmonic device with a color tunable electronic skin. A plasmonic electronic skin is used, including a first substrate, a plasmonic structure, an electrically conductive transparent first electrode layer, an electrically conductive transparent second electrode layer, and a polymer-networked liquid crystal (PNLC) layer interposed between the first and second transparent electrode layers. In response to receiving a color tuning voltage, a full visible spectrum incident light, and a PNLC switch voltage, the plasmonic structure generates a first primary color. A primary color exhibits a single wavelength peak with a spectral full width at half magnitudes (FWHMs) in the visible spectrum of light. In response to receiving the PNLC switch voltage between the first and second electrode layers, the PNLC layer passes incident light.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Liang Tang, Akinori Hashimura, Apostolos T. Voutsas
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Patent number: 8365199Abstract: A method and a system for supporting multiple display adapters in the WDDM architecture are provided. A driver wrapper serves as the interface between the OS and the display drivers. The driver wrapper hides the display drivers from the knowledge of the OS and provides the standard display driver interface (DDI) to the OS. In the view of the OS, the driver wrapper is the single common driver which receives requests from the OS. The driver wrapper dispatches the requests from the OS to the display drivers and relays responses from the display drivers to the OS. The driver wrapper of the present invention is compatible with multiple distinct display drivers.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: S3 Graphics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jinliang Huang, Liang Tang
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Patent number: 8355099Abstract: A plasmonic display device is provided with liquid crystal dipole molecule control. The device is made from a first set of electrodes including at least one electrically conductive top electrode and at least one electrically conductive bottom electrode capable of generating a first electric field in a first direction. A second set of electrodes, including an electrically conductive right electrode and an electrically conductive left electrode, is capable of generating a second electric field in a second first direction. A dielectric layer overlies the bottom electrode, made from a liquid crystal material with molecules having dipoles responsive to an electric field. A plasmonic layer, including a plurality of discrete plasmonic particles, is interposed between the first and second set of electrodes and in contact with the dielectric layer. In one aspect, the plasmonic layer is embedded in the dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Sharp Labortories of America, Inc.Inventors: Liang Tang, Akinori Hashimura, Jiandong Huang, Apostolos T. Voutsas
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Patent number: 8339543Abstract: A plasmonic display device is provided having dual modulation mechanisms. The device has an electrically conductive bottom electrode that may be either transparent or reflective. A dielectric layer overlies the bottom electrode, made from an elastic polymer material having a refractive index responsive to an electric field. An electrically conductive top electrode, either transparent or reflective, overlies the dielectric layer. A plasmonic layer, including a plurality of discrete plasmonic particles, is interposed between the top and bottom electrodes and in contact with the dielectric layer. In one aspect, the plasmonic layer is embedded in the dielectric layer. Alternately, the plasmonic layer overlies the bottom (or top) electrode. Then, the dielectric layer overlies the plasmonic layer particles and exposed regions of the bottom electrode between the first plasmonic layer particles.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Liang Tang, Akinori Hashimura, Apostolos T. Voutsas
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Publication number: 20120324186Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a computer for data operation are provided. The method includes: determining, when writing data to a sector of a storage device, whether the sector belongs to an old block for a restore point of the storage device. If so, the method further includes: allocating a new block and writing the data into the new block; creating a table including an address of the old block, an address of the new block and a first identifier, wherein the first identifier has first identification elements corresponding to the sector in the old block and in the new block, respectively, and wherein each of the first identification elements has a first state indicating to read data from the old block during data restoration in the sector and a second state indicating to read data from the new block during data restoration in the sector; and pointing the address of the old block in an address index table for the restore point to the created table.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicants: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITEDInventors: Liang Tang, Changsheng Guo, Chunmei Liu, Yizun Guo
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Publication number: 20120313860Abstract: An electrical pressure sensor is provided with a method for measuring pressure applied to a sensor surface. The method provides an electrical pressure sensor including a sealed chamber with a top surface, first electrode, second electrode, an elastic polymer medium, and metallic nanoparticles distributed in the elastic polymer medium. When the top surface of the sensor is deformed in response to an applied pressure, the elastic polymer medium is compressed. In response to decreasing the metallic nanoparticle-to-metallic nanoparticle mean distance between metallic nanoparticles, the electrical resistance is decreased between the first and second electrodes through the elastic polymer medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: Akinori Hashimura, Liang Tang, Apostolos T. Voutsas
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Patent number: 8314015Abstract: A process of silicon (Si) surface modification is provided for the electrochemical synthesis of Si particles in suspension. The process begins with a Si first substrate with a surface, and forms Si particles attached to the surface. Hydrogen-terminated Si particles are created and the first substrate is immersed in a hexane/1-octene (1/1 volume ratio) solution with a catalytic amount of chloroplatinic acid (H2PtCl6). 1-octene is bonded with the hydrogen-terminated Si particles, creating modified Si particles, with octane capping ligands, attached to the substrate surface. The first substrate is then exposed to ultrasonication, separating the modified Si particles from the first substrate. After removing the first substrate, a suspension is created of modified Si particles suspended in excess hexane/1-octene.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Chang-Ching Tu, Liang Tang, Apostolos T. Voutsas
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Patent number: 8308506Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a cable assembly with ultra-low capacitance. In one embodiment, a cable assembly is provided. The cable assembly includes an insulation layer. The insulation layer includes a low-permittivity insulation material.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Liang Tang, Yang Cao, Denis Perrillat-Amede, Weijun Yin