Patents by Inventor Ling Liu

Ling 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).

  • Publication number: 20240090230
    Abstract: A memory array and an operation method of the memory array are provided. The memory array includes first and second ferroelectric memory devices formed along a gate electrode, a channel layer and a ferroelectric layer between the gate electrode and the channel layer. The ferroelectric memory devices include: a common source/drain electrode and two respective source/drain electrodes, separately in contact with a side of the channel layer opposite to the ferroelectric layer, wherein the common source/drain electrode is disposed between the respective source/drain electrodes; and first and second auxiliary gates, capacitively coupled to the channel layer, wherein the first auxiliary gate is located between the common source/drain electrode and one of the respective source/drain electrodes, and the second auxiliary gate is located between the common source/drain electrode and the other respective source/drain electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Ling Lu, Chen-Jun Wu, Ya-Yun Cheng, Sheng-Chih Lai, Yi-Ching Liu, Yu-Ming Lin, Feng-Cheng Yang, Chung-Te Lin
  • Publication number: 20240087628
    Abstract: A multi-resistance-state spintronic device, including: a top electrode and a bottom electrode respectively connected to a read-write circuit; and a magnetic tunnel junction between two electrodes. The magnetic tunnel junction includes from top to bottom: a ferromagnetic reference layer, a barrier tunneling layer, a ferromagnetic free layer, and a spin-orbit coupling layer. Nucleation centers are provided at two ends of the ferromagnetic free layer to generate a magnetic domain wall; the spin-orbit coupling layer is connected to the bottom electrode, and when a write pulse is applied, an electron spin current is generated and drives the magnetic domain wall through a spin-orbit torque to move; a plurality of local magnetic domain wall pinning centers are provided at an interface between the spin-orbit coupling layer and the ferromagnetic free layer to enhance a strength of a DM interaction constant between interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Guozhong XING, Huai LIN, Feng ZHANG, Di WANG, Long LIU, Changqing XIE, Ling LI, Ming LIU
  • Publication number: 20240088775
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus and an energy storage system, including a power conversion circuit, a first power terminal, a second power terminal, and a third power terminal. The power conversion circuit includes a first positive end, a first negative end, a second positive end, a second negative end, and at least one power device. The first negative end and the second negative end have a same potential. The power conversion circuit is configured to convert a first voltage input by a first device into a second voltage and output the second voltage to a second device. The first power terminal is connected to the first positive end, the first negative end or the second negative end is connected to the second power terminal, and the third power terminal is connected to the second positive end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Baoguo CHEN, Ren SHENG, Rui GE, Ling LIU
  • Publication number: 20240087988
    Abstract: The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a substrate. A through-substrate-via (TSV) extends through the substrate. A dielectric liner separates the TSV from the substrate. The dielectric liner is along one or more sidewalls of the substrate. The TSV includes a horizontally extending surface and a protrusion extending outward from the horizontally extending surface. The TSV has a maximum width along the horizontally extending surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hung-Ling Shih, Wei Chuang Wu, Shih Kuang Yang, Hsing-Chih Lin, Jen-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11920472
    Abstract: A reasonable millisecond time control method for excavation blasting of a tunnel is provided, and includes: acquiring physical mechanical parameters to establish a millisecond blasting model, and designing four dimensions blasting parameters of explosive quantity, hole number, inter-hole millisecond and inter-row millisecond; simulating, based on the millisecond blasting model, a blasting process of an explosive package using blasting parameters to obtain a blasting vibration curve; obtaining single-hole blasting vibration waveforms, solving a vibration synthesis curve through a vibration synthesis theory; comparing the vibration synthesis curve with the blasting vibration curve to obtain a coupling relationship of blasting parameters; determining a target group of explosive quantity and hole numbers, determining a target millisecond through the coupling relationship of blasting parameters, and relating a millisecond blasting control strategy to control, and it is used for tunneling project to reduce cut blas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA RAILWAY ELEVENTH BUREAU GROUP CO., LTD, CHINA RAILWAY ELEVENTH BUREAU GROUP FOURTH ENGINEERING CO., LTD., WUJIU RAILWAY PASSENGER DEDICATED LINE HUBEI CO., LTD, CHINA RAILWAY FOURTH BUREAU GROUP CO., LTD, ANHUI CHINA RAILWAY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CO., LTD, WUHAN INSTITUTE OF GEOTECHNICAL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CHINA RAILWAY SOUTHWEST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jun Gao, Liyun Yang, Xiao Lin, Ming Zhang, kaiwen Liu, Xiaowei Zuo, Bin Zhou, Feng Wang, Yuxin Gao, Dan Xu, Ling Wang, Zhengyi Wang, Xiaokai Wen, Yongtai Wang, Huiling Xue
  • Patent number: 11919964
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bispecific antigen binding proteins that are capable of binding to both the human CGRP receptor and the human PAC1 receptor. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bispecific antigen binding proteins as well as methods for producing them are also disclosed. Methods of using the bispecific antigen binding proteins to ameliorate or treat conditions associated with the two receptors, such as chronic pain, migraine, and cluster headache, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Gunasekaran Kannan, Ling Liu, Edward J. Belouski, Cen Xu
  • Patent number: 11924905
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may include receiving, by a user equipment from a first access point which supports a first radio access technology, a radio-resource-control (RRC) reconfiguration message including an RRC configuration information of a second access point, after an initiation of a slave RRC at the second access point has been determined. The second access point supports a second radio access technology, and performing, by the user equipment, a random access procedure with the second access point based on the RRC reconfiguration message. The user equipment is configured to have an RRC connection with the first access point and the first access point is a master node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Ling Yu, Vinh Van Phan, Amaanat Ali, Christian Mahr, Andrea Cattoni, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11925087
    Abstract: Provided are a display substrate, a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes: a first display region and a second display region; the first display region includes a plurality of first pixels, the first pixel includes a passive light-emitting device, the second display region includes a plurality of second pixels, the second pixel includes an active light-emitting device and a pixel drive circuit electrically connected to the active light-emitting device. The first display region further includes a plurality of first cathode blockers, and the first cathode blocker includes at least one first groove, wherein the first cathode blocker is provided between at least two adjacent columns of first pixels, to make the cathodes of the two adjacent columns of first pixels disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yipeng Chen, Ling Shi, Ke Liu, Zhenhua Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240067591
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a method and system for producing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene. It includes: under the action of a catalyst, chlorotrifluoroethylene reacting with hydrogen gas in a first reactor to obtain a mixture, the mixture entering a rectification apparatus, trifluoroethylene obtained by rectification entering a second reactor and reacting with bromine under light to obtain 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane; in a third reactor pre-loaded with the 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane, adding the 1,2-dibromo-trifluoroethane and solid alkali, and performing reaction to obtain bromotrifluoroethylene; and adding the bromotrifluoroethylene to a fourth reactor holding with zinc powder, an initiator and an organic solvent for reaction, so as to obtain a trifluoroethenyl zinc bromide solution, performing filtration, and then adding a coupling agent for a coupling reaction, so as to obtain hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Wucan LIU, Haifeng WU, Ling LI, Hao CHENG, Jingtian ZHANG, Jiexun CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240071451
    Abstract: The three-state spintronic device includes: a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction and a top electrode from bottom to top. The magnetic tunnel junction includes: a spin-orbit coupling layer, a ferromagnetic free layer, a barrier tunneling layer, a ferromagnetic reference layer, three local magnetic domain wall pinning centers and domain wall nucleation centers. An antisymmetric exchange interaction is modulated, and the magnetic domain wall pinning centers are embedded in an interface between a heavy metal and the ferromagnetic free layer. The magnetic domain wall nucleation centers are at two ends of the ferromagnetic free layer. A current pulse flows through the spin-orbit coupling layer to generate a spin current and the spin current is injected into the ferromagnetic free layer. Under a control of all-electrical controlled, an effective field of a spin-orbit torque drives domain wall to move and displace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Huai LIN, Guozhong XING, Zuheng WU, Long LIU, Di WANG, Cheng LU, Peiwen ZHANG, Changqing XIE, Ling LI, Ming LIU
  • Publication number: 20240068936
    Abstract: An adaptive characteristic spectral line screening method and system based on atomic emission spectrum are provided, the method includes: using a set characteristic screening optimization method to perform a plurality of optimization rounds of characteristic screening, obtaining an initialized spectral dataset of each round of the characteristic screening and initialized characteristic population genes; obtaining an optimal characteristic population gene of each round by a set analysis method, a fitness function, and an iteration of a genetic algorithm; obtaining an optimized characteristic spectral information set when the plurality of optimization rounds reach set optimization rounds; performing combination statistics and discriminant analyses on the optimized characteristic spectral information set to complete an adaptive characteristic spectral line screening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jia Liu, Feipeng Cui, Xiaopeng Li, Ling Liu, Hongwei Shi, Feifei Guo, Ying Zhao, Xuejing Shen, Haizhou Wang
  • Patent number: 11898147
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a combinational therapy for enhancing efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade for tumors with immune suppressive microenvironment. More specifically, this combination therapy involves the treatment of cancer through immune checkpoint inhibitors and CpG-oligodeoxynucleotides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES
    Inventors: Tsung-Hsien Chuang, Jen-Chih Tseng, Jing-Xing Yang, Yi-Ling Liu
  • Patent number: 11888074
    Abstract: A flash memory device and method of making the same are disclosed. The flash memory device is located on a substrate and includes a floating gate electrode, a tunnel dielectric layer located between the substrate and the floating gate electrode, a smaller length control gate electrode and a control gate dielectric layer located between the floating gate electrode and the smaller length control gate electrode. The length of a major axis of the smaller length control gate electrode is less than a length of a major axis of the floating gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Yu-Chu Lin, Chi-Chung Jen, Yi-Ling Liu, Wen-Chih Chiang, Keng-Ying Liao, Huai-Jen Tung
  • Publication number: 20240022962
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a local edge offloading method and system, and an offloading service apparatus and a base station. The local edge offloading method includes: an offloading service receiving user plane bearer information sent from a base station, and establishing an offloading user plane instance according to the user plane bearer information; upon reception of an uplink data service package sent from the base station, the offloading service determining whether there is a corresponding offloading user plane instance for the uplink data service package; and in a case where there is a corresponding offloading user plane instance in the uplink data service package, matching the uplink data service package with an offloading matching rule, and determining to forward the uplink data service package to a core network or a local server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ling Liu, Jialin Peng, Wenyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11874248
    Abstract: Various example embodiments described herein relate to a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly includes a first sensor cover and a second sensor cover. The first sensor cover is disposed on a first end of the sensor assembly and the second sensor cover is disposed on a second end of the sensor assembly. The first sensor cover defines a first capillary and the second sensor cover defines a second capillary therethrough. The sensor assembly further includes a first sensing unit, a second sensing unit, and a filter. The first sensing unit and the second sensing unit are disposed between the first sensor cover and the second sensor cover. In some example embodiments, the filter is reactive to a target gas and thereby prevents an inflow of the target gas through the second capillary into the sensor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: RAE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Qinghui Mu, Jianglin Jian, Feng Liang, Ling Liu, Na Wei
  • Patent number: 11863799
    Abstract: The disclosure provides image encoding methods and apparatuses. One example encoding method includes: obtaining a one-dimensional sequence of quantized coefficients of an image; obtaining a run-length value sequence and a level value sequence based on the one-dimensional sequence of the quantized coefficients; obtaining an updated second distribution probability of each level value in the level value sequence based on the m first distribution probabilities, the n second distribution probabilities, and a preset mapping rule; and performing encoding based on the level value sequence and the updated second distribution probability of each level value in the level value sequence to obtain and output encoded image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Li, Ling Liu, Hui Shen, Jiaqi Gu
  • Publication number: 20230421501
    Abstract: The present invention provides a joint optimization method and system for delay and spectrum occupation in a cloud-edge collaborative network. The method includes: initializing a cloud-edge collaborative network, and generating a set of user requests; establishing a target function of minimum average end-to-end delay and minimum spectrum slot occupation of a user request; during processing of each user request based on the target function, sequentially determining whether a node and path selection uniqueness constraint, a mobile edge computing (MEC) server load constraint, a spectrum resource occupation and uniqueness constraint, a spectrum continuity constraint, and a spectrum consistency constraint are satisfied, where if all constraints are satisfied, the user request is successfully processed, and the process turns to step S4; or if any constraint is not satisfied, the user request fails to be processed; and calculating average end-to-end delay and spectrum resource occupancy of the user request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Bowen CHEN, Ling LIU, Ruixin LIANG, Shoucui WANG, Qi CHEN, Gangxiang SHEN, Mingyi GAO, Weidong SHAO, Hong CHEN
  • Patent number: 11829119
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) based acceleration in robot motion planning are described. In an embodiment, logic circuitry (such as an FPGA), coupled to a processor, accelerates one or more motion planning operations for a plurality of objects. A first memory, coupled to the logic circuitry, stores data corresponding to a plurality of Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBBs). The plurality of OBBs are to provide Bounding Volume (BV) models for the plurality of objects. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dawei Wang, Ling Liu, Xuesong Shi, Chunjie Wang, Ganmei You
  • Publication number: 20230364660
    Abstract: Methods of treating soil contained in a volume of treatment in an underground site and forming a containment barrier within an underground site are contemplated herein. A treatment methodology may be administered upon soil having previously been contained in the volume of treatment. Such a treatment methodology may include the application of an adsorbent to this soil. A layer of micron-sized adsorbents may also be placed on one or more interfaces surrounding the volume of treatment to form a containment barrier operative to mitigate diffusion of contaminants into or from the volume of treatment. Soil in the volume of treatment may be removed to allow for the methods contemplated herein to be performed more simply and effectively. The volume of treatment may then be refilled with a filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Kristen A. Thoreson, Paul R. Erickson, Steve Barnes, Yen-Ling Liu
  • Publication number: 20230335123
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating personalized audio data is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes receiving user input data, wherein the user input data is at least one of text or audio. The computer-implemented method further includes segmenting the user input data into a set of sentences. The computer-implemented method further includes generating, for each sentence in the set of sentences, a voice image, wherein the voice image includes at least one pronunciation tag and wave line associated with a sentence. The computer-implemented method further includes modifying the user input data based, at least in part on, the wave line and pronunciation tag of the voice image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ju Ling Liu, Xiang Wei Li, Dong Chen, Ye Chuan Wang, Ting Ting Zhan, Wei Yan, Yu An