Patents by Inventor Lu An
Lu 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: 12007230Abstract: A measurement unit module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and electronic components being mounted on a front face of the PCB, a plurality of measurement unit modules are arranged at intervals in an extending direction of a stripped flat cable, the stripped flat cable is electrically connected to back faces of the plurality of PCBs in sequence to form a measurement unit cluster, the measurement unit cluster is packaged and molded by an extrusion technology of silica gel to form the flexible sensing strip, and the flexible sensing strip can be wound into a sensing strip reel. The packaging structure has the beneficial effects that connection integrity between the measurement unit modules is enhanced, connection strength is improved, and reliability of a flexible clinometer is improved. The flexible sensing strip can be wound into the sensing strip reel so as to be convenient to carry and convey.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES (WUHAN)Inventors: Yongquan Zhang, Huiming Tang, Junrong Zhang, Changdong Li, Guiying Lu, Yuansheng Wang, Ding Xia, Chengyuan Lin
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Patent number: 12004890Abstract: An intraoral tomosynthesis x-ray imaging device, system, and method with an interchangeable collimator. The intraoral tomosynthesis x-ray imaging device includes an x-ray source array including one or more spatially distributed focal spots and a detachable collimation assembly to provide rectangular or circular radiation fields. The intraoral tomosynthesis x-ray imaging device further includes a digital intraoral x-ray detector. In some embodiments, the x-ray source array is configured to produce either a scanning x-ray beam illuminating an object from different viewing angles without mechanically moving the x-ray source array for tomosynthesis, or a single two-dimensional radiograph.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Surround Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Captain Capo, Andrew Tucker, Julianna Burney, Otto Z. Zhou, Jianping Lu
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Patent number: 12006937Abstract: A discharge muffler for a fluid pump is formed by a cowling and a muffler insert configured to be removably inserted into a muffler receptacle of the cowling. The muffler insert includes a muffler inlet, a muffler outlet, and a plurality of muffler walls. The pump includes a pumping stage, a motor, and a drive shaft coupled between the pumping stage and the motor. When the muffler insert is inserted into the muffler receptacle, the muffler inlet communicates with the pumping stage, and the cowling and the muffler insert cooperatively define the discharge muffler. The discharge muffler is configured or effective to suppress noise generated by fluid discharged from the pumping stage.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vannie Lu, George Galica
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Patent number: 12004643Abstract: The present invention provides a slide rail assembly with an easy-to-position and safe unlocking mechanism to avoid the risk of injury when operating the slide rail assembly of a server case.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Nan Juen International Co., Ltd.Inventors: I-Hsiang Chiu, Chen-Lu Fan
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Patent number: 12007593Abstract: An OLED display including a display panel and a color-correction component is described. A plurality of comparative display panels otherwise equivalent to the display panel but having one or more different optical thicknesses of OLED layers have a maximum white-point color shift from 0 to 45 degrees of WPCSC45 and a white-point axial efficiency of WPAEC. The plurality of comparative display panels defines a performance curve along a boundary of performance points. The OLED display and the display panel have respective maximum white-point color shifts from 0 to 45 degrees of WPCS45 and WPCS045 and respective white-point axial efficiencies of WPAE and WPAE0. WPCS045 and WPAE0 defines a performance point of the display panel to the right of the performance curve and WPCS45 and WPAE defines a performance point of the OLED display above or to the left of the performance curve. Methods of making the OLED display are described.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Nicholas C. Erickson, David G. Freier, Robert L Brott, Bing Hao, David A. Rosen, Stephen M. Menke, Bert T. Chien, Seong Taek Lee, Encai Hao, Zhaohui Yang, Albert I. Everaerts, Yongshang Lu, William Blake Kolb, Keith R. Bruesewitz, Adam D. Haag, Sun-Yong Park, Timothy J. Nevitt, Brianna N. Wheeler, Jody L. Peterson, Gilles J. Benoit
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Patent number: 12004687Abstract: A cooking control method of a cooking apparatus includes steps of heating a cooking chamber of the cooking apparatus to an ambient temperature by a heating unit of the cooking apparatus, detecting the ambient temperature of the cooking chamber, maintaining the ambient temperature of the cooking chamber, maintaining the ambient temperature of the cooking chamber at a predetermined set temperature by controlling the heating unit when the ambient temperature of the cooking chamber reaches the predetermined set temperature, detecting an inner temperature of an inner portion of the cooking object, and controlling the heating unit to heat the cooking chamber to maintain at an appropriate cooking temperature when the inner temperature of the cooking object reaches the appropriate cooking temperature so as to cook the cooking object at the appropriate cooking temperature in the cooking chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Shenzhen Hesung Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xianglu Dai, Aimin He, Lihu Wei, Xuan Wang, Lu Chen
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Patent number: 12008399Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for optimizing scheduling of batch jobs are disclosed. The method may include obtaining, by one or more processors, a set of batch jobs, connection relationships among batch jobs in the set of batch jobs, and a respective execution time of each batch job in the set of batch jobs. The method may also include generating, by the one or more processors, a directed weighted graph for the set of batch jobs, wherein in the directed weighted graph, a node represents a batch job, a directed edge between two nodes represents a directed connection between two corresponding batch jobs, a weight of a node represents the execution time of the batch job corresponding to the node. The method may also include obtaining, by one or more processors, information of consumption of same resource(s) among the batch jobs in the set of batch jobs.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Xi Bo Zhu, Shi Yu Wang, Xiao Xiao Pei, Qin Li, Lu Zhao
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Patent number: 12010005Abstract: A system, in one embodiment, includes a cable modem termination system configured to perform at least the following processing: determining a first quantity related to uncorrectable erroneous codewords and a second quantity related to other codewords except the erroneous codewords in the data packet received by the cable modem termination system from the terminal device via the channel; calculating a first metric relating the first quantity to the second quantity; and in response to the first metric exceeding a first threshold for a first predetermined time, determining the channel as a damaged channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Jing Xiao, Xuebo Chen, Wei Lu, Jing Sun, Zhiyong Dong
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Patent number: 12006719Abstract: Disclosed is a folding tent capable of being unfolded and folded rapidly, comprising leg tubes and an tent ejector rod part, wherein one end of the tent ejector rod part is hinged to an upper connecting disk, the other end of the tent ejector rod part is hinged to an upper portion of the leg tube; the tent ejector rod part comprises at least two ejector rod units hinged to each other, each ejector rod unit hinged to the upper connecting disk is provided with a supporting rod in a fitting manner, and the other end of the supporting rod is hinged to a lower connecting disk; a connecting rod is further arranged between at least one supporting rod and the ejector rod unit installed on the supporting rod in a fitting manner, and one end of the connecting rod is used to be in hinge fit with the ejector rod unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Inventor: Nengxiao Lu
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Patent number: 12008162Abstract: A method and system are disclosed using steady-state motion visual evoked potential stimuli in an augmented reality environment. Requested stimuli data are received from a user application on a smart device. Sensor data and other context data are also received, where other context data includes data that is un-sensed. The requested stimuli data are transformed into modified stimuli based on the sensor data, and the other context data. Modified stimuli and environmental stimuli are presented to the user with a rendering device configured to mix the modified stimuli and the environmental stimuli, thereby resulting in rendered stimuli. Biosignals generated in response to the rendered stimuli are received from the user to a wearable biosignal sensing device. Received biosignals are classified based on the modified stimuli, resulting in a classified selection, which is returned to the user application.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: COGNIXION CORPORATIONInventors: Sarah Pearce, Aravind Ravi, Jing Lu, Ning Jiang, Andreas Forsland, Chris Ullrich
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Patent number: 12008995Abstract: A system is provided for determining subscription data when a user requests to receive an output in the future when an event occurs. The system may determine an output type based on the capabilities of the output device and a trigger type. The system may determine a trigger type based on the priority of the triggering event. The system may also determine how many times the subscription is to be executed. Using this information, the system creates the subscription so that the user may receive a notification or an announcement when an event occurs.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Vinaya Nadig, Ambika Babuji, Zhuxuan Li, He Lu, Elad Refael Kassis
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Patent number: 12009376Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical sensing system, an integrated transmitter module for the optical sensing system, and an optical sensing method performed using the optical sensing system. The exemplary optical sensing system includes an integrated transmitter module configured to emit an optical signal into an environment surrounding the optical sensing system. The integrated transmitter module includes a laser emitter, one or more driving integrated circuits, and one or more optics integrated into a chamber that is hermetically sealed. The optical sensing system further includes a photodetector configured to receive the optical signal reflected from the environment and convert the received optical signal to an electrical signal. The optical sensing system additionally includes a readout circuit configured to convert the electrical signal to a digital signal. The photodetector and the readout circuit are located outside the chamber enclosing the integrated transmitter module.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: BEIJING VOYAGER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yue Lu, Yu-Ching Yeh, Yonghong Guo, Youmin Wang
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Patent number: 12007662Abstract: A liquid crystal grating and a holographic display device are provided. The liquid crystal grating includes grating electrode groups. The grating electrode group includes grating electrodes. Operation states of the liquid crystal grating include a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, a first voltage of a first polarity is provided to the grating electrode, and an average voltage value of the first voltage is |V1|. In the second mode, a second voltage of a second polarity is provided to the grating electrode, and an average voltage value of the second voltage is |V2|, with |V1|<|V2|. In an operation period, light is modulated by the liquid crystal grating to obtain deflected light, the liquid crystal grating is switched between the first mode and the second mode, a quantity of the first mode is N1, and a quantity of the second mode is N2, with N1>N2.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Zeng, Feng Lu
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Patent number: 12009050Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for selective access for grouped memory dies are described. A memory device may be configured with a select die access protocol for a group of memory dies that share a same channel. The protocol may be enabled by one or more commands from the host device, which may be communicated to each of the memory dies of the group via the channel. The command(s) may indicate a first set of one or more memory dies of the group for which a set of commands may be enabled and may also indicate a second set of one or more memory dies of the group for which at least a subset of the set of commands is disabled. When the select die access mode is enabled, the disabled memory dies may be restricted from performing the subset of commands received via the channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Yang Lu, Kang-Yong Kim
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Patent number: 12009697Abstract: A motor is provided and driven by two phase. The first and second control signals have a phase difference of 90 degrees and are configured to control the first and second driving units, respectively, and the first and second control signals drive the first and second coil sets, respectively. Each of the first and second poles of the permanent magnet occupies a mechanical angle of 360/2n degrees of the permanent magnet, respectively, and n is 1 or 3. The four sets of the coils of the stator are equally located on the stator, each set of the coil occupies a mechanical angle of 360/2m degrees of the stator, any two sets of the coils adjacent to each other are separated by a mechanical angle of 90?(360/2m) degrees, and m is 3 or 2, wherein m corresponds to 2 when n is 1, m corresponds to 3 when n is 3.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Yi-Fan Lin, Li-Jiang Lu, Chin-Chun Lai, Chung-Hung Tang, Chun-Lung Chiu
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Patent number: 12009409Abstract: A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a fin-shaped structure on a substrate; forming a gate dielectric layer on the fin-shaped structure; forming a gate electrode on the fin-shaped structure; performing a nitridation process to implant ions into the gate dielectric layer adjacent to two sides of the gate electrode; and forming an epitaxial layer adjacent to two sides of the gate electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventors: Chung-Fu Chang, Kuan-Hung Chen, Guang-Yu Lo, Chun-Chia Chen, Chun-Tsen Lu
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Patent number: 12007860Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, memory devices, and machine-readable mediums for using a non-defective portion of a block of memory on which there is a defect on a different portion. Rather than disable the entire block, the system may disable only a portion of the block (e.g., a first deck of the block) and salvage a different portion of the block (e.g., a second deck of the block).Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sri Rama Namala, Lu Tong, Kristopher Kopel, Sheng-Huang Lee, Chang H. Siau
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Patent number: 12010876Abstract: Provided are a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a drive circuit layer formed on the base substrate and including an interlayer dielectric layer at the display region and the transition region; display parts at the display region, including a first electrode and a pixel definition portion sequentially formed on the interlayer dielectric layer; a first packaging dam and a second packaging dam at the transition region and around the opened region, each including a protective portion and a blocking portion sequentially laminated on the interlayer dielectric layer. The second packaging dam is at a side of the first packaging dam away from the display region, and a thickness of the second packaging dam is greater than that of the first packaging dam.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xin Zhang, Yang Zhou, Yupeng He, Xiaofeng Jiang, Meng Zhang, Lu Bai, Yi Qu, Huijun Li, Lulu Yang, Pengfei Yu, Hao Zhang, Mengqi Wang
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Patent number: 12008363Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and program product that perform the following operations: organizing a project having source code into a stacked-layer framework, the stacked-layer framework having: (i) a code layer including the source code of the project, (ii) a label layer including one or more label pages labelling the source code according to respective features of the source code, and (iii) a mask layer including one or more mask pages concealing portions of the source code according to labels of the label layer; receiving a request from a user to utilize a portion of the project, wherein the request includes a user requirement identifying one or more desired features; identifying a mask page of the one or more mask pages corresponding to the one or more desired features identified by the user requirement; and communicating the identified mask page to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Fei Tan, Zhan Peng Huo, Jiu Chang Du, Lu Yan Li
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Patent number: D1030668Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Meritor Electric Vehicles Germany GmbHInventors: Cheng Shuai Lu, Han Wang Zhao, Hai Bin Li, Hui Lai Liu