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).

  • Publication number: 20220355084
    Abstract: A guidewire management device, a method of manufacturing the guidewire management device and a method for guidewire management are disclosed. The guidewire management device includes a housing through which a lumen of a catheter passes; and a locking mechanism mounted within the housing; wherein the locking mechanism is configured to lock the housing if a guidewire is present in the lumen and to unlock the housing if the guidewire is absent from the lumen. In one embodiment, the locking mechanism comprises a lever structure comprising a first arm connected to a second arm, wherein the first arm is configured to abut the lumen such that it becomes displaceable from a first position to a second position and actuates the second arm to engage a latch member to lock the housing if the guidewire is inserted through the lumen. Conversely, the housing unlocks if the guidewire is removed from the lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Rajkumar Chandran, Jerry Kian Teck Lim, Seok Hwee Koo, Subburaj Karupppasamy, Jie Hong Lim, Yu Jun Vanessa Poh, Pei Jie Janelle Ong, Wan Yun LU
  • Publication number: 20220360409
    Abstract: A system and method for sidelink configuration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to transmit, by a first wireless communication device, information required to form a resource set report. The system and method are also configured to receive by the first wireless communication device, the resource set report indicating a set of resources, wherein the set of resources are selected according to the required information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jin YANG, Youxiong LU, Weimin XING
  • Publication number: 20220358233
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables pushing of access-privilege information from data environments to a graphing service. In a particular embodiment, a method includes registering a data environment to enable the data environment to use Application Programming Interface (API) calls and receiving an API call transmitted from the data environment. The API call provides information about access permissions for the data environment. The method further includes incorporating the information into a privilege graph representing data access authorizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Tarun Thakur, Maohua Lu
  • Publication number: 20220359570
    Abstract: A memory cell includes a transistor over a semiconductor substrate. The transistor includes a ferroelectric layer arranged along a sidewall of a word line. The ferroelectric layer includes a species with valence of 5, valence of 7, or a combination thereof. An oxide semiconductor layer is electrically coupled to a source line and a bit line. The ferroelectric layer is disposed between the oxide semiconductor layer and the word line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Lu, Sai-Hooi Yeong, Bo-Feng Young, Yu-Ming Lin, Chih-Yu Chang
  • Publication number: 20220359331
    Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes attaching a first semiconductor device to a first surface of a substrate; forming a sacrificial structure on the first surface of the substrate around the first semiconductor device, the sacrificial structure encircling a first region of the first surface of the substrate; and forming an underfill material in the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Chih-Chien Pan, Chin-Fu Kao, Li-Hui Cheng, Szu-Wei Lu
  • Publication number: 20220360212
    Abstract: A cleaning robot includes a supporting mechanism, cleaning mechanisms and a walking mechanism. The supporting mechanism is used for supporting the cleaning robot; the cleaning mechanisms are symmetrically arranged at the two ends of the supporting mechanism and can clean the surface of a photovoltaic panel; the walking mechanism is arranged in the middle of the supporting mechanism and can fix the cleaning robot to the surface of the photovoltaic panel and drive the cleaning robot to move on the surface of the photovoltaic panel; and the supporting mechanism can adjust the cleaning ranges of the cleaning mechanisms, so that the cleaning mechanisms at least have a first cleaning range and a second cleaning range, and the first cleaning range and the second cleaning range can be concentric circles. The cleaning robot is small and exquisite in structure and light. One person can operate multiple robots at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Xiangbo SHEN, Xiangming DUN, Wujun CHEN, Zhongliang JING, Xiangyong DUN, Lei SHAN, Xincheng LU, Jiageng CHEN, Ying GAO, Sihai ZHOU, Hongbo ZHOU, Zhixiong HU
  • Publication number: 20220357551
    Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a circuit board having an imager disposed at a first side of the circuit board. A lens barrel accommodates a lens assembly having a plurality of lens elements spaced apart along the lens barrel by respective lens spacers. Each lens spacer is formed of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of 5 ppm/° C. or less. The circuit board is positioned at a lens holder, and the lens barrel is positioned at a lens holder so as to optically align the lens and the imager. The lens barrel is formed of a material having a CTE that matches within ten percent of the CTE of the material that forms the lens holder, with the CTEs of the lens barrel and lens holder materials being greater than the CTE of the material of the lens spacers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Zhongyao Liu, Steven V. Byrne, Yuesheng Lu
  • Publication number: 20220357761
    Abstract: A joystick assembly applicable to a game controller includes a base, a shaft, a movement sensing device, a memory and a processor. The shaft is pivotally disposed at the base. The movement sensing device is disposed in the base and configured to sense the movement of the shaft relative to the base to generate a movement signal. The memory is disposed in the base and stores an identification number of the joystick assembly and pieces of calibration data. The processor is disposed in the base and configured to determine whether to output the movement signal according to the calibration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: DEXIN CORP.
    Inventors: Ho Lung LU, Yuan-Jung CHANG
  • Publication number: 20220360405
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for sounding reference signal (SRS) indication enhancement. A wireless communication device may determine to perform a first sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission in a first component carrier (CC). The wireless communication device may determine to perform the first SRS in an available time unit according to a time offset and a second SRS transmission in a second CC. A wireless communication device may receive one or more lists of carrier indicator (CIF) values for SRS transmissions from a wireless communication node. The wireless communication device may determine a first SRS transmission according to the one or more lists of CIF values. The wireless communication device may determine a first SRS transmission according to a value of a CIF field in a downlink control information (DCI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Chuangxin JIANG, Hao WU, Zhaohua LU, Yuxin WANG, Shujuan ZHANG, Bo GAO, Yu PAN, Ke YAO
  • Publication number: 20220359508
    Abstract: A method of making an integrated circuit includes steps of selecting a first cell and a second cell for an integrated circuit layout from a cell library in an electronic design automation (EDA) system, the first and second cells each having a cell active area, a cell gate electrode, at least one fin of a first set of fins, and a cell border region, each cell also having the active area at an exposed side, and placing the first exposed side against the second exposed side at a cell border. The method also includes operations of aligning at least one fin of the first set of fins with at least one fin of the second set of fins across a cell border.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Pin-Dai SUE, Ting-Wei CHIANG, Hui-Zhong ZHUANG, Ya-Chi CHOU, Chi-Yu LU
  • Publication number: 20220355286
    Abstract: Disclosed are a P—N heterojunction composite material supported on the surface of nickel foam, a preparation method therefor and the application thereof. The composite material is a supported catalyst which can be used to remove pollutants in water by means of photoelectrocatalysis. The method comprises firstly modifying, by means of a hydrothermal method, a layered nickel-iron bimetallic hydroxide nanosheet on the surface of clean nickel foam, and then modifying cobalt oxide nanowires on the surface of the layered nickel-iron bimetallic hydroxide nanosheet by means of a mixed solvent-thermal method, so as to obtain a P—N heterojunction catalyst composite material supported on the surface of nickel foam (Ni foam@NiFe-LDH/Co3O4). The composite material has a good response to visible light, which can greatly enhance the absorption and utilization of light, and is further beneficial to enhance the performance of the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jianmei LU, Najun LI
  • Publication number: 20220357406
    Abstract: An example operation includes determining that a replacement battery of a transport will degrade to a threshold capacity at an end of a specified time based on a degradation capacity of a current battery of the transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC., TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Norman Lu, Maximilian Parness
  • Publication number: 20220356763
    Abstract: A spring roller blind which can be started and stopped at will, including a transverse rod and a chuck, wherein the transverse rod is fixedly connected to the chuck, a first torsion spring is arranged on the transverse rod, and one end of the first torsion spring is fixedly connected to one end of the transverse rod away from the chuck. When pulled downwards, the roller blind can be stopped at any position by the friction between embracing springs and a pipe plug; and when a pull ring is pulled, the roller blind can be retracted automatically under the action of the restoring force of the first torsion spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jiefei LU
  • Publication number: 20220358171
    Abstract: The technology described herein builds an optimal refresh schedule by minimizing a cost function constrained by an available refresh bandwidth. The cost function receives an importance score for a content item and a change rate for the content item as input in order to optimize the schedule. The cost function is considered optimized when a refresh schedule is found that minimizes the cost while using the available bandwidth and no more. The technology can build an optimized schedule to refresh content with incomplete change data, content with complete change data, or a mixture of content with and without complete change data. It can also re-learn content item change rates from its own schedule execution history and re-compute the refresh schedule, ensuring that this schedule takes into account the latest trends in content item updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Andrey KOLOBOV, Cheng LU, Eric J. HORVITZ, Yuval PERES
  • Publication number: 20220359368
    Abstract: An interconnect structure includes dielectric layer, a first conductive feature, a second conductive feature, a third conductive feature, and a dielectric fill. The first conductive feature is disposed in the dielectric layer. The second conductive feature is disposed over the first conductive feature. The second conductive feature includes a first conductive layer disposed over the first conductive feature, a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer, and a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer. The first conductive layer, the second conductive layer and the third conductive layer have substantially the same width. The third conductive feature is disposed over the dielectric layer. The dielectric fill is disposed over the dielectric layer between the second conductive feature and the third conductive feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Wei-Hao Liao, Hsi-Wen Tien, Yu-Teng Dai, Chih Wei Lu, Hsin-Chieh Yao, Chung-Ju Lee
  • Publication number: 20220356483
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polynucleotides and recombinant DNA constructs encoding polypeptides useful for conferring accelerated or delayed flowering time and/or maturity. Compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs; and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: PIONEER OVERSEAS CORPORATION, SINOBIOWAY BIO-AGRICULTURE GROUP CO. LTD.
    Inventors: GUIHUA LU, GUANGWU CHEN, HAILONG CHEN, JIAN CHEN, HUANHUAN DING, RONGRONG JIAO, HAIYAN LIU, JUNHUA LIU, GUANFAN MAO, XUEYA QIAN, CHAO SONG, CHANGGUI WANG, GUOKUI WANG, WEI WANG, XIPING WANG, YU ZHANG, YUZHEN ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20220359430
    Abstract: A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a through substrate via structure, a first stacked die package structure, an underfill layer, and a package layer. The through substrate via structure is formed over a substrate. The first stacked die package structure is over the through substrate via structure, wherein the first stacked die package structure comprises a plurality of memory dies. The underfill layer is over the first stacked die package structure. the package layer is over the underfill layer, wherein the package layer has a protruding portion that extends below a top surface of the through substrate via structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Fu TSAI, Kung-Chen YEH, I-Ting HUANG, Shih-Ting LIN, Szu-Wei LU
  • Publication number: 20220358078
    Abstract: An integrated circuit, and a data processing device and method are provided. The integrated circuit includes a processor circuit and an accelerator circuit. The processor circuit includes a processor, a first data storage section, and a first data input/output interface. The accelerator circuit includes an accelerator and a second data input/output interface. The second data input/output interface is electrically connected to the first data input/output interface, so that the accelerator circuit can perform information interaction with the first data storage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yimin CHEN, Shan LU, Junmou ZHANG, Chuang ZHANG, Yuanlin CHENG, Jian WANG
  • Publication number: 20220360665
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to label incoming phone calls. A method to label an incoming phone call includes detecting the incoming phone call associated with a caller identifier (ID), determining a location associated with the call, and analyzing a call header of the call to determine one or more call characteristics. The method further includes determining, based on the location and the call characteristics, if the location is spoofed and determining, based on the caller ID and the call characteristics, if an access network associated with the call is spoofed. The method further includes applying a trained machine learning model to determine whether the call is a robocall. The method further includes assigning a label to the call that indicates whether the call is a spoofed call or is the robocall and sending the label to a callee device associated with the call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shi Lu, Jun Yin, Ji Yang
  • Publication number: 20220356560
    Abstract: A physical vapor deposition (PVD) system is provided. The PVD system includes a PVD chamber defining a PVD volume within which a target material of a target is deposited onto a wafer. The PVD system includes the target in the PVD chamber. The target is configured to overlie the wafer. An edge of the target extends from a first surface of the target to a second surface of the target, opposite the first surface of the target. A first portion of the edge of the target has a first surface roughness. The first portion of the edge of the target extends at most about 6 millimeters from the first surface of the target to a second portion of the edge of the target. The second portion of the edge of the target has a second surface roughness less than the first surface roughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Sheng-Ying WU, Ming-Hsien LIN, Po-Wei WANG, Hsiao-Feng LU