Patents by Inventor Miao Liu

Miao 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: 20250045570
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for triggering actions in a sequence of time steps within a multi-armed bandit process. In a current time step: a context input is received; a hidden Markov model (HMM) parameter transformation is executed to compute a latent state probability vector and HMM parameters using a conditional probability distribution, context input, values of latent state probability vector, and HMM parameters from a previous time step; an action is selected; an electromagnetic signal is sent to a hardware machine directing the hardware machine to perform the action; a dynamic reward resulting from the hardware machine having performed the action is received; a mean reward estimate as a function of the dynamic reward and the latent state probability is updated; and an update of the latent state probability vector in dependence on the dynamic reward, the action, and the mean reward estimate vector is computed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Elliot Nelson, Djallel Bouneffouf, Debarun Bhattacharjya, Tian Gao, Miao Liu
  • Patent number: 12218013
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with different gate structure configurations and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes depositing a high-K dielectric layer surrounding nanostructured channel regions, performing a first doping with a rare-earth metal (REM)-based dopant on first and second portions of the high-K dielectric layer, and performing a second doping with the REM-based dopants on the first portions of the high-K dielectric layer and third portions of the high-K dielectric layer. The first doping dopes the first and second portions of the high-K dielectric layer with a first REM-based dopant concentration. The second doping dopes the first and third portions of the high-K dielectric layer with a second REM-based dopant concentration different from the first REM-based dopant concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Fai Cheng, Chang-Miao Liu, Kuan-Chung Chen
  • Publication number: 20250034135
    Abstract: Disclosed is a BCL-2 protein apoptosis inducer, and further disclosed are the uses of the compound and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound in the preparation of a drug for treating diseases related to anti-apoptotic protein BCL-2. The compound has potent BCL-2/BAK blocking activity, and can be used for treating diseases such as infectious diseases, immune diseases, inflammatory diseases or cell proliferation abnormalities that benefit from the inhibition of anti-apoptotic protein BCL-2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Xingguo LIU, Mingbo SU, Yizhe WU, Anhui GAO, Xinglu ZHOU, Li ZHONG, Miao HU, Jinglai HUANG, Hanghui JING, Jianrong ZHU
  • Publication number: 20250032464
    Abstract: A solid dispersion, a preparation method therefor, and a solid formulation comprising same. The solid dispersion comprises compound A and a pharmaceutically acceptable matrix polymer, wherein the pharmaceutically acceptable matrix polymer includes an enteric high-molecular polymer and a non-enteric high-molecular polymer, and the compound A is 1-{(6-[(1-methyl)-4-pyrazolyl]-imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine)-3-sulfonyl}-6-[(1-methyl)-4-pyrazolyl]-1-hydro-pyrazolo[4,3-b]pyridine. The solid dispersion can significantly improve the solubility and dissolution stability of the compound A, prolong the supersaturation maintenance time of a drug, and further improve the bioavailability of the drug. The in vivo bioavailability of a solid formulation prepared from the solid dispersion meets the requirement of oral administration of the compound A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Yong GAN, Miao ZHU, Yuanhui MA, Lei LIU, Shiyan GUO, Jingkang SHEN, Meiyu GENG, Li GAO, Bing XIONG
  • Patent number: 12211452
    Abstract: The display substrate includes a shift register arranged on a base substrate, and the shift register includes a plurality of stages of driving circuits; a plurality of stages of the driving circuit are provided in the driving circuit area of the base substrate; a stage of driving circuit area includes a first area and a second area, and the first area is provided with a first type of transistor included in the driving circuit, a second type of transistor included in the driving circuit is provided in the second area; one side of the first area is a side of the power line away from the second area, and the other side of the first area is a side close to the second area of an active layer of the first type of transistor close to the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miao Liu, Xueguang Hao, Libin Liu, Teng Chen, Xinyin Wu, Yong Qiao, Xing Yao, Jingquan Wang
  • Patent number: 12209347
    Abstract: An automatic dispensing device of a washing machine includes an accommodating cavity capable of moving between an opening position and a closing position; an additive box in the accommodating cavity and for storing an additive; an ejection structure corresponding to the additive box arranged at a bottom of the accommodating cavity; and a buffering structure corresponding to the ejection structure on an inner side of the bottom of the accommodating cavity. By arranging the ejection structure at the bottom of the accommodating cavity, a user can disassemble the additive box at the bottom manually, and replacement is easy. Through the buffering structure corresponding to the ejection structure, collision caused when the additive box is mounted in or disassembled from the accommodating cavity is effectively reduced, and the circumstance that liquid in the accommodating cavity flows out from the ejection structure is also avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER DRUM WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miao Liu, Bencai Huang, Jingde Li, Bingheng Zhou
  • Publication number: 20250029558
    Abstract: A driving circuit, a driving method and a display device are provided. The driving circuit includes a first control node control circuit, a second control node control circuit, a first node control circuit and a second node control circuit, wherein, the first control node control circuit is configured to control a potential of the first control node; the second control node control circuit is configured to control a potential of the second control node; the first node control circuit is configured to control a potential of the first node; the second node control circuit is electrically connected to the second control node, a first clock signal terminal and a second node respectively, and is configured to control to connect the first clock signal terminal and the second node under the control of the potential of the second control node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Xing ZHANG, Pan XU, Donghui ZHAO, Ying HAN, Chengyuan LUO, Guangshuang LV, Cheng XU, Miao LIU, Dandan ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20250022415
    Abstract: A display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels arranged on the base substrate. A plurality of sub-pixel driving circuitries in the plurality of sub-pixels is arranged in columns, the columns of sub-pixel driving circuitries are divided into a plurality of column units, and each column unit includes at least two adjacent columns of sub-pixel driving circuitries. The display substrate further includes a first initialization signal transmission layer including a first initialization bus and a plurality of first initialization branches. The first initialization branch includes a first branch body member and a plurality of first branch extending members. The first branch body member is coupled to the sub-pixel driving circuitries in a corresponding column unit through the plurality of first branch extending members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Dan CAO, Wenhui GAO, Miao WANG, Cong LIU, Binyan WANG, Jingwen ZHANG, Yonglin GUO, Gukhwan SONG, Zhen LIU
  • Publication number: 20250014520
    Abstract: Provided is a gate driver circuit. The gate driver circuit is applicable to a display panel, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of rows of pixels; the gate driver circuit including at least one gate driver sub-circuit; wherein the gate driver sub-circuit includes: at least two shift register groups, wherein each shift register group includes a plurality of shift register units; at least two first dummy units, wherein the at least two first dummy units are respectively coupled to a same input enable terminal and the at least two shift register groups; and at least two second dummy units, wherein the at least two second dummy units are coupled to the at least two shift register groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicants: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhidong YUAN, Yongqian LI, Can YUAN, Liu WU, Luke DING, Cheng XU, Miao LIU, Xing YAO
  • Patent number: 12190811
    Abstract: A display substrate is provided to include: a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; pixel units in array are in the display area; a driving module is in the peripheral area and is configured to provide electrical signals for the pixel units, to control the pixel units to operate; the driving module includes driving circuits each provided with a corresponding operating signal line group in the peripheral area; the signal line group includes at least two operating signal lines connected to the corresponding driving circuit, to provide electrical signals thereto; the at least two operating signal lines include first and second clock signal lines; the first clock signal lines for at least two driving circuits are a same first clock signal line; and/or the second clock signal lines for the at least two driving circuits are a same second clock signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gansong Yang, Yunpeng Zhang, Ming Yang, Yanhong Ding, Ke Liu, Miao Liu, Xing Yao
  • Patent number: 12189199
    Abstract: The present invention provides an optical connector coupled to an optical receptacle, wherein the optical connector comprises an outer housing, a coupling module, and a latch structure. The coupling module is disposed in the outer housing for slidably connecting to the outer housing. When the latch structure is operated at a first position, the optical connector is unable to be taken away from the optical receptacle, and when the latch structure is operated at a second position, the outer housing is allowed to slide relative to the coupling module whereby the optical connector is taken away from the optical receptacle. In another embodiment, the present invention further provides an optical module and an operation method in which a movement for changing the position of the latch structure is operated to lock the optical connector into the optical receptacle or take the optical connector away from the optical receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Mei-Miao Liu
  • Publication number: 20250006134
    Abstract: There is provided a shift register unit, including: a sensing control circuit configured to write an active level signal provided by a sensing active level supply terminal to a first sensing control node in response to an active level signal provided by the random signal input terminal and an active level signal provided by a sensing signal input terminal; a first sensing input circuit configured to write an active level signal to a first pull-up node in response to an active level signal at the first sensing control node and an active level signal provided by a clock control signal input terminal; and a first driving output circuit configured to write a signal provided by a first driving clock signal input terminal to a first driving signal output terminal in response to an active level signal at the first pull-up node. Gate driving circuit and method are further disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Xuehuan FENG, Jingbo XU, Xing YAO, Miao LIU
  • Publication number: 20250006121
    Abstract: Provided is a compensation method for a display device. The method includes: acquiring first detection voltages of the plurality of subpixels during a first shutdown compensation process; acquiring first position indication information based on the first detection voltages of the plurality of subpixels; and determining first compensation data based on the first position indication information. The first position indication information indicates column positions of pixels to which a plurality of first subpixels of the plurality of subpixels belong. The first compensation data includes first threshold compensation voltages of the plurality of subpixels, and an absolute value of a difference between the first threshold compensation voltage of the first subpixel and a first reference value is less than an absolute value of a difference between a second threshold compensation voltage of the first subpixel in the first compensation data and the first reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicants: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huihui LI, Wenchao BAO, Song MENG, Jingbo XU, Miao LIU, Cheng XU
  • Patent number: 12183806
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the same are provided. In an embodiment, an exemplary method includes providing a workpiece having a first active region and a second active region protruding from a substrate, lined by cladding layers, and spaced by a first trench. The method also includes forming a dielectric layer over the workpiece to substantially fill the first trench, forming a mask film directly on a portion of the dielectric layer in the first trench after the forming of the dielectric layer, selectively recessing the dielectric layer after the forming of the mask film to form a dummy fin in and protruding from the first trench, performing an etching process to selectively remove the cladding layers to form second trenches, and forming a gate structure over the workpiece to fill the second trenches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Ko-Cheng Liu, Chang-Miao Liu
  • Patent number: 12183281
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel and a display method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes multiple pixel units, a pixel unit includes multiple sub-pixels, a sub-pixel includes a pixel drive circuit, a sense compensation circuit, and an element to be driven, and the display panel further includes a detection unit and a compensator; the pixel drive circuit is configured to drive the element to be driven in active time; the sense compensation circuit is configured to sense electrical characteristics of the element to be driven in blank time; the detection unit is configured to detect whether a currently displayed picture is a still picture, send a first notification to the compensator when the currently displayed picture is a still picture, and send a second notification to the compensator when the currently displayed picture is a non-still picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Joint Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min He, Xiaolong Wei, Song Meng, Qiang Fei, Jingbo Xu, Cheng Xu, Miao Liu, Pengfei Yin
  • Publication number: 20240428731
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit is provided to include: a driving transistor; a data writing circuit configured to write a display data voltage from the data line to a first node in a display driving process, and sequentially write a sensing data voltage and a reset data voltage from the data line to the first node in a threshold voltage sensing process; a threshold compensation circuit configured to write a reference voltage from a reference voltage supply terminal to the first node and write a first compensation voltage to a second node in the display driving process, and write a second compensation voltage to the second node when a voltage at the first node changes from the reference voltage to the display data voltage; a sensing circuit configured to write an initialization voltage from the sensing line to the second node in the threshold voltage sensing process; a light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Ying HAN, Pan XU, Mingi CHU, Donghui ZHAO, Xing ZHANG, Chengyuan LUO, Guangshuang LV, Miao LIU, Xing YAO
  • Patent number: 12174485
    Abstract: A display module and a display apparatus are provided. In the display module, a backlight assembly includes a light source assembly and an optical film layer. Light emitted by the light source assembly enters a display panel through the optical film layer; and through grooves are on at least one long side and at least one short side of the optical film layer and penetrate through the optical film layer in a direction perpendicular to a plane of a light outgoing surface of the display panel. The display module further includes an intermediate frame including an intermediate frame body surrounding the backlight assembly and a first extension between the display panel and the optical film layer; and second protrusions on a surface opposite to the through grooves and correspondingly in the through grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huiyan Li, Shixin Geng, Yu Zhang, Miao Liu, Fuxue Liang, Xuefei Qin, Lulu Wang, Zheng Wang, Tianyang Han
  • Patent number: 12166071
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a power rail, a dielectric layer over the power rail, a first source/drain feature over the dielectric layer, a via structure extending through the dielectric layer and electrically connecting the first source/drain feature to the power rail, and two dielectric fins disposed on both sides of the first source/drain feature. Each of the dielectric fins includes two seal spacers, a dielectric bottom cover between bottom portions of the seal spacers, a dielectric top cover between top portions of the seal spacers, and an air gap surrounded by the seal spacers, the dielectric bottom cover, and the dielectric top cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ko-Cheng Liu, Ming-Shuan Li, Ming-Lung Cheng, Chang-Miao Liu
  • Patent number: 12166075
    Abstract: A method includes providing a substrate, an isolation structure, and a fin extending from the substrate and through the isolation structure. The fin includes a stack of layers having first and second layers that are alternately stacked and have first and second semiconductor materials respectively. A topmost layer of the stack is one of the second layers. The structure further has a sacrificial gate stack engaging a channel region of the fin. The method further includes forming gate spacers and forming sidewall spacers on sidewalls of the fin in a source/drain region of the fin, wherein the sidewall spacers extend above a bottom surface of a topmost one of the first layers. The method further includes etching the fin in the source/drain region, resulting in a source/drain trench; partially recessing the second layers exposed in the source/drain trench, resulting in gaps; and forming dielectric inner spacers inside the gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Fai Cheng, Chang-Miao Liu
  • Publication number: 20240402966
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display screen, a drive circuit, a first controller and a second controller. The display screen includes a first display region and a second display region. The drive circuit is configured to transmit a control signal to at least one of the first controller or the second controller. The first controller is configured to, responding to the control signal, perform a display control on the first display region. The second controller is configured to, responding to the control signal, perform a display control on the second display region. A display time difference between the first display region and the second display region is less than a threshold time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaolong WEI, Wenchao BAO, Song MENG, Yao ZHANG, Miao LIU, Cheng XU, Jingbo XU