Patents by Inventor Mike (Tzu-Cheng) Yu

Mike (Tzu-Cheng) Yu 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).

  • Patent number: 12379099
    Abstract: An EM lighting system includes a mounting assembly configured for mounting on a host structure above a ceiling, and a lighting module for attachment to the mounting assembly, including a lighting unit having a mounting side configured for attachment to the mounting assembly approximately flush with the ceiling. An electronics module supported by the mounting assembly includes an onboard battery and circuitry that powers the lighting module by use of the battery upon detecting a power failure. The lighting unit has a predefined depth extending from the ceiling, defining a low profile system. The mounting assembly is generally occluded above a ceiling. A ring bezel circumferentially surrounds the lighting unit and opens at least in the direction of the an illuminating side thereof. The bezel has a downward facing annular ring by which the illuminating side is offset to protect same from incidental contact in handling, packaging, installation, and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Polyxeni, LLC
    Inventor: Efthimios Mike Dionas
  • Patent number: 12378944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade (10). The method comprises arranging one or more shear webs (50, 55, 70) within a first shell half, adhesively joining the one or more shear webs to the first shell half, and adhesively joining the second shell half to the first shell half and to the one or more shear webs. The step of arranging the one or more shear webs within the first shell half comprises arranging at least one telescopic support member (80) between the inside surface (38b) of the first shell half (38) and the lateral surface (62) of at least one of the shear webs (70), wherein the telescopic support member (80) comprises an actuator (82) for adjusting the length of the telescopic support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: LM WIND POWER A/S
    Inventor: Mgo Mike Khalafaghian
  • Patent number: 12380240
    Abstract: In an approach, a processor receives a request of a document. A processor identifies a set of datasets comprising a sensitive dataset, the set of datasets being interrelated in accordance with a relational model. A processor extracts attribute values of the document. A processor determines that a set of one or more attribute values of the extracted attribute values is in the set of datasets, the set of attribute values being values of a set of attributes. A processor determines that one or more entities of the sensitive dataset can be identified based on relations of the relational model between the set of attributes, where at least part of attribute values of the one or more entities comprises sensitive information. A processor, responsive to determining that the one or more entities can be identified, masks at least part of the set of one or more attribute values in the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yannick Saillet, Albert Maier, Mike W. Grasselt, Michael Baessler, Lars Bremer
  • Patent number: 12377286
    Abstract: A light emitting device for video displays with anti-infective and therapeutic electromagnetic emission methods and devices is disclosed. The light emitting device for video displays with anti-infective and therapeutic electromagnetic emission methods and devices uses non-visible and/or visible electromagnetic radiation on living species, including but not limited to people and animals, to provide treatments against infections and/or provide photobiomodulation treatments to improve health and wellness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SuninLyf Bio Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Miskin, Robert Kottritsch, Charles F. Huber, Allan Brent York
  • Publication number: 20250244093
    Abstract: A firearm includes a barrel portion, a slide, and a frame. The frame includes a grip, and the grip includes a magazine chamber and a rear surface adjacent the slide. At least one sensor is carried by the grip, and the at least one sensor adapted to sense a state of the magazine detachably received in the magazine chamber corresponding to a number of cartridges of ammunition remaining in the magazine. A display is carried on the rear surface of the grip, and the display includes a plurality of illuminating devices. The display is operatively coupled to the at least one sensor and is operable to visually present the number of cartridges of ammunition remaining in the magazine by illuminating at least one of the plurality of illuminating devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Brian Hedeen, Mike Cisewski, Ethan Mork
  • Publication number: 20250242929
    Abstract: A hybrid propulsion system for an aircraft comprising: an engine disposed within a fuselage of the aircraft, two electrical generators disposed within the fuselage and connected to the engine, and two nacelles. Each nacelle comprises a proprotor, and two electric motors connected to the proprotor. Each electrical generator is connected to the two electric motors in each nacelle. The proprotors provide lift for vertical takeoff and landing in a helicopter mode. A fan is coupled to the fuselage and connected to two additional electric motors. Each additional electric motor is connected to one of the two electric generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Carlos Alexander Fenny, John Robert Wittmaak, Jr., Mike John Ryan, Joseph Scott Drennan
  • Publication number: 20250244297
    Abstract: The invention comprises a method for sensing state of a heat exchanger, comprising the steps of: providing the heat exchanger, the heat exchanger comprising a set of pipes comprising: (1) a set of heat exchange pipes and (2) a shell, the set of heat exchange pipes at least partially within the shell; providing a heat exchange model; mounting a first ultrasonic transducer in contact with a first pipe of the set of pipes; generating a force wave with the first ultrasonic sensor while in contact with the first pipe, the force wave interacting with a third pipe of the set of pipes; detecting the force wave as signals after interaction with an imperfection in the third pipe; and at least one of the steps of training and/or receiving output from the heat exchange state model with the signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: James W. Haywood, Mike Hollingshaus, Mark Amato, W. Davis Lee
  • Publication number: 20250241804
    Abstract: Solutions containing cyclodextrins for imparting odor control to materials used in absorbent products and associated products and methods. The solutions containing cyclodextrins for imparting odor control to materials used in absorbent products contain an optional polar organic solvent, water, cyclodextrin, and one or more odor-controlling compounds. The solutions can be used to uniformly apply a homogeneous solution of a cyclodextrin complex onto a solid surface whereby the cyclodextrin complex precipitates in situ on the solid surface. The cyclodextrin complex precipitates deposited from these solutions rapidly release odor-masking scents when hydrated with urine and can be deposited on substrates more effectively than cyclodextrin complexes in solid form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Harry CHMIELEWSKI, Tina MURGUIA, Mike PEACH, Priyanka BHATTACHARYA, Susan SHINALL, Larissa FENN
  • Publication number: 20250243686
    Abstract: A metal fence. Two metal posts are inserted into a concrete footing. Hollow metal boards are connected between the metal posts. In a preferred embodiment, the hollow metal boards are filled with acoustical insulation for noise reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventor: Mike McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20250246877
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for improving the power efficiency of boost converters that power illumination sources, such as lasers or LEDs, are described. An adaptive driving strength scheme that dynamically controls a switch-on current for a boost converter based on an output voltage of the boost converter, a temperature, and a state of an illumination source powered by the boost converter are utilized to improve the power efficiency of the boost converter. A resistance of a switch transistor for the boost converter may be adjusted over time by dynamically adjusting a gate voltage applied to the switch transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Mike VOONG, Chang Joon PARK
  • Publication number: 20250242172
    Abstract: A blue light therapy device includes a domed shaped main body having a fixed array of optical emitters along the inside surface. Each of the optical emitters of the fixed array includes a blue light LED that applies optical emissions to the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex area of the recipient's brain in form of blue light between 400 nm and 470 nm to each side of the recipient's head at a location just above their ears. A second array of optical emitters are located on adjustable arms that are positionable within the nostrils of the recipient to apply optical emissions to the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain of the recipient. The device also includes a controller that is connected to the arrays, a user interface, an eye shield, and a chin strap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventor: Mike Barnes
  • Publication number: 20250241487
    Abstract: An oil receiving system includes a housing proximate to a vat and a fluid connection disposed in either the side wall or the bottom wall, the fluid connection vertically disposed below a top edge of the front wall and a system to remove the contents within the housing through the fluid connection. The housing is connected to a cooking vat by a transition between the outer edge of the vat and the front wall of the housing, the transition extends at an upwardly extending orientation from the outer edge of the vat to the front wall of the housing, wherein a conveyor extends along the transition, the conveyor has a first portion that moves along the transition from over the outer edge of the vat and toward and over the front wall of the housing, and a second portion that moves along the transition from over the front wall of the housing and toward and over the outer edge of the vat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Mike MITCHELL, Allen ZANDI, Julian WILKS
  • Publication number: 20250246945
    Abstract: A system for inductive energy transfer may include a stationary induction charging device including a stationary energy coil, a mobile induction charging device including a mobile energy coil, and a positioning device configured to detect a positioning of the stationary energy coil and the mobile energy coil relative to one another. During a charging operation of the system, one of energy coils may provide an alternating magnetic field which induces a voltage for energy transfer in the other energy coil and/or the induction charging devices may be disposed spaced apart from one another in a height direction. The positioning device may include i) four transmission coils in one of the induction charging devices and ii) at least one receiver in the other induction charging device. The transmission coils may, during a positioning operation, provide positioning fields that are distinguishable from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventor: Mike Boettigheimer
  • Publication number: 20250243687
    Abstract: A metal fence. Two metal posts are inserted into a concrete footing. Hollow metal boards are connected between the metal posts. In a preferred embodiment, the hollow metal boards are filled with acoustical insulation for noise reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventor: Mike McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 12374211
    Abstract: Improved systems and methods for providing a notification of an emergent condition using automation, artificial intelligence, visual recognition, and other logic to automatically suggest identifications and classifications of information in audiovisual or other multimedia data about an emergency or alarm and modify a rapid-response display and/or alarm handling workflow to expedite the dispatch of first responds to true emergencies and quickly filter and eliminate false alarms to reduce waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Noonlight, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Whitaker, Mike Roth, Zach Winkler, Joe Pritzel
  • Patent number: 12373332
    Abstract: A production system is configurable to obtain a set of computer-executable instructions that are operable to cause the production system to perform a set of workflow steps. The production system is also configurable to obtain implementation data associated with the set of workflow steps and identify a set of synthetic execution indicators associated with the set of workflow steps. The production system is configurable to (1) generate a validation test based on the implementation data, the set of synthetic execution indicators, and the set of workflow steps, and (2) perform the validation test by synthetically executing the one or more workflow steps on the production system using inputs generated from the implementation data, recording synthetic execution output in a synthetic execution data repository, and refraining from recording the synthetic execution output as production transaction output on a production transaction data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: MASTERCONTROL SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Erin Marie Wright, Mike Lowell Hunter, Kimberly Erin Jackson, Kevin Russell Ballard, Chad Milito
  • Patent number: 12370355
    Abstract: An exemplary compounding system and method can include a transfer set that includes a manifold for assisting in transferring a plurality of ingredients from supply container(s) to a final container. The manifold can include a first channel in fluid communication with at least one primary ingredient, and a second channel in fluid communication with a plurality of secondary ingredients. The first channel and second channel can be in fluid isolation from each other such that the at least one primary ingredient does not mix with the plurality of secondary ingredients within the manifold. The transfer set can include a plurality of inlet lines in fluid communication with the manifold and two outlet lines configured for connection to two separate pumps and eventually being in fluid communication with the final container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: B.Braun Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Konrad, Jr., Joel Bartholomew, Mike Janders, Linda M. Ammermann, Benjamin R. Lane, Mariano Mumpower, Aaron S. Pearl
  • Patent number: 12372259
    Abstract: Digital signage units for generating air quality related alerts and providing advertising images and/or wayfinding are disclosed, along with related systems and methods. The digital signage unit includes an air quality monitoring device located along an open loop pathway for ambient air. The air quality monitoring device includes sensor(s) and receives air characteristic measurement data from the sensor(s), where the air characteristic measurement data indicates a concentration for each of certain compound(s). Where the concentration of any one of the compound(s) exceeds a respective predetermined threshold, content displayed at an electronic display of the digital signage unit is modified to include displaying an alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Precision Systems Integration, LLC
    Inventors: Mike Brown, William Dunn, Doug Bennett
  • Patent number: 12370597
    Abstract: A molten metal filtration apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a filter chamber having a floor, a metal inlet, a metal outlet, and a wall surface adapted to be partitioned by at least one filter element having an open cell structure characterized by a plurality of interconnected voids. The filter element partitions the filter chamber. At least one heater device is provided at an elevation within the filtration chamber that is equal to or below the filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: PYROTEK, INC.
    Inventors: Richard S. Henderson, Mike Tomassi, Mark Reynolds
  • Patent number: 12375849
    Abstract: Example techniques relate to audio generation in a media playback system. Based on one or more first functions and first characteristics of an area, the system may generate first audio that includes a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The system provides the first audio signal to at least one first audio driver and the second audio signal to at least one second audio driver, thereby causing a first playback device and a second playback device to play back the first audio synchronously. The system receives second characteristics of the area and based on one or more second functions and the second characteristics, generates second audio comprising a third audio signal and a fourth audio signal. The system provides the third audio signal to the at least one first audio driver and the fourth audio signal to the at least one second audio driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Chamness, Aurelio Rafael Ramos, Timothy Sheen, Hilmar Lehnert