Patents by Inventor Min Lin

Min Lin 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: 20240071953
    Abstract: A memory device including a base semiconductor die, conductive terminals, memory dies, an insulating encapsulation and a buffer cap is provided. The conductive terminals are disposed on a first surface of the base semiconductor die. The memory dies are stacked over a second surface of the base semiconductor die, and the second surface of the base semiconductor die is opposite to the first surface of the base semiconductor die. The insulating encapsulation is disposed on the second surface of the base semiconductor die and laterally encapsulates the memory dies. The buffer cap covers the first surface of the base semiconductor die, sidewalls of the base semiconductor die and sidewalls of the insulating encapsulation. A package structure including the above- mentioned memory device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai-Ming Chiang, Chao-wei Li, Wei-Lun Tsai, Chia-Min Lin, Yi-Da Tsai, Sheng-Feng Weng, Yu-Hao Chen, Sheng-Hsiang Chiu, Chih-Wei Lin, Ching-Hua Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20240072158
    Abstract: A method of forming a FinFET is disclosed. The method includes depositing a conductive material across each of a number of adjacent fins, depositing a sacrificial mask over the conductive material, patterning the conductive material with the sacrificial mask to form a plurality of conductive material segments, depositing a sacrificial layer over the sacrificial mask, and patterning the sacrificial layer, where a portion of the patterned sacrificial layer remains over the sacrificial mask, where a portion of the sacrificial mask is exposed, and where the exposed portion of the sacrificial mask extends across each of the adjacent fins. The method also includes removing the portion of the sacrificial layer over the sacrificial mask, after removing the portion of the sacrificial layer over the sacrificial mask, removing the sacrificial mask, epitaxially growing a plurality of source/drain regions from the semiconductor substrate, and electrically connecting the source/drain regions to other devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Sung-Hsin Yang, Jung-Chi Jeng, Ru-Shang Hsiao, Kuo-Min Lin, Z.X. Fan, Chun-Jung Huang, Wen-Yu Kuo
  • Publication number: 20240073371
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for virtual participant interaction for a hybrid event. The program and method provide an interface for designing a hybrid event between in-person and virtual participants, the interface for setting first properties of a physical space device present in a physical space, and setting second properties of a virtual room for the virtual participants; receive an indication of first user input setting the first and second properties; and in association with conferencing, configure the physical space device based on the first properties, display the virtual room based on the second properties, the virtual room including a live video feed of the physical space, receive, from a virtual participant device, an indication of second user input for interacting with the physical space device, and provide for interaction the based on the second user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240070946
    Abstract: A computer device is provided, which includes a display device and a host. The host includes a keyboard, a camera, a storage device, and a processor. The storage device is configured to store an augmented-reality keyboard program. The processor is configured to execute the augmented-reality keyboard program to perform the following steps: detecting input method information of an operating system running on the host, and obtaining key arrangement of the keyboard; utilizing the camera to capture an operation image of the keyboard; and when a user's hand is recognized in the operation image, displaying a virtual keyboard on the display device according to the key arrangement and the input method information, and displaying a typing operation of the user's hand by superimposing an augmented-reality hand object on a key position of the virtual keyboard corresponding the typing operation of the user's hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Yi-Min LIN
  • Publication number: 20240069687
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting participant reactions within a virtual working environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon Francis, Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240073370
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting a time-limited video feed within a virtual working environment. The program and method provide, within a virtual working environment for plural participants, display of an interface element which is user-selectable to capture video for sending to a group of participants within the virtual working environment, the group of participants having been selected from among the plural participants; receive, based on user selection of the interface element by a first participant in the group of participants, a time-limited video feed from a client device of the first participant; and provide, in response to the receiving and for each participant in the group of participants, display of the time-limited video feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon Francis, Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240073372
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for in-person participant interaction for a hybrid event. The program and method provide an interface for designing a hybrid event between in-person and virtual participants, the interface for setting first properties of a physical space device present in a physical space, and setting second properties of a virtual room for the virtual participants; receive an indication of first user input setting the first and second properties; and in association with conferencing, configure the physical space device based on the first properties, display the virtual room based on the second properties, the virtual room including a live video feed of the physical space, receive, via a sidecar application accessible by the in-person participants, an indication of second user input for interacting with the physical space device, and provide for interaction based on the second user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Patent number: 11916043
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to the present disclosure includes forming a first wafer including a plurality of electronic integrated circuits (EICs), forming a second wafer including a plurality of photonic integrated circuits (PICs), bonding the first wafer to the second wafer to form a first stacked wafer. The bonding of the first wafer to the second wafer includes vertically aligning each of the plurality of the EICs with one of the plurality of the PICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chin-Min Lin, Hung-Jen Hsu, Dun-Nian Yaung
  • Publication number: 20240063045
    Abstract: A horizontally oriented calibration jig for a wafer gripper arm of an ion implanter is disclosed. The calibration jig is mounted within the process chamber of the ion implanter. The calibration jig includes a mounting plate that spans a diameter of the wafer gripper arm, a support stand passing through the mounting plate, and a calibration plate at a bottom end of the support stand. The perimeter of the calibration plate includes a plurality of notches. The calibration plate is rotated. If any finger of the wafer gripper arm falls into a notch, the rotating calibration plate stops. The finger is then adjusted until it does not fall into a notch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Lung-Yin Tang, Tsung-Min Lin, Hsin-Sheng Liang
  • Publication number: 20240064037
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a room preview within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural rooms, the plural rooms being included within a virtual space for virtual conferencing; and for each of the plural participants, provide a first audio channel associated with audio output of the first room, provide display of a room preview element within the first room, the room preview element corresponding to a live preview of a second room of the plural rooms, and provide a second audio channel associated with audio output of the second room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Patent number: 11907729
    Abstract: A booting method is provided, applied to a computer system. The computer system includes a transmission interface, a power key, and a trigger element. The transmission interface includes a transmission specification and is electrically connected to a graphics card, and the power key is used for driving the computer system to perform a booting procedure. The booting method includes: detecting, in the booting procedure, whether the trigger element is triggered or not; and lowering the transmission specification and restarting the computer system when the trigger element is triggered. A computer system adopting the booting method is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC
    Inventors: Yu Gu, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Bing-Min Lin
  • Patent number: 11894674
    Abstract: A power detection circuit is provided. The protection circuit is coupled to a pad and includes a trigger circuit and a discharge circuit. The trigger circuit includes a first transistor of a first conductivity type and a second transistor, also of the first conductivity type, which are coupled in series between the pad and a ground terminal. The trigger circuit detects whether a transient even occurs on the pad. The discharge circuit is coupled between the bonding pad and the ground terminal and controlled by the trigger circuit. In response to the transient event occurring on the bonding pad, the trigger circuit generates a trigger voltage to trigger the discharge circuit to provide a discharge path between the pad and the ground terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jian-Hsing Lee, Yeh-Ning Jou, Chih-Hsuan Lin, Chang-Min Lin, Hwa-Chyi Chiou
  • Publication number: 20240028813
    Abstract: A semiconductor layout including a semiconductor layer and a dummy layer is provided. The semiconductor layer includes a layout pattern. The dummy layer includes a dummy pattern. A check circuit calculates the layout pattern and the dummy pattern to generate a calculated value. The check circuit compares the calculated value to the predetermined value to determine whether the layout pattern has been modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Yeh-Ning JOU, Chih-Hsuan LIN, Shu-Pin HSU, Hwa-Chyi CHIOU, Chang-Min LIN, Tsong-Shyan CHEN
  • Patent number: 11880560
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing bot participants for virtual conferencing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Patent number: 11880600
    Abstract: A write request directed to the non-volatile memory device is received. A stripe associated with an address specified by the write request is present in the volatile memory device is determined. The volatile memory device includes a plurality of stripes, each stripe of the plurality of stripes having a plurality of managed units. The write request on a managed unit of the stripe in the volatile memory device is performed. The stripe in the volatile memory device is evicted to a stripe in the non-volatile memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Chen, Jiangli Zhu, Yi-Min Lin, Fangfang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11878372
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a self-driven water collecting surface having a superhydrophilic-superhydrophobic structure, and a method for preparing the same, belonged to the technical field of water harvesting and superhydrophobic surfaces. The water collecting surface is a superhydrophobic surface with the distributed superhydrophilic region. The superhydrophilic region is a venation channel network structure consisting of hierarchical superhydrophilic channels. In the method, a pulsed laser is firstly adopted to form periodically distributed peak-pit microstructures and nanostructures, which is then modified with a low-surface-energy substance. Then, the low-surface-energy substance layer is removed by a pulsed laser again according to a venation channel network pattern. The laser scanned region is superhydrophilic, while the other regions are superhydrophobic. So that, the self-driven water collecting surface with the superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic structure is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Min-Lin Zhong, Hong-Jun Zhang, Wei-Jian Liu
  • Publication number: 20240019297
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ambient light sensing method and an ambient light sensor. The ambient light sensing method comprises a light sensing device sensing the light passing through an optical filter and giving an optical signal value, and an operational unit receiving the optical signal value and calculating an ambient light illuminance value according to the optical signal value. Accordingly, the ambient light sensing method and the ambient light sensor according to the present invention can give the ambient light illuminance value with more accuracy and ensure low influence of opaque ink on ambient light sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Yu-Min Lin
  • Patent number: 11873278
    Abstract: A method for preparing a low migration plasticizer of di-2-ethylhexyl terephthalate is provided. The method includes a step of adding a short chain alcohol component having 4 to 6 carbon atoms and a long chain alcohol component having 9 to 13 carbon atoms in an esterification reaction between terephthalic acid and 2-ethylhexanol, so as to obtain a modified di-2-ethylhexyl terephthalate including residues derived from the short chain alcohol component and the long chain alcohol component. The esterification reaction is carried out under a temperature from 30° C. to 225° C. and a pressure from 80 mbar to 1033 mbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NAN YA PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Te-Chao Liao, Jung-Jen Chuang, Chung-Yu Chen, Hsun-Min Lin
  • Publication number: 20240012550
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing bot participants for virtual conferencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240014844
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a transceiver apparatus having self-calibration mechanism that includes a signal transmission path, a signal receiving path, a path switching circuit, a transceiver circuit and a self-calibration circuit. The path switching circuit includes a switch to switch a connection relation among an antenna, the signal transmission path and the signal receiving path. The transceiver circuit is coupled to the signal transmission path and the signal receiving path. The self-calibration circuit controls the transceiver circuit to transmit a transmission signal through the signal transmission path to the path switching circuit and receives a leakage signal generated according to the transmission signal through the signal receiving path, so as to perform a self-calibration process on the transceiver circuit based on the transmission signal and the leakage signal. The leakage signal has a leakage signal strength larger than a predetermined level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: HUNG-YUAN YANG, HUNG-MIN LIN, YUN-RU HUANG