Patents by Inventor Ming JU

Ming JU 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: 20240058400
    Abstract: An isolated bacterial strain of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum MFM 30-3 deposited under the DSMZ Accession No. DSM 34213 is provided; a probiotic composition including an Lactiplantibacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum MFM 30-3 and optionally, one or more additional probiotic organisms that enhance the probiotic activity of the Lactiplantibacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum MFM 30-3 is also provided; and a method for preventing or treating chronic kidney disease in a subject in need thereof including: administering to the subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of the probiotic composition including an isolated bacterial strain of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum MFM 30-3, and optionally, one or more additional probiotic organisms that enhance the probiotic activity of the Lactiplantibacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum MFM 30-3 is further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Ming-Ju Chen, Hsiao-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11901641
    Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas formed from respective first and second segments of a housing. The first antenna may have a first feed coupled to the first segment by a first switch and coupled to the first segment by a first conductive trace. The second antenna may have a second feed coupled to the second segment by a second switch and coupled to the second segment by a second conductive trace. The first segment may be separated from the second segment by a single gap, a data connector may pass through the second segment, and the antennas may selectively cover a low band. Alternatively, the first segment may be separated from the second segment by a third segment and two gaps, the data connector may pass through the third segment, and the first and second antennas may concurrently cover the low band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Xu Han, Hongfei Hu, Ming Chen, Jingni Zhong, Erdinc Irci, Salih Yarga, Mohsen Salehi, Carlo Di Nallo, Ming-Ju Tsai, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11811149
    Abstract: A multi-band antenna includes a lower grounding portion, a feed-in portion, a feeding point, an upper grounding portion, a first extending portion, a second extending portion, a third extending portion, a fourth extending portion, a fifth extending portion, a first branch, a second branch, a third branch and a loop portion. The feed-in portion, the first extending portion, the second extending portion, the third extending portion, the fourth extending portion and the first branch form a first radiation portion. The feed-in portion, the first extending portion, the second extending portion, the third extending portion, the fifth extending portion and the second branch form a second radiation portion. The feed-in portion, the first extending portion, the second extending portion and the third branch form a third radiation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Ju Lin, Chih-Chung Wang, Lan-Yung Hsiao, Shao-Kai Sun
  • Publication number: 20230291125
    Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas formed from respective first and second segments of a housing. The first antenna may have a first feed coupled to the first segment by a first switch and coupled to the first segment by a first conductive trace. The second antenna may have a second feed coupled to the second segment by a second switch and coupled to the second segment by a second conductive trace. The first segment may be separated from the second segment by a single gap, a data connector may pass through the second segment, and the antennas may selectively cover a low band. Alternatively, the first segment may be separated from the second segment by a third segment and two gaps, the data connector may pass through the third segment, and the first and second antennas may concurrently cover the low band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Xu Han, Hongfei Hu, Ming Chen, Jingni Zhong, Erdinc Irci, Salih Yarga, Mohsen Salehi, Carlo Di Nallo, Ming-Ju Tsai, Mattia Pascolini
  • Publication number: 20230291124
    Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas formed from respective first and second segments of a housing. The first antenna may have a first feed coupled to the first segment by a first switch and coupled to the first segment by a first conductive trace. The second antenna may have a second feed coupled to the second segment by a second switch and coupled to the second segment by a second conductive trace. The first segment may be separated from the second segment by a single gap, a data connector may pass through the second segment, and the antennas may selectively cover a low band. Alternatively, the first segment may be separated from the second segment by a third segment and two gaps, the data connector may pass through the third segment, and the first and second antennas may concurrently cover the low band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Xu Han, Hongfei Hu, Ming Chen, Jingni Zhong, Erdinc Irci, Salih Yarga, Mohsen Salehi, Carlo Di Nallo, Ming-Ju Tsai, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11757939
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein provide a network-assisted secure access (“NASA”) application that is installed on a user device. The NASA application can enhance current multi-factor authentication processes to prevent unauthorized access by leveraging mobile connectivity data. The enhanced two-factor authentication process is made seamless and transparent to the user by authenticating the mobile connectivity data with data known to the mobile network that serves the user device. The mobile connectivity data can include network-determined location, cell identifier (“cell ID”), Internet protocol (“IP”) address, a globally unique temporary identifier (“GUTI”), combinations thereof, and the like. Additionally or alternatively, one or more user profiles (e.g., user-defined and/or social media profile(s)) can be used to further enhance security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Effendi Jubilee, Ming-Ju Ho
  • Publication number: 20230273085
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-axis force sensing device, including a central portion, an outer ring portion, multiple measurement shafts, and multiple sensing groups. The outer ring portion surrounds the central portion. The measurement shafts are respectively connected between the central portion and the outer ring portion. The measurement shafts are equally disposed on an outer side of the central portion. A first surface and a second surface of each measurement shaft are respectively disposed with one of the sensing groups. Each sensing group includes a first strain sensing element and a second strain sensing element. The first strain sensing element is disposed on a first central line of symmetry on the first surface or on a second central line of symmetry on the second surface. The second strain sensing element is disposed on the first surface or the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Liu, Kuang-Yao Liu, Ming-Ju Chang, Yung-Yu Chang, Chi-Tang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11722381
    Abstract: A system and a method for building a potential wireless access node based on software-and-hardware-separation techniques are provided. The system includes first and second electronic devices. The first electronic device includes a host and a software-defined radio device. The method includes configuring the host to: set a target application, a target operating system, a target hardware platform and a target radio platform to serve as a target combination; download an executable file corresponding to the target combination from the second electronic device or establish the executable file corresponding to the target combination; in response to the executable file corresponding to the target combination being downloaded or established, execute the executable file corresponding to the target combination, and determine whether the software-defined radio device complies with a radio standard specification of the target application, and to take the first electronic device as the potential wireless access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventor: Ming-Ju Wu
  • Publication number: 20230216183
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes a substrate, a radiator mounted at one end of a front surface of the substrate, and a grounding element mounted at the other end of the front surface of the substrate. The radiator has a first radiating portion. Two portions of a middle of one end edge of the first radiating portion extend horizontally to form a second radiating portion and a feeding portion. The feeding portion is located above the second radiating portion. A free end of the feeding portion is a feeding end. An upper portion of the other end edge of the first radiating portion extends opposite to the one end edge of the first radiating portion and extends along a rectangular spiral path to form a rectangular spiral third radiating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: MING-JU LIN, CHIH-CHUNG WANG, SHAO-KAI SUN, LAN-YUNG HSIAO
  • Publication number: 20230216195
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes a substrate, a radiator mounted at an upper portion of a front surface of the substrate, and a grounding element mounted at a lower portion of the front surface of the substrate. The radiator has a first radiating portion. A lower edge of the first radiating portion extends downward to form a second radiating portion. Two portions of a middle of the lower edge of the first radiating portion extend downward to form a third radiating portion and a feeding portion. A free end of the feeding portion is a feeding end. One side edge of the first radiating portion is recessed inward to form a recess. The grounding element has a first grounding portion and a second grounding portion. The first grounding portion and the second grounding portion are located to two sides of the feeding portion, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: CHIH-CHUNG WANG, LAN-YUNG HSIAO, MING-JU LIN, SHAO-KAI SUN
  • Publication number: 20230198591
    Abstract: Establishing and refining beams in MIMO sessions can include detecting establishment of a communication session between a cell site and a user equipment. The communication session can be conducted using a multi-input multi-output beam that can be supported by a first portion of an antenna array, the first portion including two or more antenna array elements of the antenna array. Device data that relates to the user equipment can be obtained, where the device data can include movement data that can describe a movement of the user equipment. A beamforming command can be generated to include instructions that, when implemented by an entity associated with the cell site, can cause the cell site to refine the multi-input multi-output beam based on the device data. A refined multi-input multi-output beam can be supported by a second portion of the antenna array. The beamforming command can be provided to the cell site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Iftekhar Alam, Effendi Jubilee, Ming-Ju Ho
  • Publication number: 20230188650
    Abstract: A method includes determining a broadband bandwidth and a resource usage pattern, according to unused data capacity information that is based on monitoring data capacity retained by wireless communication servers, and assigning a first portion of the broadband bandwidth for receiving first content from the wireless communication servers. The assigning of the first portion of the broadband bandwidth causes a first mapping of the first content for delivery by a first group of the wireless communication servers according to the first portion of the broadband bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: AT & T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Stalin Albanes, Allenn Han, Ming-Ju Ho
  • Publication number: 20230182325
    Abstract: A joint actuator of a robot includes a casing, a driving device, a driving shaft, a reducer, and a sensor. The driving device is disposed in the casing. The driving shaft is disposed in the casing and connected to the driving device, and the driving device is adapted to drive the driving shaft to rotate. The reducer is disposed in the casing and includes a power input component and a power output component. The power input component and the power output component are sleeved around the driving shaft, and the power input component is connected between the driving shaft and the power output component. The sensor is disposed on the power input component or the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Coretronic MEMS Corporation
    Inventors: Kuang-Yao Liu, Shih-Wei Liu, Ming-Ju Chang, Yung-Yu Chang, Chi-Tang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11677149
    Abstract: A multi-band antenna includes a grounding portion, a feed-in portion, a feeding point, a first radiation portion, a second radiation portion, a third radiation portion and a fourth radiation portion. The feed-in portion has a first end edge, a second end edge, a first side edge and a second side edge. The feeding point is disposed at the feed-in portion. The first radiation portion is extended from the grounding portion. The second radiation portion is extended from the second end edge. The third radiation portion is extended from the first end edge. The fourth radiation portion is extended from an upper portion of the first end edge and an upper portion of the second end edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Ju Lin, Lan-Yung Hsiao, Chih-Chung Wang, Shao-Kai Sun
  • Publication number: 20230170927
    Abstract: A radio frequency device has a multifunctional tuner that stores measurements of reflection coefficient parameter in a register. The radio frequency device also has a transceiver that has a transmitter. The transceiver may detect a transmitter signal from the transmitter to an antenna in an initial tuning state and then determine whether the transmitter signal is stable. In response to the transmitter signal being stable, the transceiver may measuring the reflection coefficient parameters at the multifunctional tuner. Furthermore, the radio frequency device has a baseband controller that has a memory to store instructions and a processor to execute the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to determine an antenna impedance based on the reflection coefficient parameters, and in response to determining that the antenna impedance is greater than or less than a threshold antenna impedance, iteratively tune the antenna using the multifunctional tuner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Liang Han, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Thomas E. Biedka, Hongfei Hu, Erdinc Irci, Nanbo Jin, James G. Judkins, Victor C. Lee, Matthew A. Mow, Mattia Pascolini, Ming-Ju Tsai, Yiren Wang, Yuancheng Xu, Yijun Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230161122
    Abstract: A silicon photonics optical transceiver device includes a silicon photonics optical module and a heat conducting housing that accommodates the silicon photonic optical module therein. The heat conducting housing has an inner surface formed with a first heat dissipation portion that wraps around and is in contact with transmitter optical sub-assemblies of the silicon photonics optical module to realize thermal conduction, and a second heat dissipation portion that is in contact with a digital signal processor of the silicon photonics optical module to realize thermal conduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Ming-Ju Chen, Shih-Jhih Yang, Hua-Hsin Su, Wan-Pao Peng, Wen-Hsien Lee, Peng-Kai Hsu, Chung-Ho Wang
  • Publication number: 20230119643
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to using dynamically layered beamformed control signals in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, identifying a group of different directions radiating from beamforming antenna equipment of base station equipment. The method can further include facilitating transmitting a first beamformed signal according to a first direction of the group of different directions. Further, the method can include facilitating transmitting a second beamformed signal according to a second direction of the group of different directions, with the second direction being selected based on a sequence of directions, and where transmitting beamformed signals to the group of different directions is based on the sequence of directions can facilitate establishment of wireless coverage for a corresponding geographic area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Ming-Ju Ho, Effendi Jubilee
  • Publication number: 20230084948
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver, and an antenna. The antenna may be coupled to one or more antenna tuning elements for tuning the antenna over multiple communications (frequency) bands of interest. The baseband processor may be configured to simultaneously broadcast, over a digital interface, an aggregate message that includes control bits for adjusting multiple antenna tuning elements coupled to the digital interface. Adjusting multiple antenna tuning elements by issuing a single broadcast command can help optimize interface efficiency while maintaining compatibility with existing industry standards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas E. Biedka, James G. Judkins, Ming-Ju Tsai, Ramzi N. Aboujaoude, Theodoros Kamakaris, Victor C. Lee, Liang Han
  • Publication number: 20230083466
    Abstract: An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures, a display frame, a support plate, a logic board, and an antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element that includes a first slot between the logic board and a segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures, a second slot between the display frame and the segment, and optionally a third slot between the between the support plate and the segment. The slots may be at least partially overlapping, may have respective lengths, may be located at respective distances from a cover layer for the display, and may collectively receive radio-frequency signals in a frequency band such as the L5 GPS band. Switching circuitry and filter circuitry may be coupled to the antenna feed and/or to the antenna feed(s) of one or more adjacent antennas in the electronic device to help to isolate the antennas from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Aobo Li, Erdinc Irci, Carlo Di Nallo, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Haozhan Tian, Hongfei Hu, Liang Han, Ming Chen, Ming-Ju Tsai, Salih Yarga, Tiejun Yu, Victor C Lee, Xu Han
  • Patent number: 11606466
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including detecting, by a processing system comprising a processor, wireless communication servers that are available for providing content via first wireless communication links to a wireless communication system, receiving unused data capacity information from the wireless communication servers, aggregating comprising a processor, the unused data capacity information from the wireless communication servers to identify broadband bandwidth, receiving, by the processing system, a request for first content from a customer premises device, assigning a first portion of the broadband bandwidth for receiving the first content from the wireless communication servers, requesting the first content from the wireless communication servers according to the assigning, receiving the first content from the wireless communication servers, and transmitting the first content to the customer premises device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Stalin Albanes, Allenn Han, Ming-Ju Ho