Patents by Inventor Ming Liu

Ming 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: 20250147993
    Abstract: A method for conversational query resolution includes receiving a query input from a user. The query input is decomposed into a plurality of tasks. A knowledge graph is queried to identify one or more relevant entities based on at least one of the plurality of tasks. A vector database is searched to identify one or more text chunks that correspond to the one or more relevant entities. Content relevant to at least one of the plurality of tasks is identified from the one or more text chunks. An answer is generated based on the identified content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Ming Jin CHEN, Yuan LI, Tong LIU, Yuan Yuan LI, Yuan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250149436
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an interconnect structure includes: forming sacrificial portions and electrically conductive portions on a base structure such that the sacrificial portions are disposed to alternate with the electrically conductive portions in a first direction, and such that each of the sacrificial portions and the electrically conductive portions is elongated in a second direction transverse to the first direction; forming blocking portions respectively on the sacrificial portions; forming a sacrificial layer to cover the electrically conductive portions and the blocking portions; forming an electrically conductive via which extends through the sacrificial layer so as to permit the electrically conductive via to be electrically connected to one of the electrically conductive portions; after forming the electrically conductive via, performing a removal process to remove the sacrificial layer, the blocking portions and the sacrificial portions so as to form a cavity; and forming a dielectric portio
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Gary LIU, Ting-Ya LO, Shao-Kuan LEE, Zi-Yi YANG, Chi-Lin TENG, Kuang-Wei YANG, Hsin-Yen HUANG, Hsiao-Kang CHANG, Ming-Han LEE, Shau-Lin SHUE
  • Publication number: 20250149092
    Abstract: A memory device including a memory array, a driver circuit, and a recover circuit is provided. The memory array includes multiple memory cells. Each memory cell is coupled to a control line, a data line, and a source line and, during a normal operation, is configured to receive first and second voltage signals. The driver circuit is configured to output at least one of the first voltage signal or the second voltage signal to the memory cells. The recover circuit is configured to output, during a recover operation, a third voltage signal, through the driver circuit to at least one of the memory cells. The third voltage signal is configured to have a first voltage level that is higher than a highest level of the first voltage signal or the second voltage signal, or lower than a lowest level of the first voltage signal or the second voltage signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Pei-Chun LIAO, Yu-Kai CHANG, Yi-Ching LIU, Yu-Ming LIN, Yih WANG, Chieh LEE
  • Publication number: 20250147217
    Abstract: An optical display apparatus is disclosed. A coupling apparatus couples light output by an image generation apparatus into an optical expansion waveguide. The optical expansion waveguide at least comprises a first reflective surface array and a second reflective surface array. Each reflective surface array is used for expanding, in an one-dimensional direction, light propagating through the optical expansion waveguide, so that the light entering into the optical expansion waveguide is expanded in a two-dimensional direction and is emitted outside of the optical expansion waveguide to form an image, wherein at least one of a first reflective surface of the first reflective surface array and a second reflective surface of the second reflective surface array is at least partially a curved surface, allowing the angle of emergence of the light to be changed by means of the first reflective surface or/and the second reflective surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SHANGHAI RAYPAI PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LTD.
    Inventors: Yuxue LI, Wenjun ZHANG, Hao LUO, Jianhu JIN, Ying LIU, Ming YANG, Wei LI, Jun DU
  • Publication number: 20250147073
    Abstract: The present invention provides a probe card. The probe card comprises a circuit board, a cantilever-type space transformer electrically connected to the circuit board, and a vertical probe head electrically connected to the cantilever-type space transformer. The vertical probe head comprises a probe base and a plurality of vertical probes. The cantilever-type space transformer comprises a mounting base and a plurality of cantilever converting probes, wherein each cantilever converting probe has a fixed segment and an exposed segment. The fixed segment is secured to the mounting base, and the exposed segment is located outside the mounting base. The fixing segment enters from the side of the mounting base and forms a contact at the bottom of the mounting base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: CHIEN-MING LO, Hsuan-Ti Yeh, Chih-Hao Ho, Horng-Chuan Sun, Chien-Ming Huang, Chia-Hung Liu
  • Publication number: 20250145856
    Abstract: Provided is a composition that includes a wax combined with a nanocellulose. The composition can be applied to a substrate leading to a better wax coverage with reduced porosity that provides for improved oil, grease, gas, water, and water vapor barrier properties to the coated articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SOLENIS TECHNOLOGIES, L.P.
    Inventor: Ming Liu
  • Publication number: 20250144009
    Abstract: A topical formulation comprising (a) a therapeutically effective amount of tofacitinib; (b) at least one solvent; and (c) optionally one or more other pharmaceutically acceptable excipients is provided. Also provided is a method for treating and/or preventing autoimmune diseases in a subject administering said topical formulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Chih-Ming Chen, Guang-Wei Lu, Ling-Ying Liaw, Fan-Lun Liu, Shih-Fen Liao, Chou-Hsiung Chen, Yu-Han Kao, Yu-Yin Chen
  • Publication number: 20250148350
    Abstract: One or more systems, devices, computer program products and/or computer-implemented methods of use provided herein relate to determining time series model stability and robustness in refreshment. The computer-implemented system can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The computer-implemented system can further comprise a processor that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components can comprise a computation component that can employ weighted model evaluation to compute stability of time series pipelines over respective holdout datasets and a determination component that can select, based on the computed pipeline stabilities, a most stable time series pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Jiang Bo Kang, Dong Hai Yu, Jun Wang, Yao Dong Liu, Bo Song, Xiao Ming Ma
  • Publication number: 20250144843
    Abstract: An intelligent waste wooden formwork recovery and recycling system includes a screening part, a feeding part, and a processing part. The screening part includes a wood board unit, a wood strip unit and a wood block unit disposed inside a frame unit. The feeding part includes three conveying units inclined and disposed within an installation unit, and ends of the three conveying units are respectively aligned with the wood board unit, wood strip unit and wood block unit. The processing part includes a compaction unit, a moving unit, a discharging unit, a gauze unit, and a glue brushing unit sequentially disposed on a bracket unit. Wood materials are classified into three types and the three-layer conveying mechanism effectively controls an addition order of the wood material, significantly improving an utilization rate of the wood materials and ensuring a uniform density distribution of the compacted wood materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Shuai WANG, Ming YOU, Wenxiang LI, Rong GAO, Tong LU, Mingzhao WANG, Bowen LONG, Yuanbang GE, Xin LI, Hui WANG, Chen LIU, Bo WANG, Min YANG, Wen WU
  • Publication number: 20250144916
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention are a high-strength steel composite galvanized sheet resistant to LME cracking during spot welding, and a preparation method therefor. The high-strength steel composite galvanized sheet comprises a high-strength steel body (1), low-carbon steel composite layers (2) and a galvanized layer (3), wherein two low-carbon steel composite layers (2) are respectively compounded and rolled on two surfaces of the high-strength steel body (1), the galvanized layer (3) is formed on the surface of at least one low-carbon steel composite layer (2), and a high-strength steel composite galvanized sheet is thus formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming LEI, Hua PAN, Li WANG, Peng XUE, Zhongqu SUN, Tianhai WU, Chengjie LIU, Yue WU, Zhongling WEN
  • Patent number: 12291230
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for controlling a vehicle and a vehicle, and relates to the technical field of automatic driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: JIANGSU XCMG CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD., XCMG AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuai Zuo, Liang Gao, Ming Chen, Chenghao Liu
  • Patent number: 12293781
    Abstract: The three-state spintronic device includes: a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction and a top electrode from bottom to top. The magnetic tunnel junction includes: a spin-orbit coupling layer, a ferromagnetic free layer, a barrier tunneling layer, a ferromagnetic reference layer, three local magnetic domain wall pinning centers and domain wall nucleation centers. An antisymmetric exchange interaction is modulated, and the magnetic domain wall pinning centers are embedded in an interface between a heavy metal and the ferromagnetic free layer. The magnetic domain wall nucleation centers are at two ends of the ferromagnetic free layer. A current pulse flows through the spin-orbit coupling layer to generate a spin current and the spin current is injected into the ferromagnetic free layer. Under a control of all-electrical controlled, an effective field of a spin-orbit torque drives domain wall to move and displace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Huai Lin, Guozhong Xing, Zuheng Wu, Long Liu, Di Wang, Cheng Lu, Peiwen Zhang, Changqing Xie, Ling Li, Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 12294028
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes at least the following steps. A protrusion is formed in a substrate by an anisotropic etch process, wherein a sidewall of the protrusion is inclined. A recess is formed on the sidewall of the protrusion by an isotropic etch process, wherein during the isotropic etch process, a by-product covers a first portion of the sidewall of the protrusion while exposing a second portion of the sidewall of the protrusion, so that the recess is formed between the first portion and the second portion of the sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiun-Ming Kuo, Hsin-Chih Chen, Che-Yuan Hsu, Kuo-Chin Liu, Han-Yu Tsai, You-Ting Lin, Jen-Hong Chang
  • Patent number: 12294519
    Abstract: A first packet flow and a second packet flow support a first protocol, a third packet flow and a fourth packet flow support a second protocol, and a priority of the first protocol is lower than a priority of the second protocol. The first packet flow and the third packet flow are transmitted from a first ingress port to a first egress port. The second packet flow and the fourth packet flow are transmitted from a second ingress port to a second egress port. When the packet processing device is in a congested state, a bandwidth modulator performs a first suppression process on the first packet flow at the first ingress port, and the bandwidth modulator performs a second suppression process on the second packet flow at the second egress port or on the third packet flow at the first ingress port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo Cheng Lu, Chun-Ming Liu, Sheng Wen Lo
  • Patent number: 12291164
    Abstract: A motor vehicle seat with adaptive seatbelt adjustment may have a chassis, a seat frame and a backrest. A rear end of the seat frame is rotatably connected to the chassis. A seat frame angle drive mechanism is provided between a front end of the seat frame and the chassis. The backrest is rotatably mounted at the rear end of the seat frame. The motor vehicle seat may also have a three-point seatbelt having a seatbelt guide component, a buckle and a lower anchor. The seatbelt guide component is fitted at a shoulder position on the backrest to be movable up and down by means of a lifting/lowering mechanism. The buckle and the lower anchor are fitted at two sides of the chassis, each by means of a front/rear adjustment mechanism, in such a way as to be slidable forwards and backwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: ADIENT (CHONGQUING) AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyong Chen, Ming Zhang, Ying Guan, Yawei Liu, Zhangneng Shi
  • Publication number: 20250135963
    Abstract: A zero-gravity automotive seat with linkage-adjusted seat belt, may have a base, a frame, and a drive assembly for driving a front end of the frame to move up and down in a lifting fashion and a linkage assembly. A socket component for fixing the seat belt is mounted and carried on the linkage assembly. The linkage assembly is dynamically linked to the drive assembly. When the drive assembly drives the front end of the frame to move up and down in a lifting fashion, the socket component can move forwards and rearwards synchronously with the linkage assembly. The position of the seat belt socket can be adjusted automatically as the frame of the zero-gravity seat rotates, reducing the feeling of oppression which the belt part of the seat belt engenders in the passenger's abdomen, and increasing the comfort and safety of the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Zhiyong CHEN, Ming ZHANG, Ying GUAN, Yawei LIU, Zhangneng SHI
  • Publication number: 20250136038
    Abstract: A safety belt lower anchorage front-back adjustment structure may have a bottom base and a seat frame that is mounted on the bottom base. A support base may be respectively mounted on the bottom base at positions corresponding to a left side and a right side of the seat frame. A sliding component may be provided on each the support base. Two of the sliding components may be able to slide forward and backward on the corresponding support base. A driving assembly may be provided between the sliding component and the corresponding support base used for driving the sliding component to slide forward and backward among the two sliding components. A buckle may be fixedly mounted on one sliding component, and a lower anchor is fixedly mounted on the other sliding component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Zhiyong CHEN, Ming ZHANG, Ying GUAN, Yawei LIU, Zhangneng SHI
  • Publication number: 20250136035
    Abstract: A height-adjustable safety belt guide outlet for a seat backrest. The height-adjustable safety belt guide outlet may have a backrest, a base, a sliding component, a safety belt guide component and a driving assembly. The base may be fixedly mounted at a shoulder position of the backrest. The sliding component may be fitted on the base to slide vertically in a height direction of the backrest. The safety belt guide component may be fixedly mounted on the sliding component. The driving assembly may be fitted between the base and the sliding component, and may be used for driving the sliding component to slide vertically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Zhiyong CHEN, Ming ZHANG, Ying GUAN, Yawei LIU, Zhangneng SHI
  • Publication number: 20250138329
    Abstract: A lens assembly and AR glasses, including a lens, a sensing assembly, and one or more conducting assemblies. The sensing assembly is arranged on a first side of the lens. The conducting assemblies are arranged on the first side of the lens. Each conducting assembly comprises a transparent conductive layer, and a metal mesh layer. Wherein, the transparent conductive layer is placed on the first side of the lens. The metal mesh layer is placed on a side of the transparent conductive layer away from the lens. The metal mesh layer comprises a plurality of metal wires arranged at intervals. The plurality of the metal wires are electrically connected to the sensing assembly. The AR glasses includes a frame, and the lens assembly. The lens assembly is mounted on the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Shiue-Lung CHEN, Chang-Ho CHEN, I-Ming CHENG, Chung-Wu LIU, Chien-Cheng KUO
  • Publication number: 20250138318
    Abstract: An optical expansion waveguide is disclosed that may comprise a first waveguide substrate (1) and a second waveguide substrate (2). The first waveguide substrate (1) allows the light entering the first waveguide substrate to expand in a first dimension direction, and the first waveguide substrate (1) comprises a plurality of first reflecting surfaces (101) arranged in sequence. The second waveguide substrate (2) allows the light entering the second waveguide substrate to expand in a second dimension direction, and the second waveguide substrate (2) comprises a plurality of second reflecting surfaces (201) arranged in sequence. At least one of the first reflecting surface (101) and the second reflecting surface (201) is at least partially curved so as to change an emission angle of light, such that the image distance of the image formed by the light emitted by the second waveguide substrate (2) meets the preset requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: SHANGHAI RAYPAI PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LTD.
    Inventors: Yuxue LI, Wenjun ZHANG, Hao LUO, Jianhu JIN, Ying LIU, Ming YANG, Wei LI, Jun DU