Patents by Inventor Ming Shang
Ming Shang 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).
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Publication number: 20240110068Abstract: A thin oil film having parylene irregular dendritic-like columns extending from one side to another exhibits hydrophobic properties that can be used as a corrosion resistant coating or water-repellant, biofouling resistant surface. This parylene-in-oil layer can be paired with an adjacent layer of solid parylene that it overlays or underlays. The solid parylene cross polymerizes with the parylene dendrites, keeping them in place as well as the oil film. The parylene dendrites are fabricated by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of parylene over the oil layer, the dendrites self-forming from the bottom to the top. Continued CVD over the dendrites can produce a top layer of solid parylene. Etching the solid parylene away can result in a water repellant, anti-biofouling surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Yu-Chong Tai, Kuang-Ming Shang, Haixu Shen, Ningxuan Dai, David Q. Kong
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Publication number: 20240105234Abstract: According to the embodiments of the disclosure, a multimedia processing method, device, electronic device, and storage medium are provided by obtaining a first multimedia resource; determining an initial text content corresponding to the first multimedia resource by performing speech recognition on audio data of the first multimedia resource, the audio data of the first multimedia resource comprises speech data of the initial text content; determining an invalid text content in the initial text content, the invalid text content is semantically non-informative; determining a first playing position of speech data of the invalid text content in the first multimedia resource; and cropping the first multimedia resource based on the first playing position to obtain a second multimedia resource, wherein audio data of the second multimedia resource comprises speech data of a target text content but does not comprise the speech data of the invalid text content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Xin Zheng, Conghui Zhu, Rui Xia, Chuxiang Shang, Dejian Zhong, Yongsen Jiang, Ming Tu, Lelai Deng
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Patent number: 11917168Abstract: Disclosed are an image encoding and decoding method, image processing device, and computer storage medium. the image coding method includes: when copying coding is performed on a current coding block by using one of the at least two different palette and pixel string copying coding manners, generating a new palette color according to pixels of the current coding block; generating a palette for the current coding block according to the new palette color and a palette color candidate set shared by the at least two different palette and pixel string copying coding manners; and performing palette and pixel string copying coding by using the palette for the current coding block, and generating a video bitstream comprising a copying manner and a copying parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: TONGJI UNIVERSITY, ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Tao Lin, Ming Li, Ping Wu, Guoqiang Shang, Zhao Wu
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Patent number: 11701504Abstract: A long-lasting, wireless, biocompatible pressure sensor device is integrated within a hydrocephalus shunt, either within the shunt's reservoir/anchor or as an inline or pigtailed connector. When integrated within a typical reservoir, the device can sit within the reservoir's hollow frustum area covered by the resilient silicone dome of the reservoir. When integrated as an inline connector, the device can sit at any point on the peritoneal catheter or ventricular catheter, including between the VP shut's valve and reservoir. The pressure sensor device includes electronics that can be powered wirelessly by a reader held to a patient's scalp, and so no battery may be required. The reader can transmit an ambient, atmospheric pressure reading from outside the skull to the implanted device so that its electronics can calculate a calibrated gauge pressure internally and then relay it to a patient's smart phone.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignees: California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Yu-Chong Tai, Aubrey M. Shapero, Shane S. Shahrestani, Azita Emami, Abhinav Agarwal, Kuang-Ming Shang, Sunghoon Kim, Olajire Idowu, Kurtis I. Auguste
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Publication number: 20230166004Abstract: A two-dimensional lattice or mesh scaffold for therapeutic cell implants is disclosed as well as methods for manufacture and use. The lattice is constructed of crisscrossing capillaries of hydrophobic parylene, such as parylene AF4, that may be coated with a hydrophilic polymer, such as parylene C, for cell adhesion. At each intersection of the crisscross, the intersecting capillaries are internally connected so as to allow oxygen to flow freely within. The walls of the capillaries are thin enough to be permeable to oxygen, on the scale of a micron thick, so that oxygen can flow through the lattice and permeate through the capillary walls. For some implants, cells are sandwiched between two or more lattices, the cells being slightly held apart from aggregation with each other by the lattice holes. The implants may then be surgically implanted within a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicants: California Institute of Technology, City of HopeInventors: Yu-Chong Tai, Kuang-Ming Shang, Hirotake Komatsu
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Publication number: 20220024949Abstract: The invention is directed to methods of converting a carboxylic acid group in a compound, via a redox active ester, to a corresponding boronic ester by treatment with bis(pinacolato)diboron-alkyllithium complex in the presence of a ligand, a Ni(II) salt or a copper salt, and an Mg(II) salt, in the presence of an alkyllithium or a lithium hydroxide or alkoxide salt. The product pinacolato boronate ester can be cleaved to provide a boronic acid. The invention is also directed to methods of preparing various compounds of medical value comprising boronic acid groups, and to novel boronic-acid containing compounds of medicinal value, including an atorvastatin boronic acid analog, a vancomycin aglycone boronic acid analog, and boronic acid containing elastase inhibitors mCBK319, mCBK320, mCBK323, and RPX-7009.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Phil Baran, Chao Li, Jie Wang, Amab K. Chatterjee, Manoj Kumar, Shan Yu, Kristen Johnson, Tian Qin, Ming Shang
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Patent number: 11161859Abstract: The invention is directed to methods of converting a carboxylic acid group in a compound, via a redox active ester, to a corresponding boronic ester by treatment with bis(pinacolato)diboron-alkyllithium complex in the presence of a ligand, a Ni(ll) salt or a copper salt, and an Mg(ll) salt, in the presence of an alkyllithium or a lithium hydroxide or alkoxide salt. The product pinacolato boronate ester can be cleaved to provide a boronic acid. The invention is also directed to methods of preparing various compounds of medical value comprising boronic acid groups, and to novel boronic-acid containing compounds of medicinal value, including an atorvastatin boronic acid analog, a vancomycin aglycone boronic acid analog, and boronic acid containing elastase inhibitors mCBK319, mCBK320, mCBK323, and RPX-7009.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Phil Baran, Chao Li, Jie Wang, Arnab Kumar Chatterjee, Manoj Kumar, Shan Yu, Kristen Ann Johnson, Tian Qin, Ming Shang
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Publication number: 20210283308Abstract: An oxygen transporter device configured to transport O2 from an ambient air location into or toward a subcutaneous site. The device includes an absorption component, a cannula, and a discharge component configured to be implanted in a subcutaneous location while the absorption component is not subcutaneous. The cannula can extend through or across the skin of a patient. The discharge component can includes one or more multi-layered, flexible mesh sheets, which are coupled to cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Hirotake Komatsu, Colin Andrew Cook, Yu-Chong Tai, Kuang-Ming Shang
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Patent number: 11074975Abstract: A non-volatile register is provided. The non-volatile register includes a plurality of cell strings with respect to a plurality of bit lines, wherein each cell string includes a plurality of cells. Each word line is respectively connecting to a gate of one cell for each cell string to correspondingly form a page. The pages are configured into: a central page used as a register to store registered data; and a plurality of dummy pages at both sides of the central page. The dummy pages are controlled to provide a boosted channel voltage to a portion of memory cells of the central page, not being programmed. A source selection transistor is connected to a first side for each cell string. A drain selection transistor is connected to a second side for each cell string.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Chun-Lien Su, Ming-Shang Chen
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Publication number: 20210220627Abstract: A long-lasting, wireless, biocompatible pressure sensor device is integrated within a hydrocephalus shunt, either within the shunt's reservoir/anchor or as an inline or pigtailed connector. When integrated within a typical reservoir, the device can sit within the reservoir's hollow frustum area covered by the resilient silicone dome of the reservoir. When integrated as an inline connector, the device can sit at any point on the peritoneal catheter or ventricular catheter, including between the VP shut's valve and reservoir. The pressure sensor device includes electronics that can be powered wirelessly by a reader held to a patient's scalp, and so no battery may be required. The reader can transmit an ambient, atmospheric pressure reading from outside the skull to the implanted device so that its electronics can calculate a calibrated gauge pressure internally and then relay it to a patient's smart phone.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicants: California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Yu-Chong Tai, Aubrey M. Shapero, Shane S. Shahrestani, Azita Emami, Abhinav Agarwal, Kuang-Ming Shang, Sunghoon Kim, Olajire Idowu, Kurtis I. Auguste
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Patent number: 10665898Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrolyte liquid of a lithium sulfur battery comprising a carbonate ester organic solvent, a lithium salt, and a flame-retardant cosolvent, the flame-retardant cosolvent being a phosphazene compound, wherein a mass percentage of the flame-retardant cosolvent is 20% to 50%, a concentration of the lithium salt is 0.8 mol/L to 1.2 mol/L. The present disclosure also provides a lithium sulfur battery and a method for preparing the electrolyte liquid.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYInventors: Zhen Liu, Yu-Ming Shang, Xiang-Ming He, Li Wang
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Publication number: 20200024290Abstract: The invention is directed to methods of converting a carboxylic acid group in a compound, via a redox active ester, to a corresponding boronic ester by treatment with bis(pinacolato)diboron-alkyllithium complex in the presence of a ligand, a Ni(11) salt or a copper salt, and an Mg(11) salt, in the presence of an alkyllithium or a lithium hydroxide or alkoxide salt. The product pinacolato boronate ester can be cleaved to provide a boronic acid. The invention is also directed to methods of preparing various compounds of medical value comprising boronic acid groups, and to novel boronic-acid containing compounds of medicinal value, including an atorvastatin boronic acid analog, a vancomycin aglycone boronic acid analog, and boronic acid containing elastase inhibitors mCBK319, mCBK320, mCBK323, and RPX-7009.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Phil Baran, Chao Li, Jie Wang, Arnab Kumar Chatterjee, Manoj Kumar, Shan Yu, Kristen Ann Johnson, Tian Qin, Ming Shang
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Patent number: 10205609Abstract: The present invention discloses an overlay switch (OSW) and a method used by the same. A received unicast packet needs to pass a waypoint chain including a number of waypoints. A network address of a first waypoint of the waypoint chain and an underlay network address of a second OSW connected to the first waypoint are obtained. In response to a determination that the second OSW is not the first OSW the unicast packet is encapsulated into a first underlay network packet according to a specification of an overlay network. A field of a destination header of the first underlay network packet includes the underlay network address of the second OSW. A source port field of a user datagram protocol (UDP) header is set to indicate a waypoint index included in a corresponding waypoint chain. The first underlay network packet is sent to the second OSW.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jing He, Denghui Huang, Jin Ming Shang, Yun Sun
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Publication number: 20180277811Abstract: A lithium ion battery separator comprises a separator substrate and two halloysite nanotube coatings, wherein the separator substrate has two opposite surfaces, and the two halloysite nanotube coatings are respectively disposed on the two opposite surfaces of the separator substrate. A method for making the lithium ion battery separator is further provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Tsinghua UniversityInventors: ZHEN LIU, YU-MING SHANG, XIANG-MING HE, LI WANG
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Publication number: 20180269531Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrolyte liquid of a lithium sulfur battery comprising a carbonate ester organic solvent, a lithium salt, and a flame-retardant cosolvent, the flame-retardant cosolvent being a phosphazene compound, wherein a mass percentage of the flame-retardant cosolvent is 20% to 50%, a concentration of the lithium salt is 0.8 mol/L to 1.2 mol/L. The present disclosure also provides a lithium sulfur battery and a method for preparing the electrolyte liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYInventors: ZHEN LIU, YU-MING SHANG, XIANG-MING HE, LI WANG
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Publication number: 20180090741Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lithium ion battery comprising a base, a winding column, a shell, a cover cap, and a cell. The winding column is disposed on the base. The cell is winded onto an outer surface of the winding column. The shell is sleeved outside an outer surface of the cell, and two ends of the shell are respectively connected to the base and the cover cap to seal the cell. The lithium ion battery further comprises a secure structure body disposed between the winding column and the cell. The secure structure body comprises an elastic layer and a plurality of acicular members disposed in the elastic layer. The plurality of acicular members has a plurality of pointed ends, and the plurality of pointed ends points to the cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicants: Jiangsu Huadong Institute of Li-Ion Battery Co., Ltd., Tsinghua UniversityInventors: Xiang-Ming He, Yong Yang, Jian-Jun Li, Li Wang, Hong-Sheng Zhang, Yu-Ming Shang, Guo-Hua Li
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Patent number: 9923241Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrolyte additive. The electrolyte additive comprises: maleimide derivative, bis-maleimide derivative, or combinations there of The structural formulas of maleimide derivative and bis-maleimide derivative respectively are: wherein, R1, R2 are selected from hydrogen atom and halogen atoms, R3 is selected from silicon containing group, nitrogen containing group, fluorine containing group, phosphorus containing group, and a repeating ethoxy group. The present disclosure also provides an electrolyte liquid and a lithium ion battery using the electrolyte additive.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: Jiangsu Huadong Institute of Li-ion Battery Co. Ltd., Tsinghua UniversityInventors: Ju-Ping Yang, Xiang-Ming He, Li Wang, Jian-Jun Li, Yu-Ming Shang, Jian Gao, Yao-Wu Wang, Jian-Wei Guo
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Patent number: 9923204Abstract: A method for making a cathode active material of a lithium ion battery is disclosed. In the method, LiMPO4 particles and LiNPO4 particles are provided. The LiMPO4 particles and LiNPO4 particles both are olivine type crystals belonged to a pnma space group of an orthorhombic crystal system, wherein M represents Fe, Mn, Co, or Ni, N represents a metal element having a +2 valence, and N is different from M. The LiMPO4 particles and the LiNPO4 particles are mixed together to form a precursor. The precursor is calcined to form LiMxN1-xPO4 particles, wherein 0<x<1.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignees: Jiangsu Huadong Institute of Li-ion Battery Co. Ltd., Tsinghua UniversityInventors: Zhong-Jia Dai, Xiang-Ming He, Li Wang, Jian-Jun Li, Yu-Ming Shang, Jian Gao, Yao-Wu Wang
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Publication number: 20180053938Abstract: An electrode binder, a cathode electrode material and a lithium ion battery are disclosed. The cathode electrode material includes the cathode binder. The cathode binder includes a polymer obtained by polymerizing a dianhydride monomer with a diamine monomer. At least one of the dianhydride monomer and the diamine monomer includes a silicon-containing monomer. The lithium ion battery includes an anode electrode, an electrolyte, a separator, and the cathode electrode, the cathode electrode includes a cathode active material, a conducting agent, and the cathode binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicants: Jiangsu Huadong Institute of Li-Ion Battery Co., Ltd., Tsinghua UniversityInventors: XIANG-MING HE, GUAN-NAN QIAN, LI WANG, YU-MING SHANG, JIAN-JUN LI, YAO-WU WANG
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Patent number: RE46970Abstract: A one-time programmable memory array includes a first row conductor extending in a first row direction and disposed at a first elevation, a second row conductor extending in a second row direction and disposed at a second elevation and a column conductor extending in a column direction and disposed adjacent to the first row conductor and adjacent to the second row conductor. The array also includes a dielectric layer covering at least a portion of the column conductor, a fuse link coupled between the dielectric layer on the column conductor and the second row conductor.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuan-Fu Chen, Yin-Jen Chen, Tzung-Ting Han, Ming-Shang Chen