Patents by Inventor Nicholas Chao

Nicholas Chao 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: 20240105612
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is presented including a device layer having a plurality of active devices, back-end-of-line (BEOL) components disposed under the device layer, a power distribution network (PDN) disposed over the device layer, and backside transistors disposed on a single crystal silicon (Si) layer disposed over the PDN. A through silicon via (TSV) extends from the backside transistors disposed on the single crystal Si layer through the BEOL. An upper TSV (uTSV) extends from the PDN through the backside transistors disposed on the single crystal Si layer to additional interconnects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ruilong Xie, Nicholas Alexander Polomoff, Brent A. Anderson, Chih-Chao Yang
  • Publication number: 20240105606
    Abstract: A first power rail directly below and connected to a source-drain epitaxy region of a positive field effect transistor (p-FET) region, a second power rail directly below and connected to a source-drain epitaxy region of a negative field effect transistor (n-FET) region, the first power rail and the second power rail each comprise vertical side surfaces which taper in an opposite direction from each other. Forming a first power rail by subtractive metal etch, where the first power rail is directly below and connected to a source-drain epitaxy region of a p-FET region and forming a second power rail by damascene process, where the second power rail is directly below and connected to a source-drain epitaxy region of an n-FET region, the first power rail and the second power rail each comprise vertical side surfaces which taper in an opposite direction from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ruilong Xie, Koichi Motoyama, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Chih-Chao Yang
  • Publication number: 20240077309
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying information related to a physical activity. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for managing the display of information related to a physical activity are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas D. FELTON, James B. CARY, Edward CHAO, Kevin W. CHEN, Christopher P. FOSS, Eamon F. GILRAVI, Austen J. GREEN, Bradley W. GRIFFIN, Anders K. HAGLUNDS, Lori HYLAN-CHO, Stephen P. JACKSON, Matthew S. KOONCE, Paul T. NIXON, Robert M. PEARSON
  • Publication number: 20240055317
    Abstract: A compliant pad spacer utilized in a three-dimensional IC packaging is provided. The compliant pad spacer may be utilized to provide adequate support among the substrates or boards, such as packing substrates, interposers or print circuit broads (PCBs), so as to minimize the effects of substrate warpage or structural collapse in the IC packaging. In one example, the compliant pad spacer includes an insulating material, such as silicon-based polymer composites having ceramic fillers disposed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Emad Samadiani, Padam Jain, Yingshi Tang, Sue Yun Teng, Nicholas Chao Wei Wong, Kieran Miller, Sudharshan Sugavanesh Udhayakumar
  • Patent number: 7817836
    Abstract: An efficient method and system of contouring target volumes and normal tissues at risk using an expert case as interactive tutorial reference for radiation therapy treatment plan is disclosed. Target volume contours based on guidance from a disease-matched expert case is selected by the user. The second imaging data set of a new patient is then displayed and linked with expert's case in a the slice-by-slice and side-by-side fashion and at comparable field-of-view angles. Users can generate the target volume contours on the new patient using expert case as tutorial guidance or overlaying the expert contours onto the new patient's imaging data set followed by reforming the target volume contours to fit the anatomical terrain of the patient. Users can then modify the target volume contours of their patient using expert case as tutorial guidance linked in a the slice-by-slice and side-by-side fashion and at comparable field-of-view angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui-Min Chao, David Chao, Nicholas Chao
  • Publication number: 20070280521
    Abstract: An efficient method and system of contouring target volumes and normal tissues at risk using an expert case as interactive tutorial reference for radiation therapy treatment plan is disclosed. Target volume contours based on guidance from a disease-matched expert case is selected by the user. The second imaging data set of a new patient is then displayed and linked with expert's case in a the slice-by-slice and side-by-side fashion and at comparable field-of-view angles. Users can generate the target volume contours on the new patient using expert case as tutorial guidance or overlaying the expert contours onto the new patient's imaging data set followed by reforming the target volume contours to fit the anatomical terrain of the patient. Users can then modify the target volume contours of their patient using expert case as tutorial guidance linked in a the slice-by-slice and side-by-side fashion and at comparable field-of-view angles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Hui-Min Chao, David Chao, Nicholas Chao
  • Publication number: 20070087318
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method and apparatus for allowing nearly simultaneous retrieval of large data and small data. In carrying out the method, the first step involves a user interfacing with a first workstation to query a small data storage device for selected data. In the second step, the small data storage device then transmits the selected data to the first workstation while simultaneously communicating with a large data storage device to identify relevant large data files. In the third step, the relevant large file data is transferred from the large data storage device at a transfer rate sufficiently fast enough to reach the first workstation before or about the same time that the smaller data reaches the first workstation, the overall process occurring in a sufficiently short period of time to meet the “on-demand” needs of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Hui-Min Chao, David Chao, Nicholas Chao