Patents by Inventor Ning Ge

Ning Ge 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).

  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20200021342
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device and communication method. The electronic device comprising a RF link unit radiating a data stream in form of electromagnetic wave radiation onto a phase shifter; a processing circuitry configured to determine an analog precoding matrix; phase shifters, each of which for performing analog precoding on the received signal of the electromagnetic wave radiation according to the determined analog precoding matrix, and an antenna array, each of antenna elements of which transmits the analog precoded signal, wherein the number of the phase shifters is the same as the number of the antenna elements of the antenna array, and the phase shifters and the antenna elements are in one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ning GE, Zhengyi ZHOU, Peiyao ZHAO, Zhaocheng WANG, Jianfei CAO
  • FLUID OPERATION CELL WITH ON-CHIP ELECTRICAL FLUID OPERATION COMPONENTS
    Publication number: 20200018773
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluid operation cell is described. The fluid operation cell includes a micro-electro-mechanical housing. The housing includes an inlet and an outlet through which fluid flows and electrodes disposed on an interior of the housing to couple to a controller. The fluid operation cell also includes a silicon-based substrate disposed inside, and electrically coupled to, the housing. The substrate includes an on-chip electrical fluid operation component formed thereon. The electrical fluid operation component uses an electrical signal to operate on bypassing fluid. The fluid operation cell includes a dedicated address to be individually activated by the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning GE, David GEORGE, Helen A. HOLDER
  • FLUID LEVEL SENSOR
    Publication number: 20200003601
    Abstract: A fluid reservoir may include a number of metal traces along a wall of the fluid reservoir, and a number of fuse circuits along a length of the metal traces. Each of the fuse circuits may include a fuse along a length of a respective metal trace, and a number of parasitic resistive elements in parallel to the fuse. The parasitic resistive elements reduce current flow through the fuse in the presence of a fluid contained within the fluid reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning GE, Chien-Hua Chen, Alexander Govyadinov
  • FILTER ASSEMBLY WITH CHARGE ELECTRODES
    Publication number: 20200001306
    Abstract: In an example, an air filter assembly includes an air filter to remove particulates from air flowing through the air filter, sense electrodes coupled to the air filter, the sense electrodes spaced apart in a direction that is transverse to a direction of a flow of the air, a sense interconnects to couple the sense electrodes to a first power source to drive a sense electrode of the sense electrodes to a sense power, charge electrodes coupled to the air filter, where the charge electrodes are spaced apart from and adjacent to the sense electrodes, and charge interconnects to couple the charge electrodes to a second power source to drive a charge electrode of the charge electrodes to a charge power different from the sense power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Paul Howard Mazurkiewicz, Helen A. Holder, Peter A. Seiler, Raphael Gay, Tom J. Searby
  • Devices to detect a substance and methods of producing such a device
    Patent number: 10520441
    Abstract: Devices to detect a substance and methods of producing such a device are disclosed. An example device to detect a substance includes a housing defining a first chamber and a substrate coupled to the housing. The substrate includes nanostructures positioned within the first chamber. The nanostructures are to react to the substance when exposed thereto. The device includes a first heater positioned within the first chamber. The heater is to heat at least a portion of the substance to ready the device for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhiyong Li, Ning Ge, Steven J. Barcelo, Huei Pei Kuo
  • Controllable read blocking based radio-frequency identification
    Patent number: 10521711
    Abstract: In some examples, a controllable read blocking based radio-frequency identification (RFID) device may include a substrate layer, and a trace formed of a conductive material and disposed on, partially within, or fully within the substrate layer. The controllable read blocking based RFID device may further include a controllable read blocking layer disposed on the substrate layer and the trace and including a fluid disposed in the controllable read blocking layer to selectively block or allow passage of electromagnetic waves to the trace to respectively inhibit or allow communication of a RFID reading device with the controllable read blocking based RFID device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Jarrid Wittkopf, Robert Ionescu, Helen A. Holder, Paul Howard Mazurkiewicz
  • Focal adjustment for analyte detection package
    Patent number: 10520443
    Abstract: An analyte detection system includes an analyte detection package to be presented to a reading device, and a focus mechanism to adjust a focal point of the analyte detection package relative to the reading device, with the analyte detection package including a surface-enhanced luminescence analyte stage, the reading device including optics to receive scattered radiation emitted luminescence from the analyte stage, and the focus mechanism to adjust the focal point relative to the optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Anita Rogacs, Viktor Shkolnikov, Ning Ge
  • CONTROLLABLE READ BLOCKING BASED RADIO-FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION
    Publication number: 20190377994
    Abstract: In some examples, a controllable read blocking based radio-frequency identification (RFID) device may include a substrate layer, and a trace formed of a conductive material and disposed on, partially within, or fully within the substrate layer. The controllable read blocking based RFID device may further include a controllable read blocking layer disposed on the substrate layer and the trace and including a fluid disposed in the controllable read blocking layer to selectively block or allow passage of electromagnetic waves to the trace to respectively inhibit or allow communication of a RFID reading device with the controllable read blocking based RFID device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Jarrid Wittkopf, Robert Ionescu, Helen A. Holder, Paul Howard Mazurkiewicz
  • MARKER WITH INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20190362205
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a marker with a pattern of marks encoding product information of the electronic device. The pattern includes first marks having a first material with a first isotopic ratio of an element, and second marks having a second material with a second isotopic ratio of the element different than the first isotopic ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Paul Howard MAZURKIEWICZ, Ning GE, Helen A HOLDER
  • Sample substance molecular bonds breakdown and SEL collection
    Patent number: 10466177
    Abstract: A sample comprising a first substance and a second substance is modified by breaking down molecular bonds of the second substance of the sample to form a modified sample having altered surface enhanced luminescence (SEL) characteristics to reduce overlapping of SEL characteristics of the first substance in the second substance. Surface enhanced luminescence data resulting from excitation of the modified sample is collected. Characteristics of the first substance based upon the collected surface enhanced luminescence data are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Viktor Shkolnikov, Anita Rogacs, Paul J. Benning
  • Substance detection device
    Patent number: 10458918
    Abstract: In an example implementation, a substance detection device includes a substrate having nanoimprinted chamber walls and nanostructures. The chamber walls define a chamber and the nanostructures are positioned within the chamber to react to a substance introduced into the chamber. A two-dimensional (2D) orifice plate is affixed to the chamber walls and forms a top side of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Steven Barcelo, Charles M Santori, Helen A Holder
  • Surface enhanced luminescence electric field generating base
    Patent number: 10444151
    Abstract: Provided in one example is an analyte detection apparatus that includes surface enhanced luminescence (SEL) structure. A dielectric layer underlies the SEL structure. An electric field generating base underlies the dielectric layer. The electric field generating base is to apply an electric field about the SEL structures to attract charged ions to the SEL structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Barcelo, Ning Ge, Zhiyong Li
  • MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR FLUID MIXTURE
    Publication number: 20190299176
    Abstract: Examples include microfluidic devices. Example microfluidic devices comprise a first microfluidic channel, a second microfluidic channel, and microfluidic output channel fluidly coupled to the first microfluidic channel and the second microfluidic channel via a fluid junction. The example device comprises a first fluid actuator disposed in the first microfluidic channel to actuate to thereby pump a first fluid into the microfluidic output channel, and the example device comprises a second fluid actuator disposed in the second microfluidic channel to actuate to pump a second fluid into the microfluidic output channel. The first fluid actuator and the second fluid actuator are to actuate to thereby pump a fluid mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid into the microfluidic output channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David MARKEL, Pavel KORNILOVICH, Erik D TORNIAINEN, Alexander GOVYADINOV, Viktor SHKOLNIKOV, Diane R HAMMERSTAD, Ning GE
  • Electrostatic discharge memristive element switching
    Patent number: 10418810
    Abstract: In the examples provided herein, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) recording circuit has a first memristive element coupled to a pin of an integrated circuit. The first memristive element switches from a first resistance to a second resistance when an ESD event occurs at the pin, and the first resistance is less than the second resistance. The ESD recording circuit also has shunting circuitry to shunt energy from an additional ESD event away from the first memristive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Brent Buchanan, Richard J. Auletta, Ning Ge
  • Split memory bank
    Patent number: 10403362
    Abstract: A split memory bank may comprise a number of memory matrices forming a memory bank and a shift register in which the shift register physically separates the matrices. An integrated circuit may comprise a number of shift registers and a plurality of memory matrices forming a memory bank in which the matrices are spatially separated by the shift register. An integrated printhead may comprise a number of memory banks each comprising a plurality of memory matrices and a number of shift registers in which each shift register spatially separates a number of the matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Boon Bing Ng, Thida Ma Win, Ning Ge, Jose Jehrome Rando
  • MEMRISTOR CODE COMPARATOR TO COMPARE SENSOR SIGNALS TO REFERENCE SIGNALS
    Publication number: 20190261884
    Abstract: One example of a device includes a sensor, a memristor code comparator, and a controller. The sensor is to provide a sensor signal. The memristor code comparator is to compare the sensor signal to a reference signal. The controller is to determine a status of the sensor signal based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Ralph A. Morales, Terrance J. OShea, Helen A. Holder, David George, Hafid Hamadene
  • Ink level sensing
    Patent number: 10378946
    Abstract: In some examples, a method of sensing an ink level includes applying a pre-charge voltage to a sense capacitor to charge the sense capacitor with a charge, sharing the charge between the sense capacitor and a reference capacitor, causing a reference voltage at a gate of an evaluation transistor, and determining a resistance from a drain to a source of the evaluation transistor that results from the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Trudy Benjamin, Teck-Khim Neo, Joseph M. Torgerson, Neel Banerjee, George H. Corrigan, III
  • FLUID RESERVOIR WITH FLUID PROPERTY AND LEVEL DETECTION
    Publication number: 20190240985
    Abstract: A fluid reservoir (101) includes a number of electrode pairs disposed within the fluid reservoir. Each of the electrode pairs includes a number of sensing electrodes (103), and a number of electrical traces (105) wherein the sensing electrodes are coupled to a respective one of the electrical traces. The fluid reservoir also includes a common electrode (104) electrically coupled to a voltage source (106). A number of properties of a fluid (110) within the fluid reservoir are detected by applying a voltage between the sensing electrodes in an electrode pair, and a level of the fluid within the fluid reservoir is detected by applying a voltage between the electrodes and the common electrode. A multiplexer (102) may be used to selectively couple the sensing electrodes (103) to a processing device (108). The fluid reservoir may be a printing fluid container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Chien-Hua Chen, Michael W. Cumbie
  • ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS OF ISOTOPES
    Publication number: 20190243311
    Abstract: An example device includes an isotope portion including a material having at least one isotope, a reaction control portion to cause a chemical reaction including the at least one isotope, and an electrical parameter portion to measure a change in an electrical parameter to determine a change in an amount of the material having the at least one isotope, the electrical parameter to change based on the chemical reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: PAUL HOWARD MAZURKIEWICZ, NING GE, HELEN A. HOLDER
  • PRINTING FLUID CARTRIDGE WITH ELECTRODES AND METHOD TO THE LEVEL OF FLUID IN A PRINTING FLUID CARTRIDGE
    Publication number: 20190232673
    Abstract: A sensing structure in an example may include at least three electrodes along an interior surface of a reservoir from a top portion of the reservoir to a bottom portion of the reservoir wherein at least one of the electrodes is closer to at least another electrode at the top portion of the reservoir than at the bottom portion of the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Ning Ge, Chien-Hua Chen, Michael W. Cumbie