Patents by Inventor Pei Zhao

Pei Zhao 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: 20250101569
    Abstract: Methods for controlling crystalline phase ratios of molybdenum precursors are provided. A method comprises vaporizing, at a first temperature and a first pressure, a molybdenum reagent in a first vessel to obtain a vaporized molybdenum precursor; flowing the vaporized molybdenum precursor from the first vessel to a second vessel; and condensing, at a second temperature and a second pressure, the vaporized molybdenum precursor in the second vessel to obtain a crystalline phase ratio of the molybdenum precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Halbach, Trang Nguyen, Pei Zhao
  • Publication number: 20250025734
    Abstract: Disclosed are a torsion detection flange, a resistance-adjustable rotating wheel and an adjusting method therefor, and a sports device, wherein the resistance-adjustable rotating wheel comprises a fixing device, a resistance adjusting device, a rotating wheel, a metal spacer, and a torque detecting device, wherein the resistance adjusting device is provided with a magnetic surface and is mounted on the fixing device, the rotating wheel is provided with a magnetic conducting surface and is rotatably mounted on the resistance adjusting device in a manner that the magnetic conducting surface is corresponded to the magnetic surface, the metal interlayer is held between the magnetic surface of the resistance adjusting device and the magnetic conducting surface of the rotating wheel, and two ends of the torque detection device are respectively connected to the fixing device and the resistance adjusting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventor: Yuan Pei ZHAO
  • Patent number: 12203832
    Abstract: A microfluidic viscometer measures the viscosity of a microliter-volume fluid sample using a microfluidic chip having a microchannel with a high aspect ratio (˜10), allowing the microflow therein to be approximated as a rectangular slit flow. The microfluidic chip is fabricated by stacking rigid sheet materials that can be laser cut to specified shapes and sizes. The microchannel, rendered smooth and hydrophobic by a repellant coating, provides a straight flow path for the sample to approach flow equilibrium as it moves through. By applying corrections related to the visual bias from the camera and the capillary pressure difference at the air-liquid interface, the viscosity of the fluid sample can be calculated based on differential pressure data, sample length, velocity, volumetric flow rate, and contact angle from captured video, and the channel dimension, given that the sample has reached a flow equilibrium condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventors: Wasim Kapadia, Ning Qin, Pei Zhao, Chau-minh Phan, Lacey A. Haines, Lyndon William James Jones, Carolyn Liqing Ren
  • Publication number: 20240219280
    Abstract: A microfluidic viscometer measures the viscosity of a microliter-volume fluid sample using a microfluidic chip having a microchannel with a high aspect ratio (˜10), allowing the microflow therein to be approximated as a rectangular slit flow. The microfluidic chip is fabricated by stacking rigid sheet materials that can be laser cut to specified shapes and sizes. The microchannel, rendered smooth and hydrophobic by a repellant coating, provides a straight flow path for the sample to approach flow equilibrium as it moves through. By applying corrections related to the visual bias from the camera and the capillary pressure difference at the air-liquid interface, the viscosity of the fluid sample can be calculated based on differential pressure data, sample length, velocity, volumetric flow rate, and contact angle from captured video, and the channel dimension, given that the sample has reached a flow equilibrium condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Wasim KAPADIA, Ning QIN, Pei ZHAO, Chau-minh PHAN, Lacey A. HAINES, Lyndon William James JONES, Carolyn Liqing REN
  • Patent number: 11928132
    Abstract: Provided are a database processing method and apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium. The database processing method comprises: after a lock wait is generated, writing lock wait related information into a lock wait log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pin Lin, Yan Ding, Qinyuan Lu, Chen Qi, Yifang Yu, Pei Zhao
  • Patent number: 11753424
    Abstract: A crystalline form of phenyl bis (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide, with a large particle size, which belongs to a triclinic crystal system and space group P-1. A crystallization method for making the crystalline form of phenyl bis (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide, comprising adding a solid of phenyl bis (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide to a solvent and mixing; followed by heating to 50 to 70° C. to achieve complete dissolution; cooling the solution to room temperature; and adding an anti-solvent to the resulting solution to cause precipitation of crystals. The crystals are allowed to grow at a constant temperature for 10 to 60 minutes, so as to give a slurry containing the crystals. Said slurry is subjected to filtration and then drying to obtain the crystalline form of phenyl bis (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Tianjin University
    Inventors: Ying Bao, Pei Zhao, Mingshuo Chen, Baohong Hou, Chuang Xie, Lina Zhou
  • Patent number: 11727914
    Abstract: An example intent-recognition system comprises a processor and memory storing instructions. The instructions cause the processor to receive speech input comprising spoken words. The instructions cause the processor to generate text results based on the speech input and generate acoustic feature annotations based on the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to apply an intent model to the text result and the acoustic feature annotations to recognize an intent based on the speech input. An example system for adapting an emotional text-to-speech model comprises a processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive training examples comprising speech input and receive labelling data comprising emotion information associated with the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to extract audio signal vectors from the training examples and generate an emotion-adapted voice font model based on the audio signal vectors and the labelling data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Pei Zhao, Kaisheng Yao, Max Leung, Bo Yan, Jian Luan, Yu Shi, Malone Ma, Mei-Yuh Hwang
  • Publication number: 20230142966
    Abstract: The invention provides certain molybdenum-containing compounds which are believed to be useful in the vapor deposition of molybdenum-containing films onto the surface of various microelectronic device substrates. In one aspect, the invention provides a process for depositing a molybdenum-containing film onto a microelectronic device substrate, which comprises exposing the substrate, in a reaction zone, to a compound of Formula (I) as described herein, under vapor deposition conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Garrett, Michael Watson, Pei Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220340430
    Abstract: Provided is a method for purification of iodosilanes, such as diiodosilane. In this method, trace amounts of certain metal ion contaminants are removed, thus providing certain liquid compositions comprising the iodosilanes, which can be used advantageously in the deposition of silicon-containing films onto microelectronic device substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: SungCheol Yoon, HyunHo Jung, JongWon Nam, Shane Nunes, Pei Zhao, Anthony D. Ozzello
  • Publication number: 20220237089
    Abstract: A virtual machine backup method based on a cloud platform data center, comprising: creating an internal snapshot on the basis of a disk mirror image of a virtual machine of the cloud platform data center; and obtaining disk backup data of the virtual machine on the basis of the internal snapshot. The present invention may support rapid recovery of the virtual machine under various failure scenarios in the cloud platform data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Yifang Yu, Pei Zhao, Chen Qi
  • Publication number: 20220237209
    Abstract: Provided are a database processing method and apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium. The database processing method comprises: after a lock wait is generated, writing lock wait related information into a lock wait log.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Pin Lin, Yan Ding, Qinyuan Lu, Chen Qi, Yifang Yu, Pei Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220122580
    Abstract: An example intent-recognition system comprises a processor and memory storing instructions. The instructions cause the processor to receive speech input comprising spoken words. The instructions cause the processor to generate text results based on the speech input and generate acoustic feature annotations based on the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to apply an intent model to the text result and the acoustic feature annotations to recognize an intent based on the speech input. An example system for adapting an emotional text-to-speech model comprises a processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive training examples comprising speech input and receive labelling data comprising emotion information associated with the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to extract audio signal vectors from the training examples and generate an emotion-adapted voice font model based on the audio signal vectors and the labelling data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Pei ZHAO, Kaisheng YAO, Max LEUNG, Bo YAN, Jian LUAN, Yu SHI, Malone MA, Mei-Yuh HWANG
  • Patent number: 11286390
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel antimicrobial surfactants and their application in antimicrobial coating systems, in particular water borne coatings. Provided is a method for providing an antimicrobial surfactant, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a hyperbranched polyurea having blocked isocyanates at the end of the polymer branches by the polycondensation of AB2 monomers; (b) introducing tertiary amine groups by reacting said blocked isocyanates of the hyperbranched polyurea with a tertiary amine compound that is functionalized with —OH, —NH2, —SH, or —COO—; and (c) quaternization of said tertiary amine groups by reacting with an alkylating agent to obtain a quaternized hyperbranched polymer having antimicrobial surfactant properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Van Wijhe Beheer B.V.
    Inventors: Bram Fieten, Jan Wessels, Rainier Antonius Hermanus Brookhuis, Marie Louise Van Wijhe, Jacobus Antonius Loontjens, Pei Zhao, Hendrik Jan Busscher, Henderina Catharina Van Der Mei, Stefan Wouter Wessel, Francesco Mecozzi, Marianne Driesse
  • Patent number: 11238842
    Abstract: An example intent-recognition system comprises a processor and memory storing instructions. The instructions cause the processor to receive speech input comprising spoken words. The instructions cause the processor to generate text results based on the speech input and generate acoustic feature annotations based on the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to apply an intent model to the text result and the acoustic feature annotations to recognize an intent based on the speech input. An example system for adapting an emotional text-to-speech model comprises a processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive training examples comprising speech input and receive labelling data comprising emotion information associated with the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to extract audio signal vectors from the training examples and generate an emotion-adapted voice font model based on the audio signal vectors and the labelling data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Pei Zhao, Kaisheng Yao, Max Leung, Bo Yan, Jian Luan, Yu Shi, Malone Ma, Mei-Yuh Hwang
  • Publication number: 20210225357
    Abstract: An example intent-recognition system comprises a processor and memory storing instructions. The instructions cause the processor to receive speech input comprising spoken words. The instructions cause the processor to generate text results based on the speech input and generate acoustic feature annotations based on the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to apply an intent model to the text result and the acoustic feature annotations to recognize an intent based on the speech input. An example system for adapting an emotional text-to-speech model comprises a processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that cause the processor to receive training examples comprising speech input and receive labelling data comprising emotion information associated with the speech input. The instructions also cause the processor to extract audio signal vectors from the training examples and generate an emotion-adapted voice font model based on the audio signal vectors and the labelling data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Pei ZHAO, Kaisheng YAO, Max LEUNG, Bo YAN, Jian LUAN, Yu SHI, Malone MA, Mei-Yuh HWANG
  • Publication number: 20210214380
    Abstract: A crystalline form of phenyl bis (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide, with a large particle size, which belongs to a triclinic crystal system and space group P-1. A crystallization method for making the crystalline form of phenyl bis (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide, comprising adding a solid of phenyl bis (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide to a solvent and mixing; followed by heating to 50 to 70° C. to achieve complete dissolution; cooling the solution to room temperature; and adding an anti-solvent to the resulting solution to cause precipitation of crystals. The crystals are allowed to grow at a constant temperature for 10 to 60 minutes, so as to give a slurry containing the crystals. Said slurry is subjected to filtration and then drying to obtain the crystalline form of phenyl bis (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Tianjin University
    Inventors: Ying BAO, Pei Zhao, Mingshuo Chen, Baohong Hou, Chuang Xie, Lina Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190359828
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel antimicrobial surfactants and their application in antimicrobial coating systems, in particular water borne coatings. Provided is a method for providing an antimicrobial surfactant, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a hyperbranched polyurea having blocked isocyanates at the end of the polymer branches by the polycondensation of AB2 monomers; (b) introducing tertiary amine groups by reacting said blocked isocyanates of the hyperbranched polyurea with a tertiary amine compound that is functionalized with —OH, —NH2, —SH, or —COO—; and (c) quaternization of said tertiary amine groups by reacting with an alkylating agent to obtain a quaternized hyperbranched polymer having antimicrobial surfactant properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Bram FIETEN, Jan WESSELS, Rainier Antonius Hermanus BROOKHUIS, Marie Louise VAN WIJHE, Jacobus Antonius LOONTJENS, Pei ZHAO, Hendrik Jan BUSSCHER, Henderina Catharina VAN DER MEI, Stefan Wouter WESSEL, Francesco MECOZZI, Marianne DRIESSE
  • Patent number: 10355104
    Abstract: Methods of forming a field-effect transistor and structures for a field-effect transistor. A gate structure is formed that overlaps with a channel region beneath a top surface of a semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is etched with an anisotropic etching process to form a cavity having a sidewall with a planar section extending vertically toward the top surface of the semiconductor fin and adjacent to the channel region in the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is then etched with an isotropic etching process that widens the cavity at the top surface while preserving verticality of the planar section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Qi, Sang Woo Lim, Kyung-Bum Koo, Alina Vinslava, Pei Zhao, Zhenyu Hu, Hsien-Ching Lo, Joseph F. Shepard, Jr., Shesh Mani Pandey
  • Publication number: 20190163846
    Abstract: A method using drive test data for propagation model calibration includes: step 1, obtaining original drive test data; step 2, selecting the data from the drive test data according to predefined conditions as effective drive test data; and step 3, extracting the effective drive test data to form a data file used for propagation model calibration. An apparatus using drive test data for propagation model calibration includes: a drive test data obtaining module, configured to obtain the drive test data in the regions to be calibrated; an effective drive test data generation module, configured to generate effective drive test data from the drive test data according to predefined conditions; and a data file generation module, configured to extract the effective drive test data to form a data file used for propagation model calibration. The present invention utilizes drive test data of existing networks to largely decrease the CW test work and reduce the network building cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Yusheng Zhang, Sheng Zhou, Chenguang Wei, Li Zhang, Peng Gao, Wuije Hu, Yanyun Zhu, Wenhua Ma, Pei Zhao, Yaxi Hu, Hongbin Jin, Jing Yuan, Bin Zhang, Hanhui Wei, Hai Fu
  • Publication number: 20190131432
    Abstract: Methods of forming a field-effect transistor and structures for a field-effect transistor. A gate structure is formed that overlaps with a channel region beneath a top surface of a semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is etched with an anisotropic etching process to form a cavity having a sidewall with a planar section extending vertically toward the top surface of the semiconductor fin and adjacent to the channel region in the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is then etched with an isotropic etching process that widens the cavity at the top surface while preserving verticality of the planar section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Yi Qi, Sang Woo Lim, Kyung-Bum Koo, Alina Vinslava, Pei Zhao, Zhenyu Hu, Hsien-Ching Lo, Joseph F. Shepard, JR., Shesh Mani Pandey