Patents by Inventor Peng Zou

Peng Zou 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).

  • Patent number: 9586188
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering fluid-containing feed materials to process equipment are disclosed. A liner-based pressure dispensing vessel is subjected to filling by application of vacuum between the liner and overpack. Multiple feed material flow controllers of different calibrated flow ranges may be selectively operated in parallel for a single feed material. Feed material blending and testing for scale-up may be performed with feed materials supplied by multiple liner-based pressure dispensing containers. A gravimetric system may be used to determine concentration of at least one component of a multi-component solution or mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Lurcott, John E. Q. Hughes, Peter Wrschka, Thomas H. Baum, Donald D. Ware, Peng Zou
  • Publication number: 20170059480
    Abstract: A device may receive information identifying results of a spectroscopic measurement of an unknown sample. The device may perform a first classification of the unknown sample based on the results of the spectroscopic measurement and a global classification model. The device may generate a local classification model based on the first classification. The device may perform a second classification of the unknown sample based on the results of the spectroscopic measurement and the local classification model. The device may provide information identifying a class associated with the unknown sample based on performing the second classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Changmeng HSIUNG, Christopher G. PEDERSON, Peng ZOU, Lan SUN
  • Publication number: 20170020021
    Abstract: A server housing includes a housing bottom plate including an engaging hole and a hidden tray device including a tray bottom plate, a switch body, and a handle member. The tray bottom plate includes a receiving opening, a guiding trough, a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The receiving opening and guiding trough penetrate through the tray bottom plate. The second surface is near the housing bottom plate. The switch body fastened to the first surface includes an engaging portion. The engaging portion passes through the receiving opening and is in the engaging hole. The handle member includes a handle body, a guiding portion, and a pressing unit. The guiding portion is connected to the handle body and is disposed in the guiding trough. The handle body and the pressing unit are between the tray bottom plate and the housing bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Zhong-Hui MAO, Zhi-Peng ZOU
  • Publication number: 20160374227
    Abstract: A server includes a chassis, a protecting component and at least one power supply. The chassis includes a case, a cover and a lid. The cover is disposed on the case to form at least one accommodating space, and the lid is detachably disposed on the case and covers the cover. The protecting component is assembled on the cover and includes a pressed sheet spring and a first blocking sheet spring. Both the pressed sheet spring and the first blocking sheet spring includes a bending section, and the bending sections are separated apart. The two sheet springs are fastened to the cover to form a fastening part, and the two sheet springs are connected to each other to form a movable part. The two sheet springs move simultaneously when the movable part is moved relative to the cover. The power supply is removably disposed in the accommodating space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Zhi-Peng ZOU, Zhong-Hui MAO
  • Patent number: 9518103
    Abstract: Provided herein are variants of an archaerhodopsin useful for application such as optical measurement of membrane potential. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, cells comprising the polynucleotides, and cells comprising the polypeptides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, The Governors of the University of Alberta
    Inventors: Adam E. Cohen, Daniel Hochbaum, Peng Zou, Samouil Leon Farhi, Robert Earl Campbell, Yongxin Zhao, Daniel Jed Harrison
  • Patent number: 9510477
    Abstract: A server includes a chassis, a protecting component and at least one power supply. The chassis includes a case, a cover and a lid. The cover is disposed on the case to form at least one accommodating space, and the lid is detachably disposed on the case and covers the cover. The protecting component is assembled on the cover and includes a pressed sheet spring and a first blocking sheet spring. Both the pressed sheet spring and the first blocking sheet spring includes a bending section, and the bending sections are separated apart. The two sheet springs are fastened to the cover to form a fastening part, and the two sheet springs are connected to each other to form a movable part. The two sheet springs move simultaneously when the movable part is moved relative to the cover. The power supply is removably disposed in the accommodating space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Zhi-Peng Zou, Zhong-Hui Mao
  • Publication number: 20160315532
    Abstract: Described is a soft-start scheme for a voltage regulator. The apparatus comprises: a first voltage regulator to provide regulated voltage to an output node coupled to a load, the first voltage regulator operable to be in open loop via a bypass unit, the first voltage regulator including a comparator; and a second voltage regulator, coupled to the first voltage regulator, operable to be in closed loop, via the bypass unit, to provide a reference voltage for the comparator of the first voltage regulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Raghu Nandan Chepuri, Fenardi Thenus, Peng Zou, Henry W. Koertzen
  • Publication number: 20160281238
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for monitoring a vapor deposition installation in which a gas mixture can undergo gas phase nucleation (GPN) and/or chemically attack the product device, under process conditions supportive of such behavior. The apparatus includes a radiation source arranged to transmit source radiation through a sample of the gas mixture, and a thermopile detector assembly arranged to receive output radiation resulting from interaction of the source radiation with the gas mixture sample, and to responsively generate an output indicative of onset of the gas phase nucleation and/or chemical attack when such onset occurs. Such monitoring apparatus and methodology is useful in tungsten CVD processing to achieve high rate tungsten film growth without GPN or chemical attack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Jose I. Arno, Joseph R. Despres, Shkelqim Letaj, Steven M. Lurcott, Thomas H. Baum, Peng Zou
  • Patent number: 9454190
    Abstract: A fixing mechanism which is capable of assembling an expansion card module includes a base, a latch and a resilient component. The expansion card module slidably inserts into the base. The latch pivots to an accommodating portion of the base to switch between a first position and a second position. The latch includes a pressing portion and a pushing portion connected with each other. The pressing portion presses a side of the expansion card module since the latch is switched to the first position. The pushing portion pushes an opposite side of the expansion card module since the latch is switched to the second position, so as to upwardly move the expansion card module relative to the base. The resilient component is located inside the accommodating portion to actuate the latch and drives the latch to stay at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong-hui Mao, Peng-Cheng Zhang, Yu Chen, Zhi-Peng Zou, Shan-Gen Du
  • Patent number: 9436576
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to capture error conditions in lightweight virtual machine managers. A disclosed example method includes defining a shared memory structure between the VMM and a virtual machine (VM), when the VM is spawned by the VMM, installing an abort handler on the VM associated with a vector value, in response to detecting an error, transferring VMM state information to the shared memory structure, and invoking the abort handler on the VM to transfer contents of the shared memory structure to a non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bing Zhu, Peng Zou, Madhukar Tallam, Luhai Chen, Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 9348383
    Abstract: Described is a soft-start scheme for a voltage regulator. The apparatus comprises: a first voltage regulator to provide regulated voltage to an output node coupled to a load, the first voltage regulator operable to be in open loop via a bypass unit, the first voltage regulator including a comparator; and a second voltage regulator, coupled to the first voltage regulator, operable to be in closed loop, via the bypass unit, to provide a reference voltage for the comparator of the first voltage regulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raghu Nandan Chepuri, Fenardi Thenus, Peng Zou, Henry W. Koertzen
  • Patent number: 9340878
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for monitoring a vapor deposition installation in which a gas mixture can undergo gas phase nucleation (GPN) and/or chemically attack the product device, under process conditions supportive of such behavior. The apparatus includes a radiation source arranged to transmit source radiation through a sample of the gas mixture, and a thermopile detector assembly arranged to receive output radiation resulting from interaction of the source radiation with the gas mixture sample, and to responsively generate an output indicative of onset of the gas phase nucleation and/or chemical attack when such onset occurs. Such monitoring apparatus and methodology is useful in tungsten CVD processing to achieve high rate tungsten film growth without GPN or chemical attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.
    Inventors: Jose I. Arno, Joseph R. Despres, Shkelqim Letaj, Steven M. Lurcott, Thomas H. Baum, Peng Zou
  • Publication number: 20160111061
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus that comprises: a programmable delay line (PDL) to receive a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal as input and to generate a first output; a selection unit operable to provide PWM signal or its inverted version as a second output; and a sequential unit coupled to the PDL, the sequential unit to sample the second output with the first output, the sequential unit to generate a pulse-frequency modulation (PFM) output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Fenardi THENUS, Peng ZOU, Raghu Nandan CHEPURI, Henry K. KOERTZEN
  • Publication number: 20160077864
    Abstract: A method of an aspect includes receiving an indication of an attempt by a virtual machine to modify a paging structure identification storage location to have a given value. It is determined that the given value matches at least one of a set of one or more blacklist values. The attempt by the virtual machine to modify the paging structure identification storage location to have the given value is trapped to a virtual machine monitor. Other methods, apparatus, and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bing Zhu, Luhai Chen, Peng Zou, Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20160033394
    Abstract: A method includes decomposing a training set to obtain a principal component matrix having a plurality of principal component vectors. The method also includes variably rejecting portions of a sample spectrum vector that do not correspond to a selected one of the plurality of principal component vectors by incrementally providing a coefficient indicative of the weighting of the selected principal component vector for selected sub-regions. A corrected spectrum vector can be obtained by excluding certain sub-regions of the sample spectrum vector and corresponding principal component vector, multiplying the sample spectrum vector with the principal component matrix for non-excluded sub-regions, providing a predicted interference vector, and subtracting the predicted interference vector from the sample spectrum vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin Judge, Greger Andersson, Peng Zou
  • Publication number: 20160033393
    Abstract: A spectroscopic scanning device, a portable spectroscopic scanning system, and methods for using the spectroscopic scanning device are described that include at least one focusing element configured to collect light, a beam-steering element configured to direct a portion of the collected light from the at least one focusing element, and a detector configured to receive the directed light from the beam-steering element, wherein the beam-steering element is operable to successively select portions of light from a plurality of locations within its field of regard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Maxim Frayer, Juan Ivaldi, Peng Zou
  • Publication number: 20160018859
    Abstract: A fixing mechanism which is capable of assembling an expansion card module includes a base, a latch and a resilient component. The expansion card module slidably inserts into the base. The latch pivots to an accommodating portion of the base to switch between a first position and a second position. The latch includes a pressing portion and a pushing portion connected with each other. The pressing portion presses a side of the expansion card module since the latch is switched to the first position. The pushing portion pushes an opposite side of the expansion card module since the latch is switched to the second position, so as to upwardly move the expansion card module relative to the base. The resilient component is located inside the accommodating portion to actuate the latch and drives the latch to stay at the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Zhong-hui Mao, Peng-Cheng Zhang, Yu Chen, Zhi-Peng Zou, Shan-Gen Du
  • Publication number: 20160013018
    Abstract: An isotopically-enriched, boron-containing compound comprising two or more boron atoms and at least one fluorine atom, wherein at least one of the boron atoms contains a desired isotope of boron in a concentration or ratio greater than a natural abundance concentration or ratio thereof. The compound may have a chemical formula of B2F4. Synthesis methods for such compounds, and ion implantation methods using such compounds, are described, as well as storage and dispensing vessels in which the isotopically-enriched, boron-containing compound is advantageously contained for subsequent dispensing use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Kaim, Joseph D. Sweeney, Oleg Byl, Sharad N. Yedave, Edward E. Jones, Peng Zou, Ying Tang, Barry Lewis Chambers, Richard S. Ray
  • Patent number: 9223602
    Abstract: A method of an aspect includes receiving an indication of an attempt by a virtual machine to modify a paging structure identification storage location to have a given value. It is determined that the given value matches at least one of a set of one or more blacklist values. The attempt by the virtual machine to modify the paging structure identification storage location to have the given value is trapped to a virtual machine monitor. Other methods, apparatus, and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bing Zhu, Luhai Chen, Peng Zou, Kai Wang
  • Publication number: 20150369740
    Abstract: Provided herein are variants of an archaerhodopsin useful for application such as optical measurement of membrane potential. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, cells comprising the polynucleotides, and cells comprising the polypeptides; and methods of using the variants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicants: President and Fellows of Harvard College, The Governors of the University of Alberta
    Inventors: Adam E. Cohen, Daniel Hochbaum, Peng Zou, Samouil Leon Farhi, Robert Earl Campbell, Yongxin Zhao, Daniel Jed Harrison