Patents by Inventor Samuel Liu

Samuel Liu 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: 20240133288
    Abstract: A system can receive data relating to a tubular of a well system. The system can execute a first module to determine first outputs. The system can execute a second module to determine second outputs based on the first outputs. The system can execute a third module to determine third outputs based on the first outputs. The second outputs can include a crack-initiation fracture pressure, and the third outputs can include a crack-propagation fracture pressure. The system can identify a brittle-burst strength of the tubular from among the second outputs, the third outputs, and a standard burst strength of the tubular. The system can provide the brittle-burst strength of the tubular to facilitate an adjustment to the tubular to optimize a wellbore operation associated with the well system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zhengchun Michael Liu, Robello Samuel, Adolfo Gonzales, Yongfeng Kang
  • Patent number: 11965020
    Abstract: Antigen binding molecules (ABMs) comprising Fab domains in non-native configurations, ABM conjugates comprising the ABMs and cytotoxic or cytostatic agents, pharmaceutical compositions containing the ABMs and ABM conjugates, methods of using the ABMs, ABM conjugates and pharmaceutical compositions for treating cancer, nucleic acids encoding the ABMs, cells engineered to express the ABMs, and methods of producing ABMs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Erica Pyles, Michael Rosconi, Nina Liu, Supriya Patel, Eric Smith, Andrew Murphy, Chia-Yang Lin, Samuel Davis
  • Patent number: 11959054
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a substrate apparatus (and methods of manufacturing the same) with one or more substrates having a substrate spacing for growing a cell mass. In particular embodiments, the disclosed substrate apparatus includes a substrate wound into a coiled configuration with an intra-coil spacing between coil layers. To provide the intra-coil spacing, certain implementations use a separator. For example, a separator is applied to a substrate surface, and the separator-substrate combination is wound together (e.g., around a spool). In turn, a locking element is attached to the substrate to maintain the coiled configuration. The separator is then removed via heat treatment, chemical treatment, or physical displacement—thereby leaving the intra-coil spacing between the coil layers. Alternatively, no separator is used to provide a substrate spacing. For example, in lieu of a separator, the locking element is actively applied to the substrate during the winding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Upside Foods, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Jiajong Liu, Jaewon Samuel Kang
  • Patent number: 11945658
    Abstract: A platform for processing a workpiece includes a transmission mechanism, a plurality of workstations and a plurality of movable vehicles. The transmission mechanism transports the workpiece to be processed to one of the plurality of workstations. Each movable vehicle includes a processing module and a docking interface adapted to connect with a docking station of each workstation. The movable vehicles are each adapted to move in and out of each workstation, and each processing module is adapted to process the workpiece transmitted to the workstation after the movable vehicle is moved in and positioned in the workstation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Qingdao) Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Fengchun (Fred) Xie, An (Joshua) Yang, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Wenhe Ma, Peng Ji, Zongjie (Jason) Tao, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Tao Xu
  • Publication number: 20240102376
    Abstract: A system can generate, via a software model, downhole pressure estimations and downhole debris estimations using caving parameters. Additionally, the system can generate, via the software model, settled caving volume percent estimations using the caving parameters. The system can determine a pack off volume percent using the downhole pressure estimations, the downhole debris estimations, and the settled caving volume percent estimations. The system can output, via a user interface, the pack off indicator and a subset of the caving parameters for use in adjusting a wellbore operation. The user interface can provide a plot of the pack off volume percent horizontally offset with respect to a plot of the subset of the caving parameters and a depth of the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Zhengchun Michael Liu, Robello Samuel
  • Publication number: 20240090718
    Abstract: A surface cleaning device includes a nozzle and an odor dial assembly. The nozzle includes a nozzle housing and a dirty air passageway. The odor dial assembly include a fragrance member and a dial body configured to be removably coupled to the nozzle housing. The dial body at least partially defines a fragrance cavity configured to at least partially receive the fragrance member and a fragrance passageway extending therethrough. The odor dial assembly is configured to transition between a plurality of user-selectable positions to adjust an amount of fragrance particles released by the fragrance member into the dirty air passageway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan M. COPELAND, Samuel J. LEVINE, Justin G. RILEY, Daniel R. DER MARDEROSIAN, Qiang LIU, Peng Fei LIU, Kui LIU, Bo GAO, Jiancheng WANG, Jeremy MCDANIEL
  • Publication number: 20240086549
    Abstract: The invention relates to generating cryptographic tokens based on characteristic determination. The system may generate and transmit a request for encrypted records from a blockchain node, receive the encrypted records from the blockchain node, decrypt the encrypted records into payload identifiers, retrieve sets of item identifiers based on the payload identifiers, determine characteristics associated with the sets of items, and generate a new cryptographic token that indicates the characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel RAPOWITZ, Julian DUQUE, Purva SHANKER, Dennis LIU
  • Publication number: 20240089105
    Abstract: The invention relates to generating cryptographic tokens based on received records. The system may receive a blockchain operation request comprising a plurality of records, encrypt a plurality of records into an encrypted payload, generate a cryptographic token based on the encrypted payload, and cause the cryptographic token to be committed to a blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Julian DUQUE, Purva SHANKER, Samuel RAPOWITZ, Dennis LIU
  • Publication number: 20240076979
    Abstract: A method for controlling computerized operations related to a wellbore comprises drilling the wellbore in a subsurface formation with a drill string including a drill bit. The method comprises acquiring a plurality of drilling parameters while drilling the wellbore. The method comprises determining, based on the plurality of drilling parameters, solids properties for solids forming a cutting plug up hole of the drill bit. The method comprises determining a length of the cutting plug based on the solids properties. The method comprises determining a cutting plug friction force based on the cutting plug length and a pressure differential across the cutting plug. The method comprises performing a drilling operation based on the cutting plug friction force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Robello Samuel, Zhengchun Michael Liu
  • Patent number: 11920455
    Abstract: A method for controlling computerized operations related to a wellbore comprises drilling the wellbore in a subsurface formation with a drill string including a drill bit. The method comprises acquiring a plurality of drilling parameters while drilling the wellbore. The method comprises determining, based on the plurality of drilling parameters, solids properties for solids forming a cutting plug up hole of the drill bit. The method comprises determining a length of the cutting plug based on the solids properties. The method comprises determining a cutting plug friction force based on the cutting plug length and a pressure differential across the cutting plug. The method comprises performing a drilling operation based on the cutting plug friction force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Robello Samuel, Zhengchun Michael Liu
  • Patent number: 11745963
    Abstract: The object collecting heads for object collecting systems includes several embodiments of object collecting heads including light and heavy-duty object collecting heads. The object collecting heads are used to grasp and convey differently sized and randomly shaped objects from a surface to an object holding bin of the object collecting system and are attached to the object holding bin using an adjustable support assembly. Both object collecting heads have three blocks including an upper block, a lower left block, and a lower right block. The lower blocks are connected to each other and the adjustable support assembly by an angled lower block bracket. The upper block is attached to the lower blocks by spring-loaded hinges, such that the upper block is urged toward the lower blocks to grasp an object therebetween. The light-duty object collecting head is a chain-based head, while the heavy-duty object collecting head is a roller-based head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kan Cui, Margaret Liu, Samuel Liu
  • Publication number: 20190127193
    Abstract: The elevating lift with a stabilized movable base includes a base with extendable legs that provide minimum to maximum adjustable stability during use and transport. A lift system is mounted on the base, and a platform assembly is mounted on top of the lift system for selective raising or lowering. Each extendable leg supports a caster, rendering the base movable, and selective extension and retraction of the legs adjusts the stability of the lift. The plurality of legs can be further driven to simultaneously rotate about the vertical axis to steer the lift. The stabilized movable base is further alternatively used in combination with a stool, providing minimum to maximum stability during use and transport of seating, and multiple to elevating lifts may be used to support linked platform assemblies in various configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Kan CUI, Margaret K. LIU, Samuel LIU
  • Patent number: 8578387
    Abstract: An embodiment of a computing system is configured to process data using a multithreaded SIMD architecture that includes heterogeneous processing engines to execute a program. The program is constructed of various program instructions. A first type of the program instructions can only be executed by a first type of processing engine and a third type of program instructions can only be executed by a second type of processing engine. A second type of program instructions can be executed by the first and the second type of processing engines. An assignment unit may be configured to dynamically determine which of the two processing engines executes any program instructions of the second type in order to balance the workload between the heterogeneous processing engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Peter C. Mills, Stuart F. Oberman, John Erik Lindholm, Samuel Liu
  • Patent number: 7885546
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for multiplexing multiple Ethernet-based data streams in an optical network reduce the number of optical transceivers required by the optical network. Multiple data streams are multiplexed into a combined data stream, transmitted from a node in the optical network as the combined data stream, and demultiplexed at the receiving node. Data streams are multiplexed and demultiplexed at the bit level, and packets from each data stream are routed based on a VLAN tag that is contained in the header of each packet. By transmitting the information contained in multiple data streams as a single multiplexed data stream, the number of optical transceivers required for the optical network may be reduced by more than half. An optical supervisory channel may also be bundled with one of the data streams to eliminate the need for a dedicated transceiver for the optical supervisory channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Oclaro (North America), Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Liu, Xiaodong Duan, Giovanni Barbarossa
  • Patent number: 7834881
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for simulating a multi-ported memory using lower port count memories as banks. A collector units gather source operands from the banks as needed to process program instructions. The collector units also gather constants that are used as operands. When all of the source operands needed to process a program instruction have been gathered, a collector unit outputs the source operands to an execution unit while avoiding writeback conflicts to registers specified by the program instruction that may be accessed by other execution units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Liu, John Erik Lindholm, Ming Y Siu, Brett W. Coon, Stuart F. Oberman
  • Patent number: 7760972
    Abstract: The present invention provides a switch assembly for use with a single-port OPM to realize a multi-port OPM having improved reliability. In one embodiment, an N×1 optical switch assembly, wherein N is an integer greater than one, is provided. The optical switch assembly includes N optical input ports, N micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) variable optical attenuators (VOAs), where each MEMS VOA is optically coupled to a respective optical input port and is operable between an on position and an off position, and an N×1 optical combiner optically coupled to the N MEMS VOAs. Each MEMS VOA is configured to transmit an optical signal from a respective one of the optical input ports to the N×1 optical combiner in the on position and to not transmit the optical signal in the off position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Oclaro Technology, plc
    Inventors: Joe Wen, Samuel Liu, Giovanni Barbarossa
  • Patent number: 7680988
    Abstract: A shared memory is usable by concurrent threads in a multithreaded processor, with any addressable storage location in the shared memory being readable and writeable by any of the threads. Processing engines that execute the threads are coupled to the shared memory via an interconnect that transfers data in only one direction (e.g., from the shared memory to the processing engines); the same interconnect supports both read and write operations. The interconnect advantageously supports multiple parallel read or write operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Nickolls, Brett W. Coon, Ming Y. Siu, Stuart F. Oberman, Samuel Liu
  • Publication number: 20100061726
    Abstract: An Ethernet switch is used to dynamically reconfigure an optical network having a fixed optical layer. The Ethernet switch is incorporated into a transmission node of the optical network to selectively route data streams received through its input channels to one of the output channels. The data streams at the output channels are multiplexed into multiple wavelength channels of a multiplexed optical signal, and the wavelength channels are selectively dropped at local nodes of the optical network. In addition, the Ethernet switch can be used to reroute data from a single data stream to multiple wavelength channels, and thereby perform sub-wavelength multiplexing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Giovanni Barbarossa, Xiaodong Duan, Samuel Liu
  • Publication number: 20100014858
    Abstract: Packet loss in an optical network transporting Ethernet-based data traffic is reduced using a switch in a transmitting node. When the transmitting node of the optical network detects a fault in an optical link, the switch buffers incoming data traffic until the optical link is reestablished. The switch may be an Ethernet switch that re-routes data traffic along one or more additional optical fibers that are connected in parallel with a defunct optical fiber to reestablish the optical link between two nodes. The switch may also be an optical switch that is configured to re-route optical data traffic from a defunct optical fiber to a redundant optical fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Giovanni Barbarossa, Xiaodong Duan, Samuel Liu
  • Publication number: 20090116847
    Abstract: A supervisory signal is superimposed onto a high-speed data stream so that the number of optical transceivers needed by an optical network is reduced. The supervisory signal is superimposed onto the high-speed data stream as an in-band modulation of the data stream. To improve signal-to-noise ratio of the in-band supervisory signal, the supervisory signal is first modulated to a higher frequency before it is superimposed onto the high-speed data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Xiaodong DUAN, Samuel Liu, Giovanni Barbarossa