Patents by Inventor Stephen (Hsiao Yi) Li

Stephen (Hsiao Yi) Li 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: 20250117828
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to data delivery. More specifically, some embodiments of the present technology relate to systems and methods for using spatial and temporal analysis to associate data sources with mobile devices. The delivery of data to support a wide variety of services for and about mobile devices that are based on data stored in corporate, commercial, and government databases which is not currently linked to individual mobile devices. Some embodiments allow advertisers to better target their ads to relevant target audiences with greater accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Dale Hartzell, Mark Welton, Michael Perri, Stephen Skory
  • Publication number: 20250115867
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, compositions of matter, and kits useful for augmentation of cells through modification of cellular membrane properties following ex vivo treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Stephen D. WOLPE, Leonard MILLER, Lynnet KOH, Thomas E. ICHIM
  • Publication number: 20250113906
    Abstract: A hair straightening apparatus has two arms pivotably coupled at a hinge, and a central pack disposed between the first and second arms and coupled with the hair styling apparatus at the hinge on a hinge end of hair straightening apparatus. A locking mechanism is disposed within the central pack, wherein the locking mechanism includes a symmetrical, elongate lock arm disposed lengthwise within the central pack. The locking mechanism is selectively operable to lock the first and second arms in the closed position. The central pack defines a longitudinal axis, and the elongate lock arm is movable relative to the central pack between the first and second positions in parallel with the longitudinal axis defined by the central pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Richard David NICOLAOU, Frederick Stuart GROTRIAN, George Normile Elliot BAXTER, Nathan Haruna Waters IMHASLY, Rory William BEAUMONT, Stephen Benjamin COURTNEY, Maurizio BALLARATI, Alexander Edward HUGHES, Robert Mark Brett COULTON
  • Publication number: 20250118518
    Abstract: A circuit breaker includes a line phase terminal, a load phase terminal, a line neutral terminal, a conductive path formed between the line phase terminal and the load phase terminal, the conductive path having an open configuration and closed configuration, a sensor, a linkage configured to move the conductive path between the open configuration and the closed configuration, a rocker selectively engageable with the linkage, the rocker configured to move the linkage between an open position and a closed position, and an arm selectively engageable with the rocker, the arm to prevent the conductive path from moving to the closed configuration unless the circuit breaker passes a self-test when movement of the rocker is detected. A trip operation of the circuit breaker includes a time delay based upon an amount of current on the conductive path detected by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Kamor, Stephen Aaron
  • Patent number: 12268187
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method operate an automatic and adaptive animal behavioral system. The system receives user configuration and feedback, and generates a training set based on online animal behavior patterns and received user feedback. The system trains one or multiple models based on the training set, if the training set is sufficiently large. It then validates the models, and provides system generated classifications and action types and levels for animal's behavior patterns, if the models' accuracy rate is above a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jenna Lau Caruso, Samaya Madhavan, Stephen Haertel, Geetha Kola, Laura Jane Bennett, Lior Aronovich
  • Patent number: 12273684
    Abstract: A system, including a central processor apparatus configured to receive input from a plurality of sound capture devices, wherein the central processor apparatus is configured to collectively evaluate the input from the plurality of sound capture devices to identify at least one spatial location that is more conducive to hearing with a hearing prosthesis relative to another spatial location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Alexander Von Brasch, Stephen Fung
  • Patent number: 12273725
    Abstract: A mobile device performs authentication with blinded tokens and swaps its international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) value. For authentication with blinded tokens, the mobile device generates a blinded token and provides it to a server to encrypt. To redeem the token, the mobile device unblinds the encrypted blinded token and provides it to the server along with a public key. To complete authentication, the mobile device receives, from the server, a nonce encrypted with the public key and decrypts the nonce with a private key. For swapping its IMSI value, the mobile device retrieves two eSIM profiles with corresponding IMSI values and configures the first of the two profiles as active. In response to a trigger, the mobile device changes the active profile from the first to the second, swaps the first IMSI value with a new IMSI value, and changes the active profile back to the first profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Private Tech Inc.
    Inventors: David Seth Dunn, Christopher William Stokes, Nicholas John Espinoza, Stephen James Dowhy, Clifford Marcus Owenby, John McKinstry Doyle
  • Patent number: 12271658
    Abstract: An example process includes: displaying, on a display of an electronic device, an extended reality (XR) environment corresponding to a copresence session including the electronic device and a second electronic device; while displaying the XR environment: sampling, with a microphone of the electronic device, a first audio input; determining whether the first audio input is intended for a first digital assistant operating on an external electronic device; and in accordance with a determination that the first audio input is intended for the first digital assistant: causing the first digital assistant to provide an audible response to the first audio input, where the audible response is not transmitted to the second electronic device over a shared communication channel for the copresence session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jessica J. Peck, James N. Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Lynn I. Streja, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: 12273015
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an advanced electric propulsion system comprises: a housing; an electric motor within the housing; a motor drive coupled to the motor; a thermal management system comprising: a manifold-mini-channel heat sink integrated into the housing, the manifold-mini-channel heat sink comprises: an inlet manifold having air inlets formed in front of the housing; a set of plurality of circumferentially grooved micro-channels formed in the housing and coupled to the air inlets and conductively thermally coupled to stator windings of the electric motor; an outlet manifold having an air outlets formed at a back of the housing and coupled to the set of plurality of circumferentially grooved micro-channels; wherein the electric motor comprises PEW stator windings that provide a low thermal resistance path from the stator of the electric motor to the housing; wherein the PEW stator windings comprise a high temperature tolerant thermally conductive electrical insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed A. Salam, Robert A. Dietrich, Evgeni Ganev, Stephen L. White
  • Patent number: 12271912
    Abstract: Methods and systems providing digital signage and interactive gaming services in compliance with federal and state laws and regulations are described. A service fee is collected from a retailer, and a service fee may or may not be collected from a retailer (e.g., a bar). An advertising fee is collected from a first advertising provider. The first advertising provider is involved in alcohol distribution/wholesaling or manufacturing. A second advertising fee from a second advertising provider is collected. The second advertising provider is involved in a non-alcohol related industry. A portion of a subscription fee is collected based on a separate source of fees (e.g., text message or jukebox fee) received from a patron. The message may contain information indicating that the patron wishes to pay a service fee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TOUCHTUNES MUSIC COMPANY LLC.
    Inventor: Stephen D. Straus
  • Patent number: 12270467
    Abstract: An off-highway recreational vehicle includes side-by-side passenger and driver seats held within a chassis. The seats sit low in the chassis and are covered by a roll-over protection system (ROPS). The vehicle is powered by an engine rearward of the seats that utilizes a continuously variable transmission (CVT) to provide power to the ground engaging members, wherein the CVT is cooled via air captured by a CVT intake body located adjacent the driver-side seat, between the frame and external panels of the utility vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Hunter Davis, Nathan Lundstrom, Logan Bastian, Stephen Deck, Judson Houston, Russell Conine, Deanna Mock, John Stocks, David Horne, Matthew Fields
  • Patent number: 12270815
    Abstract: This disclosure provides for devices, methods, and systems for generating a plurality of droplets within a collecting container at an extremely high rate (e.g., of at least 1 million droplets per minute, etc.), each of the plurality of droplets comprising an aqueous mixture for a digital analysis, wherein upon generation, the plurality of droplets is stabilized in position within a region of the collecting container. The inventions enable partitioning of samples for digital analyses at unprecedented rates, where readout of signals from targets within such partitions can still be achieved in accordance with various assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Countable Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Hei Mun Christina Fan, Janice Hoiyi Lai, Sixing Li, Stephen P. A. Fodor, Eleen Yee Lam Shum
  • Patent number: 12272202
    Abstract: Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines that may include one or more notched display screens. The notched display screens are defined by a non-rectangular shape. One or more portions of the display screen is removed, such that a variety of shapes can result from one or more cuts in the screen. In some examples, two or more notched display screens are arranged to provide a common and/or coordinated display. In some examples, a void from the removed portions can be used to present a feature, such as a mechanical reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Shaffer, Jr., Rajendrasinh Jadeja, Frank Rodriguez, Xiaoqiang Gong, Alfred Thomas, Joseph Masinter, II
  • Patent number: 12272457
    Abstract: A ventilation system operates in one of a plurality of modes for communicating ventilation information with a computing device, and operating parameters of a ventilation device are remotely modified based on system data. Ventilation data is received from a ventilation device and an alarm associated with the ventilation device or the patient associated with the ventilation device is determined based on at least a portion of the ventilation data. Responsive to determining the alarm, the alarm is transmitted to the computing device before the ventilator data is transmitted to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tom Steinhauer, Willis Lam, Mark Rogers, Terry Blansfield, Stephen J. Birch
  • Patent number: 12271317
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for creating high density logical to physical mapping are described. A memory system may implement storage of mapping information to store the logical addresses and the corresponding physical addresses. A memory system may receive a command associated with data and a corresponding set of logical addresses, and in some cases the memory device may determine that the logical addresses are sequential. The memory device may generate and store a set of compressed entries in a macro level of the mapping information. When the memory system receives a command associated with an exception to the sequential logical addresses, the memory system may update an entry of the macro level to include a pointer to a set of entries in another level of the mapping information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Hanna
  • Patent number: 12271262
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus related to data recovery in memory devices. In one approach, a memory device encodes stored data. The memory device reads a codeword from a storage media and determines that a number errors in the codeword exceeds an error correction capability of the memory device. The errors are due, for example, to one or more stuck bits. In response to this determination, one or more data patterns are written to the storage media at the same address from which the codeword is read. The data patterns are read to identify bit locations of the stuck bits. The identified locations are used to correct bit errors of the read codeword that correspond to the identified locations. The corrected code word is sent to a host device (e.g., which requested data from the memory device using a read command).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Edward Fackenthal, Sean Stephen Eilert
  • Patent number: 12269322
    Abstract: A quarter window assembly for a soft top cover assembly that is removable. The quarter window assembly is connectable to the soft cover assembly. The quarter window assembly has a hard corner assembly mountable to features connected to a vehicle. The hard corner assembly is an injection molded plastic assembly. The quarter window assembly also has a panel carrying at least one window, and the panel is secured to the hard corner assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Bestop, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Lewis, Charles C. Turney, Jonathon G. Moore, Duane C. Junkin
  • Patent number: 12270479
    Abstract: In an aspect, an inflatable object includes an object body enclosing a chamber to receive air, and a valve mounted to the inflatable object body, including a valve body defining a passageway between the chamber and an ambient environment. The valve body has a shoulder. The valve body defines an outside end, which opens to the ambient environment, and an inside end, which opens into the chamber. The valve includes a one-way flap that is movable between an open position to permit fluid communication between the chamber and the ambient environment through the passageway, and a closed position. The one-way flap is biased to the closed position with a closing force selected to be overcomable to move the one-way flap to the open position by an airflow having a speed that is less than about 48 m/s, and which is at a pressure lower than 1 atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SPIN MASTER, INC.
    Inventors: C. Latham Gaines, Stephen C. Graner
  • Patent number: 12273289
    Abstract: Synchronization signal and Physical Broadcast Channel, SS/PBCH, block management. A network node determines whether a network condition is met, signals to a communication terminal to apply a first detection method for SS/PBCH block detection when the network condition is determined to be met, signals to the communication terminal to apply a second detection method for SS/PBCH block detection when the network condition is determined as not met, and transmits SS/PBCH blocks according to the first or the second SS/PBCH block detection method, based on whether the network condition is met. The communication terminal receives the signalling from the network node associated with the communication network, determines whether the indicated SS/PBCH block detection method is a first or a second SS/PBCH block detection method based on the received signalling, and applies, based on the determination, the first or the second SS/PBCH block detection method for SS/PBCH block detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Peter Alriksson, Emma Wittenmark, Stephen Grant
  • Patent number: D1069964
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HS Produkt D.O.O.
    Inventors: Marijo Spine, Dennis J. Reese, Stephen H. McKelvain