Patents by Inventor Tao AN

Tao AN 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: 11943928
    Abstract: Embodiments of a channel hole plug structure of 3D memory devices and fabricating methods thereof are disclosed. The memory device includes an alternating layer stack disposed on a substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the alternating dielectric stack, a channel hole extending vertically through the alternating dielectric stack and the insulating layer, a channel structure including a channel layer in the channel hole, and a channel hole plug in the insulating layer and above the channel structure. The channel hole plug is electrically connected with the channel layer. A projection of the channel hole plug in a lateral plane covers a projection of the channel hole in the lateral plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Hong Xiao, Zhenyu Lu, Qian Tao, Yushi Hu, Jun Chen, LongDong Liu, Meng Wang
  • Patent number: 11943795
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems may support identification or determination of a common default beam for a component carrier (CC) group (e.g., such that all CCs of a CC group may be associated with a same default beam). For example, a CC group may be configured or established to include one or more CCs (e.g., for carrier aggregation), where each CC group may share a same analog beamformer. As such, a beam (e.g., a default uplink/downlink beam) may be established as default or common across CCs of a CC group (e.g., versus default beams being configured or established for individual CCs). Such an established default beam of a CC group (e.g., a default beam common to all CCs of a CC group) may include or refer to a default downlink shared channel beam, a default sounding reference signal (SRS) beam, a default downlink control channel beam, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo, Ruhua He
  • Patent number: 11940102
    Abstract: Systems and apparatus for providing long-term cold storage of solid materials such as dry ice are disclosed. The solid materials are stored in a tank configured to maintain the materials in their solid state. The tank is designed with a port sufficiently large to facilitate ingress and egress of the solid materials. A cryogenic liquid is used within the tank to substantially prevent the solid materials from sticking to each other, and to maintain the solid materials at a low temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Carver Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: T. Carver Anderson, Tao Fang, Croix Snapp, Mostafa Ghiaasiaan
  • Patent number: 11943031
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may update a capability to a network entity periodically when the complexity, power, or memory needs of the UE change. The UE may additionally update the capability upon being triggered by a network entity, during a time scheduled by the network entity, upon the expiration of a timer, etc. The capabilities may be or include explicit values for beam switching delay, or an index selecting delay values from a table previously configured to the UE, for example. Additionally, The UE and network entity may support communications according to capability values associated with a time delay between a transmitted reference signal with repetition and the UE being ready for a downlink transmission using a beam selected based on the reference signal. This capability may indicate to the network entity to avoid scheduling downlink messages during the delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11943643
    Abstract: An access point (AP) and a station (STA) communicate with each other, with the AP indicating to the STA either or both of a preamble detection (PD) channel and a signaling (SIG) content channel and with the STA being initially monitoring a primary frequency segment of a plurality of frequency segments in an operating bandwidth of the AP. A downlink (DL) or triggered uplink (UL) communication is performed between the AP and the STA during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) such that: (i) during the TXOP, the STA monitors a preamble on the PD channel and decodes a SIG content on the SIG content channel; and (ii) after an end of the TXOP, the STA switches to the primary frequency segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Ying Lu, Yongho Seok, Hung-Tao Hsieh, Cheng-Yi Chang, James Chih-Shi Yee, Jianhan Liu, Po-Yuen Cheng
  • Patent number: 11943677
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for beam recovery and radio link failure (RLF) in communications systems using beamforming and operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. An exemplary method that may be performed by a UE includes communicating using beamforming with a base station (BS) via a transmit beam and a receive beam of an active beam pair and obtaining an indication of one or more alternative beams for the UE to use to send a beam recovery message to the BS in the event the transmit beam and the receive beam of the active beam pair become misaligned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11943033
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to reselect a full-duplex beam pair using a beam management report include transmitting a beam management report that reports a set of one or more candidate full-duplex beam pairs from a UE to a base station. Methods and apparatus also include determining when to apply a full-duplex beam pair from the set of one or more candidate full-duplex beam pairs after transmitting the beam management report from the UE to the base station, and applying the full-duplex beam pair at a determined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11941733
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for motion signal recalibration. The method includes obtaining a motion signal of a subject based on positron emission tomography (PET) data of the subject. The motion signal may represent a plurality of motion cycles. The method includes determining a distribution of the motion cycles. The distribution of the motion cycles may indicate a probability that each motion cycle of the plurality of motion cycles corresponds to an actual motion cycle. The method includes correcting the motion cycles of the motion signal based on the distribution of the motion cycles to obtain corrected motion cycles. The method includes reconstructing a PET image by gating the PET data based on the corrected motion cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Feng, Gang Yang
  • Patent number: 11943051
    Abstract: Aspects present herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may encode a plurality of bits associated with QAM, the plurality of bits corresponding to a circular buffer associated with at least one RV, the plurality of bits including a plurality of systematic bits. The apparatus may also transfer the plurality of bits from the circular buffer associated with the at least one RV to a first buffer and a second buffer. Additionally, the apparatus may map the plurality of bits from the first buffer and the second buffer to a plurality of modulation symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Ma, Xiaoxia Zhang, Morteza Soltani, Raviteja Patchava, Elyes Balti, Tao Luo, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Zhifei Fan, Dung Ngoc Doan
  • Patent number: 11942038
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pixel driving circuit, a pixel driving method and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes the first thin film transistor, the second thin film transistor, the third thin film transistor, the fourth thin film transistor, the fifth thin film transistor, the sixth thin film transistor and the capacitor. The pixel driving circuit can be regarded as a 3 T0.5C circuit structure, so that two adjacent light-emitting devices on the same column can share a pixel driving circuit, and the threshold voltage of the driving thin film transistor and a voltage drop of the supply voltage can be compensated, thus the influence of the threshold voltage defect of the driving thin film transistor and the voltage drop of the supply voltage on the current flowing through the light-emitting device can be eliminated, to improve the display uniformity of the self-light-emitting display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Fan, Haijiang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11943020
    Abstract: In an aspect, a network device (e.g., BS, core network component, etc.) determines a self-interference measurement (SIM) configuration associated with null-forming at a wireless device (e.g., UE or BS), the null-forming associated with steering at least one receive beam of the wireless device and/or at least one transmit beam of the wireless device away from one or more external sources of self-interference. The network device transmits the SIM configuration to the wireless device. The wireless device performs at least one null-forming procedure in accordance with the SIM configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Qian Zhang, Kapil Gulati, Andrzej Partyka, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11943070
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Specifically, techniques that enable a base station to send a feedback message to a user equipment (UE) indicating a quality of uplink continuity are described. The base station may observe uplink communications received from the UE to determine a level of uplink continuity associated with the UE. Based on the measurements, the base station may transmit a feedback message indicating one or more measurements corresponding to the performance of the UE in maintaining uplink continuity. By utilizing techniques for indicating the quality of uplink continuity to the UE, the UE may address uplink continuity mismatches, which may increase overall network efficiency and improve channel estimations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11939528
    Abstract: A method for preparing biochar and hydrogen by utilizing anaerobic fermentation byproducts, the method including: (1) mixing a first straw, seeding sludge and distilled water, and then carrying out anaerobic fermentation to obtain a mixed product after fermentation; (2) performing separation on the mixed product to obtain a second straw and biogas slurry; and (3) carbonizing the second straw to obtain biochar, and collecting gas after a pressurized catalytic reaction on the biogas slurry to obtain hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guanyi Chen, Xiang Guo, Yurou Mao, Beibei Yan, Yanbin Zhang, Junyu Tao, Wanqing Li, Zhanjun Cheng, Wenchao Ma
  • Patent number: 11941734
    Abstract: A robotic system may comprise a first robotic arm operatively coupleable to a first tool. The first tool has a first working end. The system may also comprise an image capture device, a display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to cause an image of a work site, which was captured by the image capture device from a perspective of an image reference frame, to be displayed on the display. The image of the work site includes an image of the first working end of the first tool. The processor may also determine a position of the first working end of the first tool in the image of the work site and render a tool information overlay at the position of the first working end of the first tool in the image of the work site. The tool information overlay visually indicates state information for the first tool. The processor may also change the tool information overlay while the first tool is in a first operational state by changing a brightness of the tool information overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Simon P. DiMaio, Daniel J. Halabe, Christopher J. Hasser, Brian David Hoffman, David Q. Larkin, Catherine J. Mohr, Paul W. Mohr, Tao Zhao, Wenyi Zhao
  • Patent number: 11942716
    Abstract: A configurable electrical connector. The electrical connector includes conductors held by a housing. Contact tails of the conductors extend from a mounting face of the housing therethrough. The mounting face of the housing includes a slot. In some embodiments, the slot exposes portions of ground conductors of the connector and receives a member coupled with the exposed portions of the ground conductors such that the electrical connector can meet high performance requirements. The member may be inserted into or molded in the slot. In some embodiments, the slot may or may not receive a member that is insulative when the electrical connector does not need to meet the high performance requirements. Such a configuration enables the same connector to be compatible with multiple performance protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Amphenol Commercial Products (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing Liu, Yaohua Hou, Tao Zeng
  • Patent number: 11943641
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to beam failure recovery requests. In one example, a beam failure of a beam is detected, and a determination is made of which beam failure recovery resources to utilize for a beam failure recovery request based on a network configuration. The beam failure recovery request can be transmitted via beam failure recovery resources. In another example, a scheduling entity determines beam failure conditions associated with detecting a beam failure, and ascertains a network configuration for a scheduled entity that can include parameters associated with the beam failure conditions, as well as parameters associated with determining beam failure recovery resources or for transmitting a beam failure recovery request. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sumeeth Nagaraja, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11943610
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first signal associated with a downlink control channel, wherein the first signal uses a modulation signature that identifies a first security key associated with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), and wherein the first signal includes a second security key. The UE may receive a second signal associated with a downlink shared channel, wherein the second signal includes a third security key, and wherein the second signal is authenticated by the UE based at least in part on the first security key, the second security key, and the third security key. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yucheng Dai, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: D1019603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Hoyean Kim, Tao Lu, Alexander Demin
  • Patent number: D1019636
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Youyuan Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qiang Tao
  • Patent number: D1020030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventor: Tao Wang