Patents by Inventor Tao Zhou

Tao Zhou 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: 20250006822
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a gate-all-around TFET device. The method comprises: forming, on a substrate, a channel stack comprising channel layer(s) and sacrificial layer(s) that alternate with each other; forming, on the substrate, a dummy gate astride the channel stack; forming a first spacer at a surface of the dummy gate; etching the sacrificial layer(s) to form recesses on side surfaces of the channel stack; forming second spacers in the recesses, respectively; fabricating a source and a drain separately, where a region for fabricating the source is shielded by a dielectric material when fabricating the drain, and a region for fabricating the drain is shielded by another dielectric material when fabricating the source; etching the dummy gate and the sacrificial layer(s) to form a space for a surrounding gate; and fabricating a surrounding dielectric-metal gate in the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Na Zhou, Junjie Li, Jianfeng Gao, Tao Yang, Junfeng Li, Jun Luo
  • Publication number: 20250000320
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for controlling a cleaning robot, a cleaning robot, and a storage medium. The method include: acquiring an edge cleaning trajectory of the cleaning robot marked on a grid map; determining a central area grid associated with the cleaning robot in real time; and controlling the cleaning robot to exit an edge cleaning state in response to determining a repeated section of edge cleaning of the cleaning robot based on the edge cleaning trajectory and the central area grid. Compared to the related art, the present disclosure enables the cleaning robot to exit the edge cleaning state in time, avoiding repeated edge cleaning and improving the cleaning efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Tao SUN, Jiying REN, Lin SHAO, Sunchun ZHOU, Cong WANG
  • Publication number: 20250000321
    Abstract: Provided are a cleaning device and a control method, a cleaning device and a detection apparatus. The cleaning device includes a device body, which includes a cleaning module acting on an object to be cleaned (M); a humidity detection mechanism provided in the device body and in contact with the object to be cleaned (M), to detect a humidity of the object to be cleaned (M); and a control module provided in the device body and connected to the humidity detection mechanism to perform control processing according to humidity data detected and obtained by the humidity detection mechanism. The humidity detection for the object to be cleaned (M) is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: TINECO INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian HUANG, Weidong LIU, Zhikang LIU, Xiaoyong WANG, Tao XU, Zhen CHEN, Rendi WU, Dehua ZHOU, Chunfeng ZHOU, Yin TANG, Hongbin JIANG, Yuan WANG
  • Publication number: 20250007677
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information associated with a single downlink control information (DCI) multiple transmit receive point (TRP) mode, wherein the configuration information indicates at least one of respective repetition modes for one or more physical channels or a list of configured reference signals. The UE may receive an indication of a pair of unified transmission configuration indicators (TCIs). The UE may communicate with at least one of a first TRP or a second TRP using beam directions associated with the pair of unified TCIs based at least in part on the configuration information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Patent number: 12185124
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) communicates with a network node based on a first transmission configuration indication (TCI) state. The UE receives control information indicating a second TCI state from a TCI candidate set that comprises a list of TCI states that can be activated for future communication, the TCI candidate set including a first set of TCI states associated with the first TCI state. The UE updates, in response to receiving the control information indicating the second TCI state, the TCI candidate set to include a second set of TCI states that have a second association with the second TCI state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Hua Wang, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12185296
    Abstract: A base station and a UE may communicate using directional beams, such as a downlink directional beam (used to transmit downlink channels) and an uplink directional beam (used to transmit uplink channels), each beam carrying one or more data channels, control channels, and/or reference signals. According to one aspect, signaling for managing the uplink channels and downlink channels may be sent over a shared common beam. The shared common beam is distinct from the uplink directional beam and the downlink directional beam. In one example, a first shared common channel may serve to manage or update uplink data channels (on the uplink directional beam) and downlink data channels (on the downlink directional beam), while a second shared common channel may serve to manage or update uplink control channels (on the uplink directional beam) and downlink control channels (on the downlink directional beam).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Zhou, Tianyang Bai, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12185405
    Abstract: A first UE may receive, from a base station or a second UE, one or more first TCI states via RRC signaling. The first UE may receive, from the base station or the second UE, one or more MAC-CEs. Each of the one or more MAC-CEs may include at least one indication of one or more second TCI states. The one or more second TCI states may be a subset of the one or more first TCI states. The first UE may transmit to the second UE, or receive from the second UE, a sidelink message via a sidelink channel based on a third TCI state. The third TCI state may be from the one or more second TCI states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Yan Zhou, Hong Cheng, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Jung Ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 12184421
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a quantity of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebooks capable of being stored by the UE, a maximum amount of HARQ codebook data capable of being stored by the UE, or a maximum HARQ codebook size capable of being stored by the UE, and may transmit, to a network node, capability information that indicates the quantity of HARQ codebooks capable of being stored by the UE, the maximum amount of HARQ codebook data capable of being stored by the UE, or the maximum HARQ codebook size capable of being stored by the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Jing Sun, Peter Gaal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12180639
    Abstract: An additive feeding device includes a water supply pipeline, the water supply pipeline is provided with a rising convex part for increasing the height of a water path in the fed water stream direction, and the water supply pipeline on the upstream of the rising convex part is connected with a liquid storage box through a suction structure, and the additive pumped into the water supply pipeline flows to the upstream of the water supply pipeline in a countercurrent mode under the blocking action of the rising convex part. By means of the arrangement, the automatic feeding device can suck the additive into the water supply pipeline through the suction structure, the pumped additive flows to the upstream of the water supply pipeline in a countercurrent mode under the blocking action of the rising convex part arranged in the water supply pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Huang, Bingheng Zhou, Haifeng Ren
  • Patent number: 12185316
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, a first message to indicate a sidelink bandwidth part (BWP) switch, for the first UE, to a first sidelink BWP, wherein the first message includes an indication of the first sidelink BWP and a first sidelink resource pool in the first sidelink BWP. The UE may receive, from the second UE, a second message that confirms the sidelink BWP switch for the first UE. The UE may transmit, to the second UE, a third message to activate the sidelink BWP switch, for the first UE, to the first sidelink BWP, based at least in part on receiving the second message that confirms the sidelink BWP switch. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Qing Li, Hong Cheng, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Yan Zhou, Jing Sun, Jung Ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 12185147
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a measurement report associated with at least one downlink beam corresponding to a first transmit receive point (TRP). The base station may transmit, to the UE and using a second TRP, a communication using a selected downlink beam corresponding to the second TRP, wherein the selected downlink beam is selected based at least in part on a beam inference generated using a machine learning component, and wherein the beam inference is based at least in part on the measurement report and a location of the second TRP relative to a location of the first TRP. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 12184582
    Abstract: In multi-beam communication, the UE may assist in the scheduling of beams utilized during the multi-beam communication by improving the manner in which the quality of the beam is reported to the network. The apparatus may measure a signal received from a base station on at least one beam. The apparatus may detect a triggering event for providing CSI for the at least one beam. The apparatus may transmit an uplink transmission comprising a CSI report in response to detecting the triggering event. The apparatus may receive an uplink request from a UE for providing CSI for at least one beam. The apparatus may transmit an indication scheduling a CSI report in response to the uplink request. The apparatus may receive an uplink transmission from the UE comprising the CSI report for the at least one beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Kiran Venugopal, Jung Ho Ryu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12184590
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) reports, to a base station, UE duplex communication characteristics. The UE then communicates with the base station in accordance with the reported characteristics. The characteristics can include duplex communication modes supported by the UE. The modes can include receiving and transmitting concurrently with the base station; communicating in a first direction with the base station and concurrently communicating in an opposite direction with a second base station; communicating with the i in a first direction concurrent with the base station communicating in an opposite direction with another UE; and communicating in half duplex (HD) with the base station in HD. The UE can receive, from the base station, a command to communicate in a reported mode. In such cases, communicating, by the UE with the base station, in accordance with the reported duplex communication characteristics includes communicating with the base station in the commanded mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20240429973
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The UE transmits, to a network entity via a first beam, a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) report indicating a second beam. The UE then receives a response indicating an acknowledgment of the MPE report from the network entity. The UE then transmits an uplink (UL) transmission using the second beam to the network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Fang YUAN, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO
  • Publication number: 20240429986
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a capability value set list identifying one or more capability sets. The UE may transmit, to the base station, a channel state information (CSI) report that includes a capability set identifier identifying a capability set of the one or more capability sets of the capability value set list. The UE may receive a feedback message indicating whether the base station successfully received the CSI report and whether to retransmit information identifying the capability set identifier. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Tianyang BAI, Yan ZHOU, Peter GAAL, Fang YUAN, Konstantinos DIMOU, Tao LUO, Junyi LI
  • Publication number: 20240429991
    Abstract: Devices and methods for wireless communication between a scheduled entity having a plurality of antenna elements operable as multiple antenna and a scheduling entity include signaling transmission configuration information (TCI) to a scheduled entity to define unified TCI states that indicate beam directions of multiple corresponding beams, signaling a unified TCI state to be used for an upcoming communication for the scheduled entity using two or more beams as indicated by the unified TCI state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Fang Yuan, Yan Zhou, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo
  • Publication number: 20240430896
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may allow a base station and user equipment (UE) to use uplink transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. An example method generally includes providing, to a network entity, signaling indicating the UE supports uplink Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) states indicating one or more quasi co-location (QCL) types for one or more reference signals (RS) to be applied to an uplink transmission, receiving UL TCI after sending the indication, and sending the uplink transmission in accordance with the uplink TCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Kiran VENUGOPAL, Yan ZHOU, Tao LUO, Tianyang BAI, Junyi LI
  • Publication number: 20240430053
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive first downlink control information (DCI) having a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) field that indicates a pair of TCI states to be used after a first time. The UE may receive second DCI having a second TCI field that indicates a selected one or more TCI states, of the pair of TCI states, to be used for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Yitao CHEN, Jing SUN, Yan ZHOU, Fang YUAN, Xiaoxia ZHANG, Tao LUO, Peter GAAL
  • Publication number: 20240430068
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for configuration of multiple transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states and selection of a particular TCI state or TCI states for different instances of scheduled periodic communications between a user equipment (UE) and one or more transmission-reception points (TRPs) or base stations. A UE may receive, from a network entity, control signaling identifying two or more TCI states that are to be applied to communications of one or more channels subsequent to a determined time. The network entity may also provide a periodic communication configuration with a series of resource allocations for periodic communications, and a selection indication for which of the two or more TCI states are to be selected for the periodic communications. The UE may communicate via the one or more channels according to one or more TCI states based on the selection indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Mostafa KHOSHNEVISAN, Yan ZHOU, Fang YUAN, Tao LUO, Xiaoxia ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12174518
    Abstract: A radiator and a photographic light. The radiator includes a coolant tank, a support frame, a heat-absorbing assembly and a driving pump. The coolant tank has a heat exchange pipe for a coolant to circulate, and the heat exchange pipe has a first liquid inlet and a first liquid outlet; the support frame is arranged around the coolant tank, the support frame and the coolant tank enclose a heat exchange space for exchanging heat with the heat exchange pipe; the heat-absorbing assembly has a heat dissipation channel, and the heat dissipation channel has a second liquid inlet and a second liquid outlet; the driving pump is configured to drive the coolant to circulate along the heat exchange pipe, the first liquid outlet, the second liquid inlet, the heat dissipation channel, the second liquid outlet and the first liquid inlet in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: APUTURE IMAGING INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Binbin Zhou, Chunghao Lai, Tao Yuan, Yingming Li