Patents by Inventor Thomas Zhang
Thomas Zhang 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).
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Patent number: 11984700Abstract: A display system includes an integrated laser and modulator device and a display assembly. The integrated laser and modulator device includes a laser component configured to facilitate light emission responsive to applied current and a modulator component configured to selectively modulate light responsive to applied signal. The modulator component is integrally coupled to the laser component via a bridging structure that intervenes between the laser component and the modulator component. At least a portion of the bridging structure facilitates power reflectivity into a laser cavity of the laser component. The bridging structure facilitates transmission of light emitted by the laser component into the modulator component for modulation by the modulator component to provide modulated light. The display assembly is configured to direct the modulated light provided by the integrated laser and modulator device to illuminate pixels to form an image.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yifei Zhang, Thomas Hamish Barter
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Patent number: 11984594Abstract: Provided are methods of preparing an electrochemically active cathode material including the steps of combining an alkali metal-containing nickel oxide having a formula A1?aNi1+aO2, wherein A comprises an alkali metal and 0<a?0.2, with a fluid composition including an oxidant comprising a peroxydisulfate salt, a monopersulfate salt, or a combination thereof to form a mixture, heating the mixture to a temperature of 50° C. or greater; and maintaining the mixture at the temperature for at least a period of time sufficient to form an alkali metal-deficient nickel oxide electrochemically active cathode material having a general formula AxHyNi1+aO2·nH2O, wherein A comprises an alkali metal; 0.08?x<0.2; 0?y<0.3; 0.02?a?0.2; and 0<n<2.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DURACELL U.S. OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Fan Zhang, Paul A. Christian, Jennifer A. Nelson, David L. Anglin, Paul Wildgust, Thomas Baccaro
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Patent number: 11980364Abstract: A surgical stapling device (10) includes a replaceable cartridge assembly (44) having knife assembly (80) and an anvil assembly (42) including a cutting plate (52). The cutting plate (52) is configured be durable to maintain performance of the stapling device (10) over multiple firings.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Xini Zhang, Thomas R. Hessler
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Publication number: 20240155071Abstract: A method and system for text-to-video generation. The method includes receiving a text input, generating a representation frame based on the text input using a model trained on text-image pairs, generating a set of frames based on the representation frame and a first frame rate, interpolating the set of frames to a higher frame rate, generating a first video based on the interpolated set of frames, increasing a resolution of the first video based on a first and second super-resolution model, and generating an output video based on a result of the super-resolution models.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Sonal Gupta, Adam Polyak, Thomas Falstad Hayes, Xi Yin, Jie An, Chao Yang, Oron Ashual, Oran Gafni, Devi Niru Parikh, Yaniv Nechemia Taigman, Uriel Singer, Songyang Zhang, Qiyuan Hu
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Patent number: 11976188Abstract: This disclosure relates to a polymer composition with color pigments highly incorporated, comprising (a) propylene-based copolymers and/or ethylene/C3-C10 alpha-olefin copolymers and (b) one or more color pigments.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: ExxonMobil Engineering & Technology CompanyInventors: Shanshan Zhang, Wenbin Yu, Thomas Cugnon, Saurabh C. Sharma, Gan-Ji Zhong
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Patent number: 11970777Abstract: Methods for atomic layer deposition (ALD) or plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) of low-K films are described. A method of depositing a film comprises exposing a substrate to a silicon precursor having the general formulae (Ia), (Ib), (Ic), (Id), (IX), or (X); and exposing the substrate to an oxidant to react with the silicon-containing film to form one or more of a silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) film or a silicon oxycarbonitride (SiOCN) film on the substrate, the oxidant comprising one or more of a carboxylic acid, an aldehyde, a ketone, an ethenediol, an oxalic acid, a glyoxylic acid, a peroxide, an alcohol, and a glyoxal.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Shuaidi Zhang, Ning Li, Mihaela A. Balseanu, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, Thomas Knisley
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Publication number: 20240125806Abstract: The present invention relates to a phosphatidylserine (PS) binding agents comprising one or more C-domains of a milk fat globule-EGF factor 8 (MFG-E8) protein, and methods of making and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicants: BIOLEGEND, INC., TBJK GmbHInventors: THOMAS BROCKER, JAN KRANICH, TILMAN KURZ, HONG ZHANG, HYUN PARK
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Patent number: 11958780Abstract: A ceramic waveguide includes: a doped metal oxide ceramic core layer; and at least one cladding layer comprising the metal oxide surrounding the core layer, such that the core layer includes an erbium dopant and at least one rare earth metal dopant being: lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, or oxides thereof, or at least one non-rare earth metal dopant comprising zirconium or oxides thereof. Also included is a quantum memory including: at least one doped polycrystalline ceramic optical device with the ceramic waveguide and a method of fabricating the ceramic waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Sean Matthew Garner, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Daniel Aloysius Nolan, Jun Yang, Haitao Zhang
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Publication number: 20240120707Abstract: A display system includes an integrated laser and modulator device and a display assembly. The integrated laser and modulator device includes a laser component configured to facilitate light emission responsive to applied current and a modulator component configured to selectively modulate light responsive to applied signal. The modulator component is integrally coupled to the laser component via a bridging structure that intervenes between the laser component and the modulator component. At least a portion of the bridging structure facilitates power reflectivity into a laser cavity of the laser component. The bridging structure facilitates transmission of light emitted by the laser component into the modulator component for modulation by the modulator component to provide modulated light. The display assembly is configured to direct the modulated light provided by the integrated laser and modulator device to illuminate pixels to form an image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Yifei ZHANG, Thomas Hamish BARTER
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Publication number: 20240114942Abstract: The present disclosure generally provides compounds that antagonize certain T2R taste receptors, including related uses, methods, and compositions for the reduction of bitter taste and/or the enhancement of sweet taste. In certain aspects, the disclosure provides flavored articles or flavored compositions comprising such compounds, as well as uses of such compounds to reduce the bitter taste and/or enhance the sweet taste of such flavored articles or flavored compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Firmenich IncorporatedInventors: Joseph R. Fotsing, Andrew Patron, Guy Servant, Lan Zhang, Mark Williams, Qing Chen, Kenneth Simone, Vincent Darmohusodo, Chad Priest, Melissa S. Wong, Thomas Brady
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Patent number: 11954820Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for adding dimensions to a target drawing. The technique includes generating a first set of node embeddings for a first set of nodes included in a target graph that represents the target drawing. The technique also includes receiving a second set of node embeddings for a second set of nodes included in a source graph that represents a source drawing, where one or more nodes included in the second set of nodes are associated with one or more source dimensions included in the source drawing. The technique further includes generating a set of mappings between the first and second sets of nodes based similarities between the first set of node embeddings and the second set of node embeddings, and automatically placing the one or more source dimensions within the target drawing based on the set of mappings.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.Inventors: Thomas Ryan Davies, Alexander Ray Carlson, Aditya Sanghi, Tarkeshwar Kumar Shah, Divya Sivasankaran, Anup Bhalchandra Walvekar, Ran Zhang
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Publication number: 20240113217Abstract: An integrated circuit includes first and second trenches in a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor mesa between the first and second trenches. A source region having a first conductivity type and a body region having an opposite second conductivity type are located within the semiconductor mesa. A trench shield is located within the first trench, and a gate electrode is over the trench shield between first and second sidewalls of the first trench. A gate dielectric is on a sidewall of the first trench between the gate electrode and the body region, and a pre-metal dielectric (PMD) layer is over the gate electrode. A gate contact through the PMD layer touches the gate electrode between the first and second sidewalls, and a trench shield contact through the PMD layer touches the trench shield between the first and second sidewalls.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Hong Yang, Thomas Grebs, Yunlong Liu, Sunglyong Kim, Lindong Li, Peng Li, Seetharaman Sridhar, Yeguang Zhang, Sheng pin Yang
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Publication number: 20240110070Abstract: A photoresin formulation for volumetric additive manufacturing contains a photo-curable mixture of: a monomer (e.g., an acrylate-based monomer); a photoinitiator; a polymerization inhibitor (e.g., molecular oxygen (O2)); and, a reducing agent reactive with a free radical species (e.g., a peroxyl radical) formed from the polymerization inhibitor. The reducing agent permits faster printing of objects from the photoresin formulation in a volumetric additive manufacturing process to produce 3D objects of high fidelity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yujie ZHANG, Antony ORTH, Daniel WEBBER, Kathleen SAMPSON, Thomas LACELLE, Chantal PAQUET, Hendrick de HAAN
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Publication number: 20240108174Abstract: A micro puree machine has a drive motor positioned within a lower portion of a housing extending along a vertical axis. A mixing shaft positioned within an upper portion of the housing extends at a non-parallel angle relative to the vertical axis. The bowl of ingredients is installed to an angled surface of the upper portion of the housing along the mixing shaft axis, allowing for easier viewing of the bowl installation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventors: Ping Chu, Nathan Lyell, Diego Jasso, Ryan Michienzi, Glen Ruggiero, Thomas Zhang, Yanfeng Wang
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Patent number: 11950036Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume in which a speaker assembly is positioned. The speaker assembly can include a speaker module and a speaker enclosure in fluid communication, with the speaker enclosure at least partially defining a speaker volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Chanjuan Feng, Christopher Wilk, Dinesh C. Mathew, Keith J. Hendren, Stuart M. Nevill, Daniel K. Boothe, Nicholas A Rundle, Simon S. Lee, Xiang Zhang, Thomas H. Tsang, Rebecca J. Mikolajczyk
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Publication number: 20240101533Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and intermediates useful for preparing a compound of formula I: or a co-crystal, solvate, salt or combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Kevin McCormack Allan, Amanda Lynn Vandehey, Gediminas Brizgys, Sachin Dhar, Ian James Doxsee, Alex Goldberg, Lars V. Heumann, Zilin Huang, Nathaniel Thomas Kadunce, Shahrokh Kazerani, Willard Lew, Vinh Xuan Ngo, Brian Michael O`Keefe, Trevor James Rainey, Benjamin James Roberts, Bing Shi, Dietrich P. Steinhuebel, Winston C. Tse, Anna Michelle Wagner, Xianghong Wang, Scott Alan Wolckenhauer, Chloe Yuyi Wong, Jennifer R. Zhang
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Publication number: 20240106072Abstract: A bicontinuous separating layer include a separating matrix having pores and a solid-state electrolyte disposed in the pores of the separating matrix. In certain variations, the bicontinuous separating layer is prepared by contacting a solid-state electrolyte liquid-state precursor with the separating matrix and heating the infiltrated separating matrix to a temperature between about 25° C. and about 300° C. The solid-state electrolyte liquid-state precursor includes a solvent and a solid-state electrolyte powder or a solid-state electrolyte precursor. In other variations, the bicontinuous separating layer may be prepared by contacting a solid-state electrolyte powder with a separating matrix to form a physical mixture and heating the physical mixture to a temperature between about 240° C. and about 500° C., where the separating matrix is defined by a polymer having a melting temperature greater than about 215° C., and the solid-state electrolyte has a melting temperature greater than about 300° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Thomas A. YERSAK, Ion C. HALALAY, Yubin ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240106516Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications systems may support orbital angular momentum (OAM) communications. A transmitting network node may generate signals for transmission via a first circular antenna array that includes a first quantity of antenna subarrays. The transmitting network node may transmit the signals using the first circular antenna array and based on OAM vectors. The receiving network node may receive and decode the signals using a second circular antenna array that includes a second quantity of antenna subarrays and based on the OAM vectors. The OAM vectors may be based on a numerical relationship between the first quantity and the second quantity. The numerical relationship may include the first quantity being equal to a product of the second quantity and a non-integer rational number and a greatest common divisor of the first and second quantities being an integer greater than one.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Danlu Zhang, Naga Bhushan, Thomas Joseph Richardson
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Publication number: 20240100041Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, methods and kits for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in a mammal in need thereof. The method include administering to a subject with IBD a combination therapy containing a therapeutically effective amount of a chemokine receptor 9 (CCR9) inhibitor compound and a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-IL-23 antibody. Also provided herein is a kit containing the CCR9 inhibitor compound and anti-IL-23 antibody.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: CHEMOCENTRYX, INC.Inventors: James CAMPBELL, Israel CHARO, Thomas SCHALL, Rajinder SINGH, Yibin ZENG, Penglie ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240107873Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light-emitting devices comprising (a) an anode, (i) a cathode, and (e) an emitting layer between the anode and cathode, comprising 2 to 40% by weight of a triplet emitter X having a difference of the singlet energy (ES1(X)) and the triplet energy (ET1(X)) of less than or equal to 0.4 eV [?(ES1(X)) ?(ET1(X))?0.4 eV], 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of a fluorescent emitter Y and 55 to 97.95% by weight of a host compound(s), wherein the amount of the triplet emitter X, the fluorescent emitter Y and the host compound(s) adds up to a total of 100% by weight and the singlet energy of the triplet emitter X(ES1(X)) is greater than the singlet energy of the fluorescent emitter Y(ES1(Y)) [(ES1(X))>ES1(Y)].Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Christian Lennartz, Stefan Metz, Korinna Dormann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Ute Heinemeyer, Hannah Mangold, Minlu Zhang, Thomas Holcombe