Patents by Inventor To Liu

To 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: 20230002875
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a preparation method of a multi-functional marine engineering alloy. Through the coupling of a multi-principal alloy structure, structural entropy, and temperature and powder metallurgy and heat treatment, mutual solubility between elements and free energy of an alloy system are regulated, Cu grain boundary segregation is eliminated, and uniform and dispersed nano-precipitation of the anti-fouling element Cu in corrosion-resistant and high-plasticity multi-principal alloys is realized. The preparation method is simple and controllable to operate, and the prepared material has plasticity higher than 75%, high yield strength, excellent corrosion resistance and anti-fouling property, and has important application prospects in the field of marine engineering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: Shandong Laboratory of Yantai Advanced Materials and Green Manufacturing, Yantai Zhongke Research Institute of Advanced Materials and Green Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Zhuhui Qiao, Yuan Yu, Weimin Liu, Huaguo Tang, Lujie Wang, Tongyang Li, Lin Song, Youjian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230005861
    Abstract: In certain aspects, a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure, and a bonding interface between the first and second semiconductor structures. The first semiconductor structure includes an array of NAND memory strings, a first peripheral circuit of the array of NAND memory strings including a first transistor, a polysilicon layer between the array of NAND memory strings and the first peripheral circuit, and a first semiconductor layer in contact with the first transistor. The polysilicon layer is in contact with sources of the array of NAND memory strings. The second semiconductor structure includes a second peripheral circuit of the array of NAND memory strings including a second transistor, and a second semiconductor layer in contact with the second transistor. The second semiconductor layer is between the bonding interface and the second peripheral circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yanhong Wang, Wei Liu, Liang Chen, Zhiliang Xia, Wenxi Zhou, Kun Zhang, Yuancheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20230006033
    Abstract: A method for forming a capacitor array structure includes the following operations. A base is formed, which includes a substrate, a stack structure located on the substrate and a mask layer located on the stack structure in which an etching window that penetrates the mask layer in a direction perpendicular to the substrate is provided. The stack structure is etched along the etching window to form a capacitor hole that penetrates the stack structure along the direction perpendicular to the substrate. A conductive layer that fills up the capacitor hole and the etching window and covers a top surface of the mask layer is formed. The conductive layer and the mask layer at a top surface of the stack structure are removed, and the conductive layer remaining in the capacitor hole forms a lower electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yanghao Liu, Jun Xia, Kangshu Zhan, Sen Li, Qiang Wan, Tao Liu, Penghui Xu
  • Publication number: 20230007261
    Abstract: A method of visual media processing video, includes determining that palette mode is to be used for processing a first portion of a video block and intra block copy (IBC) mode is to be used for processing a second portion of the video block, and performing further processing of the first portion of the video block using the palette mode and the second portion of the video using the IBC mode, wherein indications of the first portion of the video block processed using the palette mode and indications of the second portion of the video block processed using the IBC mode are included in a palette index identifying the first portion of the video block and the second portion of the video block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Weijia ZHU, Jizheng XU, Li ZHANG, Kai ZHANG, Hongbin LIU, Yue WANG
  • Publication number: 20230007494
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic device for wireless communication, a wireless communication method and a computer readable medium. According to an embodiment, an electronic device for wireless communication includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a parameter related to a behavior characteristic of a mobile access point. The processing circuitry is further configure to determine a spectrum allocation manner for the mobile access point based on the parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Youping ZHAO, Kangyi LIU, Chen SUN, Xin GUO
  • Publication number: 20230002465
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods and materials for treating cancer. For example, recombinant vaccinia viruses having the ability to direct the expression of membrane-bound IL-12 polypeptides on the surface of infected cells and methods for using such recombinant vaccinia viruses to treat cancer are provided. Specifically, the disclosure provides a recombinant vaccinia virus comprising a vaccinia virus genome comprising a nucleic acid encoding an IL-12p35 polypeptide sequence and an IL-12p40 polypeptide sequence, wherein one of the polypeptide sequences comprises a membrane anchoring polypeptide sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: David Bartlett, Zongsheng Guo, Zuqiang Liu
  • Publication number: 20230002675
    Abstract: The disclosed and claimed subject matter relates to wet etchants exhibiting high copper and cobalt etching rates where the etching rate ratio between the two metals can be varied. The wet etchants have a composition comprising a formulation consisting of: at least one alkanolamine having at least two carbon atoms, at least one amino substituent and at least one hydroxyl substituent with the amino and hydroxyl substituents attached to two different carbon atoms; at least one pH adjuster for adjusting the pH of the formulation to between approximately 9 and approximately 12; at least one chelating agent; and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Versum Materials US, LLC
    Inventors: CHUNG-YI CHANG, WEN DAR LIU, YI-CHIA LEE
  • Publication number: 20230007392
    Abstract: A method for audio signal noise cancellation is provided. In response to current noise cancellation coefficients being required to be updated to new noise cancellation coefficients, the digital signal processor calculates the new noise cancellation coefficients and writes the new noise cancellation coefficients into an idle storage module in the at least two storage modules, and the digital signal processor sends an update request for updating the noise cancellation coefficients to the active noise cancellation module. The update request carries position information configured to indicate a position of the storage module to which the new noise cancellation coefficients is written.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jiachao CHEN, Chang LIU, Xiaodong YAN
  • Publication number: 20230004840
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for adaptive training of a machine learning system configured to predict answers to questions associated with textual data includes receiving predicted answers to questions associated with textual data. The predicted answers are generated based at least in part on one or more first models of a machine learning system. The one or more first models are associated with a first accuracy score. The method further includes determining based at least in part on a quality control parameter whether an evaluation of the questions by one or more external entities is required. In response to determining based at least in part on the quality control parameter that an evaluation of the questions by one or more external entities is required, the questions associated with the textual data and the textual data are sent to the one or more external entities for evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: RELX Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Hebenthal, Cesare John Saretto, James Tracy, Richard Clinkenbeard, Christopher Liu
  • Publication number: 20230001541
    Abstract: An abrasive article is disclosed. The abrasive article has a backing substrate. The abrasive article also has a laminate joined to the backing substrate. The laminate comprises a hot melt polymer. The abrasive article also has a cured resin composition joined to the laminate opposite the backing substrate. The abrasive article also has abrasive particles joined to the cured resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Junting Li, Jing Zhang, Liming Song, Jimmy M. Le, Stephen M. Sanocki, Yaohua Gao, Paul J. Cordes, Gregory S. Mueller, Ernest L. Thurber, Yuyang Liu, Jaime A. Martinez, Michael J. Annen
  • Publication number: 20230003917
    Abstract: A three-dimensional imaging method and system for surface comprehensive geophysical prospecting, the method includes: acquiring detection data of a plurality of two-dimensional profiles of a surface detection site; forming two-dimensional profile resistivity data by geophysical inversion of the detection data; performing three-dimensional coordinate conversion on the two-dimensional profile resistivity data to obtain resistivity data of a three-dimensional coordinate system; and converting the resistivity data of the three-dimensional coordinate system into a three-dimensional model by using a Kriging interpolation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shucai LI, Yiguo XUE, Maoxin SU, Chunjin LIN, Li GUAN, Daohong QIU, Zhiqiang LI, Yimin LIU, Peng WANG, Huimin GONG
  • Publication number: 20230000932
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel use of Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei K56 in alleviation of intestinal inflammation. Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei K56 of the present invention has the deposit number CGMCC 15139 or DSM 27447. It was discovered in the present invention that the strain alone was highly efficacious at alleviating intestinal inflammation, reducing inflammatory factors IL-6 and/or TNF-?, promoting the anti-inflammatory factor IL-10, and reducing the tissue damage of colitis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Wei-Hsien Liu, Wen Zhao, Ting Sun, Wei-Lian Hung, Chao Wu, Guowen Ma, Haibin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230002745
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, systems, and methods for delivering an effector protein into a cell. The present disclosure, in some aspects, provide novel proteins delivering an effector protein into a cell. The novel proteins are supernegatively charged proteins derived from highly anionic proteins identified from the proteome (e.g., human proteome). The novel protein tags can be associated (e.g., covalently or nocovalently) with the protein to be delivered to facilitate delivery of the effector protein into a cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Yongjoo Kim, David R. Liu, Kevin Tianmeng Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230004819
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for training a semantic retrieval network, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a training sample including a search term and n candidate files corresponding to the search term, where n is an integer greater than 1; inputting the training sample into the ranking model, to obtain n first correlation degrees output by the ranking model, in which each first correlation degree represents a correlation between a candidate document and the search term; inputting the training sample into the semantic retrieval model, to obtain n second correlation degrees output by the semantic retrieval model, wherein each second correlation degree represents a correlation between a candidate document and the search term; and training the semantic retrieval model and the ranking model jointly based on the n first correlation degrees and the n second correlation degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingqi Qu, Yuchen Ding, Jing Liu, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang
  • Publication number: 20230004803
    Abstract: This invention relates to memtransistors, fabricating methods and applications of the same. The memtransistor includes a polycrystalline monolayer film of an atomically thin material. The polycrystalline monolayer film is grown directly on a sapphire substrate and transferred onto an SiO2/Si substrate; and a gate electrode defined on the SiO2/Si substrate; and source and drain electrodes spatially-apart formed on the polycrystalline monolayer film to define a channel region in the polycrystalline monolayer film therebetween. The gate electrode is capacitively coupled with the channel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Mark C. Hersam, Jiangtan Yuan, Stephanie E. Liu, Vinod K. Sangwan, Amit R. Trivedi
  • Publication number: 20230007271
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for palette mode coding are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a block of a video region in a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a prediction mode based on one or more allowed prediction modes that include at least a palette mode of the block. An indication of usage of the palette mode is determined according to the prediction mode. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the one or more allowed prediction modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Weijia ZHU, Li ZHANG, Jizheng XU, Kai ZHANG, Hongbin LIU, Yue WANG
  • Publication number: 20230005544
    Abstract: In certain aspects, a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure, a third semiconductor structure, and a first bonding interface between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes an array of memory cells. The second semiconductor structure includes a first peripheral circuit of the array of memory cells. The first peripheral circuit includes a first transistor. A third semiconductor structure includes a second peripheral circuit of the array of memory cells. The second peripheral circuit includes a second transistor. The first semiconductor structure, the second semiconductor structure, and the third semiconductor structure are stacked over one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Wei Liu, Yanhong Wang, Zhiliang Xia, Wenxi Zhou, Kun Zhang, Yuancheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20230006842
    Abstract: A blockchain-based data processing method and apparatus, a computer device, and a computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhang WANG, Yixin GUO, Dezhi WEI, Zhaochuang WANG, Xiaoqiang QIAO, Youwei LIU
  • Publication number: 20230002948
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of after-finishing of textile products, and in particular relates to a delayed-cure durable press finishing technology for cotton fabrics, including the following steps: singeing, desizing, liquid ammonia finishing, mercerizing, liquid ammonia finishing and post-cure finishing. The disclosure significantly improves the stability of a delayed-cure sensitized fabric during delayed-curing, relieves the problems caused by a slow reaction in the storage process of the delayed-cure sensitized fabric, and is favorable for improving the product quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jiajia FU, Weidong GAO, Zhenyue LIU, Xuerong FAN, Lei WANG, Yuzheng LU, Chaoran MENG, Rong LI
  • Publication number: 20230004190
    Abstract: A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes: a non-stretchable display region and a stretchable display region. The stretchable display region includes multiple island regions in an array and separated from each other, and multiple bridge regions connecting adjacent island regions, a pixel unit is arranged on each of the island regions, the pixel unit includes at least one pixel, and a signal wire electrically connecting the pixels is arranged on each bridge region. A pixel pitch between the pixels in the pixel unit in a stretching direction is a reference pitch P0, a pitch between two adjacent pixel units in the stretching direction is a first pitch P1, and the first pitch P1 is less than the reference pitch P0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yuhan QIAN, Libin LIU, Long HAN