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).

  • Patent number: 11265844
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a paging method and apparatus, pertaining to the technical field of communications. The method includes: acquiring first paging indication information and at least one piece of second paging indication information based on current paging details of each User Equipment (UE) and a UE identifier of the each UE, a bit of the first paging indication information being configured to indicate whether a paged UE is present in a UE group, and a bit of the second paging indication information being configured to indicate whether a UE in a UE group is paged; broadcasting the first paging indication information on a first paging time-domain resource, the first paging time-domain resource being a time-domain resource for an information synchronization; and broadcasting the at least one piece of second paging indication information on a second paging time-domain resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 11264249
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for conducting a hardmask (e.g., carbon containing hardmask) removal process on a workpiece are provided. In one example implementation, a process can include admitting a process gas into a plasma chamber, generating a plasma in the plasma chamber from the process gas using an inductively coupled plasma source, and exposing the carbon containing hardmask to the plasma to remove at least a portion of the carbon containing hardmask. The process gas can include a sulfur containing gas. The process gas does not include a halogen containing gas. The inductively coupled plasma source can be separated from the plasma chamber by a grounded electrostatic shield to reduce capacitive coupling between the inductively coupled plasma source and the plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: Mattson Technology, Inc., Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fen Dai, Tinghao Wang, Oliver D. Jan, Moo-Hyun Kim, Shawming Ma, Zhongming Liu
  • Patent number: 11260529
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a virtual rail based cruise method as well as an apparatus and a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining a digital map including a virtual rail; performing a path planning based on the virtual rail, a current position of the robot, and a cruise end point to obtain a cruise path; and obtaining parameter(s) of the robot by calculating through a preset path tracking algorithm based on the cruise path and the current position of the robot, and controlling the robot based on the control parameter(s). In this manner, the problems of the prior art that needs to lay a rail or set an auxiliary device which causes high cost and inconvenience in usage as well as the rail needs to be re-laid or the auxiliary device needs to be reinstalled when the route is to be changed can be solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Youjun Xiong, Zhichao Liu, Longbiao Bai, Chenchen Jiang, Simin Zhang, Hongjian Liu, Zhanjia Bi, Yongsheng Zhao, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 11260011
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a use of neohesperidin or a neohesperidin-containing plant extract in the manufacture of a product for improving and/or promoting skin microcirculation, or for eliminating and/or alleviating diseases or conditions associated with poor skin microcirculation. The present invention also discloses a composition comprising an effective amount of neohesperidin or a neohesperidin-containing plant extract, and to a method for improving and/or promoting skin microcirculation, or eliminating and/or alleviating diseases or conditions associated with poor skin microcirculation, by using neohesperidin. The skin microcirculation of the present invention is preferably eye skin microcirculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NATURAL MEDICINE INSTITUTE OF ZHEJIANG YANGSHENGTANG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liu Hu, Hongying Lan
  • Patent number: 11259904
    Abstract: A digital integrated molding method for dental attachments includes 3D design, aiming at acquiring 3D data of an attachment itself through 3D scanning of an attachment preform, carrying out modeling design directly on the basis of acquired data, adjusting corresponding positions of an inner-crown and an attachment, or a bridge and an attachment by design software, and directly designing the attachments of the inner-crown and the bridge into a whole; data processing, aiming at slicing the integrated inner-crown and attachment or bridge and attachment for additive manufacturing; and additive manufacturing, aiming at processing an integrated inner-crown, bridge or attachment. The molding method can greatly improve the molding accuracy of dental attachments, and ensure the relative accuracy of inner-crowns, bridges or attachments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CHENGDU TIANQI ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhixiao Zhang, Ruicheng Liu, Shanfang Zou, Liping Wu, Yiwei Zeng, Xianke Deng
  • Patent number: 11259534
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for producing a deodorized goat/sheep milk, which method comprises purifying fresh goat/sheep milk or goat/sheep full cream, wherein the material is subjected to a carbon dioxide treatment during the purification, and the carbon dioxide treatment comprises: introducing carbon dioxide into the material, then refrigerating the material, and removing carbon dioxide. The producing method of the invention is simple, and has a good effect of removing muttony odor of goat/sheep milk. The present invention also discloses a deodorized goat/sheep milk and a deodorized goat/sheep milk product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: INNER MONGOLIA YILI INDUSTRIAL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengfei Chang, Biao Liu, Xiaoyu Kong
  • Patent number: 11261115
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for controlling pollutants in basin water resources cycling utilization in agricultural activity areas. The method includes: providing an acidification tank, an aeration tank and a multi-media constructed wetland connected in sequence, which are 4˜10 m far from basin revetment, feeding basin water into the constructed wetland, adsorbing or degrading heavy metals and organic pollutants by the constructed wetland, and then transporting the treated basin water to the agricultural activity areas. The present invention effectively controls the content of heavy metals that will enter the agricultural activity areas, fundamentally reduces the content of heavy metals in the crops, promotes the growth of the crops, maintains sustainable and healthy development of agriculture, and therefore guarantees human health and safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Beidou Xi, Jinsheng Wang, Wenbing Tan, Tongtong Li, Yangyang Wang, Hui Liu, Yali Zhang, Feng Wu, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11265174
    Abstract: A method for processing blockchain data is applied to a terminal device provided with a trusted execution environment and includes: acquiring, from a blockchain, data to be verified of a target service, the data to be verified including circulation data generated during execution of the target service and recorded in the blockchain; determining, based on the target service, a relevant third-party authority for verifying authenticity of the data to be verified, and acquiring benchmark circulation data generated during the execution of the target service and recorded in the third-party authority; transferring the data to be verified and the benchmark circulation data to the trusted execution environment through a first trusted application on the terminal device; and determining whether the data to be verified meets a verification rule, and outputting a verification result of the data to be verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenyu Yang, Honglin Qiu, Ying Yan, Shubo Li, Yuan Chen, Hanghang Wu, Renhui Yang, Qin Liu
  • Patent number: 11265567
    Abstract: A method of decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor includes obtaining a coded video sequence including a plurality of output layer sets from the encoded video bitstream; obtaining a first flag indicating whether each output layer set of the plurality of output layer sets includes more than one layer; based on the first flag indicating that the each output layer set includes more than the one layer, obtaining a first syntax element indicating an output layer set mode; selecting at least one layer from among layers included in the plurality of output layer sets as at least one output layer based on at least one of the first flag and the first syntax element; and outputting the at least one output layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11265568
    Abstract: A method and system for decoding a coded video sequence may include obtaining the coded video sequence, and decoding the coded video sequence. A value of a temporal sublayer identifier of a video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit in the coded video sequence is constrained to be less than or equal to a value of vps_max_sublayers_minus1, that specifies a maximum number of temporal sublayers that may be present in a layer in each coded video sequence referring to the video parameter set (VPS), in the VPS referred to by the VCL NAL unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Shan Liu, Stephan Wenger
  • Patent number: 11263803
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus and device for rendering virtual reality scenes. The method includes: obtaining a virtual reality scene and determining whether the virtual reality scene is in a rendering idle state; if the virtual reality scene is in the rendering idle state, performing image rendering on the virtual reality scene to generate a display image and store a correspondence between the display image and a display area; and obtaining a target area to be displayed of the virtual reality scene, calling a target display image corresponding to the target area according to the correspondence and displaying the target display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yadong Ding, Jian Sun, Ziqiang Guo, Lin Lin, Feng Zi, Bingxin Liu, Jiyang Shao, Yakun Wang, Binhua Sun
  • Patent number: 11265650
    Abstract: The disclosure describes methods, clients, and electronic devices for processing audio signals. One method for processing audio signals comprises: receiving a first audio signal inputted from a first audio acquisition terminal and a second audio signal inputted from a second audio acquisition terminal, wherein the first audio acquisition terminal and the second audio acquisition terminal are located in different positions of a same location; determining a target audio signal and a reference audio signal from the first audio signal and the second audio signal; determining a filter coefficient corresponding to the target audio signal based on the reference audio signal; and eliminating, from the target audio signal, a crosstalk signal determined based on the filter coefficient and the reference audio signal. The effect that a speech path can output speech signals with less interference is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Yunfeng Xu, Tao Yu, Li Liu
  • Patent number: 11264362
    Abstract: A die stack structure including a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, an insulating encapsulation and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The first semiconductor die includes a first semiconductor substrate including a first portion and a second portion, a first interconnect structure and a first bonding structure. The first interconnect structure is disposed on a top surface of the second portion, a lateral dimension of the first portion is greater than a lateral dimension of the top surface of the second portion. The second semiconductor die is disposed on the first semiconductor die and includes a second bonding structure, the second semiconductor die is electrically connected with the first semiconductor die through the first and second bonding structures. The insulating encapsulation is disposed on the first portion and laterally encapsulating the second portion and the second semiconductor die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Fa Chen, Chao-Wen Shih, Min-Chien Hsiao, Nien-Fang Wu, Sung-Feng Yeh, Tzuan-Horng Liu
  • Patent number: 11259881
    Abstract: A tool driver for use in robotic surgery includes a base configured to couple to a distal end of a robotic arm, and a tool carriage slidingly engaged with the base and configured to receive a surgical tool. In one variation, the tool carriage may include a plurality of linear axis drives configured to actuate one or more articulated movements of the surgical tool. In another variation, the tool carriage may include a plurality of rotary axis drives configured to actuate one or more articulated movements of the surgical tool. Various sensors, such as a capacitive load cell for measuring axial load, a position sensor for measuring linear position of the guide based on the rotational positions of gears in a gear transmission, and/or a capacitive torque sensor based on differential capacitance, may be included in the tool driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: VERB SURGICAL INC.
    Inventors: Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy, Jose Luis Cordoba, Berk Gonenc, Xin Liu
  • Patent number: 11261359
    Abstract: This invention relates to an article of manufacture comprising at least one flexible substrate coated with at least one curable composition comprising: I. a first component (I) comprising at least one resin having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of ?-ketoester and malonate functional groups, II. a second component (II) comprising at least one curing agent having at least one aldehyde functional group, and III. a third component (III) comprising at least one compound having amine functionality, salts thereof, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Monika Karin Wiedmann Boggs, Nick Allen Collins, Robert Jacks Sharpe, Ke Feng, Shawn Marie Dougherty, Terri Roxanne Carvagno, Thauming Kuo, Christopher Harlan Burk, Liu Deng, Vasudev R. Bhonde
  • Patent number: 11261233
    Abstract: This invention relates to cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4) protein compositions and their use in the mitigation of autoimmune adverse events associated with cancer immunotherapy. Specifically, the disclosure provides a CTLA-4 protein comprising a mutant extracellular domain of CTLA-4, wherein the CTLA-4 protein exhibits reduced binding to an anti-CTLA-4 antibody as compared to a wild-type extracellular domain of CTLA-4, wherein the anti-CTLA-4 antibody has anti-cancer immunotherapeutic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: ONCOC4, INC., CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Pan Zheng, Martin Devenport, Wei Wu, Xuexiang Du, Mingyue Liu, Fei Tang
  • Patent number: 11265734
    Abstract: A method, a base station, and a system for sending radio resource control (RRC) signaling are provided. The method includes a pico base station and a macro base station participate in configuration and generation of an RRC reconfiguration message; the pico base station establishes only one RRC entity that is used to generate a configuration parameter or an RRC entity; the RRC reconfiguration message cooperatively generated by the pico base station and the macro base station is uniformly sent by the macro base station to a user equipment (UE). According to the application, the UE can support an RRC reconfiguration message sent by the pico base station, only by establishing a signaling radio bearer (SRB) corresponding to the macro base station. Accordingly, design complexity and costs are lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenji Liu, Qufang Huang, Hongping Zhang, Qinghai Zeng
  • Patent number: 11262341
    Abstract: A method for non-destructive detection of egg freshness based on centroid measurement. A real-time distance between the centroid position of an egg and the top of a small end of the egg is measured, the ratio of the distance to the length of the egg is defined as a centroid ratio, models are respectively established regarding a centroid ratio change and the number of days the egg has been stored, and regarding the centroid ratio change and the egg freshness, and the number of the days the egg has been stored and the egg freshness are predicted by means of the established models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University
    Inventors: Xiang Duan, Wen Tan, Xuebo Liu, Ying Lan, Qinjun Zhang, Lu Yang
  • Patent number: 11264510
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin film transistor includes a substrate, a light shielding layer, an intermediate buffer layer, and a buffer layer, wherein the light shielding layer is formed on the substrate, the buffer layer is located above the substrate and the light shielding layer, the intermediate buffer layer is formed between the buffer layer and the light shielding layer, and the intermediate buffer layer is made of ceramic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Fangmei Liu
  • Patent number: 11265581
    Abstract: A method of video decoding can include determining a prediction mode of a current coding unit (CU), and determining values of a transform unit (TU) coded block flag (CBF) of a Cb transform block, denoted tu_cbf_cb, and a TU CBF of a Cr transform block, denoted tu_cbf_cr, determining a context index, denoted ctxIdx, based on the prediction mode of the current CU and the values of the tu_cbf_cb, and the tu_cbf_cr, and performing an arithmetic decoding process according to a context model indicated by the ctxIdx to determine a bin of a joint Cb Cr residual (JCCR) flag indicating whether residual samples for both Cb and Cr chroma components of the current CU are coded as a single transform block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xiang Li, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu