Patents by Inventor Tom (Liang-Yu) Chi

Tom (Liang-Yu) Chi 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: 20250242855
    Abstract: A steer by wire system (1) for steering a vehicle with a steering mechanics (8), the steer by wire system (1) having a steering input device (2) and a first actuating arrangement (5), wherein the first actuating arrangement (5) includes a first electric motor (5a), which is in connection to the steering input device (2), and a first hydraulic unit (5d), which is operatively coupled to the first electric motor (5a), wherein the first hydraulic unit (5) is configured to be fluidly connected to the steering mechanics (8). The objective of the present disclosure is to provide a steer by wire system (1) having a large range of steering forces. This objective is solved by a steer by wire system (1) including a second actuating arrangement (6) being structured and coupled analogously to the first actuating arrangement (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Tom Rudolph, Morten Hoeck Petersen
  • Publication number: 20250242204
    Abstract: Various systems and methods that enhance an exercise activity performed by a user are described. In some embodiments, a rowing machine is described. The rowing machine can enhance the user experience of a user performing a rowing activity using the rowing machine, such as during a rowing-based exercise class. For example, the rowing machine can include different sensors that capture information associated with a position or movement of a seat of the rowing machine relative to a position or movement of a handle of the rowing machine and utilize the captured information to perform actions associated with the user performing the rowing activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Apostolos KOTTAS, Steve SANBEG, Kevin WINN, Wong Kun NG, David William PETRILLO, Marissa VIVORI, Ben MCCALLUM, Scott WORTHINGTON, Alex COHEN, Randy ROTH, Molly WARD, Nick BREESER, Tom Mudgett MEJIA, Zhao LI, Hardik THAKKAR
  • Publication number: 20250244995
    Abstract: A system and method for upgrading an unconfigured computing node that includes registering the unconfigured node with a server, the unconfigured node having a client process for upgrading the unconfigured node including and a firmware component; receiving a trigger indication, from the server, of an upgrade of the firmware component on the unconfigured node, including receiving an address for upgrade information for the unconfigured node; obtaining an upgrade image associated with the upgrade; and imaging the firmware component of the unconfigured node using the upgrade image. Upgrading one or more other firmware components on one or more other unconfigured nodes, in parallel, and monitoring a health status of the unconfigured node and/or the one or more other unconfigured nodes, prior to, during, and/or after the firmware upgrades, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Monica Adusumilli, Kumar Sidhartha, Manish Sharma, Rishi Kumar, Toms Varghese
  • Patent number: 12371067
    Abstract: The method for dynamically updating an environmental representation of an autonomous agent can include: receiving a set of inputs S210; generating an environmental representation S220; and updating the environmental representation S230. Additionally or alternatively, the method S200 can include providing the environmental representation to a planning module S240 and/or any other suitable processes. The method S200 functions to generate and/or dynamically update an environmental representation to facilitate control of an autonomous agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: May Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Goeddel, Collin Johnson, Melinda Kothbauer, Jeff Sterniak, Tom Voorheis, Edwin B. Olson
  • Patent number: 12371408
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compounds of Formula (I): as further described herein, and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, as well as methods of using these compounds to modulate the activity of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and to treat conditions comprising inflammation inside the intestinal tract and certain disorders of the central nervous system affected by the gut-brain axis, including IBD, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, Huntington's disease, and multiple sclerosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: NEXYS THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Tom Yao-Hsiang Wu, Qihui Jin
  • Patent number: 12375897
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes: operating in a Dual SIM Dual Active (DSDA) mode or a Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS) mode in which a first subscriber identity module (SIM) is designated as a default data subscription (DDS); determining a recommendation to change the DDS from the first SIM to a second SIM at a modem; informing a user of the recommendation to change the DDS; changing the DDS in response to, at least in part, the recommendation and an input from the user; updating a first state variable to indicate a state of the DDS; and routing internet data to the second SIM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Can Zhao, Suli Zhao, Xinchen Zhang, Reza Shahidi, Arnaud Meylan, Liping Shen, Ajith Tom Payyappilly, Juan Zhang, Tom Chin
  • Patent number: 12370358
    Abstract: Devices for moving blood within a patient, and methods of doing so. The devices can include a pump portion that includes an impeller and a housing around the impeller, as well as a fluid lumen. The impeller can be activated to cause rotation of the impeller and thereby move fluid within the fluid lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Shifamed Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Tom Saul, Brady Esch, Anna Kerlo, Daniel Hildebrand, Daniel Varghai
  • Patent number: 12371379
    Abstract: The invention relates to a panel and a method for producing a panel. The panel is in particular a floor, wall or ceiling panel, and comprises at least one core layer, the core layer comprising an upper core surface and a lower core surface and at least one pair of opposite side edges; wherein the core layer comprises magnesium oxide cement; wherein the core has a density which is substantially homogenous over its entire volume, and wherein at least one decorative top layer is attached to an upper core surface of the core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Champion Link International Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Luc Martine Baert, Tom Van Poyer, Sven Boon
  • Patent number: 12373953
    Abstract: In a method of segmenting a tubular feature in an image, a sequence of overlapping portions of the image are segmented using a trained model. The overlapping portions are positioned along the length of the tubular feature and combined to determine a segmentation of the tubular feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Rolf Juergen Weese, Dominique Siu Li Tio, Cheryl Kimberley Sital, Tom Brosch
  • Patent number: 12372333
    Abstract: An inflatable ballistic shield device is provided. The device is preferably comprised of at least three ballistic panels and an inflatable bladder. When not in use, the device can be stored in an uninflated, folded configuration. When in use, the bladder can be rapidly inflated, which unfolds the ballistic panels and forms the device into a rigid ballistic shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Inventor: Tom Milo
  • Patent number: 12376152
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for enabling collision mitigation for a user equipment (UE) operating in a dual active mode. In some aspects, the UE may generate a communication for a first subscription in a first time window associated with a first priority for a time domain division pattern with a second subscription. The UE may transmit, using the first subscription, the communication in a second time window associated with a second priority for the time domain division pattern. For example, the second time window associated with the second priority may be a time window in which traffic for the first subscription is prioritized. In some aspects, the UE may select modified periodic intervals for transmissions of a communication to mitigate collisions associated with the time domain division pattern. For example, a transmission time of the periodic communication may be varied (or randomized) over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yong Xie, Vikram Singh, Lan Lan, Reza Shahidi, Zhibin Dang, Sanjeev Mittal, Carlos Marcelo Dias Pazos, Qingxin Chen, Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt, Tom Chin
  • Patent number: 12370618
    Abstract: A method for determining the cooling rate of a weld, comprising locating at least one non-consumable thermal sensor at a predetermined location from a weld pool generated during an active welding process, wherein the thermal sensor is located within the same plane of travel as a welding device creating the weld pool; determining the travel speed of the welding device; using the at least one non-consumable thermal sensor to gather temperature data from the weld pool; and determining the time interval between when the weld pool has a first measured temperature and when the weld pool has a second measured temperature that is less than the first measured temperature, wherein the determined time interval represents the cooling rate of the weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Inventors: Constance T. Reichert LaMorte, Tom McGaughy
  • Patent number: 12375481
    Abstract: A system and method for inferring an operating system version for a device based on communications security data. A method includes identifying a plurality of sequences in communications security data sent by the device; determining an operating system type of an operating system used by the device based on the identified plurality of sequences; applying a version-identifying model to the identified plurality of sequences, wherein the version-identifying model is a machine learning model trained to output a version identifier, wherein the applied version-identifying model is associated with the determined operating system type; and determining the operating system version of the device based on the output of the version-identifying model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Armis Security Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuval Sarel, Ben Seri, Yuval Friedlander, Tom Hanetz, Gil Ben Zvi, Ron Shoham
  • Patent number: 12370306
    Abstract: A hold assistance device for use with a medicament delivery device is described. The hold assistance device includes: a housing configured to be fixedly coupled to a medicament delivery device, the housing comprising: a proximal end and a distal end defining an axial direction, and an inclined surface angled relative to the axial direction; a blocking element moveable along the inclined surface; and an actuation element moveable relative to the housing and arrangeable in an activated position in which the actuation element applies an activation force to the blocking element in a direction towards the distal end, such that movement of the actuation element into the activated position causes the blocking element to move against the inclined surface towards the distal end and to exert a clamping force generally normal to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Genzyme Corporation
    Inventors: Iskandar Vasiev, Kamaal de Silva, Tom Alan Oakley, Adam Christopher Nightingale, Joel John Williams
  • Patent number: 12371371
    Abstract: In the present disclosure, a method of forming a gypsum panel is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a first facing material, forming a starch slurry by combining starch and water at a shear rate of 3,000 rpm or more, providing the starch slurry onto the first facing material, depositing a gypsum slurry comprising stucco and water onto the starch slurry on the first facing material, providing a second facing material on the gypsum slurry, and allowing the stucco to convert to calcium sulfate dihydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Gold Bond Building Products, LLC
    Inventors: Gene Whittington, Robert Piercy, Tom Griffith, Al Flanders
  • Patent number: 12376015
    Abstract: A first device may receive, from a second device, perception information for an environment of the first device based at least in part on a perception capability of the second device. The first device may generate a perception associated with a communication by the first device based at least in part on the perception information from the second device, where the perception indicates characteristics of the environment. The first device may adjust a parameter associated with the communication based at least in part on the perception. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hussein Metwaly Saad, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Simone Merlin, Tom Edward Botterill, Yann Lebrun, Ravi Agarwal, Juan Carlos Bucheli Garcia, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Danlu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12370749
    Abstract: A welding process includes inserting two work pieces inside a sealable container. Placing the container with the two work pieces inside into a welding device and welding the two members together while inside the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Branson Ultrasonics Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremiah Bray, Marcus Chiesa, Tom Hoover, David Devine
  • Patent number: 12374584
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes creating a mask on a top surface of a workpiece. A first portion of a gap fill material is overlaid by the mask and a second portion of the gap fill material is exposed through an opening in the mask. The method further includes exposing the workpiece to a plasma. The method further includes performing a first etching of the first portion of the gap fill material to create a first cavity while the second portion of the gap fill material remains in place, depositing a first metal-containing substance in the first cavity, performing a second etching of the second portion of the gap fill material to create a second cavity while the first metal-containing substance remains in place, and depositing a second metal-containing substance in the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Suketu Arun Parikh, Martin Jay Seamons, Jingmei Liang, Shuchi Sunil Ojha, Tom Choi, Nitin K. Ingle, Sanjay Natarajan
  • Patent number: 12371358
    Abstract: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are destroyed by oxidation in supercritical conditions. PFAS in water is concentrated in a reverse osmosis step and salt from the resulting solution is removed in supercritical conditions prior to destruction of PFAS in supercritical conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Revive Environmental Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen H. Rosansky, Michael Miller, Patrick Norris, Darwin Argumedo, Douglas Hendry, Ian Haggerty, Keith Brown, Joshua James, Joseph Casciano, Slawomir Winecki, Vivek Lal, Tom McGuinness
  • Patent number: D1085881
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: RUST-OLEUM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ben Sieben, Tom Hamming, Ron Olson