Patents by Inventor Tom (Xiaofeng) Tang

Tom (Xiaofeng) Tang 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: 20250085643
    Abstract: In some general aspects, a surface of a structure within a chamber of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source is cleaned using a method. The method includes generating a plasma state of a material that is present at a location adjacent to a non-electrically conductive body that is within the chamber. The generation of the plasma state of the material includes electromagnetically inducing an electric current at the location adjacent the non-electrically conductive body to thereby transform the material that is adjacent the non-electrically conductive body from a first state into the plasma state. The plasma state of the material includes plasma particles, at least some of which are free radicals of the material. The method also includes enabling the plasma particles to pass over the structure surface to remove debris from the structure surface without removing the structure from the chamber of the EUV light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Chunguang Xia, Jonghoon Baek, John Tom Stewart, IV, Andrew David LaForge, Deniz Van Heijnsbergen, David Robert Evans, Nina Vladimirovna Dziomkina, Yue Ma
  • Publication number: 20250082423
    Abstract: A surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm and a setup arm, each having multiple joints. The arms may be set into a passive mode allowing for manual movement of each joint until an aligned configuration is achieved. Once each joint in a desired position, that joint is locked. An aligned configuration is achieved once all of the joints are in the desired position and are locked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Tom Baker, Andreas Tobergte, Ulrich Hagn
  • Patent number: 12247288
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus (100), comprising a reaction chamber (20) having an upper portion (20a) and a lower portion (20b) sealing an inner volume of the reaction chamber (20) for substrate processing, the lower portion (20b) being movable apart from the upper portion (20a) to form a substrate loading gap therebetween, a substrate support system comprising a support table (31) and at least one support element (70) vertically movable in relation to the support table (31) and extending through the support table (31) to receive a substrate within the reaction chamber (20), and a stopper (90) stopping a downward movement of the at least one support element (70) at a substrate loading level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Picosun Oy
    Inventors: Väinö Kilpi, Tom Blomberg
  • Patent number: 12246796
    Abstract: A chain for a bicycle, a sprocket cassette, a chainring, a crankset, a chain drive system, and a bicycle are provided. The chain comprises a plurality of interleaved link elements, each link element being pivotably attached to at least one other link element and comprising at least two teeth. A flank of each tooth is adapted to engage with a flank of a sprocket tooth. The sprocket cassette comprises one or more sprockets, each comprising a plurality of sprocket teeth, wherein each sprocket tooth has a flank with a profile corresponding to a profile of at least part of a tooth of each of the plurality of link elements. The chainring comprises a plurality of sprocket drive teeth having a profile corresponding to the profile of at least one of the teeth of each of the plurality of link elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Ratio Technology Limited
    Inventors: Tom Simpson, Felix Barker
  • Patent number: 12249321
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for selectively processing a user's utterances captured prior to and after an event that invokes an automated assistant to determine the user's intent and/or any parameters required for resolving the user's intent. In various implementations, respective measures of fitness for triggering responsive action by the automated assistant may be determined for pre-event and a post-event input streams. Based on the respective measures of fitness, one or both of the pre-event input stream or post-event input stream may be selected and used to cause the automated assistant to perform one or more responsive actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Tom Hume, Mohamad Hassan Mohamad Rom, Jan Althaus, Diego Melendo Casado
  • Patent number: 12247433
    Abstract: An infrared (IR) sensor for use in a door sensor. The IR sensor may include a plurality of emitters arranged in multiple rows. Each emitter of the plurality of emitters may be configured to emit an emission beam comprising IR light. A plurality of receptors may be arranged in multiple rows. Each receptor of the plurality of receptors may be configured to receive a reception beam comprising the IR light reflected off of a surface. One or more lenses comprising refractive elements may be configured to duplicate and direct one or more of the emission beams and one or more of the reception beams onto the surface to form an IR pattern. The IR pattern may include multiple IR curtains. One or more of the receptors and/or emitters may be deactivated to change a width of the IR pattern and/or number of IR curtains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BEA Inc.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Eubelen, Joseph M. Mulcahy, Adrien Van Damme, Tom Yantek, Andrew P. Bauer
  • Patent number: 12247162
    Abstract: Provided herein are liquid polymer (LP) compositions comprising a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer), as well as methods for preparing inverted polymer solutions by inverting these LP compositions in an aqueous fluid. The resulting inverted polymer solutions can have a concentration of a synthetic (co)polymer (e.g., an acrylamide (co)polymer) of from 50 to 15,000 ppm, and a filter ratio of 1.5 or less at 15 psi using a 1.2 ?m filter. Also provided are methods of using these inverted polymer solutions in oil and gas operations, including enhanced oil recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Do Hoon Kim, Dennis Arun Alexis, Varadarajan Dwarakanath, David Espinosa, Taimur Malik, Logan Jackson, Tom Lynch, Ronald Robinson, Frances Fournier, Hong Yang, Sukhjit Aujla
  • Patent number: 12247010
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treatment for various diseases, such as cancer. In one aspect, the method comprises the treatment of brain cancers or metastatic cancers that spread to the brain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventors: Tom Lin, Cheng-Chi Irene Wang, Jason Olejniczak, Jessica Crisp, Richard Truong
  • Patent number: 12250821
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a lower deck and an upper deck adjacent to a source. Each of the lower deck and the upper deck comprise tiers of alternating conductive materials and dielectric materials. Each of the lower deck and the upper deck also comprise an array region and one or more non-array regions. Memory pillars are in the lower deck and the upper deck of the array region and the memory pillars are configured to be operably coupled to the source. Dummy pillars are in the upper deck of the one or more non-array regions and the dummy pillars are configured to be electrically isolated from the source. Another conductive material is in the upper deck and the lower deck of the one or more non-array regions. Additional electronic devices and related systems and methods of forming an electronic device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: S M Istiaque Hossain, Christopher J. Larsen, Anilkumar Chandolu, Wesley O. McKinsey, Tom J. John, Arun Kumar Dhayalan, Prakash Rau Mokhna Rau
  • Patent number: 12246487
    Abstract: Improved carrier plates and methods of use thereof are provided to secure and transport individual layers of a multilayer structure during manufacture of the multilayer structure. In one implementation a carrier plate is provided including a lower portion and a raised portion to support a flexible substrate holding an individual layer laid on an upper surface of the raised portion. Clamping mechanisms, such as rollers, are formed on extended regions adjacent to side walls of the raised portion. The clamping mechanisms are configured to move from open positions, where the clamping mechanisms are spaced apart from the sidewalls of the raised portion, to closed positions, where the clamping mechanisms secure opposite edge portions of the flexible substrate between the clamping mechanisms and the first and sidewalls of the raised portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Sakuu Corporation
    Inventors: Morteza Vatani, Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Timothy Byman, Tom Hays, Peter Bruss, Don Ambli, Justin Carroll, Lawrence Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12248666
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device identifies a set of attributes from telemetry data generated by one or more agents regarding an online application accessible via a network. The device provides an interactive display to a user interface that includes options for a user to specify a selection of one or more attributes from the set of attributes and to specify an aggregation function. The device updates the interactive display to show a visualization of the aggregation function applied to the selection of one or more attributes and configures the one or more agents to collect only a subset of the telemetry data based on the selection of the one or more attributes and the aggregation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaideep Padhye, Daniel Quinn Erwin, Vishweshwar Ghanakota, Tom Thekkel Jose
  • Patent number: 12246284
    Abstract: A system for exhaust gas remediation includes an engine, a plasma reactor, and a pulse source. The engine emits exhaust gas that includes NO molecules and NOx molecules. The plasma reactor includes an internal chamber that is fluidly connected to the engine such that the exhaust gas flows into the internal chamber. An electrode is disposed within the internal chamber of the plasma reactor. The electrode is electrically coupled to an electrical pulse source. The electrical pulse source delivers electrical pulse to the electrode to form a plasma from the exhaust gas, which removes at least a portion of the NO molecules and at least a portion of the NOx molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, TAI CHONG CHEANG STEAMSHIP CO. (H.K.) LIMITED
    Inventors: Stephen B. Cronin, Sriram Subramanian, Tom Huiskamp, Alec Nystrom, William Schroeder
  • Patent number: 12247024
    Abstract: Provided herein is a process for the preparation of (R)—N-(5-(5-ethyl-1,2,4-oxadiazol-3-yl)-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide, intermediates thereof, and salts of the foregoing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CYTOKINETICS, INC.
    Inventors: Denise Andersen, Matthew Pfeiffer, Norma Tom, Bradley P. Morgan
  • Publication number: 20250072556
    Abstract: An article of footwear includes an outsole, an upper coupled to the outsole, a midsole arranged on the outsole, and a segmented support plate positioned between the outsole and the midsole. The segmented support plate includes a plurality of segments including (i) a first segment having a longitudinal dimension that is greater than a lateral dimension of the first segment, and (ii) a second segment having a longitudinal dimension that is less than a lateral dimension of the second segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventor: Tom Luedecke
  • Publication number: 20250072822
    Abstract: A foetal monitoring device for simultaneously monitoring a concentration of an analyte in a foetus and a heart rate of the foetus, the device comprising a biosensor and an electrocardiogram (ECG).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Arjun Siddharth Kaushik, Michael Tom Challenor, Robert David John Atkinson
  • Patent number: D1065776
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BRAVADO HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Tom Wolff, Nicole Habis
  • Patent number: D1066140
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Rad Power Bikes Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor Knapp, Matthew Arksey, Stefan Benier, Tom Mount
  • Patent number: D1066146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Rad Power Bikes Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Lobisser, Tom Gurski, Jake Silsby, Joe Gray
  • Patent number: D1066177
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Tom Harris, Stephen Beecher, David Kershaw, Gareth Aspden, Levente Kurti, Warwick Jones, Dong Myeong Park, Levente Acs, Thorsten Staiger
  • Patent number: D1066451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Motherson Innovations Company Limited
    Inventors: Tom Harris, Stephen Beecher, David Kershaw, Gareth Aspden, Levente Kurti, Warwick Jones, Dong Myeong Park, Levente Acs, Thorsten Staiger