Patents by Inventor Wayne (Wen-Yi) Hsieh

Wayne (Wen-Yi) Hsieh 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: 20250197125
    Abstract: A control system for a cold planer includes a speed sensor and a controller. The speed sensor is operatively coupled with a conveyor belt of the cold planer. The conveyor belt is configured to be driven by a motor. The controller is communicably coupled with the speed sensor and the motor. The controller configured to receive an indication of a speed of the motor and receive, from the speed sensor, an indication of a speed of the conveyor belt. The controller is further configured to determine, based on the received indication of the speed of the motor and the received indication of the speed of the conveyor belt, an amount of belt slippage of the conveyor belt. The controller is further configured to calculate, based on the amount of belt slippage of the conveyor belt, a mass flow rate of material on the conveyor belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: John Lee Marsolek, Jeremy Wayne Lee, Jacob J. McAlpine, Matthew Thomas Hanson
  • Publication number: 20250198345
    Abstract: A turbine engine having an inner cowl that circumscribes at least a portion of an engine core, where the inner cowl is radially spaced from the engine core. An outer cowl circumscribes at least a portion of the inner cowl where the outer cowl includes a radially outer surface spaced from a radially inner surface to define an outer cowl space. A fire box is located within a portion of the outer cowl space. An accessory device is located in the fire box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, John Carl Glessner
  • Publication number: 20250198820
    Abstract: A system comprising one or more processing circuits to detect an operation of a cold planer, receive a plurality of information corresponding to the cold planer, identify a first status of the cold planer, identify a second status of the cold planer, combine a first set of information and a second set of information to create a fused set of information, and generate a mass flow rate of the material on the conveyor belt based on the fused set of information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Wayne Lee, John Lee Marsolek, Matthew Thomas Hanson, Jacob J. McAlpine
  • Publication number: 20250196739
    Abstract: A user support includes a hood structure that is supported by a back frame structure of the user support. The hood structure may comprise a one-piece homogeneous polymer structure that is formed by an additive process. The hood structure may include solid structures and at least one porous lattice matrix that is integrally formed with the solid structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Silva Kondrad, David D. Friske, Michael Joseph Niksa, Kevin Wayne Preuss, Sangram Laxman Tamhankar, Keith Weston
  • Publication number: 20250196389
    Abstract: An adjustable hold-down shoe system having an assembly body, a plurality of hold-down shoes movably mounted to the assembly body, a body mount, and a lifting/lowering mechanism movably connecting the assembly body to the body mount that moves the assembly body in relation to the body mount and in a first direction towards the lumber bias surface and in a second direction away from the lumber bias surface. A method of modifying a trimmer system by operatively coupling the adjustable hold-down shoe assembly with the trimmer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: James L. Anderson, Russell R. Kennedy, Douglas Monroe Tinsley, Thomas Wayne Green
  • Publication number: 20250202175
    Abstract: A splice joint assembly for joining bus bar structure ends to allow a splice connection at each bus bar structure of a plurality of bus bar structures can include a carriage bolt configured to pass through an opening in the plurality of bus bar structures to fix a position of the plurality of bus bar structures relative to each other and to align the plurality of bus bar structures. The carriage bolt can be electrically insulated or made of an electrically insulating material, for example. The splice joint assembly can include a spacer structure disposed between each bus bar structure and around the carriage bolt, the spacer structure configured to electrically isolate each bus bar structure from adjacent bus bar structures. The spacer structure can define an axial gap distance between bus bar structures. The spacer structure can define an elongated over-surface path to elongate an over-surface distance to maintain electrical isolation of adjacent bus bar structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Denise Robertson, Steven Wayne Dozier, William Scarborough
  • Publication number: 20250198645
    Abstract: A fan coil for a single unit in a multi-unit building has hot and cold riser stacks. Heating and cooling closed loop fluid flow paths thermally connect the fan coil in thermal communication with the hot and cold riser stacks, respectively. The fan coil has a housing that houses heating and cooling heat exchangers in thermal communication with the heating and cooling closed loop fluid flow paths, respectively. A fan in the housing may draw ambient air through the fan coil. In a heating mode, the air collects heat from the heating heat exchanger and in a cooling mode, the air is cooled by the cooling heat exchanger. The heated or cooled air exits the fan coil and enters a room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Publication number: 20250198257
    Abstract: A downhole tool for cleaning a wellbore, the tool including a tool body having a flowpath therethrough. A liquid is configured to flow through the flowpath and may have an intermittent flow pattern. An inner sleeve positioned within the tool body includes a recess having a recess pattern. In response to the intermittent flow pattern, a shift pin positioned in the recess of the inner sleeve traverses through the recess pattern. The downhole tool includes at least one scraper blade. The scraper blade is movable between a retracted position and a radially expanded position. In response to the shift pin traversing the recess pattern of the recess, the scraper blade can be expanded radially outward toward a wall of the wellbore from the retracted position to the expanded position and/or retracted inward away from the wall of the wellbore from the expanded position to the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jon-Howard Elliott Hanson, Kyle Wayne Davis, Peter Reid Maher, Timothy Simmonds, Alan Pace, Gavin Munro
  • Publication number: 20250196364
    Abstract: An autonomous grouting robotic apparatus comprising a sponge belt, a front sponge guide assembly, a grout extruder with a nozzle, cameras, and a LIDAR is configured to map a room and identify grouting lines each corresponding to a gap between tiles and to drive the robot and control extrusion of the grout from the nozzle and to clean excess grout off tiles. The front sponge guide assembly and grout extruder are mounted to the robotic apparatus using a pivoting mounting arrangement to control a tilt angle to allow extruding into grouting gaps located along the edges of the room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jakub Suchanek, Ronald Luc, Keefe Wayne Teo Zhi Yuan
  • Publication number: 20250196766
    Abstract: A user support for motor vehicles includes a flexible cover having a flexible light comprising electroluminescent material that emits light when electrical power is supplied to the electroluminescent material. The user support may include a resilient porous lattice matrix formed by an additive process and may include electroluminescent material disposed on links of the lattice matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: MARC SILVA KONDRAD, Kevin Wayne Preuss, David D. Friske, Keith Weston
  • Publication number: 20250195516
    Abstract: Compounds active on protein kinases are described, as well as methods of making and using such compounds to treat diseases and conditions associated with aberrant activity of protein kinases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Prabha N. Ibrahim, Chao Zhang, Wayne Spevak, Jiazhong Zhang, Guoxian Wu, Jack Lin, Hanna Cho, Marika Nespi, Songyuan Shi, Todd Ewing, Ying Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250198096
    Abstract: A cold planer includes a conveyor system having a conveyor belt, a frame, and a roller rotatably coupled to the frame, a motor coupled to the conveyor belt and configured to drive the conveyor belt, a tension screw coupled between the roller and the frame, a tension sensor configured to measure the tension on the conveyor belt, and a controller communicably coupled with the tension sensor and the motor. The controller is configured to receive the tension from the tension sensor and calculate, based on the tension from the tension sensor, a mass flow rate of material on the conveyor belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob J. McAlpine, John Lee Marsolek, Jeremy Wayne Lee, Matthew Thomas Hanson
  • Publication number: 20250195861
    Abstract: A catheter includes: a first tubular structure; a second tubular structure, wherein the first tubular structure and the second tubular structure are arranged serially with respect to each other along a longitudinal axis of the catheter; and a polymeric connector located between (1) a part of the first tubular structure at an end of the first tubular structure and (2) a part of the second tubular structure at an end of the second tubular structure; wherein the polymeric connector is configured to couple the first tubular structure and the second tubular structure to each other, and/or to prevent the first tubular structure and the second tubular structure from separating from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicants: STRYKER CORPORATION, STRYKER EUROPEAN OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wayne Baxter, Michael Troy Poor
  • Publication number: 20250200656
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for authorizing user access to services provided by a first entity is disclosed. The method involves receiving a request to authorize a user, retrieving a plurality of user-related metrics from a database, generating a risk metric based on these metrics, and automatically determining the user's authorization based on the risk metric. The authorization decision involves a second entity assuming a portion of the risk for the services provided by the first entity and the first entity assuming a second portion of the risk for the services. The method further includes communicating the authorization decision to a graphical user interface, providing a clear indication of the user's authorized access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Wayne ZIMMERMAN, Daniel Joseph CATES, Brandon Dean BLAYLOCK, Joshua Daniel COMPTON, Steven Trevor BALDWIN
  • Publication number: 20250199091
    Abstract: A system and method for switching the operating mode of a controller based on the detection of a magnetic field, and in response to having detected a change in the presence of the magnetic field, sending a message to the remote server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jason Wayne JANTZI, Yu GAO, Mahendra FULESHWAR PRASAD
  • Publication number: 20250196744
    Abstract: A user support comprises at least one cushioned component having a porous lattice matrix formed by an additive process. The porous lattice matrix may comprise a plurality of integrally formed tubular portions. A sound passageway may be integrally formed in the porous lattice matrix to carry sound from a remote source to an opening in the user support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David D. Friske, Marc Silva Kondrad, Michael Joseph Niksa, Kevin Wayne Preuss, Sangram Laxman Tamhankar, Kevin VanNieulande, Keith Weston
  • Publication number: 20250204281
    Abstract: Described are a method for providing a low loss dielectric and related structures and devices comprising such a low loss dielectric. The method and low loss dielectric are suitable for use in superconducting devices, circuits and systems as well as in superconducting quantum devices, circuits and systems. In embodiments, a shadow-evaporation technique is used to provide a parallel-plate superconducting capacitor having an aluminum oxide dielectric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: William D. Oliver, Alexander J. Melville, Wayne H. Woods, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Sergey K. Tolpygo, Mollie E. Schwartz, Evan B. Golden, David K. Kim, Kyle A. Serniak, Bethany Niedzielski Huffman, Arjan Sevi
  • Patent number: 12333274
    Abstract: To reduce power consumption, data bits or a portion of a data register that is not expected to toggle frequently can be grouped together, and be clock-gated independently from the rest of the data register. The grouping of the data bits can be determined based on the data types of the workload being operated on. For a data register configured to store a numeric value that supports multiple data types, the portion of the data register being clock-gated may store a group of data bits that are unused for one or more data types of the multiple data types supported by the data register. The portion of the data register being clock-gated can also be a group of data bits that remain unchanged or have a constant value for numeric values within a certain numeric range that is frequently operated on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Wayne Bowman, Thomas A. Volpe, Sundeep Amirineni, Nishith Desai, Ron Diamant
  • Patent number: 12332012
    Abstract: A gas-operated firearm has a frame, a barrel defining a bore having a forward muzzle end and an opposed rear end defining a chamber, a bolt assembly received in the frame and operable to reciprocate between a battery position and a recoil position, the barrel defining a gas aperture communicating with the bore, a gas operating system connected to the frame, having a gas inlet, and operably connected to the bolt assembly to move the bolt assembly from the battery position toward the recoil position, and the gas inlet being forward of the gas aperture. There may be a gas conduit extending forward from the gas aperture to the gas inlet. The gas aperture may be proximate the rear end of the barrel. Unlike conventional gas-operated firearms, the barrel is free of contact with any other elements except proximate the rear end of the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: ANCILLA INDUSTRIES LLC
    Inventor: Tyler Wayne Chesus
  • Patent number: 12334835
    Abstract: A transport climate control system is disclosed. The transport climate control system includes a self-configuring matrix power converter having a charging mode, an inverter circuit, a controller, a first DC energy storage and a second DC energy storage, and a compressor. The first DC energy storage and the second DC energy storage have different voltage levels. During the charging mode, the inverter circuit is configured to convert a first AC voltage from an energy source to a first DC voltage, the controller is configured to control the self-configuring matrix power converter to convert the first DC voltage to a first output DC voltage to charge the first DC energy storage, and/or to a second output DC voltage to charge the second DC energy storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: THERMO KING LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Wayne Schumacher