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).

  • High current surface mount toroid inductor
    Patent number: 12255002
    Abstract: An inductor comprises a base having a top surface, a bottom surface, and at least one side surface. The top surface is spaced from the bottom surface. The at least one side surface connects the top surface to the bottom surface. A core is located on the top surface and coupled to the base. At least one coil extends helically about the core. The at least one coil has at least one end extending outwardly from said core. At least one lead is coupled to the at least one coil and extending outwardly from the base in a coplanar relationship with the bottom surface. A circuit card assembly including the inductor and a method of manufacturing the circuit card assembly are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Michael C. Hallman, Wayne B. Thomas, Shawn M. Barber, Matthew W. Mielke, Donald E. Lemke, Kenneth G. Johnston
  • Closed socket brazed joint assembly
    Patent number: 12251769
    Abstract: A closed socket brazed joint assembly includes a first member, a second member with a first end having first and second faying surfaces, a socket in the first member that receives the second member with a faying surface with at least two portions separated by a first fillet. Before application of energy to the joint, there is a gap between the faying surfaces of the first and second members. A slug of brazing fill material is between the first end of the second member and at least one faying surface of the socket. Upon application of energy, the brazing fill material melts and flows from between first end of the second member and the at least one faying surface of the socket to fill the gap between the faying surfaces of the first and second members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventors: Andreas Athanassios Apostolopoulos, James Wayne, Alan Frampton, Kyle Kessler, Ramesh Edara
  • Network access tokens for accessories
    Patent number: 12256223
    Abstract: A wireless access device can be configured to determine a list of accessory groups corresponding to accessories connected to a network managed by the wireless access device. The wireless access device may also be configured to identify at least one firmware update that corresponds to at least one accessory group of the list of accessory groups and request all firmware updates that correspond to the at least one accessory group. The wireless access device can also be configured to receive one or more firmware updates that corresponds to at least one of the accessories of the at least one accessory group for which a respective firmware update is available and transmit at least one firmware update of the received one or more firmware updates to at least one corresponding accessory of the at least one accessory group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne A. Lee, Zaka Ur Rehman Ashraf, Daniel R. Borges, Kyle C. Brogle, Srinivas Rama, Benjamin S. Turner, Hung Q. Le, Devin E Gund, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Praveen Chegondi
  • Surface cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 12251717
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a cyclone chamber having a cyclone bin assembly comprising a cyclone chamber positioned in the air flow path, the cyclone chamber has a cyclone air inlet, a cyclone air outlet, a cyclone chamber front end, a cyclone chamber rear end, a cyclone chamber sidewall extending between the front and rear ends of the cyclone chamber and a cyclone axis of rotation that extends in a forward/rearwards direction. The front end of the cyclone chamber has a front height in a direction transverse to the cyclone axis of rotation that is less than a rear height of the cyclone chamber in the direction transverse to the cyclone axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Daniel Innes
  • Salt form of a human histone methyltransferase EZH2 inhibitor
    Patent number: 12251386
    Abstract: Provided herein is N-((4,6-dimethyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridin-3-yl)methyl)-5-(ethyl (tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)amino)-4-methyl-4?-(morpholinomethyl)-[1,1?-biphenyl]-3-carboxamide hydrobromide. Also provided herein is a particular polymorph form of this compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Epizyme, Inc., Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Wayne Kuntz, Kuan-Chun Huang, Hyeong Wook Choi, Kristen Sanders, Steven Mathieu, Arani Chanda, Francis Fang
  • Recyclable absorbent article package material
    Patent number: 12252320
    Abstract: A package of one or more absorbent articles is disclosed. The package has a package material including natural fibers. The package has a plurality of panels, including a consumer-facing panel, and wherein the package is sealed such that the one or more absorbent articles are completely enclosed therein. The package material has a basis weight of between 50 gsm to 120 gsm, between 60 gsm to 105 gsm or between 70 gsm to 90 gsm, as determined via ISO 536 as modified herein. The package material is recyclable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Remus, Edward Daniel Theiss, III, Michael Wayne Taylor, Jr., Michaela Monika Czupik, Emily Charlotte Boswell, Benjamin Jacob Clare, Patti Jean Kellett, Peter Kramkowski, Ilana Jessica Krause, Lee Mathew Arent
  • Efficient condition-based linking of communication sessions
    Patent number: 12254476
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems and methods for matching a customer with a service representative. A request for service can be received from a customer. A first service interaction can be initiated between the customer and a first service representative. A customer sentiment metric can be determined during the first service interaction. The customer sentiment metric can indicate a level of customer satisfaction during the first service interaction. A second service representative suitable for fulfilling the customer's request for service can be identified, based at least in part on the customer sentiment metric. A second service interaction can be initiated between the customer and the second service representative, responsive to the identification of the second service representative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Wayne Barakat, Thomas E. Gross, Darius Miranda, Marria Wairmola Rhodriquez, Andres J. Saenz, Sadie Salim, Duc M. Trinh
  • Systems and methods for operating a furnace
    Patent number: 12253284
    Abstract: Methods and related systems for operating a furnace are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes activating a burner assembly and a first fan of the furnace to combust fuel and air and circulate combustion gases along a flow path extending through a heat exchanger of the furnace. In addition, the method includes operating a second fan of the furnace to circulate air across an external surface of the heat exchanger of the furnace and produce a conditioned airflow. Further, the method includes monitoring one or more parameters of a motor of the second fan indicative of an airflow rate of the conditioned airflow, and deactivating the burner assembly, whereby combustion of the fuel and air in the furnace ceases, in response to the one or more parameters indicating that the airflow rate is less than a minimum airflow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: James R. M. Neal, Thomas Gort, Wayne N. Kraft, Sandeep Gowdagiri, Neal Harrington, David Williams, Jr.
  • Hybrid antenna system for wearable devices
    Patent number: 12255379
    Abstract: An antenna system comprises a combination of a loop antenna and a non-loop antenna. The loop antenna and the non-loop antenna is connected in common to a transceiver mechanism or signal feed mechanism. The non-loop antenna is in some embodiments provided by a dipole conductor. An eyewear device incorporates the antenna system, a loop conductor and a dipole conductor of the antenna system being integrated in a body of the eyewear device. The loop conductor may be provided by a lens ring that extends around a lens held by the body. The lens ring may serve both as loop conductor and as a lens retention mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Mathias Andreas Hintermann, Pat Kusbel, Douglas Wayne Moskowitz, Ugur Olgun, Russell Douglas Patton, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons, John Bernard Ardisana, II, Teodor Dabov, Ashutosh Y. Shukla
  • Anti-predator device for beehive
    Patent number: 12250928
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a beehive comprising (i) an exterior wall, (ii) a hive interior, and (iii) an entrance through the wall that allows access and egress of bees to and from the hive interior. A beehive disclosed herein can further comprise (iv) a beehive entrance tunnel having a proximal entrance end at the hive entrance and a distal exit end that extends into the hive interior. In operation, the bees enter the beehive by proceeding along the tunnel; wherein in use of the hive the tunnel is sufficiently elongated that when host bees are present invading pests, e.g. bees or wasps, entering the beehive via the tunnel encounter host bees in the tunnel resulting in attacks in the tunnel by host bees on the invading bees or wasps. Existing hives are modified so as to have such an entrance tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Bee-IQ Solutions Limited
    Inventor: Kyle Blair Wayne Atkinson
  • Systems and methods for wireless physical condition instruction generation
    Patent number: 12256294
    Abstract: A system for wireless physical condition instruction generation includes a portable computing device in communication with a wireless receiver, the portable computing device designed and configured to receiving a first wireless signal from at least transmitter located at a subject device, wherein the first wireless signal identifies the subject device, determining a current device status of the subject device, generate at least a physical condition instruction regarding the subject device, determine that the at least a physical condition instruction has been performed, and update the current device status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventors: Darwin Wayne Belt, April Ryan Hilton, Jeffrey D Hilton, Jessica B Hipp, Zachary Nolan Belt
  • Core-shell flow improver
    Patent number: 12252570
    Abstract: A flow improver comprising a plurality of core-shell particles that can be formed by emulsion polymerization. The core of the core-shell particles can include a drag reducing polymer, while the shell of the particles can include repeat units of a hydrophobic compound and an amphiphilic compound. The flow improver can demonstrate increased pumping stability over conventionally prepared latex flow improvers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LiquidPower Specialty Products Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne R. Dreher, Kenneth W. Smith, Stuart N. Milligan, Timothy L. Burden, William F. Harris, Ray L. Johnston, Wolfgang Klesse, Gerold Schmitt, John Wey
  • Multiple caller numbers assigned to multiple called devices
    Patent number: 12256045
    Abstract: One example method of operation may include identifying a number of profiles including respective recipient telephone numbers identified to be called within a period of time, forwarding a list of caller telephone numbers assigned to a caller entity to each of a number of mobile devices associated with the profiles, and placing calls to the respective mobile devices within the period of time, and the calls originate from a group of the caller telephone numbers included in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Knuth, Brandon Wayne Murphy, Mark Bradley McHenry, Jay Todd Callaway, Rafael De Melo Aroxa, Matthew Jack Beckham
  • Surface cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 12251716
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclone assembly comprising a cyclone and a dirt collection chamber. The cyclone assembly has a cyclone assembly axis extending centrally between a front end of the cyclone assembly and a rear end of the cyclone assembly. The cyclone has a horizontally extending cyclone axis and the dirt collection chamber has a lower end which is at a lower elevation than a lower end of the cyclone chamber. A line that extends in a common direction with the cyclone assembly axis intersects the dirt collection chamber at an elevation below the cyclone chamber, a pre-motor filter and a handle of the hand vacuum cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Regioselectively substituted cellulose ester based C+ compensation films with improved wavelength dispersion
    Patent number: 12252603
    Abstract: The present application discloses films comprising regioselectively substituted cellulose esters and a component A wherein rings A, B, C, R1, R2, R5, R6, R8, m, n, and k are defined herein. The films are C+ films that exhibit improved wavelength dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Qianqian Zhang, Bin Wang, Robert Jacks Sharpe, Wesley Wayne McConnell, Casey Lynn Elkins, Charles Michael Buchanan
  • Networks and tethers using fiber reinforced high temperature superconductors
    Patent number: 12255014
    Abstract: A device comprises a support net with nodes, wherein each node comprises a HTS photovoltaic-magnetic cell, wherein alignments of the HTS photovoltaic-magnetic cells are arranged with N-S in parallel alignment. A device comprises a tether comprising a plurality of HTS solenoids and a sheath, wherein a solenoid of the plurality of HTS solenoids comprises a high temperature superconducting material and reinforcing fiber. A device comprises propulsion ball or plate with tail, injected in propulsion channel; HTS solenoids disposed along walls of propulsion channel, wherein the propulsion ball or plate with tail are moved through the propulsion channel using magnetic field generated by HTS solenoids; and a collection channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: LAU Superconductors Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Chung Wei Lau
  • Surface cleaning apparatus with an external dirt chamber
    Patent number: 12251074
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone chamber having a longitudinal cyclone axis of rotation wherein the dirt outlet is defined by a gap between the sidewall of the cyclone and a plate positioned at the dirt outlet end of the cyclone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Vehicle light and mounting assembly
    Patent number: 12252062
    Abstract: The invention disclosed herein is directed to a vehicle light and mounting assembly that extends the functionality of light brackets and housings by allowing commonly used accessories to be removably attached to a vehicle by other method, means, and in other locations. The vehicle light and mounting assembly includes a light housing assembly and a mounting assembly. The light housing assembly and the accessories are removably mounted, respectively, using the mounting assembly. The light housing assembly can be configured as a headlight, taillight, and/or auxiliary lights that can be removably mounted to a motorcycle, bicycle, truck, sports utility vehicle, car, recreational vehicle, trailer, first-alert vehicle, and any other motorized or unmotorized vehicle using the mounting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Mach Built, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Teague, Connor Michael Teague, Gregory Royce Rex
  • Physical access control systems and methods
    Patent number: 12254732
    Abstract: A physical access control (PAC) system comprises an authentication device that includes physical layer circuitry and processing circuitry. The physical layer circuitry transmits and receives radio frequency electrical signals over a radio access network. The processing circuitry is operatively coupled to the physical layer circuitry and includes an authentication engine. The authentication engine is configured to receive access credential information via the radio access network using a cloud-based messaging service; authenticate the access credential information using the authentication device; and initiate access to a physical access portal according to the access credential information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: HID Global Corp.
    Inventors: Sylvain Jacques Prevost, Kapil Sachdeva, Stephen Carney, Wayne Pak, Jianbo Chen
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND REDUCING TORQUE IN A TURBINE ENGINE
    Publication number: 20250084799
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fan section having a fan rotatable with a fan shaft, a turbomachinery section having a turbine and a turbomachine shaft rotatable with the turbine, a power gearbox mechanically coupled to the fan shaft and the turbomachine shaft such that the fan shaft is rotatable by the turbomachine shaft across the power gearbox, a grounded structure coupled to and supporting the power gearbox, and a torque monitoring system. The torque monitoring system includes a gearbox sensor. The gearbox sensor is coupled to the grounded structure and the torque monitoring system configured to determine a torque across the power gearbox using the gearbox sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Andrew Hudecki, Kevin Richard Graziano, Arthur William Sibbach, Inenhe Mohammed Khalid, Andrea Piazza, Stefan Joseph Cafaro