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: 20250226211
    Abstract: A process to generate an etch-resistant nitride layer is provided. The process may include providing a substrate, the substrate including a silicon nitride layer formed by PECVD at an elevated deposition temperature, heating the substrate to an elevated implant temperature, and performing a hot implant by implanting the substrate at the elevated implant temperature, wherein an implanted silicon nitride layer is formed. The process may also include annealing the substrate after the hot implant at an elevated anneal temperature, wherein a relative etch rate of the implanted silicon nitride layer is reduced with respect to an unimplanted silicon nitride layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh PRASAD, Fernando Antonio REBOLLEDO USCANGA, Shan TANG, Wayne CHEN, Godwin John NTUK, Jialiang WANG, Guangyan ZHONG, Aditya SUNDARAM, Shweta HARDIKAR, Edwin A. AREVALO, Kyu-Ha SHIM
  • Publication number: 20250226226
    Abstract: Techniques for generating and maintaining a low stress nitride layer after a low temperature anneal, including the operations of providing a substrate, the substrate including a nitride layer formed by PECVD; heating the substrate to an elevated temperature; and performing a hot implant by implanting the substrate at the elevated temperature between 150° C. and 700° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh PRASAD, Fernando Antonio REBOLLEDO USCANGA, Shan TANG, Wayne CHEN, Godwin John NTUK, Jialiang WANG, Guangyan ZHONG, Aditya SUNDARAM, Shweta HARDIKAR, Edwin A. AREVALO, Kyu-Ha SHIM
  • Publication number: 20250221665
    Abstract: At least one embodiment is directed to a wearable that can be controlled by a user's gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: ST BioTech, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Wayne Goldstein, John Patrick Keady, John Usher
  • Publication number: 20250222080
    Abstract: The invention relates to recombinant nucleic acid and polypeptides encoding collagenase I and collagenase II, methods for the preparation thereof and methods for the use thereof. The invention also encompasses methods related to releasing a composition comprising collagenase prior to therapeutic administration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventor: Wayne K. HERBER
  • Patent number: 12350720
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus is configured to clean electronic substrates including printed circuit boards and semiconductor product assemblies. The cleaning apparatus includes at least one cleaning module configured to treat electronic substrates and a conveyor system configured to transport the electronic substrates through the at least one cleaning module. The at least one cleaning module includes a spray system having a manifold connected to a source of fluid and a plurality of spray bars fluidly coupled to the manifold, and an adjustable height spray system configured to move the manifold and the plurality of spray bars up and down with respect to the conveyor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Wayne Becker, Michael Brainard
  • Patent number: 12352733
    Abstract: Described is a mixer for a chromatography system. The mixer includes an inlet manifold channel, an outlet manifold channel and a plurality of transfer channels. The inlet manifold channel has an inlet at a proximal end of the inlet manifold channel for receiving an inlet flow. The transfer channels are fluidly connected between the inlet and outlet manifold channels. The respective fluid connections are distributed along each of the inlet and outlet manifolds channels. The transfer channels have different volumes. The mixer may be formed of a plurality of layer and the layers may be diffusion bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Peyton C. Beals, Sylvain Gilles Cormier, Richard Wayne Andrews
  • Patent number: 12350328
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods related to equine live-attenuated influenza vaccines. In one aspect, the invention relates to a composition comprising a multivalent equine live-attenuated influenza vaccine comprising a first live-attenuated influenza virus expressing one or more antigens of a clade 1 H3N8 equine influenza virus; and a second live-attenuated influenza virus expressing one or more antigens of a clade 2 H3N8 equine influenza virus, wherein the second live-attenuated influenza virus expresses HA, NA, or a combination thereof of A/equine/Lancashire/1/2016 H3N8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: University of Rochester, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, ZOETIS SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Thomas Chambers, Kendall Wayne King
  • Patent number: 12353399
    Abstract: A method includes analyzing a first log of a first log type generated by a first data store and determining if the first log has a first format of the first log type. In response to determining that the first log does not have the first format of the first log type, the first data store and the first log type are identified as degraded. A first impact score is determined for the first log type. First dependency information is analyzed for the first data store. In response to determining that no data store receives data items from the first data store, a report is generated. The report includes an identification that the first data store is degraded, an identification that the first log type is degraded, and the first impact score associated with the first log type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Stephanie Margaret Pirman, Jeffrey Wayne Texada, Eric Joseph DePree
  • Patent number: 12355782
    Abstract: This disclosure describes building a graph that is based on which IP address sources are active in the same time periods. By creating a node for each IP address with some moderate level of suspicious activity and connecting the nodes for any IP addresses that are engaging in that activity at roughly the same time, the graph represents scenarios of possible cooperation between sets of IP addresses. Nodes in this graph and the links between are assigned values based on how much suspicious activity they engage in during each time window. These values decay over time if no new suspicious activity occurs. By analyzing the resulting graph at any particular point in time, how similar two IP addresses have been behaving recently can be measured without having to keep track of their total history of activity over the last time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jared Sylvester, Michael Lowney, Catherine Watkins, Wayne Alan Fullen, John Paul Schweitzer, Sameer Anil Murudkar
  • Patent number: 12352037
    Abstract: A self-storage facility. The facility comprises a first set of commercial containers forming a first level of storage volume and a second set of commercial containers, atop the first set, forming a second level of storage volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: GS STORAGE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: David Wayne Ledoux, Richard Waldon Stockton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12351497
    Abstract: Methods for treating phosphogypsum-containing water are disclosed. The water may be treated so as to promote precipitation of one or more target constituents and to facilitate downstream membrane treatment. A coagulant may be added to promote phosphate recovery. Ammonia may optionally be removed. Related systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: EVOQUA WATER TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Wenxin Du, Hao Dang, George Y. Gu, Michael J. Shaw, Simon P. Dukes, Justin Wayne Higgs
  • Patent number: 12353702
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for projecting interfaces on a surface. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to scan a surface around a display device connected to an electronic device, determine a usable area of the scanned surface for projecting at least one graphical interface of the electronic device, and project the determined at least one graphical interface on the usable area of the scanned surface using at least one projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Wayne Beck, Russell Speight VanBlon, Thorsten P. Stremlau
  • Patent number: 12355495
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for transmitting information optically. For instance, a system may include an optical source configured to generate a beam of light. The system may include at least one modulator configured to encode data on the beam of light to produce an encoded beam of light/encoded plurality of pulses. The system may include a spectrally-equalizing amplifier configured to receive the encoded beam of light/encoded plurality of pulses from the at least one modulator and both amplify and filter the encoded beam of light/encoded plurality of pulses to produce a filtered beam of light/filtered plurality of pulses, thereby spectrally equalizing a gain applied to the encoded beam of light. In some cases, the system may slice the beam of slight, to ensure a detector has impulsive detection. In some cases, the system may include a temperature controller to shift a distribution curve of wavelengths of the optical source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Attochron, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas M. Chaffee, Wayne H. Knox
  • Patent number: 12350477
    Abstract: Medication delivery devices, sensing systems, and methods are disclosed for determining the relative axial and rotational movements of its members to determine the amount of a dose set and/or delivered by the medication delivery device. A sensing system comprises a barrel sensor system, a drive sleeve sensor system, and/or an axial sensor system. The barrel sensor system is for detecting the absolute relative angular position of the barrel relative to the housing during dose setting. The drive sleeve sensor system is for detecting the absolute relative angular position of the drive sleeve relative to the housing during dose delivery. The axial sensor system is for detecting the relative axial positions of the dose dial relative to the housing during dose setting and delivery. A controller receives outputs from the sensor systems corresponding to the absolute relative positions to determine the actual amounts of dose set and delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Nicola Antonio Alagia, Roy Howard Byerly, Rossano Claudio Massari, Russell Wayne Perkins
  • Patent number: 12350317
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions for treating and preventing inflammatory bowel disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Charles O. Elson, Wayne Duck, Qing Zhao, Katie Alexander
  • Patent number: 12350689
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus having an upright section moveable relative to a surface cleaning head between a storage position and a rearwardly reclined floor cleaning position. The upright section comprising a removable hand vacuum cleaner. The hand vacuum cleaner is operable in a first mode of operation in which the surface cleaning apparatus is operated to clean a floor, the inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner is in flow communication with the surface cleaning head air outlet and the air treatment member of the hand vacuum cleaner is operable to treat air drawn in through the dirty air inlet of the surface cleaning head. The hand vacuum cleaner is also operable in a second mode of operation in which the hand vacuum cleaner is operable to directly clean a floor or the air inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner is directly connected to the downstream end of an accessory tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 12350919
    Abstract: A cover for a cushion includes a first panel, a second panel, and a primary receptacle defined between the first panel and the second panel. The primary receptacle may receive a primary cushioning element, such as a pillow, a pillow insert, or a fill material. At least one of the first panel and the second panel includes a secondary cushioning element. The secondary cushioning element may be defined from a compressible, resilient elastomeric material that defines a plurality of thin interconnected walls that in turn define an array of open cells or columns. Each cell or column may have a hexagonal shape, imparting the array of open cells or columns with a honeycomb appearance. Methods for assembling a primary cushioning element with such a cover are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Purple Innovation, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Taylor, Russell B. Whatcott, Matthew Eccles Rogers, Dhyey Y. Acharya, Lidia Saldaña
  • Patent number: 12351591
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of the formula: wherein A, B, D1, X, Y, Z, G, R1, R2, and R3a are as described herein, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of using these compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof for treating patients for cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
    Inventors: David Anthony Barda, Jolie Anne Bastian, Kelly Wayne Furness, Deqi Guo, James Robert Henry, Richard Duane Johnston, Jason Eric Lamar, Tao Liu, Michael John Rodriguez, Almudena Rubio, Chong Si, Gaiying Zhao, Mohammad Sadegh Zia-Ebrahimi, Matthew Patrick Baumgartner, Isabel Rojo, Mario Barberis, Santiago Carballares Martin, Pablo Garcia Losada, Sonia Maria Gutierrez Sanfeliciano, Wenceslao Lumeras Amador, Victoriano Molero Florez, Maria Lourdes Prieto Vallejo
  • Patent number: 12351627
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for ACTH. Another embodiment of this invention relates to the antibodies binding fragments thereof described herein, comprising the sequences of the VH, VL and/or CDR polypeptides described herein, and the polynucleotides encoding them. The invention also contemplates conjugates of anti-ACTH antibodies and binding fragments thereof conjugated to one or more functional or detectable moieties. The invention further contemplates methods of making said anti-ACTH antibodies and binding fragments thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: H. LUNDBECK A/S
    Inventors: Andrew Lawrence Feldhaus, Leon Garcia-Martinez, Benjamin H. Dutzar, Daniel S. Allison, Katie Olson Anderson, Ethan Wayne Ojala, Pei Fan, Charlie Karasek, Jenny Mulligan, Michelle Scalley-Kim, Erica Stewart, Jeffrey T. L. Smith, John Latham
  • Patent number: 12354777
    Abstract: A payload-bus kinematic interface system includes one or more kinematic devices. Each kinematic device includes a first contacting surface and a second contacting surface. The first contacting surface kinematically interfaces with the second contacting surface, passing loads or forces to the second contacting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donald Wayne Denham, Timothy P. Woodard