Patents by Inventor Wei Ling

Wei Ling 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).

  • Patent number: 12381145
    Abstract: A method includes fabricating semiconductor structures extending in a first direction and fabricating gate-conductors extending in a second direction intersecting the semiconductor structure. The method also includes patterning a first metal layer to form horizontal conducting lines extending in the first direction, and patterning the second metal layer to form vertical conducting lines extending in the second direction. A first vertical conducting line is aligned with a first gate-conductor underneath and a second vertical conducting line is aligned with a vertical boundary of a circuit cell. The first vertical conducting line is directly connected to a first horizontal conducting line through a first pin-connector, and the second vertical conducting line is directly connected to a second horizontal conducting line through a second pin-connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Wei-Ling Chang, Chih-Liang Chen, Chia-Tien Wu, Guo-Huei Wu
  • Patent number: 12374982
    Abstract: The invention provides a feedback control device and a feedback control method thereof. The feedback control device includes an enhancing circuit and a comparator. The enhancing circuit receives a feedback voltage corresponding to an output voltage of a DC-to-DC converter. In an embodiment, the enhancing circuit generates an enhanced feedback voltage based on the feedback voltage, and the comparator uses a comparison result between a reference voltage and the enhanced feedback voltage as a control signal to a feedback control terminal of the DC-to-DC converter. In another embodiment, the enhancing circuit generates an enhanced reference voltage based on the reference voltage, and the comparator uses a comparison result between the enhanced reference voltage and the feedback voltage as the control signal. In yet another embodiment, the comparator uses a comparison result between the enhanced reference voltage and the enhanced feedback voltage as the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Zhe Hui Lin, Wei-Ling Chen, Lan-Shan Cheng
  • Patent number: 12375212
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) repetition using multiple beams are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a configuration data indicating a spatial relation information set for a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource that is configured with a preset number of repetitions, wherein the spatial relation information set is activated for the PUCCH resource by a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE); and a transmitter that transmits each of the PUCCH repetitions in multiple time intervals according to a mapping between the spatial relation information set and each repetition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Wei Ling, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Lingling Xiao
  • Publication number: 20250233717
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for single-DCI multi-TRP based UL transmission in unified TCI framework are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user equipment (UE) comprises a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; and a receiver coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to cause the UE to: receive, via the receiver, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE activating at least one Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) codepoint with two uplink (UL) or joint TCI states; and receive, via the receiver, a downlink control information (DCI indicating one TCI codepoint being activated with two UL or joint TCI states if multiple TCI codepoints are activated with UL or joint TCI states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: BINGCHAO LIU, CHENXI ZHU, LINGLING XIAO, WEI LING, YI ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250233703
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to facilitate larger number of DMRS ports are disclosed. A method may comprise receiving a configuration for Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) that includes a DMRS type, wherein, the maximum number of DMRS ports supported by DMRS type 1 is 8 for single-symbol DMRS and 16 for double-symbol DMRS, and the maximum number of DMRS ports supported by DMRS type 2 is 12 for single-symbol DMRS and 24 for double-symbol DMRS; receiving a Downlink Control Information (DCI) indicating one or more DMRS ports for a scheduled transmission, wherein the scheduled transmission is a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission or a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission; and mapping each of the indicated DMRS ports to a plurality of Resource Elements (REs) in one or more Resource Blocks (RBs) scheduled for the transmission based on the configuration for DMRS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Lingling Xiao, Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250226949
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of resource mapping for PTRS are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a signalling for Phase-Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS); and a processor that determines a plurality of PTRS resources including: a first set of PTRS resources associated with a first set of DMRS ports and a second set of PTRS resources associated with a second set of DMRS ports; wherein the first set of PTRS resources are determined according to a first resource mapping scheme, and the second set of PTRS resources are determined according to a second resource mapping scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Wei Ling, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Lingling Xiao
  • Publication number: 20250219793
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for PDCCH and CSI-RS reception in multi-TRP scenario with unified TCI framework are disclosed. In one embodiment, a UE comprises a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) activating at least one Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) codepoint with two downlink (DL) or joint TCI states; and receive, via the transceiver, a downlink control information (DCI) indicating one TCI codepoint being activated with two DL or joint TCI states if multiple TCI codepoints are activated with DL or joint TCI states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Bingchao LIU, Chenxi ZHU, Lingling XIAO, Wei LING, Yi ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250219695
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of CSI omission for coherent joint transmission are disclosed. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives a configuration signalling for one or more Channel State Information (CSI) reports for coherent joint transmission (CJT) with a plurality of transmitting-receiving identities; a processor that determines a portion of the CSI reports that is to be omitted in transmission based on a CSI omission scheme; and a transmitter that transmits the CSI reports with the portion being omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Yi ZHANG, Chenxi ZHU, Wei LING, Bingchao LIU, Lingling XIAO
  • Publication number: 20250211391
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for SRS enhancement are disclosed. In one embodiment, a UE comprises a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, a configuration of a group of SRS resource(s) associated with a same UL TCI state with a total of eight SRS ports for sounding eight antenna ports used for codebook or non-codebook based PUSCH transmission; and receive, via the transceiver, a DCI or a CG configuration for scheduling PUSCH transmission, wherein the DCI or the CG configuration contains an SRS resource indicator (SRI) field or an SRS resource set indicator (SRSI) field that indicates the group of SRS resource(s) for the scheduled PUSCH transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Lingling Xiao, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250212136
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus of power headroom report (PHR) reporting. An exemplary method of the present application includes: receiving a signaling activating one or more codepoints respectively indicating at least one common transmission configuration indication (TCI) state for an activated bandwidth part (BWP) of a serving cell, wherein, at least one codepoint of the one or more codepoints indicates two joint or uplink common TCI states; and transmitting at least one PHR in a slot for the activated BWP of the serving cell, wherein the at least one PHR includes at least one virtual PHR, each virtual PHR being determined based on a power control parameter set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Wei LING, Yi ZHANG, Chenxi ZHU, Bingchao LIU, Lingling XIAO
  • Patent number: 12341602
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an OLT, an ONU, and a system. In a downlink direction, the first OLT is configured to convert received downlink data packets of M1 paths into one downlink optical signal whose wavelength is ?o, and the first ONU is configured to receive the downlink optical signal, and output a target user data packet after processing the downlink optical signal. In an uplink direction, the first ONU is configured to convert received uplink data packets into an uplink optical signal whose wavelength is ?i, and the first OLT is configured to receive a plurality of uplink optical signals of different wavelengths, and output user data packets of a corresponding quantity of paths after processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huafeng Lin, Wei Ling, Xiaofei Zeng
  • Publication number: 20250203629
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for dynamic switching between single-TRP and multi-TRP based PUSCH schemes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a UE comprises a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, a higher layer parameter to indicate the multi-panel/TRP PUSCH scheme, a configuration of one or two SRS resource sets for CB or nCB in a BWP of a cell, and a DCI scheduling a PUSCH transmission, wherein, the one or two SRS resource sets are associated with a first UL TCI state and a second UL TCI state; and determine UL TCI state(s) applied to the scheduled PUSCH transmission according to the higher layer parameter and fields contained in the DCI, depending on the configuration of one or two SRS resource sets for CB or nCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Lingling Xiao, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250202545
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of CSI reporting for coherent joint transmission are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a configuration signalling for Channel State Information (CSI) reporting for a first transmitting-receiving entity and a second transmitting-receiving entity, wherein the CSI reporting comprises a joint CSI reporting or a plurality of linked CSI reportings; a processor that determines contents of the CSI reporting based on the configuration signalling, wherein the joint CSI reporting or each one of the linked CSI reportings comprises a first part and a second part; and a transmitter that transmits the CSI reporting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Yi ZHANG, Chenxi ZHU, Wei LING, Bingchao LIU, Lingling XIAO
  • Publication number: 20250202637
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Wei LING, Yi ZHANG, Chenxi ZHU, Bingchao LIU, Lingling XIAO
  • Publication number: 20250203628
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for precoding indication for simultaneous multi-panel UL transmission are disclosed. In one embodiment, a UE comprises a transceiver; and a processor coupled to the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, a DCI containing at least one TPMI field indicating a precoding matrix, the DCI schedules a multi-panel simultaneous PUSCH transmission with up to 4 layers; and determine, for the UE equipped with a first panel and a second panel, a precoding matrix used for the first panel and a precoding matrix used for the second panel according to the at least one TPMI field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Lingling Xiao, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12335970
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of joint search space set for enhanced PDCCH transmission with multiple beams from multiple TRPs are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a processor that generates a plurality of versions of Downlink Control Information (DCI) for transmission from a plurality of transmitting-receiving identities with a plurality of Control Resource Sets (CORESETs), each CORESET being transmitted from one of the transmitting-receiving identities; and configures an Information Element (IE) indicating a joint search space set for the DCI, wherein the joint search space set comprises a plurality of component search space sets; and a transmitter that transmits the DCI and the IE using the plurality of transmitting-receiving identities; wherein each one of the component search space sets is configured for monitoring and detecting one DCI version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling
  • Patent number: 12335196
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for data block transmissions. One method includes transmitting a data blocks frequency multiplexed in a time duration to a device, wherein: the data blocks are transmitted based on spatial information and a redundancy version sequence; each data block of the data blocks carries the same data varied based on a redundancy version indicated by the redundancy version sequence and occupies a same number of virtual resource blocks in a frequency domain; the data blocks are scheduled by a control channel, wherein the control channel is used to transmit information that indicates the redundancy version sequence of redundancy version sequences configured by high layer signaling; the spatial information is indicated in the control channel or is configured by high layer signaling; and a total number of data blocks of the data blocks is configured by high layer signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Wei Ling, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu
  • Patent number: 12335197
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of resource mapping for enhanced PDCCH transmission with multiple beams from multiple TRPs are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a processor that determines transmission resources capable of transmitting Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) using a Control Resource Set (CORESET) by a plurality of wireless transmitting-receiving identities including a first identity and a second identity; and determines a resource candidate from the transmission resources for transmitting the PDCCH; where the resource candidate includes a first resource group having a first set of Resource Elements (REs) for transmission by the first identity, and a second resource group having a second set of REs for transmission by the second identity; and a transmitter that transmits the PDCCH using the resource candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Wei Ling, Lingling Xiao
  • Publication number: 20250193807
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus of power headroom report (PHR) reporting. An exemplary method of the present application includes: receiving information indicating two joint or uplink common TCI states applicable in a slot of an activated bandwidth part (BWP) of a serving cell; and transmitting at least one PHR in the slot for the activated BWP of the serving cell, wherein the at least one PHR is determined at least according to a PUSCH transmission transmitted with the two joint or uplink common TCI states simultaneously in the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Wei Ling, Yi Zhang, Chenxi Zhu, Bingchao Liu, Lingling Xiao
  • Publication number: 20250192947
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus of power boosting for DMRS and PTRS are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a receiver that receives a configuration of Phase-Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) for a data transmission, wherein the data transmission is a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission with more than six layers, or a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission with more than four layers; a processor that determines a ratio between a first Energy Per Resource Element (EPRE) of a PTRS transmission and a second EPRE of the data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Lingling Xiao, Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Wei Ling, Yi Zhang