Patents by Inventor Wei Zhou

Wei Zhou 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: 20230269879
    Abstract: A method for preparing a ceramic copper clad laminate is provided, including following steps: providing a copper material; forming a copper oxide layer on a surface of the copper material; thermally treating the copper material on which the copper oxide layer is formed, to diffuse oxygen atoms in the copper material; removing the copper oxide layer on the thermally treated copper material; and soldering the copper-oxide-layer-removed copper material to a ceramic substrate to obtain a ceramic copper clad laminate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Wei ZHOU, Qiang XU, Caicai XIE
  • Patent number: 11731314
    Abstract: A fiber pre-dispersing device for fiber reinforced concrete, comprising: a dispersing chamber, a feed inlet is installed on the upper side of a dispersing chamber, a hopper is installed in the feed inlet, a first dispersing device is installed in the dispersing chamber, a discharge outlet is installed at the bottom of the dispersing chamber, and connected with a second dispersing device, grooves are arranged at both sides of dispersing chamber, supporting legs are installed in the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jianqiang Chen, Yutian Wang, Wei Zhou, Enbo Fan, Taiyan Liu, Lingbo Meng, Xun Wang, Zhen Xu, Junwei Liu, Xiaoyu Bai
  • Publication number: 20230260964
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having monolithic conductive cylinders, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. The semiconductor device can include a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad, an opening, and a top dielectric layer. The conductive pad may be at a first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The opening may be ring-shaped and extend through the semiconductor substrate from the conductive pad to a second surface and define a side wall. The liner may coat the side wall and the top dielectric layer may cover the second surface and may fill the opening. A second ring-shaped opening may be formed through the semiconductor device and the opening and a conductive material plated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Kyle K. Kirby, Bret K. Street, Kunal R. Parekh
  • Publication number: 20230260876
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having monolithic conductive columns, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. The semiconductor device can include a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad, an opening, a non-conductive liner, and a plug of non-conductive material. The conductive pad may be at a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The opening may extend through the semiconductor substrate from the conductive pad to a second surface and define a side wall. The liner may coat the side wall and the plug may fill the opening. A second opening may be formed through the semiconductor device and the opening and a conductive material sintering therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Kyle K. Kirby, Bret K. Street, Kunal R. Parekh
  • Publication number: 20230260877
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having monolithic conductive cylinders, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. The semiconductor device can include a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad, an opening, and a top dielectric layer. The conductive pad may be at a first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The opening may be ring-shaped and extend through the semiconductor substrate from the conductive pad to a second surface and define a side wall. The liner may coat the side wall and the top dielectric layer may cover the second surface and may fill the opening. A second ring-shaped opening may be formed through the semiconductor device and the opening and a conductive material plated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Kyle K. Kirby, Bret K. Street, Kunal R. Parekh
  • Publication number: 20230260875
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having monolithic conductive columns, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. The semiconductor device can include a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad, an opening, a non-conductive liner, and a plug of non-conductive material. The conductive pad may be at a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The opening may extend through the semiconductor substrate from the conductive pad to a second surface and define a side wall. The liner may coat the side wall and the plug may fill the opening. A second opening may be formed through the semiconductor device and the opening and a conductive material plated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Kyle K. Kirby, Bret K. Street, Kunal R. Parekh
  • Patent number: 11727663
    Abstract: A method for detecting a face key point includes: acquiring image data containing a face; detecting a first face key point of the face in the image data; identifying a face type of the face according to the first face key point; performing position correction on the first face key point with reference to the face type; extracting a facial features image containing facial features from the image data based on the first face key point subjected to the position correction; and detecting a second face key point of the face in the facial features image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230253919
    Abstract: A method for identifying parameters of single-diode photovoltaic cells comprises: measuring an actual output voltage and an actual output current of a single-diode photovoltaic cell under a given temperature and a given light intensity; constructing an ideal model of the single-diode photovoltaic cell, determining to-be-identified parameters, and establishing an objective function; and identifying the to-be-identified parameters through a backtracking search algorithm based on a sine-cosine mechanism to obtain to-be-identified parameter data of the single-diode photovoltaic cell, so that parameters identification of the single-diode photovoltaic cell is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Wenzhou University
    Inventors: Pengjun WANG, Wei ZHOU, Huiling CHEN, Bo CHEN, Yijian SHI
  • Publication number: 20230252978
    Abstract: A material compliance system and method, which includes a call information receiving module for receiving call information, a voice labeling module for recognizing label information in the call information via voice recognition and inserting label information to form primary recording information, a voice segmentation module for segmenting the primary recording information into intermediate recording information based on the label information, a voice recognition module for converting the intermediate recording information into final text information, a voice analysis module for organizing the intermediate text information into compliance information and storing it in a database, and an output module for outputting the received compliance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: STATE GRID LIANYUNGANG POWER SUPPLY COMPANY
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Hong LI, Fei HAN, Jin ZHU, Bin ZHOU, Lishan BAO, Jiyu SHANG, Shaojie XUE, Yong DAI, Lixiang ZHANG, Shiyang WANG, Hongxin YIN, Wei ZHOU, Nuan SHANG
  • Patent number: 11722582
    Abstract: Responsive to a request to access heterogeneous repositories, a REST server queries a resource registry to find resources that match mapping information contained in the request. The resource registry returns resource registry tables containing the matching resources. The resource registry tables implement a unified data structure of a resource registry model and are generated at runtime by the resource registry mapping REST service configuration parameters to the fields of the unified data structure. The REST service configuration parameters are added to an extension SDK for REST extension developers to enhance REST service configuration for extension applications. The REST service configuration parameters are configured at implementation time and loaded/scanned into the REST server at runtime. The REST server iteratively evaluates the resource registry tables until all the matching resources have been evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Open Text Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Muhua Chen, Wei Ruan, Chen Wang
  • Publication number: 20230245420
    Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus may be provided. The process may include, obtaining source compressed texture data of a target image by encoding the target image by using a source compressed texture format and determining a target compressed texture format adapted to the display card and a target compressed block size corresponding to the target compressed texture format. The process may also include obtaining a plurality of pieces of image texture data, based on decoding and aligning the source compressed texture data by using the target compressed block size, and obtaining target compressed texture data of the target image, based on transcoding each piece of the plurality of pieces of image texture data by using the target compressed texture format and the target compressed block size. The process may also include rendering the target image based on the target compressed texture data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhiqiang YUAN, Yandong Yang, Wenyan Li, Rongxin Zhou, Lei Liu, Xinda Zhao, Zhipeng Gong, Hao Yang, Chen Cao, Wei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230238300
    Abstract: A semiconductor package can include a semiconductor die stack including a top die and one or more core dies below the top die. The semiconductor package can further include a metal heat sink plated on a top surface of the top die and have a plurality of side surfaces coplanar with corresponding ones of a plurality of sidewalls of the semiconductor die stack. A molding can surround the stack of semiconductor dies and the metal heat sink, the molding including a top surface coplanar with an exposed upper surface of the metal heat sink. The top surface of the molding and the exposed upper surface of the metal heat sink are both mechanically altered. For example, the metal heat sink and the molding can be simultaneously ground with a grinding disc and can show grinding marks as a result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Bret K. Street, Kyle K. Kirby
  • Publication number: 20230234260
    Abstract: A fiber pre-dispersing device for fiber reinforced concrete, comprising: a dispersing chamber, a feed inlet is installed on the upper side of a dispersing chamber, a hopper is installed in the feed inlet, a first dispersing device is installed in the dispersing chamber, a discharge outlet is installed at the bottom of the dispersing chamber, and connected with a second dispersing device, grooves are arranged at both sides of dispersing chamber, supporting legs are installed in the grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Jianqiang Chen, Yutian Wang, Wei Zhou, Enbo Fan, Taiyan Liu, Lingbo Meng, Xun Wang, Zhen Xu, Junwei Liu, Xiaoyu Bai
  • Patent number: 11709325
    Abstract: A method for aligning the projection of a first light source with an in-coupler of a waveguide, the method including supplying a secondary light source through an optical path of the waveguide to exit at the in-coupler of the waveguide as an exit light; determining the concentricity of the exit light with respect to the first light source; and improving the concentricity of the exit light with respect to the first light source by adjusting the positioning of the first light source such that the exit light becomes concentric with the projection of the first light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: MLOptic Corp.
    Inventors: Jiang He, Wei Zhou, Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20230232111
    Abstract: A method for controlling an autoexposure function of a camera to a gray level setting, the method including establishing a critical exposure time of an image sensing device of the camera, wherein the critical exposure time of the image sensing device of the camera is an exposure time at which a first sensed gray level of the image sensing device of the camera is disposed at a target gray level, the sensed gray level is disposed in a trend of decreasing sensed gray level values; exposing the image sensing device of the camera to light to obtain a second sensed gray level and comparing the second sensed gray level at the critical exposure time to the target gray level, if the second sensed gray level is disposed at least at the target gray level, limiting the exposure of the image sensing device of the camera to the critical exposure time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Nathan Yang, Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20230220433
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to D-xylulose 4-epimerase, mutants thereof, and uses thereof. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to a polypeptide having D-xylulose 4-epimerase activity, a method for preparing said polypeptide, and use of said polypeptide in the preparation of L-pentose using D-xylose or D-xylulose as a raw material. Compared with the traditional preparation method in the prior art, the new method for preparing L-pentose discovered in the present disclosure has simpler production process and reduces the cost of producing L-pentose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yi-Heng Percival Zhang, Wei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230222932
    Abstract: Methods, systems and media for context-aware estimation of student attention in online learning are described. An attention monitoring system filters or restricts the time periods in which student attention is monitored or assessed to those time periods in which student attention is important. These time periods of high attention importance may be determined by processing data from the teacher, such as audio data representing the teacher's voice and/or visual presentation data representing slides or other visual material being presented to the students. Various types of presenter data from the teacher and attendee data from the students may be used in assessing the importance of attention and each student's attention during each time period. The presenter may be provided with feedback in various forms showing student attention performance aggregated or segmented according to various criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Wei ZHOU, Mona HOSSEINKHANI LOORAK, Sachi MIZOBUCHI, XIU YI, Juntao YE, Liang HU, Wei LI
  • Publication number: 20230222914
    Abstract: A vehicle reminding method and system, and a related device are provided. The method includes: obtaining detection information, where the detection information includes related information that is of a target vehicle and that is collected by a sensor of an ego vehicle; performing collision analysis based on the detection information; and reminding the target vehicle of a collision risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Wei ZHOU, Bingxue WANG, Cunlian WANG
  • Publication number: 20230219095
    Abstract: The present random access PCR reactor for biological analysis, comprises of a number of PCR reactors held on a platform, and one optical system to be shared by all of the PCR reactors on the platform. The optical system is held on a traverse mechanism to move it over any one of the PCR reactors that are ready to be imaged. Other PCR reactors on the platform can be accesses and replaced. The optical system has a lightpipe and a lightguide that distributes a uniform light over all the samples held on the reactor. The lightguide of the present optical system has a set of light reflecting structures that are strategically located to uniformly reflect an incoming light towards all the samples held in the PCR reactor that is being tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: MOLARRAY RESEARCH INC.
    Inventors: Hsin-Chin LEE, Kai On NG, Frank Wei ZHOU, Yuan Min WU
  • Patent number: 11700025
    Abstract: A wireless single-phase AC-to-AC conversion circuit based on a 2.4G microwave includes a receiving antenna unit, a RF switch unit, a positive voltage rectification unit, a negative voltage rectification unit and an AC synthesis unit. An output port of the receiving antenna unit is connected to the common input port of the RF switch unit. A first microwave output end of the RF switch unit and a second microwave output end of the RF switch unit are correspondingly connected to a microwave input end of the positive voltage rectification unit and a microwave input end of the negative voltage rectification unit, respectively. A DC output end of the positive voltage rectification unit and a DC output end of the negative voltage rectification unit are correspondingly connected to a positive voltage input port of the AC synthesis unit and a negative voltage input port of the AC synthesis unit, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Xiaoning Li, Wei Zhou, Zidong Zhang, Xin Fang, Shijun Shen, Dawei Gong, Dejie Li