Patents by Inventor Wen Li
Wen Li 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).
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Patent number: 12237212Abstract: An electrode is provided. The electrode includes a contact pad composed of boron-doped polycrystalline diamond (BDD); a fiber core composed of BDD extending longitudinally from the contact pad from a first end that is in direct contact with the contact pad to an opposing second end; and a polycrystalline diamond (PCD) cladding that coats and hermetically seals the contact pad and the fiber core. A first portion of the contact pad and a second portion at or near the second end of the fiber core are not coated and hermetically scaled by the PCD cladding. A method of fabricating the electrode is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Fraunhofer USAInventors: Wen Li, Yue Guo, Thomas Schuelke, Michael Becker, Robert Rechenberg, Cory Rusinek
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Publication number: 20250062158Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a base and a fin over the base. The method includes forming a first gate stack wrapped around the fin. The method includes forming a first gate spacer over a first sidewall of the first gate stack. The method includes partially removing the fin, which is not covered by the first gate stack and the first gate spacer. The method includes removing a first upper portion of the first gate stack to expose a second upper portion of the first gate spacer. The method includes removing the second upper portion of the first gate spacer. The method includes removing a first lower portion of the first gate stack and the fin originally wrapped by the first gate stack. The method includes forming a dielectric channel-cut structure in the trench.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2023Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Wen-Li CHIU, Chia-Hao Kuo, Fu-Hsiang Su, Shih-Hsun Chang
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Publication number: 20250043320Abstract: Provided is the use of oxidoreductase and a mutant thereof in the biosynthesis of nootkatone. The oxidoreductase is derived from Wickerhamomyces anomalus M15 and has a high ability to convert nootkatol, and an oxidoreductase mutant having a higher ability is obtained by means of site-directed mutation. Compared with the existing oxidoreductase that is capable of catalyzing nootkatol, the oxidoreductase and the mutant thereof have a good substrate tolerance, a high conversion rate and a high salt tolerance, provide conditions for the synthesis of nootkatone using an enzyme catalytic method in vitro, and achieve the synthesis of nootkatone by means of catalyzing nootkatol in an environmentally-friendly and efficient manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Terpiot (Guangzhou) Biotechnology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuang LI, Dongying CHEN, Wen LI, Chaoyi ZHU
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Patent number: 12216962Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to quantitatively tracking food intake using smart glasses and/or other wearable devices. In some implementations, the smart glasses can include an image capture device, such as a camera, that can seamlessly capture images of food being eaten by the user. A computing device in communication with the smart glasses (or the smart glasses themselves) can identify the type and volume of food being eaten by applying object recognition and volume estimation techniques to the images. Additionally or alternatively, the smart glasses and/or other wearable devices can track a user's eating patterns through the number of bites taken throughout the day by capturing and analyzing hand-to-mouth motions and chewing. The computing device can log the type of food, volume of food, and/or number of bites taken and compute statistics that can be displayed to the user on the smart glasses.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Wen Li, John Rumsfeld, Charles Liam Goudge, Freddy Abnousi
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Publication number: 20250034337Abstract: The present invention discloses an integrated multiphase hydrogel, and a preparation method and application thereof in flexible and stretchable supercapacitors. The integrated multiphase hydrogel of the present invention is formed by implanting semigel electrode into semigel electrolyte by injection or printing, wherein the electrolyte hydrogel is prepared by polyvinyl alcohol, phytic acid and sulfuric acid. The electrode hydrogel is prepared from heteropoly acid, polyvinyl alcohol, phytic acid, ammonium persulfate and aniline by heating and then freeze thawing. The hydrogel of the present invention can be directly used as anode and cathode of stretchable electrode of flexible and stretchable supercapacitor without any post-processing. The electrolyte hydrogel can be used as both stretchable electrolyte and elastic substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Wen Li, Chuanling Mu
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Patent number: 12198894Abstract: A method of setting a parameter of a charged particle beam device, for shortening the time required to adjust an ABCC parameter. An inverse conversion processing unit generates a simulator input signal corresponding to an electron emitted from a sample. A simulation detector uses an arithmetic model that simulates a detector and executes arithmetic processing on the simulator input signal in a state in which characteristic information is reflected in an arithmetic parameter. A simulated image conversion unit executes arithmetic processing corresponding to an image conversion unit and converts a signal from the simulation detector into a simulated image. An ABCC search unit searches for an ABCC parameter with respect to the simulation detector so that an evaluation value obtained from the simulated image becomes a specified reference value, and outputs the ABCC parameter as a search result to an ABCC control unit of the actual machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Oinuma, Kazuki Ikeda, Wen Li, Masashi Wada
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Patent number: 12188883Abstract: This disclosure relates to an X-ray reflectometry apparatus and a method for measuring a three-dimensional nanostructure on a flat substrate. The X-ray reflectometry apparatus comprises an X-ray source, an X-ray reflector, a 2-dimensional X-ray detector, and a two-axis moving device. The X-ray source is for emitting X-ray. The X-ray reflector is configured for reflecting the X-ray onto a sample surface. The 2-dimensional X-ray detector is configured to collect a reflecting X-ray signal from the sample surface. The two-axis moving device is configured to control two-axis directions of the 2-dimensional X-ray detector to move on at least one of x-axis and z-axis with a formula concerning an incident angle of the X-ray with respect to the sample surface for collecting the reflecting X-ray signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Bo-Ching He, Chun-Ting Liu, Wei-En Fu, Wen-Li Wu
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Patent number: 12162300Abstract: Microporous structures in face films are described for improving printability of the films. Also described are laminates and pressure sensitive adhesive laminates including the microporous structured face films. Various related methods are additionally described.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: David Bland, Wen-Li A. Chen, Michael Ramsay, Shanshan Wang
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Publication number: 20240400804Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polyethylene blends, films thereof, and methods thereof. In at least one embodiment, a polymer blend includes a first polyethylene having a density of about 0.94 g/cm3 to about 0.97 g/cm3 and a melt index of about 0.1 g/10 min to about 10 g/10 min. The blend includes a second polyethylene comprising at least 80 wt % ethylene derived-units. The second polyethylene has a density of about 0.918 g/cm3 to about 0.945 g/cm3, a number average molecular weight (Mn) of about 10,000 g/mol to about 20,000 g/mol, a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of about 75,000 g/mol to about 300,000 g/mol, a melt index (2.16 kg) of about 0.1 g/10 min to about 5 g/10 min, a high load melt index (21.6 kg) of about 25 g/10 min to about 80 g/10 min, and a melt index ratio of about 10 to about 50.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2022Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Nino RUOCCO, Maria Josefina CARBONE, Etienne RH LERNOUX, Michael A. LEAF, Wen LI, Adriana S. SILVA
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Patent number: 12159092Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure provide coloring methods that sort and pre-color nodes of G0-linked networks in a multiple-patterning technology (MPT)-compliant layout design by coordinate. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying target networks in a circuit layout, each target network having two or more linked nodes representing circuit patterns, and each target network being presented in an imaginary X-Y coordinate plane, assigning a first feature to a first node in each target network, the first node is determined using a coordinate-based method, and assigning the first feature and a second feature to remaining nodes in each target network in an alternating manner so that any two immediately adjacent linked nodes in each target network have different features.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Chia-Ping Chiang, Ming-Hui Chih, Chih-Wei Hsu, Ping-Chieh Wu, Ya-Ting Chang, Tsung-Yu Wang, Wen-Li Cheng, Hui En Yin, Wen-Chun Huang, Ru-Gun Liu, Tsai-Sheng Gau
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Publication number: 20240368568Abstract: The present application relates to a modified Prp43 helicase and use thereof. The Prp43 helicase has enhanced ATP hydrolytic or unwinding activity due to introduction of mutations and/or introduction of an auxiliary protein, and can remain binding to the target polynucleotide for a long period of time, thereby allowing the enzyme to control the rate of movement of the polynucleotide continuously and stably at a suitable rate required for sequencing. Thus, the modified or engineered Prp43 helicase mutant of the present application allows for the control of movement of a target polynucleotide in a more advantageous manner, which can be used for nanopore sequencing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2021Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Zhougang ZHANG, Wen LI, Yanshuang WANG, Muyang WANG
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Publication number: 20240371820Abstract: A chip package structure and a method for producing the same are provided. The method at least includes: providing a substrate; placing a chip upside-down on the substrate; forming bonding wires coupled with the chip and the substrate; providing at least one reflecting member on an upper surface of the substrate, forming a support body on the substrate to cover the at least one reflecting member; providing a package cover adhered to the support body by a glass adhesive; performing a solidifying process in which a solidifying light beam is emitted to the reflecting member and the reflecting member reflects the solidifying light beam to the glass adhesive to solidify the glass adhesive; performing a packaging process in which a package body is formed to cover an edge surface of the package cover and a top part of the support body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: JUI-HUNG HSU, YU-WEN LI, LI-CHUN HUNG
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Patent number: 12132411Abstract: The invention provides a power supply module and a charged particle beam device that are capable of reducing ripple noise. A high-voltage generation circuit 101 includes booster circuits CPa and CPb of two systems that are configured to be symmetrical to each other, and performs a boosting operation by using a capacitive element and a diode in the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems. The high-voltage generation circuit is housed in a housing and a reference power supply voltage is applied thereto. A left electrode 102a is fixedly provided in the vicinity of one of the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems in the housing, and a right electrode 102b is fixedly provided in the vicinity of the other of the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Ryo Kadoi, Wen Li, Naoya Ishigaki
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Publication number: 20240348268Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for pipelining memory operations with error correction coding are disclosed. A method for pipelining consecutive write mask operations is disclosed wherein a second read operation of a second write mask operation occurs during error correction code calculation of a first write mask operation. The method may further including writing data from the first write mask operation during the error correction code calculation of the second write mask operation. A method for pipelining consecutive operations is disclosed where a first read operation may be cancelled if the first operation is not a write mask operation. An apparatus including a memory having separate global read and write input-output lines is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Wei Bing Shang, Yu Zhang, Hong Wen Li, Yu Peng Fan, Zhong Lai Liu, En Peng Gao, Liang Zhang
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Publication number: 20240324788Abstract: An automated system and method are disclosed for producing an inflatable product having a first sheet, a second sheet, and a plurality of tensioning structures between the first and second sheets. The system includes an upstream tensioning structure production subsystem that produces the tensioning structures and a downstream preassembly production subsystem that couples the tensioning structures to the first and second sheets. The subsystems may operate simultaneously to produce the inflatable product in an automated, efficient, and repeatable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Intex Marketing Ltd.Inventors: Zhi Xiong Huang, Hong Wen Li, Yaw Yuan Hsu
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Publication number: 20240329482Abstract: The present disclosure describes various processes of forming an electrochromic stack using at most one metallic lithium deposition station. In some aspects, a process may include depositing metallic lithium only within an electrochromic counter-electrode of an electrochromic stack. In some aspects, a process may include using a lithium-containing ceramic counter-electrode target to form an electrochromic counter-electrode and depositing metallic lithium only within or above an electrochromic electrode of the electrochromic stack. In some embodiments, a process may include using a lithium-containing ceramic electrode target, and optionally additionally depositing metallic lithium to add mobile lithium to the electrochromic stack. In some embodiments, a process may include using a single metallic lithium deposition station to deposit metallic lithium between an ion-conducting layer and an electrochromic electrode of the electrochromic stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: SAGE Electrochromics, Inc.Inventors: Paul Mogensen, Wen Li, Jean-Christophe Giron, Nicolas Antoine Mercadier
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Patent number: 12107155Abstract: The invention provides a self-organized quantum dot semiconductor structure. The quantum dot semiconductor structure includes: a conductive ridge on a substrate; an insulative layer covering the substrate and the conductive ridge, wherein the insulative layer includes a top portion and two sidewalls over the conductive ridge; a semiconductor mechanism of etching back and thermal oxidation, implemented on a semiconductor-alloyed layer set on the insulative layer; a plurality of quantum dots respectively embedded within a plurality of silicon dioxide spacer islands based on the semiconductor mechanism, the quantum dots and the silicon dioxide spacer islands adhered to the sidewalls of the insulative layer; and a plurality of conductive ledges adhered to the silicon dioxide spacer islands, wherein each of the conductive ledges is a portion of an electrode self-alignment to the quantum dot.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Pei-Wen Li, Kang-Ping Peng, Ching-Lun Chen, Tsung-Lin Huang
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Publication number: 20240314988Abstract: An outdoor display module includes a housing defined therein a closed space and a recessed room formed in the closed space and a display device securely received inside the closed space. A glass panel is received in the recessed room and sealingly attached to a periphery defining the recessed room. The glass panel is securely and directly attached to a side face of the display device to reflect a large portion of radiation heat from the sun. A heat exchanger is received in the closed space and located at a rear side of the display device to dissipate heat from electronic devices and the backlight assembly inside the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Feng Zhou, Wen Li
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Patent number: 12090254Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a composite tubular material and a preparation method thereof. The tubular material is prepared from extracellular matrix and directionally arranged synthetic polymer fibers through compounding; the synthetic polymer fibers serve as an internal skeleton, a fiber diameter ranges from 1 ?m to 2000 ?m, a fiber angle ranges from 0° to 180°, and a wall thickness ranges from 1 ?m to 1000 ?m; and extracellular matrix components are obtained from human or animal tissue through decellularization. According to the present disclosure, the tubular material with bioactivity and excellent mechanical properties can be prepared from the synthetic polymer and the natural material extracellular matrix through compounding; the synthetic polymer fibers with controllable fiber angle and diameter serve as the internal skeleton of the tubular material, and accordingly the tubular material has the mechanical properties of resistance to bending and squeezing.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: NANKAI UNIVERSITYInventors: Meifeng Zhu, Yueyue Yang, Wen Li, Deling Kong
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EXPANDABLE SINTERED NEODYMIUM-IRON-BORON MAGNET, PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND APPLICATION THEREOF
Publication number: 20240274332Abstract: An expandable sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet, a preparation method, and an application are provided. The magnet has a sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet and an expandable coating coated on the surface of the sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet. The sintered neodymium-iron-boron magnet coated with the expandable coating is used to replace a conventional assembly method of an epoxy resin adhesive coating magnet and potting resin glue, so that the magnet coated with the expandable coating may be inserted into a magnetic steel groove. The irreversible expansion of the coating itself is used to fix the magnet in the magnetic steel groove. Meanwhile, the use of the expandable coating shortens the assembly time of motors and improves the assembly accuracy of the motors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Zhiqiang LI, Yongjiang YU, Bin ZHOU, Yunting SU, Wen LI