Patents by Inventor Wen (Phil) Shih CHEN

Wen (Phil) Shih CHEN 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).

  • SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES WITH THROUGH VIA
    Publication number: 20250167077
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a device layer over the substrate, an interconnect structure over the device layer, and a first plurality of through vias and a second plurality of through vias extending through the substrate, the device layer, and the interconnect structure. The device layer includes first and second device regions. From a top view, the first device region has a first side facing and spaced apart from a second side of the second device region. From the top view, the first plurality of through vias are disposed along a third side of the first device region opposite to the first side of the first device region, the second plurality of through vias are disposed along a fourth side of the second device region opposite to the second side of the second device region. Each through via has a racetrack shape from the top view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Ke-Gang Wen, Kuan-Hsun Wang, Tsung-Chieh Hsiao, Liang-Wei Wang, Dian-Hau Chen, Hsin-Feng Chen
  • SATELLITE IN-ORBIT SECURE ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD FOR OFFSHORE WIND FARMS
    Publication number: 20250168642
    Abstract: A satellite in-orbit secure anomaly detection method for offshore wind farms, includes: a trusted authority center sets the basic security parameters of the system, and initializes the XOR filter; the first type of satellite and the second type of satellite are configured to prepare for subsequent data processing; the first type of satellite receives anomaly data sent by the remote manager of the offshore wind farm and adds it to the XOR filter, using the fingerprint of the XOR filter to generate corresponding elements and sends them to the second type of satellite; an anomaly data intersection phase: the second type of satellite receives real-time data sets from sensors of the offshore wind farm, uses the XOR filter to filter out elements that do not belong to the intersection, and then completes the intersection process of the two sets with the first type of satellite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Qinglei KONG, Shuna WEN, Songnian ZHANG, Bo CHEN, Yifan WANG
  • CRYSTALLINE (+)-TETRABENAZINE
    Publication number: 20250163050
    Abstract: The present application relates to crystal forms of (+)-tetrabenazine. The present application also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the crystal form of (+)-tetrabenazine, as well as methods of using the crystal forms of (+)-tetrabenazine in the treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders, and methods for obtaining such crystal forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Yuhua LI, Shih-fan JANG, Wen-yen HUANG, Ming-hsin LI
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INHIBITING VEHICLE VIBRATION DURING SELF-HEATING PROCESS OF BATTERY, AND AUTOMOBILE
    Publication number: 20250162463
    Abstract: A method for inhibiting vehicle vibration during self-heating of a battery, the method is applicable to a vehicle including a power battery pack, a first motor, and a second motor. The method includes: controlling the power battery pack to output a drive current to the first motor to drive the first motor to rotate, where when the first motor rotates, the first motor drives the second motor to rotate; controlling the power battery pack to output a self-heating current to the second motor to self-heat a power battery; obtaining a real-time rotation speed of the first motor; and controlling a fundamental frequency of the self-heating current according to the real-time rotation speed, to stagger the fundamental frequency and the real-time rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Heping LING, Lei YAN, Zhen ZHAI, Wen GAO, Ke ZHU
  • NICOTINAMIDE RIBOSIDE HYDROGEN MALATE CRYSTAL, AND ITS PREPARATION METHOD AND APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20250163094
    Abstract: A nicotinamide riboside hydrogen malate crystal has characteristic peaks respectively at 2? values of 3.1703±0.2, 6.6434±0.2, 12.5953±0.2, 14.7209±0.2, 15.8502±0.2, 16.5144±0.2, 17.0509±0.2, 17.7053±0.2, 18.6569±0.2, 18.9470±0.2, 19.7757±0.2, 21.4535±0.2, 21.9161±0.2, 22.3721±0.2, 22.9562±0.2, 24.0469±0.2, 24.8641±0.2, 25.2183±0.2, 25.7679±0.2, 27.2584±0.2, 28.5494±0.2, 36.5968±0.2 and 36.8355±0.2. In the preparation of such crystal, DL-malic acid is dissolved in a solvent under stirring, to which a nicotinamide riboside chloride and a base are added for reaction. The reaction mixture is cooled, crystallized at a constant temperature, filtered and dried to give the desired crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Zhigang ZHOU, Taixian WEN, Jihai HUANG
  • MULTI-CLOUD ACTIVE MESH NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20250168224
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a controller features a first data store, a second data store and route determination logic. The first data store is configured to store current routing information from a source transit gateway within at least a first transit cloud network to a destination transit gateway within at least a second transit cloud network of the cloud network. Each of the source transit gateway and the destination transit gateway being one of a plurality of transit gateways associated with the cloud network. The second data store is configured to store alternative routing information between the source transit gateway and the destination transit gateway. The route determination logic is configured to (i) conduct analytics on all available route paths for a message intended to be sent from the source transit gateway to the destination transit gateway and (ii) select a best route path for the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Aviatrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yixin Sun, Shanshan Xu, Colby Wen, Xiaobo Sherry Wei
  • INTEGRATED OPTICAL ELEMENT AND FORMING METHOD OF METASURFACE
    Publication number: 20250169237
    Abstract: An integrated optical element includes a light-emitting device layer and a metasurface over the light-emitting device layer. The metasurface includes a plurality of conductive layers, a first dielectric layer and a first transparent conductive layer. The conductive layers are arranged along a first direction, in which each of the conductive layers has a plurality of holes. The first dielectric layer covers the conductive layers. The first transparent conductive layer covers the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Yu-Heng HONG, Wen-Cheng HSU, Wen-Chien MIAO, Yao-Wei HUANG, Hao-Chung KUO
  • PLATING APPARATUS FOR PLATING SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER AND PLATING METHOD
    Publication number: 20250163602
    Abstract: A plating apparatus includes a workpiece holder. a plating bath, and a clamp ring. The plating bath is underneath the workpiece holder. The clamp ring is connected to the workpiece holder. The clamp ring includes channels communicating an inner surface of the clamp ring and an outer surface of the clamp ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen-Yu Tsai, Ku-Feng Yang, Wen-Chih Chiou
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SCENE DESCRIPTION DOCUMENT
    Publication number: 20250166234
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for generating a scene description document and device, which relates to the technical field of video processing. The method comprises determining a type of a media file in a three-dimensional scene to be rendered; when a type of a target media file in the three-dimensional scene to be rendered is a Geometry-based Point Cloud Compression (G-PCC) encoded point cloud, generating a target media description module corresponding to the target media file based on description information of the target media file; and adding the target media description module into a media list of MPEG media of the scene description document in the three-dimensional scene to be rendered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Wei ZHANG, Fuzheng YANG, Hejie YANG, Zhikui WANG, Bin LI, Wen ZHANG
  • THREE-DIMENSIONAL REAL-TIME POSITIONING COMPENSATION METHOD FOR SURGERY
    Publication number: 20250166221
    Abstract: A three-dimensional real-time positioning compensation method for surgery includes: obtaining an initial posture of each of a plurality of marking devices in a surgical image in a world coordinate system; performing brightness normalization on the surgical image to generate a normalized image; respectively generating a plurality of texture images with different resolutions for all marks of the plurality of marking devices, and using the texture image having the closest resolution as a standard image; selecting at least N additional sampling points from the standard image, and obtaining a corresponding reference point in the normalized image; and obtaining an optimization point with a minimum brightness error from each reference point, respectively performing a calculation to obtain an error; and correcting the initial posture according to the errors to generate a compensation posture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Po-Chi HU, Chin-Chung LIN, Chieh-Hua CHEN, Wen-Hui HUANG, Yan-Ting CHEN
  • METHOD OF USING EXHAUST SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING PROCESS EQUIPMENT
    Publication number: 20250167014
    Abstract: A method of using an exhaust structure includes receiving a gas at an intake section, the intake section has a first inner diameter at a first position. The method includes passing the gas from the intake section to a piping section, wherein the piping section has the first inner diameter in a central region of the piping section, and the first position is farthest from the central region. The method includes outputting the gas from an output section connected to the piping section, wherein the output section comprises a curved portion configured to change a direction of the gas, and the output section has the first inner diameter at a position of the output section farthest from the central region. The method includes resisting turbulence and condensation during propagation of the gas through the piping section using a plurality of smoothing layers on an inner diameter of the piping section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Hsien-Chang HSIEH, Chun-Chih LIN, Tah-te SHIH, Wen-Hsong WU, Chune-Te YANG, Yu-Jen SU
  • FLEXIBLE WARNING LIGHT
    Publication number: 20250164087
    Abstract: A flexible warning light includes a lamp housing including a base with a bottom plate, a flexible lamp shell covering base and an accommodation space defined between base and flexible lamp shell, and a light-emitting device mounted in the accommodation space and having at least one light-emitting element on the top of a flexible circuit board of a light-emitting device on the top, and a first heat sink and multiple second heat sinks on the bottom. The flexible lamp shell will elastically deform in accordance with the surface curvature of a preset vehicle body to drive first heat sink and second heat sinks to deform so that the base can be closely attached to the curved surface of the preset vehicle body through the deformation of the first heat sink and the second heat sinks, so as to achieve the effect of being more compliant with the curved vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Chao-Ching LIU, Yi-Ting HUANG, Wen LO, Yu-Ting LIN, Shuo-Ying YEN
  • METHOD FOR RECOVERING RESIDUAL COAL PILLARS BY FREEZING WATER ACCUMULATED IN ROOM-AND-PILLAR MINING AREA
    Publication number: 20250163804
    Abstract: A method for recovery of residual coal pillars by freezing accumulated water in room-and-pillar mining areas is provided. A feasibility of repeated mining of residual coal pillars in room-and-pillar goafs is distinguished based on production data and exploration data of a mine. An accumulated water in the room-and-pillar mining areas is frozen to replace a paste filling material, which envelopes collapse roofs and gangues in the room-and-pillar goaf as a whole. The room-and-pillar goaf is filled with a frozen ice body. Roadways and mining faces are arranged in the frozen ice body. Coal cutter cuts the residual coal pillars and the frozen ice body. With the advancing of the mining face, the residual coal pillars are gradually recovered and melted water after the cutting is pumped out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Jun GUO, Xiaoze WEN, Guorui FENG, Jinwen BAI, Ruipeng QIAN, Xu ZHANG, Jiahao ZHANG, Quan LIU, Zilong ZHANG, Xueyao WU
  • METHODS AND SYSTEM OF SUBBLOCK TRANSFORM FOR VIDEO CODING
    Publication number: 20250168409
    Abstract: A computing device performs a method of decoding video data by receiving, from a bitstream, a first syntax element associated with an SBT coding unit that indicates that there exists at least one non-zero transform coefficient in the SBT coding unit; determining a first transform unit that includes non-zero transform coefficients; receiving a second syntax element associated with a first chroma component of the first transform unit, a third syntax element associated with a second chroma component, and a fourth syntax element associated with luma component of the first transform unit; decoding the transform coefficients of chroma and luma components of the first transform unit, based on the second, third and fourth syntax elements; and setting transform coefficients of luma and chroma components of rest of the plurality of transform units to zeros.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Xiu, Yi-Wen Chen, Xianglin Wang, Shuiming Ye, Tsung-Chuan Ma, Hong-Jheng Jhu
  • DRIVING CIRCUIT FOR DRIVING ELECTRONIC ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20250167686
    Abstract: A driving circuit for driving an electronic element is provided. The drive circuit includes an inductive coupling circuit, a primary side circuit and a secondary side circuit. The inductive coupling circuit includes a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary side circuit is electrically connected to an input voltage source, the primary winding and a first terminal of the electronic element. The secondary side circuit is electrically connected to the secondary winding, the primary side circuit and a second terminal of the electronic element. The driving circuit uses an electric energy stored in the primary side circuit and an electric energy stored in the secondary side circuit to drive the electronic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: I-SHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chun-An Cheng, Wen-Yi Yan, Long-Fu Lan, Cheng-Kuan Lin, Sheng-Hong Hou
  • COOLING SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUSES INCLUDING THE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250169034
    Abstract: A cooling system is adapted to a communication apparatus. The cooling system includes heat sink fins, a cooling fluid channel, and a cooling fluid drive module. The cooling fluid channel is arranged between the heat sink fins and the transceiver modules. The cooling fluid drive module supplies cooling fluid, allowing the cooling fluid to flow through the cooling fluid channel to cool the transceiver modules. This resolves the issue of excessive heat generated during the operation of the transceiver modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Wen-Hua ZHANG, I-Chen HSU, Shih-Chang CHEN, Cheng-Ying WU, Kuo-Hua PENG, Chien-Jung CHIU
  • USER INTERFACES FOR AUDIO MEDIA CONTROL
    Publication number: 20250165216
    Abstract: A method includes receiving data indicating a current media playback state of an external media playback device. The method includes, in response to receiving the data and in accordance with a determination that a set of external media playback device control criteria are met, displaying, via the display generation component, a user interface for controlling media playback at the external media playback device that includes one or more selectable user interface objects based on whether the data indicates that the external media playback device is currently performing a media playback operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Taylor G. CARRIGAN, Sue Wen CHIAO, Jessica J. PECK BROWN, Corey J. PETERSON, Patchaya B. SEILAUDOM
  • LYTIC PHAGE WITH HIGH SPECIFICITY TOWARDS PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI
    Publication number: 20250164483
    Abstract: Herein are presented methods for incorporating a novel bacteriophage, CAM-21, that exhibits lytic activity against pathogenic E. coli, into food, food packaging, films, and quantum dot-based biosensors. The bacteriophage contains no genes associated with toxins, virulence factors, antibiotic resistance, lysogeny, or allergens. Methods are provided for encapsulating the bacteriophage with proteins and/or carbohydrate materials to enhance stability. Various films in which the bacteriophage are incorporated, and which similarly exhibit suppression of pathogenic E. coli, are also provided. Additionally, when conjugated with N-doped graphene quantum dots, CAM-21 enables biosensor development for E. coli detection in food products through altered photoluminescence emission spectra, and methods for making and using such biosensors are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Azlin Mustapha, Kai Wen Choo
  • SIDELINK RESOURCE SELECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL
    Publication number: 20250168835
    Abstract: Disclosed are a sidelink resource selection method, a sidelink resource selection apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: acquiring configured or pre-configured resource pool configuration information, the resource pool configuration information comprising frequency domain resource configuration information and/or sub-channel configuration information, and a sub-channel comprising an interlaced resource block (IRB).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: CICT CONNECTED AND INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yakun WANG, Rui ZHAO, Xiaoran WEN, Shilei ZHENG, Li ZHAO
  • HAMMING CODE ENCODING AND ARRANGING METHOD AND STORAGE DEVICE DETECTION METHOD
    Publication number: 20250167809
    Abstract: A Hamming code encoding and arranging method includes: dividing an original data into N groups of to-be-encoded data and performing Hamming code encoding on the N groups of to-be-encoded data to generate N groups of encoded data; for the N groups of encoded data, extracting p-bit encoded data in each group of encoded data for successive arrangement; when the number of bits remaining in each of the N groups of encoded data is greater than or equal to p, extracting p-bit encoded data in each group of encoded data for successive arrangement; and when there is no data remaining in each of the N groups of encoded data, generating rearranged encoded data according to the arrangement; or when there are q(<p) bits remaining in each group of encoded data, extracting q-bit encoded data in each group of encoded data for successive arrangement to generate rearranged encoded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Yen-Kai TSAI, Shao-Cheng WEN