Patents by Inventor William Chu

William Chu 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: 20180265298
    Abstract: A storage, retrieval and processing system is disclosed for processing objects. The system includes a plurality of bins including objects to be distributed by the processing system, said plurality of bins being provided in at least a partially generally circular arrangement, a programmable motion device that includes an end effector for grasping and moving any of the objects, said programmable motion device being capable of reaching any of the objects within the plurality of bins, and a plurality of destination containers for receiving any of the objects from the plurality of bins, said plurality of destination containers being provided in a region that is generally within the at least partially generally circular arrangement of the plurality of bins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas WAGNER, Kevin AHEARN, John Richard AMEND, JR., Benjamin COHEN, Michael DAWSON-HAGGERTY, William Hartman FORT, Christopher GEYER, Jennifer Eileen KING, Thomas KOLETSCHKA, Michael Cap KOVAL, Kyle MARONEY, Matthew T. MASON, William Chu-Hyon MCMAHAN, Gene Temple PRICE, Joseph ROMANO, Daniel SMITH, Siddhartha SRINIVASA, Prasanna VELAGAPUDI, Thomas ALLEN
  • Publication number: 20180265311
    Abstract: A storage, retrieval and processing system for processing objects is disclosed. The storage, retrieval and processing system includes a plurality of storage bins providing storage of a plurality of objects, where the plurality of storage bins being in communication with a retrieval conveyance system, a programmable motion device in communication with the retrieval conveyance system for receiving the storage bins from the plurality of bins, where the programmable motion device includes an end effector for grasping and moving a selected object out of a selected storage bin, and is adapted for movement of the programmable motion device along a first direction, and a plurality of destination bins that are provided in at least one linear arrangement along the first direction of movement of the programmable motion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas WAGNER, Kevin AHEARN, John Richard AMEND, JR., Benjamin COHEN, Michael DAWSON-HAGGERTY, William Hartman FORT, Christopher GEYER, Victoria HINCHEY, Jennifer Eileen KING, Thomas KOLETSCHKA, Michael Cap KOVAL, Kyle MARONEY, Matthew T. MASON, William Chu-Hyon MCMAHAN, Gene Temple PRICE, Joseph ROMANO, Daniel SMITH, Siddhartha SRINIVASA, Prasanna VELAGAPUDI, Thomas ALLEN
  • Publication number: 20180078332
    Abstract: A tracking and guidance arrangement for a surgical robot system and related method are provided. The arrangement includes a patient-interacting device including an instrument engaged a distal end of a guide arm and a fiducial marker coupled to maxillofacial anatomy of the patient. A detector is connected to an articulating arm and co-operable therewith to be positioned adjacent to the fiducial marker, with the detector being configured to interact with the fiducial marker. A controller device is configured to receive data from the detector relative to the interaction thereof with the fiducial marker, to determine a spatial relation between the fiducial marker and the detector based on the data, to determine a spatial relation of the instrument relative to the fiducial marker, and to direct the instrument to interact with the maxillofacial anatomy of the patient according to the determined spatial relations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Alon Mozes, Sarvagya Vaish, David Peter Cole, Ryan Anderson, Wuwei He, Juan Salcedo, William Chu-Hyon McMahan
  • Patent number: 9619808
    Abstract: A digital signage network employs a common data model and a subscription system to disseminate data gathered from a plurality of data sources to a number of displays. The network nodes interact with each other as content sources, content consumers, or both, with some systems acting as consumers to upstream sources and acting as sources to downstream consumers. The presentation of the data on a digital signage display allows for real-time binding of live data to provide a rich display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: OMNIVEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Doug Bannister, Andrew Collard, Doug Underwood, Nick Easthope, Scott Kayes, Rick Dalley, William Chu
  • Patent number: 9600384
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are method, system and computer program product embodiments for improving the verification process of a system on chip (SoC). An embodiment operates by employing an active interconnect (AIC) between a processing subsystem (e.g., a central processing unit or CPU) and a plurality of peripherals, wherein the processing subsystem is linked to a plurality of applications via a plurality of drivers, and implementing a common set of software codes by at least one of the applications for a software development process and a hardware verification process. The AIC includes a plurality of communication protocols. During the software development process, the AIC configures at least one of the communication protocols to not enforce a timing limitation on one or more transactions between the processing subsystem and at least one of the peripherals, and a high-level programming language model is used for the peripherals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Qamrul Hasan, William Chu, Lijun Pan, Hongjun Xue
  • Patent number: 9480487
    Abstract: A lateral light-emitting device for connecting a medullary guide wire is disclosed. The device comprises a closed main body, a front-end protecting unit for protecting the front end of the main body, and a connecting unit disposed at the distal end of the main body. The inside of the main body is further arranged with a lighting unit, a power supply unit, a light-scattering unit, a light intensity modulating unit, if necessary, and at least one transparent window. The device is able to fit to different types of medullary guide wires. The power supply unit provides power to the lighting unit to produce light emitted to the light-scattering unit and being diverted laterally through the transparent window of the main body after suitably modulating the light intensity. Thereby, the device is illuminated from within the bone cavity to allow observing the operating screw hole location from outside of the body and to enable precisely nailing while proceeding with the intra-medullary nailing procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL YANG-MING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Woei-Chyn Chu, Yin-Jiun Tseng, William Chu
  • Patent number: 9374558
    Abstract: A digital signage network employs a common data model and a subscription system to disseminate data gathered from a plurality of data sources to a number of displays. The network nodes interact with each other as content sources, content consumers, or both, with some systems acting as consumers to upstream sources and acting as sources to downstream consumers. The presentation of the data on a digital signage display allows for real-time binding of live data to provide a rich display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: OMNIVEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Doug Bannister, Andrew Collard, Doug Underwood, Nick Easthope, Scott Kayes, Rick Dalley, William Chu
  • Patent number: 9323708
    Abstract: A computing and communication architecture utilizes a serial protocol based switched fabric among circuit cards housed in packaging arrangement. In one embodiment, each circuit card connected to the serial protocol based switched fabric in the packaging arrangement is provided with a protocol processor that enables all of the circuit cards to efficiently provide packet-based serial self-clocked communications at line speed. As a result, it is not necessary to arrange the circuit cards in a hierarchical manner in order to address the problems of switch blocking and related traffic congestion issues that would otherwise limit the implementation of the serial protocol based backplane arrangement for housing circuit cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: PSIMAST, INC.
    Inventors: Viswa Nath Sharma, Barton W. Stuck, Ching-Tai Hu, Yi-chang Chou, William Chu
  • Publication number: 20160103723
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are method, system and computer program product embodiments for improving the verification process of a system on chip (SoC). An embodiment operates by employing an active interconnect (AIC) between a processing subsystem (e.g., a central processing unit or CPU) and a plurality of peripherals, wherein the processing subsystem is linked to a plurality of applications via a plurality of drivers, and implementing a common set of software codes by at least one of the applications for a software development process and a hardware verification process. The AIC includes a plurality of communication protocols. During the software development process, the AIC configures at least one of the communication protocols to not enforce a timing limitation on one or more transactions between the processing subsystem and at least one of the peripherals, and a high-level programming language model is used for the peripherals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: Spansion LLC
    Inventors: Qamrul HASAN, William Chu, Lijun Pan, Hongjun Xue
  • Patent number: 9245240
    Abstract: A digital signage network employs a common data model and a subscription system to disseminate data gathered from a plurality of data sources to a number of displays. The network nodes interact with each other as content sources, content consumers, or both, with some systems acting as consumers to upstream sources and acting as sources to downstream consumers. The presentation of the data on a digital signage display allows for real-time binding of live data to provide a rich display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: OMNIVEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Doug Bannister, Andrew Collard, Doug Underwood, Nick Easthope, Scott Kayes, Rick Dalley, William Chu
  • Patent number: 9087361
    Abstract: A method comprising creating and storing a graph having nodes and edges that represent financial assets and accounts in which the assets are held; individuals who own the assets; or legal entities who own the assets; receiving and storing bucketing factors and column factors; traversing the graph and creating a list of a plurality of paths of nodes and edges in the graph; applying the bucketing factors to the paths to result in associating each set among a plurality of sets of the nodes with a different value node among a plurality of value nodes; applying the column factors to the paths and the value nodes to result in associating column result values with the value nodes; creating and causing displaying a table view by forming rows based on the value nodes and forming columns based on the column result values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: ADDEPAR, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Mirra, Anthony Sherbondy, Nhan Nguyen, Michael Paulus, Zachary Reynolds, William Chu, Wai Loon Chan, Jerry Zhang, Richard Thomas Martell, III, Justin Ross, Michael Greenbaum, Joe Lonsdale
  • Patent number: 8787364
    Abstract: A computing and communication architecture utilizes a serial protocol based switched fabric among circuit cards housed in packaging arrangement. In one embodiment, each circuit card connected to the serial protocol based switched fabric in the packaging arrangement is provided with a protocol processor that enables all of the circuit cards to efficiently provide packet-based serial self-clocked communications at line speed. As a result, it is not necessary to arrange the circuit cards in a hierarchical manner in order to address the problems of switch blocking and related traffic congestion issues that would otherwise limit the implementation of the serial protocol based backplane arrangement for housing circuit cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Inventors: Viswa Nath Sharma, Barton W. Stuck, Ching-Tai Hu, Yi-chang Chou, William Chu
  • Publication number: 20140128869
    Abstract: A lateral light-emitting device for connecting a medullary guide wire is disclosed. The device comprises a closed main body, a front-end protecting unit for protecting the front end of the main body, and a connecting unit disposed at the distal end of the main body. The inside of the main body is further arranged with a lighting unit, a power supply unit, a light-scattering unit, a light intensity modulating unit, if necessary, and at least one transparent window. The device is able to fit to different types of medullary guide wires. The power supply unit provides power to the lighting unit to produce light emitted to the light-scattering unit and being diverted laterally through the transparent window of the main body after suitably modulating the light intensity. Thereby, the device is illuminated from within the bone cavity to allow observing the operating screw hole location from outside of the body and to enable precisely nailing while proceeding with the intra-medullary nailing procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: NATIONAL YANG-MING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Woei-Chyn CHU, Yin-Jiun TSENG, William CHU
  • Publication number: 20130332387
    Abstract: A method comprising creating and storing a graph having nodes and edges that represent financial assets and accounts in which the assets are held; individuals who own the assets; or legal entities who own the assets; receiving and storing bucketing factors and column factors; traversing the graph and creating a list of a plurality of paths of nodes and edges in the graph; applying the bucketing factors to the paths to result in associating each set among a plurality of sets of the nodes with a different value node among a plurality of value nodes; applying the column factors to the paths and the value nodes to result in associating column result values with the value nodes; creating and causing displaying a table view by forming rows based on the value nodes and forming columns based on the column result values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: JASON MIRRA, ANTHONY SHERBONDY, NHAN NGUYEN, MICHAEL PAULUS, ZACHARY REYNOLDS, WILLIAM CHU, WAI LOON CHAN, JERRY ZHANG, RICHARD THOMAS MARTELL, III, JUSTIN ROSS, MICHAEL GREENBAUM, JOE LONSDALE
  • Patent number: 8514374
    Abstract: A method provides improved alignment for a photolithographic exposure. In such method, a first exposure tool and a first chuck used in a reference photolithographic exposure of a first material layer on a substrate can be identified. The substrate typically includes at least a semiconductor layer. The first chuck typically is one of a plurality of chucks usable with the first exposure tool. The method may further include identifying a second exposure tool and a second chuck used in a current photolithographic exposure of a second material layer on the substrate. In one embodiment, alignment correction information specific to each of the identified first exposure tool, the first chuck, the second exposure tool and the second chuck can be used in aligning the semiconductor substrate to a second exposure tool and a second chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Todd C. Bailey, William Chu, William Muth
  • Patent number: 8370753
    Abstract: A digital signage network employs a common data model and a subscription system to disseminate data gathered from a plurality of data sources to a number of displays. The network nodes interact with each other as content sources, content consumers, or both, with some systems acting as consumers to upstream sources and acting as sources to downstream consumers. The presentation of the data on a digital signage display allows for real-time binding of live data to provide a rich display effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Omnivex Corporation
    Inventors: Doug Bannister, Andrew Collard, Doug Underwood, Nick Easthope, Scott Kayes, Rick Dalley, William Chu
  • Patent number: 8275098
    Abstract: Architecture and methods to provide an intermediary model for inter-carrier Multi-Media Messaging (MMS) services so that numerous wireless operators can transmit MMS messages between them. The architecture also provides for delivery, at least of notification messages, to those wireless operators who are not part of the overall inter-carrier MMS infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sybase 365, Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Dudley, Derek Hung Kit Tam, James C. Farrow, Brian Jeffery Beggerly, Kirk Tsai, William Chu, Robert C. Lovell, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20120177035
    Abstract: A computing and communication architecture utilizes a serial protocol based switched fabric among circuit cards housed in packaging arrangement. In one embodiment, each circuit card connected to the serial protocol based switched fabric in the packaging arrangement is provided with a protocol processor that enables all of the circuit cards to efficiently provide packet-based serial self-clocked communications at line speed. As a result, it is not necessary to arrange the circuit cards in a hierarchical manner in order to address the problems of switch blocking and related traffic congestion issues that would otherwise limit the implementation of the serial protocol based backplane arrangement for housing circuit cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: PSIMAST, INC
    Inventors: VISWA NATH SHARMA, Barton W. Stuck, Ching-Tai Hu, Yi-chang Chou, William Chu
  • Publication number: 20120170492
    Abstract: A computing and communication architecture utilizes a serial protocol based switched fabric among circuit cards housed in packaging arrangement. In one embodiment, each circuit card connected to the serial protocol based switched fabric in the packaging arrangement is provided with a protocol processor that enables all of the circuit cards to efficiently provide packet-based serial self-clocked communications at line speed. As a result, it is not necessary to arrange the circuit cards in a hierarchical manner in order to address the problems of switch blocking and related traffic congestion issues that would otherwise limit the implementation of the serial protocol based backplane arrangement for housing circuit cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: PSIMAST, INC
    Inventors: VISWA NATH SHARMA, Barton W. Stuck, Ching-Tai Hu, Yi-chang Chou, William Chu
  • Patent number: 8189599
    Abstract: A reconfigurable, protocol indifferent bit stream-processing engine, and related systems and data communication methodologies, are adapted to achieve the goal of providing inter-fabric interoperability among high-speed networks operating a speeds of at least 10 gigabits per second. The bit-stream processing engine operates as an omni-protocol, multi-stage processor that can be configured with appropriate switches and related network elements to create a seamless network fabric that permits interoperability not only among existing communication protocols, but also with the ability to accommodate future communication protocols. The method and systems of the present invention are applicable to networks that include storage networks, communication networks and processor networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: RPX Corporation
    Inventors: Viswa Sharma, Roger Holschbach, Bart Stuck, William Chu