Patents by Inventor Xiang Zou

Xiang Zou 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: 12265885
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for scalable representations of arbitrary quantum computing rotations. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a memory to store a first waveform; and a base envelope generator to implement a base envelope, the base envelope applied to the first waveform to generate a second waveform usable to cause quantum rotation of a specified angle on a target quantum bit (qubit) of a quantum processor, and wherein the base envelope is selected out of a first plurality of envelopes based one or more characteristics specific to the target qubit on which the quantum rotation is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Zou, Shavindra Premaratne
  • Publication number: 20250060290
    Abstract: A living cell dyeing apparatus includes a dyeing chamber having multiple square holes, a sample box is arranged below each square hole, and multiple sample boxes are fixed together. A rotatable cylinder coaxial with the dyeing chamber is provided around outer wall of the dyeing chamber. Multiple physiological saline reagent bottles are inserted into the rotatable cylinder, one first dye bottle and one second dye bottle are provided in front of and at back of each physiological saline reagent bottle. Inner wall of the rotatable cylinder abuts against outer wall of the dyeing chamber to prevent liquid in the bottles from seeping out therebetween. A fluorescence microscope is arranged on the right of the dyeing chamber and is provided with a light shield. A hot air blower is in communication with right side of the light shield through an air pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: LI-YANG CHIANG, Liang CHEN, Xiang ZOU
  • Patent number: 12217130
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for scalable qubit addressing. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder comprising quantum instruction decode circuitry to decode quantum instructions to generate quantum microoperations (uops) and non-quantum decode circuitry to decode non-quantum instructions to generate non-quantum uops; execution circuitry comprising: an address generation unit (AGU) to generate a system memory address responsive to execution of one or more of the non-quantum uops; and quantum index generation circuitry to generate quantum index values responsive to execution of one or more of the quantum uops, each quantum index value uniquely identifying a quantum bit (qubit) in a quantum processor; wherein to generate a first quantum index value for a first quantum uop, the quantum index generation circuitry is to read the first quantum index value from a first architectural register identified by the first quantum uop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Xiang Zou
  • Publication number: 20250021849
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for a quantum control processor. For example, one embodiment of a QCP comprises: instruction fetch logic to fetch instructions from a memory, the instructions including quantum instructions; decode logic to decode the quantum instructions into a first plurality of quantum microoperations; translation logic translate the first plurality of quantum microoperations into a second plurality of quantum microoperations based on characteristics of a plurality of quantum controller cores coupled to the quantum control processor; and issue logic to synchronously issue the second plurality of quantum microoperations in parallel to the plurality of quantum controller cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Sahar Daraeizadeh, Todor Mladenov, Xiang Zou, Anne Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20240346348
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for performing a quantum rotation operation. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a decoder to decode a plurality of instructions; execution circuitry to execute a first instruction or first set of the instructions to generate a floating point (FP) value and to store the FP value in a first register; the execution circuitry to execute a second instruction or second set of the one or more of the instructions to read the FP value from the first register and compress the FP value to generate a compressed FP value having a precision selected for performing quantum rotation operations; and quantum interface circuitry to process the compressed FP value to cause a quantum rotation to be performed on one or more qubits of a quantum processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: XIANG ZOU, SHAVINDRA PREMARATNE
  • Publication number: 20240320341
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for booting a processor directly into a paged 64-bit execution environment. For example, one embodiment of an a processor comprises: a register to store a first value and a second value related to a secure boot process; a plurality of cores, at least one of which performs operations comprising: receiving a first initialization message, the core to clear a plurality of registers responsively; receiving a second initialization message and reading the first and second values responsively, the first value indicating whether a first initialization mode is supported, and the second value comprising an address pointer identifying a data structure comprising a plurality of state values; and initializing a paged 64-bit execution environment using the state values from the data structure responsive to the first value indicating the first initialization mode is supported and the data structure indicating enabling the paged 64-bit execution environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas KLEEN, David SHEFFIELD, Xiang ZOU, Jason BRANDT
  • Publication number: 20240320002
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a more efficient system management mode. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a plurality of cores, at least a first core of the plurality of cores to perform operations to cause the plurality of cores to enter into a system management mode (SMM), the operations comprising: allocating a memory region for a system management RAM (SMRAM); writing an SMRAM state save location to a first register; and generating a page table in the SMRAM, including mapping a virtual address space a physical address space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Jay LAWLOR, David SHEFFIELD, Xiang ZOU, Michael KINNEY, Charles HOLTHAUS, Thomas TOLL, Salessawi Ferede YITBAREK, Andreas KLEEN, Keshavan TIRUVALLUR, Sarathy JAYAKUMAR, Ruiyu NI
  • Publication number: 20240289704
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method, apparatus, device, and medium for information processing, wherein the method includes: in response to a trigger operation for a workflow type, displaying an editing page comprising a workflow identification and/or a workflow content, and the workflow content comprising a document, the document being a co-operable shared document; receiving, on the editing page, an edited content input by a predetermined user; and in response to a submission instruction for the workflow type, transmitting a corresponding workflow to a first user. Therefore, the application of collaboration of a plurality of parties in the workflow enhances the degree of automation and efficiency of workflow processing and satisfies the needs of a plurality of parties to interact in workflow processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Yiming Kang, Gang Li, Sisi Pan, Bixing Sheng, Han Deng, Jun Liu, Zexian Xie, Qing Bai, Gaolu Li, Xiang Zou
  • Publication number: 20240211583
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for improved processor security and authenticated code execution. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a secure memory to store an authenticated code module (ACM); and security hardware logic to select a mode of operation for processing the ACM based on a microarchitecture of the processor, the security hardware logic to validate the ACM and parse a header of the ACM to determine an entry point for processing the ACM in accordance with the microarchitecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander EYDELBERG, Salessawi Ferede YITBAREK, David B. SHEFFIELD, Xiang ZOU
  • Publication number: 20240143361
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for implementing a new virtualized execution environment while supporting instructions and operations of a legacy virtualized execution environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler SONDAG, Andreas KLEEN, David SHEFFIELD, Xiang ZOU, Terry PARKS, Jason BRANDT, Ittai ANATI
  • Publication number: 20240103869
    Abstract: Techniques for using CPUID for showing features that are deprecated are described. In some examples, CPUID is to include at least one field for an opcode, one or more fields to identify a source operand which is to store a LSL selector value, and one or more fields to identify a destination register operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to, when the single instruction has been enabled by a setting of a bit in a control register, write a LSL value stored in the control register to the destination operand when the LSL selector value of the first source register operand matches a LSL selector value stored in the control register, and set a flag in a flags register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Kleen, Jason Brandt, Ittai Anati, David Sheffield, Toby Opferman, Ian Hanschen, Xiang Zou, Terry Parks
  • Patent number: 11920743
    Abstract: An LED tube lamp includes a first and second members and a connection member. Each of the first and second members includes lighting part and an end part. Each lighting part includes LED light strip. The connection member includes electrical connection portions and joining portions for the first and second members. The connection member connects the first member with the second member by the joining portions and the electrical connection portions and makes the first member substantially coaxial to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guang-Dong Wang, Ji-Feng Xu, Ming-Bin Wang, Zi-Xiang Zou, Dong-Mei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230385669
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for scalable qubit addressing. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder comprising quantum instruction decode circuitry to decode quantum instructions to generate quantum microoperations (uops) and non-quantum decode circuitry to decode non-quantum instructions to generate non-quantum uops; execution circuitry comprising: an address generation unit (AGU) to generate a system memory address responsive to execution of one or more of the non-quantum uops; and quantum index generation circuitry to generate quantum index values responsive to execution of one or more of the quantum uops, each quantum index value uniquely identifying a quantum bit (qubit) in a quantum processor; wherein to generate a first quantum index value for a first quantum uop, the quantum index generation circuitry is to read the first quantum index value from a first architectural register identified by the first quantum uop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventor: Xiang ZOU
  • Patent number: 11803167
    Abstract: Disclosed are an energy service system of a multi-machine production line and a control method thereof, the method includes reorganizing respective machines in the production line into three types of controllable entities: a drive system, an energy supply bus and an execution device, equipping them with a control center, and selecting a sub-drive system that is idle and is capable of completing the work stage with high energy efficiency to supply energy service for the corresponding execution device through the energy supply bus. Further disclosed is a design method of a multi-machine shared drive system of a production line, which increases the number of basic flow units of each drive unit to a maximum value one by one, and coordinates action time to form a variety of scheduling schemes, and selects a configuration scheme whose total time and total energy consumption are less as the shared drive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Haihong Huang, Xiang Zou, Lei Li, Libin Zhu, Zhifeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20230315473
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for variable-length instruction steering to instruction decode clusters are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a decode cluster and chunk steering circuitry. The decode cluster includes multiple instruction decoders. The chunk steering circuitry is to break a sequence of instruction bytes into a plurality of chunks, create a slice from a one or more of the plurality of chunks based on one or more indications of a number of instructions in each of the one or more of the plurality of chunks, wherein the slice has a variable size and includes a plurality of instructions, and steer the slice to the decode cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Muhammad Azeem, Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury, Xiang Zou, Malihe Ahmadi, Joju Joseph Zajo, Ariel Sabba, Ammon Christiansen, Polychronis Xekalakis, Eliyah Kilada
  • Patent number: 11748649
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for specifying quantum operation parallelism. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: instruction fetch circuitry to fetch a plurality of quantum instructions from a memory or a cache; slice-based instruction processing circuitry to identify quantum circuit slices comprising sets of one or more of the plurality of quantum instructions; and one or more instruction decoders to decode the quantum instructions to generate quantum microoperations; and quantum execution circuitry to execute sets of the quantum microoperations in parallel based on the quantum circuit slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Zou, Justin Hogaboam, Adam Holmes, Sonika Johri
  • Patent number: 11748651
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for scalable qubit addressing. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder comprising quantum instruction decode circuitry to decode quantum instructions to generate quantum microoperations (uops) and non-quantum decode circuitry to decode non-quantum instructions to generate non-quantum uops; execution circuitry comprising: an address generation unit (AGU) to generate a system memory address responsive to execution of one or more of the non-quantum uops; and quantum index generation circuitry to generate quantum index values responsive to execution of one or more of the quantum uops, each quantum index value uniquely identifying a quantum bit (qubit) in a quantum processor; wherein to generate a first quantum index value for a first quantum uop, the quantum index generation circuitry is to read the first quantum index value from a first architectural register identified by the first quantum uop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Xiang Zou
  • Publication number: 20230244459
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for compiling and executing hybrid classical-quantum programs. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: reading source code specifying both non-quantum operations to be performed by a host processor and quantum operations to be performed by a quantum accelerator; compiling the source code to generate a target object file, wherein portions of the source code specifying the quantum operations are compiled into quantum basic blocks (QBBs) in the target object file, each QBB comprising one or more quantum instructions to be executed by the quantum accelerator and wherein portions of the source code specifying the non-quantum operations are compiled into native instructions to be executed by the host processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: XIANG ZOU, JUSTIN HOGABOAM, PRADNYA LAXMAN KHALATE, XIN-CHUAN WU, ANNE MATSUURA, SHAVINDRA PREMARATNE
  • Patent number: 11704588
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for injected spin echo sequences in a quantum processor. For example, one embodiment of a processor includes a decoder to decode quantum instructions to generate quantum microoperations (uops) and to decode non-quantum instructions to generate non-quantum uops, execution circuitry to execute the quantum uops and non-quantum uops, and a corrective sequence data structure to identify and/or store corrective sets of uops for one or more of the quantum instructions. The decoder is to query the corrective sequence data structure upon receiving a first quantum instruction to determine if one or more corrective uops exist, and if the one or more corrective uops exist, the decoder is to submit the one or more corrective uops for execution by the execution circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiang Zou, Justin Hogaboam
  • Patent number: D1038867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventor: Xiang Zou