Patents by Inventor Xiaosong Zhang

Xiaosong Zhang 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: 20250120085
    Abstract: Microelectronic devices include a lower deck and an upper deck, each comprising a stack structure with a vertically alternating sequence of insulative structures and conductive structures arranged in tiers. First and second arrays of pillars extend through the stack structure of the lower and upper decks, respectively. In one or more of the first and second pillar arrays, at least some pillars exhibit a greater degree of bending away from a vertical orientation than at least some other pillars. The pillars of the first array align with the pillars of the second array along an interface between the lower and upper decks. Related methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Md Zakir Ullah, Xiaosong Zhang, Adam L. Olson, Mohammad Moydul Islam, Tien Minh Quan Tran, Chao Zhu, Zhigang Yang, Merri L. Carlson, Hui Chin Chong, David A. Kewley, Kok Siak Tang
  • Patent number: 12230546
    Abstract: A method for measuring overlay between an interest level and a reference level of a wafer includes applying a magnetic field to a wafer, detecting at least one residual magnetic field emitted from at least one registration marker of a first set of registration markers within the wafer, responsive to the detected one or more residual magnetic fields, determining a location of the at least one registration marker of the first set registration markers, determining a location of at least one registration marker of a second set of registration markers, and responsive to the respective determined locations of the at least one registration marker of the first set of registration markers and the at least one registration marker of the second set of registration markers, calculating a positional offset between an interest level of the wafer and a reference level of the wafer. Related methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolay A. Mirin, Robert Dembi, Richard T. Housley, Xiaosong Zhang, Jonathan D. Harms, Stephen J. Kramer
  • Patent number: 12200054
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a blockchain sharding method, system, and server based on locally repairable system codes. The blockchain sharding system includes k original shards and n?k encoding shards. In each round of consensus, each original shard and m corresponding encoding shards form a local verification group (m<<n?k), and each encoding shard and t original shards participating in generation of the encoding shard form local recovery groups (t<<k). The local verification group is responsible for verifying whether a to-be-verified transaction is legitimate. When a single shard in the verification group is corrupted, the remaining m shards can reach a consistent verification result. According to the principle that the minority is subordinate to the majority, the verification group can still correctly verify the legitimacy of the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan Digital Economy Research Institute (Yibin), Hangzhou Yunphant Network Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng Cao, Butian Huang, Xiaosong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240424092
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, uses, and compositions for the treatment of cancer (e.g., a lung cancer; a cervical cancer; a breast cancer; a head and neck cancer; a liver cancer; a bladder cancer; a gastric cancer; an esophageal cancer; a pancreatic cancer; a kidney or renal cancer; a melanoma; an ovarian cancer; or a colorectal cancer). More specifically, the invention concerns the treatment of patients having cancer with an anti-TIGIT antagonist antibody, including treatment with an anti-TIGIT antagonist antibody in a combination therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Catherine LAI, Janet LAU, Anthony Jongha LEE, Shi LI, Yvonne Gail LIN-LIU, Christina Jeanne MATHENY, Diana MENDUS, Raymond D. MENG, Anh NGUYEN DUC, Jilpa Bhupendra PATEL, Thinh Quang PHAM, Isabelle Anne ROONEY, Heather Blythe STEVENS, Sarah Marie TROUTMAN, Lijia WANG, Yulei WANG, Patrick Georges Robert WILLIAMS, Benjamin WU, Yibing YAN, Aijing ZHANG, Xiaosong ZHANG, Marcus Dale BALLINGER, Hila BARAK, Elizabeth Alexandra BENNETT, Marcela Lucia CASTRO, Edward Namserk CHA, Hui Min Phyllis CHAN, Stephen CHUI, Christopher Roland COTTER, Viraj Vinay DEGAONKAR, Barbara Jennifer GITLITZ, Tien HOANG, Kimberly Mayumi KOMATSUBARA
  • Patent number: 12178045
    Abstract: Microelectronic devices include a lower deck and an upper deck, each comprising a stack structure with a vertically alternating sequence of insulative structures and conductive structures arranged in tiers. First and second arrays of pillars extend through the stack structure of the lower and upper decks, respectively. In one or more of the first and second pillar arrays, at least some pillars exhibit a greater degree of bending away from a vertical orientation than at least some other pillars. The pillars of the first array align with the pillars of the second array along an interface between the lower and upper decks. Related methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Md Zakir Ullah, Xiaosong Zhang, Adam L. Olson, Mohammad Moydul Islam, Tien Minh Quan Tran, Chao Zhu, Zhigang Yang, Merri L. Carlson, Hui Chin Chong, David A. Kewley, Kok Siak Tang
  • Publication number: 20240412203
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a security protection method for a sharded blockchain system, and the sharded blockchain system includes one core shard and multiple common shards. A node in the common shard can additionally store historical blocks of other shards in addition to storing historical blocks of the shard in which the node is located. When a single shard in the system is corrupted, the corrupted shard cannot provide a valid verification result for a transaction that the corrupted shard is responsible for verifying. In this case, honest nodes that store historical blocks of the corrupted shard can submit reports on a transaction verification result to the core shard. The core shard confirms validity of the report, and the system performs reward or punishment on the node submitting the report according to whether the report is valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Sheng CAO, Yifan TIAN, Butian HUANG, Xiaosong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240414228
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a blockchain sharding method, system, and server based on locally repairable system codes. The blockchain sharding system includes k original shards and n?k encoding shards. In each round of consensus, each original shard and m corresponding encoding shards form a local verification group (m<<n?k), and each encoding shard and t original shards participating in generation of the encoding shard form local recovery groups (t<<k). The local verification group is responsible for verifying whether a to-be-verified transaction is legitimate. When a single shard in the verification group is corrupted, the remaining m shards can reach a consistent verification result. According to the principle that the minority is subordinate to the majority, the verification group can still correctly verify the legitimacy of the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Sheng CAO, Butian HUANG, Xiaosong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240392381
    Abstract: We found mutations of the R132 residue of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) in the majority of grade II and III astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas as well as in gliblastomas that develop from these lower grade lesions. Those tumors without mutations in IDH1 often had mutations at the analogous R172 residue of the closely related IDH2 gene. These findings have important implications for the pathogenesis and diagnosis of malignant gliomas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Bert Vogelstein, Kenneth W. Kinzler, D. Williams Parsons, Xiaosong Zhang, Jimmy Cheng-Ho Lin, Rebecca J. Leary, Philipp Angenendt, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Victor Velculescu, Giovanni Parmigiani, Rachel Karchin, Sian Jones, Hai Yan, Darell Bigner, Chien-Tsun Kuan, Gregory J. Riggins
  • Patent number: 12155638
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for constructing a fusion covert channel. A time covert channel is constructed by rearranging data packets of different terminals in the Internet of Things in a manner of carrying secret information, a storage covert channel is constructed by replacing a TCP sequence number field of a data packet with secret information, and a fusion covert channel is constructed by fusing the time covert channel and the storage covert channel. In this way, advantages of the two channels can be complemented, so that covertness of the fusion covert channel is improved and a capacity of the covert channel is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TANGSHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaosong Zhang, Linhong Guo
  • Patent number: 12063783
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprise laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Operative channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. Insulative pillars are laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. The pillars comprise vertically-spaced and radially-projecting insulative rings in the conductive tiers as compared to the insulative tiers. Other embodiments, including methods, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaosong Zhang, Yi Hu, Tom J. John, Wei Yeeng Ng, Chandra Tiwari
  • Publication number: 20240266214
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a structure including an upper insulating material overlying a lower insulating material, a conductive element underlying the lower insulating material, and a conductive material comprising a metal line and a contact. The conductive material extends from an upper surface of the upper insulating material to an upper surface of the conductive element. The structure also comprises a liner material adjacent the metal line. A width of an uppermost surface of the conductive material of the metal line external to the contact is relatively less than a width of an uppermost surface of the conductive material of the contact. Related methods, memory devices, and electronic systems are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaosong Zhang, Yongjun J. Hu, David A. Kewley, Md Zahid Hossain, Michael J. Irwin, Daniel Billingsley, Suresh Ramarajan, Robert J. Hanson, Biow Hiem Ong, Keen Wah Chow
  • Patent number: 12030801
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a saline wastewater treatment system using solar-assisted heat pump. A method of solar thermal collector coupled with a heat pump can treat saline wastewater at low carbon and high efficiency, and industrial salt and fresh water can be obtained by concentration. The system includes a wastewater pretreatment system, a wastewater heating system, and a wastewater evaporation and concentration treatment system. The wastewater pretreatment system is connected to the wastewater heating system; and the wastewater heating system is connected to the wastewater evaporation and concentration treatment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dongxu Wu, Xiaosong Zhang, Yuanzhi Gao, Zhaofeng Dai
  • Patent number: 11990367
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a structure including an upper insulating material overlying a lower insulating material, a conductive element underlying the lower insulating material, and a conductive material comprising a metal line and a contact. The conductive material extends from an upper surface of the upper insulating material to an upper surface of the conductive element. The structure also comprises a liner material adjacent the metal line. A width of an uppermost surface of the conductive material of the metal line external to the contact is relatively less than a width of an uppermost surface of the conductive material of the contact. Related methods, memory devices, and electronic systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaosong Zhang, Yongjun J. Hu, David A. Kewley, Md Zahid Hossain, Michael J. Irwin, Daniel Billingsley, Suresh Ramarajan, Robert J. Hanson, Biow Hiem Ong, Keen Wah Chow
  • Publication number: 20240083794
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a saline wastewater treatment system using solar-assisted heat pump. A method of solar thermal collector coupled with a heat pump can treat saline wastewater at low carbon and high efficiency, and industrial salt and fresh water can be obtained by concentration. The system includes a wastewater pretreatment system, a wastewater heating system, and a wastewater evaporation and concentration treatment system. The wastewater pretreatment system is connected to the wastewater heating system; and the wastewater heating system is connected to the wastewater evaporation and concentration treatment system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Dongxu WU, Xiaosong ZHANG, Yuanzhi GAO, Zhaofeng DAI
  • Publication number: 20240074194
    Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses. One of the apparatuses includes tiers located one over another; a first staircase structure formed in the tiers; a second staircase structure formed in the tiers adjacent the first staircase structure, respective portions of conductive materials in the tiers forming a part of the first and second staircase structure and a part of respective control gates associated with memory cells; a first trench structure formed in the tiers adjacent the first staircase structure and the second staircase structure, the first trench structure including length in a direction from the first staircase structure to the second staircase structure; and a second trench structure formed in the tiers adjacent the first trench structure, the second trench structure including a length in the direction from the first staircase structure to the second staircase structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Shruthi Kumara Vadivel, Harsh Narendrakumar Jain, Richard T. Housley, Zhenxing Han, Scott L. Light, Qinglin Zeng, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan, Jordan Chess, Xiaosong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240064988
    Abstract: A variety of applications can include apparatus having a memory device structured with a circuit under array (CuA) architecture. A page buffer region in the CuA can be formed with a periphery region that is horizontally adjacent to the page buffer region. Contacts to gates for transistors in the page buffer region can be formed to land only on these gates, separating and electrically isolating the contacts and associated gates from each other in the page buffer region. Contacts to gates for transistors in the periphery region can be formed to land on conductive regions disposed on gates for transistors in the periphery region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Md Zahid Hossain, Martin Popp, Xiaosong Zhang, Surendranath C. Eruvuru, Suvra Sarkar, Tianqi Xu
  • Publication number: 20230335439
    Abstract: A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising alternating conductive structures and insulative structures. Memory cells vertically extend through the stack structure, and comprise a channel material vertically extending through the stack structure. An additional stack structure vertically overlies the stack structure and comprises additional conductive structures and additional insulative structures. First pillar structures extend through the additional stack structure and vertically overlie a portion of the memory cells. Second pillar structures are adjacent to the first pillar structures and extend through the additional stack structure and vertically overlie another portion of the memory cells. Slot structures are laterally adjacent to the first pillar structures and to the second pillar structures and extend through at least a portion of the additional stack structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Chandra S. Tiwari, David A. Kewley, Deep Panjwani, Matthew Holland, Matthew J. King, Michael E. Koltonski, Tom J. John, Xiaosong Zhang, Yi Hu
  • Publication number: 20230275880
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for constructing a fusion covert channel. A time covert channel is constructed by rearranging data packets of different terminals in the Internet of Things in a manner of carrying secret information, a storage covert channel is constructed by replacing a TCP sequence number field of a data packet with secret information, and a fusion covert channel is constructed by fusing the time covert channel and the storage covert channel. In this way, advantages of the two channels can be complemented, so that covertness of the fusion covert channel is improved and a capacity of the covert channel is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaosong Zhang, Linhong Guo
  • Patent number: 11700729
    Abstract: A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Operative channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. Intervening material is laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. The intervening material comprises longitudinally-alternating first and second regions that individually have a vertically-elongated seam therein. The vertically-elongated seam in the first regions are taller than in the second regions. Additional embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Hu, Ramey M. Abdelrahaman, Narula Bilik, Daniel Billingsley, Zhenyu Bo, Joan M. Kash, Matthew J. King, Andrew Li, David Neumeyer, Wei Yeeng Ng, Yung K. Pak, Chandra Tiwari, Yiping Wang, Lance Williamson, Xiaosong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230209827
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprise laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Operative channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. Insulative pillars are laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. The pillars comprise vertically-spaced and radially-projecting insulative rings in the conductive tiers as compared to the insulative tiers. Other embodiments, including methods, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaosong Zhang, Yi Hu, Tom J. John, Wei Yeeng Ng, Chandra Tiwari