Patents by Inventor Yu Pei

Yu Pei 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: 12282001
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for electrochemical analysis of water include acid cleaning a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), stabilizing a QCM in analyte solution, and analyzing the solution by chronoamperometry and measuring a frequency shift of the QCM. The method may further include cleaning the QCM in an acid solution prior to stabilizing the QCM in analyte solution. The apparatus may provide at least semi-automated electrochemical analysis of water including determining a concentration of an analyte in a water sample, and communicating the concentration of the analyte over a network. The analyte may be manganese.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Queen's University at Kingston
    Inventors: Yu Pei, Zhe She, Sarah Jane Odessa Payne
  • Publication number: 20240329025
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for analyzing water use a plurality of working electrodes and at least one counter electrode adapted to be in contact with the water, and a source of electrical potential difference that simultaneously applies to each of the plurality of working electrodes a different potential selected from at least one range of potentials. A multichannel device obtains chronoamperometry measurements from the plurality of working electrodes. The chronoamperometry measurements are used to generate a pattern of electrical charge on the plurality of electrodes, and the pattern of electrical charge is correlated with one or more known patterns to perform one or more of: identify one or more analytes in the water, perform speciation of analytes, and determine one or more concentration of the one or more analytes in the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Zhe She, Sarah Jane Odessa Payne, Yu Pei
  • Publication number: 20230280309
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for electrochemical analysis of water include acid cleaning a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), stabilizing a QCM in analyte solution, and analyzing the solution by chronoamperometry and measuring a frequency shift of the QCM. The method may further include cleaning the QCM in an acid solution prior to stabilizing the QCM in analyte solution. The apparatus may provide at least semi-automated electrochemical analysis of water including determining a concentration of an analyte in a water sample, and communicating the concentration of the analyte over a network. The analyte may be manganese.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Yu Pei, Zhe She, Sarah Jane Odessa Payne
  • Patent number: 9172569
    Abstract: A phased array transmitter is disclosed comprising a vector modulator, a true time delay block coupled to the vector modulator, a local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block coupled to the true time delay block, and an antenna. The vector modulator applies vector modulation to a baseband signal and provides an intermediate frequency signal to the true time delay block. The true time delay block applies a true time delay to the intermediate frequency signal and provides a delayed intermediate frequency signal to the local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block. The local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block multiplies the delayed intermediate frequency signal by a local oscillator signal and applies a phase shift to the delayed intermediate frequency signal to provide a radio frequency signal to the antenna for onwards transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: NXP, B.V.
    Inventors: Dominicus Martinus Wilhelmus Leenaerts, Yu Pei, Ying Chen
  • Publication number: 20140241463
    Abstract: A phased array transmitter is disclosed comprising a vector modulator, a true time delay block coupled to the vector modulator, a local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block coupled to the true time delay block, and an antenna. The vector modulator applies vector modulation to a baseband signal and provides an intermediate frequency signal to the true time delay block. The true time delay block applies a true time delay to the intermediate frequency signal and provides a delayed intermediate frequency signal to the local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block. The local oscillator phase shifter and RF-converter block multiplies the delayed intermediate frequency signal by a local oscillator signal and applies a phase shift to the delayed intermediate frequency signal to provide a radio frequency signal to the antenna for onwards transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Dominicus Martinus Wilhelmus Leenaerts, Yu Pei, Ying Chen