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Daniel Lu, Chandler, AZ US
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| 20090001528 | Lowering resistance in a coreless package - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a coreless substrate to provide a power net connection and a ground net connection to a semiconductor die, which is electrically coupled to the substrate, and a stiffener surrounding the semiconductor die and electrically coupled to the substrate to provide a lateral current path to the semiconductor die. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 01-01-2009 |
Daoqiang (daniel) Lu, Chandler, AZ US
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| 20080205816 | Integrating electrical layer on optical sub-assembly for optical interconnects - Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an optical/electrical interconnect may comprise an optical/electrical assembly having a flex panel formed thereon. The flex panel may include one or more electrical traces and/or contact pads to couple electrical traces on a substrate of the optical/electrical interconnect with an optoelectronic die disposed on the optical/electrical assembly. The flex panel may be formed on a molded sub-assembly panel via lamination, or the sub-assembly panel may be formed on the flex panel via an over-molding process, to form laminated sub-assembly panels. The laminated sub-assembly panels may be diced into one or more optical/electrical assemblies. | 08-28-2008 |
Donghui Lu, Tempe, AZ US
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| 20090057766 | INTEGRATION OF SILICON BORON NITRIDE IN HIGH VOLTAGE AND SMALL PITCH SEMICONDUCTORS - Integration of silicon boron nitride in high voltage semiconductors is generally described. In one example, a microelectronic apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate upon which transistors of an integrated circuit are formed, a plurality of transistor gates formed upon the semiconductor substrate, a gate spacer dielectric disposed between the gates, and a contact etch stop dielectric disposed upon the gates and gate spacer dielectric, the contact etch stop dielectric comprising silicon boron nitride (SiBN) to reduce breakdown of the contact etch stop dielectric in high voltage applications. | 03-05-2009 |
Jessica Taizin Lu, Scottsdale, AZ US
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| 20080301016 | Method, System, and Computer Program Product for Customer Linking and Identification Capability for Institutions - In an enterprise where a database maintains multiple accounts for one or more business customers, a method, system, and computer program product correctly links accounts which are associated with a single location of a common business. Further hierarchical linkages are established between accounts associated with multiple locations of the common business. The linkages are established via matching rules, the matching rules including provisions for optimizing the quality of the account data, integrating account-related data from external sources, and assigning quality-of-matching factors to different kinds of account data. Both internal and external account data are utilized to create an integrated view, or “business demographics”, of the business structure of the single common business shared by the linked, hierarchically-related accounts. Separate accounts of separate businesses which are nonetheless related accounts may be associated with each other. Feedback loops may be used to correct both erroneous data and the linking rules. | 12-04-2008 |
Joseph Lu, Glendale, AZ US
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| 20090254198 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCRETE OR CONTINUOUS SUPPLY CHAIN CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION USING STOCHASTIC CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS APPROACH - A system includes a first controller configured to monitor processes associated with a process facility and to generate control data for optimizing the process facility. The system also includes a second controller configured to use stochastic calculus of variations calculations to modify at least a portion of the control data and provide one of (i) continuous supply chain control and optimization for the process facility and (ii) discrete supply chain control and optimization for the process facility. The system further includes third controllers configured to operate in accordance with the control data to control the processes and to optimize the process facility. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090319070 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCRETE SUPPLY CHAIN CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION USING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL - A system includes a first controller configured to monitor processes associated with a process facility and to generate control data for optimizing the process facility. The system also includes a second controller configured to use stochastic calculus of variations calculations to modify at least a portion of the control data. The second controller is configured to provide discrete supply chain control and optimization for the process facility and to track at least one of demand requirements and shipping requirements for product manufactured by a discrete supply chain manufacturing process. The system further includes third controllers configured to operate in accordance with the control data to control the processes and to optimize the process facility. | 12-24-2009 |
Joseph Z. Lu, Glendale, AZ US
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| 20090319059 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC) OF A NONLINEAR PROCESS - A method includes obtaining a nonlinear process model modeling a nonlinear process to be controlled. The method also includes obtaining an objective function defining how the process is controlled. The method further includes obtaining a control model defining a dynamic feasible region associated with a controlled variable, where the controlled variable is associated with the process. In addition, the method includes controlling the nonlinear process by solving a control problem that includes the process model, control model, and objective function. The dynamic feasible region defined by the control model could represent a funnel region. The objective function could include terms for minimizing and optimizing adjustments to one or more manipulated variables associated with the process. Controlling the nonlinear process could include performing simultaneous control and optimization, where adjustments to the one or more manipulated variables are chosen to meet the control objectives and possibly to optimize and minimize the adjustments. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20110040399 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING PLANNING, SCHEDULING, AND CONTROL FOR ENTERPRISE OPTIMIZATION - A method includes receiving first input data from one or more first process control system components. The method also includes receiving second input data from one or more second process control system components. In addition, the method includes performing an iterative process that includes identifying one or more adjustments to at least one target quantity using the first input data, identifying one or more contribution values using the one or more adjustments, and identifying one or more estimated product yields using the one or more contribution values and the second input data. Each target quantity is associated with at least one intermediate or final product to be produced. Each contribution value is based on an intermediate product's contribution to each of multiple final products. Each estimated product yield is associated with an expected quantity of one of the intermediate and final products to be produced. | 02-17-2011 |
Julia Lu, Phoenix, AZ US
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| 20110125662 | EMPLOYEE MEDICAL CARE MANAGEMENT TOOL AND METHOD - The invention provides an employee medical care management method including (i) a wellness program management method including storing a purchased subset of the wellness programs; (ii) an employee health analysis method including storing a plurality of employee records, and for each employee record, storing at least one medical variable so that the medical variable is associated with the employee record; (iii) an employee health directive method including associating at least a selected one of the medical wellness programs with the employee record based on the medical variable associated with the employee record, and providing an output with the selected medical wellness program being associated with the employee record. | 05-26-2011 |
Kanghua Lu, Phoenix, AZ US
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| 20100123839 | THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - Embodiments include aircraft systems, display systems, and methods for displaying three dimensional (3D) images. A backlight is controlled to sequentially alternate between activating a first set of light producing elements of the backlight and activating a second set of light producing elements of the backlight, where light produced by the first set of light producing elements is refracted by a lens system into a left eye viewing envelope, and light produced by the second set of light producing elements is refracted by the lens system into a right eye viewing envelope. A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel is controlled synchronously with the backlight in order to selectively pass or block portions of the light produced by the backlight in order to produce one or more left eye image frames in the left eye viewing envelope and one or more right eye image frames in the right eye viewing envelope. | 05-20-2010 |
Katherine Lu, Tucson, AZ US
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| 20110132437 | METHODS TO BOND OR SEAL GLASS PIECES OF PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL MODULES - The apparatus and methods of the present disclosure, in a broad aspect, provide methods for bonding or sealing pieces of glass of photovoltaic cell modules. These methods include providing the first piece of glass, providing a second piece of glass, providing a photovoltaic cell between the first piece of glass and second piece of glass, providing an amount of solder to at least one solder contact area disposed on at least one of the first or second pieces of glass, bringing the first and second pieces of glass into contact at the at least one solder contact area, and heating the solder to about the melting point or working point of the solder to provide the first and second pieces of glass with a bond or seal at the at least one solder contact area. | 06-09-2011 |
Liangde Lu, Mesa, AZ US
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| 20080213747 | FLUORESCENT POLYMER SUPERQUENCHING-BASED BIOASSAYS - A chemical composition including a fluorescent polymer and a receptor that is specific for both a target biological agent and a chemical moiety including (a) a recognition element, (b) a tethering element, and (c) a property-altering element is disclosed. Both the fluorescent polymer and the receptor are co-located on a support. When the chemical moiety is bound to the receptor, the property-altering element is sufficiently close to the fluorescent polymer to alter the fluorescence emitted by the polymer. When an analyte sample is introduced, the target biological agent, if present, binds to the receptor, thereby displacing the chemical moiety from the receptor, resulting in an increase of detected fluorescence. Assays for detecting the presence of a target biological agent are also disclosed. | 09-04-2008 |
Tiehan Lu, Chandler, AZ US
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| 20080273119 | Method and apparatus for short range motion adaptive noise reduction - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for generating and storing in a lookup table a first array of next field values for use in generation of weighted pixel values and generating and storing a second array in the lookup table of previous field values for use in generation of the weighted pixel values, determining if motion is present in a pixel of a field under analysis, if the motion is present, performing spatial de-noising using a weighted pixel average of a window of a predetermined size, otherwise performing temporal de-noising using a weighted pixel value between the pixel and a previous pixel using information in the lookup table. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20090154825 | REDUCTION FILTER BASED ON SMART NEIGHBOR SELECTION AND WEIGHTING (NRF-SNSW) - The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for filtering noise in a video image, comprising receiving a first video image, a second video image and motion information wherein the first image may be an image to be filtered and the second image may be a filtered image wherein the second image may be temporally related to said first image. The method may further include, for at least one pixel in the first video image, selecting at least one neighbor of the pixel from the first video image and selecting at least one neighbor of the pixel from said second video image, wherein selection of the neighbors from the first video image and the second video image may be based on said motion information; selecting a subset of the neighbors wherein the subset may be less than or equal to a sum of neighbors from the first video image and the second video image; determining a weighted average of the subset of said neighbors and the pixel; and outputting the weighted average as a filtered pixel of the first video image. Of course, many alternatives, variations and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090322942 | VIDEO DE-INTERLACING WITH MOTION ESTIMATION - A method includes determining a lowest-score interpolation direction among a plurality of interpolation directions. The method further includes calculating a candidate pixel value by interpolating along the lowest-score interpolation direction. The method further includes applying a median function to a set of pixel values. The set of pixel values includes (a) the candidate pixel value, (b) at least one pixel value from a line of pixels that is immediately above a pixel location that is currently being interpolated, and (c) at least one pixel value from a line of pixel values that is immediately below the pixel location that is currently being interpolated. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090324071 | Color enhancement for graphic images - A color enhancement system may enhance color components in an image. In one embodiment, the color enhancement system suppresses banding by combining an input color value with an enhanced colored value. In another embodiment, local variation in saturation values around a pixel may be used to determine a modification of an input saturation value for color enhancement. As still another embodiment, flickering between frames may be suppressed by combining a histogram that counts the number of times a given pixel value occurs in a particular image with a historical histogram that keeps track of an average of how often given values have occurred in previous frames. | 12-31-2009 |
Yuan Lu, Phoenix, AZ US
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| 20080308934 | SOLDER BUMP INTERCONNECT FOR IMPROVED MECHANICAL AND THERMO-MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE - An apparatus and method for a semiconductor package including a bump on input-output (IO) structure are disclosed involving a device pad, an under bump metal pad (UBM), a polymer, and a passivation layer. The shortest distance from the center of the device pad to its outer edge, and the shortest distance from the center of the UBM to its outer edge are in a ratio from 0.5:1 to 0.95:1. Also, the shortest distance from the center of the polymer to its outer edge, and the shortest distance from the center of the UBM to its outer edge are in a ratio from 0.35:1 to 0.85:1. Additionally, the shortest distance from the center of the passivation layer to its outer edge, and the shortest distance from the center of the UBM to its outer edge are in a ratio from 0.35:1 to 0.80:1. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090014869 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PACKAGE WITH BUMP OVERLYING A POLYMER LAYER - A semiconductor device package, for example a flip-chip package, having a solder bump mounted above a polymer layer for use in flip-chip mounting of a semiconductor device to a circuit board. A polymer layer such as polybenzoxazole is formed overlying a wafer passivation layer. Solder bumps are attached to an under-bump metallization layer and electrically coupled to conductive bond pads exposed by openings in the wafer passivation layer. | 01-15-2009 |