Ning, US
Alice Ning, Washington, DC US
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20130168222 | Conductive Composites - The invention features a conducting system which when attached to an object, the system converts the object into input device used to input functions on a touch screen device. The system features a material having an active capacitive layer with an antenna design which stores an electrical charge that is substantially similar to a human's body capacitance. Additional layers may be provided for attaching the material and protecting the material. | 07-04-2013 |
Bo Ning, Galveston, TX US
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20100104571 | Antibody-mediated modulation of allergy - The present invention is drawn to antibody-mediated modulation of allergy. In this regard, the present invention discloses a monoclonal antibody, antigen-binding fragment or mimic thereof directed against Group 1 pollen allergens or homologues thereof. Also disclosed herein is the mechanism by which the disclosed monoclonal antibody, antigen binding fragment or mimic thereof will improve immunotherapy of allergic reactions in an individual. It is contemplated that herein that such a monoclonal antibody, antigen binding fragment or mimic thereof may also be useful in treatment of several microbial infections. | 04-29-2010 |
Cun-Zheng Ning, Chandler, AZ US
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20110272744 | Laterally Varying II-VI Alloys and Uses Thereof - Described herein are semiconductor structures comprising laterally varying II-VI alloy layer formed over a surface of a substrate. Further, methods are provided for preparing laterally varying II-VI alloy layers over at least a portion of a surface of a substrate comprising contacting at least a portion of a surface of a substrate within a reaction zone with a chemical vapor under suitable reaction conditions to form a laterally varying II-VI alloy layer over the portion of the surface of the substrate, wherein the chemical vapor is generated by heating at least two II-VI binary compounds; and the reaction zone has a temperature gradient of at least 50-100° C. along an extent of the reaction zone. Also described here are devices such as lasers, light emitting diodes, detectors, or solar cells that can use such semiconductor structures. In the case of lasers, spatially varying wavelength can be realized while in the case of solar cells and detectors multiple solar cells can be achieved laterally where each cell absorbs solar energy of a given wavelength range such that entire solar spectrum can be covered by the said solar cell structure. For LED applications, spatial variation of alloy composition can be used to engineer colors of light emission. | 11-10-2011 |
20120318324 | Laterally Arranged Multiple-Bandgap Solar Cells - A solar cell assembly can be prepared having one or more laterally-arranged multiple bandgap (LAMB) solar cells and a dispersive concentrator positioned to provide light to a surface of each of the LAMB cells. As described herein, each LAMB cell comprises a plurality of laterally-arranged solar cells each having a different bandgap. | 12-20-2012 |
20150092806 | Multi-Bandgap Semiconductor Structures and Methods for Using Them - Described herein are multi-segmented nanowires, nanosheets and nanobelts, and devices and methods using them for the generation of multicolor and white light. | 04-02-2015 |
Gang Ning, Tempe, AZ US
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20100142123 | Electrochemical Capacitor Containing Ruthenium Oxide Electrodes - A capacitor containing an electrochemical cell that includes ruthenium oxide electrodes and an aqueous electrolyte containing a polyprotic acid (e.g., sulfuric acid) is provided. More specifically, the electrodes each contain a substrate that is coated with a metal oxide film formed from a combination of ruthenium oxide and inorganic oxide particles (e.g., alumina, silica, etc.). Without intending to be limited by theory, it is believed that the inorganic oxide particles may enhance proton transfer (e.g., proton generation) in the aqueous electrolyte to form hydrated inorganic oxide complexes (e.g., [Al(H | 06-10-2010 |
Guoxiang Ning, Clifton Park, NY US
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20140162176 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT BY ETCHING MULTIPLE SIDES OF A MASK - A mask is disclosed which includes a plurality of first phase shift regions disposed on a first side of the mask, and a plurality of second phase shift regions disposed on a second side of the mask. The first phase shift regions and second phase shift regions may be alternating phase shift regions in which phase shift of the first phase shift regions is out of phase, for instance by 180 degrees, from phase shift of the second phase shift regions. A method for forming the mask, and a semiconductor device fabrication method using the mask is also disclosed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140353843 | CIRCUIT STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF FABRICATION WITH ENHANCED CONTACT VIA ELECTRICAL CONNECTION - Circuit structures and methods of fabrication are provided with enhanced electrical connection between, for instance, a first metal level and a contact surface of a conductive structure. Enhanced electrical connection is achieved using a plurality of contact vias which are differently-sized, and disposed over and electrically coupled to the contact surface. The differently-sized contact vias include at least one center region contact via disposed over a center region of the contact surface, and at least one peripheral region contact via disposed over a peripheral region of the contact surface, where the at least one center region contact via is larger than the at least one peripheral region contact via. | 12-04-2014 |
20140370447 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT BY ETCHING MULTIPLE SIDES OF A MASK - A mask is disclosed which includes a plurality of first phase shift regions disposed on a first side of the mask, and a plurality of second phase shift regions disposed on a second side of the mask. The first phase shift regions and second phase shift regions may be alternating phase shift regions in which phase shift of the first phase shift regions is out of phase, for instance by 180 degrees, from phase shift of the second phase shift regions. A method for forming the mask, and a semiconductor device fabrication method using the mask is also disclosed. | 12-18-2014 |
20150017803 | CUSTOMIZED ALLEVIATION OF STRESSES GENERATED BY THROUGH-SUBSTRATE VIA(S) - Fabrication of through-substrate via (TSV) structures is facilitated by: forming at least one stress buffer within a substrate; forming a through-substrate via contact within the substrate, wherein the through-substrate via structure and the stress buffer(s) are disposed adjacent to or in contact with each other; and where the stress buffer(s) includes a configuration or is disposed at a location relative to the through-substrate via conductor, at least in part, according to whether the TSV structure is an isolated TSV structure, a chained TSV structure, or an arrayed TSV structure, to customize stress alleviation by the stress buffer(s) about the through-substrate via conductor based, at least in part, on the type of TSV structure. | 01-15-2015 |
20150278426 | METROLOGY PATTERN LAYOUT AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - A metrology pattern layout for a circuit structure is provided, the metrology pattern layout including a plurality of quadrants, in which quadrants a first wafer measurement pattern, a second wafer measurement pattern, a reticle registration pattern, and a reticle measurement pattern may be arranged to facilitate correlation of reticle metrology data with wafer metrology data. The reticle registration pattern may further include one or more outermost structural elements designed to protect other structural elements within the reticle measurement pattern from being modified in an optical proximity correction process. A method of optical proximity correction process is provided, in which a reticle measurement pattern may be obtained and classified to add or modify a rule set of the optical proximity correction process. | 10-01-2015 |
Guoxiang Ning, Ballston Lake, NY US
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20140273310 | MONITORING PATTERN FOR DEVICES - Reticle and methods for forming a device or reticle are presented. A reticle is provided with a device pattern and a first monitoring pattern. The first monitoring pattern includes a plurality of first test cells having a first test cell area and a first test pattern. The first test cells have different first pitch ratios to an anchor pitch and the first test pattern fills the first test cell area of a first test cell. A wafer with a resist layer is exposed with a lithographic system using the reticle. The resist is developed to form a patterned resist layer on the wafer and the wafer is processed using the patterned resist layer. | 09-18-2014 |
20150028482 | DEVICE LAYOUT FOR REDUCING THROUGH-SILICON-VIA STRESS - Approaches for reducing through-silicon via (TSV) stress are provided. Specifically, provided is a device comprising a substrate and a TSV formed in the substrate, the TSV having an element patterned therein. The TSV further comprises a set of openings adjacent the element that are subsequently filled with a TSV fill material. The element may be patterned according to any number of shapes (e.g., circle, oval, rectangle, etc.) to optimize the stress distribution for the TSV. The element is patterned and provided within the TSV in order to reduce or compensate for stress forces caused by a change in volume of the conductive fill materials of the openings of the TSV. These approaches apply to both single TSVs and a plurality of TSVs (e.g., arranged as a matrix). | 01-29-2015 |
20150028500 | FORMING ALIGNMENT MARK AND RESULTING MARK - Methods for forming an alignment mark and the resulting mark are disclosed. Embodiments may include forming a first shape having rotational symmetry; forming a second shape; and forming an alignment mark by combining the first shape and one or more of the second shape, wherein the alignment mark has rotational symmetry. | 01-29-2015 |
20150192866 | EFFICIENT OPTICAL PROXIMITY CORRECTION REPAIR FLOW METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for an efficient optical proximity correction (OPC) repair flow is disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving an input data stream of an integrated circuit (IC) design layout, performing one or more iterations of an OPC step and a layout polishing step on the input data stream, and performing a smart enhancement step if an output of a last iteration of the OPC step fails to satisfy one or more layout criteria and if a number of the one or more iterations satisfies a threshold value. Additional embodiments may include performing a pattern insertion process cross-linked with the OPC step, the pattern insertion process being a base optical rule check (ORC) process. | 07-09-2015 |
20150287651 | OVERLAY MARK DEPENDENT DUMMY FILL TO MITIGATE GATE HEIGHT VARIATION - A method of forming dummy structures and an overlay mark protection zone over an active layer zone based on the shape of an overlay mark and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include determining a size and a shape of an overlay mark; determining a size and a shape of an overlay mark protection zone based on the shape of the overlay mark; determining a shape of a plurality of dummy structures based on the shape of the overlay mark; determining a size and a shape of an active layer zone based on the size and the shape of the overlay mark and the plurality of dummy structures; forming the active layer zone in an active layer of a semiconductor substrate; forming the overlay mark and the plurality of dummy structures over the active layer zone in a poly layer of the semiconductor substrate; and planarizing the poly layer. | 10-08-2015 |
20150310157 | MASK ERROR COMPENSATION BY OPTICAL MODELING CALIBRATION - Methodologies and an apparatus for enabling OPC models to account for errors in the mask are disclosed. Embodiments include: determining a patterning layer of a circuit design; estimating a penetration ratio indicating a mask corner rounding error of a fabricated mask for forming the patterning layer in a fabricated circuit; and determining, by a processor, a compensation metric for optical proximity correction of the circuit design based on the penetration ratio. | 10-29-2015 |
20160079180 | OVERLAY MARK DEPENDENT DUMMY FILL TO MITIGATE GATE HEIGHT VARIATION - A method of forming dummy structures and an overlay mark protection zone over an active layer zone based on the shape of an overlay mark and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include determining a size and a shape of an overlay mark; determining a size and a shape of an overlay mark protection zone based on the shape of the overlay mark; determining a shape of a plurality of dummy structures based on the shape of the overlay mark; determining a size and a shape of an active layer zone based on the size and the shape of the overlay mark and the plurality of dummy structures; forming the active layer zone in an active layer of a semiconductor substrate; forming the overlay mark and the plurality of dummy structures over the active layer zone in a poly layer of the semiconductor substrate; and planarizing the poly layer. | 03-17-2016 |
20160124308 | ALTERNATING SPACE DECOMPOSITION IN CIRCUIT STRUCTURE FABRICATION - Fabrication of a circuit structure is facilitated, in which a first exposure of a multi-layer structure is performed using a first mask, which defines positioning of at least one edge of an element to be formed above a substrate of the multi-layer structure. A second exposure of the multi-layer structure is performed using a second mask, which defines positioning of at least one other edge of the element. At least some material of the multi-layer structure is removed using, at least in part, the defined positioning of the at least one edge and the at least one other edges of the element, to form the element above the substrate. In some examples, multiple elements are formed, the multiple elements being hardmask elements to facilitate an etch process to etch a substrate material. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125121 | ACHIEVING A CRITICAL DIMENSION TARGET BASED ON RESIST CHARACTERISTICS - Achieving a critical dimension target for a feature based on characteristics of a resist is facilitated. Mask data is established for fabricating a lithographic mask to expose different regions of a resist to high, low, and intermediate exposure levels. The resist is configured to exhibit high solubility when exposed to the high or low exposure level, and low solubility when exposed to the intermediate exposure level. A critical dimension for a region of the resist to be exposed to the intermediate exposure level is determined, and the mask data is established to indicate opaque regions for forming on the lithographic mask. The opaque regions are arrayed to facilitate exposing the region of the resist to the intermediate exposure level, to achieve the determined critical dimension. Further, a method is provided for forming in-situ a patterned mask from a mask layer above a substrate material. | 05-05-2016 |
Guo Xiang Ning, Ballston Lake, NY US
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20140264334 | LAYOUT FOR RETICLE AND WAFER SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE REGISTRATION OR OVERLAY MEASUREMENTS - A method and a resulting device are provided for forming stack overlay and registration monitoring structures for FEOL layers including implant layers and for forming BEOL SEM overlay and registration monitoring structures including BEOL interconnections, respectively. Embodiments include forming an active monitoring structure having first and second edges separated by a first distance in an active layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a poly monitoring structure having first and second edges separated by a second distance in a poly layer; and forming one or more contact monitoring structures in a contact layer, collectively exposing at least the first and second edges of each of the active and poly monitoring structures; wherein the active, poly, and contact monitoring structures are formed in an area which includes no IC patterns in the active, the poly, and the contact layers, respectively. | 09-18-2014 |
20140268090 | CROSS TECHNOLOGY RETICLE (CTR) OR MULTI-LAYER RETICLE (MLR) CDU, REGISTRATION, AND OVERLAY TECHNIQUES - Methods for reducing reticle transmission differences and for optimizing layer placement for overlay in MTRs and CTRs are disclosed. Embodiments include providing a reticle having a prime area and a frame area surrounding the prime area; determining RT differences across the prime area; and providing RT adjustment structures on the reticle to decrease the RT differences. Other embodiments include grouping multiple layers of a semiconductor production flow, the layers for each group having an RT difference less than a predetermined value; and placing the layers on plural ordered reticles of a reticle set, each reticle having multiple image fields, by selecting, for each reticle, layers from a single group and optimizing placement of the layers for overlay. Other embodiments include selectively rotating image fields on a reticle having multiple image fields to improve overlay, or optimizing placement of DDLs on CTRs by placing each design orientation on a different reticle. | 09-18-2014 |
20150221565 | LAYOUT FOR RETICLE AND WAFER SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE REGISTRATION OR OVERLAY MEASUREMENTS - A method and a resulting device are provided for forming stack overlay and registration monitoring structures for FEOL layers including implant layers and for forming BEOL SEM overlay and registration monitoring structures including BEOL interconnections, respectively. Embodiments include forming an active monitoring structure having first and second edges separated by a first distance in an active layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a poly monitoring structure having first and second edges separated by a second distance in a poly layer; and forming one or more contact monitoring structures in a contact layer, collectively exposing at least the first and second edges of each of the active and poly monitoring structures; wherein the active, poly, and contact monitoring structures are formed in an area which includes no IC patterns in the active, the poly, and the contact layers, respectively. | 08-06-2015 |
Haibin Ning, Hoover, AL US
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20150184414 | MODULAR SHELTERS COMPRISING COMPOSITE PANELS - In some embodiments, a shelter includes an impact-resistant panel having an energy-absorbing core positioned between two outer layers, wherein the energy-absorbing core includes a syntactic foam material that has a plurality of hollow microspheres compounded with a polymeric resin. | 07-02-2015 |
Haibin Ning, Birmingham, AL US
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20150253116 | LONG FIBER THERMOPLASTIC THIN-WALLED AEROSHELLS FOR MISSILE APPLICATIONS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE - Aeroshells and methods for manufacturing aeroshells are provided. In this regard, a representative aeroshell for a missile formed of a long fiber thermoplastic composite exhibits a wall thickness of no greater than approximately 0.070″. | 09-10-2015 |
Hailong Ning, Champaign, IL US
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20160028081 | LITHIATED TRANSITION METAL OXIDES - Process for the fabrication of an electrode structure comprising an electrochemically active material suitable for use in an energy storage device. The method includes electrodepositing the electrochemically active material onto an electrode in electrodeposition bath containing a non-aqueous electrolyte. The electrode structure can be used for various applications such as electrochemical energy storage devices including high power and high-energy lithium-ion batteries. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028089 | MONOLITHIC POROUS OPEN-CELL STRUCTURES - Process for the fabrication and manufacture of highly porous open-cell structures using templates that are formed by mechanical pressing, injection molding, sintering, or any combination thereof. The processing scheme includes coating, filling or depositing a material on, or inside the porous template. The highly porous structure results after the selective removal of the template and can be used for various applications such as electrochemical energy storage devices including high power and high-energy lithium-ion batteries. | 01-28-2016 |
Hailong Ning, Urbana, IL US
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20140314948 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) POROUS ELECTRODE ARCHITECTURE FOR A MICROBATTERY - A method of fabricating a 3D porous electrode architecture comprises forming a microbattery template that includes (a) a lattice structure comprising a first lattice portion separated from a second lattice portion on a substrate, and (b) a solid structure on the substrate including a separating portion between the first and second lattice portions. Interstices of the first lattice portion are infiltrated with a first conductive material and interstices of the second lattice portion are infiltrated with a second conductive material. Each of the first and second conductive materials fill the interstices to reach a predetermined thickness on the substrate. The solid structure and the lattice structure are removed from the structure, thereby forming first and second conductive scaffolds comprising a porosity defined by the lattice structure and having a lateral size and shape defined by walls of the solid structure. | 10-23-2014 |
Hao Ning, Wappingers Falls, NY US
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20140170317 | CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF GRAPHENE USING A SOLID CARBON SOURCE - Aspects of the invention are directed to a method of forming a film on a substrate. The substrate and a solid carbon source are placed into a reactor. Subsequently, both the substrate and the solid carbon source are heated. Optionally, one or more process gases may be introduced into the reactor to help drive the formation of the film. The film comprises graphene. | 06-19-2014 |
20140370189 | Method for synthesis of Graphene Films With Large Area and High Throughput - Improved methods for synthesizing large area thin films are disclosed, which result in films of enhanced width. The methods comprise providing a separator material which is rolled or wound up, along with the metallic foil substrate on which the thin film is to be deposited, to form a coiled composite which is then subjected to conventional chemical vapor deposition. Optionally, a winding tool may be used to aid in the rolling process. The methods enable a many-fold increase in the effective width of the substrate to be achieved. | 12-18-2014 |
20150015526 | TOUCH SCREEN - A touch screen contains a capacitive sensing layer, a first controller for detecting a touching position, a piezoelectric sensing layer, a second controller for detecting a touching pressure, and a main controller. The touch screen also comprises a window area and a non-window area, the capacitive sensing layer is arranged in the window area, the piezoelectric sensing layer is arranged in the non-window area. The first controller connects with the capacitive sensing layer, the second controller couples with the piezoelectric sensing layer, and the main controller is in connection with the first controller and the second controller. The first controller transmits a touching signal of the capacitive sensing layer to the main controller, and the second controller transmits a pressing signal of the piezoelectric sensing layer to the main controller, such that the main controller acquires the touching position and the pressure value on the touch screen. | 01-15-2015 |
20150092806 | Multi-Bandgap Semiconductor Structures and Methods for Using Them - Described herein are multi-segmented nanowires, nanosheets and nanobelts, and devices and methods using them for the generation of multicolor and white light. | 04-02-2015 |
Hua Ning, Rochester, MI US
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20080241566 | Damping composition with improved bakability - Compositions for damping the vibration of mechanical components, such as those used in vehicles, are disclosed and described. The compositions comprise a water-based polymer resin and a drying control agent. The drying control agent minimizes the occurrence of cracks and swelling in the damping coating films when the coating films are baked and dried. | 10-02-2008 |
20090017216 | RESIN BLENDS WITH WIDE TEMPERATURE RANGE DAMPING - Compositions for damping the vibration of mechanical components, such as those used in vehicles, are disclosed and described. The compositions comprise resin blends that are semi-compatible and which are blended to form a micro-phase separation. | 01-15-2009 |
Huazhong Ning, Urbana, IL US
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20090177602 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING UNSAFE CONDITIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed to detect unsafe system states by capturing and analyzing data from a plurality of sensors detecting parameters of the system; and applying temporal difference (TD) learning to learn a function to approximate an expected future reward given current and historical sensor readings. | 07-09-2009 |
20100049675 | Recovery of 3D Human Pose by Jointly Learning Metrics and Mixtures of Experts - Systems and methods are disclosed for determining human pose by generating an Appearance and Position Context (APC) local descriptor that achieves selectivity and invariance while requiring no background subtraction; jointly learning visual words and pose regressors in a supervised manner; and estimating the human pose. | 02-25-2010 |
Huazhong Ning, Redmond, WA US
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20100312608 | CONTENT ADVERTISEMENTS FOR VIDEO - Described herein are techniques and components for displaying a text advertisement in an online video being viewed by a user. The advertisement is selected based on keywords associated with the online video or the user, and the selected advertisement is presented as an overlay on the rendered video over regions of frames determined to be less important in the video. To determine importance, every frame of the online video is divided into grids, and parameters of the visual data in each grid are analyzed. Based on the analysis of each grid, regions in successive frames are identified to display the selected advertisement. | 12-09-2010 |
Hui Ning, Vernon Hills, IL US
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20160125565 | ASYNCHRONOUS METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT REAL-TIME PROCESSING AND DATA MOVEMENT - An asynchronous medical image processing system is described that includes a real-time controller connectable to a medical imaging device, a graphics processing unit (GPU) connectable to a display device, and a central processing unit (CPU) that executes an operating system and related application(s). The real-time controller is directly connected to a memory of the GPU and performs respective operations asynchronously with respect to the CPU. The real-time controller additionally obtains medical imaging data, generates instructions for the medical imaging-data and transmits the medical imaging data and the instructions to the memory of the GPU. The GPU additionally receives and processes the medical imaging data based on the instructions from the real-time controller and instructions sent independently from the CPU. | 05-05-2016 |
Jie Ning, Ann Arbor, MI US
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20120209565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETECT PRINTING DEVICES WITH HIGH INCIDENT RATES - Method and systems of identifying a printing device having an exceptional incident rate among a plurality of printing devices are disclosed. For each of a plurality of printing devices, a processor receiving a printing device model, a print volume, and an incident count that includes a number of incidents occurring within a particular time frame. The processor determines a generalized linear regression model of the incident counts for each printing device model and also determines a predicted incident count for each printing device model using the generalized regression model. The processor determines a residual value for each printing device between the incident count for the printing device and the predicted incident count for the printing device model associated with the printing device. The processor identifies one or more printing devices having a residual value exceeding a threshold value. | 08-16-2012 |
Jing Ning, Austin, TX US
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20150360952 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL FREESTANDING POROUS THIN-GRAPHITE WITH HIERARCHICAL POROSITY - The present invention includes an apparatus and a method of making a three dimensional graphite structure with a controlled porosity comprising: plating a metal layer on at least one of a nickel, an iron or a cobalt foam substrate; annealing the metal and the nickel, iron or cobalt foam into a porous metal-nickel, iron or cobalt catalyst, wherein the catalyst has a smooth and a porous surface; etching the smooth surface of the annealed porous metal-nickel, iron or cobalt catalyst; growing a carbonaceous layer on the porous surface of the annealed porous metal-nickel, iron or cobalt catalyst; and completely etching the porous metal-nickel, iron or cobalt catalyst to obtain the graphite layer. | 12-17-2015 |
Jing Ning, Herndon, VA US
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20140100960 | System and Method for Programmatically Creating Local Business Advertisements Suitable for Display on Mobile Devices and Applications Thereof - A system and method is provided for programmatically creating advertisements effective and suitable for display on a small display screen of a mobile device. The system comprises means for programmatically acquiring advertisement data of a local business, which may include acquiring the advertisement data through accessing a third party data aggregator using open APIs thereof. The system further comprises means for receiving real-time location information of the mobile device. The system further comprises means for programmatically creating a banner ad based on the acquired advertisement data and the received real-time location information of the mobile device. The system may further means for programmatically creating a display ad. The created banner ad or display ad displays information identifying or promoting the local business as well as information indicating location of the local business relative to the real-time location information of the mobile device. | 04-10-2014 |
Ke Ning, Sudbury, MA US
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20140378070 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND HANDLING DECONSTRUCTIVE IMPACTS OF DEFAULT WEIGHT FACTORS FOR CLOSED-LOOP TRANSMISSION DIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS - UEs are adapted to facilitate detection and handling of deconstructive impacts of default weight factors employed before downlink and uplink synchronization is achieved in closed-loop transmission diversity communications. According to one example, a UE may receive transmissions sent using a default weight factor for transmission diversity. The UE may determine whether the default weight factor is causing a deconstructive impact on signal-to-interference ratio estimates for the received transmissions. When it is determined that the default weight factor is causing the deconstructive impact on the signal-to-interference ratio estimates for the received transmissions, the UE may employ an alternate closed-loop transmission diversity (CLTD) mode. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included. | 12-25-2014 |
Ke Ning, Dunn Loring, VA US
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20160004399 | PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE - A system for providing a user interface includes a gadget definition, a style definition, and a scene file. The gadget definition includes one or more XML-based gadget definition tags defining a gadget element and the style definition includes one or more XML-based style definition tags defining one or more style attributes to be applied to the gadget element. The scene file is an XML-based document that includes a gadget element tag that specifies the gadget element. The system further includes a parser to parse the scene file, the style definition, and the gadget definition, and to generate an object that includes a gadget object corresponding to the gadget element. The system also includes a layout engine to determine, based on the object model, a layout of the user interface, and a rendering engine to render, based on the determined layout, the user interface including the gadget element. | 01-07-2016 |
Ke Ning, Framingham, MA US
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20090016634 | HALF PIXEL INTERPOLATOR FOR VIDEO MOTION ESTIMATION ACCELERATOR - Methods and an apparatus are provided for interpolation of pixels in a pixel array having rows and columns of pixels. The apparatus includes a shift register array to shift pixel values of the pixel array, the shift register array including two or more shift registers; an interpolation filter array interconnected to the shift register array, the interpolation filter array including one or more interpolation filters; and a controller configured to provide pixel values in columns of the pixel array from the shift register array to respective interpolation filters in a first mode and configured to provide pixel values in rows of the pixel array from the shift register array to respective interpolation filters in a second mode. The controller may be configured to supply vertical sub-pixel values from the shift register array to the interpolation filters to generate diagonal sub-pixel values. | 01-15-2009 |
20090300336 | Microprocessor with highly configurable pipeline and executional unit internal hierarchal structures, optimizable for different types of computational functions - The invention resides in a flexible data pipeline structure for accommodating software computational instructions for varying application programs and having a programmable embedded processor with internal pipeline stages the order and length of which varies as fast as every clock cycle based on the instruction sequence in an application program preloaded into the processor, and wherein the processor includes a data switch matrix selectively and flexibly interconnecting pluralities of mathematical execution units and memory units in response to said instructions, and wherein the execution units are configurable to perform operations at different precisions of multi-bit arithmetic and logic operations and in a multi-level hierarchical architecture structure. | 12-03-2009 |
20090300337 | Instruction set design, control and communication in programmable microprocessor cases and the like - Improved instruction set and core design, control and communication for programmable microprocessors is disclosed, involving the strategy for replacing centralized program sequencing in present-day and prior art processors with a novel distributed program sequencing wherein each functional unit has its own instruction fetch and decode block, and each functional unit has its own local memory for program storage; and wherein computational hardware execution units and memory units are flexibly pipelined as programmable embedded processors with reconfigurable pipeline stages of different order in response to varying application instruction sequences that establish different configurations and switching interconnections of the hardware units. | 12-03-2009 |
Kelvin Ning, Phoenix, AZ US
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20150112310 | OVER-THE-NEEDLE VASCULAR ACCESS GUIDEWIRE - Systems and methods for accessing body tissue are disclosed. The systems and methods can include an introducer assembly for percutaneous access to a body lumen. The assembly can include a needle and an over-the-needle guidewire. The needle and the guidewire can be inserted into body tissue and the guidewire advanced into the body tissue relative to the needle. The needle can be removed after advancing the guidewire. | 04-23-2015 |
Li Ning, Latrobe, PA US
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20120121352 | MULTI-FLUTE REAMER AND CUTTING INSERT THEREFOR - A multi-flute reamer includes a cutting portion having a forward end and a rearward end, and a chip flute with a chip gash opening, and a cutting insert mounted on the cutting portion. A leading edge is formed at an intersection between a top surface and a radially-outward side surface, and a front edge is formed at an intersection between the top surface and a forward side surface. The cutting insert includes a rounded lead cutting edge formed at the intersection between the leading edge and the front edge, and the top surface includes a chip breaker having a bottom surface formed with a radius, R. | 05-17-2012 |
Li Ning, Pleasant Unity, PA US
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20150110567 | Modular Reamer System - A rotary cutting tool having a monolithic carbide cutting member defining a carbide cutting head and a carbide shaft extending outwardly from the cutting head. The shaft includes a conduit in fluid communication with a port for delivering coolant and/or lubricating fluid to an interface between the cutting tool and a work piece. The cutting head defines a peripheral portion and a plurality of carbide cutting edges alternating with flutes in the peripheral portion. The cutting head, the shaft, and the cutting edges are formed integrally with one another. A shank portion defines an elongated bore, and the shaft is received in the bore in a shrink-fit relationship, wherein the shaft of the cutting member is fixed against movement relative to the shank portion. | 04-23-2015 |
20160082535 | REAMERS WITH RADIALLY EXTENDING FLUTES - In one aspect, reamers having radially extending flutes are described herein. A reamer described herein comprises a cutting portion including a plurality of cutting teeth separated by flutes, the cutting teeth defining an outer diameter of the cutting portion and the flutes extending radially to define an inner diameter of the cutting portion. | 03-24-2016 |
Nick Ning, Bedford, MA US
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20160117616 | DETERMINING ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL ITINERARIES USING WEATHER INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting travel information. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining current flight status information for plural flights and using the information to determine that a user's flight itinerary is delayed or canceled, determining alternative flight itineraries to the flight itinerary, and providing alternative flight itineraries for display on a user device. Determining alternative flight itineraries includes obtaining and ranking candidate alternative flight itineraries that occur within a specified time frame and that correspond to an origin and destination in the user's flight itinerary, obtaining and using weather information to determine particular candidate alternative flight itineraries having high-risk connections, weighting high-risk itineraries to generate a group of alternative flight itineraries, adjusting the ranking based on the weighting, and selecting highest-ranked candidates to generate a group of alternative flight itineraries. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117617 | USING PREFERENTIAL STATUS INDICATORS FOR ALTERNATIVE FLIGHT RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining alternative travel itineraries. A method includes obtaining current flight status information; using the current flight status information to determine that a user itinerary is delayed or cancelled; determining one or more alternative flight itineraries to the user itinerary, including: determining one or more preferential status indicators from user flight itinerary information, obtaining candidate alternative flight itineraries occurring within a specified time frame that correspond to an origin and destination of the user itinerary and that are expanded to include flight itineraries and seat classes that are potentially available to the user based on the one or more preferential status indicators, ranking the candidate alternative flight itineraries, and selecting highest ranked candidates to generate a group of alternative flight itineraries; and providing the group of alternative flight itineraries for display on a user device. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117618 | DETERMINING ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL ITINERARIES USING CURRENT LOCATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting travel information. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining current flight status information for plural flights and using the information to determine that a user's flight itinerary is delayed or canceled, determining alternative flight itineraries to the flight itinerary, and providing alternative flight itineraries for display on a user device. Determining alternative flight itineraries includes obtaining a current geographical location of the user, obtaining a collection of candidate alternative flight itineraries occurring within a specified time frame using the current geographical location of the user regardless of the origin or connection locations identified in the user's flight itinerary, ranking the candidate alternative flight itineraries, determining current flight status information for a specified number of highest-ranked candidate alternative flight itineraries, and filtering the highest-ranked candidate alternative flights based on the current flight status. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117619 | USING A FLIGHT STATUS CENTRIC VIEW FOR ALTERNATIVE FLIGHT RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining alternative travel itineraries. A method includes obtaining current flight status information for a plurality of flights; using the current flight status information to determine that a user flight itinerary is delayed or cancelled; determining one or more alternative flight itineraries to the user itinerary, including: obtaining a collection of candidate alternative flight itineraries occurring within a specified time frame and that correspond to an origin and destination of the user itinerary, determining current flight status information for the candidate alternative flight itineraries, ranking the collection of candidate alternative flight itineraries according to one or more criteria, and selecting a specified number of the highest ranked candidate alternative flights to generate a group of alternative flight itineraries; and providing one or more of the group of alternative flight itineraries for display on a user device. | 04-28-2016 |
On Ning US
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20130152957 | CHEMILUMINESCENT NAILS - A glow nail, comprising a nail-shaped glow stick, and said nail-shaped glow stick consists of a finger nail shaped glow emitting structure and a finger connecting structure. The glow emitting structure and the finger connection are secured together, by a permanent means such as welding, or a removable means such as threading. | 06-20-2013 |
Peng Ning, Richarson, TX US
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20140181498 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING DYNAMIC CHANGE OF AUTHENTICATION MEANS SECURE BOOTING - A method for supporting change of the authentication means for secure booting with the change of the trust root (root of trust) of the readymade electronic device and the electronic device therefor is provided. The secure boot generation method of an electronic device of the present disclosure includes storing plural initial certificates including a first initial certificate and a second initial certificate, designating the first initial certificate as a root certificate for secure booting of the electronic device, and switching the initial certificate from the first initial certificate to the second initial certificate in response to a request. Various other embodiments are possible. | 06-26-2014 |
Peng Ning, Richardson, TX US
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20150019856 | SECURE DOWNLOAD AND SECURITY FUNCTION EXECUTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and electronic device for executing secure download and security function is provided. The method includes storing a unique identifier (ID) of the electronic device, receiving a binary update request, determining whether the stored unique ID matches a unique ID signed to the binary, and downloading the binary depending on whether the unique IDs match. | 01-15-2015 |
Peng Ning, Cary, NC US
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20150199507 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR ACTIVE MONITORING, MEMORY PROTECTION AND INTEGRITY VERIFICATION OF TARGET DEVICES - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for active monitoring, memory protection, and integrity verification of a target device are disclosed. For example, a normal world virtual processor and a secure world virtual processor are instantiated on a target device. A target operating system is executed on the normal world virtual processor. An integrity verification agent is executed on the secure world virtual processor. One or more predetermined operations attempted on the normal world virtual processor are trapped to the secure world virtual processor. The integrity verification agent is used to determine the effect of the execution of the trapped operations on the target device. | 07-16-2015 |
Ping Ning, Oak Hill, VA US
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20120166156 | Internet Based Hosted System and Computer Readable Medium for Modeling Analysis - A Internet based system and computer readable medium comprising code for determining multiple modeling analysis tasks associated with a received data set, wherein the received data set is received via Internet, receiving a specification of multiple modeling analysis tasks, collecting a specification of the modeling analysis tasks via Internet, conducting a modeling analysis the received data set based on the determined multiple modeling analysis tasks and the received specification of the modeling analysis tasks and delivering a result of the modeling analysis via Internet. | 06-28-2012 |
Puqi Ning, Knoxville, TN US
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20130020694 | POWER MODULE PACKAGING WITH DOUBLE SIDED PLANAR INTERCONNECTION AND HEAT EXCHANGERS - A double sided cooled power module package having a single phase leg topology includes two IGBT and two diode semiconductor dies. Each IGBT die is spaced apart from a diode semiconductor die, forming a switch unit. Two switch units are placed in a planar face-up and face-down configuration. A pair of DBC or other insulated metallic substrates is affixed to each side of the planar phase leg semiconductor dies to form a sandwich structure. Attachment layers are disposed on outer surfaces of the substrates and two heat exchangers are affixed to the substrates by rigid bond layers. The heat exchangers, made of copper or aluminum, have passages for carrying coolant. The power package is manufactured in a two-step assembly and heating process where direct bonds are formed for all bond layers by soldering, sintering, solid diffusion bonding or transient liquid diffusion bonding, with a specially designed jig and fixture. | 01-24-2013 |
Qi Ning, Dallas, TX US
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20090129261 | HIGH AVAILABLE METHOD FOR BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL VERSION 4 - High availability BGP4 is based on redundant hardware as well as redundant software that replicates the RUN state of BGP4. There are two copies, respectively active and backup, of BGP4 running on two separate redundant hardware platforms. All BGP4 internal implementations apply various methods to replicate the running state of BGP4 independently of peer network routers. When this hardware or software fails on one redundant hardware platform, peer routers are unaware of the failure. Internally, based on duplicative states, the local router recovers from the failure and keeps the protocol running. During the recovery period, the local router can bring up a backup again. In the HA architecture, these activities are not detected by peer routers, such that there is no instability to the Internet backbone caused by BGP4 failure. | 05-21-2009 |
Ruola Ning, Fairport, NY US
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20090171244 | METHODS AND APPARATUS OF CONE BEAM CT IMAGING AND IMAGE-GUIDED PROCEDURES - Disclosed are embodiments of methods of and systems for detecting and biopsying lesions with a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) system. The system comprises, in some embodiments, a CBCT device configured to output a cone beam CT image of at least a portion of a patient's breast and a multi-axis transport module, having at least three degrees of freedom and configured to position a biopsy needle within a 3D frame of reference based on inputs received from the cone beam CT device. The transport module can be configured to place the biopsy needle adjacent to, or within, a target of interest within the breast. Also disclosed are embodiments of methods of and systems for testing CBCT systems with phantoms. | 07-02-2009 |
20100158335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONE BEAM CT DYNAMIC IMAGING - A cone-beam scanning system scans along a half circle. The reconstruction uses a weighting function which decreases for rows farther from the scan plane to take the redundancy of the projection data into account. Another embodiment uses a circle plus sparse helical scan geometry. Image data can be taken in real time. | 06-24-2010 |
20100220832 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-CONTRAST FAN BEAM CT, CONE-BEAM CT AND HYBRID CONE-BEAM CT - A device for imaging an object, such as for breast imaging, includes a gantry frame having mounted thereon an x-ray source, a source grating, a holder or other place for the object to be imaged, a phase grating, an analyzer grating, and an x-ray detector. The device images objects by differential-phase-contrast cone-beam computed tomography. A hybrid system includes sources and detectors for both conventional and differential-phase-contrast computed tomography. | 09-02-2010 |
20120008845 | Method and apparatus for 3d metal and high-density artifact correction for cone-beam and fan-beam ct imaging - A 3D metal artifacts correction technique corrects the streaking artifacts generated by titanium implants or other similar objects. A cone-beam computed tomography system is utilized to provide 3D images. A priori information (such as the shape information and the CT value) of high density sub-objects is acquired and used for later artifacts correction. An optimization process with iterations is applied to minimize the error and result in accurate reconstruction images of the object. | 01-12-2012 |
20140037044 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONE BEAM BREAST CT IMAGE-BASED COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS - Cone Beam Breast CT (CBBCT) is a three-dimensional breast imaging modality with high soft tissue contrast, high spatial resolution and no tissue overlap. CBBCT-based computer aided diagnosis (CBBCT-CAD) technology is a clinically useful tool for breast cancer detection and diagnosis that will help radiologists to make more efficient and accurate decisions. The CBBCT-CAD is able to: 1) use 3D algorithms for image artifact correction, mass and calcification detection and characterization, duct imaging and segmentation, vessel imaging and segmentation, and breast density measurement, 2) present composite information of the breast including mass and calcifications, duct structure, vascular structure and breast density to the radiologists to aid them in determining the probability of malignancy of a breast lesion. | 02-06-2014 |
20150173690 | CONE BEAM CT IMAGING AND IMAGE-GUIDED PROCEDURES - Disclosed are embodiments of methods of and systems for detecting and biopsying lesions with a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) system. The system comprises, in some embodiments, a CBCT device configured to output a cone beam CT image of at least a portion of a patient's breast and a multi-axis transport module, having at least three degrees of freedom and configured to position a biopsy needle within a 3D frame of reference based on inputs received from the cone beam CT device. The transport module can be configured to place the biopsy needle adjacent to, or within, a target of interest within the breast. Also disclosed are embodiments of methods of and systems for testing CBCT systems with phantoms. | 06-25-2015 |
Ruola Ning, Rochester, NY US
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20160022235 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-CONTRAST CONE-BEAM CT AND HYBRID CONE-BEAM CT - A raw DPC (differential phase contrast) image of an object is acquired. The background phase distribution due to the non-uniformity of the grating system is acquired by the same process without an object in place, and the true DPC image of the object is acquired by subtracting the background phase distribution from the raw DPC image. | 01-28-2016 |
Shao Ning, Clark, NJ US
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20110224187 | PYRROLIDINE, PIPERIDINE AND PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to novel Pyrrolidine, Piperidine and Piperazine Derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the Pyrrolidine, Piperidine and Piperazine Derivatives and the use of these compounds for treating or preventing treating allergy, an allergy-induced airway response, congestion, a cardiovascular disease, an inflammatory disease, a gastrointestinal disorder, a neurological disorder, a metabolic disorder, obesity, an obesity-related disorder, diabetes, a diabetic complication, impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose. | 09-15-2011 |
Shiying Ning, Palatine, IL US
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20130122899 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ROAMING IN A PEER TO PEER NETWORK AMONG RADIO SITES HAVING DYNAMIC REST CHANNEL BASE REPEATER STATIONS - In a peer to peer trunked radio network having a plurality of network locations, each network location includes a plurality of repeaters and a dynamically selected at least temporarily act as a rest channel repeater at each network location. A first repeater at the first network location may determine a first timing at which to broadcast an intra-site beacon and a second timing at which to broadcast an inter-site roaming beacon, the intra-site beacon including at least a rest channel identifier indicating a rest channel of the first network location and the inter-site roaming beacon including at least remote rest channel repeater information identifying a second repeater at a second network location that is currently acting as a rest channel repeater at the second network location. The first repeater may then broadcast the intra-site beacon at the first timing and the inter-site roaming beacon at the second timing. | 05-16-2013 |
Tak Ning, Yorktown Heights, NY US
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20110247946 | Dual FET Sensor for Sensing Biomolecules & Charged Ions in an Electrolyte - A sensor for biomolecules or charged ions includes a substrate; a first node, a second node, and a third node located in the substrate; a gate dielectric located over the substrate, the first node, the second node, and the third node; a first field effect transistor (FET), the first FET comprising a control gate located on the gate dielectric, and the first node and the second node; and a second FET, the second FET comprising a sensing surface located on the gate dielectric, and the second node and the third node, wherein the sensing surface is configured to specifically bind the biomolecules or charged ions that are to be detected. | 10-13-2011 |
20120298531 | Dual FET Sensor for Sensing Biomolecules & Charged Ions in an Electrolyte - A method for operating a sensor for biomolecules or charged ions, the sensor comprising a first field effect transistor (FET) and a second FET, wherein the first FET and the second FET comprise a shared node includes placing an electrolyte containing the biomolecules or charged ions on a sensing surface of the sensor, the electrolyte comprising a gate of the second FET; applying an inversion voltage to a gate of the first FET; making a first electrical connection to an unshared node of the first FET; making a second electrical connection to unshared node of the second FET; determining a change in a drain current flowing between the unshared node of the first FET and the unshared node of the second FET; and determining an amount of biomolecules or charged ions contained in the electrolyte based on the determined change in the drain current. | 11-29-2012 |
Tak Hung Ning, Yorktown Heights, NY US
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20080296676 | SOI FET With Source-Side Body Doping - An SOI FET device with improved floating body is proposed. Control of the body potential is accomplished by having a body doping concentration next to the source electrode higher than the body doping concentration next to the drain electrode. The high source-side dopant concentration leads to elevated forward leakage current between the source electrode and the body, which leakage current effectively locks the body potential to the source electrode potential. Furthermore, having the source-to-body junction capacitance larger than the drain-to-body junction capacitance has additional advantages in device operation. The device has no structure fabricated for the purpose of electrically connecting the body potential to other elements of the device. | 12-04-2008 |
20100105175 | SOI FET With Source-Side Body Doping - An SOI FET device with improved floating body is proposed. Control of the body potential is accomplished by having a body doping concentration next to the source electrode higher than the body doping concentration next to the drain electrode. The high source-side dopant concentration leads to elevated forward leakage current between the source electrode and the body, which leakage current effectively locks the body potential to the source electrode potential. Furthermore, having the source-to-body junction capacitance larger than the drain-to-body junction capacitance has additional advantages in device operation. The device has no structure fabricated for the purpose of electrically connecting the body potential to other elements of the device. | 04-29-2010 |
20110101440 | TWO PFET SOI MEMORY CELLS - A CMOS device includes a silicon substrate and an electrical insulator formed over the silicon substrate. The device also includes an access pFET formed over the electrical insulator and a first gate stack and a storage pFET formed over the electrical insulator, the storage pFET including a second source region that is co-formed with the first drain region, a second channel region, and a second drain region. The device also includes a second gate stack including a second dielectric layer formed above the second channel region and a floating gate electrode formed above the second gate dielectric layer. | 05-05-2011 |
20110298056 | CONTACT RESISTIVITY REDUCTION IN TRANSISTOR DEVICES BY DEEP LEVEL IMPURITY FORMATION - A method of forming a low resistance contact structure in a semiconductor device includes forming a doped semiconductor region in a semiconductor substrate; forming a deep level impurity region at an upper portion of the doped semiconductor region; activating dopants in both the doped semiconductor region and the deep level impurity region by annealing; and forming a metal contact over the deep level impurity region so as to create a metal-semiconductor interface therebetween. | 12-08-2011 |
Ting Ning, Kirkland, WA US
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20150146721 | CONTROL MESSAGING IN A CABLE NETWORK - A method for providing data streams to a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices communicatively coupled to a network is provided. Downstream network plant and CPE correlation information is generated with a digital controller that has access to a database including at least one of CPE control information, subscriber management information, security and access information, provisioning information, billing information, application traffic information, and configuration information. A plurality of data streams is provided as Protocol Independent Multicasts (PIM) streams to the plurality of CPE devices, and each of the CPE devices is provided with Multicast Address information relative to the PIM streams to permit auto-discovery by each of the CPE devices of appropriate PIM streams. An apparatus for preforming the above method is also disclosed. | 05-28-2015 |
Wei Ning, Columbus, IN US
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20150190753 | VARIABLE SPRAY ANGLE INJECTOR ARRANGEMENT - An injector, comprising, an injector body comprising, an inner wall that defines an injector cavity for fluid, at least one inlet channel into the injector cavity, and at least one outlet channel from the injector cavity, a plunger that defines at least one passageway between the injector cavity and the at least one outlet channel, the plunger being movable longitudinally in the injector cavity between at least: a first open arrangement in which the at least one passageway is positioned to direct fluid into the at least one outlet channel at a first position, and a second open arrangement in which the at least one passageway is positioned to direct fluid into the at least one outlet channel at a second position different from the first position. | 07-09-2015 |
Wei Ning, Redmond, WA US
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20100299701 | MEDIA CONTENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND PERSONAL VIRTUAL CHANNEL - A system is disclosed for media content search and retrieval, and a virtual television channel capable of using that system. The present system may be implemented on a computing device, such as for example a media service server, and a client device, such as for example a set top box for a television system, a mobile telephone, a personal digital assistant or a gaming console. A first aspect of the present system relates to a media download control engine which enables a client device with limited capabilities to play media content which comes from a website in a format not supported by the client device. A second aspect of the present system may make use of the media download control engine to obtain media content and create customized virtual channels. The second aspect in particular relates to a virtual channel engine that schedules a continuous stream of content for the user, which content is selected based on topics of interest to the user. | 11-25-2010 |
Wei Ning, Cincinnati, OH US
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20160115867 | WATER DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR GAS TURBINE COMPRESSOR - A water delivery system for a gas turbine compressor having a plurality of blade stages positioned about a rotating shaft is provided. The plurality of blade stages are configured to compress an airflow. The water delivery system includes a nozzle system to inject water between at least one pair of the plurality of blade stages; and a controller controlling whether the water injected by the nozzle system is injected at a first pressure that augments power output during an operation mode of the plurality of blade stages and a second, lower pressure that washes at least some of blades of the plurality of blade stages during a wash mode of the plurality of blade stages. | 04-28-2016 |
Xia Ning, Indianapolis, IN US
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20150095490 | ONLINE SPARSE REGULARIZED JOINT ANALYSIS FOR HETEROGENEOUS DATA - A method and system are provided for online sparse regularized joint analysis for heterogeneous data. The method generates a latent space model modeling a latent space in which correlation information is encoded for a plurality of heterogeneous data points at respective time instants, responsive to respective energy-preserving projections and structure-preserving projections of the data points in the latent space. The method performs online anomaly detection on a current one of the data points responsive to the encoded correlation information for respective ones of the energy-preserving projections and structure-preserving projections for a previous one of the data points without anomaly. The method generates an alarm responsive to a detection of an anomaly for the current one of the data points. The method updates the latent space model for the current one of the data points, by a processor-based online model updater, responsive to a lack of the detection of the anomaly. | 04-02-2015 |
20150278441 | High-order semi-Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Deep Models for accurate peptide-MHC binding prediction - A method for peptide binding prediction includes receiving a peptide sequence descriptor and descriptors of contacting amino acids on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) protein-peptide interaction structure; generating a model with an ensemble of high order neural network; pre-training the model by high order semi-restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) or high-order denoising autoencoder; and generating a prediction as a binary output or continuous output with initial model parameters pre-trained using binary output data if available. A systematic learning method for leveraging high-order interactions/associations among items for better collaborative filtering and item recommendation. | 10-01-2015 |
Xia Ning, Princeton, NJ US
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20110270604 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED RELATIONSHIP EXTRACTION - Systems and methods are disclosed to perform relation extraction in text by applying a convolution strategy to determine a kernel between sentences; applying one or more semi-supervised strategies to the kernel to encode syntactic and semantic information to recover a relational pattern of interest; and applying a classifier to the kernel to identify the relational pattern of interest in the text in response to a query. | 11-03-2011 |
Xia Ning, Plainsboro, NJ US
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20150094959 | HETEROGENEOUS LOG ANALYSIS - A method and system are provided for heterogeneous log analysis. The method includes performing hierarchical log clustering on heterogeneous logs to generate a log cluster hierarchy for the heterogeneous logs. The method further includes performing, by a log pattern recognizer device having a processor, log pattern recognition on the log cluster hierarchy to generate log pattern representations. The method also includes performing log field analysis on the log pattern representations to generate log field statistics. The method additionally includes performing log indexing on the log pattern representations to generate log indexes. | 04-02-2015 |
20160063398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILING REQUESTS IN SERVICE SYSTEMS - A system and method for profiling a request in a service system with kernel events including a pre-processing module configured to obtain kernel event traces from the service system and determine starting and ending communication pairs of a request path for a request. A learning module is configured to learn pairwise relationships between the starting and ending communication pairs of training traces of sequential requests. A generation module is configured to generate communication paths for the request path from the starting and ending communication pairs of testing traces of concurrent requests using a heuristic procedure that is guided by the learned pairwise relationships and generate the request path for the request from the communication paths. The system and method precisely determine request paths for applications in a distributed system from kernel event traces even when there are numerous concurrent requests. | 03-03-2016 |
Xia Ning, Carmel, IN US
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20150334128 | DISCOVERING AND CONSTRAINING IDLE PROCESSES - Methods and systems for process constraint include collecting system call information for a process. It is detected whether the process is idle based on the system call information and then whether the process is repeating using autocorrelation to determine whether the process issues system calls in a periodic fashion. The process is constrained if it is idle or repeating to limit an attack surface presented by the process. | 11-19-2015 |
Xia Ning, Minneapolis, MN US
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20120011119 | OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM WITH DATABASE PRUNING AND QUERYING - A database for object recognition is generated by performing at least one of intra-object pruning and inter-object pruning, as well as keypoint clustering and selection. Intra-object pruning removes similar and redundant keypoints within an object and different views of the same object, and may be used to generate and associate a significance value, such as a weight, with respect to remaining keypoint descriptors. Inter-object pruning retains the most informative set of descriptors across different objects, by characterizing the discriminability of the keypoint descriptors for all of the objects and removing keypoint descriptors with a discriminability that is less than a threshold. Additionally, a mobile platform may download a geographically relevant portion of the database and perform object recognition by extracting features from the query image and using determined confidence levels for each query feature during outlier removal. | 01-12-2012 |
Xinghai Ning, Athens, GA US
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20100297250 | ALKYNES AND METHODS OF REACTING ALKYNES WITH 1,3-DIPOLE-FUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS - 1,3-Dipole-functional compounds (e.g., azide functional compounds) can be reacted with certain alkynes in a cyclization reaction to form heterocyclic compounds. Useful alkynes (e.g., strained, cyclic alkynes) and methods of making such alkynes are also disclosed. The reaction of 1,3-dipole-functional compounds with alkynes can be used for a wide variety of applications including the immobilization of biomolecules on a substrate. | 11-25-2010 |
20120040011 | ALKYNES AND METHODS OF REACTING ALKYNES WITH 1,3-DIPOLE-FUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS - 1,3-Dipole-functional compounds (e.g., azide functional compounds) can be reacted with certain alkynes in a cyclization reaction to form heterocyclic compounds. Useful alkynes (e.g., strained, cyclic alkynes) and methods of making such alkynes are also disclosed. The reaction of 1,3-dipole-functional compounds with alkynes can be used for a wide variety of applications including the immobilization of biomolecules on a substrate. | 02-16-2012 |
20120172575 | ALKYNES AND METHODS OF REACTING ALKYNES WITH 1,3-DIPOLE-FUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS - 1,3-Dipole-functional compounds (e.g., azide functional compounds) can be reacted with certain alkynes in a cyclization reaction to form heterocyclic compounds. Useful alkynes (e.g., strained, cyclic alkynes) and methods of making such alkynes are also disclosed. The reaction of 1,3-dipole-functional compounds with alkynes can be used for a wide variety of applications including the immobilization of biomolecules on a substrate. | 07-05-2012 |
20120322974 | ALKYNES AND METHODS OF REACTING ALKYNES WITH 1,3-DIPOLE-FUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS - 1,3-Dipole-functional compounds (e.g., azide functional compounds) can be reacted with certain alkynes in a cyclization reaction to form heterocyclic compounds. Useful alkynes (e.g., strained, cyclic alkynes) and methods of making such alkynes are also disclosed. The reaction of 1,3-dipole-functional compounds with alkynes can be used for a wide variety of applications including the immobilization of biomolecules on a substrate. | 12-20-2012 |
20140219917 | OLIGOSACCHARIDE CONJUGATES FOR TARGETING BACTERIA AND USES RELATED THERETO - This disclosure relates to conjugates for targeting bacteria and related uses. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of transferring a molecule of interest into bacteria comprising mixing bacteria with a non-naturally occurring conjugate under conditions such that the conjugate is transported across the bacterial cell wall. Typically, the conjugate comprises an oligosaccharide and a molecule of interest. In certain embodiments, the molecule of interest may be a tracer or an antibiotic. | 08-07-2014 |
20150126706 | ALKYNES AND METHODS OF REACTING ALKYNES WITH 1,3-DIPOLE-FUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS - 1,3-Dipole-functional compounds (e.g., azide functional compounds) can be reacted with certain alkynes in a cyclization reaction to form heterocyclic compounds. Useful alkynes (e.g., strained, cyclic alkynes) and methods of making such alkynes are also disclosed. The reaction of 1,3-dipole-functional compounds with alkynes can be used for a wide variety of applications including the immobilization of biomolecules on a substrate. | 05-07-2015 |
Xinghai Ning, Atlanta, GA US
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20140171367 | Polymer Hydrogels For In Vivo Applications And Methods For Using And Preparing Same - Compositions and methods are described for a polymer hydrogel created by a cycloaddition reaction between an azide and an alkyne that proceeds rapidly without catalyst to produce the polymer hydrogel in less than ninety seconds. The polymer hydrogel can be used in in vivo applications for the localized delivery of therapeutic agent in aqueous solutions. An example of therapeutic delivery of a protein in a mouse model is demonstrated. | 06-19-2014 |
Xu Ning, Boston, MA US
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20100262298 | System and Method for Climate Control Set-Point Optimization Based On Individual Comfort - A system and method for calibrating a set-point for climate control includes a sensor network having a plurality of sensors configured to report a climate condition. A database is configured to receive reports from the sensors and generate one or more profiles reflecting at least one of historic climate control information and occupant preferences. A controller is configured to receive information from the profiles to generate a set-point based upon an optimization program. The optimization program is implemented to balance competing goals to generate the set-point for controlling climate control equipment in accordance with the set-point. | 10-14-2010 |
Xue Ning, Atlanta, GA US
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20150290596 | CARBON MOLECULAR SIEVE MEMBRANES FOR NITROGEN/METHANE SEPARATION - The various embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to carbon molecular sieve membranes (CMSM) and their associated fabrication processes for the separation of nitrogenmethane gas mixtures, and more particularly to CMSM that maintain high nitrogen-methane selectivity and high gas permeabilities. Methods for removing nitrogen from a nitrogen methane mixture gas via the use of the CMS membranes and gas enrichment devices using the same are also disclosed. | 10-15-2015 |
Yan Ning, College Park, MD US
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20160041948 | Apparatus and Method for System Profile Learning in an Information Handling System - An information handling system includes a processing system including a first sensor, and a second sensor, and a management system including an anomaly table, a learned model table entry associated with the processing system and including a learned model and a first sensor data history, and a prediction module to implement a prediction algorithm. The management system is configured to: receive first sensor data and second sensor data, determine an estimate of a first value of the first sensor data using a second value of the second sensor data, determine a residual of the first value by a comparison of the estimate to the first value, determine a significance of the residual, where the significance having a significant value is associated with a predicted anomaly, determine that an anomaly table entry has a known anomaly class for the predicted anomaly, and perform a remediation plan to resolve the predicted anomaly. | 02-11-2016 |
Yangmin Ning, Silver Spring, MD US
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20120283215 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS WHICH INHIBIT FKBP52-MEDIATED REGULATION OF ANDROGEN RECEPTOR FUNCTION AND METHODS OF USING SAME - Pharmaceutical compositions that bind to a predicted FK506 Binding Protein 52 (FKBP52) interaction surface on the androgen receptor hormone binding domain, otherwise known as FKBP52 Targeting Agents (FTAs) are provided. These compositions of the present invention are found to specifically recognize the FKBP52 regulatory surface on the androgen receptor and inhibit FKBP52 from functionally interacting with the androgen receptor. Compositions comprising the pharmaceutical composition, as well as methods of use, treatment and screening are also provided. | 11-08-2012 |
Yulin Ning, Manhasset, NY US
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20150178825 | Methods and Apparatus for Quantitative Assessment of Behavior in Financial Entities andTransactions - Methods and apparatus for assessing behavior, such as fraud and risk, in financial entities and transactions involve, for example, receiving, using a processing engine computer having a processor coupled to memory, data related to a plurality of entities. The plurality of entities is segmented into a plurality of entity peer groups based at least in part on a plurality of behavior components identified for each entity in the received data. For each entity, a behavior norm is created based on the entity history and its relationship to its corresponding peer group. All of the behavior components for each of the entities are normalized, and aggregated and a behavior score generated for each entity based on a continuous comparison of behavior values of each entity to a behavior norm for the entity peer group into which the entity is segmented. Based on new data received from time-to-time, this apparatus dynamically adapts the plurality of entities which may be re-segmented, the behavior components may be re-normalized, and a new behavior score may be generated for each entity. | 06-25-2015 |