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Bai Ming Cen, Jersey City, NJ US
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| 20120152103 | AUTOMATICALLY-RELOADABLE, REMOTELY-OPERATED WEAPON SYSTEM HAVING AN EXTERNALLY-POWERED FIREARM - An automatically-reloadable, remotely-operated weapon system may include an operator station located distant from a weapon station. The weapon station may include an externally-powered firearm, a firearm mover for adjusting an azimuth and an angle of inclination of the firearm, and an ammunition storage and transport system for automatically moving ammunition to and from the firearm. From the operator station, a user may remotely control all aspects of firearm operation and ammunition reloading. | 06-21-2012 |
Chen Cen, Singapore SG
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| 20150302340 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING CROWDSOURCING TASKS - Methods and systems for recommending crowdsourcing tasks. A path traversed by a crowdworker, from one or more crowdworkers, is predicted, based on at least one of a historical data associated with the crowdworker or an input provided received from the crowdworker. The path traversed by the crowdworker comprises a first set of spatiotemporal values associated with the location of the crowdworker. One or more task attributes associated with the one or more crowdsourcing tasks are determined. The one or more task attributes comprise at least one of a second set of spatiotemporal values associated with the one or more crowdsourcing tasks, or rewards associated with the one or more crowdsourcing tasks. A set of crowdsourcing tasks is recommended based on at least the predicted path followed by each of the one or more crowdworkers and the one or more tasks attributes associated with the one or more crowdsourcing tasks. | 10-22-2015 |
Cheng Cen, Hopewell Junction, NY US
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| 20130200501 | IN-SITU ACTIVE WAFER CHARGE SCREENING BY CONFORMAL GROUNDING - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to semiconductor wafer technology and, more particularly, to the use of conformal grounding for active charge screening on wafers during wafer processing and metrology. A first aspect of the invention provides a method of reducing an accumulated surface charge on a semiconductor wafer, the method comprising: grounding a layer of conductive material adjacent a substrate of the wafer; and allowing a mirrored charge substantially equal in magnitude and opposite in sign to the accumulated surface charge to be induced along the conductive material. | 08-08-2013 |
Cheng Cen, Pittsburgh, PA US
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| 20130048950 | ON-DEMAND NANOELECTRONICS PLATFORM - A reconfigurable device includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a nanoscale quasi one- or zero-dimensional electron gas region disposed at an interface between the first and second insulating layers. The device is reconfigurable by applying an external electrical field to the electron gas, thereby changing the conductivity of the electron gas region. A method for forming and erasing nanoscale-conducting structures employs tools, such as the tip of a conducting atomic force microscope (AFM), to form local electric fields. The method allows both isolated and continuous conducting features to be formed with a length well below 5 nm. | 02-28-2013 |
Cheng Cen, Morgantown, WV US
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| 20140073114 | IN-SITU ACTIVE WAFER CHARGE SCREENING BY CONFORMAL GROUNDING - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to semiconductor wafer technology and, more particularly, to the use of conformal grounding for active charge screening on wafers during wafer processing and metrology. A first aspect of the invention provides a method of reducing an accumulated surface charge on a semiconductor wafer, the method comprising: grounding a layer of conductive material adjacent a substrate of the wafer; and allowing a mirrored charge substantially equal in magnitude and opposite in sign to the accumulated surface charge to be induced along the conductive material. | 03-13-2014 |
Difeng Cen, Ningbo TW
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| 20090025813 | Water diverting device - This present invention provides a water diverting device. There is an inlet and two outlets in its inlet and outlet pipeline, and there is an upper sealing seat and a lower sealing seat respectively for the two outlets; the said water diverting device is provided with a water diverting switch that fits with the said sealing seats and used to switch over the two outlets. The said switch includes a sliding shaft and, fixed base, and there is a sliding through hole for the sliding shaft. The said switch is also provided with a retaining hook for holding the sliding shaft up and down direction. On the surface of the said sliding shaft, there are the first stop position and second stop position fitting with the hook part of the retaining hook, first unidirectional slide channel and second unidirectional slide channel. The said switch has a spring pushing the sliding shaft from head of the sliding shaft towards its tail. The said head of the sliding shaft is connected with a valve core, and the positions of the above-mentioned two sealing seats correspond with the travel of the valve core. For this present invention, water discharge direction can be changed over by only pressing a diverting switch, so this present invention is easy to operate and better complies with human habit of applying a force, with good sealing effect, excellent durability and long service life. In addition, this present invention has high operation reliability and its water diverting function is implemented without being affected by water pressure. | 01-29-2009 |
Hui Cen, Oakland, CA US
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| 20090148386 | ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPRISING A FUNCTIONAL DYE AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGY AND METHODS - Enzyme substrates and associated technology of the present invention are provided. An enzyme substrate of the invention may comprise a biologically functional fluorescent dye and an enzyme-specific substrate moiety attached in such a way that the functionality of the functional dye is diminished. An enzymatic reaction may cleave at least a portion of the substrate moiety from the enzyme substrate to provide a more functional product dye. This product dye may be nonfluorescent or weakly fluorescent, in general, and relatively fluorescent, in a particular condition, such as when bound to a partner biological molecule or an assembly of partner biological molecules. An enzyme substrate of the present invention may thus be useful in fluorescence detection, and/or in any of a variety of useful applications, such as the detection of enzymatic activity in a cell-free system or in a living cell, the screening of drugs, or the diagnosis of disease. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20120115129 | ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPRISING A FUNCTIONAL DYE AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGY AND METHODS - Enzyme substrates and associated technology of the present invention are provided. An enzyme substrate of the invention may comprise a biologically functional fluorescent dye and an enzyme-specific substrate moiety attached in such a way that the functionality of the functional dye is diminished. An enzymatic reaction may cleave at least a portion of the substrate moiety from the enzyme substrate to provide a more functional product dye. This product dye may be nonfluorescent or weakly fluorescent, in general, and relatively fluorescent, in a particular condition, such as when bound to a partner biological molecule or an assembly of partner biological molecules. An enzyme substrate of the present invention may thus be useful in fluorescence detection, and/or in any of a variety of useful applications, such as the detection of enzymatic activity in a cell-free system or in a living cell, the screening of drugs, or the diagnosis of disease. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20130236888 | ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPRISING A FUNCTIONAL DYE AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGY AND METHODS - Enzyme substrates and associated technology of the present invention are provided. An enzyme substrate of the invention may comprise a biologically functional fluorescent dye and an enzyme-specific substrate moiety attached in such a way that the functionality of the functional dye is diminished. An enzymatic reaction may cleave at least a portion of the substrate moiety from the enzyme substrate to provide a more functional product dye. This product dye may be nonfluorescent or weakly fluorescent, in general, and relatively fluorescent, in a particular condition, such as when bound to a partner biological molecule or an assembly of partner biological molecules. An enzyme substrate of the present invention may thus be useful in fluorescence detection, and/or in any of a variety of useful applications, such as the detection of enzymatic activity in a cell-free system or in a living cell, the screening of drugs, or the diagnosis of disease. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20140273151 | ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPRISING A FUNCTIONAL DYE AND ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGY AND METHODS - Enzyme substrates and associated technology of the present invention are provided. An enzyme substrate of the invention may comprise a biologically functional fluorescent dye and an enzyme-specific substrate moiety attached in such a way that the functionality of the functional dye is diminished. An enzymatic reaction may cleave at least a portion of the substrate moiety from the enzyme substrate to provide a more functional product dye. This product dye may be nonfluorescent or weakly fluorescent, in general, and relatively fluorescent, in a particular condition, such as when bound to a partner biological molecule or an assembly of partner biological molecules. An enzyme substrate of the present invention may thus be useful in fluorescence detection, and/or in any of a variety of useful applications, such as the detection of enzymatic activity in a cell-free system or in a living cell, the screening of drugs, or the diagnosis of disease. | 09-18-2014 |
Hui Cen, Palo Alto, CA US
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| 20090081701 | METHOD OF SELECTIVE PROTEIN ENRICHMENT AND ASSOCIATED APPLICATIONS - The present invention provides methods of selective enrichment of ligands present in a biological sample. One or a plurality of receptor carriers are used to capture ligands capable of binding to receptors immobilized on the surface of the receptor carriers. Receptor carriers bound with the ligands are separated from the remaining sample and the ligands are then eluted with a ligand elution solution to result in an enriched ligand sample. The enriched ligand sample may be used for further isolation of one or more ligands of interest, or for ligand profiling using 2-D gel electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry, for example. Such ligand profiling may have a number of applications, such as disease diagnosis, pathogen detection and drug screening. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100062461 | MULTIPLEX DETECTION OF CELL SURFACE RECEPTORS OR IMMOBILIZED ANTIGENS - The present invention provides an antibody-based multiplex detection method for identifying one or more epitopes in one or more samples, the method comprising the steps of: (a) contacting each of the samples comprising the epitopes with one or more antibodies specific to the epitopes to be detected; (b) washing unbound antibodies away and eluting bound antibodies from the epitope carriers to provide separate antibody eluates; and (c) detecting and quantifying antibodies in the antibody eluates to generate separate profiles of antibodies for each of the samples. The epitopes to be detected can be located intracellularly, or present on the surface of cells or an artificial surface. In general, the epitopes are derived from protein, polypeptides with or without post-translational modification, carbohydrate, nucleic acid, or lipid. | 03-11-2010 |
Ling Cen, Singapore SG
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| 20120234158 | AUTO-SYNCHRONOUS VOCAL HARMONIZER - A harmony synthesizer is described for harmonizing vocal signals. The harmony synthesizer performing a method comprising receiving an input vocal signal; identifying a pitch trace of the vocal signal; aligning the harmonization interval vector(s) to the pitch trace of the vocal input signal to form an aligned harmonization pitch trace; and synthesizing harmonization vocals according to the aligned harmonization pitch trace. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20150025892 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TEMPLATE-BASED PERSONALIZED SINGING SYNTHESIS - A system and method for speech-to-singing synthesis is provided. The method includes deriving characteristics of a singing voice for a first individual and modifying vocal characteristics of a voice for a second individual in response to the characteristics of the singing voice of the first individual to generate a synthesized singing voice for the second individual. In one embodiment the method includes deriving a template of first speech characteristics and first singing characteristics in response to a first individual's speaking voice and singing voice and extracting second speech characteristics from a second individual's speaking voice, then modifying the second speech characteristics in accordance with the template to generate the second individual's approximated singing voice and aligning acoustic features of the second individual's approximated singing voice in response to the first speech characteristics, the first singing characteristics and the second speech characteristics to generate the second individual's synthesized singing voice. | 01-22-2015 |
Ling Cen, Austin, TX US
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| 20090144500 | STORE PERFORMANCE IN STRONGLY ORDERED MICROPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE - Apparatus and methods relating to store operations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first storage unit is to store data. A second storage unit is to store the data only after it has become detectable by a bus agent. Moreover, the second storage unit may store an index field for each data value to be stored within the second storage unit. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 06-04-2009 |
Min Cen, Solna SE
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| 20140003806 | Supervision of Wavelength Division Multiplexed Optical Networks | 01-02-2014 |
Raymond Cen, New Albany, OH US
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| 20140209701 | Passive Diffuser Having a Non-Planar Wick - A device for passively diffusing a liquid to the air of a surrounding area. A reservoir holds the liquid, the reservoir having a top end with an aperture therethrough. A non-planar wick extends through the aperture such that a lower end of the wick remains in contact with the liquid in the reservoir and an upper end of the wick is exposed to the surrounding area. The wick is formed of a fibrous, porous sheet of material having a top edge and a bottom edge of substantially the same width. The sheet of material is gradually gathered along a length of the sheet of material such that the upper end of the wick is less gathered than the lower end of the wick and the wick is self-supported in an upright position within the aperture. | 07-31-2014 |
Raymond Wei Cen, Hightstown, NJ US
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| 20120107259 | METHOD TO IMPROVE SKIN AND HAIR FRAGRANCE RETENTION FROM PERSONAL CARE COMPOSITIONS - A personal care composition and a method of using personal care compositions which results in increased fragrance retention when such compositions are applied to a keratin surface including hair and skin. The personal care compositions contain a quaternary ammonium compound, one or more fragrances, and a personal care acceptable carrier. | 05-03-2012 |
Shanwei Cen, Portland, OR US
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| 20120266165 | COMBINED VIRTUAL GRAPHICS DEVICE - A system comprises a guest graphics subsystem with a combined virtual graphics device that combines underlying emulated virtual graphics device and virtual function of a physical graphics device to support virtual machine migration. The VMM in the system may expose to the guest a single combined virtual PCIe graphics device that combines access to the virtual graphics device and the virtual function, and switches between the virtual graphics device and the virtual function for graphics acceleration without triggering a PnP event in the guest OS. In response to the switch, the guest graphics stack and applications may redraw their windows to provide a consistent user experience. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20150081257 | AUTOMATIC PAIRING OF IO DEVICES WITH HARDWARE SECURE ELEMENTS - Methods and systems may provide for receiving at a secure element of a system, during a boot process of the system, a first pairing authentication value from a pairing agent. In addition, a pairing key may be received from the pairing agent, wherein the first pairing authentication value and the pairing key may be used to establish a trusted channel between the secure element and an input output (IO) device coupled to the system. In one example, the first pairing authentication value is accepted only if the first pairing authentication value is received prior to a predetermined stage of the boot process. | 03-19-2015 |
Shawn Cen, San Diego, CA US
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| 20150281310 | Systems and Methods for Saving Encoded Media Streamed Using Adaptive Bitrate Streaming - Systems and methods for saving encoded media streamed using adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a playback device configured to perform adaptive bitrate streaming of media includes a video decoder application and a processor, where the video decoder application configures the processor to select a download stream from a set of alternative streams of video data, measure streaming conditions and request a stream of video data from the alternative streams of video data, receive portions of video data from the requested stream of video data, decode the received video data, save the received video data to memory, when the received video data is from the download stream and separately download and save the corresponding portion of video data from the download stream to memory, when the received video data is not from the download stream. | 10-01-2015 |
Song Cen, San Diego, CA US
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| 20130058480 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SAVING ENCODED MEDIA STREAMED USING ADAPTIVE BITRATE STREAMING - Systems and methods for saving encoded media streamed using adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a playback device configured to perform adaptive bitrate streaming of media includes a video decoder application and a processor, where the video decoder application configures the processor to select a download stream from a set of alternative streams of video data, measure streaming conditions and request a stream of video data from the alternative streams of video data, receive portions of video data from the requested stream of video data, decode the received video data, save the received video data to memory, when the received video data is from the download stream and separately download and save the corresponding portion of video data from the download stream to memory, when the received video data is not from the download stream. | 03-07-2013 |
Xia Cen, Orlando, FL US
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| 20130039627 | Systems And Methods For Optical Transmission Using Supermodes - In some embodiments, coupled multi-core fiber is used for optical transmission. The coupled multi-core fiber includes multiple cores each supporting a spatial mode. The cores are positioned close enough to cause coupling between their modes that generates supermodes, that are used to transmit data. | 02-14-2013 |
Yana Cen, New York, NY US
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| 20120108535 | 2-FLUORINATED RIBOSES AND ARABINOSES AND METHODS OF USE AND SYNTHESIS - Disclosed are halogenated 2-deoxy-lactone, 2′-deoxy-nucleosides, and derivatives thereof, for example, a compound of formula (I). Also disclosed are a composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and at least one compound or salt of the invention, and a method of treating a disorder is selected from the group consisting of an abnormal cellular proliferation, a viral infection, and an autoimmune disorder. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120329748 | ACTIVATION AND ACTIVATORS OF SIRT5 - The invention provides a method of increasing a deacetylase activity of SIRT5 by contacting SIRT5 with an agent that binds SIRT5 and reduces the K | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130065248 | REAGENTS AND METHODS FOR SIRTUIN CAPTURE - The invention provides a method of preparing a sirtuin complex. The invention also provides a method of detecting a sirtuin in a sample comprising use of the aforesaid sirtuin complex. | 03-14-2013 |
Yanwei Cen, Houston, TX US
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| 20100298194 | Cleaning composition for tankless water heater - A composition useful in cleaning of a tankless water heater system. The composition contains mixture of organic and inorganic acids. The composition may further contain phosphates and corrosion inhibitors. | 11-25-2010 |
Zan-Xun Cen, Hsinchu TW
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| 20130339986 | Disk Loading and Unloading Apparatus for Optical Disk Drive - A disk loading and unloading apparatus of an optical disk drive, the disk loading and unloading apparatus comprises: a chassis; a tray; a supporting frame pivoted on the chassis; a traverse; a spindle motor disposed on the traverse for supporting and rotating an optical disk; a sliding block slidably disposed on the chassis; and a cover. During the disk loading and unloading process, the sliding block drives the traverse and the spindle motor to move up and down to fix the optical disk on the spindle motor or to separate the optical disk from the spindle motor. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140259031 | CLAMPING APPARATUS FOR CARRYING A DISK IN AN OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - A clamping apparatus for being disposed in an optical disk drive and carrying a disk is provided. The clamping apparatus includes a base, a spindle assembly, a pawl and a buffer element. The spindle assembly is disposed on the base and rotating about an axis. The pawl is assembled to the spindle assembly. The disk is configured to be locked to the pawl, such that the spindle assembly drives the pawl and the disk to rotate about the axis. The buffer element is assembled to the spindle assembly, and the buffer element is located above the pawl. The buffer element interferes with the disk when the disk is separated from the pawl. | 09-11-2014 |