Patents by Inventor Brian Zhang

Brian Zhang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240177241
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to improving the experience of gig-economy workers are disclosed, with particular reference to gig-economy work involving vehicle use. During or after performance of gig-economy work, data automatically collected may be used to generate and present recommendations or education points to gig-economy workers. Such recommendations may include targeted alerts to notify gig-economy workers of high-demand situations or to coordinate between gig-economy workers and gig-economy customers. Alerts may be generated based upon current excess demand for gig-economy services, as well as gig-economy worker availability and preferences. For example, alerts may be generated in response to detecting emergency conditions in an area in order to mobilize a large number of gig-economy transportation service providers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Hannah Estes, Audrey Schwartz, Michael DiBenedetto, James P. Rodriguez, Anna Zarkoob, Ben Tucker, Dar Beachy, Elijah Abella, Diana Sherwood, Emily Bryant, Kristin Sellers, Brian M. Fields, Hanpei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240173569
    Abstract: A system for delivering ultra-high dose rate irradiation to a target area of a patient, includes a pulsed charged-particle source along a beam axis; a collimator for shaping the beam of radiation; one or more cameras for imaging the target area of the patient; and a dosimetry controller for providing control signals to the charged-particle source one or more dosimeters positioned between an output of the charged-particle source and the collimator in beam fringes for measuring a radiation dosage provided by each pulse; and a beam scanning coil positioned between the collimator and the patient for directing the shaped beam. The dosimetry controller receives feedback from the one or more dosimeters and provides control signals to the particle source and the beam scanning coil that modulate final pulses in the series of pulses in real-time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: PETR BRUZA, BRIAN POGUE, RAMISH ASHRAF, RONGXIAO ZHANG, DAVID GLADSTONE
  • Publication number: 20240173309
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel lipidated peptide inhibitors of the interleukin-23 receptor (IL-23R) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and/or other forms thereof, corresponding pharmaceutical compositions, methods and/or uses of the IL-23R inhibitors for treatment of autoimmune inflammation diseases and/or related disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Santhosh NEELAMKAVIL, Chengzao SUN, Sandeep SOMANI, Stephanie A. BARROS, Raymond J. PATCH, Jing ZHANG, Douglas RIEXINGER, Charles HENDRICK, Elisabetta BIANCHI, Roberto COSTANTE, Federica ROSOLIA, Martina LOLLOBRIGIDA, Sonia DEL RIZZO, Danila BRANCA, Ashok BHANDARI, James DANIEL, Tran Trung TRAN, Brian FREDERICK
  • Patent number: 11993601
    Abstract: Bridged compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II), pharmaceutical compositions containing them, methods of making them, and methods of using them including methods for treating disease states, disorders, and conditions associated with MGL modulation, such as those associated with pain, psychiatric disorders, neurological disorders (including, but not limited to major depressive disorder, treatment resistant depression, anxious depression, bipolar disorder), cancers and eye conditions. wherein R2, R3 R4, R5 and R6 are defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: Michael K. Ameriks, Gang Chen, Chaofeng Huang, Brian Ngo Laforteza, Suchitra Ravula, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11995989
    Abstract: To visualize planned behavior of an autonomous vehicle (AV) traveling along a roadway, a user interface engine receives data describing a planned pathway of the AV along the roadway and object data describing an object having a predicted pathway crossing the planned pathway of the AV at a cross point. The user interface engine classifies the object either an asserting object or a yielding object based on a prediction of whether the object reaches the cross point before the AV or after the AV. The user interface engine generates an image that includes the planned pathway of the AV and the object in the environment of the AV. The image of the object indicates whether the object is classified as an asserting object or a yielding object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Brian Laurence Clark, Michael Alan Huff, Flavius Popescu, Chad Lawrence Bettencourt, Tejeswara Reddy Pogula, Yuxi Zhang, Jiajian Zhou, Christophe Philippona, Tal Benisty, Myung Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20240169771
    Abstract: Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes receiving data from an electric motor of a vehicle, the electric motor comprising a stator and a rotor. The method further includes performing a motor health degradation analysis to determine whether a degradation of the electric motor has occurred. The method further includes performing a stator health degradation analysis to determine that a stator degradation has occurred. The method further includes performing a rotor health degradation analysis to determine that a rotor degradation has occurred. The method further includes implementing a corrective action for the vehicle e responsive to determining that the degradation of the electric motor has occurred and at least one of the stator degradation or the rotor degradation has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Jiyu Zhang, Brian J. Gallert
  • Publication number: 20240168474
    Abstract: A method of monitoring a propulsion system of a vehicle includes determining a health indicator from a diagnostic signal based on electrical outputs from a resolver connected to an electric motor of the propulsion system, the diagnostic signal related to a resolver offset and/or a resolver wobble, calculating a reference value based on values of the health indicator determined during a first time period, and monitoring the health indicator over a second time period, where the monitoring includes continuously or periodically calculating a trend value of the health indicator over a plurality of cycles. The method also includes comparing each trend value to the reference value and estimating a difference between the trend value and the reference value for each cycle, predicting whether a fault will occur based on the difference, and based on the predicting indicating that a fault will occur, outputting a fault indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Jiyu Zhang, Brian J. Gallert
  • Publication number: 20240171111
    Abstract: Apparatus and techniques for analyzing a capacitance value in an electric motor inverter are disclosed. A processor is coupled to a DC-AC inverter, which includes a capacitor across its terminals and is powered by a battery. The processor performs resistor switching to enable singular, periodic measurement of the capacitance. The measured value is compared with a nominal or beginning of life (BOL) value. An alert may be sent if the capacitance has degraded beyond a threshold. In other aspects, the DC torque ripple envelop is used to measure capacitance. The outcome is compared with the other tests to assess consistency. An inconsistent outcome may identify potential resistor degradation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad H. Alvi, Khorshed Mohammed Alam, Jiyu Zhang, Chunhao J. Lee, Brian A. Welchko
  • Publication number: 20240166652
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating the integrated stress response (ISR) and for treating related diseases; disorders and conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Kathleen Ann Martin, Carmela Sidrauski, Marina Pliushchev, Jennifer M. Frost, Yunsong Tong, Lawrence A. Black, Xiangdong Xu, Lei Shi, Qingwei Zhang, SeungWon Chung, Zhaoming Xiong, Ramzi Farah Sweis, Michael J. Dart, Brian S. Brown, Kathleen J. Murauski
  • Publication number: 20240169526
    Abstract: The present disclosure is for a system and a method for artificial intelligence (AI) based review of radiologic images as they are being read by a radiologist. The AI review is performed through the use of screen sharing and screen capture approaches allowing an AI model to analyze images without direct access to the raw image files. The AI review may compare user documented findings with AI model-based findings in order to identify discrepancies between the two. The discrepancies can be used as feedback for retraining the model and/or as feedback to the user to aid in education or track and/or improve an individual's review characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence Ngo, Brian Blanchette, Jacob Johnson, Thomas Craig, Hongyi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11987649
    Abstract: The present invention provides process for treating crop kernels, comprising the steps of a) soaking kernels in water to produce soaked kernels; b) grinding the soaked kernels; c) treating the soaked kernels in the presence of an effective amount of GH62 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity or a GH43 polypeptide having arabinofuranosidase activity, wherein step c) is performed before, during or after step b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NOVOZYMES A/S
    Inventors: James Lavigne, Bernardo Vidal, Jr., Thomas Patrick Gibbons, Chee-Leong Soong, Randall Scott Deinhammer, Zhen Long, Yi Cao, Michael John Akerman, Xinyu Shen, Yu Zhang, Brian R. Scott
  • Publication number: 20240157274
    Abstract: A gas-liquid separator, adapted for separating liquid and gas in an ebullated bed reactor under operating conditions, is disclosed. The device may be used in the petroleum and chemical processing industries in catalytic reactions of hydrocarbonaceous feedstocks in the presence of hydrogen, at an elevated temperature and pressure, to separate gas and liquid from gas and liquid mixtures within the reactor. The device is generally vertically oriented and may be installed in the flow through pan of an ebullated bed reactor. The device comprises a transfer conduit for transferring a gas-liquid mixture stream from a lower section of an ebullated bed reactor to an upper section of the reactor, a vortex separation section having gas-rich and liquid-rich stream outlets, and a gas-rich stream outlet conduit located on top of and adjacent to the vortex separation section. The transfer conduit includes internal means to produce a spiral flow in the gas-liquid mixture, such as a helical or spiral insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Xuqi SONG, Blaine HOLMES, Wayne MUNSTERMAN, Tom BERRY, Xiaohui ZHANG, Deanne KELLY, Ali VAKIL, Ehsan ZAMAN, Marvin WEISS, Matthew D. POLAND, Brian HANSON
  • Patent number: 11981942
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for solubilising arabinoxylan-containing material (particularly insoluble arabinoxylan-containing material), comprising admixing a xylan-containing material with a xylanase comprising a polypeptide sequence shown herein as SEQ ID No. 3, SEQ ID No. 2, SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID No. 9, SEQ ID No. 10. SEQ ID No. 11 or SEQ ID No. 15, or a variant, homologue, fragment or derivative thereof having at least 75% identity with SEQ ID No. 3 or SEQ ID No. 2 or SEQ ID No. 1 or SEQ ID No. 9 or SEQ ID No. 10 or SEQ ID No. 11 or SEQ ID No. 15; or a polypeptide sequence which comprises SEQ ID No. 3, SEQ ID No. 2, SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID No. 9, SEQ ID No. 10. SEQ ID No. 11 or SEQ ID No. 15 with a conservative substitution of at least one of the amino acids; or a xylanase which is encoded by a nucleotide sequence shown herein as SEQ ID No. 6, SEQ ID No. 5, SEQ ID No. 4, SEQ ID No. 12. SEQ ID No. 13. SEQ ID No. 14. SEQ ID No. 16. SEQ ID No. 17 or SEQ ID No.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL N&H DENMARK APS
    Inventors: Luis Fernando Romero Millan, Susan Arent Lund, Brian Soegaard Laursen, Elijah Gituanjah Kiarie, Zhenghong Zhang, Rosalyn Lau, Zheyong Yu, Floor Klaaske Kooy, Jan Hendrik Van Tuijl, Bart Christiaan Koops, Mads Brogger Pedersen, Soren Dalsgaard
  • Patent number: 11978238
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods of converting media dimensions. A device may identify a set of frames from a video in a first orientation as belonging to a scene. The device may receive a selected coordinate on a frame of the set of frames for the scene. The device may identify a first region within the frame including a first feature corresponding to the selected coordinate and a second region within the frame including a second feature. The device may generate a first score for the first feature and a second score for the second feature. The first score may be greater than the second score based on the first feature corresponding to the selected coordinate. The device may crop the frame to include the first region and the second region within a predetermined display area comprising a subset of regions of the frame in a second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Mulford, Nathan Frey, Alexandros Panagopoulos, Yinquan Hao, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240139352
    Abstract: Imaging agents comprising an isolated polypeptide conjugated with a radionucleide and a chelator; wherein the isolated polypeptide binds specifically to HER2, or a variant thereof; and methods for preparing and using these imaging agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Faisal Ahmed Syud, Brian Duh-Lan Lee, Rong Zhang, Peter Brian Iveson, Paul Schaffer, Tove Simonsson, Elin Gunneriusson, Fredrik Frejd, Lars Abrahmsen, Joachim Feldwisch, Nina Herne, Christofer Lendel
  • Patent number: 11972431
    Abstract: Systems and methods include registering use of a virtual certification number (VCN) at a secure entity by receiving, at an external gateway, a registration request comprising an external request code and a primary account number (PAN), wherein the external request code is unique to the secure entity, determining that the external request code is an unregistered external request code, receiving a tokenized PAN based on the PAN, receiving an account identifier by applying the tokenized PAN to a certification mechanism tool application programing interface (API), generating a certification mechanism reference identifier by encrypting a certification mechanism associated with the account identifier and the tokenized PAN, updating a database to associate the certification mechanism reference identifier with the external request code, and transmitting, via the external gateway, a registration authentication to an external entity, the registration authentication comprising the external request code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Jo Brown, Jesse Emery, Jonathan Blocksom, Swapna Mandala, Todd Safford, Victoria Yang, Brian Glowniak, Edward Husa, Calvin Sun, Audrey Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240132826
    Abstract: An apparatus for bioprocessing includes a housing, a drawer receivable within the housing, the drawer including a plurality of sidewalls and a bottom defining a processing chamber, and a generally open top, the drawer being movable between a closed position in which the drawer is received within the housing, and an open position in which the drawer extends from the housing enabling access to the processing chamber through the open top, and at least one bed plate positioned within the processing chamber and configured to receive a bioreactor vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC
    Inventors: Weston Blaine Griffin, Alex D Corwin, Xiaohua Zhang, Reginald Donovan Smith, Zhen Liu, Chengkun Zhang, Vandana Keskar, Brian Michael Davis, Kashan Shaikh
  • Patent number: 11966769
    Abstract: Computing system enhancements make container instantiation faster, reduce layer content storage demands, and make more container image formats available. A container instantiation location sends a container image pull request to a container registry, receives an image manifest, sends a layer mount request to the registry instead of a layer content download request, receives a layer mount, optionally repeats for additional layers, creates a union file system spanning the layers, and launches a container process based on the union file system without first downloading all the layer content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Ray Hotinger, Bin Du, Sajay Antony, Steven M. Lasker, Siva Garudayagari, Dongjiang You, Yu Wang, Samarth Shah, Brian Timothy Goff, Shiwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11963691
    Abstract: A surgical instrument, has an end effector that includes an ultrasonic blade, and a clamp arm that moves relative to the ultrasonic blade from an opened position toward an intermediate position and a closed position. The clamp arm is offset from the ultrasonic blade to define a predetermined gap in the intermediate position between the opened position and the closed position. A clamp arm actuator connects to the clamp arm and moves from an opened configuration to a closed configuration to direct the clamp arm from the opened position toward the intermediate position and the closed position. A spacer connects with the clamp arm to inhibit movement of the clamp arm from the intermediate position toward the closed position for maintaining the predetermined gap between the clamp arm and the ultrasonic blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Ryan M. Asher, Brian D. Black, John E. Brady, Joseph Dennis, Geni M. Giannotti, Bryce L. Heitman, Timothy S. Holland, Joseph E. Hollo, Andrew Kolpitcke, Amy M. Krumm, Jason R. Lesko, Matthew C. Miller, David A. Monroe, Ion V. Nicolaescu, Rafael J. Ruiz Ortiz, Matthew S. Schneider, Richard C. Smith, Shawn C. Snyder, Sarah A. Worthington, Monica L. Rivard, Fajian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240117363
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, cells, engineered microorganisms, and kits for increased production of a nucleic acid molecule that comprises an unnatural nucleotide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Floyd E. ROMESBERG, Brian LAMB, Yorke ZHANG