Patents by Inventor Daniel Xu

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

  • Patent number: 11998150
    Abstract: A docking station for a vacuum cleaner may include a receptacle configured to engage at least a portion of the vacuum cleaner such that, in response to engaging the receptacle, a vacuum cleaner flow path extending within the vacuum cleaner is transitioned from a cleaning flow path to an evacuation flow path, a suction motor of the vacuum cleaner being configured to urge air along the vacuum cleaner flow path and a docking station dust cup configured to receive debris from a vacuum cleaner dust cup of the vacuum cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Innes, Andre D. Brown, Jason B. Thorne, Kai Xu, Sam Liu
  • Patent number: 11998852
    Abstract: Multi-player games in which players cooperate and/or compete with one another over the course of several rounds of the game are disclosed. A controller may synchronize gaming devices used by the players during the multi-player games. The controller may send sync commands to the gaming devices. In response to the sync commands, the gaming devices may start a sync timer which defines a window in which certain guarded operations may be accepted by the gaming devices. The controller may send periodic sync update commands to the gaming devices which cause the gaming devices to update their respect sync timers to a time remaining of a master sync timer or window maintained by the controller. The controller may ensure that play of the multi-player game proceeds in a relatively lock-step manner across the gaming devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, Dinesh Dua
  • Publication number: 20240169803
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system is described. The electronic gaming system includes a server computing device configured to receive an input from a first user computing device including a request to initiate an electronic game and assign a plurality of user devices to the electronic game. The server is further configured to identify a second player account as an initial play player account, wherein the initial play player account is designated to initiate a first play of the electronic game. The server is further configured to transmit content to a second user computing device that causes a gameplay user interface at the second user computing device to include a first display area including video images from a video stream from the second user computing device and a second display area including video images received by the server from a video stream received from the first user computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Alfred Thomas, Hua Xu, Scott Burns, Joseph Masinter, II, Jehoshua Josue
  • Publication number: 20240165241
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a therapeutics structure containing a motion element, an methotrexate (MTX), N—[N—[(S)-1,3-dicarboxypropyl]carbamoyl]-(S)-lysine (DCL), or UAMC-1110 ligand, and a plurality of drugs selected from the group consisting of camptothecin (CPT), paclitaxel (PTX), podophyllotoxin (PTOX), 7-Ethyl-10-hydroxycamptothecin (SN38), BMS1, BMS8, BMS27, BMS242, LY294002, PI3K-IN-20, and methotrexate (MTX).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Peixuan GUO, Daniel BINZEL, Peter BLANCO CARCACHE, Xin LI, Congcong XU
  • Patent number: 11990007
    Abstract: A gaming machine provides a base game, from which a hold and spin feature game is triggered when a determined number of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. When the feature game is triggered, the configurable symbols are held in place on the display one or more spins are provided during the feature game in which to collect additional configurable symbols. Any additional configurable symbols are retained on the display during subsequent spins until the feature game is completed. The player is awarded a prize based on the values carried by the configurable symbols. The gaming machine includes one or more progressive play meters that are incremented when spin award symbols are displayed in base game outcomes. When the feature game is triggered, the number of spins provided in the feature game is determined based on the value carried by one of the progressive play meters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, Dinesh Dua
  • Publication number: 20240153877
    Abstract: A microelectronic device includes a stack structure, a staircase structure, conductive pad structures, and conductive contact structures. The stack structure includes vertically alternating conductive structures and insulating structures arranged in tiers. Each of the tiers individually includes one of the conductive structures and one of the insulating structures. The staircase structure has steps made up of edges of at least some of the tiers of the stack structure. The conductive pad structures are on the steps of the staircase structure and include beta phase tungsten. The conductive contact structures are on the conductive pad structures. Memory devices, electronic systems, and methods of forming microelectronic devices are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jordan D. Greenlee, John D. Hopkins, Rita J. Klein, Everett A. McTeer, Lifang Xu, Daniel Billingsley, Collin Howder
  • Publication number: 20240148854
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are nanoparticles comprising one or more Human papillomavirus (HPV) antigen and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. Also disclosed herein is a method of treating a HPV infection or treating or preventing a disease or disorder associated therewith in a subject in need thereof, by administering the nanoparticles, or encoding nucleic acid molecules, to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: David Weiner, Kevin Liaw, Daniel Kulp, Nicholas Tursi, Ziyang Xu
  • Publication number: 20240152490
    Abstract: A model management system provides a centralized repository for storing and accessing models. The model management system receives an input to store a model object in a first model state generated based on a first set of known variables. The model management system generates a first file including a first set of functions defining the first model state and associates the first file with a model key identifying the model object. The model management system receives an input to store the model object in a second model state having been generated based on the first model state and a second set of known variables. The model management system generates a second file including a second set of functions defining the second model state and associates the second file with the model key. The model management system identifies available versions of the model object based on the model key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: David Lisuk, Daniel Erenrich, Guodong Xu, Luis Voloch, Rahul Agarwal, Simon Slowik, Aleksandr Zamoshchin, Andre Frederico Cavalheiro Menck, Anirvan Mukherjee, Daniel Chin
  • Patent number: 11978316
    Abstract: A gaming machine provides a base game from which a feature game is triggered when a determined number of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. When the feature game is triggered, the configurable symbols are held in place on the display and the player is provided with more spins during the feature game in which to collect additional configurable symbols. Any additional configurable symbols are retained on the display during subsequent spins until the feature game is completed. The configurable symbols include mystery symbols whose value is not determined until the mystery symbol is displayed. A first valuation game, such as a wheel spin, is used to determine the value for the mystery symbols. At the end of the feature game, the player is awarded a prize based on the values carried by the configurable symbols. A second valuation game, such as a wheel spin, is used to provide an enhanced award if the player collects a determined number of configurable symbols during the feature game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Publication number: 20240139252
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions for treating von Willebrand disease with platelets, platelet derivatives, and/or thrombosomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Cellphire, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Andrew MOSKOWITZ, Shan XU, William Matthew DICKERSON, Amber Nicole LEE, Braden Carl ISHLER, Daniel Allen SHEIK
  • Patent number: 11972062
    Abstract: A keyboard may be provided that has keys overlapped by a touch sensor. The keyboard may have key sensor circuitry for monitoring switching in the keys for key press input. The keyboard may also have touch sensor circuitry such as capacitive touch sensor circuitry that monitors capacitive electrodes in the touch sensor for touch sensor input such as multitouch gesture input. The keyboard may include an outer layer of fabric that overlaps the keys. The fabric may have openings that are arranged to form alphanumeric characters. Light sources may emit light that passes through the openings and illuminates the alphanumeric characters. The touch sensor may have signal lines that are not visible through the openings. The signal lines may be transparent, may be covered by a diffuser, or may circumvent the openings so that they do not overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Xiaopeng Wang, Chia Chi Wu, Qiliang Xu, Zheng Gao, Daniel D. Sunshine, Aidan N. Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20240136545
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes a plurality of unit cells disposed in a stack. Each unit cell includes a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) having an anode and a cathode and a bipolar plate having a cathode side defining a recessed pocket in fluid communication with an air port, an anode side, and coolant channels between the cathode and anode sides. The bipolar plate is disposed against the MEA such that the cathode is disposed over the pocket. A flow guide is disposed in the pocket with a front side facing the MEA and a back side facing a bottom of the pocket. The flow guide has a plurality of embossments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Chunchuan Xu, Zijie Lu, Jun Yang, Daniel E. Wilkosz, Shinichi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20240132433
    Abstract: Acrolein is produced by selectively oxidizing iso-propanol over a first mixed metal oxide catalyst in the presence of oxygen in the vapor phase. The first mixed metal oxide catalyst comprises oxides of molybdenum and bismuth. Acrylic acid is produced by selectively oxidizing the acrolein over a second mixed metal oxide catalyst in the presence of oxygen in the vapor phase. The second mixed metal oxide catalyst has a different composition from the first mixed metal oxide catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jinsuo Xu, Daniel A. Bors
  • Patent number: 11966340
    Abstract: To automate time series forecasting machine learning pipeline generation, a data allocation size of time series data may be determined based on one or more characteristics of a time series data set. The time series data may be allocated for use by candidate machine learning pipelines based on the data allocation size. Features for the time series data may be determined and cached by the candidate machine learning pipelines. Predictions of each of the candidate machine learning pipelines using at least the one or more features may be evaluated. A ranked list of machine learning pipelines may be automatically generated from the candidate machine learning pipelines for time series forecasting based upon evaluating predictions of each of the one or more candidate machine learning pipelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Long Vu, Bei Chen, Xuan-Hong Dang, Peter Daniel Kirchner, Syed Yousaf Shah, Dhavalkumar C. Patel, Si Er Han, Ji Hui Yang, Jun Wang, Jing James Xu, Dakuo Wang, Gregory Bramble, Horst Cornelius Samulowitz, Saket K. Sathe, Wesley M. Gifford, Petros Zerfos
  • Publication number: 20240127677
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine that includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor configured to control the display device to display a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels and display a first bingo card and a second bingo card wherein the first bingo card includes a first feature indicator and the second bingo card includes a second feature indicator, store in the memory device a first memory structure corresponding to the first bingo card and a second memory structure corresponding to the second bingo card, and in response to determining that a first prize symbol indicator of a first prize symbol displayed in the matrix of symbol positions corresponds to a combination of the first feature indicator and the second feature indicator, populate a position on each of the first bingo card and the second bingo card with the first prize symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, Lokesh Jain, Ashish Bhandari
  • Publication number: 20240112527
    Abstract: In one aspect, an electronic gaming system that includes at least one memory device with instructions stored thereon, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory device, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to display a game interface including a game matrix and generate a game outcome of a base game comprising a plurality of displayed symbols within the game matrix. The displayed symbols include at least a first symbol and a second symbol. If a wild symbol is displayed on a spin, a counter configured to track a number of displayed wild symbols over a predetermined period of time is incremented. If the number of counted wild symbols satisfies a threshold within the predetermined period of time, the second symbol is converted to or replaced by the first symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, John Milliner, III, Dinesh Dua, Sean Davis
  • Publication number: 20240112545
    Abstract: In one aspect, an electronic gaming system that includes at least one memory device with instructions stored thereon, and at least one processor in communication with the at least one memory device, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to display a game interface including a game matrix and generate a game outcome of a base game comprising a plurality of displayed symbols within the game matrix. The displayed symbols include at least a first symbol and a second symbol. If a wild symbol is displayed on a spin, a counter configured to track a number of displayed wild symbols over a predetermined period of time is incremented. If the number of counted wild symbols satisfies a threshold within the predetermined period of time, the second symbol is converted to or replaced by the first symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, John Milliner, III, Dinesh Dua, Sean Davis
  • Publication number: 20240112525
    Abstract: A gaming system including a display having a plurality of reels. A controller controls the display to animate a zone that occupies a subset of the reels, and selects symbols for the zone and the rest of the reels from a first set of symbols including zone symbols, and a second set of symbols both zone symbols and gem symbols, respectively. The first and second symbol sets associated with the reels are shuffled from a current instance to a subsequent instance for a balanced symbol selection. For the current instance, assigned values of zone symbols selected for the zone are collected, but only the assigned values of the gem symbols selected for outside the zone are collected. The zone is expanded for the subsequent instance when enough gem symbols selected for outside the zone are collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: D1020786
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ramachandran Ramaswamy, Daniel Sim, Jason Gouliard, Lilu Xu, Umesh Unnikrishan, Amit Chandak, Francois Toit Spies, Xi Liu, Jen-Feng Chang, Jamey Lorine Robnett-Conover, Sharon Lee
  • Patent number: D1021919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel M. Marks, Hua Xu