Patents by Inventor Lin Zhong
Lin Zhong 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).
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Patent number: 11598180Abstract: The invention discloses an experimental device for natural gas hydrate solid-state fluidized mining and crushing, the experimental device comprising a power liquid supply module, a hydrate suction module, a pipeline conveying module, a hydrate fluidized crushing module, a secondary processing module and an experimental data information collection and processing module. An experimental method for the experimental device comprises: turning on the power liquid supply module, the hydrate suction module, the pipeline conveying module, the hydrate fluidized crushing module and the secondary processing module, and collecting pressure and flow data at a plurality of locations by the experimental data information collection and processing module.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITYInventors: Guorong Wang, Shouwei Zhou, Qingyou Liu, Qingping Li, Qiang Fu, Yufa He, Pu Yang, Lin Zhong
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Patent number: 11558318Abstract: An electronic mail (e-mail) system detects when a user is replying to a particular portion of content in a received message. The reply is automatically formatted to visually distinguish it over replies from other recipients to the same portion of content.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lin Zhong, Shahil Soni
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Publication number: 20220349292Abstract: The disclosure discloses a solid fluidization tubular separator for marine natural gas hydrate, which includes a first separator and a second separator, wherein the first separator includes the first separation sleeve, the power liquid pipe, the swirl baffle, the recovery mechanism and the sand discharge mechanism. After the hydrate is sucked into the first separation sleeve to generate a circumferential velocity, so that the mud and sand with high density are separated to the pipe wall of the first separation sleeve, and the mud and sand separated to the pipe wall are settled down from the gap between the swirl baffle and the pipe wall along the pipe wall. The hydrate swirl flows into the recovery mechanism, and then leaves the first separation sleeve and enters the second separator, so as to realize the separation of mud and sand and natural gas hydrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Yang TANG, Zeliang LI, Guorong WANG, Xushen LI, Jiang LU, Xiaoyu FANG, Pengfei JING, Hairong ZHNAG, Lin ZHONG, Yufa HE, Qingping LI, Yanjun LI, Hexing LIU, Peng ZHAO
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Publication number: 20220070187Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, instructions, and media are described for generating suggestions for connections between accounts in a social media system. One embodiment involves storing connection graph information for a plurality of user accounts, and identifying, by one or more processors of the device, a first set of connection suggestions based on a first set of suggestion metrics. A second set of connection suggestions is then identified based on a second set of suggestion metrics, wherein the second set of connection suggestions and the second set of suggestion metrics are configured to obscure the first set of connection suggestions, and a set of suggested connections is generated based on the first set of connection suggestions and the second set of connection suggestions. The set of connection suggestions is then communicated to a client device method associated with the first account.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Jonathan Brody, Donald Giovannini, Edward Koai, Jie Wu, Lin Zhong
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Patent number: 11241717Abstract: Disclosed is a parcel sorting system, it includes a main frame and a sorting tower; the main frame includes a vertically arranged spiral slide and a supporting plate horizontally arranged outside the spiral slide, and the lower end of the spiral slide is provided with a collection bag main outlet. The supporting plate is provided with a collection bag falling port facing the spiral slide; the sorting tower includes a receiving transfer device, a plurality of bagging output devices disposed below the receiving transfer device, and a tower housing disposed below the bagging output device; A plurality of sorting towers are arranged on the supporting plate around the spiral slides, and the collection bag discharge ports of each sorting tower are respectively connected to the falling ports of the collection bags of the supporting plates. The invention which greatly improves sorting efficiency compared to single-pass sorting of existing sorting systems.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINAInventors: Liangbin Hu, Yuan Yu, Huanxi Wang, Xiangyu Gu, Lin Zhong, Liang Li, Qianshen Zhu
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Patent number: 11199050Abstract: The present invention relates to a combined crushing super-variable-diameter drill bit for natural gas hydrate exploitation, including a joint, an outer cylinder connected to the joint by thread, a nozzle I mounted in the outer cylinder, a mechanical locking mechanism, a blade telescoping mechanism, an end cap connected to the outer cylinder by thread, a seal ring IV mounted to the end cap, and a nozzle II mounted in the end cap by threaded connection. The present invention achieves integrated operation of conventional drilling and draw-back expanding, which can effectively solve the problems that the existing hydrate drill bit cannot drill a large borehole, cannot mechanically lock an extending position of the blade to stabilize the size of the borehole, and a single crushing method is inefficient.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Inventors: Guorong Wang, Yang Tang, Xin Jing, Qingyou Liu, Shouwei Zhou, Xushen Li, Lin Zhong, Qingping Li, Yufa He, Zhong Li, Yanjun Li, Hexing Liu, Jianglin Zhu, Jiang Lu, Leizhen Wang
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Patent number: 11193333Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate, which mainly includes an upper joint, an outer cylinder, an inner sliding sleeve, a lockup sliding sleeve, a thrust bearing, a spring, a jet joint, a telescopic jet sprinkler, a plug block and an extrusion seal ring. The present invention mainly adopts the principle of throttling control pressure to control the position of the inner sliding sleeve by controlling a flow rate of a drilling fluid, so as to turn on and turn off the jet breaking tool. The application of the present invention can realize automatic jet breaking of solid fluidization exploitation of the natural gas hydrate, reduce procedures of a round trip operation, and effectively improve the efficiency and safety of the exploitation operation of the natural gas hydrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignees: Southwest Petroleum University, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhanjiang)Inventors: Yang Tang, Shunxiao Huang, Guorong Wang, Qingyou Liu, Shouwei Zhou, Xushen Li, Lin Zhong, Qingping Li, Yufa He, Zhong Li, Yanjun Li, Hexing Liu, Jianglin Zhu, Jiaxin Yao, Jiang Lu, Leizhen Wang
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Patent number: 11171972Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, instructions, and media are described for generating suggestions for connections between accounts in a social media system. One embodiment involves storing connection graph information for a plurality of user accounts, and identifying, by one or more processors of the device, a first set of connection suggestions based on a first set of suggestion metrics. A second set of connection suggestions is then identified based on a second set of suggestion metrics, wherein the second set of connection suggestions and the second set of suggestion metrics are configured to obscure the first set of connection suggestions, and a set of suggested connections is generated based on the first set of connection suggestions and the second set of connection suggestions. The set of connection suggestions is then communicated to a client device method associated with the first account.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Brody, Donald Giovannini, Edward Koai, Jie Wu, Lin Zhong
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Patent number: 11088734Abstract: Base stations for MIMO wireless systems embodying efficient channel estimation techniques. One illustrative embodiment includes: an array of multiple antennas to exchange uplink and downlink signals with spatially-distributed user terminals; multiple transmit chains, each coupled to one of the multiple antennas by a respective transceiver that also couples that antenna to a respective one of multiple receive chains; and a controller. Each of the receive chains opportunistically derives estimated uplink channel response coefficients from packet headers in the wireless uplink signals, and the controller determines a steering transform based at least in part on the estimated channel response coefficients. The transmit chains apply the steering transform to spatially-distinct downlink signals to produce antenna-specific downlink signals for each antenna in the array.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Skylark WL Holdings, LLCInventors: Ryan E. Guerra, Clayton W. Shepard, Narendra Anand, Edward Knightly, Lin Zhong
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Publication number: 20210237203Abstract: The present disclosure provides a self-driven water collecting surface having a superhydrophilic-superhydrophobic structure, and a method for preparing the same, belonged to the technical field of water harvesting and superhydrophobic surfaces. The water collecting surface is a superhydrophobic surface with the distributed superhydrophilic region. The superhydrophilic region is a venation channel network structure consisting of hierarchical superhydrophilic channels. In the method, a pulsed laser is firstly adopted to form periodically distributed peak-pit microstructures and nanostructures, which is then modified with a low-surface-energy substance. Then, the low-surface-energy substance layer is removed by a pulsed laser again according to a venation channel network pattern. The laser scanned region is superhydrophilic, while the other regions are superhydrophobic. So that, the self-driven water collecting surface with the superhydrophobic-superhydrophilic structure is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: MIN-LIN ZHONG, HONG-JUN ZHANG, WEI-JIAN LIU
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Patent number: 11057927Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include methods for control channel design in many-antenna multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems. A beacon comprising an identifier of a many-antenna base station is encoded into a base sequence. A plurality of synchronization sequences is generated based on the encoded base sequence and a set of orthogonal beam sequences. The many-antenna base-station transmits, using a plurality of antennas, the plurality of synchronization sequences in a plurality of beam directions associated with the set of orthogonal beam sequences for synchronization and associated with users without knowledge of channel state information (CSI).Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Skylark WL Holdings, LLCInventors: Clayton W. Shepard, Lin Zhong, Abeer Javed, Hang Yu
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Publication number: 20210140243Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic jet breaking tool for solid fluidization exploitation of natural gas hydrate, which mainly includes an upper joint, an outer cylinder, an inner sliding sleeve, a lockup sliding sleeve, a thrust bearing, a spring, a jet joint, a telescopic jet sprinkler, a plug block and an extrusion seal ring. The present invention mainly adopts the principle of throttling control pressure to control the position of the inner sliding sleeve by controlling a flow rate of a drilling fluid, so as to turn on and turn off the jet breaking tool. The application of the present invention can realize automatic jet breaking of solid fluidization exploitation of the natural gas hydrate, reduce procedures of a round trip operation, and effectively improve the efficiency and safety of the exploitation operation of the natural gas hydrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Yang TANG, Shunxiao HUANG, Guorong WANG, Qingyou LIU, Shouwei ZHOU, Xushen Li, Lin ZHONG, Qingping Li, Yufa HE, Zhong Li, Yanjun Li, Hexing LIU, Jianglin ZHU, Jiaxin YAO, Jiang LU, Leizhen WANG
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Publication number: 20210140244Abstract: The present invention relates to a combined crushing super-variable-diameter drill bit for natural gas hydrate exploitation, including a joint, an outer cylinder connected to the joint by thread, a nozzle I mounted in the outer cylinder, a mechanical locking mechanism, a blade telescoping mechanism, an end cap connected to the outer cylinder by thread, a seal ring IV mounted to the end cap, and a nozzle II mounted in the end cap by threaded connection. The present invention achieves integrated operation of conventional drilling and draw-back expanding, which can effectively solve the problems that the existing hydrate drill bit cannot drill a large borehole, cannot mechanically lock an extending position of the blade to stabilize the size of the borehole, and a single crushing method is inefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Guorong WANG, Yang TANG, Xin JING, Qingyou LIU, Shouwei ZHOU, Xushen Li, Lin ZHONG, Qingping Li, Yufa HE, Zhong Li, Yanjun Li, Hexing LIU, Jianglin ZHU, Jiang LU, Leizhen WANG
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Patent number: 10990254Abstract: An electronic mail (email) system generates an email user interface display, with a timeslot actuator, for composing an email message. Actuation of the timeslot actuator is detected and the email system accesses available timeslots from a calendar system corresponding to the user. User selectable display elements, corresponding to each available timeslot, are displayed on the email user interface display, along with message content. When a user selectable display element corresponding to an available timeslot is selected, the email message content is populated with a selectable timeslot element, corresponding to the available timeslot, that can be sent to recipients in the email message.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lin Zhong, Shahil Soni
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Publication number: 20210079762Abstract: The invention discloses an experimental device for natural gas hydrate solid-state fluidized mining and crushing, the experimental device comprising a power liquid supply module, a hydrate suction module, a pipeline conveying module, a hydrate fluidized crushing module, a secondary processing module and an experimental data information collection and processing module. An experimental method for the experimental device comprises: turning on the power liquid supply module, the hydrate suction module, the pipeline conveying module, the hydrate fluidized crushing module and the secondary processing module, and collecting pressure and flow data at a plurality of locations by the experimental data information collection and processing module.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Guorong WANG, Shouwei ZHOU, Qingyou LIU, Qingping LI, Qiang FU, Yufa HE, Pu YANG, Lin ZHONG
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Publication number: 20210081098Abstract: An electronic mail (email) system generates an email user interface display, with a timeslot actuator, for composing an email message. Actuation of the timeslot actuator is detected and the email system accesses available timeslots from a calendar system corresponding to the user. User selectable display elements, corresponding to each available timeslot, are displayed on the email user interface display, along with message content. When a user selectable display element corresponding to an available timeslot is selected, the email message content is populated with a selectable timeslot element, corresponding to the available timeslot, that can be sent to recipients in the email message.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Lin ZHONG, Shahil SONI
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Patent number: 10935667Abstract: The information processing device includes: a distribution target determination unit configured to determine that a terminal located within a first predetermined range and detected by a first detection technique (e.g. GPS) is a first distribution target terminal and that a terminal located within and detected by a second detection technique (e.g. beacon) is a second distribution target terminal, where the second predetermined range is included in the first predetermined range; a distribution request acquisition unit configured to acquire a distribution request from a distribution requester terminal; and an information distribution unit configured to distribute information corresponding to the distribution request to at least the first distribution target terminal, the first distribution target terminal not overlapping with the second distribution terminal, or the second distribution target terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.Inventors: Nagaaki Hoshi, Lin Zhong, Kenji Nakamura
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Patent number: 10875525Abstract: Techniques for ability enhancement are described. In some embodiments, devices and systems located in a transportation network share threat information with one another, in order to enhance a user's ability to operate or function in a transportation-related context. In one embodiment, a process in a vehicle receives threat information from a remote device, the threat information based on information about objects or conditions proximate to the remote device. The process then determines that the threat information is relevant to the safe operation of the vehicle. Then, the process modifies operation of the vehicle based on the threat information, such as by presenting a message to the operator of the vehicle and/or controlling the vehicle itself.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLCInventors: Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Clarence T. Tegreene, Roderick A. Hyde, Lowell L. Wood, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Victoria Y. H. Wood, Charles Whitmer, Paramvir Bahl, Douglas C. Burger, Ranveer Chandra, William H. Gates, III, Pablos Holman, Jordin T. Kare, Craig J. Mundie, Tim Paek, Desney S. Tan, Lin Zhong, Matthew G. Dyor
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Patent number: 10842377Abstract: A method comprising generating a mechanical signal in a mammal, the mechanical signal having a frequency no more than 50,000 Hz, transmitting the mechanical signal through the musculoskeletal system in the mammal, and sensing the mechanical signal from the musculoskeletal system. A method of triggering an internal event comprising generating a mechanical signal internal or external to a mammal, transmitting the signal through the musculoskeletal system of the mammal, detecting the mechanical signal, and triggering an event in response to the mechanical signal. A method of drug delivery comprising generating a mechanical signal internal or external to a mammal, transmitting the signal through the musculoskeletal system of the mammal, detecting the mechanical signal, and delivering the drug in response to the mechanical signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Inventors: Michael Liebschner, Lin Zhong, Mimi W. Zhang, Michael S. Cordray
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Patent number: 10822927Abstract: Disclosed is a device for solid-state fluidized mining of natural gas hydrates in a shallow seabed, including: a sea surface support system, a pipeline delivery system, and an undersea drilling system. The sea surface support system includes a hydrate drilling vessel floating on seawater. The pipeline delivery system includes a continuous double-layer oil pipe, a recyclable conduit installed in a sediment cover, an open-hole steering packer installed outside the recyclable conduit. The undersea drilling system includes a hydrate slurry separator, a single screw pump, a hydraulic motor, a jet head and a differential pressure sliding sleeve close to the hydrate drill bit. The present invention has the following beneficial effects. The device achieves a multi-directionally horizontal drilling and production in the hydrate reservoir with a single well head, improving the drilling efficiency and single well production.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITYInventors: Yang Tang, Guorong Wang, Shouwei Zhou, Qingyou Liu, Lin Zhong, Wang Li, Qingping Li, Qiang Fu, Yufa He, Chuan Wang, Leizhen Wang