Patents by Inventor Michael Liu

Michael Liu 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: 20240156649
    Abstract: A highly extensible nonwoven web is provided. The highly extensible nonwoven web may include continuous multi-component fibers. The continuous multi-component fibers may include polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene has a crystallinity of less than about 41%. The polypropylene may have a melting temperature of less than about 161° C. The highly extensible nonwoven web may define a plurality of apertures. The apertures may be patterned. The highly extensible nonwoven web may form a portion of an absorbent article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Han XU, Meganne FRISCH, Jaroslav KOHUT, Sascha KREISEL, Jiri KUMMER, Fang LIU, Michael J. RODDY, Patricia ROLON, Eric R. SCHURDAK
  • Publication number: 20240159607
    Abstract: Described herein is a method and system for testing a force or strain sensor in a continuous fashion. The method employs a sensor, a test fixture, a load cell, a mechanical actuator and tester hardware and software to simultaneously record signal outputs from the sensor and load cell as functions of time. The method provides time synchronization events for recording data streams between, for example, a linear ramp of the force on, or displacement of, the sensor and for extracting performance characteristics from the data in post-test processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: NEXTINPUT, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Dueweke, Allan Liu, Dan Benjamin
  • Publication number: 20240157559
    Abstract: A method is provided for generating and updating a simulation of one or more objects from sensory data. The method includes: (i) receiving sensory data; (ii) detecting one or more objects in the sensory data; (iii) initializing both a simulator geometry of the one or more objects in a simulator and simulator parameters used in the simulator; (iv) predicting the simulator geometry using the simulator parameters; (v) computing predicted sensory data from the predicted simulator geometry; (vi) computing a loss between the predicted sensory data and the received sensory data; (vii) updating the simulator geometry and the simulator parameters by minimizing the computed loss; (viii) repeating (i)-(viii) if new sensory data is received; and (ix) providing a simulation of the one or more objects using the updated simulator geometry and the updated simulator parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Fei LIU, Michael C. YIP, Florian RICHTER
  • Patent number: 11981964
    Abstract: The present application relates to substituted coumarin derivatives and their uses as fluorescent labels. These compounds may be used as fluorescent labels for nucleotides in nucleic acid sequencing applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Michael Callingham, Carole Anastasi, Patrick Mccauley, Niall Hynes, Natasha Crake, Xiaolin Wu, Xiaohai Liu
  • Publication number: 20240150902
    Abstract: A fluoride ion cleaning system is provided. The system includes a retort including an interior sized to receive at least one component therein. The at least one component has a target area defined thereon. The system also includes a gas distribution system. The gas distribution system includes a manifold configured to provide reaction gas within the interior, a flow modulator configured to agitate the reaction gas within the interior, and at least one nozzle in flow communication with the flow modulator. The at least one nozzle is adapted to define an agitated flow of reaction gas at the target area of the at least one component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Matthew Lomas, Shan Liu, Michael Anthony DePalma, Malorie Myers Burnette, James C. Dalton
  • Publication number: 20240147997
    Abstract: This disclosure features herbicidal compositions including one or more indole auxins and methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jun Liu, Michael Fefer
  • Publication number: 20240150364
    Abstract: A compound of Formula I, enantiomers, diasteriomers, tautomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2 and R3 are defined herein, are useful as inhibitors of one or more Janus kinases. A pharmaceutical composition that includes a compound of Formula I and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, adjuvant or vehicle, and methods of treating or lessening the severity of a disease or condition responsive to the inhibition of a Janus kinase activity in a patient are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Gibbons, Emily Hanan, Wendy Liu, Joseph Lyssikatos, Steven R. Magnuson, Rohan Mendonca, Richard Pastor, Thomas E. Rawson, Michael Siu, Mark E. Zak, Aihe Zhou, Bing-Yan Zhu, Christopher Hurley
  • Patent number: 11977659
    Abstract: An IoT/M2M service layer may be provided with the capability to protect user privacy. This functionality may allow the IoT/M2M service layer to anonymize user data, particularly when user data is shared with third party consumers. A privacy policy service may enable the IoT service layer system to generate anonymization (e.g., privacy) policies based on inputs such as legal obligations, subscriber privacy preferences, and an authorization level of the data consumer. Data anonymization policies may be output from the privacy policy service and may be sent to a data anonymization service, where raw data may be anonymized based on the one or more data anonymization policies. The output from the data anonymization service function may be a privatized (e.g., anonymized) version of data that may prevent the data consumer from discovering one or more identifying characteristics of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Jiwan L Ninglekhu, Michael F. Starsinic, Dale N. Seed, Catalina Mihaela Mladin, William Robert Flynn, IV, Zhuo Chen, Quang Ly, Lu Liu
  • Patent number: 11979621
    Abstract: Enhanced trick-play modes for video content that is being streamed to a client from a server are described. In an embodiment, the enhanced trick-play modes are provided with relatively low latency and high quality using trick-play optimization techniques for a streaming environment, avoiding the need to stream the entire contents of the portions through which the viewer is fast forwarding. By employing sophisticated selection criteria of which parts of the content to download at what time, the quality of the playback experience is improved versus that which would conventionally be possible when using a simple sequential frame data download. The streaming client maintains a cache of nearby significant frames, such as nearby key frames, in forward and/or reverse directions of the current playback position, without having to download the entire portions of the video stream in which the significant frames reside. The trick-play modes utilize these frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TiVo Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Kim Liu, Michael F. Klar, Todd Kulick, Jonathan A. Logan
  • Patent number: 11979967
    Abstract: A combined ventilation and microwave oven system includes an external enclosure with a top portion defining recirculation vent outlets, a cooling air inlet, a cooling air outlet, and an outside vent outlet, first and second side portions, and a bottom portion defining a vent inlet. The vent inlet is connected with the recirculation vent outlets and the outside vent outlet via airflow pathways. A hood assembly is disposed within the external enclosure and includes a first hood fan disposed between the cooking cavity and the first side portion and a second hood fan disposed between the cooking cavity and the second side portion. The hood assembly is configured to direct air through the vent inlet and through an interior of the external enclosure. A cooling fan is disposed between the cooking cavity and the second side portion to direct air through the cooling air inlet and the cooling air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Owen (XunCai) Zhang, Michael A. Ledford, Stephen Zheng, Xiangxu Liu
  • Patent number: 11972566
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for detecting characteristics of an unhatched egg. A set of images of an unhatched egg are obtained, where each of the spectral images is obtained in a particular wavelength range. The set of images is processed to extract image features, where the image features includes an image texture feature. The extracted image features are processed to classify the unhatched egg according to at least one characteristic. The at least one characteristic may include fertility and/or gender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MATRIXSPEC SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Michael Ngadi, Li Liu, Chen Zheng
  • Patent number: 11973031
    Abstract: A memory device includes an array of memory cells and a plurality of bit-lines with each bit-line connected to a respective set of memory cells of the array of memory cells. The memory device includes a memory subsystem having first and second memory circuits. Each first memory circuit can be disposed laterally adjacent to a second memory circuit. Each first memory circuit includes a first bit-line connection and each second memory circuit including a second bit-line connection, the first and second bit-line connections can connect to respective bit-lines. Each first bit-line connection is disposed on a first bit-line connection line of the memory subsystem and each second bit-line connection is disposed on a second bit-line connection line of the memory subsystem, and the second bit-line connection line can be offset from the first bit-line connection line by a predetermined distance that is greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Smith, Haitao Liu, Vladimir Mikhalev
  • Publication number: 20240133288
    Abstract: A system can receive data relating to a tubular of a well system. The system can execute a first module to determine first outputs. The system can execute a second module to determine second outputs based on the first outputs. The system can execute a third module to determine third outputs based on the first outputs. The second outputs can include a crack-initiation fracture pressure, and the third outputs can include a crack-propagation fracture pressure. The system can identify a brittle-burst strength of the tubular from among the second outputs, the third outputs, and a standard burst strength of the tubular. The system can provide the brittle-burst strength of the tubular to facilitate an adjustment to the tubular to optimize a wellbore operation associated with the well system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zhengchun Michael Liu, Robello Samuel, Adolfo Gonzales, Yongfeng Kang
  • Publication number: 20240131859
    Abstract: A protective film that can be included in multi-layer film laminates for use in marketing, advertising campaigns, particularly outdoor or other environment impacted promotions and safety applications. The film includes at least two different polyurethane polymers and is free or substantially free of polyvinyl chloride based polymer. One polyurethane has an ultimate elongation less than 200%, and another polyurethane has an ultimate elongation more than 400%. The film may be transparent, translucent, clear or have other desirable optical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jason SCHANER, Michael RAMSAY, Steven REEKMANS, Xiang LIU
  • Publication number: 20240134632
    Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to perform a maintenance operation involving a plurality of hosts of an information handling system cluster by: determining a score for each host based on a sum of working memory sizes for all active virtual machines executing on such host plus a sum of persistent storage sizes for all virtual machines stored on such host; based on the determined scores, selecting a first host for upgrading; migrating at least a portion of all virtual machines stored on the first host from the first host to one or more other hosts; and causing the first host to perform the maintenance operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kai CHEN, Jun ZHAN, Stéphane MENG, HongGang LIU, Yuyan CHEN, Carl SHI, Michael G. VARTERESIAN
  • Publication number: 20240130719
    Abstract: Delivery devices configured to deliver therapeutic and visualization devices to a surgical site are disclosed. An example delivery device may include a proximally disposed handle; a shaft extending distally from the handle, the shaft including a therapeutic device lumen configured to deliver a working end of a therapeutic device therethrough, a first portion of the shaft being steerable; and a space-making element disposed proximate a distal end portion of the shaft and configured to separate biological tissues to create or expand a working space. At least a portion of the space-making element may be reconfigurable between a retracted configuration and an expanded configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: AtriCure, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Banchieri, Ara M. Stephanian, Jeremy D. Dando, Feng Liu, Greg Fung, Jean-Pierre Dueri
  • Patent number: 11965020
    Abstract: Antigen binding molecules (ABMs) comprising Fab domains in non-native configurations, ABM conjugates comprising the ABMs and cytotoxic or cytostatic agents, pharmaceutical compositions containing the ABMs and ABM conjugates, methods of using the ABMs, ABM conjugates and pharmaceutical compositions for treating cancer, nucleic acids encoding the ABMs, cells engineered to express the ABMs, and methods of producing ABMs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Erica Pyles, Michael Rosconi, Nina Liu, Supriya Patel, Eric Smith, Andrew Murphy, Chia-Yang Lin, Samuel Davis
  • Patent number: 11958849
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds and compositions useful in the treatment of GLS1 mediated diseases, such as cancer, having the structure of Formula I: Methods of inhibition GLS1 activity in a human or animal subject are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Maria Emilia Di Francesco, Philip Jones, Timothy Heffernan, Matthew M. Hamilton, Zhijun Kang, Michael J. Soth, Jason P. Burke, Kang Le, Christopher Lawrence Carroll, Wylie S. Palmer, Richard Lewis, Timothy McAfoos, Barbara Czako, Gang Liu, Jay Theroff, Zachary Herrera, Anne Yau
  • Patent number: 11960832
    Abstract: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other computer-implemented methods are used to identify various semantically important chunks in documents, automatically label them with appropriate datatypes and semantic roles, and use this enhanced information to assist authors and to support downstream processes. Chunk locations, datatypes, and semantic roles can often be automatically determined from what is here called “context”, to wit, the combination of their formatting, structure, and content; those of adjacent or nearby content; overall patterns of occurrence in a document, and similarities of all these things across documents (mainly but not exclusively among documents in the same document set).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Docugami, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Paul Begun, Steven DeRose, Taqi Jaffri, Luis Marti Orosa, Michael B. Palmer, Jean Paoli, Christina Pavlopoulou, Elena Pricoiu, Swagatika Sarangi, Marcin Sawicki, Manar Shehadeh, Michael Taron, Bhaven Toprani, Zubin Rustom Wadia, David Watson, Eric White, Joshua Yongshin Fan, Kush Gupta, Andrew Minh Hoang, Zhanlin Liu, Jerome George Paliakkara, Zhaofeng Wu, Yue Zhang, Xiaoquan Zhou
  • Patent number: D1025562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CROCS, INC.
    Inventors: Federico Fongher, Jie Liu, Michael Sarantakos