Patents by Inventor Minfeng Xu

Minfeng 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: 11941802
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, device, and system for processing a medical image. The method includes obtaining, by one or more processors, a target image, segmenting, by the one or more processors, a target region image from the target image, wherein the target region image comprises a target object region in the target image, analyzing, by the one or more processors, the target region image based at least in part on a machine learning model, and obtaining by the one or more processors, a recognition result based at least in part on the analysis of the target region image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Minfeng Xu, Zhe Tang, Shuangrui Liu, Wenchao Guo, Jianqiang Ma
  • Patent number: 11907838
    Abstract: An image recognition method includes: obtaining an image; extracting a target image region corresponding to a target part from the image, wherein the target image region includes a target object; determining a location of the target object in the target image region (i) according to pixel values of pixels in the target image region and a location relationship between the pixels, or (ii) inputting the target image region to a trained segmentation model to obtain the location of the target object in the target image region; and displaying a recognition result of the image, wherein the recognition result indicates the location of the target object in the target image region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuangrui Liu, Zhe Tang, Wenchao Guo, Jianqiang Ma, Minfeng Xu
  • Publication number: 20240014725
    Abstract: A superconducting machine includes at least one superconducting coil and a coil support structure arranged with the at least one superconducting coil. The coil support structure includes at least one composite component affixed to the at least one superconducting coil and an interface component in frictional contact with the at least one composite component so as to reduce a likelihood of quench of the at least one superconducting coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ye Bai, Alexander Kagan, Anbo Wu, Minfeng Xu, Dalong Li
  • Publication number: 20230401706
    Abstract: A method for detecting a rib with a medical image, a device and a medium are provided. Feature coding is performed, by using a neural network model, on different rib regions in the medical image to obtain multiple feature vectors. According to a learned corresponding relationship between rib query items and the different rib regions, a feature vector for respective rib query item is determined. Parallel decoding is performed on the feature vector for respective rib query item to obtain a rib detection result corresponding to respective rib query item. The rib query items are endowed with semantic information in anatomy, such that respective rib query items may focus on features of different rib regions, and thus realizing controllable rib detection in instance-level. Any rib detection result includes a rib prediction classification and a prediction value of a pose parameter, in a three-dimensional space, of a rib detection box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Heng GUO, Jianfeng ZHANG, Minfeng XU, Le LYU
  • Patent number: 11619691
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to using an integrated cooling circuit to provide both forced-flow pre-cooling functionality and closed-loop thermosiphon cooling for persistent mode operation of a superconducting magnet. In one embodiment, the integrated cooling circuit shares a single set of cooling tubes for use with both the forced-flow pre-cooling circuit as well as the closed-loop operating-state cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anbo Wu, Minfeng Xu, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson
  • Patent number: 11604239
    Abstract: A system for minimizing MGI in a superconducting magnet system of an MRI system includes a thermal shield having bi-metal material. The thermal shield is configured to be disposed about a cold mass of the superconducting magnet system, wherein the bi-metal material is configured to minimize MGI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Minfeng Xu, Anbo Wu, Yihe Hua, Mark Ernest Vermilyea, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230057231
    Abstract: A system for minimizing MGI in a superconducting magnet system of an MRI system includes a thermal shield having bi-metal material. The thermal shield is configured to be disposed about a cold mass of the superconducting magnet system, wherein the bi-metal material is configured to minimize MGI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Minfeng Xu, Anbo Wu, Yihe Hua, Mark Ernest Vermilyea, Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson
  • Patent number: 11521771
    Abstract: A quench protection system for a superconducting machine, such as a superconducting generator having a plurality of series-arranged superconducting coils, includes at least one switch heater electrically coupled to each of the superconducting coils. A quench protection switch is provided in series with the coils, wherein each switch heater is in thermal contact with the quench protection switch. A heater network is configured in parallel with the quench protection switch and is in thermal contact with each of the coils. A quench of any one of the coils triggers a quench of the quench protection switch, wherein the heater network then triggers a quench of all of the remaining coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anbo Wu, Michael Parizh, Minfeng Xu
  • Publication number: 20220320990
    Abstract: A superconducting generator including an armature configured to be rotated via a shaft and a stationary field disposed concentric to and radially outward from the armature. The stationary field including a superconducting field winding and a vacuum vessel having an inner wall of one of a non-magnetic material or a paramagnetic material facing the armature, an opposed outer wall of a ferromagnetic material and a plurality of sidewalls coupling the inner wall and the opposed outer wall. The superconducting field winding is disposed in the vacuum vessel. A wind turbine and method are additionally disclosed. The wind turbine includes a rotor having a plurality of blades. The wind turbine further includes a shaft coupled to the rotor. Moreover, the wind turbine includes the superconducting generator coupled to the rotor via the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander Kagan, David Allan Torrey, Michael Parizh, Tiziana Bertoncelli, Minfeng Xu
  • Patent number: 11393614
    Abstract: A current lead assembly for minimizing heat load to a conduction cooled superconducting magnet during a ramp operation is provided. The current lead assembly includes a vacuum chamber having a through hole to enable a first end of a current lead contact to remain outside the vacuum chamber and a second end of the current lead contact to penetrate within the vacuum chamber. A vacuum boundary wall is located between the vacuum chamber and the current lead contact. At least one superconducting magnet is arranged inside of the vacuum chamber and includes a magnet lead. A second end of the current lead contact is coupled to the magnet lead via an internal lead. A vacuum cap is removably disposed to sealingly encompass therein the first end of the current lead contact during a first state of operation. The first end of the current lead contact is arranged to contact a power supply during a second state of operation, wherein the contact occurs exterior the vacuum chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Susumu Mine, Minfeng Xu, Anbo Wu, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson
  • Patent number: 11332732
    Abstract: Provided are techniques that may include a disposable magnetic cell isolation holder having one or more passages that accommodate a magnetic retention material to facilitate magnetic cell isolation without adjustment of magnetic field parameters between isolation procedures using different magnetic particle sizes. When the magnetic cell isolation holder is coupled to a magnetic field generator, a first passage corresponding to a smaller particle size is positioned in a magnetic field where the magnetic field characteristics are different relative to a second passage, of a second holder or in the same holder, for use with another bead size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLC
    Inventors: Xiaohua Zhang, Susumu Mine, Ye Bai, Reginald Smith, Minfeng Xu, Weston Griffin, Kenneth Conway
  • Patent number: 11309110
    Abstract: A persistent current switch system is presented. One embodiment of the persistent current switch system includes a vacuum chamber having a winding unit and dual cooling paths. The dual cooling paths are configured to circulate a coolant flow. The dual cooling paths are defined by a first cooling path and a second cooling path. The first cooling path includes a solid thermal component disposed in direct contact with the winding unit and the second cooling path includes a cooling tube disposed in direct contact with the winding unit and configured to circulate a coolant therein. The dual cooling paths cool the temperature of the winding unit below the threshold temperature to transition the persistent current switch system from the first mode to the second mode. A method of for cooling a winding unit in a persistent current switch system and a switching system including dual cooling paths are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Susumu Mine, Ye Bai, Anbo Wu, Minfeng Xu, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson
  • Patent number: 11307276
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging device is described that includes multiple magnetic coils to generate a magnetic field. Additionally, the magnetic resonance imaging device may include one or more radial gaps within some or all of the magnetic coils (e.g., primary magnetic coils, bucking coils, and so forth) in which radial spacers may be located to help preserve the homogeneity of the magnetic isocenter of the primary magnetic coils during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anbo Wu, Ye Bai, Minfeng Xu, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson, Mark Ernest Vermilyea, Michael Parizh
  • Publication number: 20210366151
    Abstract: An image recognition method includes: obtaining an image; extracting a target image region corresponding to a target part from the image, wherein the target image region includes a target object; determining a location of the target object in the target image region (i) according to pixel values of pixels in the target image region and a location relationship between the pixels, or (ii) inputting the target image region to a trained segmentation model to obtain the location of the target object in the target image region; and displaying a recognition result of the image, wherein the recognition result indicates the location of the target object in the target image region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Shuangrui LIU, Zhe TANG, Wenchao GUO, Jianqiang MA, Minfeng XU
  • Publication number: 20210303935
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, device, and system for processing a medical image. The method includes obtaining, by one or more processors, a first medical image, wherein the first medical image includes a representation of a target organ, and processing, by the one or more processors, the first medical image based at least in part on a first machine learning model. A classification result associated with the first medical image and a first image of a target region in the first medical image are obtained based at least in part on the processing of the first medical image using the first machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Jianqiang Ma, Zhe Tang, Minfeng Xu, Shuangrui Liu, Wenchao Guo
  • Publication number: 20210303928
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, device, and system for processing a medical image. The method includes obtaining, by one or more processors, a target image, segmenting, by the one or more processors, a target region image from the target image, wherein the target region image comprises a target object region in the target image, analyzing, by the one or more processors, the target region image based at least in part on a machine learning model, and obtaining by the one or more processors, a recognition result based at least in part on the analysis of the target region image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Minfeng Xu, Zhe Tang, Shuangrui Liu, Wenchao Guo, Jianqiang Ma
  • Publication number: 20210272729
    Abstract: A current lead assembly for minimizing heat load to a conduction cooled superconducting magnet during a ramp operation is provided. The current lead assembly includes a vacuum chamber having a through hole to enable a first end of a current lead contact to remain outside the vacuum chamber and a second end of the current lead contact to penetrate within the vacuum chamber. A vacuum boundary wall is located between the vacuum chamber and the current lead contact. At least one superconducting magnet is arranged inside of the vacuum chamber and includes a magnet lead. A second end of the current lead contact is coupled to the magnet lead via an internal lead. A vacuum cap is removably disposed to sealingly encompass therein the first end of the current lead contact during a first state of operation. The first end of the current lead contact is arranged to contact a power supply during a second state of operation, wherein the contact occurs exterior the vacuum chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Susumu Mine, Minfeng Xu, Anbo Wu, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson
  • Publication number: 20210159003
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet apparatus includes a plurality of superconducting magnet coil sections connected in series and housed within a cryogenically cooled, vacuum container. A power source generates a current. A first lead is electrically connected to the superconducting magnet coil sections. A second lead is enclosed entirely within the vacuum container. The second lead has a first section and a second section, and the first section is electrically connected to the power source. The second section is electrically connected to the first lead, and rigidly connected to a linear displacement device enclosed entirely within the vacuum container. The linear displacement device linearly displaces the second section relative to the first section, so that the first section contacts the second section thereby electrically connecting the first and second sections, or by creating a gap between the first section and second section thereby electrically disconnecting the first section from the second section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Ernst Wolfgang Stautner, James William Bray, Minfeng Xu, Anbo Wu, Michael Parizh
  • Publication number: 20210109175
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging device is described that includes multiple magnetic coils to generate a magnetic field. Additionally, the magnetic resonance imaging device may include one or more radial gaps within some or all of the magnetic coils (e.g., primary magnetic coils, bucking coils, and so forth) in which radial spacers may be located to help preserve the homogeneity of the magnetic isocenter of the primary magnetic coils during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Anbo Wu, Ye Bai, Minfeng Xu, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson, Mark Ernest Vermilyea, Michael Parizh
  • Patent number: 10978943
    Abstract: A wind turbine power generating system and method includes a tower, a hub, a plurality of blades connected to the hub, and a rotor connected to the hub. A superconducting generator is coupled to the rotor and includes a plurality of superconductive coils. A nacelle is mounted atop the tower, with the superconducting generator housed within the nacelle. An automatic ramp-down system is configured with the superconducting coils and includes an automatically activated energy dump circuit for current withdrawn from the superconductive coils in a ramp-down process prior to a quench. The energy dump circuit includes one or more heat dissipating loads, wherein each of the heat dissipating loads is mounted in thermal communication with one of the tower or the nacelle that act a thermal heat sink for dispersing heat from the loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Anbo Wu, Michael Parizh, Ernst Wolfgang Stautner, Minfeng Xu, James William Bray