Patents by Inventor Ming Zhou

Ming Zhou 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: 20220279116
    Abstract: An object tracking method includes: acquiring a first image through a second camera in a case that a preview image acquired through a first camera is displayed, where the preview image and the first image include a plurality of objects, the plurality of objects are images of a plurality of first physical objects, and a resolution of the first image is greater than a resolution of the preview image; displaying, according to the first image and in the preview image, at least one identifier used for indicating M target object(s) in the plurality of objects in the preview image, M being a positive integer; receiving a first input for a first object in the M target object(s) in the preview image; and tracking a physical object corresponding to the first object and displaying an image of the physical object corresponding to the first object in response to the first input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11426675
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides processes and systems for heat integration in ethanol production. In one embodiment, a feed mixture is distilled with one or more distillation units to remove at least a portion of the water, and form a distillation unit bottom stream, a vaporous overhead stream, and a fusel oil stream. Molecular sieve units are regenerated by vacuum or a combination of vacuum and optionally a portion of the product stream to form one or more regenerate streams. A feed tank is configured to receive at least one selected from a condensed portion of the regenerate streams and a portion of a vaporous depressure stream, to form a feed stream. The energy contained in the depressure vapor is recovered by the depressure vapor contacting the feed tank and heating up at least one stream forwarded into the feed tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: WHITEFOX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Virginia Andrade, Jin Ming Zhou, Stephan Rüdiger Blum
  • Patent number: 11429787
    Abstract: Method and system for training a text-to-content suggestion ML model include accessing a dataset containing unlabeled training data collected from an application, the unlabeled training data being collected under user privacy constraints, applying an ML model to the dataset to generate a pretrained embedding, and applying a supervised ML model to a labeled dataset to train the text-to-content suggestion ML model utilized by the application by utilizing the pretrained embedding generated by the supervised ML model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ji Li, Xingxing Zhang, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou, Amit Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20220272563
    Abstract: A device control system is disclosed. The system includes a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal. After enabling a wireless hotspot function, the first mobile terminal establishes a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) connection to the second mobile terminal, and transmits data to the second mobile terminal in a MIMO Wi-Fi antenna working mode. The first mobile terminal may monitor a remaining battery level and/or a device temperature of the mobile terminal. When the remaining battery level is less than a first battery level threshold and/or the device temperature is greater than a first temperature threshold, the first mobile terminal switches the Wi-Fi antenna working mode as SISO, limits a maximum forwarding rate of a TCP packet or a UDP packet to a first rate, and/or no longer responds to a probe request. In this way, power consumption of the first mobile terminal is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Ming ZHOU, Junxin LU, Shaolong WANG
  • Publication number: 20220272275
    Abstract: A photographing method applied to an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a plurality of cameras. The method includes: receiving a first touch-control input; acquiring a movement speed of a first target object in response to the first touch-control input, the first target object being a moving object in a photography preview interface; acquiring a target photographic magnification factor set based on the movement speed, the target photographic magnification factor set including a plurality of photographic magnification factors; and taking a plurality of photos based on the target photographic magnification factor set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Ming ZHOU, Xuan HU
  • Publication number: 20220251551
    Abstract: Antisense oligomers complementary to a selected target site in the human dystrophin gene to induce exon 51 skipping are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick Joseph SCHNELL, Marco PASSINI, Nelsa ESTRELLA, Gunnar HANSON, Ming ZHOU, Richard BESTWICK
  • Publication number: 20220248737
    Abstract: An oyster peptide with an effect of improving sexual function and a preparation method thereof are provided, the oyster peptide at least includes peptide segments RI, IR and VR in its composition. Based on a mass of the oyster peptide, a content of the RI is ?3.60 mg/100 g, a content of the IR is ?7.60 mg/100 g, and a content of the VR is ?6.50 mg/100 g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: MUYI CAI, Ruizeng GU, Haixin ZHANG, WENYING LIU, YING WEI, LEI FANG, XINGCHANG PAN, ZHE DONG, LU LU, MING ZHOU, YUCHEN WANG, KONG LING, YUAN BI
  • Publication number: 20220223537
    Abstract: Semiconductor fabrication method for manufacturing an interconnect structure is provided. The semiconductor fabrication method for manufacturing an interconnect structure includes providing a substrate structure comprising a substrate, a first dielectric layer on the substrate, and a metal interconnect line extending through the first dielectric layer; removing a portion of the first dielectric layer on the metal interconnect line to form a recess exposing a surface of the metal interconnect line; forming a graphene layer on the exposed surface of the metal interconnect line; and forming a second dielectric layer filling the recess and covering the graphene layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: Ming ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11358970
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions comprising artemisinin-derived trimers and tetramers; methods of preparing these compositions; and methods for their use as medicaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Ming Zhao, Li-Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220168477
    Abstract: Inserts can be formed with elution characteristics to cause the inserts to elute an antimicrobial agent when subject to a fluid within a medical device. An insert can be formed with a desired geometry to allow the insert to be compression fit within a medical device to prevent the insert from moving or becoming dislodged once inserted into the medical device. The material may also be hygroscopic so that the insert swells when subject to a fluid thereby enhancing the compression fit of the device within the medical device. In some cases, the material can be reinforced using an internal structure. Inserts can be formed in many ways including by casting, thermoforming, or extrusion. In some cases, the inserts can be formed using a peel-away sleeve or material. The peel-away sleeves can be formed of a non-sticky material which facilitates removal of the inserts once the inserts have cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Bryan Fred Bihlmaier, Weston F. Harding, Janice Lin, Huibin Liu, Siddarth K. Shevgoor, Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Yiping Ma, Ming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11327971
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an assertion-based question answering manner. After a question and the related passage are obtained, an assertion answer to the question is determined based on content of the passage, and the assertion answer has a predetermined structure and represents a complete semantic meaning. Then, the assertion answer to the question may be outputted to the user. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the question and the relevant passage are used as input, and a semi-structured assertion answer is output. The assertion answer according to embodiments of the present disclosure can provide richer semantic content than the traditional short answer, and provide a more concise expression than the traditional long answer, thereby ensuring accuracy of the answer while improving the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Wendi Wang, Daxin Jiang, Shujie Liu, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong
  • Patent number: 11328994
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an interconnect structure includes providing a substrate structure comprising a substrate, a first dielectric layer on the substrate, and a metal interconnect line formed in the first dielectric layer and extending through to a surface of the substrate; removing a portion of the first dielectric layer on opposite sides of the metal interconnect line to expose a surface of the metal interconnect line and to form a recess; forming a graphene layer on the exposed surface of the metal interconnect line; and forming a second dielectric layer filling the recess and covering the graphene layer. The interconnect structure can prevent metal atoms of the metal interconnect line from diffusion into the first and second dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (BEIJING) CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220141503
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution of live comments generating, which may acquire candidate texts highly similar with segments of video as live comments of corresponding segments by matching the candidate texts with the segments, and further generate new live comments based on video segments and existed live comments to enrich the live comments information of related video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Lei CUI, Furu WEI, Shaohan HUANG, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20220127613
    Abstract: Functionally-modified oligonucleotide analogues comprising modified intersubunit linkages and/or modified 3? and/or 5?-end groups are provided. The disclosed compounds are useful for the treatment of diseases where inhibition of protein expression or correction of aberrant mRNA splice products produces beneficial therapeutic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Gunnar J. Hanson, Dwight D. Weller, Bao Zhong Cai, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220128008
    Abstract: A method of purging fuel injectors of a gas turbine engine, the fuel injectors fluidly connected to a fuel manifold and having primary and secondary fuel passages fluidly connectable to the fuel manifold, the method includes: selectively fluidly disconnecting one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages from the fuel manifold; and purging the one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages by injecting a purging fluid into the one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages while bypassing the fuel manifold. A fuel injector having two fuel passages, a flow divider valve, and a purging valve is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph CIRTWILL, Jian-Ming ZHOU, Kian MCCALDON
  • Patent number: 11291749
    Abstract: Inserts can be formed with elution characteristics to cause the inserts to elute an antimicrobial agent when subject to a fluid within a medical device. An insert can be formed with a desired geometry to allow the insert to be compression fit within a medical device to prevent the insert from moving or becoming dislodged once inserted into the medical device. The material may also be hygroscopic so that the insert swells when subject to a fluid thereby enhancing the compression fit of the device within the medical device. In some cases, the material can be reinforced using an internal structure. Inserts can be formed in many ways including by casting, thermoforming, or extrusion. In some cases, the inserts can be formed using a peel-away sleeve or material. The peel-away sleeves can be formed of a non-sticky material which facilitates removal of the inserts once the inserts have cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Bryan Fred Bihlmaier, Weston F. Harding, Janice Lin, Huibin Liu, Siddarth K. Shevgoor, Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Yiping Ma, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220072143
    Abstract: Provided herein are oligonucleotides, peptides, and peptide-oligonucleotide-conjugates. Also provided herein are methods of treating a muscle disease, a viral infection, or a bacterial infection in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject oligonucleotides, peptides, and peptide-oligonucleotide-conjugates described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Gunnar J. Hanson, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220067533
    Abstract: A transformer-based neural network includes at least one mask attention network (MAN). The MAN computes an original attention data structure that expresses influence between pairs of data items in a sequence of data items. The MAN then modifies the original data structure by mask values in a mask data structure, to produce a modified attention data structure. Compared to the original attention data structure, the modified attention data structure better accounts for the influence of neighboring data items in the sequence of data items, given a particular data item under consideration. The mask data structure used by the MAN can have static and/or machine-trained mask values. In one implementation, the transformer-based neural network includes at least one MAN in combination with at least one other attention network that does not use a mask data structure, and at least one feed-forward neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jian JIAO, Yeyun GONG, Nan DUAN, Ruofei ZHANG, Ming ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11261373
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed a method for preparing a thickener for tight oil and gas reservoir, which relieves damages. The technical solution includes the following steps: putting a three-flask in ice; adding perfluoroalkyl alcohol, P-toluenesulfonyl chloride and pyridine; reacting for 3 h at 0-20° C.; adding filter paper; ultrasonic dispersing for 1 h; removing the filter paper; washing the solution for 3-5 times by adding dilute hydrochloric acid to collect the intermediate product (I); adding 1,3-dihydroxy-propane-2-tert-butyl carbamate and the intermediate product (I) in another three-flask; adding potassium carbonate and N,N-dimethylformamide; reacting for 4 h at 40° C. to collect the intermediate product (II); adding trifluoroacetic acid and methylene chloride into the intermediate product (II); reacting at 45° C. for 2 h; extracting and vacuum drying; and adding 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate; reacting for 2 h to collect the final product (III).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Ming Zhou, Hongjun Tu, Xiao Guo, Jinfeng Zhang, Juncheng Bu, Peng'ao Peng, Hongchang Han, Linkai Li, Mao Liao, Yinhua Gu, Rongjun Yi, Yongqiang Shi, Liangliang Xia
  • Patent number: D961986
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: FOSHAN HANSHI HEATING EQUIPMENT MANUFACTUERE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming Zhou