Patents by Inventor Ming Zou

Ming Zou 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: 11970601
    Abstract: A thermoplastic polyolefin composition comprises: (A) a polypropylene polymer; (B) an elastomer component; (C) an additive component; and (D) a scavenger component comprising a polyacetoacetate compound having the Formula (I) defined herein and calcium carbonate. And an article is made from the thermoplastic polyolefin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Haiying Li, Andong Liu, Shaoguang Feng, Xiuhan Yang, Jian Zou, Ming Ming, Yonghua Gong, Xuemei Zhai
  • Patent number: 11933920
    Abstract: One example method involves obtaining a plurality of scans of a field-of-view (FOV) of a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device disposed inside a housing. Obtaining each scan of the plurality of scans comprises: transmitting, through a plurality of sections of the housing, a plurality of light pulses emitted from the LIDAR device in different directions toward the housing; and detecting a plurality of returning light pulses comprising reflected portions of the transmitted plurality of light pulses that are reflected back toward the LIDAR device. The method also involves detecting an obstruction that at least partially occludes the LIDAR device from scanning the FOV through the housing based on the plurality of scans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Gil Shotan, Luke Wachter, Colin Braley, Christian Lauterbach, Xiaoxiang Hu, Ming Zou
  • Publication number: 20240079757
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with peripheral conductive housing structures having first and second segments. A flexible printed circuit may have a first tail that extends along the first and second segments and a second tail that extends along the first segment. A conductive trace on the first tail may be coupled to an antenna feed terminal on the second segment. A conductive trace on the second tail may couple the conductive trace on the first tail to the first segment. A tuner and filters may be disposed on the flexible printed circuit and may be coupled to the conductive traces. The conductive trace on the second tail may have a tapered width. An antenna in the device may have a resonating element that includes both the first and second segments, thereby allowing the antenna to exhibit a wide bandwidth from 1.1-5 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Amjadi, Yuan Tao, Hao Xu, Yiren Wang, Xue Yang, Mattia Pascolini, Hongfei Hu, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Ming-Ju Tsai, Ana Papio Toda, Yuancheng Xu, Jingni Zhong, Nikolaj P Kammersgaard, Sidharath Jain, Haozhan Tian, Ming Chen, Linqiang Zou
  • Patent number: 11916768
    Abstract: An information sharing method includes that a first redundancy device generates a first supervision frame that includes device information of the first redundancy device, where the first supervision frame detects whether a second redundancy device on a transmission link on which the first redundancy device is located in the redundancy network is in a working state, where the first redundancy device is any redundancy device in the redundancy network; and where the first redundancy device sends the first supervision frame to the second redundancy device in a multicast manner. The device information of the redundancy device is carried in the supervision frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mujie Zou, Yumeng Yang, Tao Jin, Ming Li
  • Patent number: 11655514
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turnout rail production technology, in particular to a deeply-hardened-surface turnout rail with high degree of undercooling and the preparation method thereof. The invention aims to solve the technical problem by providing a deeply-hardened-surface turnout rail with high degree of undercooling featured in even hardness distribution and a deeply hardened surface layer and the preparation method thereof. The method is described as follows: feeding molten iron for converter smelting?furnace rear argon blowing station?LF refining?RH vacuumization?casting steel blanks?slow cooling in the slow cooling pit?austenitic homogenization?rail rolling?heat treatment; in the converter smelting process, adding 0.2-0.3% Cr, 0.04-0.06 V and 0.75-0.80% C; the heat treatment process is divided into two cooling stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yuan, Ming Zou, Yong Deng, Ruoxi Li
  • Publication number: 20220288064
    Abstract: Provided is a novel PDGFR kinase inhibitor, comprising a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, ester, acid, metabolite or prodrug thereof. Further provided are use and a method of the compound of formula (I) for preventing or treating conditions associated with PDGFR kinase activity, particularly use and a method for preventing or treating conditions associated with PDGFR? and/or PDGFR? kinase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Qing Song LIU, Jing LIU, Xi Xiang LI, Ao Li WANG, Feng Ming ZOU, Cheng CHEN, Qing Wang LIU, Juan LIU, Jiang Yan CAO, Wen Liang WANG, Shuang QI, Wen Chao WANG, Bei Lei WANG, Li WANG
  • Publication number: 20220179057
    Abstract: One example method involves obtaining a plurality of scans of a field-of-view (FOV) of a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device disposed inside a housing. Obtaining each scan of the plurality of scans comprises: transmitting, through a plurality of sections of the housing, a plurality of light pulses emitted from the LIDAR device in different directions toward the housing; and detecting a plurality of returning light pulses comprising reflected portions of the transmitted plurality of light pulses that are reflected back toward the LIDAR device. The method also involves detecting an obstruction that at least partially occludes the LIDAR device from scanning the FOV through the housing based on the plurality of scans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Gil SHOTAN, Luke WACHTER, Colin BRALEY, Christian LAUTERBACH, Xiaoxiang HU, Ming ZOU
  • Publication number: 20220143001
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel pan-RAF kinase inhibitor, comprising a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, ester, acid, metabolite or prodrug thereof. The present invention also provides a use or method of the compound of formula (I) in the treatment or prevention of a disorder related to the activity of RAF and/or RAS kinase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TARAPEUTICS SCIENCE INC.
    Inventors: Qing Song LIU, Jing LIU, Xi Xiang LI, Ao Li WANG, Zi Ping QI, Qing Wang LIU, Zong Ru JIANG, Feng Ming ZOU, Wen Chao WANG, Chen HU, Cheng CHEN, Li WANG
  • Publication number: 20220138413
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for producing a dedicated Electronic Report Presentation (“ERP”) of result values derived from data pre-collected in at least one computing platform, comprising: (i) providing a set of calls directed to predefined functions accessible in the at least one computing platform, wherein each call of the set of calls comprises a function identifier associated to one of the predefined functions, one or more pre-collected data parameters and one specific technical location pointer, wherein the specific technical location pointer is a computer recognizable functional parameter comprising at least two parts to localize where at least one of the result values is to be depicted in the dedicated ERP; (ii) the predefined functions deriving the result values from the pre-collected data and coupling the result values to the specific technical location pointers; (iii) automatically generating one or more technical interface dataset being a specific technical data structure including a number of o
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Ming ZOU
  • Patent number: 11321410
    Abstract: This application discloses an information recommendation method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of information recommendation. The method includes starting an application program according to a start operation, a first account being logged in in the application program; obtaining a recommended information flow for the first account, recommended information in the recommended information flow including at least one piece of interactive recommended information, the interactive recommended information being information for which a second account generates an interactive message, the first account and the second account having a social relationship; and displaying an information presentation interface, the information presentation interface comprising the recommended information displayed in an information flow form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhe Feng, Zhiping Wang, Leyu Lin, Ge Wang, Yang Cui, Jiayi Ding, Shuo Wang, Qihao Zhu, Chenglin Zhong, Shanpeng Sun, Xiumin Lin, Yang Zuo, Junhong Yan, Ming Zou, Xulin Liao, Feng Xia, Xu Zhang, Su Yan, Wei Wang, Zhiwei Guo, Jianxiong Feng
  • Publication number: 20220127689
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turnout rail production technology, in particular to a deeply-hardened-surface turnout rail with high degree of undercooling and the preparation method thereof. The invention aims to solve the technical problem by providing a deeply-hardened-surface turnout rail with high degree of undercooling featured in even hardness distribution and a deeply hardened surface layer and the preparation method thereof. The method is described as follows: feeding molten iron for converter smelting?furnace rear argon blowing station?LF refining?RH vacuumization?casting steel blanks?slow cooling in the slow cooling pit?austenitic homogenization?rail rolling?heat treatment; in the converter smelting process, adding 0.2-0.3% Cr, 0.04-0.06 V and 0.75-0.80% C; the heat treatment process is divided into two cooling stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Jun YUAN, Ming ZOU, Yong DENG, Ruoxi LI
  • Publication number: 20210397645
    Abstract: An image search method is provided. In the method, an image selection page of a messaging application is displayed. An input image for a search is determined based on an operation performed by a user on the image selection page. A search is performed for at least one output image similar to the input image based on a plurality of types of image characteristics that indicate levels of similarity between images. Each of the ay least one output image is determined to be similar to the input image based on at least one of the types of image characteristics. A search result list is generated according to the at least one output image. Further, the search result list is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiangmin WANG, Zefeng LIANG, Qiang YAN, Qingyang ZHANG, Chuangmu YAO, Ge WANG, Jiayi DING, Zhenhong CHEN, Meng ZHAO, Qian BAI, Hang ZHAO, Wenfeng ZHU, Keliang SUN, Qiaoying LIN, Dandan CHEN, Xiumin LIN, Ming ZOU, Jiamin CHEN, Huawei ZHANG, Zhihao CHEN, Yurun MO, Jiawen ZHONG, Mu YUAN, Fu ZOU
  • Publication number: 20210270967
    Abstract: Computing devices, systems, and methods described in various embodiments herein may relate to light detection and ranging (LIDAR or lidar) systems. An example computing device could include a controller having at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute program instructions stored in the at least one memory so as to carry out operations. The operations include receiving information indicative of transmit light emitted from a lidar system along a light-emission axis. The operations also include determining, based on the received information, a maximum instrumented distance. The maximum instrumented distance includes a known unobstructed region defined by a ray segment extending between the lidar system and a point along the light-emission axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Alexander Shand, Ming Zou
  • Publication number: 20210240792
    Abstract: This application discloses an information recommendation method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of information recommendation. The method includes starting an application program according to a start operation, a first account being logged in in the application program; obtaining a recommended information flow for the first account, recommended information in the recommended information flow including at least one piece of interactive recommended information, the interactive recommended information being information for which a second account generates an interactive message, the first account and the second account having a social relationship; and displaying an information presentation interface, the information presentation interface comprising the recommended information displayed in an information flow form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Zhe FENG, Zhiping WANG, Leyu LIN, Ge WANG, Yang CUI, Jiayi DING, Shuo WANG, Qihao ZHU, Chenglin ZHONG, Shanpeng SUN, Xiumin LIN, Yang ZUO, Junhong YAN, Ming ZOU, Xulin LIAO, Feng XIA, Xu ZHANG, Su YAN, Wei WANG, Zhiwei GUO, Jianxiong FENG
  • Publication number: 20210109523
    Abstract: The technology relates to operation of a vehicle in a self-driving mode by determining the presence of occlusions in the environment around the vehicle. Raw sensor data for one or more sensors is received and a range image for each sensor based is computed based on the received data. The range image data may be corrected in view of obtained perception information from other sensors, heuristic analysis and/or a learning-based approach to fill gaps in the data or to filter out noise. The corrected data may be compressed prior to packaging into a format for consumption by onboard and offboard systems. These systems can obtain and evaluate the corrected data for use in real time and non-real time situations, such as performing driving operations, planning an upcoming route, testing driving scenarios, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Ming Zou, Christian Lauterbach, Peter Morton
  • Patent number: 10946282
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a control-object spatial-location determining method and apparatus. The method includes: detecting, by a game engine of the game application, a spatial-location request, wherein the game engine is not applying physical collision, and the spatial-location request is a request for determining, based on a first spatial-location of a first control-object in the game application, a second spatial-location of a second control-object; determining, by the game engine, multiple candidate spatial-locations according to the first spatial-location of the first control-object, wherein the multiple candidate spatial-locations surround the first spatial-location, and any two of the multiple candidate spatial-locations and the first spatial-location do not overlap; and determining, by the game engine, an unoccupied candidate spatial-location among the multiple candidate spatial-locations as the second spatial-location of the second control-object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Ming Zou
  • Patent number: 10850315
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for high-toughness and plasticity hypereutectoid rail, including: a. hot rolling the steel billet into rail; b. blowing a cooling medium to the top surface of railhead, wherein, the two sides of railhead and the lower jaws on the two sides of railhead after the center of top surface of rail is air-cooled to 800-850° C., and cooling the rail until the center temperature of the top surface is 520-550° C.; c. stop blowing the cooling medium to the lower jaws on the two sides of railhead, continue blowing the cooling medium to the top surface of railhead and the two sides of railhead, and air cool the rail to room temperature after the surface temperature of railhead is cooled to 430-480° C. The resulting hypereutectoid rail has higher toughness and plasticity than existing products, which is suitable for heavy-haul railway, especially for small radius curve sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Pangang Group Research Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Han, Ming Zou, Hua Guo, Jun Yuan
  • Patent number: 10376796
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a message processing method and terminal device. The method includes: receiving a first message that carries displacement parameters and is sent by a client, the displacement parameters being generated by the client and used to indicate displacement of a virtual object in a virtual space; determining, according to the displacement parameters, whether the displacement conforms to a preset rule; and sending, if it is determined that the displacement does not conform to the preset rule, a second message used by the client to refuse the displacement. The present disclosure solves the technical problem in the existing technology that multiple terminal device resources need to be occupied to ensure appropriate movement of a virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Ming Zou, Zheng Zhang, Zhenchao Ru, Bailin An
  • Publication number: 20190226040
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of railway, and discloses a hypereutectoid rail and a manufacturing method thereof, which includes rolling a steel billet containing V and Ti, wherein, based on its total weight, the steel billet contains C of 0.85-0.94 wt %, and the relation between the start rolling temperature Tstart/final rolling temperature Tfinal and the content of V and the content of Ti satisfies the following formulas: Tstart=1100+a([V]+5[Ti]), Tfinal=750+b([V]+5[Ti]), wherein, 500?a?800, 300?b?500; based on its total weight, the steel billet contains V of 0.03-0.08 wt %, Ti of 0.011-0.02 wt %, and [V]+5[Ti]: 0.12-0.14 wt %. The hypereutectoid rail manufactured with the method has excellent comprehensive performance of strength and toughness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: PANGANG GROUP PANZHIHUA IRON & STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenyu HAN, Ming ZOU, Hua GUO, Gongming TAO, Yuan WANG, Chunjian WANG, Jihai JIA
  • Publication number: 20190105694
    Abstract: In view of the problem of uneven performance of railhead sections of pearlitic rail manufactured with existing technique and the poor performance of the pearlitic rail obtained, the invention provides a manufacturing method for high-carbon and high-strength and toughness pearlitic rail, including the following steps to: a. hot roll the steel billet into rail, with a final rolling temperature of 900-1000° C.; b. blow a cooling medium to the top surface of railhead, wherein, the two sides of railhead and the lower jaws on two sides of railhead when the center of top surface of rail is air-cooled to 800-850° C.; then air-cool the rail to room temperature after the center of top surface of rail is cooled to 480-530° C. By controlling the composition of steel and adopting a two-stage accelerated cooling, a high-carbon rail is produced with better strength and excellent toughness which is suitable for heavy-haul railway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Zhenyu HAN, Ming ZOU, Hua GUO, Jun YUAN