Patents by Inventor William Lu

William Lu 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: 20240173231
    Abstract: A topical composition comprising: (a) a cosmetic skin benefit agent; (b) a retinoid; and (c) a dermatologically acceptable vehicle. The compositions are useful as cosmetic anti-ageing skin care creams and lotions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Van AU, Andrew John DAVIS, Marian Pereira GUELAKIS, Bijan HARICHIAN, William F. LATHROP, Jianming LEE, Nandou LU, Jose Guillermo ROSA
  • Patent number: 11997554
    Abstract: System and methods for smart cell selection and reselection are described. A mobile device may attempt to camp on a cell in a tracking area that has advertised a particular frequency band. If the mobile device is unable to recognize an information element identifying a different subset of the advertised frequency band than that supported by the mobile device, the mobile device will store a record of the tracking area and the advertised frequency band and compare future cell information broadcasts to the entry, avoiding attempts to operate within cells in the same tracking area advertising the same frequency. In this way the mobile device conserves resources by avoiding actions in incompatible cells and avoids storing information about many cells by only storing the tracking area information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kun Lu, Egil Gronstad, Alan Denis MacDonald, Scott Francis Migaldi, John Humbert, Brett L. Christian, Hsin Fu Henry Chiang, William M. Shvodian
  • Publication number: 20240171648
    Abstract: An M2M Service Layer is expanded to access the services of third parties and exchange data with these third parties. The M2M Service Layer is then able to act as a proxy between M2M Devices and the third party services. The M2M Service Layer is able to present a single/consistent interface, or API, to the M2M Device and hide the details of the third party service provider from the M2M Device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: William Robert FLYNN, IV, Dale N. SEED, Xu LI, Guang LU, Lijun DONG, Hongkun LI, Phillip BROWN, Catalina M. MLADIN
  • Patent number: 11990132
    Abstract: A transcription of audio speech included in electronic content associated with a meeting is created by an ASR model trained on speech-to-text data. The transcription is post-processed by modifying text included in the transcription, for example, by modifying punctuation, grammar, or formatting introduced by the ASR model and by changing or omitting one or more words that were included in both the audio speech and the transcription. After the transcription is post-processed, output based on the post-processed transcription is generated in the form of a meeting summary and/or template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chenguang Zhu, Yu Shi, William Isaac Hinthorn, Nanshan Zeng, Ruochen Xu, Liyang Lu, Xuedong Huang
  • Patent number: 11987824
    Abstract: The invention is directed to novel variant endoglucanases and their use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: FORNIA BIOSOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Jie Yang, Xiyun Zhang, William Buchanan Porterfield, Wenhua Lu, Khin Oo, Goutami Banerjee, Tatsuya Fukushima, Eric Lin Hu
  • Patent number: 11980329
    Abstract: An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a body, a controller supported by the body, a drive supporting the body to maneuver the robot across a floor surface in response to commands from the controller, and a pad holder attached to an underside of the body to hold a removable cleaning pad during operation of the robot. The pad includes a mounting plate and a mounting surface. The mounting plate is attached to the mounting surface. The robot includes a pad sensor to sense a feature on the pad and to generate a signal based on the feature, which is defined in part by a cutout on the card backing. The mounting plate enables the pad sensor to detect the feature. The controller is responsive to the signal to perform operations including selecting a cleaning mode based on the signal, and controlling the robot according to a selected cleaning mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Hong Lu, Joseph M. Johnson, Daniel Foran, Marcus Williams, Andrew Graziani
  • Patent number: 11964250
    Abstract: Methods and systems for synthesizing multicompartment capsules are disclosed, as well as multicompartment polymer capsules formed in accordance with disclosed techniques. At least one plurality of polymer capsules are formed via a capsule-forming process. A feed solution and a reservoir solution are provided, each comprising a biopolymer. The feed solution biopolymer and the reservoir solution biopolymer have opposite charges. Droplets of the feed solution are introduced into the reservoir solution, thereby forming via electrostatic complexation a plurality of polymer capsules. At least a portion of the resulting polymer capsules are then encapsulated in a larger polymer capsule via a similar process, wherein the feed solution utilized for the encapsulation process also comprises the formed smaller capsules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Hyuntaek Oh, Srinivasa R. Raghavan, William E. Bentley, Xi Lu, Jessica Lynn Terrell, So Hyun Ahn
  • Patent number: 11968100
    Abstract: The present application describes a method and apparatus for managing a service in a service layer. In particular, a method describes a computer readable storage medium including instructions for managing a service in a service layer where the instructions are executed by a processor. The executed instructions cause the processor to receive a request to manage, via a service enabler function of the service layer, a change of state of the service including adding, removing, activating, or deactivating the service. The request may include a service description. The executed instructions also cause the processor to evaluate, via the service enabler function, the service description comprising identifiers of one or more services to manage. The executed instructions further cause the processor to identify one or more service capabilities in the service layer to assist in managing the one or more services identified in the service description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Hongkun Li, Guang Lu, Lijun Dong, Dale N. Seed, William Robert Flynn, IV, Catalina M. Mladin, Xu Li
  • Publication number: 20240127633
    Abstract: Provided are methods for dynamic orchestration of modems in an autonomous vehicle, which can include an SoC determining performance parameters from a plurality of modems and controlling communication of data between ECUs and the modems. Some methods described also include an SoC acting as a forwarding daemon, communicating with a switch, and or providing configuration data. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmed ELHADEEDY, Syed TIRMIZI, Sim WONSEON, William LU
  • Patent number: 11963099
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are related to a first device to communicate with a second device and a third device. In one aspect, the first device determines a first time interval to receive a first beacon frame from the second device. In one aspect, the first device determines, according to the first time interval, a second time interval for the first device to transmit a second beacon frame to a third device. In one aspect, the first device determines a third time interval to operate the first device in a wake up mode. The third time interval may encompass the first time interval and the second time interval. In one aspect, the first device receives the first beacon frame from the second device during the first time interval, and transmits the second beacon frame to the third device during the second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dong Zheng, Qi Qu, Gang Lu, William Louis Abbott
  • Patent number: 11957286
    Abstract: An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a robot body defining a forward drive direction, a controller supported by the robot body, a drive supporting the robot body and configured to maneuver the robot across a surface in response to commands from the controller, a pad holder disposed on an underside of the robot body and configured to retain a removable cleaning pad during operation of the cleaning robot; and a pad sensor arranged to sense a feature of a cleaning pad held by the pad holder and generate a corresponding signal. The controller is responsive to the signal generated by the pad sensor, and configured to control the robot according to a cleaning mode selected from a set of multiple robot cleaning modes as a function of the signal generated by the pad sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Ping-Hong Lu, Dan Foran, Marcus Williams, Joe Johnson, Andrew Graziani
  • Publication number: 20240121312
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for migration or sharing of existing M2M service layer sessions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a Session Migration and Sharing Function (SMSF) performs the migration or sharing of a M2M service layer session. Various forms of service layer session context may be used to enable the migration and sharing of M2M service layer sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Dale N SEED, Guang LU, Lijun DONG, Hongkun LI, Xu LI, William Robert FLYNN, IV, Catalina M MLADIN, Phillip BROWN
  • Publication number: 20240110463
    Abstract: A wellhead bracing system for a subsea well includes a base plate assembly and a wellhead brace assembly. The base plate assembly comprises a top surface, a bottom surface, a base plate aperture, and a plurality of anchor holes. The wellhead brace assembly comprises a vertical plate assembly having a cylindrical shape, a horizontal plate assembly to which the vertical plate assembly is attached, and a vertical support assembly attached to an outer surface of the vertical plate assembly and attached to the top surface of the horizontal plate assembly. Horizontal plate holes of the horizontal plate assembly are configured to attach to studs on the top surface of the base plate to secure the wellhead brace assembly to the base plate assembly. The wellhead bracing system slides onto a wellhead of the subsea well and braces an exterior of the wellhead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Wangming Lu, Khiem Nguyen, Jay Patrick Painter, Caleb Kimbrell Carroll, William Stephen Averill, Deryck Edward Matthew Williams, David Crenshaw Barrow, Michael Ryan Fitzsimmons
  • Patent number: 11930411
    Abstract: Disclosed herein a system, a method and a device for selecting between a primary link and a secondary link for AR/VR applications. A console can provide a VR/AR session to a user through a head wearable display. The console can determine that a first measurement of a primary link between the console and a head wearable display is less than a first threshold. The first measurement can include a quality metric of the primary link. The console can activate a secondary link between the console and the head wearable display. The console can determine whether a second measurement of the primary link between the console and the head wearable display is less than a second threshold. The console can transition when the second measurement is less than the second threshold, traffic on the primary link to the activated secondary link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dong Zheng, Qi Qu, Gang Lu, Yuting Fan, William Louis Abbott
  • Publication number: 20240068356
    Abstract: A computing system, method, and computer-readable medium includes a fatigue tracking service that assists with monitoring fatigue damage in a subsea wellhead system. The fatigue tracking service uses historical environmental data to determine a fatigue damage rate. The fatigue tracking service determines a fatigue allowance based upon the fatigue damage rate, a number of days assigned to a well operation, and a total allowable fatigue damage. The fatigue tracking service compares the fatigue allowance to measurements providing an accumulated fatigue damage to facilitate the monitoring of fatigue damage in the subsea wellhead system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Wangming Lu, William Penaloza, Brian Koons, Thomas Chase
  • Publication number: 20240066063
    Abstract: Compositions comprising and methods for the treatment of cancer using a NeoTCR based cell therapy with a modified TGF?RII expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: PACT PHARMA, INC.
    Inventors: Charles W. TRAN, John D. Gagnon, Barbara Sennino, Stefanie Mandl-Cashman, Kyle Jacoby, William Lu, Michael Mayne Dubreuil, James S. Byers, III, Michal Mass, Alex Franzusoff
  • Publication number: 20240065619
    Abstract: Example inventions detect and treat an occurrence of an apnea event during a sleep period of a user. Example inventions receive data corresponding to nasal air pressure of the user and/or audio of the user during the sleep period. Example inventions determine patterns in the data, based on the patterns, detect the apnea event and, in response to the detecting, treat the apnea event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hoo-min D. TOONG, Terry SPURLING, Anthony WEI, William C. ALTMANN, Vivian CHENG, Eric CHENG, Fenghua LU, Tiejun ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11864978
    Abstract: A computer-implemented bone-implant system evaluation method for application of mesh-free analysis of a bone-implant system for evaluation of performance of a bone-implant system for an implant implanted within the bone structure at an anatomical site, said method comprising (i) receiving a set of bone structure data set, wherein set of bone structure data includes data indicative of the bone structure at an anatomical site; (ii) inputting an implant data set and inputting the position of the implant data set, wherein the implant is selected based upon the biomechanical requirements for the anatomical site and the position and of the implant data set is indicative of the position of the implant with respect to the anatomical site, wherein implant data set includes data representative of the geometry and materials properties of the implant; (iii) creating a bone-implant model, wherein said bone implant-model includes a mesh-free model of trabecular bone at the anatomical site wherein the bone-implant model is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: VERSITECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Sloan Austin Kulper, Hing Wan Alfonso Ngan, Xinshuo Christian Fang, Margaret Guo, Weijia William Lu, Ka Li Frankie Leung
  • Publication number: 20230355762
    Abstract: Compositions comprising and methods for the treatment of cancer using a NeoTCR based cell therapy with a secondary Payload in an expression construct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: PACT PHARMA, INC.
    Inventors: Michal Mass, William Lu, Kyle Jacoby, Michael Mayne Dubreuil, Barbara Sennino, Stefanie Mandl-Cashman, James S. Byers, III
  • Publication number: 20230231534
    Abstract: An acoustic resonator has a piezoelectric plate having first and second surfaces, the second surface facing a substrate, and a diaphragm of the piezoelectric plate spanning a cavity. A conductor pattern is formed on at least one of the first and second surfaces and has an interdigital transducer (IDT) having interleaved fingers on the diaphragm portion of the piezoelectric plate. At least one of a pitch of the interleaved IDT fingers or a mark of the interleaved IDT fingers varies over an area of the IDT to compensate for process-induced distortion of the diaphragm portion of the piezoelectric plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Greg DYER, William Lu, Douglas Jachowski, Bryant Garcia