Patents Assigned to BAIDU USA LLC
  • Patent number: 11818866
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control system for a rack that includes a RMC that is communicatively coupled to pieces of equipment, each piece of equipment including a leak sensor and is fluidly coupled to a rack liquid manifold that circulates liquid coolant through the piece of equipment, several switches, and a control device that has a memory storage device that includes several of switch control and operation configurations, where in response to the RMC receiving a leak signal from a leak sensor, the control device determines each switch configuration based on the leak sensor from which the leak signal is received, and sets the switches in the configuration in which each of one or more switches, including a switch that controls the flow of coolant into the piece of equipment, exit the equipment, and prevents coolant from flowing from the manifold into a respective piece of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11814073
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a control command is generated with an MPC controller, the MPC controller including a cost function with weights associated with cost terms of the cost function. The control command is applied to a dynamic model of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) to simulate behavior of the ADV. One or more of the weights are based on evaluation of the dynamic model in response to the control command, resulting in an adjusted cost function of the MPC controller. Another control command is generated with the MPC controller having the adjusted cost function. This second control command can be used to effect movement of the ADV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Shu Jiang, Qi Luo, Jinghao Miao, Jiangtao Hu, Yu Wang, Jinyun Zhou, Jiaming Tao, Kecheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11812582
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed of a cold plate including substantially identical first and second frames. The first frame includes a first frame body with a first recess, a first mating surface surrounding the first recess, and a first plurality of heat transfer fins in the first recess. The second frame includes a second frame body with a second recess, a second mating surface surrounding the second recess, and a second plurality of heat transfer fins in the second recess. The second mating surface is in sealing contact with the first mating surface, so that the first and second recesses form a fluid chamber. The first and second pluralities of heat transfer fins form a plurality of fin channels in the fluid chamber. Advanced sealing structures can be formed between the first and second mating surfaces. A first fluid port and a second fluid port are fluidly coupled via fluid channels to the plurality of fin channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11807265
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes determining a first set of data acquisition characteristics of a first sensor of an autonomous driving vehicle. The method also includes determining a second set of data acquisition characteristics of a second sensor of the autonomous driving vehicle. The method further includes synchronizing a first data acquisition time of the first sensor and a second data acquisition time of the second sensor, based on the first set of data acquisition characteristics and the second set of data acquisition characteristics. The first sensor obtains first sensor data at the first data acquisition time. The second sensor obtains second sensor data at the second data acquisition time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuai Wang, Manjiang Zhang, Yaoming Shen, Lingchang Li, Shuangcheng Guo
  • Patent number: 11807274
    Abstract: A planned trajectory is analyzed by an L4 emergency braking module, before the trajectory is navigated by the autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). An L4 emergency braking signal is generated in response to an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) determining that any portion of a planned trajectory of the ADV has a deceleration that is less than ?2 m/sec2 and a time to collision with the ADV, by a vehicle following the ADV at a speed Z and a distance Y<100 m, during a period of 1 to 8 seconds after time 0 of the planned trajectory, if T X + Y Z ? X for any time X?{1 second . . . 8 seconds} after time 0, wherein TX is the location of the ADV in the trajectory at time X. Optionally, a sharp braking command can be issued by the L4 emergency braking module in response to activating the emergency braking signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Fan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11801733
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an autonomous driving system to autonomously drive an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) includes one or more processors, a perception module executed by the processors to perceive a driving environment surrounding the ADV, and a planning module executed by the processors to plan a path based on perception data of the driving environment to navigate through the driving environment. The processors are mounted on one or more cold plates coupled to a vehicle cooling system of the ADV, the vehicle cooling system having a first radiator and a first coolant distribution loop coupled to a vehicle engine of the ADV to provide liquid cooling to the vehicle engine. The cold plates are coupled to the first radiator via a second coolant distribution loop to receive a portion of the coolant from the first radiator to extract heat from the cold plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Shuai Shao, Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11805622
    Abstract: An immersion cooling system includes an immersion tank and one or more information technology (IT) equipment situated within the immersion tank. The IT equipment is configured to provide IT services and is at least partially submerged within a phase change liquid, where, when the IT equipment provides the IT services, the IT equipment generates heat that is transferred to the phase change liquid thereby causing at least some of the phase change liquid to turn into vapor phase. The immersion cooling system includes a primary condenser unit positioned above the immersion tank and a secondary condenser unit, where, either a single, or both the primary and secondary condenser units are configured to receive cooling liquid from an external cooling unit to condense the phase change liquid in vapor phase back into liquid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11796670
    Abstract: A radar point cloud data processing method and device, an apparatus, and storage medium are provided, which are related to technical fields of radar point cloud, automatic driving, and deep learning. An implementation includes: determining a target location area where a target object is located by utilizing a target detection box in the radar point cloud data; removing each point of the target object in the target location area from the radar point cloud data; and adding an object model to the target location area. By applying embodiments of the present disclosure, richer radar point cloud data may be obtained by removing the target object from the radar point cloud data and adding the needed three-dimensional model to the target location area in the radar point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Baidu USA LLC
    Inventors: Jin Fang, Dingfu Zhou, Xibin Song, Liangjun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11799651
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a DP accelerator includes one or more execution units (EUs) configured to perform data processing operations in response to an instruction received from a host system coupled over a bus. The DP accelerator includes a time unit (TU) coupled to the security unit to provide timestamp services. The DP accelerator includes a security unit (SU) configured to establish and maintain a secure channel with the host system to exchange commands and data associated with the data processing operations, where the security unit includes a secure storage area to store a private root key associated with the DP accelerator, where the private root key is utilized for authentication. The SU includes a random number generator to generate a random number, and a cryptographic engine to perform cryptographic operations on data exchanged with the host system over the bus using a session key derived based on the random number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: BAIDU USA LLC, BAIDU.COM TIMES TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD., KUNLUNXIN TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yong Liu, Yueqiang Cheng, Jian Ouyang, Tao Wei
  • Patent number: 11800680
    Abstract: A system for managing liquid leakage comprises a fluid module, which includes a supply fluid connector to receive cooling fluid from a rack manifold coupled to an external fluid source and to supply the cooling fluid to an information technology (IT) load of the server chassis, and a return fluid connector to receive cooling fluid from the IT load of the server chassis and to return the cooling fluid to the rack manifold and then to the external fluid source, forming a fluid loop, packaged with different energy storage units. When a liquid leakage is detected by a sensor in the server chassis, an electromagnetic unit coupled to the supply and return fluid connectors causes the first fluid connector to be pushed away from the rack manifold to disconnect the fluid loop on a supply side, and causes the return fluid connector to be disconnected from the rack manifold on a return side after a predetermined period of time after the supply fluid connector has been disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11796260
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed of an apparatus including a cooling loop and a heating loop. The cooling loop includes a temperature control plate having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, the temperature control plate being adapted to be thermally coupled to one or more heat-generating electronic components. An inlet control is fluidly coupled to the fluid inlet of the temperature control plate and an outlet control fluidly coupled to the fluid outlet of the temperature control plate. A cooling fluid source is fluidly coupled the inlet control and a cooling fluid return fluidly coupled to the outlet control. The heating loop contains less fluid than the cooling loop and includes a heating fluid source fluidly coupled the inlet control and a heating fluid return fluidly coupled to the outlet control. A pump can circulate heating fluid through at least the heating fluid supply, the temperature control plate, and the heating fluid return.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11800681
    Abstract: A distribution chassis comprises a supporting frame, one or more main connector, and a node distribution unit having one or more node connectors, where the distribution chassis corresponds to a server chassis and connected to a rack distribution unit, where the server chassis includes one or more server nodes, each server node represents a package associated with one or more electronics, where the distribution chassis is disposed above the server chassis to distribute cooling liquid to the one or more server nodes of the server chassis, where the node distribution unit is disposed to be movable along the supporting frame from a first position to a second position, and where the one or more node connectors of the node distribution unit are connected with one or more fluid connecters of a corresponding node when the node distribution unit is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11788845
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods that improve the success rate of relocalization and eliminate the ambiguity of false relocalization by exploiting motions of the sensor system. In one or more embodiments, during a relocalization process, a snapshot is taken using one or more visual sensors and a single-shot relocalization in a visual map is implemented to establish candidate hypotheses. In one or more embodiments, the sensors move in the environment, with a movement trajectory tracked, to capture visual representations of the environment in one or more new poses. As the visual sensors move, the relocalization system tracks various estimated localization hypotheses and removes false ones until one winning hypothesis. Once the process is finished, the relocalization system outputs a localization result with respect to the visual map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Baidu USA LLC, Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingyu Chen, Yingze Bao, Xin Zhou, Haomin Liu
  • Patent number: 11792955
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed of an apparatus including a cooling loop and a heating loop. A temperature control plate adapted to be thermally coupled to one or more heat-generating electronic components. The temperature control plate has a fluid inlet fluidly coupled to an inlet control, and a fluid outlet fluidly coupled to an outlet control. Both the cooling loop and the heating loop are fluidly coupled to the temperature control plate. Temperature sensors and a controller are coupled to the system. Based on initial temperature measurements, the controller determines whether the electronic components require a cooling-only temperature control strategy or require a hybrid temperature control strategy that includes heating, cooling, and a transition between heating and cooling. The controller then implements the selected strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11792959
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a cooling assembly includes a cooling plate to be attached to an electronic device and a bidirectional connector for circulating cooling fluid to the cooling plate. The bidirectional connector includes a first tubing structure having a first fluid channel therein to supply the cooling fluid flowing in a first direction to the cooling plate, a second tubing structure that encloses the first tubing structure therein. The first tubing structure is positioned spaced apart from the second tubing structure to form a second fluid channel between an outer surface of the first tubing structure and an inner surface of the second tubing structure. The second fluid channel is configured to receive the cooling fluid returned from the cooling plate. The first and second fluid channels are configured to operate a supply and a return fluid streams in opposite directions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11791240
    Abstract: A vertical architecture for incorporating cooling devices onto a baseboard. The architecture forms four layers: baseboard, electronic device layer, contact layer, and cooling layer. In the electronic device layer multiple electronic chips of different characteristics are mounted onto the baseboard. In the contact layer multiple contact devices are attached to the electronic chips to match the form factor of the chips to the respective cooling device and to function to transfer heat from the chip to the respective cooling device. In the cooling layer multiple cooling devices are used to extract the heat using passive or active air cooling, liquid cooling, or hybrid and/or phase change cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11787440
    Abstract: Lane configuration of a lane on which an ADV is driving and a current speed of the ADV are determined. A nudge space is determined based on the lane configuration, the current speed, and a vehicle width of the ADV. Path planning is performed to generate a path to nudge an obstacle, in response to the determining that the nudge space is greater than a predetermined threshold nudge space. The ADV is controlled to drive autonomously according to the planned path to nudge the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Fan Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230325301
    Abstract: Embodiments generate effective mutation directions for fuzzing by using an abstract interpretation engine that for each of a set of input variables determines whether, for an input value range, a source code comprises a potential bug. The abstract interpretation engine generates a list of potential bugs that is provided to a machine learning engine (e.g., a reinforcement learning engine) that, iteratively for each potential bug, generates a learned input value range that is narrower than the input value range. The learned input value range is provided to the abstract interpretation engine, which updates the input value range, and to a fuzzer, which limits a search space for generating a set of seeds that is used to identify bugs in the source code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Baidu USA LLC
    Inventors: Qian FENG, Zhaofeng CHEN, Zhenyu ZHONG, Kang LI
  • Patent number: 11785748
    Abstract: Cooling arrangement of data center configured for backup operation, the arrangement including an active cooling system having: fluid cooling systems. The arrangement further including an intake louvers assuming a closed position separating interior space of the data center from the exterior environment during normal mode of operation and an open position enabling free flow of outside air into the interior space during backup operation; exhaust louvers assuming a closed position separating interior space of the data center from the exterior environment and an open position enabling free flow of interior air out to the exterior environment; and controller configured to direct the intake louvers and exhaust louvers to assume the open position when electrical power supply to the active cooling system has been interrupted. The arrangement further includes a fluid system which functions as an open loop in the normal mode and a closed loop in the backup mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 11785750
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an immersion cooling system comprising one or more electronic devices submerged in a two-phase liquid coolant, a first cooling loop to provide cooling liquid to the immersion system, wherein the first cooling loop comprises a first condenser unit, a first liquid supply line, and a first vapor return line, and a second cooling loop to provide cooling liquid to the immersion system, wherein the second cooling loop comprises a second condenser unit, a second liquid supply line, and a second vapor return line. The apparatus further includes a first pressure sensor coupled to the first vapor return line, a second pressure sensor coupled to the second vapor return line and at least one main cooling source comprising a fluid control valve controlled based on the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao