Patents by Inventor An Zhang

An Zhang 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: 11920031
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high ultraviolet blocking polylactic acid composite material reinforced by POSS modified bamboo powder. The preparation method therefor includes steps of carrying out chemical grafting modification of bamboo powder with proper particle size by using POSS containing specific organic groups, and then adding the modified bamboo powder to polylactic acid for melting and co-extrusion to obtain POSS modified bamboo powder. The present disclosure makes full use of the 30% lignin in the bamboo powder, having the advantages of wide source, biological metabolizability and low price; the present disclosure does not need the traditional inorganic ultraviolet blocking agent, nor need to extract refined lignin from natural materials, but directly takes inexpensive and easy-to-obtain bamboo powder as main raw material. The composite material prepared in the present disclosure can greatly improve the UV blocking performance, mechanical properties and thermal stability of the PLA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: XIHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Rui Han, Taibi He, Gang Chen, Guangzhao Li, Wenyan Wang, Shuai Zhang, Zhongzui Wang
  • Patent number: 11920408
    Abstract: A cutting element includes a base and a cutting face at opposite axial ends, a side surface extending between the base and the cutting face, an edge formed between the cutting face and the side surface, an edge chamfer having a uniform size around the entire edge, and a geometric shape formed on the cutting face and defined by a concave boundary with respect to a longitudinal axis of the cutting element. The concave boundary includes multiple rounded vertices, each rounded vertex located proximate to the edge chamfer and forming a cutting tip and multiple geometric shape sides connecting the rounded vertices, wherein the geometric shape sides are concave with respect to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoge Gan, Youhe Zhang
  • Patent number: 11921360
    Abstract: Contact lenses, methods and systems for accomplishing the requirement for biocompatibility of oxygen delivery to the eye, and the cornea in particular, when elements and components are used which reduce the transmissibility of oxygen and which require coverage of a significant area of the non-vascularized cornea. A contact lens assembly is provided, comprising: an anterior surface, a posterior surface and at least one element or component having a substantially low oxygen permeability disposed within the lens. The contact lens also includes a layer having an oxygen permeability greater than the aforementioned element or component. The thickness of this layer is such that the layer provides an equivalent oxygen percentage to the cornea beneath the aforementioned element or component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Innovega, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome A. Legerton, Jay P. Marsh, William E. Meyers, Arthur Yasheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11919802
    Abstract: An electronic-grade glass fiber composition includes the following components with corresponding amounts by weight percentages 51.0-57.5% SiO2, 11.0-17.0% Al2O3, >4.5% and ?6.4% B2O3, 19.5-24.8% CaO, 0.1-1.9% MgO, 0.05-1.2% R2O=Na2O+K2O+Li2O, 0.05-0.8% Fe2O3, 0.01-1.0% TiO2, and 0.01-1.0% F2. A weight percentage ratio C1=SiO2/B2O3 is 8.1-12.7, a weight percentage ratio C2=B2O3/(R2O+MgO) is 1.7-6.3, and a total weight percentage of the above components is greater than or equal to 99%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: JUSHI GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guorong Cao, Wenzhong Xing, Lin Zhang, Zhonghua Yao, Hongya Zhou
  • Patent number: 11924600
    Abstract: Disclosed is an open earphone, comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. The ear hook may include a first portion and a second portion connected in sequence. The first portion may be hung between the auricle of a user and the head of the user, the second portion may extend toward a front outer side of the auricle and connect the sound production component, and the sound production component may be located close to the ear canal but not block the opening of the ear canal; wherein the sound production component and the auricle may have a first projection and a second projection on a sagittal plane, respectively, a centroid of the first projection may have a first distance from a highest point of the second projection in a vertical axis direction, a ratio of the first distance to a height of the second projection in the vertical axis direction may be within a range of 0.25-0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11920825
    Abstract: This application relates to a humidifying device, including a shell, an air duct and an air blowing apparatus disposed in the shell, wherein a mist outlet channel, an atomizing cavity and a heating cavity communicated with the mist outlet channel are disposed in the shell; the air duct includes a first air duct communicated with the atomizing cavity and a second air duct communicated with the heating cavity; the air blowing apparatus is provided with an air outlet member, and the air outlet member is aligned with the first air duct and the second air duct, and is configured to supply a first air flow to the first air duct and supply a second air flow to the second air duct. When the humidifying device operates, the first air flow forms an atomized air flow and the second air flow forms a heated air flow then are mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Yixiong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11918972
    Abstract: A porous calcium silicate hydrate, a preparation method thereof and an adsorbent are provided. The preparation method of the porous calcium silicate hydrate includes: leaching fly ash with an alkali agent to obtain a silicate leaching solution; adding the silicate leaching solution dropwise to a calcium hydroxide suspension at a constant rate, and conducting stirring and a heating reaction to obtain a calcium silicate hydrate gel; and mixing the calcium silicate hydrate gel with an organic alcohol solvent, conducting azeotropic distillation, and then conducting separation, drying and calcination to obtain the porous calcium silicate hydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DECARBON TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Yan, Fan Qu, Zuotai Zhang, Chunyan Li, Xuehua Shen, Heijin Chen
  • Patent number: 11924308
    Abstract: A computer system can receive user data from a computing device of a user, and based on the user data, determine that the user will utilize a transport service to arrive at a destination location at a specified time. The system can monitor transport provider availability within a proximity of a current location of the user prior to the specified time. The system can then determine a service request time for the user based at least in part on the transport provider availability, and automatically generate the service request for the user at the service request time to match the user to a transport provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Cheng, Jason Chionh, Jonathan Kantrowitz, Oren Freiberg, Juncao Li, Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 11924915
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques, devices, and systems for a mobile device to keep track of public land mobile networks (PLMNs) codes from a list(s) of equivalent PLMNs that the mobile device received at a time of performing a past registration procedure(s). For example, memory of the mobile device may store a PLMN code(s) from a list of equivalent PLMNs that the mobile device received from a mobility management entity (MME) or an access and mobility function (AMF) node. During a subsequent registration, the mobile device may send a message to another MME or another AMF node, and may receive a message, such as an ATTACH ACCEPT message or a REGISTRATION ACCEPT message, from the other MME or the other AMF node. In response to receiving the message, the mobile device can maintain the stored PLMN code(s) in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Lin Zhang
  • Patent number: 11922002
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to a Reminder Engine. The Reminder Engine detects a selection, by a first user account, of one or more reminder attributes for a message received in an online chat session. The Reminder Engine generates a reminder object for the message according to the one or more selected reminder attributes. The Reminder Engine receives a reminder notification based on expiration of a duration attribute associated with the reminder object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Cécile Boucheron, Xin Huang, Ganna Isayeva, Kathy Q. Kong, Sharvari Nerurkar, Archil Vardidze, Yuchen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11919072
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a preparation process of multi-component spherical alloy powder, which adopts a plasma rotation electrode process (PREP) method to prepare the multi-component spherical alloy powder. The multi-component alloy includes at least one of refractory metals and compounds thereof, specifically including tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, rhenium, tungsten carbide, tantalum carbide and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ZHENG ZHOU RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Zhihui Lu, Hongtao Yang, Xudong Si, Zhiyang Sun, Leile Zhang, Guangfei You, Yiyong Wu, Chao Chen
  • Patent number: 11924792
    Abstract: Techniques are described to determine timing advance amount. For example, a first device receives, from a second device, a message comprising one or more fields that include information indicative of a communication delay between the first device and the second device. The first device processes the message to use the information for a transmission between the second device and the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Junfeng Zhang, Peng Hao
  • Patent number: 11924463
    Abstract: A video processing method is provided to include determining, for a current video block of a video, a final prediction block for the current video block by refining one or more initial predictions for the current video block using an optical flow calculation based on a gradient of initial prediction samples according to a precision rule; and performing a conversion between the current video block and a coded representation using the final prediction block, wherein the optical flow calculation includes a prediction refinement with optical flow (PROF) procedure or a bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) procedure, wherein the precision rule specifies to use a same precision for representing the gradient for both the PROF procedure and the BDOF procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11924472
    Abstract: A method for visual media processing includes processing a bitstream representation for a conversion between a current video block in a video region of a visual media data and the bitstream representation. The bitstream representation is based on a rule that specifies that one or more syntax elements used in a luma-dependent chroma residual scaling step are selectively included in the bitstream representation. The luma-dependent chroma residual scaling step includes scaling chroma samples based on neighboring reconstructed luma samples during the conversion. The one or more syntax elements are usable to derive a chroma residual scaling factor used for the scaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11921701
    Abstract: A global transaction system receives a transaction request for a plurality of database services of microservices. The global transaction system receives a plurality of local commit decisions of local commit requests from local transaction managers of the database services of the microservices. The local commit request corresponds to the transaction request for each database. The global transaction system generates a physical commit request to each of the local transaction managers based on the local commit decisions and a global commit decision. Each local transaction manager submits the physical commit request to each database server of the database services corresponding to the transaction request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Guogen Zhang, Kun Ren, Sami Ben-Romdhane
  • Patent number: 11923621
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array on an antenna module. The array may include low band antennas and high band antennas that radiate at frequencies greater than 10 GHz. The module may include antenna layers, transmission line layers, and ground traces that separate the antenna layers from the transmission line layers. The low band antennas and the high band antennas may have radiators patterned onto the antenna layers. The radiators may be fed by transmission lines on the transmission line layers. The antenna layers may have a dielectric permittivity that is greater than the dielectric permittivity of the transmission line layers. This may serve to reduce the lateral footprint of the low band and high band antennas, which allows the antennas to be interleaved along a common linear axis in the phased antenna array, thereby minimizing the lateral footprint of the antenna module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangfeng Wu, Siwen Yong, Simon G. Begashaw, Yi Jiang, Lijun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11922489
    Abstract: A camera is used to capture image data of representations of a physical environment. Planes and surfaces are determined from a representation. The planes and the surfaces are analyzed using relationships there between to obtain shapes and depth information for available spaces within the physical environment. Locations of the camera with respect to the physical environment are determined. The shapes and the depth information are analyzed using a trained neural network to determine items fitting the available spaces. A live camera view is overlaid with a selection from the items to provide an augmented reality (AR) view of the physical environment from an individual location of the locations. The AR view is enabled so that a user can port to a different location than the individual location by an input received to the AR view while the selection from the items remains anchored to the individual location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: A9.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Rupa Chaturvedi, Xing Zhang, Frank Partalis, Yu Lou, Colin Jon Taylor, Simon Fox
  • Patent number: 11918958
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a Fe—Al-based metal porous membrane and a preparation method thereof, which relate to the technical field of industrial gas-solid and liquid-solid separation and purification, and mainly address problems in the prior art, such as cracking-prone and peeling of a membrane layer of an existing Fe—Al-based metal porous membrane during its preparation and use. The preparation method of the present invention comprises the steps of: adding a Fe—Al-based metal powder and a metal fiber powder into an organic-additive-added water-based solvent, and mixing them into a slurry; casting the slurry, through a casting machine, to form a membrane green body on a metal substrate layer, and letting it dry; and placing the dried membrane green body in a sintering furnace, to remove organic substances and perform high-temperature sintering and predetermined-temperature reaction synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AT&M ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hu Gu, Junjun Yang, Fan Wang, Guanying Liu, Yu Zhang, Ying Dai, Xuan Yang, Kun Wang, Shiyu Lin
  • Patent number: 11920213
    Abstract: Disclosed is an incomplete extraction method for recycling batteries, which may include: introducing a pretreatment gas into a device loaded with a waste battery powder, and bringing a gas outlet into communication with absorption liquid A and absorption liquid B in order; raising the temperature and introducing the pretreatment gas; reducing the temperature and introducing a reaction gas; raising the temperature, introducing the reaction gas, and then introducing the pretreatment gas; and reducing the temperature, and turning off the pretreatment gas; adding an extractant to absorption liquid A, mixing the mixture, taking organic phase A, adding a stripping agent, and taking aqueous phase A; and adjusting the pH to acidity, then adding an extractant, taking organic phase B, adding a stripping agent to obtain a stock solution enriched in Li, Mn, Ni and Co.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGDONG BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HUNAN BRUNP EV RECYCLING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haijun Yu, Ting Peng, Yinghao Xie, Xuemei Zhang
  • Patent number: D1016475
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Hongge Zhang