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: 12292055
    Abstract: Disclosed are a combined blade device and a combined air outlet device. The combined blade device includes a hub, diagonal flow blades, and centrifugal blades, where a first air inlet is formed outside an edge of a first end of the hub, and a first air outlet is formed outside an edge of a second end of the hub, the hub is internally provided with a centrifugal cavity, the first end of the hub is provided with a second air inlet, the first air inlet surrounds the second air inlet, the second end of the hub is provided with a second air outlet, both the second air inlet and the second air outlet are communicated with the centrifugal cavity, and the hub expands gradually in a direction from the second air inlet to the second air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: XUXIN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ping Zhang, Shanxian Hu, Xinglin Sun, Huizhu Zhou, Yelin Sun, Lanying Luo
  • Patent number: 12291237
    Abstract: A trajectory planning system for an autonomous vehicle includes one or more controllers in electronic communication with one or more external vehicle networks that collect data with respect to one or more moving obstacles located in an environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle. The one or more controllers determine, based on the discrete-time relative vehicle state, a position avoidance set representing relative lateral positions and longitudinal positions that the autonomous vehicle avoids while bypassing the one or more moving obstacles when performing a maneuver. The one or more controllers select a trajectory from the plurality of relative state trajectories for the autonomous vehicle, where the autonomous vehicle follows the trajectory while performing the maneuver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Aguilar Marsillach, Yubiao Zhang, Upali P. Mudalige
  • Patent number: 12290636
    Abstract: A respiratory device can include an oxygen generator and a ventilator. The oxygen generator can include a first inlet to ambient air, a vacuum or pressure swing oxygen generating system in fluid communication with the first inlet, a first fluid pathway, and a first outlet. The ventilator can include a second inlet to ambient air and a blower in fluid communication with the second inlet to draw ambient air. The ventilator can include a third inlet in fluid communication with the first fluid pathway upstream of the first outlet. The blower can also be in fluid communication with the second inlet to draw at least some of the extracted oxygen. The ventilator can also include a second outlet in fluid communication with the blower to dispense a mixture of the ambient air and the extracted oxygen to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NORTHMAN IP HOLDCO LIMITED
    Inventors: Dave Boulanger, Bob Zhang, Colin Gallacher, Yi Ding, Felix Desourdy
  • Patent number: 12294411
    Abstract: An electronic system for transmitting and receiving internal data through an optical channel. The electronic system may include a light emitter configured to generate a first optical signal, a first device configured to receive the first optical signal and including a transmitter configured to output a second optical signal representing a transmission value based on the first optical signal, a second device including a first receiver configured to receive the second optical signal from the first device and output a third optical signal by adjusting a light intensity of the second optical signal, and configured to read the transmission value based on the light intensity of the second optical signal, and a third device including a second receiver configured to receive the third optical signal from the second device, and configured to read the transmission value based on a light intensity of the third optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hanyeoreum Bae, Myoungsoo Jung, Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 12292829
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, a device and a computation apparatus for allocating a space address to data in a memory, where the computation apparatus is included in a combined processing apparatus, which includes a general interconnection interface and other processing apparatuses. The computation apparatus interacts with other processing apparatuses to jointly complete computations specified by the user. The combined processing apparatus also includes a storage apparatus. The storage apparatus is respectively connected to the computation apparatus and the other processing apparatuses, and is used for storing data of the computation apparatus and other processing apparatuses. The technical solutions of the present disclosure improve utilization of storage space of the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: CAMBRICON (XI'AN) SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofu Meng, Tian Zhi, Zhenxing Zhang, Xunyu Chen
  • Patent number: 12295221
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. An adhesive layer is disposed between an organic layer and an inorganic layer in a bonding area of the display panel, where a surface roughness of an adhesive layer material is greater than a surface roughness of an organic layer material and a surface roughness of an inorganic layer material. In addition, a plurality of concave-convex structures can be provided on a surface of the organic layer and/or a surface of the inorganic layer in contact with the adhesive layer to enhance interface bonding force. This can alleviate a problem that film layers are prone to peeling off when a flexible printed circuit (FPC) is bonded to the display panel in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yunti Zhang
  • Patent number: 12292411
    Abstract: The provided are a device and method for measuring a bonding strength between a contaminated rock surface and a solidified material. The device includes a fixing and measuring assembly and four rock slabs enclosing a rectangular prism, where outer surfaces of the four rock slabs are fitted to two transverse support plates and two longitudinal support plates, respectively; the two longitudinal support plates are arranged between the two transverse support plates; upper and lower ends of the rock slabs are provided with an upper cover and a bottom plate, respectively; the upper cover and the bottom plate are detachably fixed to the two transverse support plates, respectively; the two transverse support plates are detachably fixed to each other through a second screw; a hydraulic device is provided among the four posts; and a movable end of the hydraulic device is provided with a supporting airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Chengdu University Of Technology
    Inventors: Jiping She, Yunfei Wang, Furong Gong, Wenjing Ma, Shiyu Zhang, Gege Teng, Huimin Li
  • Patent number: 12294119
    Abstract: A battery includes a battery cell and a casing assembly for receiving the battery cell. The battery cell includes a first electrode tab. The battery further includes an insulating member and a conductive member, the insulating member is connected between the casing assembly and the conductive member. The casing assembly defines a first through hole, and the insulating member defines a second through hole connected to the first through hole. The first electrode tab is electrically connected to the conductive member. A power consuming device including the battery is further provided. The conductive member of the present disclosure substitutes for the terminal post of existing art, increasing the energy density of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Peipei Guo, GuoWen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250134416
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein relate to glucose level measurement and/or management. In some embodiments, the techniques involve obtaining in vivo characteristics of a glucose sensor predicted using fabrication process measurement data associated with the glucose sensor, the in vivo characteristics including an in vivo sensitivity, an in vivo intercept, or a combination thereof; receiving sensor measurement data measured by the glucose sensor, the sensor measurement data including sensor current (Isig), counter voltage (Vcntr), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) data, an age of the glucose sensor, or a combination thereof; and estimating a sensor glucose (SG) value using an SG model, wherein input parameters of the SG model include the in vivo characteristics of the glucose sensor and the sensor measurement data, and the SG value is an output of the SG model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Leonardo Nava-Guerra, Molly E. Emig, Juan E. Arguelles Morales, Anup V. Kanale, Kelly J. Qiu, Mona M. Sharifi Sarabi, Chi A. Tran, Anthony Haas, Francesca Piccinini, Bahram Notghi, Georgios Mallas, Yi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250136769
    Abstract: In one aspect, an entangled polymer composition includes an entangled polymer network including a plurality of entangled polymers; and a plurality of crosslinks crosslinking the polymers at a density of no more than one crosslink per 1,000 monomer units of the polymer; wherein the polymer composition has a toughness of at least about 100 Jm?2 and a stiffness of at least about 50 kPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Xianyang BAO, Zhigang SUO, Meixuanzi SHI, Junsoo KIM, Guodong NIAN, Guogao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250141603
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method and an apparatus for performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operation are provided. The method includes receiving downlink signals, wherein the downlink signals include a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that does not schedule a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception, and/or one or more multicast PDSCHs, and generating a HARQ-ACK codebook for the downlink signals. The invention can improve communication efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Sa ZHANG, Feifei SUN
  • Publication number: 20250136037
    Abstract: A belt buckle power actuator for a vehicle seat assembly may include a seat belt buckle arm pivotally mounted adjacent to a vehicle seat. The actuator include a motor having a drive shaft drivingly connected to a drive gear. A driven gear is meshingly driven by the drive gear and is drivingly connected to a lead screw. A nut is threadedly engaged with the lead screw and drivingly connected to the seat belt buckle arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Fisher & Company, Incorporated
    Inventors: Mircea NAPAU, Sapan Mahendra Poptani, Ryan Martin, Lailai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250139336
    Abstract: Methods involving physics-informed deep learning to help solve inverse problems of solid materials/structures related to unknown geometry include (1) identifying and characterizing unknown materials/structures and defects with accuracy and predictive capability and limited non-destructive measurements, and/or (2) designing geometrical features and parameters of solid materials and structures to achieve optimized and/or improved performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicants: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BROWN UNIVERSITY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Subra SURESH, George Em KARNIADAKIS, Enrui ZHANG, Ming DAO
  • Publication number: 20250142130
    Abstract: A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. The mechanism determines to modify a video unit attendant to applying a video compression function. The modification may include applying a geometric conversion to the video unit. A conversion is performed between a visual media data and a bitstream based on the modified video unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Yue Li, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250142121
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for point cloud coding. A method for point cloud coding is proposed. The method comprises: obtaining, for a conversion between a current point cloud (PC) sample of a point cloud sequence and a bitstream of the point cloud sequence, target information regarding whether an attribute inter prediction is enabled for the current PC sample, the target information being determined based on at least one of rate information or distortion information associated with coding at least one target PC sample with the attribute inter prediction, wherein the at least one target PC sample comprises at least one of: the current PC sample, or at least one PC sample of the point cloud sequence coded before the current PC sample; and performing the conversion based on the target information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Yingzhan XU, Wenyi Wang, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250141571
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for reporting of time domain channel characteristics. The apparatus receives a Doppler configuration to measure Doppler information for at least one channel path of a plurality of channel paths. The apparatus receives a tracking reference signal (TRS) to obtain the Doppler information for the at least one channel path of the plurality of channel paths based on the Doppler configuration. The apparatus transmits a Doppler report comprising the Doppler information for the at least one channel path of the plurality of channel paths based on the received TRS. The apparatus receives a downlink transmission on a predicted channel and precoder, the predicted channel and the precoder based at least on the Doppler report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Muhammad Sayed Khairy ABDELGHAFFAR, Yu ZHANG, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Peter GAAL, June NAMGOONG, Wanshi CHEN, Krishna Kiran MUKKAVILLI
  • Publication number: 20250137506
    Abstract: An electromechanical brake includes: a brake motor; a spindle coupled with the brake motor and rotating in a first direction under a drive of the brake motor to drive a brake caliper module to perform a brake operation; and a locking device having: an actuation member and a reset member, the actuation member causing the rotating lever to rotate from the idle position to the working position, and the reset member causing the rotating lever to return from the working position to the idle position. The operating ends of the ratchet and the rotating lever are set such that when in the working position, the operating end interacts with the ratchet to prevent the ratchet from rotating in a second direction opposite to the first direction and to prevent the rotating lever from rotating toward the idle position. The electromechanical brake according to the above configuration occupies a smaller space and is more compact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaokun Zhang, Fei Yu
  • Publication number: 20250140179
    Abstract: A light-emitting substrate is provided. The light-emitting substrate includes a base substrate, light-emitting units, and first driving signal line groups; the light-emitting unit includes light-emitting sub-units; the first driving signal line is configured to be connected to the first electrode terminal of the light-emitting sub-unit; a translation distance in the column direction is provided between a k-th light-emitting unit in the N-th column and a k-th light-emitting unit in the (N+1)-th column, and the translation distance is smaller than a spacing between two adjacent light-emitting units in a same column in the column direction; the first driving signal line group is between the N-th column of light-emitting units and the (N+1)-th column of light-emitting units and alternately passes through light-emitting units in the N-th column and the (N+1)-th column; and each light-emitting unit is passed by two adjacent first driving signal line groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Shunhang ZHANG, Kai HOU, Liwei LIU, Hongrun WANG, Hui ZHANG, Changfeng LI, Yunsik IM
  • Publication number: 20250134449
    Abstract: Fabric-based microfluidics, as a part of an article of clothing, is described herein. Advantageously, the fabric-based microfluidics, based on the infusion of a polymer such as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) films through fabrics to form hydrophobic areas, are simple to make, robust, and suitable for efficient sweat delivery. Electrodes can be screen-printed onto the fabric-based microfluidic. Coupled with a low-cost, wearable potentiometer capable of wireless data transfer, [Ca2+] or other analyte species in a wearer's sweat can be quantified. Advantageously, regular articles of clothing can be turned into biochemically smart platforms for health monitoring, which will broadly benefit human healthcare.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Chengpeng CHEN, Tao ZHANG, Adam Michael RATAJCZAK
  • Publication number: 20250137881
    Abstract: A rolling bearing combined fault diagnosis method based on a multi-domain feature construction is provided, including: collecting vibration signals of rolling bearings, extracting time-domain and frequency-domain features of fault-sensitive vibration signals of the rolling bearings, and obtaining an in-domain feature set; performing an improved empirical mode decomposition on the vibration signals of the rolling bearings to obtain time-frequency features; constructing a multi-domain fault sample set based on the in-domain feature set and the time-frequency features; performing a fault mechanism analysis on the multi-domain fault sample set to obtain modulation features under each single fault; carrying out a feature engineering on the time-domain and frequency-domain features, and screening out relevant features, redundant features and irrelevant features; performing an unsupervised hierarchical clustering on test set fault samples, and then inputting the test set fault samples into a KNN model for a classifi
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Qiang LIU, Guoyan YU, Jiawei ZHANG, Bo WEN, Xiaoming XU, Zheng LIU, Donglin HOU, Jiale LIAO