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: 12156532
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a peanut whole-process production line and a method. The peanut whole-process production line includes a peanut cleaning system, a shell breaking system, a skin removing system, a peanut kernel classification system, an ultra-fine pulverization system and a classification packaging system; a first procedure is cleaning and impurity removal of peanuts, breaking of peanut shells is performed after the cleaning and impurity removal of peanuts, removal of peanut kernel skins and ultra-fine pulverization of the peanut shells are respectively performed after the breaking of peanut shells, classification of peanut kernels is performed after the removal of peanut kernel skins, and classification packaging of ultra-fine peanut shell powder is performed after the ultra-fine pulverization of the peanut shells; whole-process processing of peanuts is completed by using the peanut whole-process production line, and peanut resources are fully utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION, XINJIANG ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mingzheng Liu, Changhe Li, Xinping Li, Xiangdong Liu, Huimin Yang, Yanbin Zhang, Xiaoming Wang, Yali Hou
  • Patent number: 12160893
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a processor circuit configured to: configure at least two uplink bandwidth parts (UL BWPs) and at least two downlink bandwidth parts (DL BWPs); determine an active DL BWP of the at least two DL BWPs, the active DL BWP having a corresponding UL BWP of the at least two UL BWPs, wherein the corresponding UL BWP is configured with at least one time-frequency resource to transmit a preamble; select a time-frequency resource from at least one time-frequency resource allocated for preamble transmission in the corresponding UL BWP corresponding to the active DL BWP; and select a first preamble from at least one preamble allocated for preamble transmission corresponding to the active DL BWP; a transmitter configured to transmit the first preamble, on the selected time-frequency resource, to a network device; and a receiver configured to receive a random access response (RAR) on the active DL BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Qinyan Jiang, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12160315
    Abstract: Techniques for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) operation with multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) are disclosed. In some embodiments, determining PUCCH transmission repetition may include determining that an original PUCCH transmission overlaps a slot boundary between a first slot for PUCCH transmission and a second slot for PUCCH transmission, and configuring a PUCCH repetition of the original PUCCH transmission. The PUCCH repetition may include one or more symbols of the original PUCCH transmission and may be located in one or more slots other than the first slot and the second slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Haijing Hu, Jia Tang, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12160643
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video generation method and apparatus, a device, and a medium and a product, and relates to the technical field of computers. The method includes: acquiring description information of a target video to be generated; according to the description information of the target video, acquiring, from a video material library, a target clip corresponding to the description information; splicing the target clip with each candidate clip of a plurality of candidate clips in the video material library respectively to obtain a plurality of candidate videos; evaluating a score of each candidate video of the plurality of candidate videos; and generating the target video according to the score of each candidate video of the plurality of candidate videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING YOUZHUJU NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Zhou, Fan Zhang, Ya Li, Chen Du, Rongchang Xie
  • Patent number: 12160759
    Abstract: A base station may identify a configuration of one or more time gap periods associated with FD beam pair quality measurement. The base station may transmit, to the UE, and the UE may receive, from the base station, an indication of the configuration of the one or more time gap periods associated with FD beam pair quality measurement. The UE may perform, during the one or more time gap periods, one or more measurements of a quality of one or more FD beam pairs. Each of the one or more FD beam pairs may include an uplink beam and a downlink beam. The UE may identify at least one failed FD beam pair in the one or more FD beam pairs based on the one or more measurements of the quality of the one or more FD beam pairs and an SI measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12159385
    Abstract: A method for monitoring and safety evaluation of a dam body defect of a check dam is provided, including steps of: obtaining multi-source remote sensing data, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, ground monitoring data and sensing images through a three-dimensional data network; identifying the sensing images through an R-CNN algorithm and a Fast R-CNN based on the UAV data and check dam body database to determine check dams having defects and types of defects, defect data and position data; performing classification statistics of the check dams having defects according to the types of defects; building a three-dimensional model of the dam body safety evaluation standards for check dams after classification according to the position data and the ground monitoring data; input the defect data in a check dam safety performance evaluation module to obtain simulation data; and completing the evaluation according to the simulation data and the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, PowerChina Northwest Engineering Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Shu Yu, Naichang Zhang, Penghai Yin, Fan Yue, Jianwei Hao, Zhaohui Xia, Jianqin Wang, Yongxiang Cao, Zuyu Chen, Heng Zhou, Ziyu Lv, Xiaomei Kou
  • Patent number: 12156889
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods or kits with inflammatory cytokines to pretreat 1-ISCs to augment their immune modulatory effect, in prevention and treatment of various diseases such as multiple sclerosis, arthritis, lupus, sepsis, hepatitis, cirrhosis, Parkinson's disease, chronic infections, and GvHD. The present invention relates to novel methods for enhancing the immunosuppressive or the immune stimulatory activities of mesenchymal stem cells (JvfSCs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
    Inventors: Yufang Shi, Guangwen Ren, Liying Zhang
  • Patent number: 12160286
    Abstract: Various systems and methods disclosed herein describe improvements for beam management that leverage virtualization across a vertical polarization (V-Pol) and horizontal polarization (H-Pol). One or more of a user equipment (UE) and a base station may include an antenna array comprising both V-Pol and H-Pol antenna elements. A UE may message a base station to configure uplink (UL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) operations across one or more of the V-Pol and the H-Pol. The message may include a number of MIMO layers to be concurrently used for communicating data to the base station, where each MIMO layer is transmitted using one of a V-Pol and an H-Pol; a number of sounding reference signals (SRS) to be transmitted by the UE, each SRS to be transmitted using one of the V-Pol and the H-Pol; and a supported maximum number of antenna ports per each SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Pengkai Zhao, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Wen Zhao, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12160028
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses implementations for high-bandwidth antenna in package (AiP) apparatuses. In an example, an AiP apparatus comprises: a first radiator, a second radiator, a first substrate, a second substrate, a first metal piece, and a first feeding path. The first radiator and the first feeding path are disposed on the first substrate, the second radiator is disposed on the second substrate, the first feeding path is configured to feed the first radiator, and the second radiator and the first radiator are connected using the first metal piece disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiwei Zhang, Haotao Hu, Yaojiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12157916
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of identifying unreliable biological samples that may be mislabeled or contaminated, by determining the heteroplasmy and homoplasmy of mitochondrial DNA present in the biological samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruoyu Zhang, Wei Keat Lim, Gurinder Atwal
  • Patent number: 12157339
    Abstract: A steering wheel suspension structure of an omnidirectional mobile robot includes a steering wheel connecting ring, a plurality of leaf spring connecting beams and a chassis mounting section. The steering wheel suspension structure is an integrated plate structure. The steering wheel connecting ring is connected with a steering wheel, and the chassis mounting section is connected with a robot chassis. The leaf spring connecting beam is connected with the steering wheel connecting ring and the chassis mounting section, and the leaf spring connecting beam is used as the main component of suspension deformation. The suspension structure is simple, easy to install, light in weight, less in space, and highly integrated with the steering wheel assembly. When the suspension is deformed by the force, it weakens the radial force and only has the displacement and force in the vertical direction, thus ensuring the handling performance of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Beihang University
    Inventors: Juan Chen, Jingkun Wei, Zhaoqin Peng, Min Yang, Qingzhen Zhang, Changlin Wu
  • Patent number: 12159016
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for three dimensional room modeling. In various examples, a three-dimensional (3D) room model comprising at least a first wall and a floor may be received. A first sphere sized and shaped such that the 3D room model fits within the first sphere may be determined and a virtual camera may be positioned on the first sphere at a first position. A first command may be received to move the virtual camera in a first direction. The virtual camera may be translated in the first direction along a surface of the first sphere to a second position. A view of the interior of the 3D room model may be displayed from a second viewpoint of the virtual camera at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mukul Agarwal, Anandram Sundar, Jack Mousseau, Ruokan He, Aliaksandr Shchurko, Chun-Kai Kai Wang, Kevin May, Mani Kishore Chitrala, Xing Zhang, Sanket Radder, Xi Zhang, Asfand Yar Khan
  • Patent number: 12161036
    Abstract: A display substrate has a display area including a plurality of sub-display areas. The display substrate includes a base, a plurality of columns of pixels, a plurality of first and second power lines disposed on the base. At least two columns of pixels are disposed in each sub-display area, and each column of pixels includes at least three columns of sub-pixels. At least one first power line is disposed in each sub-display area and configured to provide a first power signal to all sub-pixels in a sub-display area. The second power lines are configured to provide second power signals to all sub-pixels. A plurality of columns of sub-pixels are disposed between any two adjacent power lines, and any first and second power lines are each arranged between two adjacent columns of sub-pixels emitting light of a first color and sub-pixels emitting light of a second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pan Xu, Yongqian Li, Dacheng Zhang, Lang Liu
  • Patent number: 12159620
    Abstract: An unsupervised text to speech system utilizing a lexicon to map input text to the phoneme sequence, which is expanded to the frame-level forced alignment with a speaker-dependent duration model. An alignment mapping module that converts the forced alignment to the unsupervised alignment (UA). Afterword, a Conditional Disentangled Sequential Variational Auto-encoder (C-DSVAE), serving as the self-supervised TTS AM, takes the predicted UA and a target speaker embedding to generate the mel spectrogram, which is ultimately converted to waveform with a neural vocoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Chunlei Zhang, Jiachen Lian, Dong Yu
  • Patent number: 12158288
    Abstract: A light-splitting reflection high-concentration photovoltaic photothermal integrated cavity receiver includes a photothermal assembly and a photovoltaic assembly. The photothermal assembly includes a high-temperature heat storage system, a low-temperature heat storage system, a plurality of heat exchange tube bundles defining a reflective cavity, and an ultraviolet and visible light reflective film arranged on an inner surface of the reflective cavity. The plurality of heat exchange tube bundles are communicated to form a heat collection circuit, and the heat collection circuit has an input end connected with the low-temperature heat storage system, and an output end connected with the high-temperature heat storage system. The photovoltaic assembly is arranged at a focus of the reflective cavity, and includes a near-infrared reflective film, a high concentration photovoltaic integrated receiver and a concentration photovoltaic cooler stacked sequentially along an incident direction of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN THERMAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wei Han, Kangli Fu, Xu Lu, Mingyu Yao, Zaisong Yu, Jihong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12159990
    Abstract: The present application relates to a thermal insulation fireproof cloth for power battery and its preparation method. A thermal insulation fireproof cloth for power battery includes a fireproof cloth made from fireproof fiber, which can include one or more layers. The fire-facing surface of the fireproof cloth is coated with a high-temperature-resistant fireproof inorganic coating, and an unexposed surface of the fireproof cloth is coated with a structure reinforcing coating. The fireproof cloth is made into a box shape matching with a battery pack and arranged between a battery cell and battery housing. The fireproof cloth is made of high-silica fiber fabric or alumina fiber fabric. The fireproof inorganic coating is an inorganic material coating including SiO2 and Al2O3. The structure reinforcing coating is a coating which contains PTFE, silane, phosphate and alumina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI GUOBO NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiwei Lu, Huashan Liu, Wenjing Yu, Zhiyue Feng, Jie Zhang, Xiangdong Liu
  • Patent number: 12160395
    Abstract: A wireless communication system, apparatus, and methodology are described for enabling wireless communication station (STA) devices to generate a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) that includes a resource unit (RU) having a size that is less than a spreading frequency block by using one or more predetermined pilot and/or data tone mapping plans to control how each pilot/data tone from the RU is distributed onto a disjoint set of pilot/data subcarriers forming a distributed RU included in the spreading frequency block, thereby accommodating transmission of wider bandwidth and multiple resource unit assignments in accordance with power spectrum density (PSD) limits provided for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulated symbols supported by emerging 802.11 standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Cao, Ying Liu, Dong Wei, Yan Zhang
  • Patent number: D1052947
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA CONSUMER ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengmeng Zhang, Xianan Liu, Xi Peng, Jianping Li
  • Patent number: D1053309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Inventor: Yue Zhang
  • Patent number: D1053451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Wenzhou Jingcheng Electronic Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yubao Zhang