Patents by Inventor An Zhao

An Zhao 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: 11937328
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to perform millimeter wavelength communication with increased reliability and power efficiency using sensor inputs. The sensor inputs may include motion, rotation, or temperature measurements, among various possibilities. The sensor inputs may be used when performing beamforming tracking, antenna configuration, transmit and receive chain measurements and selection, and/or in any of various other possible operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Pengkai Zhao, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sriram Subramanian, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Junsung Lim, Jia Tang, Galib A. Mohiuddin, Yu-Lin Wang, Zhu Ji, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Patent number: 11935460
    Abstract: A shift register and a display panel. The shift register includes an output adjustment module, a trigger write module, and a node adjustment module. A first terminal of the output adjustment module inputs a first clock signal. A second terminal of the output adjustment module inputs a first power signal. The output adjustment module is configured to adjust the shift register to output the first clock signal or the first power signal according to the signal on a first control node and the signal on a second control node of the output adjustment module. The trigger write module is configured to write a trigger signal to the second control node according to the clock signal of the control terminal of the trigger write module. The node adjustment module is configured to adjust the signal on the first control node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: KUNSHAN GO-VISIONOX OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Zhengyong Zhu, Xiyang Jia, Zhili Ma, Huihui Song
  • Patent number: 11931208
    Abstract: The present application discloses a cerebral perfusion state classification apparatus and method, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring, by a transceiving module, cervical blood flow data from an ultrasound data collecting device; determining, by a processor, cerebral perfusion data corresponding to the cervical blood flow data based on the cervical blood flow data and a mapping relationship between the cervical blood flow data and the cerebral perfusion data, and classifying cerebral perfusion states of a plurality of brain regions based on blood perfusion characteristics of the plurality of brain regions in the cerebral perfusion data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL, CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhenchang Wang, Wei Zheng, Han Lv, Pengling Ren, Dehong Luo, Linkun Cai, Yawen Liu, Hongxia Yin, Pengfei Zhao, Jing Li, Dong Liu, Erwei Zhao, Tingting Zhang
  • Patent number: 11937303
    Abstract: Provided are a communication method and a terminal device. The communication method includes: sending, by a first terminal device, a first sidelink channel to a second terminal device over a first sidelink, where the first sidelink channel includes first COT sharing information, and the first COT sharing information satisfies one or more of the following: the first COT sharing information is carried in a first PSSCH of the first sidelink channel; and the first COT sharing information includes second COT sharing information and third COT sharing information, with the second COT sharing information corresponding to a first communication mode, and the third COT sharing information corresponding to a second communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ling Lyu, Zheng Zhao, Zhongzhi Yang
  • Patent number: 11932873
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for reducing immune tolerance associated with CAR T cell therapy. Embodiments of the present disclosure include isolated nucleic acid sequence comprising a nucleic acid sequence that encodes modified programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and a nucleic acid sequence that encodes chimeric antigen receptor (CAR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Innovative Cellular Therapeutics Holdings, Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhao Wu
  • Patent number: 11937419
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a forming method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a capacitor array and a supporting structure. A plurality of conductive contact plugs which are arranged at intervals are formed on the substrate. The capacitor array includes a plurality of columnar capacitors which are arranged at intervals. Each columnar capacitor is formed on a respective one of the conductive contact plugs. A lower electrode layer of the columnar capacitor is in contact connection with the conductive contact plug. The supporting structure is formed on the substrate at an edge of the capacitor array and surrounds the capacitor array. A spacing between an inner wall and an outer wall of the supporting structure on any cross section parallel to the substrate is greater than an aperture of a capacitor hole of any one of the columnar capacitors on the cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Liang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11937239
    Abstract: Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a sidelink communication method and a terminal device. The method includes a first terminal device receives sidelink control information (SCI) transmitted from a second terminal device; and the first terminal device obtains information of a sidelink reference signal according to the SCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenshan Zhao, Qianxi Lu, Huei-Ming Lin
  • Publication number: 20240086562
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a user data management method and a related device, to improve user data security. The method includes: A data request device sends a first request to a blockchain platform, where the first request indicates that the data request device needs to access a data storage device. The data request device receives first permission information sent by the blockchain platform, where the first permission information indicates whether the data request device has permission to access the data storage device, and the permission is related to signature information of the data request device, an access type, and an operator public key; and sends a second request to the data storage device if the first permission information indicates that the data request device has the permission to access the data storage device, where the second request includes an access address and an operator private key signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Xueqiang YAN, Mingyu ZHAO, Jianjun WU, Min YAN
  • Publication number: 20240085900
    Abstract: A system and method for autonomous vehicle control to minimize energy cost are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: generating a plurality of potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations for an autonomous vehicle to cause the autonomous vehicle to transit from a current position to a desired destination; generating predicted energy consumption rates for each of the potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations using a vehicle energy consumption model; scoring each of the plurality of potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations based on the corresponding predicted energy consumption rates; selecting one of the plurality of potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations having a score within an acceptable range; and outputting a vehicle motion control output representing the selected one of the plurality of potential routings and related vehicle motion control operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Xing SUN, Wutu LIN, Liu LIU, Kai-Chieh MA, Zijie XUAN, Yufei ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20240088521
    Abstract: A separator for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions includes a microporous layer and one or more fire suppression layers disposed on at least one of a first side or an opposite second side of the microporous layer. The one or more fire suppression layers include crosslinked cyclopolyphosphazene particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yifan ZHAO, Xingcheng XIAO
  • Publication number: 20240086362
    Abstract: A key-value store and a file system are integrated together to provide improved operations. The key-value store can include a log engine, a hash engine, a sorting engine, and a garbage collection manager. The features of the key-value store can be configured to reduce the number of I/O operations involving the file system, thereby improving read efficiency, reducing write latency, and reducing write amplification issues inherent in the combined key-value store and file system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hao Wang, Jiaxin Ou, Sheng Qiu, Yi Wang, Zhengyu Yang, Yizheng Jiao, Jingwei Zhang, Jianyang Hu, Yang Liu, Ming Zhao, Hui Zhang, Kuankuan Guo, Huan Sun, Yinlin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240088319
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device includes a substrate structure and at least one Se-containing layer, such as a CdSeTe layer. A process for manufacturing the photovoltaic device includes forming the CdSeTe layer over a substrate by at least one of sputtering, evaporation deposition, CVD, chemical bath deposition process, and vapor transport deposition process. The process can also include controlling a thickness range of the Se-containing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: First Solar, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Damjanovic, Markus Gloeckler, Feng Liao, Andrei Los, Dan Mao, Benjamin Milliron, Gopal Mor, Rick Powell, Kenneth Ring, Aaron Roggelin, Jigish Trivedi, Zhibo Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240090002
    Abstract: The present application provides a sidelink communication method and apparatus. The method includes: performing, by a terminal device, channel monitoring on shared spectrum; and if the result of the channel monitoring is that a channel is idle, starting, by the terminal device, transmission of a first sidelink channel at a first time domain position, where the first time domain position is one or more of the following: a time domain position indicated by first indication information; and a time domain position determined based on a first time unit, the first time unit being smaller than one slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ling LYU, Zheng Zhao, Zhongzhi YANG
  • Publication number: 20240089487
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for encoding and decoding video. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a video bitstream comprising a plurality of blocks, including a first block, where the first block includes a plurality of subblocks. The method also includes determining, based on a syntax element value in the video bitstream, that the first block is predicted in a subblock mode. The method further includes, in accordance with the first block being predicted in the subblock mode: deriving a set of motion vector predictors (MVPs) corresponding to a plurality of subblocks of the first block; deriving a set of motion vector differences (MVDs) for the plurality of subblocks; determining a set of motion vectors for the plurality of subblocks by applying the set of MVDs to the set of MVPs; and reconstructing the first block using the set of motion vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Xin ZHAO, Guichun LI, Lien-Fei CHEN, Shan LIU
  • Publication number: 20240087231
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a computer device for three-dimensional reconstruction of an indoor structure based on a two-dimensional video, wherein the method comprises: generating a color point cloud of three-dimensional structure of a house by using the video data of the house; regularizing the color point cloud of the house; extracting a plan of the house based on the color point cloud of the house; and constructing a three-dimensional model of the house in real life. The disclosure realizes autonomous and rapid construction of a three-dimensional model of a house by the general public, and realizes a low-cost, efficient and convenient three-dimensional visual digital representation of the house.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: WUHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jiangping CHEN, Siyuan WANG, Pengcheng ZHAO, Bin ZHANG, Bohua WANG
  • Publication number: 20240090235
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a backside power distribution network; a backside power rail joined to the backside power distribution network; and a backside contact via that couples at least one front end of line transistor to the backside power rail; wherein the backside contact via comprises a pillar based memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Wu-Chang Tsai, Alexander Reznicek, Michael Rizzolo, Ailian Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240085579
    Abstract: A tuning method for a collimator of a CT machine, which, in each cycle of X-ray scan operation and stop, may include determining whether an X-ray is generated from the anode plate; calculating the Z-direction heating displacement of the slot plate during the current scan based on a detected X-ray, driving the slot plate to move by the heating displacement in the Z-direction, calculating the total Z-direction heating displacement of the slot plate at the end of the current scan, calculating the cooling displacement of the slot plate during the current stop based on the stop time of the X-ray, and driving the slot plate to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Jia Peng Zhu, Li Dong Zhang, Jian Zhang, Ji Feng Zhao, Feng Hai Yu
  • Publication number: 20240082966
    Abstract: A cross-coupling control method for moving beam of gantry machine tool is disclosed, which relates to the technical field of CNC machine tool control. The cross-coupling control method includes: Step 1: establishing a crossbeam dynamics model considering a ram on the crossbeam, and at the same time simplifying the model for an observer design; step 2: realizing a PID control parameter adjustment of motors at both ends in accordance with a method of parameter tuning of a unilateral servo control system; using a servo system with the same control parameters to jointly drive the crossbeam up and down, realizing the synchronous control and realizing PID control parameter tuning for both end motors. The disclosure not only reduces the synchronization error caused by the torsion of the crossbeam, but also solves the synchronization error caused by the asymmetric load on both sides, and improves the system robustness and stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Chuanhai Chen, Zhifeng Liu, Jinyan Guo, Tongtong Jin, Xinyuan He, Shuo Zhao, Baobao Qi, Chunshi Liu, Zhaojun Yang, Zhijie Li, Chunlei Hua, Liang Zhang, Haoming Yan
  • Publication number: 20240089991
    Abstract: The present invention provides a direct communication control method and apparatus, devices, and a storage medium thereof. The method comprises: sending direct control signaling, the direct control signaling comprising first indication information that controls the discontinuous reception (DRX) of a receiving device. Therefore, a sending device flexibly controls the DRX active time of the receiving device by means of direct control signaling, so as to acquire a balance between energy efficiency and system performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Qun ZHAO
  • Patent number: D1018489
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Jinlizhao Electronic Technology Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Chaoyun Zhao