Patents by Inventor An Zhu

An Zhu 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).

  • Global analysis of protein activities using proteome chips
    Publication number: 20050182242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to proteome chips comprising arrays having a large proportion of all proteins expressed in a single species. The invention also relates to methods for making proteome chips. The invention also relates to methods for using proteome chips to systematically assay all protein interactions in a species in a high-throughput manner. The present invention also relates to methods for making and purifying eukaryotic proteins in a high-density array format. The invention also relates to methods for making protein arrays by attaching double-tagged fusion proteins to a solid support. The invention also relates to a method for identifying whether a signal is positive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Snyder, HengZhu Zhu, Paul Bertone, Scott Bidlingmaier, Metin Bilgin, Antonio Casamayor, Mark Gerstein, Ronald Jansen, Ning Lan
  • Grapevine leafroll virus (type 2) proteins and their uses
    Publication number: 20050183165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated proteins or polypeptides of grapevine leafroll virus (type 2). The encoding DNA molecules either alone in isolated form or in an expression system, a host cell, or a transgenic grape plant are also disclosed. Other aspects of the present invention relates to a method of imparting grapevine leafroll resistance to grape and tobacco plants by transforming them with the DNA molecules of the present invention, a method of imparting beet yellows virus resistance to a beet plant, a method of imparting tristeza virus resistance to a citrus plant, and a method of detecting the presence of a grapevine leafroll virus, such as GRLaV-2, in a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: Cornell Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Hai-Ying Zhu, Kai-Shu Ling, Dennis Gonsalves
  • Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating efficient communication of data communicated pursuant to a syncrhonization session
    Publication number: 20050181790
    Abstract: Apparatus, and an associated method, for placing data that is to be communicated pursuant to a synchronization session into efficient form. The synchronization session operates to synchronize database copies to place the data records of the database copies in match with one another. A coordinator coordinates change entries that are placed into a change listing. The coordination removes redundancies of the change entries so that the change entries that form a change history are maintained in efficient form, thereby to minimize the bandwidth required upon a radio air interface to communicate such information pursuant to a synchronization session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: David Yach, Barry Linkert, Jie Zhu, Salim Omar, Piotr Tysowski, Albert Hecht-Enns, Catherine Phillips, Kathy Pereira
  • Broadcast method in wireless network and communication apparatus using the same
    Publication number: 20050180399
    Abstract: A broadcast method in a wireless network and a communication apparatus using the same. The broadcast method determines whether the broadcast packet is first received upon receiving a broadcast packet. If a determination reveals that the packet is first received, the broadcast packet is stored and rebroadcast to neighbor nodes. Subsequently, a node, among the neighbor nodes, from which the broadcast packet is received, is marked as ‘relayed’. The broadcast packet is rebroadcast when all of the neighbor nodes from which the broadcast packet is received are not marked as ‘relayed’. When all of the neighbor nodes from which the broadcast packet is received are marked as ‘relayed’, the broadcast packet is destroyed. Accordingly, an efficient link-based broadcast method is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Jong-hun Park, Myung-jong Lee, Chun-hui Zhu
  • Inflatable air mattress
    Publication number: 20050177951
    Abstract: An inflatable air mattress has a outer shell with zipper and a plurality of built-in parallel I-beam separators inside the outer shell to form parallel pathways, a longitudinal inner inflatable chamber made with PVC-like material installed with an inlet and an outlet inserted through pathways to provide an even firm support to the outer shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventor: Zhu Guifang
  • Method for manufacturing a glass infiltrated metal oxide infrastructure
    Publication number: 20050181217
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a composite of a porous metal oxide infrastructure and a glass infiltrated in the pores of the infrastructure, wherein the method comprises at least the following steps: providing a glass which is suitable for infiltration and compatible with the metal oxide infrastructure; heating the glass in a nitrogen rich environment; and infiltrating the metal oxide infrastructure with the glass. The invention also relates to a method for avoiding or reducing stress corrosion in a glass infiltrated metal oxide infrastructure, comprising heating a glass composition under a nitrogen gas atmosphere before infiltrating the metal oxide infrastructure. The invention further relates to a glass infiltrated metal oxide infrastructure obtainable by any of these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Leonardus Dortmans, Gijsbertus de With, Qingshan Zhu
  • Method for the removal of monosaccharide in oligosaccharides production
    Publication number: 20050181486
    Abstract: A method for removal of the monosaccharide in oligosaccharides production which includes the step of culturing the yeast. A further step involves mixing 8%-12% (W/W) of yeast based on the weight of oligosaccharides and 0.1%-0.5% (W/W) of carbamide as nitrogen source with raw oligosaccharide syrup, and then adjusting the pH value to 4.5-6.0. A further step involves culturing the above oligosaccharides syrup at 23° C.-26° C. for 20-30 hours with intermittent agitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Zhensheng Zhong, Jianhua Zhu, XiaoLin Li, Xiao Xu, Xiaomei Mu
  • Multicast method in zigbee network
    Publication number: 20050180447
    Abstract: A method to manage nodes in a ZigBee network. In a ZigBee network including a plurality of nodes, a multicast group is generated including at least two nodes among the plurality of the nodes. A multicast group coordinator (GC) which manages the multicast group is set among the nodes forming the multicast group. The multicast group includes the GC, a multicast group member (GM) requesting to join the multicast group, and/or a multicast router (MR) which links GMs to each other or links the GC and the GC. Accordingly, since the GC manages the multicast group, the load is decreased and the packet data transmission rate is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Yu-jin Lim, Myung-jong Lee, Xu-hui Hu, Yong Liu, Chun-hui Zhu
  • Power management for a network
    Publication number: 20050182975
    Abstract: A power management technique for a network including a plurality of computing devices. The power management technique includes identifying an order in which one or more devices of the plurality of computing devices can transmit data within the prescribed time period. In one aspect, the number of wakeups are reduced for the computing devices within the network by increasing a number of adjacent channel time allocation periods within a prescribed time period that share a common computing device. In one aspect, the network can be based on Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), .
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Zihua Guo, Richard Yao, Wenwu Zhu, Xin Wang
  • Structure characterization of images
    Publication number: 20050180652
    Abstract: A method and system for characterizing structures in an image are presented. The method and system generates a structure checksum value based on a plurality of pixels in the image. The structure checksum is used as an index of a look-up table containing structure characteristics corresponding to the structure checksum values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: HUAYA Microelectronics (Shanghai) Inc.
    Inventor: Ge Zhu
  • Method of manufacturing a semiconductor component
    Patent number: 6930027
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor component includes forming a first electrically insulating layer (120) and a second electrically insulating layer (130) over a semiconductor substrate (110). The method further includes etching a first trench (140) and a second trench (150) through the first and second electrically insulating layers and into the semiconductor substrate, and etching a third trench (610) through a bottom surface of the second trench and into the semiconductor substrate. The third trench has a first portion (920) and a second portion (930) interior to the first portion. The method still further includes forming a third electrically insulating layer (910) filling the first trench and the first portion of the third trench without filling the second portion of the third trench, and also includes forming a plug layer (1010) in the second portion of the third trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Parthasarathy, Vishnu Khemka, Ronghua Zhu, Amitava Bose, Todd Roggenbauer, Paul Hui, Michael C. Butner
  • Electrical current measurements at head-disk interface
    Publication number: 20050174665
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, head/disk contact events are determined through a measurement of current at the head disk interface. For example, an ammeter/voltage source component may be electrically coupled to a magnetic/slider of a disk drive as well as to a spindle coupled to the recording medium. Applied voltage to the slider may result in a lower flying height. Greater measured current by the ammeter could indicate head/disk contact and assist in adjusting applied voltage to obtain a desire flying height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Zhang, Zhu Feng, Ellis Cha, Yen Fu
  • Electrophoretic nano-coating
    Publication number: 20050173248
    Abstract: The combination of employing electrophoretic technology with high covering power and the capability of using polymer nano-emulsion particles to produce a coherent layer of anti-corrosive polymer coating leads to the formation of coating layers with desirable properties such as being an extremely thin, transparent and coherent layer with uniform deposition on corners, edges and small holes, and showing suitable hardness, good corrosion protection and strong adherence to the underlying substrates. The technology can thus be applied to various industries for the purpose of decoration and corrosion protection of conductive substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Y.S. Fung, Zhu Derong, Li Zhuang, You Tianyan
  • Novel peptides as NS3-serine protease inhibitors of hepatitis C virus
    Publication number: 20050176648
    Abstract: The present invention discloses novel peptide compounds which have HCV protease inhibitory activity as well as methods for preparing such compounds. In another embodiment, the invention discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds as well as methods of using them to treat disorders associated with the HCV protease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: Schering-Plough Corporation
    Inventors: Anil Saksena, Viyyoor Girijavallabhan, Stephane Bogen, Raymond Lovey, Edwin Jao, Frank Bennett, Jinping McCormick, Haiyan Wang, Russell Pike, Yi-Tsung Liu, Tin-Yau Chan, Zhaoning Zhu, Ashok Arasappan, Kevin Chen, Srikanth Venkatraman, Tejal Parekh, Patrick Pinto, Bama Santhanam, F. Njoroge, Ashit Ganguly, Henry Vaccaro, Scott Kemp, Odile Levy, Marguerita Lim-Wilby, Susan Tamura
  • Spherical catalyst for olefin polymerization
    Publication number: 20050176900
    Abstract: Disclosed are catalyst systems and methods of making the catalyst systems/supports for the polymerization of an olefin containing a solid titanium catalyst component having a substantially spherical shape and containing an internal electron donor, a support made from a magnesium compound, an alcohol, an ether, a surfactant, and an alkyl silicate. The catalyst system may further contain an organoaluminum compound and an organosilicon compound. Also disclosed are methods of making an impact copolymer involving polymerizing an olefin to provide a polyolefin matrix and polymerizing a polyolefin rubber using a catalyst component containing a support made from a magnesium compound, an alcohol, an ether, a surfactant, and an alkyl silicate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Zhidong Zhu, Main Chang
  • LAUNDRY DETERGENT GEL WITH SUSPENDED PARTICLES
    Publication number: 20050176610
    Abstract: A shear-thinning lamellar gel detergent composition containing suspended particles, employing a non-neutralized fatty acid as a structuring agent, in a specific amount, depending on the total surfactant level. The weight % ratio of non-neutralized fatty acid to the total surfactant within a specific range, defined by the Gelling Index equation, results in gels with the desired properties. The inventive product offers an advantage of laundry pre-treater and a detergent in a single product and also provides a visual cue of suspended particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Feng-Lung Hsu, Yun Zhu, John Hines, Ronald Vogel
  • High density vertically stacked semiconductor device
    Publication number: 20050173807
    Abstract: A high density, high speed semiconductor module including a plurality of active semiconductor chip pairs bonded face-to-face. A functional system within the footprint of a single-chip package is provided by vertically stacking flip-chip pairs and interconnecting the chip pairs on a substrate or package. Assembly of the device including various combinations of more than one chip pair, in combination with individual chips, advantageously utilizes known manufacturing technology and equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Jianbai Zhu, Ray Harrison
  • Electrical current as probe for modulation at head-disk interface
    Publication number: 20050174667
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring the modulation between a magnetic head and a magnetic storage medium, such as a disk, is disclosed. A magnetic read/write head is positioned above a magnetic storage medium at a given flying height. The magnetic read/write head reads a signal from the magnetic storage medium. A tester measures an alternating electric current between the magnetic read/write head through the slider and the magnetic storage medium. A computer may then calculate the modulation by the magnetic read/write head based on the alternating electric current. A DC voltage to the head may be applied to lower the flying height of the magnetic head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Zhu Feng, Xiaofeng Zhang, Ellis Cha
  • Identification and characterization of plant genes
    Publication number: 20050177901
    Abstract: The invention discloses a set of genes the expression products of which are up-regulated during the grain filling process in rice and active in different metabolic pathways involved in nutrient partitioning. The invention also discloses the use of said genes to modify the compositional and nutritional characteristics of the plant grain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Tong Zhu, Wengiong Chen, Steven Briggs, Bret Cooper, Stephen Goff, Todd Moughamer, Jane GlazeBrook, Fumiaki Katagiri, Joel Kreps, Nicolas Provart, Darrell Ricke
  • Electrical connector
    Publication number: 20050176306
    Abstract: An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10), a plurality of conductive contacts (20) being received in the insulative housing and a metal shield (30) enclosing the housing. The insulative housing includes a base portion (11) and a tongue portion (12) forwardly extending from the base portion. The tongue portion defines a plurality of channels (13) in a bottom surface thereof. The base portion defines a pair of notches (14) adjacent to the channels. The conductive contacts includes four first conductive contacts (21) being received in the channels and dual second conductive contacts (22) being received in the notches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Ziqiang Zhu, Guohua Zhang, Wenke He, Yulong Mao, Bo Liu