Patents by Inventor Benjamin A. Zhang

Benjamin A. 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).

  • Publication number: 20240160554
    Abstract: Systems and methods for data anomaly detection include recommending one or more algorithms from a set of algorithms to process received time series data, wherein the one or more algorithms are recommended based at least in part on a type of workload for processing the received time series data. Assisted parameter tuning is provided for a detected anomaly alert and calibration, and the received time series data is processed based on a user selected algorithm that is parameter tuned, thereby resulting in more efficient and reliable anomaly detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Roman BATOUKOV, Richard WYDROWSKI, Sai Sankalp ARRABOLU, Zeqiang WANG, Lech GUDALEWICZ, Keiji KANAZAWA, Benjamin J. LOFTON, Thomas W. POTTHAST, Suren AGHAJANYAN, Khoa TRAN, Jian ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240152863
    Abstract: Systems and methods of verifying pairings of price tag labels and products at a product storage facility include an image capture device that moves about and captures images of product storage structures at the product storage facility, and a database that stores inventory data associated with the products stocked at the product storage facility. A computing device processes the images to extract one or more characters from the price tag labels and products detected in the images, correlates the extracted characters to the inventory data to identify a product code and a product name that matches the characters extracted from the price tag labels and the products. If the characters extracted from the price tag and from the on-shelf product to which the price tag label is allocated match, the database is updated to reflect that the price tag label is properly allocated to the appropriate on-shelf product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Lingfeng Zhang, Wei Wang, Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade, Raghava Balusu, Mingquan Yuan, Jing Wang, Han Zhang, Zhaoliang Duan, William Craig Robinson, Jr., Benjamin R. Ellison, Paul Lewis Lobo
  • Patent number: 11972519
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for learning neural reflectance shaders from images. A set of one or more machine learning models can be trained to optimize an illumination latent code and a set of reflectance latent codes for an object within a set of input images. A shader can then be generated based on a machine learning model of the one or more machine learning models. The shader is configured to sample the illumination latent code and the set of reflectance latent codes for the object. A 3D representation of the object can be rendered using the generated shader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Ummenhofer, Shenlong Wang, Sanskar Agrawal, Yixing Lao, Kai Zhang, Stephan Richter, Vladlen Koltun
  • Publication number: 20240130894
    Abstract: An eye mask with movable speakers is provided. The eye mask has a mask main body and two speaker assemblies. The mask main body is configured to cover a user's eyes and ears and comprises two inner spaces. The two inner spaces correspond to the user's ears in location. The two speaker assemblies are mounted in the inner spaces respectively, and at least one of the speaker assemblies is capable of moving in the corresponding inner space. When wearing the present eye mask, the user may cover eyes first and then connect and tie two ends of the mask main body, thereby securing the eye mask on the head. In the meantime, the mask also covers the user's ears. Then, the two speaker assemblies may be moved in the inner spaces to align with the user's ears respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: BENJAMIN SCHWARZ, MARK ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240136506
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for silicon with a carbon-based coating for lithium-ion battery electrodes. An example electrode, for use in an electrochemical cell, includes an active material that includes a plurality of silicon particles, with each silicon particle having a coating covering a surface of the particle. The coating may include a carbon based coating. A least a portion of the silicon (e.g., at least 70%) in the silicon particles is elemental silicon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Qing Zhang, Younes Ansari, Benjamin Yong Park, Jose Vega, Sung Won Choi
  • Publication number: 20240131032
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, pharmaceutical compositions, and vaccines for modulating an immune response. Also disclosed herein are methods, pharmaceutical compositions, and vaccines for inducing an immune response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin CRAVATT, Ekaterina VINOGRADOVA, Vincent CROWLEY, Xiaoyu ZHANG, Michael Andreas SCHAFROTH, Minoru YOKOYAMA, Dave REMILLARD, Bruno MELILLO, Stuart SCHREIBER
  • Publication number: 20240134557
    Abstract: An in-place data recovery method and system include receiving a user request to restore a virtual machine to a version corresponding to a first point in time, identifying a first snapshot of the virtual machine based on the user request, generating a second snapshot of the virtual machine, identifying a second data block in the second snapshot that includes modified data derived from data content of a first data block in the first snapshot, generating reverse incremental backup data including the first data block, and restoring the virtual machine in-place based on the reverse incremental backup data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Travis Meadowcroft, Disheng Su, Li Ding, Roman Konarev, Samir Rishi Chaudhry, Shirong Wu, Tianpei Zhang, Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20240135315
    Abstract: Systems and methods of analyzing on-shelf price tag labels and products at a product storage facility include an image capture device that captures one or more images of one or more product storage structures at a product storage facility. A computing device communicatively coupled to the image capture device analyzes the images of the product storage structures captured by the image capture device and detects individual price tag labels and individual products located on the product storage structure. Based on the detection of the price tag labels and the products, the computing device also defines separate product storage spaces of the product storage structure, determines which price tag labels are allocated to which of the separate product storage spaces, and associates in a database the price tag labels allocated to the product storage spaces with the products stored in those product storage spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jing Wang, Han Zhang, Lingfeng Zhang, Zhaoliang Duan, Mingquan Yuan, Wei Wang, Benjamin R. Ellison, Avinash M. Jade, Raghava Balusu, Zhichun Xiao
  • Publication number: 20240122761
    Abstract: A multi-piece eye mask is provided and has a first headband, a second headband, and two speaker assemblies. The first headband is configured to cover the user's eyes and ears. The second headband is detachably mounted on the first headband. The speaker assemblies are mounted in the second headband and corresponding to the user's ears in location. The first headband can be separated from the second headband, which contains the eye cups, and the first headband with the eye cups is independently washable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: BENJAMIN SCHWARZ, MARK ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11959026
    Abstract: A process for upgrading a pyrolysis oil comprising treating the pyrolysis oil with an upgrading solution to provide a mixture comprising an extract phase and a raffinate phase, wherein the upgrading solution comprises a polar organic solvent, and wherein the pyrolysis oil is a derived from the pyrolysis of plastic or rubber, or a combination thereof, and an upgraded pyrolysis oil prepared by said process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: REFINITI LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhaoxi Zhang, Benjamin Paul Williams
  • Publication number: 20240113281
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for aqueous based electrodes (e.g., anodes) with mechanical enhancement additives. An electrode for use in an electrochemical cell has an active material that includes silicon and a mechanical enhancement additive, with the mechanical enhancement additive selected to offset or counter silicon volume changes, and with the mechanical enhancement additive selected based on one or more selection thresholds relating to one or both of Young's modulus and aspect ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Younes Ansari, Qing Zhang, Benjamin Yong Park
  • Patent number: 11944934
    Abstract: A liquid desiccant regenerator configured to produce a first output stream with a higher concentration of a liquid desiccant than a first input stream. The regenerator also produces a second output stream with a lower concentration of the liquid desiccant than a second input stream. Regeneration of the liquid desiccant in the liquid desiccant regenerator decreases a temperature of the liquid desiccant regenerator. The system includes an air contactor coupled to the first output stream and exposing an input air stream to the first output stream. The first output stream absorbs water from the input air stream to form at least one diluted output desiccant stream. A heat pump of the system is thermally coupled to move the heat from the first output stream to the liquid desiccant regenerator. The heat moved to the liquid desiccant regenerator increases an efficiency of the liquid desiccant regenerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mojave Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Benedict, Aaron Meles, Eugene S. Beh, Francisco E Torres, Benjamin A Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240101882
    Abstract: The following is directed to an abrasive particle having a body including a core and a coating overlying at least a portion of the core. The coating can include a content of lithium. In an embodiment, the coating can further include silicon, oxygen, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Zehua SHI, Daming LI, Xiaochao SONG, Jianfeng ZHANG, Haoran NIU, Benjamin LEVEILLE, Melissa BECKER, Zhenyu LUO, Aiyun LUO
  • Patent number: 11941875
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a perspective view range image generated from sensor measurements of an environment. The perspective view range image includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional grid and including, for each pixel, (i) features of one or more sensor measurements at a location in the environment corresponding to the pixel and (ii) geometry information comprising range features characterizing a range of the location in the environment corresponding to the pixel relative to the one or more sensors. The system processes the perspective view range image using a first neural network to generate an output feature representation. The first neural network comprises a first perspective point-set aggregation layer comprising a geometry-dependent kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Yuning Chai, Pei Sun, Jiquan Ngiam, Weiyue Wang, Vijay Vasudevan, Benjamin James Caine, Xiao Zhang, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Publication number: 20240093099
    Abstract: A process for upgrading a pyrolysis oil comprising treating the pyrolysis oil with an upgrading solution to provide a mixture comprising an extract phase and a raffinate phase, wherein the upgrading solution comprises a polar organic solvent, and wherein the pyrolysis oil is a derived from the pyrolysis of plastic or rubber, or a combination thereof, and an upgraded pyrolysis oil prepared by said process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Zhaoxi ZHANG, Benjamin Paul WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20240096116
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a camera configured to view a driver of a vehicle; and a processing unit comprising a first model and a second model; wherein the first model is configured to process the images of the driver and to output feature information based on the images, and wherein the second model is configured to receive the feature information from the first model, and to generate an output that indicates whether the driver is drowsy or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Nauto, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Oren Alpert, Jacek Jakub Konieczny, Shukui Zhang, Tahmida Binte Mahmud
  • Patent number: 11935634
    Abstract: A system for predicting and summarizing medical events from electronic health records includes a computer memory storing aggregated electronic health records from a multitude of patients of diverse age, health conditions, and demographics including medications, laboratory values, diagnoses, vital signs, and medical notes. The aggregated electronic health records are converted into a single standardized data structure format and ordered arrangement per patient, e.g., into a chronological order. A computer (or computer system) executes one or more deep learning models trained on the aggregated health records to predict one or more future clinical events and summarize pertinent past medical events related to the predicted events on an input electronic health record of a patient having the standardized data structure format and ordered into a chronological order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Mossin, Alvin Rajkomar, Eyal Oren, James Wilson, James Wexler, Patrik Sundberg, Andrew Dai, Yingwei Cui, Gregory Corrado, Hector Yee, Jacob Marcus, Jeffrey Dean, Benjamin Irvine, Kai Chen, Kun Zhang, Michaela Hardt, Xiaomi Sun, Nissan Hajaj, Peter Junteng Liu, Quoc Le, Xiaobing Liu, Yi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11931853
    Abstract: Generating a recipe for controlling a polishing system includes receiving a target removal profile that includes a target thickness to remove for a plurality of locations on a substrate that are angularly distributed around the substrate, and storing a first function defining a polishing rate for a zone from a plurality of pressurizable zones of a carrier head that are angularly distributed around a the carrier head. The first function defines polishing rates as a function of pressures. For each particular zone of the plurality of zones a recipe defining a pressure for the particular zone over time is calculated by calculating an expected thickness profile after polishing using the first function, and minimizing a cost function that incorporates a first term representing a difference between the expected thickness profile and a target thickness profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Lau, Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian, Brian J. Brown, Thomas H. Osterheld
  • Patent number: 11926716
    Abstract: The present invention provides multifunctional particulates that release one or more functional compounds in response to environmental triggers and whose external surface modification imparts secondary functionalities to a selected coating composition. For example, disclosed are hydrophobic particles having a smart release mechanism for anticorrosion compounds that release the anticorrosion compounds upon exposure to the local pH changes induced by corrosion processes. Formulations are disclosed for multifunctional smart particles having antimicrobial effects and protections as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SynMatter LLC
    Inventors: Xuenjun Zhang, Benjamin Pearman
  • Patent number: D1027012
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Manta Sleep LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Schwarz, Mark Zhang