Patents by Inventor Cheng Lu

Cheng Lu 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: 20260147530
    Abstract: A playback device comprising a radio circuitry comprising a first radio and a second radio, at least one antenna coupled to the radio circuitry. The playback device configured to, while in a group comprising a plurality of satellite playback devices, connect, using a first radio of the playback device, to a first wireless network, establish, using a second radio of the playback device, a second wireless network, receive an audio stream including multi-channel audio content, communicate at least one first audio channel of the multi-channel audio content to a first subset of satellite playback devices over the first wireless network, and communicate at least one second audio channel of the multi-channel audio content to a second subset of satellite playback devices over the second wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventors: Cheng Lu, Hrishikesh Gossain, Lawrence Stefani, Zhaoyun Huang
  • Publication number: 20260008835
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a VEGF-binding molecule and a pharmaceutical use thereof. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a VEGF-binding molecule, a nucleic acid encoding the VEGF-binding molecule, a vector comprising the nucleic acid, and a pharmaceutical use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Inventors: Xiaojing YUAN, Wentao ZHANG, Cheng LU, Wei ZHANG, Wei NING, Caihong ZHOU, Cheng LIAO
  • Patent number: 12506629
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof to cause the playback devices in a mixed-mode configuration to play audio content in synchrony with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Hrishikesh Gossain, Cheng Lu, Zhaoyun Huang, Jeffrey Peters
  • Publication number: 20250365784
    Abstract: An example playback device is configured to detect an input indicating a command to power up the playback device and, based on the input, begin initialization of a wireless network interface. After beginning initialization of the wireless network interface but before the playback device is capable of establishing a connection to at least one wireless network type via the wireless network interface, the playback device causes the wireless network interface to scan for available wireless networks of the at least one wireless network type. The playback device identifies at least one available wireless network and stores an indication of the at least one available wireless network. After the playback device is capable of establishing a connection, the playback device uses the stored indication of the at least one available wireless network to establish a connection to a given wireless network of the at least one available wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Inventors: Cheng Lu, Stuart Eichert
  • Patent number: 12483122
    Abstract: The application discloses a resonant converter and a method for controlling the same. The resonant converter includes: a resonant tank, a first circuit electrically connected to a first end of the resonant tank, and a second circuit electrically connected to a second end of the resonant tank; the first circuit including at least one primary switch, the second circuit including at least one controllable switch, and controlling the at least one controllable switch according to a secondary initial switching frequency, such that the second circuit outputs power, adjusting a secondary switching frequency of the at least one controllable switch according to the secondary initial switching frequency and a signal reflecting the power of the second circuit, such that the secondary switching frequency of the second circuit follows a primary switching frequency of the first circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Baihui Song, Wenfei Hu, Cheng Lu, Hongyang Wu
  • Patent number: 12470120
    Abstract: The application provides a cascade system distributed control method and device. The method including: taking an output of a closed-loop control for regulating an AC current of the power module as a reference value of a bridge arm voltage; according to the reference value of the bridge arm voltage to obtain an amplitude of the bridge arm voltage, taking the amplitude of the bridge arm voltage as a feedback signal, and after closed-loop control and regulation together with the AC current of the power module, adjusting the reference value of the bridge arm voltage; and controlling the bridge arm voltage according to the reference value of the bridge arm voltage, wherein in at least one working mode of the cascade system, a change of parameters reflecting an active current has a monotonic relation with a change of the amplitude of the bridge arm voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Wen Zhang, Wenfei Hu, Cheng Lu, Hongyang Wu, Baihui Song
  • Publication number: 20250333314
    Abstract: A composite material and a preparation method therefor are provided. The composite material comprises an inner core and a shell coating the outside of the inner core, wherein the thermal conductivity of the inner core material is not less than 20 W/m·K, and the material of the shell comprises a first metal salt. The composite material satisfies the following conditions: D501 of the composite material is A, the composite material with a mass of M is placed in a container with a stirring device, is stirred for 10 min under the condition of a charging coefficient being 0.4 and 500 r/min, and then passes through a (0.1-0.3)×A sieve, and the amount of screen underflow is not higher than 0.05×M. The composite material can make up defects of the inner core material, the aging performance is relatively good, and the heat conductivity coefficient is also relatively high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2025
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Inventors: Fuqiang ZHOU, Xiaodong LIU, Qi WU, Rutao XU, Lin TAO, Fan ZHONG, Cheng LU, Liang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20250285374
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein provide feedback to a user during object scanning based on how well sensor data of the scanned object has been captured. During object scanning a user may move an electronic device with sensors (e.g., cameras, depth sensors, etc.) around an object to capture sensor data for use in generating a final 3D model of the object. Live feedback during the scanning process is enabled by assessing how well the captured sensor data represents different portions of the object. In some implementations, a 3D model is generated, updated, and assessed based on the sensor data live during the scanning process. This live 3D model may be coarser (i.e., having fewer details) than the final 3D model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2025
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Cheng Lu, Hao Tang, Michael P. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12401273
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a resonant converter, and a controlling method thereof. The resonant converter includes a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding, a primary circuit electrically connected to the primary winding and receiving an input voltage, and a secondary circuit electrically connected to the secondary winding and outputting an output voltage. The secondary circuit includes a first secondary half-bridge including a first controllable switch and a second secondary half-bridge including a second controllable switch connected in parallel. The first and second controllable switches are arranged diagonally. The method includes: controlling a duty ratio of one of the first controllable switch and the second controllable switch in a first switching period to form a first short-circuited loop during a first interval during; and controlling a duty ratio of the other one in a second switching period to form a second short-circuited loop during a second interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Baihui Song, Sanyuan Ouyang, Cheng Lu
  • Patent number: 12394145
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein provide feedback to a user during object scanning based on how well sensor data of the scanned object has been captured. During object scanning a user may move an electronic device with sensors (e.g., cameras, depth sensors, etc.) around an object to capture sensor data for use in generating a final 3D model of the object. Live feedback during the scanning process is enabled by assessing how well the captured sensor data represents different portions of the object. In some implementations, a 3D model is generated, updated, and assessed based on the sensor data live during the scanning process. This live 3D model may be coarser (i.e., having fewer details) than the final 3D model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Gernoth, Cheng Lu, Hao Tang, Michael P. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12389330
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect, power management techniques are disclosed that may reduce the power consumption of devices, such as those devices in media playback systems, without introducing a noticeable lag between a user issuing a command and the device processing the command. In some embodiments, the device may put to sleep (including turn off) electronic components that are only used for specific commands. In these embodiments, the devices may identify periods where the specific commands are likely to be invoked and, in response to identifying such a period, wake-up the electronic components. As a result, the power consumption of the device may be substantially reduced because various electronic components may be put to sleep instead of remaining idle in an awake state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Cheng Lu
  • Publication number: 20250240719
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect, power management techniques are disclosed that may reduce the power consumption of devices, such as those devices in media playback systems, without introducing a noticeable lag between a user issuing a command and the device processing the command. In some embodiments, the device may put to sleep (including turn off) electronic components that are only used for specific commands. In these embodiments, the devices may identify periods where the specific commands are likely to be invoked and, in response to identifying such a period, wake-up the electronic components. As a result, the power consumption of the device may be substantially reduced because various electronic components may be put to sleep instead of remaining idle in an awake state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventor: Cheng Lu
  • Patent number: 12359104
    Abstract: This invention relates to a heat and humidity resistant adhesive composition, comprising a first part comprising at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer; a second part comprising at least one initiator; and at least one blocked isocyanate compound comprised in the first part, the second part and/or a third separate part. The adhesive composition exhibits excellent aging performance under rigorous conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Zhuming Shi, Cheng Lu, Jinqian Chen
  • Patent number: 12328065
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for estimating parameters of a resonant converter. The resonant converter has first, second port, and a resonant tank that includes an equivalent resonant capacitor and an equivalent resonant inductor, the method including: estimating a second voltage estimation value of the second port, an equivalent resonant capacitor estimation value, and/or an equivalent resonant inductor estimation value of the resonant converter according to a first voltage of the first port, an equivalent resonant capacitor voltage and an equivalent resonant inductor current of at least three effective points, wherein the points have different coordinates on a state plane of the equivalent resonant capacitor voltage and the equivalent resonant inductor current, and are on a state trajectory formed by the equivalent resonant capacitor voltage and the equivalent resonant inductor current, and the points are not central symmetric about a center of the state trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Baihui Song, Wen Zhang, Wenfei Hu, Cheng Lu
  • Patent number: 12324031
    Abstract: An example playback device is configured to detect an input indicating a command to power up the playback device and, based on the input, begin initialization of a wireless network interface. After beginning initialization of the wireless network interface but before the playback device is capable of establishing a connection to at least one wireless network type via the wireless network interface, the playback device causes the wireless network interface to scan for available wireless networks of the at least one wireless network type. The playback device identifies at least one available wireless network and stores an indication of the at least one available wireless network. After the playback device is capable of establishing a connection, the playback device uses the stored indication of the at least one available wireless network to establish a connection to a given wireless network of the at least one available wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng Lu, Stuart Eichert
  • Patent number: 12315300
    Abstract: A system and a method for performing unified human motion prediction (HMP) are provided. In operation, the system provides a unified HMP module, which includes an encoder configured to encode a plurality of existing two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) pose sequences into a shared latent space V and a decoder configured to predict a plurality of predicted future 2D and 3D pose sequences based on the encoded shared latent space V, thus forming four pathways of knowledge flow. The system then trains the unified HMP module and the shared latent space V in a weakly supervised manner with input features X with actual future 2D and 3D pose sequences by minimizing a loss between the predicted future 2D and 3D pose sequences and the actual future 3D and 3D pose sequences. Once the training is complete, the unified HMP may be performed using the trained encoded shared latent space V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU XIAOPENG AUTOPILOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanjun Zhu, Chen Bai, Cheng Lu
  • Patent number: 12293781
    Abstract: The three-state spintronic device includes: a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction and a top electrode from bottom to top. The magnetic tunnel junction includes: a spin-orbit coupling layer, a ferromagnetic free layer, a barrier tunneling layer, a ferromagnetic reference layer, three local magnetic domain wall pinning centers and domain wall nucleation centers. An antisymmetric exchange interaction is modulated, and the magnetic domain wall pinning centers are embedded in an interface between a heavy metal and the ferromagnetic free layer. The magnetic domain wall nucleation centers are at two ends of the ferromagnetic free layer. A current pulse flows through the spin-orbit coupling layer to generate a spin current and the spin current is injected into the ferromagnetic free layer. Under a control of all-electrical controlled, an effective field of a spin-orbit torque drives domain wall to move and displace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Huai Lin, Guozhong Xing, Zuheng Wu, Long Liu, Di Wang, Cheng Lu, Peiwen Zhang, Changqing Xie, Ling Li, Ming Liu
  • Patent number: 12260902
    Abstract: A complementary storage unit and a method of preparing the same, and a complementary memory. The complementary storage unit includes: a control transistor, a pull-up diode and a pull-down diode. The control transistor is configured to control reading and writing of the storage unit. One end of the pull-up diode is connected to a positive selection line, and the other end thereof is connected to a source end of the control transistor, so as to control a high-level input. One end of the pull-down diode is connected to a negative selection line, and the other end thereof is connected to the source end of the control transistor, so as to control a low-level input. The pull-up diode and the pull-down diode are symmetrically arranged in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Qing Luo, Bing Chen, Hangbing Lv, Ming Liu, Cheng Lu
  • Patent number: 12234391
    Abstract: This invention relates to a two-part adhesive composition, comprising a first part comprising at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer, at least one non-polar styrenic block copolymer, and at least one curing promoter; and a second part comprising at least one initiator. The two-part adhesive composition exhibits excellent adhering strength to both metal substrate and plastic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: ZhuMing Shi, Cheng Lu
  • Patent number: 12205630
    Abstract: Provided are a symmetric memory cell and a BNN circuit. The symmetric memory cell includes a first complementary structure and a second complementary structure, the second complementary structure being symmetrically connected to the first complementary structure in a first direction, wherein the first complementary structure includes a first control transistor configured to be connected to the second complementary structure, the second complementary structure includes a second control transistor, a drain electrode of the second control transistor and a drain electrode of the first control transistor being symmetrically arranged in the first direction and connected to a bit line, and the symmetric memory cell is configured to store a weight value 1 or 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Qing Luo, Bing Chen, Hangbing Lv, Ming Liu, Cheng Lu