Patents by Inventor Chi Zhang

Chi 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: 20230285051
    Abstract: A puncture instrument kit includes a puncture rod, mesh, and sheath. The puncture rod consists of a puncture head, puncture rod body, and handle. One end of the puncture rod body is connected to the handle and the other end is integrated with the puncture head. The puncture head is arc-shaped with an end gradually tapering to form a tip. The tip of the puncture head is circumferentially designed with a groove for fixing a thread during surgery. The puncture head is smoothly connected with the puncture rod body, and the line between the tip of the puncture head and puncture rod body is at an obtuse angle of 130-140° relative to the puncture rod body. The sheath is sleeved on the puncture rod with the rod tip exposed. The mesh and sheath are designed as separate or integrated, and the tip of the puncture rod is provided with a shape-matching detachable silicone protective sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: West China Hospital of Sichuan University
    Inventors: Deyi LUO, Hong SHEN, Chi ZHANG, Xiao ZENG
  • Patent number: 11751957
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and tangibly-implemented software instructions for supporting a teleoperated surgical system (TSS). A surgical input that includes monitored events of the TSS, is received. A current stage of the surgical procedure is autonomously determined based on the surgical input. A call for surgeon assistance may be detected, in response to which context-relevant assistance may be provided to a surgeon console of the TSS, the context-relevant assistance being stage-synchronized with the surgical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony M. Jarc, Chi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230278927
    Abstract: A high-strength Portland cement slurry for ultra-high-temperature cementing, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. In parts by weight, the composition of the cement slurry comprises: 100 parts of Portland cement, 4-6 parts of a high temperature anti-cracking material, 80-105 parts of a high-temperature reinforcing material, 70-78 parts of water, 0.5-1.5 parts of a dispersant, 1-3 parts of a fluid loss reducer, 0.5-2.5 parts of a retarder and 0.2-0.5 parts of a defoamer; the high-temperature reinforcing material is a combination of acid-washed quartz sand, metakaolin and aluminum sulfate, a combination of acid-washed quartz sand, metakaolin, feldspar and sodium sulfate, or a combination of acid-washed quartz sand, metakaolin, feldspar and calcium nitrite. The cement slurry has good settling stability, rapid strength development in low temperatures, high compressive strength of cement stone at a high temperature of 600° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Hua Zhang, Jianzhou Jin, Yongjin Yu, Congfeng Qu, Fengzhong Qi, Ming Xu, Shuoqiong Liu, Zhaohui Wang, Yuchao Guo, Jiliang Liu, Bin Lyu, Zhiwei Ding, Chi Zhang, Zishuai Liu, Hongfei Ji, Xiujian Xia, Yong Li, Chongfeng Zhou, Xiaobing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11750541
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, electronic device and medium for transmitting a live message are provided. An embodiment of the method executed by a client end may include: detecting periodically a status of a persistent connection with the service end; and in response to detecting that the persistent connection is in a disconnected status, re-establishing the persistent connection with the service end, and pulling a first-type message issued during disconnection of the persistent connection from the service end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11750103
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a three-level rectification DC/DC converter including primary and secondary circuits and a resonant tank circuit. A voltage between two primary terminals is a first voltage. The secondary circuit includes a switch bridge arm and a capacitor bridge arm. The switch bridge arm includes four switches serially connected. A node between the first and second switches is connected to the first secondary terminal, a node between the third and fourth switches is connected to the second secondary terminal, and a node between the second and third switches is connected between two capacitors of the capacitor bridge arm. In two consecutive periods of the first voltage, the first and fourth switches are in an on state for a preset time length after two falling edges respectively, and the second and third switches are in the on state for the preset time length after two rising edges respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minli Jia, Hao Sun, Chi Zhang, Jinfa Zhang, Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa
  • Patent number: 11729951
    Abstract: A cooler device includes a cold plate and a manifold with fluid wicking structure. The cold plate includes an array of bonding posts and an array of fluid channels. Each bonding post of the array of bonding posts has a first height and is in contact with the manifold with fluid wicking structure. Each fluid channel of the array of fluid channels has a second height that is less than the first height. The array of fluid channels include a MIO secondary wick structure. The array of bonding posts is orthogonal to the array of fluid channels. The manifold with fluid wicking structure includes a plurality of spacer elements and a plurality of mesh layers. Each one of the plurality of spacer elements alternate with each one of the plurality of mesh layers in a stacked arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The Regents of the University of California, Merced, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Qianying Wu, Muhammad Shattique, Neda Seyedhassantehrani, Souvik Roy, James Palko, Sreekant Narumanchi, Bidzina Kekelia, Sougata Hazra, Kenneth E. Goodson, Roman Giglio, Ercan M. Dede, Mehdi Asheghi
  • Publication number: 20230245418
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for searching a product corresponding to a query from a customer. The method includes: embedding the query to obtain a query embedding; retrieving product information having a product text and a product image; embedding the product text to obtain a product text embedding, embedding the product image to obtain a product image embedding, and combining the product text embedding and the product image embedding to obtain a product embedding, where the product image embedding has a same format as the product text embedding; subjecting the query embedding and the product embedding to a transformer to determine whether the query and the product are relevant; and providing the product as a search result of the query when the query and the product are relevant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Xueying Zhang, Yunjiang Jiang, Xiaochuan Fan, Yue Shang, Yun Xiao
  • Publication number: 20230245208
    Abstract: A method for recommending a product, includes: providing product information having a product description, a main image, and a plurality of alternate images; for each alternate image: performing saliency segmentation to obtain a segment and a background, defining a segment bounding box enclosing the segment, extracting image feature from the segment bounding box, extracting textual feature from the product description, extracting main image feature from the main image, matching the image feature of the segment bounding box to the textual feature and the main image feature, and determining the alternate image as a qualified alternate image if the image feature of the segment bounding box matches the textual feature and the main image feature; and when a number of the qualified alternate image equals to or is greater than a threshold number, recommending the product to customers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Xiaochuan Fan, Yong Yang, Xincheng Wang, Shiliang Diao, Lingfei Wu, Yun Xiao
  • Publication number: 20230244528
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method, system, and computer program product for service update management. The method, during a first update procedure for a first service in a computing system, in response to a detection that the first update procedure fails, a state of a second service on which the first service depends in the computing system is checked. In response to the second service being in a first state, the first update procedure is suspended. Resources allocated to the first update procedure by the computing system are released. The released resources are allocated to the second update procedure of the second service. The second update procedure is implemented based on the allocated released resources. With these embodiments, failures during the update procedures for the services may be automatically detected and removed based on a dependency relationship between the services. Therefore, the performance of the update procedures may be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Wen Tao Zhang, Yiwen Huang, Yang Yang, Hong Jun Tu, Xiao Kai Dong, YE CUI, Wei Wu, Yu Chi Zhang, Xin Huang
  • Patent number: 11714152
    Abstract: Images are reconstructed from undersampled k-space data using a residual machine learning algorithm (e.g., a ResNet architecture) to estimate missing k-space lines from acquired k-space data with improved noise resilience. Using a residual machine learning algorithm provides for combining the advantages of both linear and nonlinear k-space reconstructions. The linear residual connection can implement a convolution that estimates most of the energy in k-space, and the multi-layer machine learning algorithm can be implemented with nonlinear activation functions to estimate imperfections, such as noise amplification due to coil geometry, that arise from the linear component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    Inventors: Mehmet Akcakaya, Steen Moeller, Chi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230221591
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for controlling molecules. In certain aspects, the invention provides a system for controlling molecules, the system comprising: a first light source; a second light source; an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) coupled to the second light source; and control circuitry. In certain embodiments, the control circuitry may be configured to: receive a signal from the first light source that is interrogating a location in a sample that may contain a target molecule; compare the signal received from the first light source to a preset signal; and in the event that the signal received from the first light source meets or exceeds the preset signal, then the target molecule is present at the location in the sample and the control circuitry causes the AOM to activate the second light source to transmit light onto the location in the sample that contains the target molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Mark Carlsen, Matthew Clark
  • Publication number: 20230225082
    Abstract: A cooler device includes a cold plate and a manifold with fluid wicking structure. The cold plate includes an array of bonding posts and an array of fluid channels. Each bonding post of the array of bonding posts has a first height and is in contact with the manifold with fluid wicking structure. Each fluid channel of the array of fluid channels has a second height that is less than the first height. The array of fluid channels include a MIO secondary wick structure. The array of bonding posts is orthogonal to the array of fluid channels. The manifold with fluid wicking structure includes a plurality of spacer elements and a plurality of mesh layers. Each one of the plurality of spacer elements alternate with each one of the plurality of mesh layers in a stacked arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The Regents of the University of California, Merced, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Qianying Wu, Muhammad Shattique, Neda Seyedhassantehrani, Souvik Roy, James Palko, Sreekant Narumanchi, Bidzina Kekelia, Sougata Hazra, Kenneth E. Goodson, Roman Giglio, Ercan M. Dede, Mehdi Asheghi
  • Publication number: 20230214634
    Abstract: A spiking neural network acceleration method includes constructing an approximate computation model according to a spiking neuron model and a spiking coding mode. The approximate computation model utilizes the characteristic that spiking frequency domain coding ignores the time semantics of a spiking sequence, compresses the distribution of spiking signals on a time step, and greatly reduces a spiking routing process and a subsequent neural computation process. The time-driven accelerator replans the computation process of the spiking neural network, sets a deduplication queue and a bitmap to solve the problem of spiking jitter, and realizes efficient support on the inhibitory spiking neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., LTD
    Inventors: Rui HAN, Donglian QI, Yunfeng YAN, Chi ZHANG, Yiming ZHENG, Wang LUO, Ping QIAN, Yong ZHANG, Zheren DAI, Jun CHEN, Chao WANG, Lei GONG, Huarong XU
  • Publication number: 20230215403
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of displays, and disclose a screen correction method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring a first display parameter of pixel points in at least two display regions of a target screen, wherein the first display parameter comprises first spectral tristimulus values; determining a target region in the display regions and determining a second display parameter of pixel points in a non-target region in the display regions according to the first display parameter, wherein the target region is a display region among the display regions where a luminance parameter meets a preset requirement, and the second display parameter comprises second spectral tristimulus values; converting the luminance parameter into a target display parameter with the type of the second spectral tristimulus values; and compensating the second display parameter based on the target display parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicants: Haining ESWIN IC Design Co., Ltd., Beijing ESWIN Computing Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Qiqiang Han, Meng Guo
  • Publication number: 20230205014
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a viewing angle compensation method and apparatus for a display panel, and the display panel, and relates to the technical field of liquid crystal displaying. The purpose of increasing a visual angle of an MVA liquid crystal panel can be achieved, and for a whitening phenomenon of a screen watched at a side viewing angle, a better improving effect can be given.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Bo ZHAO, Qiqiang HAN, Chi ZHANG, Huawen DING
  • Publication number: 20230208307
    Abstract: A frequency conversion power transmission system includes: a new energy power generation base, a first isolation device, a second isolation device, an alternating current-alternating current (AC-AC) frequency conversion device and a power transmission cable; the new energy power generation base is configured to supply electrical energy to an AC power grid, and operate at a constant voltage and a constant or variable frequency according to environmental conditions including weather, an environment or a distance; the first isolation device is connected to the new energy power generation base; the second isolation device is connected to the AC power grid; an input terminal of the AC-AC frequency conversion device is connected to the first isolation device, an output terminal of the AC-AC frequency conversion device is connected to the second isolation device, and the power transmission cable is configured to connect the new energy power generation base and the first isolation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Jian YANG, Chen ZHOU, Zhanfeng DENG, Chi ZHANG, Zuofu JIANG, Guoliang ZHAO, Jianhua LV, Guode YING, Hongyang YU, Haohua WU, Jing GE, Yongling LI, Shaohua PAN, Qingxi CAI, Sanghong CHEN, Xin WANG, Yizhi ZHU, Chuhang XU, Xingbai WANG, Lijun ZHU, Xiaoyu XIANG, Baorong LIU, Xinghui JIANG, Linfeng GUAN, Yijun GUO
  • Publication number: 20230197448
    Abstract: We provide a novel cleanroom-based process flow that allows for easy creation of multi-level, hierarchical 3D structures in a substrate. This is achieved by introducing an ultra-thin sacrificial hardmask layer on the substrate which is first 3D patterned via multiple rounds of lithography. This 3D pattern is then scaled vertically by a factor of 200 - 300 and transferred to the substrate underneath via a single shot deep etching step. This method is also easily characterizable - using features of different topographies and dimensions, the etch rates and selectivities were quantified; this characterization information was later used while fabricating specific target structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Chi Zhang, Sougata Hazra, Qianying Wu, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson, Ercan Dede, James Palko, Sreekant Narumanchi
  • Publication number: 20230196272
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a computer, a destination address. The computer can obtain historical fulfillment data for the destination address. The computer can then determine one or more temporary transporter locations based on the historical fulfillment data for the destination address. The computer can determine a waypoint location from the one or more temporary transporter locations. The computer can provide the waypoint location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: DoorDash, Inc.
    Inventors: Sushil Vellanki, Chi Zhang, Xun Liu, Eric Pan
  • Patent number: 11679569
    Abstract: A reinforced element for use in the construction and assembly of an industrial textile, the element comprising a fibrous reinforcing material encapsulated by a thermoplastic polymer matrix, wherein: the thermoplastic polymer matrix comprises an amorphous polyester, a low-crystallinity polyester, polyphenylene sulphide (PPS), or a mixture thereof; the fibrous reinforcing material comprises continuous filaments selected from the group consisting of thermoplastic polymeric filaments, thermosetting polymeric filaments, glass fibers and a mixture thereof such that a majority of the continuous filaments are oriented in a first direction and the remainder of the continuous filaments are oriented in a second direction that is generally perpendicular to the first direction; a temperature at which the amorphous polymer substantially enters a liquid state, or the melting point of the low-crystallinity polyester, is at least 10° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: ASTENJOHNSON, INC.
    Inventor: Chi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230188032
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a three-phase AC/DC converter aiming for low input current harmonic. The converter includes an input stage for receiving a three-phase AC input voltage, an output stage for at least one load, and one or more switching conversion stages, each stage including a plurality of half bridge modules. The switches in each module operate with a substantially fixed 50% duty cycle and are connected in a specific pattern to couple a DC-link and a neutral node of the input voltage. The AC/DC converter further includes one or more controllers adapted to vary the switching frequency of the switches in the switching conversion stages based on at least one of load voltage, load current, input voltage, and DC-link voltage. The converter can also include one or more decoupling stages, such as, inductive components adapted to decouple the output stage from the switching conversion stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chi ZHANG, Zhiyu SHEN, Yungtaek JANG, Sheng-Hua LI, Ruxi WANG, Peter Mantovanelli BARBOSA