Patents by Inventor Dennis YANG
Dennis YANG 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).
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Patent number: 11970989Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for improving operation of an evaporative emissions system. In one example, the methods and systems estimate a fuel vapor concentration based on output of a fuel tank level sensor and output of a fuel pressure sensor. A canister purge valve is adjusted to an initial position at a beginning of a fuel vapor purging cycle to reduce a fuel vapor purging time.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Aed Dudar, Dennis Yang, Jonathan Bauer, Kenneth Pifher
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Patent number: 11946060Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
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Patent number: 11934641Abstract: User interface customization based on user navigational signals is described herein. A computer system causes a device to present first information associated with a first item in a first network page. The computer system receives first data indicating a first interaction with the first information and determines whether the first interaction corresponds to a first request for information about a set of items associated with the first item or to a second request for a removal of the presentation of the first information. If the first interaction corresponds to the first request, the computer system causes the device to present a second network page that shows second information associated with a second item of the set of items. If the first interaction corresponds to the second request, the computer system causes the device to remove the first information from being presented in the first network page.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Ryan Stainken, Alexander Slutsker, Raman Bhatia, Sylvia Yang, Puneet Sharma, Peter Everett Zupke, Ksenia Zhizhimontova, Aparna Raman, Anton Pieter van der Stroom, Steven Ivie, Michaela Lea Rodwick
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Publication number: 20240084466Abstract: An iridium-based catalyst and method of making the catalyst are described. The catalyst comprises a catalytic material comprising iridium oxide or a mixture of iridium and iridium oxide nanoplates. It may have a BET surface area of at least 50 m2/g and a pore volume of at least 0.10 cc/g. The nanoplates are less than 50 nm thick. The catalyst is made using organic and inorganic structure directing agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Zhanyong Li, Chunqing Liu, Shurong Yang, Dennis F. van der Vliet, Gavin P. Towler, Jeffery C. Bricker
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Publication number: 20240011448Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for improving operation of an evaporative emissions system. In one example, the methods and systems estimate a fuel vapor concentration based on output of a fuel tank level sensor and output of a fuel pressure sensor. A canister purge valve is adjusted to an initial position at a beginning of a fuel vapor purging cycle to reduce a fuel vapor purging time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Aed Dudar, Dennis Yang, Jonathan Bauer, Kenneth Pifher
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Patent number: 11852111Abstract: An apparatus and a system are disclosed for preventing fuel starvation in an off-road vehicle that may be operated on a severely inclined surface. A vehicle having a fuel tank for a fuel delivery module disposed in the fuel tank. A fuel pump assembly is disposed in the fuel tank and a slip ring joint is assembled to the fuel delivery module. One or more tubes are assembled to the slip ring joint that extends and retracts relative to the slip ring joint toward and away from the walls of the fuel tank. A remote fuel pick-up is assembled to the tube so that when the vehicle is operated on an inclined surface, the remote fuel pick-up is extended and rotates inside the fuel tank to move toward and away from an inner surface of the fuel tank and follows the fuel contained in the fuel tank.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Aed M. Dudar, Russell Randall Pearce, Dennis Yang, Paul Dreier
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Patent number: 11578337Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
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Publication number: 20230011125Abstract: A fastening element (10) for attaching a component to a support structure in a fastening direction (20), comprising a receptacle (30) receiving a tool nose (110) of a setting tool and having an abutment face (40) and a trap element (50), the abutment face (40) facing against the fastening direction (20) and abutting a front face (130) of the tool nose (110) when the tool nose (110) is received in the receptacle (30), the trap element (50) locking the tool nose (110) in the receptacle (30) in the fastening direction (20), and a slide-in channel (60) allowing sliding the tool nose (110) into the receptacle (30) and having one or more guide elements (70) guiding the tool nose (110) in a sliding direction (80) when the tool nose (110) is slid into the receptacle (30), wherein the sliding direction (80) is oblique to the fastening direction (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Dennis YANG, Xinyu SHU, Mathias GOLDT, Rachel YANG
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Patent number: 11530417Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: CERES, INC.Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
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Patent number: 11280287Abstract: Systems and methods are presented herein for detecting a degradation condition in a variable volume device of a fuel tank of a vehicle. In one example, the issues described above may be addressed by a diagnostic method for a vehicle with a valve and a fuel tank having a variable volume device internal to the tank, comprising: operating the fuel tank over a diurnal cycle; and differentiating between degradation of the fuel tank and the variable volume device based on a fuel tank pressure at a plurality of different valve conditions; and indicating the differentiated degradation.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Aed Dudar, Dennis Yang, Daniel Frank Cragel, Russell Randall Pearce
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Patent number: 11274622Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing leaks in a fuel system. In one example, a method may include monitoring a fuel level in a vehicle fuel tank of the fuel system during refueling and indicating degradation of the vehicle fuel tank and/or a bellows coupled to the vehicle fuel tank based on the monitored fuel level. In some examples, indicating the degradation may further be based on a rate of fuel supplied to the vehicle fuel tank during the refueling and/or a vehicle fuel economy. In this way, degradation to the vehicle fuel tank and the bellows may be passively determined with minimal specialized components in the fuel system.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Aed Dudar, Dennis Yang, Russell Randall Pearce, Daniel Frank Cragel
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Patent number: 11187192Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for conducting diagnostics to indicate whether a fuel system and/or an evaporative emissions system of a vehicle has a source of undesired evaporative emissions, or not. A method comprises conducting such a diagnostic via evacuating the fuel system to a target vacuum, then sealing the fuel system from atmosphere and monitoring a pressure bleed-up in the fuel system, and dynamically adjusting a pressure bleed-up threshold responsive to one or more conditions that impact the pressure bleed-up during the diagnostic, and indicating undesired evaporative emissions responsive to the pressure bleed-up reaching the adjusted pressure bleed-up threshold. In this way, interpretation of the results of such a diagnostic may be more robust, completion rates may improve, and engine operation may be improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Aed M. Dudar, Mark Peters, Dennis Yang
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Patent number: 11085382Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle with an internal combustion engine is provided that includes regulating a pressure in a fuel tank by scheduling an engine start-up event based on a rate of change of the fuel tank pressure to reduce fuel tank venting emissions, where the rate of change of the fuel tank pressure is determined based on an ambient temperature and an in-tank pressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Kenneth Pifher, Dennis Yang, Mark Peters
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Publication number: 20200224212Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
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Publication number: 20200181637Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
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Publication number: 20200181638Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
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Patent number: 10604766Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: CERES, INC.Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
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Patent number: 10508618Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a vehicle fuel system for a presence or absence of undesired evaporative emissions. In one example, a method comprises conducting a test for undesired evaporative emissions stemming from a fuel system of a vehicle via in a first operating mode, evacuating the fuel system to a variable vacuum level through an entirety of a fuel vapor canister configured to capture and store fuel vapors, and in a second operating mode, evacuating the fuel system to the variable vacuum level through a portion of the fuel vapor canister. In this way, the diagnostic may be conducted in an environmentally friendly fashion, where analysis of a bleed-up portion of the test is not impacted by fuel volatility at the time of the diagnostic.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Aed Dudar, Mark Peters, Dennis Yang
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Publication number: 20190271275Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle with an internal combustion engine is provided that includes regulating a pressure in a fuel tank by scheduling an engine start-up event based on a rate of change of the fuel tank pressure to reduce fuel tank venting emissions, where the rate of change of the fuel tank pressure is determined based on an ambient temperature and an in-tank pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2018Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Kenneth Pifher, Dennis Yang, Mark Peters
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Publication number: 20190249622Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for conducting diagnostics to indicate whether a fuel system and/or an evaporative emissions system of a vehicle has a source of undesired evaporative emissions, or not. In one example, a method comprises conducting such a diagnostic via evacuating the fuel system to a target vacuum, then sealing the fuel system from atmosphere and monitoring a pressure bleed-up in the fuel system, and dynamically adjusting a pressure bleed-up threshold responsive to one or more conditions that impact the pressure bleed-up during the diagnostic, and indicating undesired evaporative emissions responsive to the pressure bleed-up reaching the adjusted pressure bleed-up threshold. In this way, interpretation of the results of such a diagnostic may be more robust, completion rates may improve, and engine operation may be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2018Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Aed M. Dudar, Mark Peters, Dennis Yang