Patents by Inventor Gang Ji

Gang Ji 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).

  • Patent number: 12372586
    Abstract: Example devices and techniques are described herein for determining a relative state-of-charge of a battery. An example device includes memory, a battery, a temperature sensor and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor may be configured to sense a battery temperature. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate an end-of-discharge state-of-charge of the battery. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a remaining capacity of the battery. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a full charge capacity of the battery. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a relative state-of-charge of the battery and generate a representation of the estimate of the relative state-of-charge of the battery for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Gang Ji
  • Publication number: 20250138092
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a battery health management device including at least one sensor coupled to a battery, and a controller coupled to the at least one sensor and including a processor coupled to a memory comprising instructions, the processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a plurality of battery health input values associated with a battery health parameter over a predetermined period of time, determine an updated battery health value based on the plurality of battery health input values, determine that each battery health input value included in the plurality of battery health input values meets a predetermined trend condition, calculate a difference value, determine that the difference value is less than or equal to a predetermined upper bound battery health value and greater than or equal to a predetermined lower bound battery health value, and update the reference battery health value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventor: Gang Ji
  • Patent number: 12265132
    Abstract: A method for battery management, the method including determining an amount of charge Qchg delivered to the battery during a portion of a charging cycle. The method can also include measuring state of charge (SoCfull) of the battery subsequent to the charging cycle, and determining an amount of charge Qdsg produced by the battery during a discharging cycle of the battery to a depth of discharge (DoD) threshold. The method can also include measuring state of charge (SoCempty) of the battery subsequent to discharging the battery. The method can include determining total battery capacity based on the values determined in previous operations. Apparatuses and systems for battery management are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel B. Artmann, Brian Douglas Kuhnley, Gang Ji
  • Patent number: 12258084
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a lift axle control method for a vehicle and a lift axle control system for a vehicle, wherein the method comprises the following steps: step 1) acquiring a load M of the vehicle; step 2) judging whether it needs to lower the lift axle according to the load, and if so, controlling the vehicle to lower the lift axle, and entering into step 3); otherwise, returning to step 1); step 3) calculating an optimal position of lifting the lift axle, controlling the vehicle to lift the lift axle at the optimal position, and entering into step 4); step 4) calculating an optimal position to lower the lift axle, controlling the vehicle to lower the lift axle at the optimal position, and then returning to step 3). The method of the present disclosure can reduce the damage to the road surface and achieve the economy of fuel consumption during running of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Xiamen Yaxon Zhilian Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yankai Tu, Junfang Lai, Gang Ji
  • Publication number: 20240288370
    Abstract: Disclosed are a real-time fluorescence monitoring cryo-focused ion beam processing device and a corresponding method. The device includes a vacuum chamber, an ion beam system, and a fluorescence imaging system. A cryo stage is provided in the vacuum chamber and is used for placing a frozen sample, in which a fluorescent marker is provided. The ion beam system is disposed on the vacuum chamber and directed to the frozen sample for ion beam processing the frozen sample. The fluorescence imaging system is arranged on the vacuum chamber and located below the frozen sample and is used for performing real-time optical imaging on the frozen sample. During processing, the fluorescence imaging system emits excitation light to the frozen sample to excite the fluorescent marker in the sample to emit fluorescence, which is received by the fluorescence imaging system to form an image of a target structure in the frozen sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Gang JI, Shuoguo LI, Fei SUN
  • Patent number: 11982346
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a terrain based dynamic gear shift control method and system for a vehicle. The method includes: during running of a vehicle, obtaining a current terrain; according to the current terrain, the economic gear shift strategy, and the dynamic gear shift strategy, generating a current gear shift strategy curve; and according to the current gear shift strategy curve, controlling a transmission to perform gear shift. The present disclosure can make the vehicle have wider adaptability, and achieve a better dynamic balance between economy and dynamic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen Yaxon Network Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yankai Tu, Jianyun Qu, Tengyuan Luo, Gang Ji
  • Publication number: 20240094305
    Abstract: Example devices and techniques are described herein for determining a relative state-of-charge of a battery. An example device includes memory, a battery, a temperature sensor and processing circuitry coupled to the memory and the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor may be configured to sense a battery temperature. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate an end-of-discharge state-of-charge of the battery. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a remaining capacity of the battery. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a full charge capacity of the battery. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a relative state-of-charge of the battery and generate a representation of the estimate of the relative state-of-charge of the battery for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Gang Ji
  • Publication number: 20240010284
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are a lift axle control method for a vehicle and a lift axle control system for a vehicle, wherein the method comprises the following steps: step 1) acquiring a load M of the vehicle; step 2) judging whether it needs to lower the lift axle according to the load, and if so, controlling the vehicle to lower the lift axle, and entering into step 3); otherwise, returning to step 1); step 3) calculating an optimal position of lifting the lift axle, controlling the vehicle to lift the lift axle at the optimal position, and entering into step 4); step 4) calculating an optimal position to lower the lift axle, controlling the vehicle to lower the lift axle at the optimal position, and then returning to step 3). The method of the present disclosure can reduce the damage to the road surface and achieve the economy of fuel consumption during running of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Junfang LAI, Gang JI
  • Publication number: 20230392685
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a terrain based dynamic gear shift control method and system for a vehicle. The method includes: during running of a vehicle, obtaining a current terrain; according to the current terrain, the economic gear shift strategy, and the dynamic gear shift strategy, generating a current gear shift strategy curve; and according to the current gear shift strategy curve, controlling a transmission to perform gear shift. The present disclosure can make the vehicle have wider adaptability, and achieve a better dynamic balance between economy and dynamic performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Yankai TU, Jianyun QU, Tenguan LUO, Gang JI
  • Patent number: 11640319
    Abstract: A task processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium, which relate to the field of artificial intelligence, such as intelligent voices, artificial intelligence chips, or the like, are disclosed. The method may include: for to-be-executed tasks, in at least one round of processing, performing the following operations: in response to determining that one or more high-priority tasks exist in the to-be-executed tasks, calling the one or more high-priority tasks to process audio data cached in a memory; and after execution of the one or more high-priority tasks is completed, and in response to determining that one or more low-priority task exist in the to-be-executed tasks, calling the one or more low-priority tasks to process the audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gang Ji, Chao Tian, Lei Jia
  • Patent number: 11418471
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying an entity from a message exchange thread and generating a suggestion that is directed to the entity, such as a suggestion for a user to take an action on the entity. A suggestion application receives at least one electronic message from a message exchange thread, identifies an entity that can be actionable from the electronic message, determines contextual indicators of the entity, determines whether the entity is actionable based on the contextual indicators, and responsive to the entity being actionable, provides a suggestion that is directed to the entity to a participant(s) of the message exchange thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Seeds Milligan, Hila Shemer, Dennis Kiilerich, Gang Ji, Ori Gershony, Sergey Nazarov, Pranav Khaitan, Sushant Prakash, Anton Volkov, Ricardo Escutia, David Citron
  • Publication number: 20220209311
    Abstract: At least one electrochemical cell is charged to a predetermined voltage of the electrochemical cell using an external power source. A charging current of the at least one electrochemical cell is monitored. An increase in the charging current is detected at the predetermined voltage of the at least one electrochemical cell. It is determined that the at least one electrochemical cell is in danger of experiencing a performance decrease based on the detected increase in the charging current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hui Ye, Mark E. Viste, Gang Ji, Gordon O. Munns, Gaurav Jain, Laura E. McCalla
  • Publication number: 20220209312
    Abstract: A capacity of at least one electrochemical cell is monitored. A current fade rate us determined based on the capacity. The current fade rate is compared to at least one previously determined fade rate. A fault counter is adjusted based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Gang Ji, Craig L. Schmidt, Joel B. Artmann, Bo Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220200302
    Abstract: A method for battery management, the method including determining whether to perform a capacity update of a battery. The method can also include responsive to determining to perform the capacity update, determining existing depth-of-discharge (DoD) of the battery. The method can also include performing a discharge operation or a charge operation based on whether existing DoD is below a threshold. The method can include performing the capacity update subsequent to the discharge or charge operation. Apparatuses and systems for battery management are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Bo Zhang, Joel B. Artmann, Gang Ji
  • Publication number: 20220196746
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing an accurate estimate of remaining runtime of a battery is described. The apparatus comprises a fuel gauge and processing circuitry coupled to the fuel gauge. The processing circuitry can receive an indicator of remaining battery capacity from the fuel gauge. The processing circuitry can calculate remaining battery energy based on the remaining battery capacity and further based on an amount of power expected to be used by a battery load during an expected alarm time. The processing circuitry can calculate remaining runtime based on the remaining battery energy. A method and system are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Bo Zhang, Joel B. Artmann, Gang Ji
  • Publication number: 20220196747
    Abstract: A method for battery management, the method including determining an amount of charge Qchg delivered to the battery during a portion of a charging cycle. The method can also include measuring state of charge (SoCfull) of the battery subsequent to the charging cycle, and determining an amount of charge Qdsg produced by the battery during a discharging cycle of the battery to a depth of discharge (DoD) threshold. The method can also include measuring state of charge (SoCempty) of the battery subsequent to discharging the battery. The method can include determining total battery capacity based on the values determined in previous operations. Apparatuses and systems for battery management are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Joel B. Artmann, Brian Douglas Kuhnley, Gang Ji
  • Patent number: 11181586
    Abstract: In some examples, a host device includes a battery capacity and/or battery resistance predictive model. The host device may predict a battery capacity value and/or batter resistance value of a rechargeable battery and compare the predicted battery capacity and/or predicted battery resistance to a battery capacity value and/or battery resistance value stored in a fuel gauge. The host device may overwrite the battery capacity value and/or battery resistance value stored in the fuel gauge with the predicted battery capacity value and/or the predicted battery resistance value if the difference is greater than a maximum error threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Ji, Craig L. Schmidt, Gaurav Jain
  • Publication number: 20210215766
    Abstract: In some examples, a host device includes a battery capacity and/or battery resistance predictive model. The host device may predict a battery capacity value and/or batter resistance value of a rechargeable battery and compare the predicted battery capacity and/or predicted battery resistance to a battery capacity value and/or battery resistance value stored in a fuel gauge. The host device may overwrite the battery capacity value and/or battery resistance value stored in the fuel gauge with the predicted battery capacity value and/or the predicted battery resistance value if the difference is greater than a maximum error threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Gang Ji, Craig L. Schmidt, Gaurav Jain
  • Patent number: 10780092
    Abstract: The invention provides certain fused pyrazine compounds of the Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X, Y, R1, R3, R4a, R5a, R5b, R6, and the subscript t are as described herein. The compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can modulate the body's production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (“cGMP”), and are generally suitable for the therapy and prophylaxis of diseases or disorders which are associated with a disturbed cGMP balance. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions which comprise compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The invention also relates to methods for use of the compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts in the therapy and prophylaxis of the abovementioned diseases and disorders and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Alan Whitehead, Olga Ornoski, Subharekha Raghavan, Raphaelle Berger, Joie Garfunkle, Zhiqiang Yang, Gang Ji, Falong Jiang, Jianmin Fu
  • Publication number: 20200092243
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying an entity from a message exchange thread and generating a suggestion that is directed to the entity, such as a suggestion for a user to take an action on the entity. A suggestion application receives at least one electronic message from a message exchange thread, identifies an entity that can be actionable from the electronic message, determines contextual indicators of the entity, determines whether the entity is actionable based on the contextual indicators, and responsive to the entity being actionable, provides a suggestion that is directed to the entity to a participant(s) of the message exchange thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Seeds MILLIGAN, Hila SHEMER, Dennis KIILERICH, Gang JI, Ori GERSHONY, Sergey NAZAROV, Pranav KHAITAN, Sushant PRAKASH, Anton VOLKOV, Ricardo ESCUTIA, David CITRON