Patents by Inventor Hong Cao

Hong Cao 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: 20230086369
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of image processing, in particular to an ultrasound imaging device and system and a breast ultrasound apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hong WANG, San CAO, Cheng YANG, Yong ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11598784
    Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for conducting immunoassay test. The apparatus includes a groove unit having a groove along a vertical direction configured to hold a rod-shaped portion of a probe along the vertical direction, and a push pin configured to move along a horizontal direction, the push pin being capable of residing at a first position and a second position. A tip of the push pin is capable of pressing the rod-shaped portion of the probe against the groove when the push pin resides at the first position. The distance between the tip of the push pin and the groove is larger than a diameter of the rod-shaped portion of the probe when the push pin resides at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Access Medical Systems, LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Tan, Ming Xia, Yushan Tan, Jun Chen, Erhua Cao, Genqian Li, Robert F. Zuk
  • Patent number: 11586447
    Abstract: A method, computer system and computer program product for processing configuration after a cluster migration are provided. In this method, a network booting program is received at a computing node from a management node for a cluster. The cluster includes at least one computing node. An operating system is booted in a memory of the computing node with the received network booting program. Configuration changes are received from the management node, and the configurations in a local storage of the computing node are updated according to the received configuration changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Cheng Fang Wang, Li Cao, Peng Fei Tian, Hong Yi Zhang, Yong Wu, Bin Xu, Qing Li
  • Publication number: 20230044289
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a difficult airway evaluation method and device based on a machine learning voice technology. The method includes the following steps: acquiring voice data of a patient; carrying out feature extraction on the voice data, obtaining a pitch period of pronunciations, and acquiring a voiced sound feature and unvoiced sound features based on the pitch period of pronunciations; and constructing a difficult airway evaluation classifier based on the machine learning voice technology, analyzing the received voiced sound feature and unvoiced sound features by the trained difficult airway evaluation classifier, and carrying out scoring on the severity of a difficult airway to obtain an evaluation result of the difficult airway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
    Inventors: Hong Jiang, Ming Xia, Ren Zhou, Shuang Cao, Tian Yi Xu, Jie Wang, Chen Yu Jin, Bei Pei
  • Patent number: 11575606
    Abstract: A packet processing method and apparatus, and a related device, the method including generating, by a first device, a flow filtering rule, where the flow filtering rule includes a match item and an action item, and where the match item comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address and an autonomous domain identifier, and sending, by the first device, the flow filtering rule to a second device, where the action item is used to instruct the second device to process, based on a packet processing mode indicated by the action item, a packet matching the match item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Wu, Jianbo Zhu, Ruiqing Cao, Zhenbin Li
  • Patent number: 11540881
    Abstract: A microwave ablation system and method include an elongate microwave ablation probe. The probe has a radiating portion for performing microwave ablation. The probe includes a first electrode and a second electrode located along the probe body. A radiofrequency energy source is connected to the first and second electrodes. An impedance of tissue is measured using the first and second electrodes. The impedance is used to detect a change in tissue due to microwave ablation of the tissue. Therapy parameters for the microwave ablation procedure can be adjusted in response to the measured impedance. In some examples, one of the electrodes is proximal and one electrode is distal to the radiating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Hong Cao
  • Publication number: 20220417153
    Abstract: A method, a network device, and a system for delivering a message used for RPD are disclosed. In the solution provided in this application, a second network device may deliver a message used for route policy distribution (RPD) to a first network device. The message includes a route policy including a match condition field and an action field. When detecting that route information of a border gateway protocol (BGP) route matches a target feature carried in the match condition field, the first network device may automatically update a route attribute of the BGP route based on a route attribute carried in the action field. The first network device may automatically update the route attribute of the BGP route according to the route policy included in the message delivered by the second network device, and operation and maintenance personnel does not need to perform manual configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Hong WU, Ruiqing CAO, Haibo WANG
  • Publication number: 20220413031
    Abstract: A line double-end steady-state quantity distance measuring method and system based on an amplitude-comparison principle. According to the method and system, voltage values and current values of both sides of a line before and after a fault are collected (102), a voltage variable quantity and a current variable quantity of both sides of the line are calculated (103), and after a voltage phasor value and a current phasor value are determined according to the voltage variable quantity and the current variable quantity (104), the position of a short-circuit point is determined by performing iterative calculation on the voltage of the short-circuit point. The method is simple in principle, and can accurately recognize a fault point, achieving precise distance measurement of lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yarong GUO, Xingguo WANG, Zexin ZHOU, Ying LIANG, Guosheng YANG, Huanzhang LIU, Dingxiang DU, Yong LI, Shuyang WANG, Qi CHENG, Hong CAO, Zhengguang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220383149
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes determining, by a master node, model update information at least based on a workload related to a task and a resource capacity of a computing environment. The model update information indicates respective model update suggestions for a plurality of inference models configured to perform the task. The method further includes distributing, by the master node, the model update information to a plurality of inference agents in the computing environment. The plurality of inference agents has a plurality of instances of the plurality of inference models executed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Li Cao, Yi Shan Jiang, Ze Ming Zhao, Hong Bo Peng
  • Publication number: 20220370114
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and methods for monitoring a formation of an iceball at a cryoablation needle. An example method includes receiving an impedance from at least one electrode in an electrode arrangement that is disposed at a cryoablation needle distal portion. The electrode arrangement is configured to engage the iceball as the iceball is formed over the cryoablation needle distal portion so as to cause a change in the impedance. The example method includes determining one or more physical attributes of the iceball based on a rate of the change in the impedance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Cathy Condie, Timothy A. Ostroot, Hong Cao, Andrew K. Zachman
  • Publication number: 20220365778
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include systems and methods configured to efficiently evaluate the efforts of a code migration (e.g., porting task) between different platforms. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes receiving a function of a source platform. The function can include a plurality of fields. An initial vector is constructed for each of the plurality of fields. The initial vector encodes a value of the respective field according to an encoding rule. The initial vectors are merged into a single final vector and the final vector is classified into one of a plurality of system function families of the source platform. A vector of a target platform at a minimum distance to the final vector is identified and an assessment is provided that includes a difficulty in porting a project comprising the function between the source platform and the target platform based at least in part on the minimum distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Shuang Shuang Jia, Yi Chai, Xiao-Yu Li, Xin Zhao, Li Cao, JIANGANG DENG, Hua Wei Fan, Zhou Wen Ya, HONG WEI SUN
  • Publication number: 20220350916
    Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, by a database server, security policies associated with a database hosted by the database server; obtaining, by the database server, first database data associated with the database; creating, by the database server, a knowledge distillation model using the security policies and the first database data; obtaining, by the database server, second database data associated with the database; creating, by the database server, a classification model using the second database data and an output of the knowledge distillation model; receiving, by the database server, a client database request to the database; determining, by the database server, a new security policy rule set using the classification model; and applying, by the database server, the new security policy rule set to the client database request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Sheng Yan Sun, Shuo Li, Xiaobo Wang, Li Cao, Hong Mei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220338917
    Abstract: A variable-length microwave ablation probe is provided. The probe is configured to have a range of resonant frequencies. The probe includes a microwave antenna, an outer conductor, and a cap. The probe further includes a radiation window that is at least partially transparent to microwave energy. The distal boundary of the outer conductor or the proximal boundary of the cap varies in distance from the probe distal end. The probe can have a choke length, an arm length, a radiating portion length, and a cap length. The lengths can each affect the resonant frequency of the antenna. Some examples provide a variable choke length, a variable arm length, a variable radiating portion length, and/or a variable cap length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hong Cao, Timothy A. Ostroot
  • Publication number: 20220296292
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for irrigated bipolar radiofrequency ablation. The system includes an ablation probe that includes an elongate inner electrode assembly and an elongate outer electrode assembly. An irrigation path for irrigation fluid flow is defined between the outer surface of the inner electrode assembly and the outer surface of the outer electrode assembly. The irrigation path enables cooling fluid to be circulated within the probe body, cooling the outer electrode during ablation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy A. Ostroot, Hong Cao
  • Publication number: 20220301717
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence-based difficult airway evaluation method and device. The method includes the following steps: acquiring facial images of various postures; constructing a feature extraction network based on facial recognition, and extracting feature information of the facial images through the trained feature extraction network; and constructing a difficult airway classifier based on a machine learning algorithm, and performing difficult airway severity scoring on the extracted feature information of the facial images through the trained difficult airway classifier to obtain an evaluation result of a difficult airway. According to the present disclosure, early warning can be accurately provided for difficult airways in clinical anesthesia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
    Inventors: Ming Xia, Hong Jiang, Zhi Liang Lin, Yao Kun Zheng, Jie Wang, Ren Zhou, Tian Yi Xu, Shuang Cao
  • Publication number: 20220280228
    Abstract: Novel and versatile apparatuses for delivering one or more of thermal ablation and irreversible electroporation therapies to target tissue. In some examples, a device includes at its distal end a plurality of electrodes that can be advanced or retracted to pierce patient tissue, with a variable position and size shaft electrode provided near the distal end of the device to allow manipulation of therapy fields to achieve various tissue destruction field shapes. A number of method of use examples are described as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: BRUCE R. FORSYTH, MATTHEW RYAN DEWITT, HONG CAO, TIMOTHY A. OSTROOT
  • Publication number: 20220285931
    Abstract: Disclosed are a direct-current transmission line protection method and system based on pure current characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicants: CHINA ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Zexin ZHOU, Huanzhang LIU, Pengfei LV, Hong CAO, Xingguo WANG, Siye RUAN, Dingxiang DU, Yong LI, Guosheng YANG, Mingliang JIN
  • Publication number: 20220273363
    Abstract: A medical system having a medical tool, including a handle, a shaft extending from the handle and defining a lumen, a wire attached to and extending from the handle through the lumen, expandable elements at a distal end of the wire. An electrical generator is coupled to a proximal end of the wire and supplies a first waveform to the wire and the expandable elements as the expandable elements expand from an unexpanded state to an expanded state within a tissue. The electrical generator supplies a second waveform to the wire and the expandable elements when the expandable elements are in the expanded state within the tissue. The first waveform cuts tissue, the second waveform ablates tissue using radiofrequency ablation or irreversible electroporation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Serena SCOTT, Mingxiang XU, Carolina VILLARREAL, Hong CAO, Christopher WATSON
  • Patent number: 11431242
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an oscillation control circuit for an ultrasonic atomization sheet, and an ultrasonic electronic cigarette. The oscillation control circuit includes a DC boost module, a separately excited excitation module, and a microcontroller. A power module is connected to the ultrasonic atomization sheet through the DC boost module and the separately excited excitation module, and the separately excited excitation module is electrically connected to the microcontroller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO HUNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianfu Liu, Kejun Zhong, Xiaoyi Guo, Wei Huang, Hong Yu, Yuangang Dai, Xinqiang Yin, Jianhua Yi, Guangping Cao
  • Publication number: 20220265346
    Abstract: A balloon for renal nerve modulation is disclosed. The balloon may include a polymer material forming a balloon wall having an outer surface and flexible circuits comprising a base selectively adhered to the exterior surface of the balloon wall. Adhesive is selectively applied to the outer surface of the balloon, to the flexible circuit or to both such that the adhesive is selectively deposited on the at least a portion of the at least two pads or on the at least a portion of the at least two pads and to a portion of the distal spline. The portion of the at least two pads or the portion of the at least two pads and a portion of the distal spline are adhered to the outer surface of the balloon and a remainder of the flexible circuit moves freely with respect to the outer surface of the balloon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Ajay Gupta, Jeffrey S. Lindquist, Paul J. Miller, Cass A. Hanson, Daniel T. Quillin, Hong Cao, Kenneth R. Larson