Patents by Inventor Howard (Hao) LU

Howard (Hao) 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: 20250257676
    Abstract: An aftertreatment temperature management system includes: an engine operative to combust a fuel; an aftertreatment system including an oxidation catalyst and operative to receive exhaust produced by the engine; a heat exchanger coupled to the aftertreatment system and operative to exchange heat between exhaust downstream of the oxidation catalyst and exhaust upstream of the oxidation catalyst; and an insulation at least partially enclosing the heat exchanger and the oxidation catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: David T. MONTGOMERY, Jeff A. HOWARD
  • Publication number: 20250258043
    Abstract: A method includes measuring a first temperature at a control panel using a temperature sensor included at a battery of the control panel. When the first temperature at the control panel exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature, this method includes transitioning the control panel to a reduced operational mode. When the control panel is in the reduced operational mode, this method includes measuring a second temperature at the control panel using the temperature sensor included at the battery of the control panel. And, when the second temperature at the control panel exceeds the predetermined threshold temperature, this method includes outputting an abnormal temperature notification at the control panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Lee, James Ramroop, Jaime Barahona, Howard Yuk
  • Publication number: 20250256263
    Abstract: The invention discloses a functionalised chromatography medium, comprising: i) at least one non-woven layer of polymeric nanofibres comprising a plurality of nanofibre-nanofibre fusion points; ii) a grafted polymer coating covering the polymeric nanofibres and the nanofibre-nanofibre fusion points; iii) a plurality of ligand groups covalently bound to the grafted polymer coating, wherein the ligand groups are capable of interacting with a target biomolecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Marc Hummersone, Benjamin Wallis, Frederic Leroux, William Howard Albert Law
  • Publication number: 20250258839
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for optimizing the structure of JSON data are provided. Aspects include receiving first JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, where the first JSON data includes a plurality of data objects. Aspects also include generating, based on the first JSON data, second JSON data. The second JSON data includes one or more flattened data objects, where the one or more flattened data objects correspond to one or more first data objects of the first JSON data and are absent a hierarchical structure. The second JSON data includes one or more non-flattened data objects, where the one or more non-flattened data objects correspond to one or more second data objects of the first JSON data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Jin Wang, Lei Gao, A Peng Zhang, Matthew Wayne Howard
  • Publication number: 20250255291
    Abstract: A needle injector used in the Landscape Services to inject the soil getting to the root of a plant [FIG. 1 #1] with the purpose of killing the plant with herbicide flowing through the needle and out the holes [FIG. 1 #4]. Typical weed control is done by pulling the weeds with a tool or by hand, not very effective as weeds grow back when pulled, there is always some root left behind to regrow. This invention kills the weed at the root and it dies and disintegrates on its own. It is an easily used device by connecting it to a garden pump sprayer or similar device [FIG. 2 #5 and 6] and using pressure to drive the herbicide into the root. It is 6? long. {FIG 1. number 3} to get the deep roots. It can be used with fertilizers as well, getting near or on the roots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventor: Robert Howard Grant
  • Publication number: 20250258830
    Abstract: Systems and methods access, from data storage location(s), at least two separate datasets, and perform data analysis on the at least two separate datasets to identify any redundancies. The data analysis includes comparing at least one first column name of first column(s) of first data values of a first dataset with at least one second column name of second column(s) of second data values of a second dataset, the comparing including evaluating similarities of the at least one first column name and the at least one second column name. The data analysis also includes determining whether statistical information of the first data values and the second data values are replicas and deriving semantic logic from the first dataset and the second dataset to interpret importance of retaining both the first dataset and the second dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Tufail Ahmed Khan, Scott Howard Magoon, Pranjal Goswami, Di Hu, Changyong Wei
  • Publication number: 20250257699
    Abstract: A turbofan engine may include a variable pitch fan rotatable about an axis and operable in a forward thrust mode by generating flow opposite a direction of travel and in a reverse thrust mode by generating flow in the direction of travel. In reverse thrust mode, a nacelle assembly defines an intermediate opening disposed aft of the variable pitch fan. A flow guide assembly is configured to guide a first fluid flow opposite the direction of travel within a bypass passage from a forward opening to an aft opening of the nacelle assembly in forward thrust mode, and to redirect a second fluid flow from outside the bypass passage opposite the direction of travel to inside the bypass passage in the direction of travel through the intermediate opening in reverse thrust mode. One or more flow channels are defined for generating at least one fluidic injection pressurized by a core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Trevor Howard Wood, Thomas Malkus, Kishore Ramakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20250258227
    Abstract: An apparatus for testing a plurality of electrical switches including contacts to connect multiple sample switches to an input and an output. A power source is connected to the inputs of the sample switches, and other switches are connected to the outputs of the sample switches so that the sample switches may be selectively connected to either a make load or a break load to perform testing on the sample switches. The sample switches may further be made of silicon carbide MOSFETs that shutoff using a zero-crossing current sensing logic. The voltage at the sample switches may further be monitored by a universal voltage board configured to sense various alternating and direct current (AC or DC) voltages so that various types of sample switches may be tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventor: Michael Howard SaLee
  • Publication number: 20250260877
    Abstract: Techniques for automatic subtitle enabling are described herein. In various embodiments, one or more servers, which include processor(s) and non-transitory memory, receive an audio file and a subtitle file of a media content object, obtain, using speech-to-text, transcription of the audio file and one or more confidence scores for one or more portions of the transcription. The server(s) then determine one or more similarity scores representing similarities between the one or more portions of the transcription and one or more corresponding portions in the subtitle file, and derive a clarity score for each of the one or more portions in the subtitle file based on the one or more similarity scores and the one or more confidence scores, wherein when playing the media content object, display of each of the one or more corresponding portions in the subtitle file is enabled based at least in part on the clarity score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: James Charles Wilson, Iain David Cooke, Charles Arthur George Nurser, James Robert Bushell, Paul Howard Rutland
  • Patent number: 12384796
    Abstract: There is provided a compound having Formula I: In the formula: NpHet is a naphthalene core having at least one fused 5-membered heteroaromatic ring, where the heteroaromatic ring has one heteroatom which is O, S, Se, or Te; Ar1-Ar6 are the same or different and are a hydrocarbon aryl group, a heteroaryl group, or a deuterated analog thereof; a and b are the same or different and are 0 or 1; m and n are the same or different and are 0 or 1; with the proviso that a, b, m, and n are not all 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Weiying Gao, Giang Dong Vo, Michael Henry Howard, Weishi Wu, Norman Herron
  • Patent number: 12383584
    Abstract: The present technology relates generally to formulations comprising egg white protein, methods of manufacturing egg protein formulations and uses for egg protein formulations. In particular, several embodiments are directed to egg protein formulations for oral administration in immunotherapy of subjects affected by egg allergies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ DES PRODUITS NESTLÉ S.A.
    Inventor: Howard V. Raff
  • Patent number: 12384005
    Abstract: A firearm maintenance aid can include a firearm vise and a firearm support device. Firearm vise can include vise jaws, a threaded rod connecting vise jaws together, and jaw pin holes in each jaw, the holes extending from an outer surface of a jaw through to an inner surface of each jaw, wherein the holes in the first jaw align with the holes in the second jaw. Firearm support device can include a clamping portion and a supporting portion. The clamping portion can be clamped between the jaws of the firearm vise, can include two parallel clamping faces, and can define vise pin holes that align with the jaw pin holes. The supporting portion can be located opposite the clamping portion and can include a cylindrical shaft. Vise pins can be received by the jaw pin holes and vise pin holes to fixedly connect the support device to the vise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: NEW REVO BRAND GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Morris, Ryan Chernik, Ryan Jacobson, Howard Tripp
  • Patent number: 12388244
    Abstract: The present invention relates to replacing conductors in a high-voltage power transfer system. The method provides, for example, a method for maintaining sections of electrically conductive phases in a direct current (DC) two phase power conductor line, wherein the two phases are parallel and spaced apart. The phases are strung between support structures and supported above the ground. Maintenance work, which include replacement or repair, is performed on sections of the two phases without interrupting a power load in any one of the three phases and without transposing the relative positions of the phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Quanta Associates, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, David Karl Wabnegger, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, Robert Wayne Palmer
  • Patent number: 12387070
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a fixed retail scanner including a data reader. The data reader includes illumination assemblies that include different LED sub-groups that are co-located within its respective assembly. These illumination assemblies may be identically constructed and installed at various positions within the data reader to provide active illumination for the camera modules. Illumination assemblies are activated together, but only with the first sub-groups from each of the illumination assemblies being activated together at a first time, and only with the second sub-groups from each of the illumination assemblies being activated together at a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Datalogic IP Tech S.R.L.
    Inventors: Michael Ahten, Brett Howard, Ryan Thompson
  • Patent number: 12385254
    Abstract: A debris guard for installation on an eavestrough is disclosed. The debris guard includes a frame having a back side, a front side, a length, two ends, a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and a water collection portion extending from the front side to the back side and along the length of the frame between the two ends. The water collection portion includes a plurality of holes to allow rainwater to pass through. The water collection portion also includes a plurality of drip legs coupled to the plurality of holes, the plurality of drip legs extending below the bottom surface to provide improved water flow through the eavestrough debris guard. Each of the plurality of holes includes at least one drip leg that provide improved flow through the debris guard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: 1001234613 Ontario Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Howard Neeb, Tristan Zimmermann, Matthew Hadden
  • Patent number: 12388850
    Abstract: A system and method for cybersecurity root cause analysis. A method includes parsing a first string into at least one first structured unit based on predetermined structured unit formats. The first string is indicated in cybersecurity data related to a cybersecurity event. Each predetermined structured unit format is defined with respect to at least one substring each having a respective data type. Each first structured unit is compared to a corresponding second structured unit of at least one second structured unit of a second string. Each second structured unit is a portion of text of the second string identified by parsing the second string based on the predetermined structured unit formats. The first string is correlated to the second string based on the comparison. A resource corresponding to the second string is identified. A root cause of the cybersecurity event is determined based on the identified resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Wiz, Inc.
    Inventors: Barak Bercovitz, Bernie Pinkenzon-Howard
  • Publication number: 20250249425
    Abstract: A high voltage discharge between two electrodes generating a plasma is disposed within a reactor chamber. Hydrocarbon gas and conductive liquid are passed over one or more electrodes, such that the conductive liquid cools the electrodes and avoids fouling. Such a discharge may result in hydrogen gas and additional carbon containing coproducts which may be used, released, or sequestered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: David Staack, Howard Jemison, Kunpeng Wang
  • Publication number: 20250251019
    Abstract: A bearing assembly includes a roller bearing unit, an inner race and an outer race. The roller bearing unit is formed of polycrystalline super-hard material having a mean mass density of at most 4.5 g/cm3 and a volume-weighted arithmetic mean thermal conductivity of at least 100 W/m·K.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Neil Edward Seth CHARMAN, Mehmet Serdar OZBAYRAKTAR, Mark Gregory MUNDAY, Christopher John Howard WORT, Lifen DENG
  • Publication number: 20250251621
    Abstract: Wearable devices may include an electronic component and a battery unit for providing power to the electronic component. The battery unit may include a printed circuit board substrate and at least one surface-mounted device (SMD) battery coupled to the printed circuit board substrate. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Hyung Gu Yun, Jason Howard, Karthik Kadirvel
  • Patent number: D1088336
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: AXIS LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Howard Yaphe, Andrew Miles, Stephane Beland, Jean Gagne