Patents by Inventor Hui Wan

Hui Wan 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: 11958942
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for recycling urea-formaldehyde (UF) from a wood-based panel. In the present disclosure, the UF is depolymerized by an ultrasonic treatment, and depolymerized UF can be reused for UF manufacture and wood-based panel production. The recycled and treated UF can be repeatedly used in wood-based panel manufacture without affecting performances of the wood-based panel. UF-glued wood-based panels can be recycled, and a recycled wood-based panel raw material can replace at least 50% of a non-recycled wood-based raw material for particle board production without affecting performances of the wood-based panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Southwest Forestry University
    Inventors: Hui Wan, An Mao, Hong Lei, Xiaojian Zhou, Zhi Li, Long Yang, Linkun Xie, Guanben Du
  • Publication number: 20240102955
    Abstract: A non-invasive time domain reflection probe calibration method includes: using different volume ratio of ethanol and deionized water mixed solution to calculate a test target's medium weight coefficient and waveguide length of the non-invasive time domain reflection probes; using different concentrations of NaCl solutions to calibrate a waveguide geometric dimensioning of the non-invasive time domain reflection probes; preparing compacted soil samples with known different moisture contents and densities, and calibrating a correlation parameter of compacted soil samples' dielectric constant and conductivity with moisture content and density. The method not only determines the sensitivity of the test target medium of the non-invasive time domain reflection probes, but also obtains the waveguide length and geometric dimensioning of the probe, and realizes an accurate test of moisture content and density of the soil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: China Jikan Research Institute Of Engineering Investigations And Design, Co.,Ltd, Xi'an Jiaotong University
    Inventors: Jie CAO, Yonglin YANG, Zaixin WAN, Peng GAO, Qingyi MU, Dongjing WANG, Yuanqiang ZHOU, Zhi LIU, Long ZHANG, Hui LI, Jian CHEN, Teng YANG, Lei RAN, Jiao LIN, Xiao DONG, Shuai LIU, Weiwei ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11938476
    Abstract: A biochemical analysis system capable of sample preparation and processing can include at least one inlet channel having a non-fouling, slippery surface to autonomously transport a fluid sample to a chamber by a geometry of the at least one inlet channel. The at least one inlet channel can include a first end, which is open and exposed, and a second end connected to the chamber for mixing and reaction of the fluid sample, and the at least one inlet channel can include a converging or diverging angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventors: Pak Kin Wong, Tak-Sing Wong, Jing Wang, Hui Li, Yi Lu, Ying Wan
  • Patent number: 11934922
    Abstract: A computer system, product, and method are provided. The computer system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) platform operatively coupled to a processor. The AI platform includes tools in the form of a machine learning model (MLM) manager, a metric manager, and a training manager. The MLM manager accesses a plurality of pre-trained source MLMs, and inputs a plurality of data objects of a test dataset into each of the source MLMs. The test dataset includes the plurality of data objects associated with respective labels. For each source MLM, associated labels are generated from the inputted data objects and a similarity metric is calculated. The MLM manager selects a base MLM to be used for transfer learning from the plurality of source MLMs based upon the calculated similarity metric. The training manager trains the selected base MLM with a target dataset for the target domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Parul Awasthy, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, John Ronald Kender, Radu Florian, Hui Wan
  • Publication number: 20240085866
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for intelligent control of heating furnace combustion based on a big data cloud platform, which relates to the technical field of artificial intelligence control. The method includes: construction of big data cloud platform based on production and operation parameters of the heating furnace; identification of key factors in the production process of the heating furnace by using big data mining technology; independent deployment of traditional heating furnace combustion control systems based on the mechanism model; and integration of cloud platform big data expert knowledge base and the heating furnace combustion intelligent control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: University of Science and Technology Beijing
    Inventors: Qing LI, Fengqin LIN, Hui LI, Li WANG, Chengyong XIAO, Xu YANG, Jiarui CUI, Chunqiu WAN, Qun YAN, Yan LIU, Lei MIAO, Jin GUO, Boyu ZHANG, Chen HUANG, Yaming XI, Yuxuan LIN
  • Patent number: 11919826
    Abstract: A method for enhancing compressive strength of a lead smelting water-quenched slag-based cementitious material by mechanical activation is provided, belonging to the technical field of solid waste resource treatment. The method includes following steps: grinding and activating water-quenched slag from lead smelting, then mixing with calcium-based solid waste, magnesium-based solid waste, magnesium oxide, portland cement and water, and performing a steam curing and a curing at normal temperature on cementitious material slurry obtained to obtain the lead smelting water-quenched slag-based cementitious material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wenhuan Liu, Hui Li, Zhongzhong Zhao, Yongfeng Wan, Renhao Du, Yiwen Jiang
  • Patent number: 11893346
    Abstract: From metadata of a corpus of natural language text documents, a relativity matrix is constructed, a row-column intersection in the relativity matrix corresponding to a relationship between two instances of a type of metadata. An encoder model is trained, generating a trained encoder model, to compute an embedding corresponding to a token of a natural language text document within the corpus and the relativity matrix, the encoder model comprising a first encoder layer, the first encoder layer comprising a token embedding portion, a relativity embedding portion, a token self-attention portion, a metadata self-attention portion, and a fusion portion, the training comprising adjusting a set of parameters of the encoder model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hui Wan, Xiaodong Cui, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
  • Publication number: 20240027315
    Abstract: A device for a creep test and a test system and a method using the device are provided. The device for the creep test includes a device frame, a test piece clamp, a load loading mechanism and linear displacement sensors. A test piece is arranged in a middle of the test piece clamp. A first end of the test piece clamp is a fixed end, a position of the fixed end is unchanged relative to the device frame. A second end of the test piece clamp is a movable end. The load loading mechanism includes a pulley block and a load. A system for a tensile and compressive creep test includes a box body which is sealable. The box body is provided with a box door which is provided with a constant temperature and humidity device. The device for the creep test is arranged in the box body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Southwest Forestry University
    Inventors: Chunlei Dong, Jie WANG, Hui WAN
  • Publication number: 20230419045
    Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating a goal-oriented dialogue from a grounding document. A processor may analyze a corpus of text. The processor may identify, based on the analyzing, one or more semantic structures that can be used to simulate a dialogue. The processor may generate, based on the identifying, a simulated dialogue, the simulated dialogue including one or more utterances from a simulated agent and one or more utterances from a simulated user to form a dialogue flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Song Feng, Chulaka Gunasekara, Hui Wan, Jatin Ganhotra, Siva Sankalp Patel, Sachindra Joshi
  • Patent number: 11821697
    Abstract: A composite heat dissipation device includes an electromagnetic radiation dissipation pile including a polar dielectric material assembly including a plurality of polar dielectric material units. The polar dielectric material assembly is configured to interact with solar radiation. Surfaces of the polar dielectric material units each are configured to interact with the solar radiation to generate scattering of light. The polar dielectric material units each include an optical phonon configured to interact with thermal radiation to increase strength of the thermal radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sih-Wei Chang, Yen-Jen Chen, De-hui Wan, Hsuen-Li Chen
  • Publication number: 20230312908
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a modified deodorant urea-formaldehyde (UF) resin and use thereof, as well as a particleboard and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the technical field of wood-based panels. Raw materials for preparing the modified deodorant UF resin provided by the present disclosure include: melamine-modified UF resin (MUF), aluminum ammonium sulfate dodecahydrate, wax, and water. Raw materials for preparing the MUF include: urea, formaldehyde, and melamine. When the modified deodorant UF resin provided by the present disclosure is used to prepare wood-based panels, the aluminum ammonium sulfate dodecahydrate losses 12 crystal water during hot pressing to form a metastable structure NH4Al(SO4)2, in which NH4+ can react with the formaldehyde to reduce formaldehyde emission, and NH4+ and A13+ can absorb hydroxyl groups of organic substances to form hydrogen bonds to reduce odor of the wood-based panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hui WAN, Guanben DU, Hong LEI, Ping ZHAO, Jianji CHU, Tianguo WEN, Zhaohui GUO, Zhaojin YANG, Heming HUANG, Wenxi XU, Zhenghong JIN, Maoli CUI, Xuequan SUN, Qiumei LI
  • Patent number: 11748576
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating interpretation of deep neural model based dialogue agents are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises extracting, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, features from a dialogue model independently from the dialogue model, the features comprising input features provided to the dialogue model and output features produced via the dialogue model in response to the input features, resulting in extracted features; and analyzing, by the device, a dialogue context associated with the extracted features by identifying pairwise interactions between respective ones of the extracted features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Song Feng, Hui Wan, Chulaka Gunasekara, Jatin Ganhotra, Sachindra Joshi, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
  • Publication number: 20230182343
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of resource recycling and provides a processing method for a waste oriented strand board and waste oriented wood chips, and an oriented strand board preparation method thereof. The processing method for a waste oriented strand board provided in the present disclosure includes the following steps: softening a waste oriented strand board to obtain a softened waste oriented strand board; and flaking the softened waste oriented strand board pieces using a disc flaker to obtain waste oriented wood chips. According to the present disclosure, the waste oriented strand board is softened first to be chipped readily. It is specified in the present disclosure that the disc flaker is used such that relatively intact wood chips can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: HUI WAN, AN MAO, XIAOJIAN ZHOU, HONG LEI, GUANBEN DU
  • Publication number: 20230139367
    Abstract: A thermal radiation heat dissipation device for an electronic component includes a heat dissipation substrate including a heat dissipation surface having a heat dissipation surface emissivity; and an emissivity modulation layer disposed on the heat dissipation surface including an emissivity modulation layer surface having an emissivity modulation layer surface emissivity. The emissivity modulation layer surface emissivity is greater the heat dissipation surface emissivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Ching-Wen Hwang, Sih-Wei Chang, Yen-Jen Chen, De-hui Wan, Hsuen-Li Chen
  • Publication number: 20230132949
    Abstract: A composite heat dissipation device includes an electromagnetic radiation dissipation pile including a polar dielectric material assembly including a plurality of polar dielectric material units. The polar dielectric material assembly is configured to interact with solar radiation. Surfaces of the polar dielectric material units each are configured to interact with the solar radiation to generate scattering of light. The polar dielectric material units each include an optical phonon configured to interact with thermal radiation to increase strength of the thermal radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Sih-Wei Chang, Yen-Jen Chen, De-hui Wan, Hsuen-Li Chen
  • Publication number: 20230137727
    Abstract: A thermal radiation heat dissipation device includes a radiation heat transfer pile including a plurality of polar dielectric material units of high energy gap, the polar dielectric material units each including at least one light scattering unit and a thermal radiation unit. The light scattering unit interacts with solar radiation to generate scattering of light. The thermal radiation unit interacts with thermal radiation to increase strength of thermal radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Meng-Ting Tsai, Yen-Jen Chen, Sih-Wei Chang, De-hui Wan, Hsuen-Li Chen
  • Publication number: 20220358288
    Abstract: From metadata of a corpus of natural language text documents, a relativity matrix is constructed, a row-column intersection in the relativity matrix corresponding to a relationship between two instances of a type of metadata. An encoder model is trained, generating a trained encoder model, to compute an embedding corresponding to a token of a natural language text document within the corpus and the relativity matrix, the encoder model comprising a first encoder layer, the first encoder layer comprising a token embedding portion, a relativity embedding portion, a token self-attention portion, a metadata self-attention portion, and a fusion portion, the training comprising adjusting a set of parameters of the encoder model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hui Wan, Xiaodong Cui, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
  • Publication number: 20220229995
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating interpretation of deep neural model based dialogue agents are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises extracting, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, features from a dialogue model independently from the dialogue model, the features comprising input features provided to the dialogue model and output features produced via the dialogue model in response to the input features, resulting in extracted features; and analyzing, by the device, a dialogue context associated with the extracted features by identifying pairwise interactions between respective ones of the extracted features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Song Feng, Hui Wan, Chulaka Gunasekara, Jatin Ganhotra, Sachindra Joshi, Luis A. Lastras-Montano
  • Publication number: 20220114473
    Abstract: A computer system, product, and method are provided. The computer system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) platform operatively coupled to a processor. The AI platform includes tools in the form of a machine learning model (MLM) manager, a metric manager, and a training manager. The MLM manager accesses a plurality of pre-trained source MLMs, and inputs a plurality of data objects of a test dataset into each of the source MLMs. The test dataset includes the plurality of data objects associated with respective labels. For each source MLM, associated labels are generated from the inputted data objects and a similarity metric is calculated. The MLM manager selects a base MLM to be used for transfer learning from the plurality of source MLMs based upon the calculated similarity metric. The training manager trains the selected base MLM with a target dataset for the target domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Parul Awasthy, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, John Ronald Kender, Radu Florian, Hui Wan
  • Patent number: 11062726
    Abstract: A method of providing real-time speech analysis to a user includes capturing a speech input, performing a real-time recognition of the speech input including converting the speech input to a text, analyzing the recognized speech input to identify an error in a voice of the user, the analyzing including comparing a voice of a correct text generated by an automated speech generation system with the captured speed input, and processing the text to extract a context dialog prompt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sasha P. Caskey, Jian Ni, Andrzej Sakrajda, Hui Wan, Cheng Wu