Patents by Inventor Ian (Yichen) Zheng

Ian (Yichen) Zheng 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: 12345105
    Abstract: A horizontal pipe storing and stand building system may include a pipe rack and a horizontal stand building system arranged adjacent to the pipe rack and configured to receive tubulars from the pipe rack and construct pipe stands in a horizontal orientation. The system may also include a delivery system arranged adjacent the horizontal stand building system and opposite the pipe rack. The delivery system may be configured to receive horizontally arranged pipe stands from the horizontal stand building system and deliver them to a drill rig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.
    Inventor: Andrew Ian McKenzie
  • Patent number: 12346067
    Abstract: An illumination system is arranged to output a light beam for illuminating a scene. The system comprises a spatial light modulator arranged to receive incident light, and to output light comprising a first component and a second component. The first component comprises incident light that is output without modulation by the spatial light modulator. The second component comprises incident light that is spatially-modulated according to a hologram and output by the spatial light modulator. A control device is operable to control the proportion of light output by the spatial light modulator that corresponds to the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Envisics Ltd
    Inventors: Ian Bledowski, Konstantin Deichsel, Neil Collings, Jamieson Christmas
  • Patent number: 12346103
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed at a method and system for diagnosing automation elements. The method and system include the determination of a trigger condition or event within operation data received from the automation elements. Based on the trigger condition or event, feed-back data captured by data collection devices is tagged and stored and/or captured and stored for review by an end user. The feed-back data may be stored together with associated operation data to assist in identifying faults, the causes of faults, or the like in the automation elements, in the products produced, or in the manufacturing process or overall manufacturing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Inventors: Stephen Fisher Aikens, Ian Cameron, Stanley Kleinikkink, Daniel Blair De Verteuil
  • Patent number: 12347854
    Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing aqueous-based polymer binders for silicon-dominant anodes containing pyrolyzed carbon may include an electrode coating layer on a current collector, where the electrode coating layer is formed from silicon and a water soluble polymer and may comprise one or more additional materials. The electrode coating layer may include more than 70% silicon and the anode may be in a lithium ion battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Enevate Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Zhang, Ian Browne, Younes Ansari, Benjamin Yong Park, Rahul Kamath
  • Patent number: 12344420
    Abstract: A vertical sealer apparatus includes at least one conveyor for receiving objects to be wrapped in a vertical orientation with films from two film sources and for conveying the objects in a downstream direction from before and after they are wrapped along a conveying path, as well as an over for shrinking the films onto the objects. Methods of vertically sealing objects using such apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: BELCO PACKAGING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Bergen, David Ian MacNeil
  • Patent number: 12345343
    Abstract: A regulating valve having anti-seize characteristics provides a linear drive system intermediate a drive shaft connected to a motor and a lifter connected to the regulator spring. The linear drive system translates the rotational motion of the drive shaft into preferably, linear only motion of the lifter, thereby preventing binding internal to the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Robertshaw Controls Company
    Inventors: Ian Rodgers, Moises Contreras Hernandez
  • Patent number: 12348334
    Abstract: A first network device for a first virtual network identifier (VNI) domain may be coupled to a second network device for a second VNI domain via an interconnect network. When serving as the downstream network device for processing network traffic from the first VNI domain to the second VNI domain, the second network device may perform remote VNI to local VNI translation for the network traffic, thereby facilitating proper network traffic handling even in network configurations in which the first network device is not configured to perform downstream VNI translation. If desired, instead of or in addition to performing VNI translation for its own VNI domain, the second network device may serve as a service device to perform VNI translation for a third VNI domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alton Lo, Ian McCloghrie
  • Patent number: 12348921
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly includes a panel or mounting location, a speaker or microphone disposed within the panel for generating or detecting sounds and a cover disposed over the speaker. The cover includes a plurality of openings for the transmission of sound and a corresponding plurality of blockers at each of the plurality of openings. Each of the plurality of blockers includes a front face that is spaced apart forward of a corresponding one of the plurality of openings for blocking water intrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Marron-Baez, Irving Morales Rodriguez, Enrique Chavez Luna, Ian McKerlich
  • Patent number: 12346312
    Abstract: A method includes accessing a schema that specifies relationships among datasets, computations on the datasets, or transformations of the datasets, selecting a dataset from among the datasets, and identifying, from the schema, other datasets that are related to the selected dataset. Attributes of the datasets are identified, and logical data representing the identified attributes and relationships among the attributes is generated. The logical data is provided to a development environment, which provides access to portions of the logical data representing the identified attributes. A specification that specifies at least one of the identified attributes in performing an operation is received from the development environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Ab Initio Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonah Egenolf, Marshall A. Isman, Ian Schechter
  • Patent number: 12346770
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for performing quantum state preparation. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of defining a target quantum state of a quantum system, wherein time evolution of the quantum system is governed by a target Hamiltonian, and defining a total Hamiltonian that interpolates between an initial Hamiltonian and the target Hamiltonian, wherein the total Hamiltonian is equal to the initial Hamiltonian at an initial time and is equal to the target Hamiltonian at a final time; approximating the time evolution of the total Hamiltonian using a truncated linear combination of unitary simulations to generate a truncated time evolution operator; evolving a ground state of the initial Hamiltonian according to the truncated time evolution operator for a truncated number of time steps to generate an intermediate state; and variationally adjusting the intermediate state to determine a wavefunction that approximates the target quantum state of the quantum system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Babbush, Ian David Kivlichan
  • Patent number: 12343493
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an expandable access sheath including a planar sheet of material that is configured to be rolled up around an inflatable balloon, the sheet comprising an inner surface, an outer surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a proximal edge, and a distal edge, the sheet further including at least one locking tab that extends from either the inner surface or the outer surface of the sheet, wherein the leading edge of the sheet is configured to interface with the locking tab to lock the access sheath in a predetermined configuration in which the access sheath forms an inner working channel having a predetermined cross-sectional dimension after the access sheath has been expanded by the inflatable balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Ian Metzler, Thomas Chi, Pierre Nedelec, Woojoo Kim, Anshal Gupta
  • Patent number: 12347479
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a physical layer interface having a control timing domain and a data timing domain, and circuits that enable the control timing domain during a change in power conservation mode in response to a first event, and that enable the data timing domain in response to a second event. The control timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a command and address path, and the data timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a data path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Shaeffer, Lei Luo, Liji Gopalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 12348675
    Abstract: To allow the human customer service agents to specialize in the instances where human service is preferred, but to scale to the volume of large call centers, systems and methods are provided in which human agents and intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) co-handle a conversation with a customer. IVAs handle simple or moderate tasks, and human agents are used for those tasks that require or would benefit from human compassion or special handling. Instead of starting the conversation with an IVA and then escalating or passing control of the conversation to a human to complete, the IVAs and human agents work together on a conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Verint Americas Inc.
    Inventor: Ian Beaver
  • Patent number: 12346409
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of presenting content is performed by a device including an image sensor, a display one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining, using the image sensor, an image of a physical environment. The method includes classifying, based on the image of the physical environment, the physical environment as a particular environment type of a plurality of environment types. The method includes obtaining content based on the particular environment type. The method includes displaying, on the display, a representation of the content in association with the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Ian M. Richter
  • Patent number: 12343454
    Abstract: Medical hydrogel systems for providing improved properties for certain medical applications are described. The hydrogel systems are effective for forming a space filling hydrogel in a body cavity and for the prevention of adhesion formation between tissues within the body cavity following a surgical procedure. Hydrogel delivery systems for transcervical delivery of a premixed precursor solution and an accelerator solution are described. Methods for transcervical installation of intrauterine hydrogels with distended fill are also described. The hydrogel systems, hydrogel delivery systems, and associated methods can be useful for providing degradable hydrogel in the uterine cavity, including the cervical canal, for the prevention of adhesions following intrauterine procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Pramand LLC
    Inventors: Michael Bassett, Ian Feldberg
  • Patent number: 12343423
    Abstract: A dissolvable solid article, comprising: water soluble polymer; a surfactant; at least one selected from diaminocarboxylic acid chelants and salts thereof; at least one selected from aromatic carboxylic acids and salts thereof; a phenolic derivative; at least one selected from ?, ?-unsaturated Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids, salts, and derivatives thereof; at least one selected from non-aromatic organic alpha hydroxy acids and salts thereof; wherein the dissolvable solid article has a pH of from about 3 to about 5.5 when dissolved with 20 parts water to 1 part of the dissolvable solid article. The present invention provides dissolvable solid articles which provide preservative efficacy even after dissolution of the articles, while controlling the concentrations of preservative ingredients in the solid articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ian-Ling Lim, Kai Wei Kelvin Lee, Shikhar Gupta, Minoru Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Okada, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12348488
    Abstract: Devices, systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for modular network architecture. In one embodiment, a server includes a memory and an electronic processor. The memory stores cloud infrastructure definitions, the cloud infrastructure definitions including a plurality of microservices and security groups that define communication between each of the plurality of microservices. The electronic processor is configured to deploy a first virtual private cloud including a first portion of the plurality of microservices and all of the security groups, deploy a second virtual private cloud including a second portion of the plurality of microservices and the all of the security groups, and deploy a third virtual private cloud including a third portion of the plurality of microservices and the all of the security groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: MASTERCARD TECHNOLOGIES CANADA ULC
    Inventors: Ian Cheng, Carlos Eduardo Martell Ayala, I-Cheng Wang, Christopher Zhu Tan, Jonathan Pelletier, Saad Zaamout
  • Patent number: 12347180
    Abstract: Described is a system for pattern recognition and graph extraction. The system operates by obtaining data from a quantum dot device having gate defined semiconductor quantum dots. An image with pixel-level coordinates is then generated from the data. Ground truth graph annotations are received of the image. A deep network processes the image and pixel-level coordinates to generate a predicted graph. The predicted graph is compared to the graph annotations to generate a loss, which allows the deep network to be optimized by updating parameters in the deep network based on the loss. The image with pixel-level coordinates is then used to generate an optimized predicted graph, which allows for identifying operational voltages to apply to the quantum dot device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: HRL LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Comer, Reed Andrews, Ian Jenkins, Parker Williams, Heiko Hoffmann, Wyatt Mcallister
  • Patent number: 12347978
    Abstract: A connector is provided and includes one or more radio frequency (RF) signal pins, ground pins arranged in a ring-shape around the one or more RF signal pins, a ground pin supporting mold formed about the ground pins and defining a borehole around the one or more RF signal pins and a dielectric mold formed in the borehole about the one or more RF signal pins and about the ground pin supporting mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Ian E. Nord, Joseph P. Nipper, Mikel J. White
  • Patent number: 12345145
    Abstract: A method of controlling a pumping stage of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite with a set of diesel pumps and at least one electric pump to smooth the flowrate transition to an operational setpoint with a higher flowrate. An optimization process communicatively connected to the plurality of pumping units can iterate an interim setpoint with a transfer function model to each pumping unit. The transfer function model can generate a smooth flowrate transition by decreasing the flowrate of at least one pump unit while increasing the flowrate to the remaining pump units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhijie Sun, Yang Yu, Tirumani Swaminathan, Ian Mitchell, Sergei Parsegov