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).

  • Publication number: 20250199011
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for the identification of an expression profile in a single cell or population of cells. Kits for use with the disclosed methods are also provided, including antibodies, with a unique molecular identifier and antibody identifier, and primers for amplification of the antibody identifier sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Ian Peikon, Gary Tong, Daniel Liu, Ci Chu
  • Publication number: 20250201241
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a natural language query from a user that solicits a response from an assistant large language model (LLM), receiving a prompt composition including an instruction parameter that specifies a task for the assistant LLM to respond to user queries concisely, structuring a conciseness prompt by concatenating the prompt composition to the natural language query, and processing, using the assistant LLM, the conciseness prompt to generate a concise response to the natural language query. The method also includes providing, for output from a user device, the concise response to the natural language query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ping Zhong, Ian McGraw
  • Publication number: 20250198812
    Abstract: A method, an unmanned mobile entity and a computer program are provided for evaluating a performance of a first sensor unit which is arranged to measure a physical property of its environment at a location. An unmanned mobile entity transports a reference sensor unit to the location and the reference sensor unit is arranged to measure the physical property at the location. The performance of the first sensor unit is evaluated based on a comparison of the measurements of the first and reference sensor units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Ian THURLOW, Ian NEILD
  • Publication number: 20250202210
    Abstract: Systems for grounding junction box are provided, as well as methods for installing the systems. An exemplary grounding junction box may include a housing, a grounding bar affixed to the housing and including a first end and a second end, at least one ground lug mounted within the enclosure of the housing, and a rail lock mounted to the second end of the grounding bar. The housing comprises a base wall, at least one side wall extending from the base wall, and a lid attached to the at least one side wall, forming an enclosure when closed. The at least one ground lug electrically connects the grounding bar and includes a wire guide receiving and securing a grounding wire with a ground lug fastener. The rail lock is configured to secure the grounding bar to a rail and form an electrical bond path from the grounding wire to the rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Erich Kai Stephan, Ian Wogan, Brady Miramontes, James Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20250202834
    Abstract: A method for avoiding packet mis-ordering when routing a flow of packets in a direct interconnect network along a path from a source node to a destination node using virtual channel FIFOs. The method involves assigning a VC FIFO buffer for an input port in the next node along the path from the source node to the destination node via a next-hop VC allocation table (NVT), which encodes VC FIFO buffer availability for all packets identified as part of the flow of packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Alan James JENNINGS, Ian Antoine MES
  • Publication number: 20250201102
    Abstract: A method may include receiving a first event notification including a key, received via a first stream of a streaming event platform. The method may include generating a record of the first event notification in a database including a correlation ID and the key. The method may include generating an event indicating an alarm notification, based on the first event notification in a second stream. The method may include receiving a second event notification including the key, received via the first stream. The method may include generating a record of the second event notification in the database including the correlation ID and the key. The method may include determining that the second event notification is related to the first event notification based on the correlation ID and the key. The method may include generating an event indicating an update notification based on the second event notification in the second stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: Ian King
  • Patent number: 12329928
    Abstract: A fluid delivery device comprising a fluid reservoir; a transcutaneous access tool fluidly coupled to the fluid reservoir; and a drive mechanism for driving fluid from the reservoir, the drive mechanism comprising a plunger received in the reservoir; a leadscrew extending from the plunger; a nut threadably engaged with the leadscrew; a drive wheel; and a clutch mechanism coupled to the drive wheel, wherein the clutch mechanism is configured to allow the nut to pass through when disengaged and is configured to grip the nut when engaged such that the drive wheel rotates the nut to advance the drive rod and the plunger into the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Insulet Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Diianni, Ian McLaughlin, Jason O'Connor, Robert Campbell, Kevin Schmid
  • Patent number: 12333252
    Abstract: A system and method for updating computerized language models is provided that automatically adds or deletes terms from the language model to capture trending events or products, while maximizing computer efficiencies by deleting terms that are no longer trending and use of knowledge bases, machine learning model training and evaluation corpora, analysis tools and databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Verint Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Roy Beaver, Christopher James Jeffs
  • Patent number: 12330773
    Abstract: An attachment assembly for an aircraft strut mounting joint. The attachment assembly includes a tubular structure having a central axis and at least one open end. The attachment assembly further includes at least one mounting pin arranged at least partially within the at least one open end of the tubular structure and moveable along the central axis between a retracted position and an extended position. In the extended position, a portion of the at least one mounting pin protrudes for engagement with a lug and in the retracted position the at least one mounting pin is withdrawn for disengagement with the lug. The attachment assembly further includes a retraction mechanism arranged to convert a rotary input motion into linear motion of the at least one mounting pin along the central axis to drive the at least one mounting pin between the extended position and the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS UK LTD.
    Inventor: Ian Robert Bennett
  • Patent number: 12331159
    Abstract: This invention relates to a polymerization process for producing a polyketoester, or an olefin-polyketoester utilizing a hydroesterification catalyst and an olefin-CO copolymerization catalyst in a reaction medium. Polyketoester copolymers and olefin-polyketoester copolymers are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignees: Exxon Mobil Chemical Patents Inc., Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Ian Tonks, Alex Edward Carpenter
  • Patent number: 12331305
    Abstract: The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules and constructs, as well as their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising the recombinant DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable DNA molecules, as are methods of their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ian W. Davis, Aabid Shariff
  • Patent number: 12331710
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses including systems and methods that can be used for operating a water turbine such as along one or more flow channels of a tidal estuary for power generation is disclosed. The water turbine can be positioned within the one or more flow channels and can be turned by the flow of the water from the estuary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Mathers Hydraulics Technologies Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Norman Ian Mathers
  • Patent number: 12333301
    Abstract: An infrastructure system facilitates trace-based surveys to query users their experiences with pull request workflows. For example, the infrastructure system may receive from a client device associated with a user a pull request for making one or more changes to a programming code repository. The infrastructure system may generate a trace based on a pull request workflow including operations for making the change(s). The trace includes spans, each of which correspond to one or more operations in the pull request workflow. The infrastructure system generates log files, each log file includes data logged during the one or more operations of a span. The log files may be stored as a dataset of the trace. The infrastructure system may transmit a survey to the client device based on the dataset. The infrastructure system may also modify the pull request workflow based on the user's response to the survey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen James Day, Akhil Acharya, Bianca Tamayo, Ian Chiles, Andrew Lee, Victor Robertson, Chun-Shao Chu
  • Patent number: 12333020
    Abstract: Systems are provided for generating, modifying and using SBOMs for facilitating risk assessment and threat mitigation for corresponding programs, and particularly for large programming builds. The creation and modification of the SBOMs includes processes for omitting declarations referenced in chunk SBOMs of program chunks incorporated into a final programming build associated with a build SBOM, but which are not actually utilized by the final programming build, as well as processes for adding new declarations for code segments that are not declared in the related chunk SBOMs, even though the code segments are utilized by the final programming build. Systems are also configured to use SBOMs in combination with configuration restriction records to assess and resolve threat events in a manner that can prevent unnecessary remedial actions for threat events that appear to be relevant to one or more files or dependencies incorporated into a program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Joseph Bussell, Henry James Lyons, Nicholas Allan Schwerzler, Sencer Nuri Yeralan, Dale Russel Rolf, Minh Trong Tran, David John Janson, Thomas George Yaryan, Ian James McCarty
  • Patent number: 12330553
    Abstract: A vehicle may comprise an actuator system. The actuator system may comprise an indicia portion (e.g., a retroreflector, etc.), a masking element that exposes the indicia portion in a first state and covers the indicia portion in a second state, and a linkage coupling the masking element to an actuator. In the case of a bidirectional vehicle, operation of the actuator may be based at least in part on a determination of the vehicle changing a direction of travel. The actuator system may cause a first set of one or more actuator systems disposed on a first end of the vehicle to transition from a first state to a second state and/or cause a second set of one or more actuator systems disposed on a second end opposite the first end of the vehicle to transition from the second state to the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Reginaldo Alves De Almeida, Pratik Bansal, Roberto Dlacic, Anthony Earl, Christopher Lawrence Jackson, Da Liu, Carter William McEathron, Ryan William McGaughey, Fabricio Cesar Oda, Amanda Brown Prescott, Jesse Ian Walker
  • Patent number: 12331022
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compounds of formula I that are useful as modulators of ?7 nAChR, compositions comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds for preventing, treating, or ameliorating disease, particularly disorders of the central nervous system such as cognitive impairments in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia, as well as for L-DOPA induced-dyskinesia and inflammation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Ian M. Bell, Brian T. Campbell, Brendan M. Crowley, James Fells, Kenneth J. Leavitt, Anthony J. Roecker, Andrew John Harvey, Belinda C. Huff, Dharam Paul, Christophe Morice, Christophe Joseph, Patrick Bazzini, Jean-Marie Contreras, Fabrice Garrido, Aurelie Witzel
  • Patent number: 12330210
    Abstract: A method for producing a flexible tooling liner for casting a ceramic core is presented. The method includes the steps of producing a three-dimensional (3D) reference object representative of a ceramic core to be cast, disposing the reference object into a containment vessel configured to receive a liquid flexible tooling material, filling the containment vessel with the liquid tooling material so that the reference object is encapsulated by the liquid tooling material on the surface whose topography is intended to be imparted, allowing the liquid tooling material to cure, and separating the cured flexible tooling along a parting surface into opposing portions and removing the reference the reference object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Travis John Vitello, Lara Richerson, Douglas Bibb, Scott Gangle, Robert Bruce, Ian T. Doran, Christopher Duren, Andrew Belling, Wayne J. McDonald
  • Patent number: 12330081
    Abstract: A three-dimensional transformable toy having a body with a first surface and a second surface and having a hollow cavity formed therein. A flexible fill material is positioned between the first and second surfaces. The toy also has expandable/contractable member positioned between the first and second surfaces and which surrounds an opening leading to the hollow cavity. The expandable/contractable member permits the opening to expand in size and contract in size as the body switches between the first and second configurations. The expandable/contractable member further creates a relatively flat bottom surface which allows the toy to stand upright in both the first and second configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Sene Webb LLC
    Inventors: Ian M. Webb, Regina Sene Webb
  • Patent number: 12330890
    Abstract: A storage module is provided for an organic material handling system. The storage module has a levelling component for levelling out the organic material stored therein, and a removal component for discharging the organic material. A modular system and method is described for improving the receiving, processing, storing, and transloading of bulk materials such as organic waste. A system includes at least a receiving module to receive material, a storage module, a discharge module, and a control system. Systems can be adapted with additional modules, such as processing modules and transfer modules, depending on the site and materials to be handled. A control system interfaces with the modular components and local operators, and provides remote reporting and monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: TY-CROP MANUFACTURING LTD.
    Inventors: Gary Wayne Teichrob, Kevin Brent Thiessen, James Ryan Brezden, Eric Milton Clegg, Ian Breeweg, Dennis Keith Ho
  • Patent number: D1079230
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian M. Cobb