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: 12319640
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4x, R4y, m, n and G are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I), to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Alan Joseph Hennessy, Elizabeth Pearl Jones, Suzanna Jane Dale, Alexander William Gregory, Ian Thomas Tinmouth Houlsby, Yunas Bhonoah, Julia Comas-Barcelo, Philip Michael Elves
  • Patent number: 12318329
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a microsurgical instrument includes a trocar having a rigid, hollow shaft formed with a lumen extending from a proximal end to a distal end of the shaft. The distal end of the shaft may be shaped for tissue penetration. The instrument may further include a composite microcannula slidably engaged with the trocar in the lumen. The microcannula includes a light guide and a flexible hollow tube having an outer diameter less than an inner diameter of the lumen in the trocar. Other embodiments include placing the microcannula in the lumen of the trocar, illuminating the end of the trocar by illuminating the end of the microcannula, advancing the trocar from a selected entry point on an eye into a selected structure in the eye, and extending the illuminated end of the microcannula from the trocar into the selected structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Nova Eye, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesus Moreno, Philip Ian Prosser
  • Patent number: 12321028
    Abstract: Cables that include a conductor and an optical fiber. In some embodiments, the cable can include an optical fiber loosely disposed within an enclosure. A conductor layer can be disposed about the enclosure. An insulation layer can be disposed about the at least one conductor layer. An inner layer of armor strength members can be helically disposed about the insulation layer. An outer layer of armor strength members can be helically disposed about the inner layer of armor strength members. The armor strength members in the outer layer of armor strength members can be at an opposite helix compared to the armor strength members in the inner layer of armor strength members. An outer jacket can be disposed about the outer layer. In other embodiments, the cable can include an optical fiber in a coupled electro-optical package, where the conductor layer can be disposed about the electro-optical package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Varkey, Maria Grisanti, David Kim, Ian Mace, Tam Tran
  • Patent number: 12318326
    Abstract: A prosthetic socket cooling system and method includes a thermally conductive heat spreader including a curved shaped portion configured to maximize contact with a residual limb of a user. A heat extraction subsystem is coupled through a wall of the prosthetic socket and to the thermally conductive heat spreader and is configured to maintain a desired temperature inside the prosthetic socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignees: Vivonics, Inc., Liberating Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Myers, Kristen LeRoy, Ian Cohen, Gordon B. Hirschman, Thane R. Hunt, Kevin E. Keough, Carlos Martinez Luna, Todd R. Farrell, Jennifer L. Johansson, Brendan LaBrecque
  • Patent number: 12322776
    Abstract: An energy storage assembly includes a vertical stack of substantially planar modules. Each module comprises a plurality of energy storage components and a thermally conductive shell comprising a shell top, a shell bottom, shell sides, a shell front, and a shell rear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Daniel Goldman, Kevin Richard Fine, Tanner Bruce DeVoe, Ian Gregory Spearing, Conrad Xavier Murphy, Erica Viola Lewis, Tahina Christine Felisca, Bozhi Yang, Mark Holveck
  • Patent number: 12320176
    Abstract: A hinge bracket assembly includes an appliance wrapper defining a first receiving space extending in a first direction, a second receiving space extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a third receiving space extending in a third direction oriented at an acute angle relative to the first direction. An anchor plate is engaged with the appliance wrapper and includes a retention member received by the first receiving space, a first flange received by the second receiving space, and a second flange received by the third receiving space. A hinge plate is coupled with the anchor plate and includes a protrusion received by a slot defined by the retention member. The appliance wrapper is positioned between the anchor and hinge plates. A locking arm is selectively engaged with the anchor and hinge plates and is rotatable between an unlocked position and a locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Pavnick, Ryan M. Post, Michael S. Richards, Chad J. Rotter
  • Patent number: 12319409
    Abstract: An apparatus that includes a munitions dispenser comprising a plurality of flicker assemblies. The flicker assemblies include a flicker arm and a guide wall arranged in a circular pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Timothy L. Peng, Ian T. Shafer
  • Patent number: 12318774
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a laminate microfluidic device is described herein. Also described is the microfluidic device manufactured via the method of the disclosure, as well as use of the device to perform an assay. The laminate device includes a substrate layer, an adhesive layer having a cured adhesive with one or more channels or recesses formed therein, and a top layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Truvian Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Hawkins, Ian Kleinemolen, Florence Lee, Matthew Tyson Grant, Dena Marrinucci, Xiaodong Zhao
  • Patent number: 12318900
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method and apparatus operating on a high-pressure working fluid with high efficiency. The device has a reservoir of high-pressure working fluid. A fluid connection supplies the high-pressure working fluid at a controlled working pressure to a dose chamber to contain a volume of the high-pressure working fluid. A dose valve, biased to close, and able to be triggered open, is present between the dose chamber and a working chamber. A charge of the high pressure working fluid can be released from the dose chamber via the dose valve at a first end of the working chamber, to undergo a first expansion in the working chamber and do work therein to or towards a second end of the working chamber distal from the first end. The dose valve closes again before a pressure front of the charge in the working chamber has travelled less than or equal to halfway between the first end and the second end. This allows a second expansion of the charge to continue doing work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: GLOBALFORCE IP LIMITED
    Inventor: Ian Craig Paterson
  • Patent number: 12321326
    Abstract: Processing circuitry is configured to obtain a data structure that defines a plurality of conversions of data between pairs of fields; perform a search to identify a plurality of paths from a source node of the data structure to a destination node of the data structure, wherein the source node corresponds to a first field of the fields and the destination node corresponds to a second field of the fields; convert, for each path of the plurality of paths, transforms represented by corresponding edges of the path to a sequence of transforms that conform to a solver format; process the sequence of transforms for each path to determine whether all paths of the plurality of paths are equivalent up to an equivalence relation; and output an indication of whether all paths of the plurality of paths are equivalent up to an equivalence relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Bruno Dutertre, Susmit Jha, Huascar Sanchez, Patrick Lincoln, Eric M. Pearson, Richard Dean, Ian A. Mason
  • Patent number: 12320503
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for lighting. The apparatus may include a removable recess lighting assembly. The lighting assembly may include a light-emitting diode (“LED”) light source. The LED light source may include an LED. The lighting assembly may define a central axis. The apparatus may include a heat sink. The heat sink may be configured to be mounted in a structure. The heat sink may be configured to retain the lighting assembly. The heat sink may be configured to release the lighting assembly in response to a translation of the lighting assembly along the central axis. The translation may be a translation without a rotation of the light assembly about the central axis. In operation, the lighting assembly may be serviced without causing damage to the structure in which the apparatus is mounted. The lighting assembly may be removed through a defined aperture in the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Wangs Alliance Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Ian Hoffman, Dunping Hu, Qianxiang Wang
  • Patent number: 12323395
    Abstract: A proxy server receives, from multiple visitors of multiple client devices, a plurality of requests for actions to be performed on identified network resources belonging to a plurality of origin servers. At least some of the origin servers belong to different domains and are owned by different entities. The proxy server and the origin servers are also owned by different entities. The proxy server analyzes each request it receives to determine whether that request poses a threat and whether the visitor belonging to the request poses a threat. The proxy server blocks those requests from visitors that pose a threat or in which the request itself poses a threat. The proxy server transmits the requests that are not a threat and is from a visitor that is not a threat to the appropriate origin server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Hahn Holloway, Matthew Browning Prince, Ian Gerald Pye, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Michelle Marie Zatlyn
  • Patent number: 12318594
    Abstract: A wearable drug delivery device that can deliver a liquid drug stored in a container to a patient is provided. The container can be a prefilled cartridge that can be loaded into the drug delivery device by the patient or that can be preloaded within the drug delivery device when provided to the patient. A sealed end of the container is pierced to couple the stored liquid drug to a needle conduit that is coupled to a needle insertion component that provides access to the patient. A drive system of the drug delivery device can expel the liquid drug from the cartridge to the patient through the needle conduit. The drive system can be controlled to provide the liquid drug to the patient in a single dose or over multiple doses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: INSULET CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Nazzaro, Ian McLaughlin, Simon Kozin, Maureen McCaffrey, Jackie Mac, Alexander Doudoumopoulos, Bhavin Patel
  • Patent number: 12319648
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a compound of Formula (I), wherein R1, R2 and n are as defined herein as a herbicide. The invention further relates to agrochemically acceptable salts, to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I) and to the use of compounds of Formula (I) for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Ian Henry Aspinall, Edward John Emmett, Alan Joseph Hennessy, Suzanna Jane Dale, James Nicholas Scutt
  • Patent number: 12321699
    Abstract: A computing platform is configured to: (i) obtain a pool of available words for use in generating four-word passphrases, (ii) generate a candidate batch of four-word passphrases using the pool of available words, (iii) identify one or more duplicate four-word passphrases in the candidate batch and then filter the identified one or more duplicate four-word passphrases out of the candidate set; (iv) based on the filtered candidate batch of four-word passphrases, generate a new batch of four-word passphrases for use on direct mail; and (v) release the new batch of four-word passphrases for use on direct mail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Discover Financial Services
    Inventors: Tarun Dadoo, Sharif Refaie, Benjamin Wolff, Ian Huntley, Sanjeev Khatri
  • Patent number: 12322566
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for a liquid metal bearing assembly. In one embodiment, a liquid metal bearing assembly includes a fill port fluidly coupled to a liquid metal reservoir of the liquid metal bearing assembly, the fill port comprising an inlet diameter and an outlet diameter, the outlet diameter smaller than the inlet diameter, and a pin formed to fit inside the fill port and prevent liquid metal from leaving the liquid metal reservoir via the fill port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Eric J Lubar, Andrew T Triscari, Andrew J Marconnet, Donald R Allen, Ryan Randall Dagen, Ian S Hunt
  • Patent number: 12321951
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting fraudulent activity includes a device property data processing circuit, a security analysis circuit, an alert circuit, and an alert provisioning circuit. The device property data processing circuit is structured to interpret device property data corresponding to a device registered with an Internet of Things (IoT) device registry. The security analysis circuit is structured to determine, based at least in part on the device property data, that the device is subject to a fraud event. The alert circuit is structured to generate, responsive to the determined fraud event, a message that identifies the device. The alert provisioning circuit is structured to transmit the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Somos, Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Correia da Silva Brazao, Steven Norman Brumer, Ian Michael Klein, Li Kong, Marc Rudloff Plante, Sridhar Ramachandran, Kimberly Tashner Shyu, Robert Janusz Sliwa, Jeffrey Scott Smith, Christopher Anton Wendt, Haofang Yu
  • Patent number: 12321772
    Abstract: A method for providing a language agnostic contract execution on a blockchain is provided. The method includes providing a menu comprising multiple execution environments, and selecting, from a suite of virtual machine containers, a virtual machine container that runs an execution environment selected by the developer of the blockchain application. The method also includes enabling one or more functions in the virtual machine container to access a dedicated memory or a state variable in the block producer to run an action in the virtual machine container, the action provided by a server running the blockchain application, providing the action to the blockchain application in the virtual machine container, and writing an output from the action of the blockchain application to a secure ledger in a blockchain. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Bullish Global
    Inventor: Ian Holsman
  • Patent number: 12321833
    Abstract: A system for dynamic predictive analysis of data sets using an actor-driven distributed computational graph, wherein a pipeline orchestrator creates and manages individual data pipelines while providing data caching to enable interactions between specific activity actors within pipelines. Each pipeline then comprises a pipeline manager that creates and manages individual activity actors and directs operations within the pipeline while reporting back to the pipeline orchestrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: QOMPLX LLC
    Inventors: Jason Crabtree, Andrew Sellers, John Uchiyama, Ian MacLeod
  • Patent number: D1077703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre Henriques, Ian Anderson