Patents by Inventor James Hu
James Hu 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).
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Publication number: 20240124485Abstract: The present invention provides compounds useful for the treatment of narcolepsy or cataplexy in a subject in need thereof. Related pharmaceutical compositions and methods are also provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Younggi Choi, Yuan Hu, Hoan Huynh, Brian M. Aquila, Brian Kenneth Raymer, Ingo Andreas Mugge, James R. Woods, Lewis D. Pennington, Jörg Martin Bentzien, Jonathan Ward Lehmann, Michael R. Hale, Roman A. Valiulin
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Publication number: 20240124146Abstract: An ice protection system for an aircraft component includes a plurality of heaters. The aircraft component has at least two section and a junction area. At least one of the heaters is an H-shape carbon allotrope heater designed to apply heat to the junction area and prevent ice accumulation in the junction area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Casey Slane, Jin Hu, Nathaniel Ching, Galdemir Cezar Botura, James A. Mullen, Mark James Didyk
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Publication number: 20240117547Abstract: A washing machine appliance includes a wash tub positioned within a cabinet, a wash basket rotatably mounted within the wash tub, a blower operably coupled to the wash basket, a motor assembly mechanically coupled to the wash basket for rotating the wash basket, and a controller. The blower is configured to introduce air into the wash basket. The controller is configured to initiate a wash cycle for cleaning the load of clothes, determine that air dry conditions are satisfied, and perform an air dry operation after completion of the wash cycle in response to determining that the air dry conditions are satisfied. The air dry operation may include operating the blower to circulate the air within the wash basket and operating the motor assembly to tumble the load of clothes. A method of operating a washing machine appliance is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Haitian Hu, James Quentin Pollett
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Patent number: 11951241Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for performing peritoneal dialysis. According to one aspect, the disclosure provides a sterile interface connection for connecting a water purification system to a disposable source of dialysate concentrates. The sterile interface connection can include a chamber comprising an inlet adapted to be connected to the water purification system on a proximal end and a valve on a distal end. The sterile interface connection can also include spring-loaded needle disposed in the chamber. The spring-loaded needle can move between a retracted configuration in which the spring-loaded needle is fully retracted into the chamber and the valve is closed and sealed, and an extended configuration in which the spring-loaded needle extends through the valve into the disposable source of dialysate concentrates.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Outset Medical, Inc.Inventors: James Ritson, Michael Edward Hogard, Gopi K. Lingam, Shih-Paul Chen, Dean Hu
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Patent number: 11949535Abstract: An item-management system is provided having a household appliance, a camera assembly, and a controller. The household appliance may include a cabinet. The camera assembly may be directed at the cabinet to capture an image of the cabinet. The controller may be in operative communication with the camera assembly. The controller may have access to an item list of one or more stored items. The controller may be configured to direct an item-management operation. The item-management operation may include receiving the image from the camera assembly, identifying, automatically, based on the received image, a stored item from the item list, determining, based on identifying the stored item, an unsuitable status of the identified stored item to indicate the identified stored item is inappropriate for the household appliance, and directing, based on determining the unsuitable status, a responsive action at the household appliance.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Haitian Hu, Hairong Li, Steven Keith Root, James Quentin Pollett
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Patent number: 11948694Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for compartmental epidemiological computer modeling based on mobility data. Machine learning training of an isolation rate prediction computer model is performed to generate a trained isolation rate prediction model that predicts an isolation rate of a biological population. Isolation data is received which comprises data indicating a measure of mobility of the biological population. The trained isolation rate prediction model is executed on input features extracted from the isolation data to generate a predicted isolation rate. A compartmental epidemiological computer model, comprising a plurality of compartments representing states of a population with regard to an infectious disease, is executed to simulate a progression of the infectious disease and flows of portions of the population from between compartments in the compartmental epidemiological computer model are controlled based on the predicted isolation rate.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Inventors: Vishrawas Gopalakrishnan, Sayali Navalekar, James H. Kaufman, Simone Bianco, Kun Hu, Ajay Ashok Deshpande, Sarah Kefayati, Ujwal Reddy Moramganti, George Sirbu, Xuan Liu, Raman Srinivasan, Pan Ding
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Publication number: 20240084319Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided which employ a silencing element that, when ingested by a pest, such as a Coleopteran plant pest or a Diabrotica plant pest, decrease the expression of a target sequence in the pest. Plants, plant parts, bacteria and other host cells comprising the silencing elements or an active variant or fragment thereof of the invention are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: XU HU, JAMES KEVIN PRESNAIL, NINA RICHTMAN, LISA PROCYK
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Publication number: 20240087111Abstract: A system and method is provided for controlling an acquisition system to obtain, based on a currently acquired set of projection data, a next set of projection data that is to be acquired using a set of learned imaging conditions. The set of learned imaging conditions are, at least in part, based on training data including projection data and dose information. In one embodiment, the initial dose and angle for obtaining the initial set of projection data are chosen at random. In another embodiment, the initial dose and angle for obtaining the initial set of projection data are chosen based on a test scan and a trained neural network for outputting the initial dose and angle using a loss function.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yi HU, Yu-bing CHANG, Haruki IWAI, Joseph MANAK, John BAUMGART, James BEGELMAN
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Publication number: 20240076283Abstract: The present invention provides compounds useful for the treatment of narcolepsy or cataplexy in a subject in need thereof. Related pharmaceutical compositions and methods are also provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Lewis D. Pennington, Younggi Choi, Hoan Huynh, Brian M. Aquila, Ingo Andreas Mugge, Yuan Hu, James R. Woods, Brian Kenneth Raymer, Jörg Martin Bentzien, Jonathan Ward Lehmann, Srinivasa Karra, Roman A. Valiulin, Daljit Matharu
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Publication number: 20240081122Abstract: A display system may include a light source that emits input light having a wavelength within a source wavelength range and an array of color conversion units overlapping a display area. A first set of color conversion units of the array of color conversion units may include a first color conversion medium that converts the input light to a first color of light having a wavelength within a first wavelength range that is different than the source wavelength range. The display system may also include a waveguide having an out-coupler that directs the input light from the light source toward the array of color conversion units. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Zhimin Shi, Yun Wang, Fenglin Peng, Christophe Antoine Hurni, James Ronald Bonar, Edward Buckley, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Yongdan Hu
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Patent number: 11919803Abstract: One or more aspects of the disclosure pertain to an article including a film disposed on a glass substrate, which may be strengthened, where the interface between the film and the glass substrate is modified, such that the article has an improved average flexural strength, and the film retains key functional properties for its application. Some key functional properties of the film include optical, electrical and/or mechanical properties. The bridging of a crack from one of the film or the glass substrate into the other of the film or the glass substrate can be suppressed by inserting a nanoporous crack mitigating layer between the glass substrate and the film.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Heather Bossard Decker, Shandon Dee Hart, Guangli Hu, James Joseph Price, Paul Arthur Sachenik
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Patent number: 11918300Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system for needle insertion guidance uses a curved array transducer to scan an image field with unsteered beams as a needle is inserted into the image field. Due to differences in the angle of incidence between the radially directed beams and the needle, echoes will return most strongly from only a section of the needle. This section is identified in an image, and the angle of incidence producing the strongest returns is identified. Beams with this optimal angle of incidence are then steered in parallel from the curved array transducer to produce the best needle image. The steep steering angles of some of the steered beams can give rise to side lobe clutter artifacts, which can be identified and removed from the image data using dual apodization processing of the image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Shannon Renee Fox, Changhong Hu, Kyong Chang, James Robertson Jago, Thanasis Loupas
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Patent number: 11915699Abstract: Systems and methods for account data association with voice interface devices are disclosed. For example, when a host user/primary user and guest user have consented for account data to be associated with the primary user's devices, a request to associate the account data may be received. Voice and device-based authentication may be performed to confirm the identity of the guest user and the guest user's account data may be associated with the primary user's devices. During a guest session, voice recognition may be utilized to determine if a given user utterance is from the guest user or the primary user, and actions may be performed by the voice interface device accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Szymon Grzegorz Trapp, Martin Patrick Butler, Manikanta Babu Karanam, Nicholas Jeffrey Anderson, Boya Hu, Zhengyang Wu, Fnu Palak, James Marlotte
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Patent number: 11843337Abstract: A combined motor controller, including: a first function module, including at least one power module powered by the mains supply to output a VDC power supply to power other modules; a second function module, including at least one motor control module including a microprocessor control unit (MCU) and an IGBT inverter; and a third function module, including at least one I/O module configured to transmit signals between a system main control board or a peripheral device and the motor control module. Each function module is provided with an independent metal or plastic shell and a first circuit board located in the shell, and the first function module, the second function module and the third function module are connected by mutually matched connectors for power supply or control signal transmission between the function modules.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ge Garrett James Hu, Wenqing Bian, Hairong Sun
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Publication number: 20220060135Abstract: A combined motor controller, including: a first function module, including at least one power module powered by the mains supply to output a VDC power supply to power other modules; a second function module, including at least one motor control module including a microprocessor control unit (MCU) and an IGBT inverter; and a third function module, including at least one I/O module configured to transmit signals between a system main control board or a peripheral device and the motor control module. Each function module is provided with an independent metal or plastic shell and a first circuit board located in the shell, and the first function module, the second function module and the third function module are connected by mutually matched connectors for power supply or control signal transmission between the function modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Ge Garrett James HU, Wenqing BIAN, Hairong SUN
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Publication number: 20200143269Abstract: A method for determining a travel destination from user generated content is proposed. The method includes determining a text string in the user generated content that indicates a place or an address. Further, the method includes determining a plurality of potential travel destinations based on the text string. The method additionally includes determining similarities between the plurality of potential travel destinations and a plurality of reference positions assigned to the user, and ranking the plurality of potential travel destinations based on the similarities.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2020Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Yang CAO, Alvin CHIN, Michael GORELIK, James HU, Qing LI, Jilei TIAN
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Patent number: 10594657Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic management apparatuses, and network traffic management systems that provide parameterized sub-policy evaluation for fine grain access control implemented by determining when there is a result for one of the plurality of sub-policies being evaluated for a received request for a resource during a session. The result for evaluation of the one of the plurality of sub-policies for the received request is used when the determination indicates the result is stored for the session. The one of the plurality of sub-policies is executed on the received request to obtain the result when the determination indicates the result is not stored for the session. The result for the one of the plurality of sub-policies from this execution is stored for the session.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: F5 Networks, Inc.Inventors: Vinod Pisharody, James Hu, Wui Chung Lie, Bipin Kumar
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Patent number: 10534353Abstract: A system for reducing processing defects during processing of a semiconductor wafer prior to back-grinding the wafer includes a table having one or more holes formed therein, wherein the table comprises at least one of a chuck table or a support table, wherein the holes are perpendicular to the surface upon which a pre-back-grinding (PBG) process occurs. The system further includes one or more sensors disposed in said holes for monitoring a parameter during the PBG process. The system further includes a computer-implemented process control tool coupled with the one or more sensors and configured to determine whether the PBG process will continue.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Chen-Fa Lu, Cheng-Ting Chen, James Hu, Chung-Shi Liu
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Patent number: 10488398Abstract: A chemical impairment detection system adaptable for use in a vehicle. The impairment detection system includes an intake adapted to receive an air sample from a source and an alcohol sensor for detecting an alcohol level in the air sample. An integrated breath chamber channels the air sample from the intake to the alcohol sensor. Source evaluator means in the breath chamber measure one or more characteristics of the received air sample for validating the sample. The source evaluator means measures the air sample characteristics as the air sample flows through the breath chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: #1 A LifeSafer, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas M. Trainor, Louis Urani, James Hu, Jeffrey Vatter, Scott A. Galvin, David Hamo, William H. Collins, James Dunn
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Patent number: 10109618Abstract: A semiconductor device package is provided. The semiconductor device package includes a first substrate and a conductive element fared on the first substrate. The conductive element has a recess away from the first substrate, and the recess has a first depth greater than a second depth from a top surface of the conductive element to a center of the conductive element semiconductor device package includes a conductive connector bonded to the conductive element, and a melting point of the conductive element is higher than a melting point of the conductive connector, and the conductive connector is filled into the recess of the conductive element.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: James Hu, Ming-Da Cheng, Chung-Shi Liu