Patents by Inventor Jie Zhu

Jie Zhu 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING VAPOR PRESSURE OF PRODUCED HYDROCARBON STREAMS VIA SPECTROSCOPY
    Publication number: 20200049604
    Abstract: An NIR analyzer with the optical probes across a pipe, or in a bypass configuration, after a stabilizer in an oil or condensate production plant. Prior to use, liquid samples from the plant are analyzed in a chemical lab to obtain reference vapor pressure or compositional values. A chemometric model using known techniques is then built with the captured absorption spectra and the reference lab results. Preprocessing methodologies can be used to help mitigate interferences of the fluid, instrument drift, and contaminate build up on the lenses in contact with the fluid. The chemometric model is implemented through the NIR analyzer as the calibration curve to predict the vapor pressure or other values of the flowing fluid in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: JP3 Measurement, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Little, III, Jie Zhu
  • Sealed self-retracting lifeline
    Patent number: 10556138
    Abstract: A self-retracting lifeline assembly (10) includes a housing (12), a shaft (14) fixed to the housing (12) against rotation, a drum (18) mounted for rotation on the shaft (14) and including a compartment (20) within the drum (18), a lifeline (22) wound on the drum (18), a brake module (24) carried on the shaft (14) and mounted within the compartment (20), and a pawl mechanism (26) mounted on the drum (18) for rotation therewith. The pawl mechanism (26) is mounted within the compartment (20) and configured to selectively engage the brake module (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Michael Fegley, Jeremy Fink, Jie Zhu, Ning Qin
  • INTELLIGENT CONTENTIONLESS PROCESSING RESOURCE REDUCTION IN A MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200026561
    Abstract: Computer program products and a system for managing processing resource usage at a workload manager and an application are described. The workload manager and application may utilize safe stop points to reduce processing resource usage during high cost processing periods while preventing contention in the processing resources. The workload manager and application may also implement lazy resumes or processing resource utilization at the application to allow for continued reduced usage of the processing resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Nigel G. SLINGER, Matt HELLIWELL, Wen Jie ZHU
  • Medical fluid cassette leak detection methods and devices
    Patent number: 10539481
    Abstract: A method is provided for detecting leaks in a disposable medical fluid cassette that includes a base and a flexible membrane attached to the base in such a way that the base and the flexible membrane cooperate to at least partially form a fluid passageway. The method includes applying a first force to the flexible membrane, measuring a first physical property of a system that includes the medical fluid cassette a medical fluid pumping machine, removing the first force from the flexible membrane, applying a second force to the flexible membrane, measuring a second physical property of the system, and determining whether the medical fluid cassette leaks based on a comparison of the first physical property and the second physical property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kulwinder S. Plahey, Jie Zhu, Tri Ly, Robert Matthew Ohline, William Scott Crawford
  • 3D microphysiologic system
    Patent number: 10526578
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a three-dimensional cell and tissue culture system for the female reproductive tract. In particular provided herein the system includes individual female reproductive cultures in a dynamic microfluidic setting or integrated using a microfluidic microphysiologic system. In some embodiments, the present invention provides ex-vivo female reproductive tract integration in a three dimensional (3D) microphysiologic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: Northwestern University, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Teresa K. Woodruff, Ji-Yong Julie Kim, Joanna E. Burdette, Spiro Getsios, Sevim Yildiz Arslan, Shuo Xiao, Jie Zhu
  • Packaging structure of acoustic absorbent and speaker box using same
    Patent number: 10497351
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a packaging structure of acoustic absorbent. The packaging structure of acoustic absorbent, includes a housing with an accommodating cavity, the housing including a bottom wall and a warding wall extending from the bottom wall; acoustic absorbent filling the accommodating cavity; a welding bracket; and an air-permeable isolator located between the warding wall and the welding bracket for packaging the acoustic absorbent inside the accommodating cavity. The air-permeable isolator and the welding bracket are fixed through ultrasonic welding. In addition, the present disclosure also provide a speaker box using the packaging structure of acoustic absorbent disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Zhu, Bin Zhao, Sheng Ye, Minmin Chen
  • ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH SEALING MEMBER FORMED AFTER MOUNTING UPON PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD
    Publication number: 20190348808
    Abstract: A electrical connector includes a terminal module and a metallic shell receiving the terminal module. The terminal module includes an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals retained in the housing. The housing includes a base intimately enclosed within the shell, and a tongue extending forwardly from the base. The contact includes a front contacting section, a rear soldering section and a middle retaining section therebetween. The base forms in a peripheral surface a circumferential or race course like groove which is isolated from an exterior along a front-to-back direction, and the shell forms an upward opening in a top wall and downwardly communicates with the groove so as to inject the glue into the groove through the opening to form the glue structure only after the connector is soldered upon the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: JUN ZHAO, TING-JIE ZHU
  • REFERENCE SIGNAL AND CONTROL INFORMATION PROCESSING IN 5G-NR WIRELESS SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20190306923
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry coupled to memory. To configure the UE for New Radio (NR) communications above a 52.6 GHz carrier frequency, the processing circuitry is to decode radio resource control (RRC) signaling to obtain a cyclic shift value in time domain. The cyclic shift value is associated with a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) antenna port (AP) of a plurality of available DM-RS APs. A single carrier based waveform DM-RS sequence corresponding to the DM-RS AP is generated using a base sequence and the cyclic shift value. The single carrier based waveform DM-RS sequence is encoded with uplink data for transmission to a base station using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) using a carrier above the 52.6 GHz carrier frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang, Dae Won Lee, Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Seunghee Han, Jie Zhu, Dmitry Belov, Debdeep Chatterjee, Andrey Chervyakov, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Hong He, Toufiqul Islam, Jeongho Jeon, Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev, Lopamudra Kundu, Yongjun Kwak, Jose Armando Oviedo, Sergey Panteleev, Mikhail Shilov, Sergey Sosnin, Salvatore Talarico, Jan Zaleski
  • System and method for determining vapor pressure of produced hydrocarbon streams via spectroscopy
    Patent number: 10393638
    Abstract: An NIR analyzer with the optical probes across a pipe, or in a bypass configuration, after a stabilizer in an oil or condensate production plant. Prior to use, liquid samples from the plant are analyzed in a chemical lab to obtain reference vapor pressure or compositional values. A chemometric model using known techniques is then built with the captured absorption spectra and the reference lab results. Preprocessing methodologies can be used to help mitigate interferences of the fluid, instrument drift, and contaminate build up on the lenses in contact with the fluid. The chemometric model is implemented through the NIR analyzer as the calibration curve to predict the vapor pressure or other values of the flowing fluid in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: JP3 Measurement, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Little, III, Jie Zhu
  • DISPLAY CONTROL OF AN IMAGE ON A DISPLAY SCREEN
    Publication number: 20190258386
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems, for example, for controlling display of an image on a display screen includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, data regarding a user selected area relative to a first portion of an image displayed on a display screen to define a second portion of the image, at least a portion of the second portion of the image being outside the first portion of the image displayed on the display screen, and automatically controlling, by the one or more processor, display of the second portion of the image on the display screen based on the user selected area of the image to generally maximize display of the second portion of the image within the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Chang LEI, Xiao Xia MAO, Wen Wen YANG, Jie ZHU
  • RECURRENT BINARY EMBEDDING FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
    Publication number: 20190251184
    Abstract: A computational search method for retrieving computer information related to a query includes transforming a plurality of candidate answers to candidate answer recurrent binary embedding (RBE) embeddings using a trained RBE model. A query is transformed to a query RBE embedding using the trained RBE model. The query RBE embedding is compared to each candidate answer RBE embedding of a plurality of candidate answer RBE embeddings using a similarity function. The candidate answers are sorted based on the comparisons made using the similarity function, and returning a plurality of the top candidate answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ying SHAN, Jian JIAO, Jie ZHU, Jianchang MAO
  • Index B-tree maintenance for linear sequential insertion
    Patent number: 10380091
    Abstract: An approach for index B-tree page creation associated with linear sequential insertions in database management systems (DBMS). A linear pre-splitter receives a current index leaf page for linear sequential insertion. The linear pre-splitter asynchronously creates index leaf pages where the current index leaf page is in a predetermined position at least one page away from a last index leaf page. The linear pre-splitter updates index leaf page position identifiers associated with the index leaf pages where the index leaf page position identifiers link the index leaf pages and the last index leaf page and the linear pre-splitter inserts index leaf page identifiers and index key metadata associated with each of the index leaf pages into index non-leaf pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Min Fang, Di Jin, Zhen Yu Shi, Nigel G. Slinger, Shu Wang, Li Fei Zheng, Wen Jie Zhu
  • Dataset cleansing
    Patent number: 10380690
    Abstract: Datasets may be characterized by patterns. The patterns may be caused or otherwise influenced by external factors, such as temporal, meteorological, and/or system factors. The external factors, as well as the patterns which result in the data values of the dataset because of the external factors, may provide for techniques used to account for missing data elements, outlier data elements and/or otherwise cleanse the dataset. New elements may be generated to provide for the missing data elements, and derivative datasets may be generated based on one or more cleansed datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Weng, Nataliya Frost, Shuo Liu, Panagiotis Xythalis, Lingrui Xiang, Xianqing Zou, Hariharan Kesavarao, Jie Zhu, Abhinaw Prakash
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ORDER PROCESSING WITH SMART COOL-DOWN
    Publication number: 20190188630
    Abstract: An order processing system includes a computing device, which includes a processor and a storage device storing computer executable code. The computer executable code, when executed at the processor, is configured to: receive an order, determine a cool-down period of the order based on a cost function, and dispatch the order to a warehouse platform when the cool-down period expires. The cost function takes into account at least a waste cost due to process by the warehouse platform according to the order in case of possible cancellation of the order after the cool-down period and a delay cost due to delayed dispatching of the order to the warehouse platform by the cool-down period. The cool-down period is determined as one that minimizes the cost function in a prescribed range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Di Wu, Xiantie Peng, Zhuo Feng, Shihong Lin, Yan Jin, Jie Zhu
  • TWO-DIMENSIONAL INDICATION IN CONTENTS
    Publication number: 20190180722
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for two-dimensional indication in viewing contents. The method comprises in one embodiment displaying a content page in a content display window, wherein at least one of length and width of the content page exceeds the size of the content display window. The method further comprises in one embodiment displaying indicators located at four corners of the content display window, wherein each of the indicators indicates the size of part of the content page that is outside the corresponding corner of the content display window. The method further comprises in one embodiment in response to detecting a user operation that moves the content page relative to the content display window, changing each of the indicators to reflect the current size of part of the content page that is outside the corresponding corner of the content display window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Chang LEI, Xiao Xia MAO, Wenwen YANG, Jie ZHU
  • Display control of an image on a display screen
    Patent number: 10318133
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems, for example, for controlling display of an image on a display screen includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, data regarding a user selected area relative to a first portion of an image displayed on a display screen to define a second portion of the image, at least a portion of the second portion of the image being outside the first portion of the image displayed on the display screen, and automatically controlling, by the one or more processor, display of the second portion of the image on the display screen based on the user selected area of the image to generally maximize display of the second portion of the image within the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chang Lei, Xiao Xia Mao, Wen Wen Yang, Jie Zhu
  • FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION UNIT CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20190171860
    Abstract: A fingerprint recognition unit circuit is provided, including a read line, a signal scanning terminal, a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, a third power supply terminal, a first signal terminal, a second signal terminal, an exploring electrode, an output unit, a threshold compensation unit and a resetting unit. A method for controlling a fingerprint recognition unit circuit is applied to the fingerprint recognition unit circuit. A fingerprint recognition apparatus includes a glass substrate and the fingerprint recognition unit circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: TRULY (HUIZHOU) SMART DISPLAY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jinkun WU, Chao TIAN, Jie ZHU, Junwen HU, Donghyup JEON, Zhisheng XIE, Junhai SU, Jianhua LI
  • Cloud application processing method, cloud application deployment method, and related apparatus and system
    Patent number: 10313424
    Abstract: A cloud application processing method and related apparatus are provided. The method is performed by a cloud service provider, and may include determining that a working state of a first virtual machine satisfies a condition for adding a virtual machine, determining, according to an emergency policy corresponding to a first application running on the first virtual machine, a second application that has an emergency relationship with the first application, and instructing a second virtual machine on which the second application is hosted to run the first application deployed on the second virtual machine, creating a third virtual machine, deploying and starting the first application on the third virtual machine, and instructing the second virtual machine to stop running the first application after the first application is started on the third virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Zhu, Yi Zhang, Jin Qin
  • FILE BASED OR SINGLE MESSAGE BASED BULK OPERATION PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190166218
    Abstract: A file based or single message based bulk operation processing method is provided, the method including constructing a configuration file including at least header information and a content part, the header information including at least a section index, the section index including at least length information of each command to be sent, the content part including a plain file formed by organizing corresponding commands to be sent in an order of the section index; sending, to a receiving terminal, bulk requests including information related to the configuration file; receiving a response from the receiving terminal; and transmitting the configuration file based on the response from the receiving terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Jie ZHU, Wei WEI
  • Pair of ear muffs
    Patent number: D856594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: May Wilson, Jie Zhu, Weimin Zhou