Patents by Inventor Kevin Liu
Kevin Liu 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: 20240140987Abstract: Single cell protein (SCP) is produced by applying a voltage to a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) under anaerobic conditions for a period of time, whereby SCP is produced. The MEC includes a cathode comprising a hydrogen evolution reaction material, an anode comprising a biofilm on a carbon support, an electrolyte comprising carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and a Methanococcus or Acetobacterium species in the electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Oregon State UniversityInventors: Hong Liu, Luguang Wang, Kevin Linowski
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Publication number: 20240132909Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: JENNIFER KARA BARRY, JAMES J ENGLISH, KEVIN A. FENGLER, ZHENGLIN HOU, LU LIU, ERIC SCHEPERS, JEFFREY SOPA, INGRID UDRANSZKY
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Publication number: 20240128436Abstract: A negative electrode composition includes a silicon containing material and a crosslinked polymer containing coating surrounding at least a portion of the silicon containing material. The crosslinked polymer containing coating comprises a (co)polymer derived from polymerization of one or more vinylic monomers comprising a carboxyl or carboxylate group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Tianyu Wu, Mark J. Pellerite, Kevin W. Eberman, Xiaohua Ma, Li Liu
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Publication number: 20240124442Abstract: Described herein are novel PRMT5 inhibitors of Formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as well as the pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Compounds of the present invention are useful for inhibiting PRMT5 activity and may have use in treating proliferative, metabolic and blood disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: AMGEN INC.Inventors: Albert AMEGADZIE, Diane Jennifer BEYLKIN, Shon BOOKER, Matthew Paul BOURBEAU, John R. BUTLER, Kevin Lloyd GREENMAN, Todd J. KOHN, Kexue LI, Qingyian LIU, Ana Elena MINATTI, Primali Vasundera NAVARATNE, Liping H. PETTUS, Rene RAHIMOFF, Hui-Ling WANG, Nicholas Anthony WEIRES
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Patent number: 11959143Abstract: Provided herein are methods for miRNA profiling for the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of melanoma and differentiation of melanoma from nevi.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments LLCInventors: Kevin Qu, Anthony Sferruzza, Ke Zhang, Yan Liu, Renius Owen
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Patent number: 11957342Abstract: A surgical instrument is disclosed herein. The surgical instrument can include an end effector that includes jaws configured to transition between an opened condition and a closed condition, a plurality of electrodes positioned within the jaws of the end effector, a control circuit, and a memory configured to store an algorithm configured to cause the control circuit to determine an impedance signal based on signals received from the plurality of electrodes, detect a media positioned between the jaws of the end effector based on the determined impedance signal, determine a position of the detected media based on the received signals, and generate an alert associated with the detected media and the determined position.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Zhijun Liu, Christopher J. Waid, Patrick L. Creamer, Morgan R. Hunter, Nathan P. K. Nguyen, Kevin D. Felder, James M. McKale, Jeffrey S. Swayze, Simon L. Calcutt, Elisa J. Barber, Matthew K. Sadler, Richard D. Lintern, James Richardson, Rita Stella, Mikhail E. Bashtanov
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Patent number: 11953427Abstract: Frequency registration deviations occurring during a scan of a frequency or wavelength range by a spectroscopic analysis system can be corrected using passive and/or active approaches. A passive approach can include determining and applying mathematical conversions to a recorded field spectrum. An active approach can include modifying one or more operating parameters of the spectroscopic analysis system to reduce frequency registration deviation.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Endress+Hauser Optical Analysis, Inc.Inventors: Alfred Feitisch, Xiang Liu, Kevin Ludlum, Mathias Schrempel
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Publication number: 20240110284Abstract: A method of processing a substrate is disclosed which includes depositing a layer in a processing chamber on a field region, a sidewall region, and a fill region of a feature of the substrate, wherein a hardness of a portion of the layer deposited on the sidewall region is lower than a hardness of a portion of the layer deposited on the field region, and lower than a hardness of a portion of the layer deposited on the fill region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Lulu XIONG, Kevin Hsiao, Chris LIU, Chieh-Wen LO, Sean M. SEUTTER, Deenesh PADHI, Prayudi LIANTO, Peng SUO, Guan Huei SEE, Zongbin WANG, Shengwei ZENG, Balamurugan RAMASAMY
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Patent number: 11949175Abstract: Designs and techniques for manufacturing microelectronic antenna tuners are provided. An example microelectronic antenna system includes a radio frequency integrated circuit comprising a plurality of radio frequency signal ports disposed in a first area, a plurality of tuning devices disposed in a second area of the radio frequency integrated circuit, at least one antenna element disposed on a substrate coupled to the radio frequency integrated circuit, and at least one feedline disposed in the substrate and configured to communicatively couple the at least one antenna element, at least one of the plurality of tuning devices, and one of the plurality of radio frequency signal ports.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chuan Wang, Li Liu, Bhushan Shanti Asuri, Kevin Hsi-Huai Wang, Gurkanwal Singh Sahota
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Patent number: 11945401Abstract: A systems for detecting level sensor malfunction or tampering based on reductant consumption and determining when to initiate a quality check of reductant used in an aftertreatment system are disclosed. The system comprises a memory storing instructions and a processor executing the instructions to perform a process including: receiving dosing data associated with an amount of DEF supplied to the aftertreatment system; receiving tank level data from a level sensor in a DEF tank; comparing the dosing data with the tank level data; and based on the comparison: initiating, by the one or more processors, a quality check; and/or determining, by the one or more processors, a possible error requiring further diagnostics; and causing to present, by the one or more processors, an indication that the quality check is being initiated and/or that a possible error requires further diagnostics on a display.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Jay Venkataraghavan, Baoyong Liu, Urvish Joshi, Kevin Lloyd Dea
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Publication number: 20240099772Abstract: A magnetic resonance guided laser ablation treatment system, including: an optical fiber cooling assembly (400), accommodating and cooling an ablation optical fiber (5); a laser ablation apparatus (200), including a laser generator and a cooling device; a stereotactic driving system (300), accommodating and controlling the position and angle of rotation of the ablation optical fiber (5); and a workstation (100), configured to control the movement of a stereotactic driving system, and generate and display ablation information of the target region during the workflow of the magnetic resonance guided laser ablation treatment system by using the magnetic resonance temperature imaging technology.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Meng Han, Wenbo LIU, Kevin AI XIN JUE LUO, Zhao WU
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Publication number: 20240099307Abstract: A method for making an antimicrobial composite film can include forming a first coating layer by applying a first coating material on a substrate and forming a second coating layer by applying a second coating material on the first coating layer. The first coating material can comprise a first resin. The second coating material can comprise an antimicrobial material in a second resin or a dispersion. The first coating material can have a lower concentration of the antimicrobial material than the second coating material. The first and second coating layers can cooperatively define a composite film. The antimicrobial material can be asymmetrically dispersed in the composite film such that the antimicrobial material is concentrated closer to the outer surface of the composite film than to the inner surface of the composite film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Bavani Balakrisnan, Charles Brandenburg, Douglas Edmon Goforth, Cassandra Ann Haynes, Insik Jeon, Jenny Kim, Joydeep Lahiri, Jin Liu, Kevin Robert McCarthy, Michael Lesley Sorensen
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Patent number: 11941065Abstract: Systems and methods are described for generating record clusters. The methods comprise receiving a plurality of records from data sources and providing at least a subset of the records to a scoring model that determines scores for various pairings of the records, a score for a given pair of the records representing a probability that the given pair of records contain data elements about the same entity. The method further comprises generating a graph data structure that includes a plurality of nodes, individual nodes representing a different record from the records. The method also comprises assigning a different unique identifier to individual clusters of the final clusters and responding to a request for data regarding a given entity by providing aggregated data elements from those records of the records associated with a cluster of the final clusters having an identifier that represents the given entity.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Hua Li, Sophie Liu, Yi He, Zhixuan Wang, Chi Zhang, Kevin Chen, Shanji Xiong, Christer Dichiara, Mason Carpenter, Mark Hirn, Julian Yarkony
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Publication number: 20240090685Abstract: A customizable bedding system includes a comforter with a plurality of buttons, a cover including a compartment for the comforter and a first plurality of button holes corresponding with a location of the plurality of buttons on the comforter. A sheet including a second plurality of button holes is securable to the cover and comforter by the buttons on the comforter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Kevin Chon, Jin Chon, Debbie Liu
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Publication number: 20240086391Abstract: Systems and methods for inspection and repair of VSAN object metadata. A user-space indirection layer is maintained to map logical addresses of VSAN objects to physical memory addresses of their metadata. Commands may then be sent from the user space to distributed object manager (DOM) clients, with the physical addresses of metadata of objects to be inspected. DOM owners thus may bypass their own indirection layers to retrieve object metadata directly from received user commands. Retrieved information is then used to reconstruct and repair object metadata. Repaired metadata may be written back to the VSAN by transmitting a write request containing the physical address at which the repaired metadata is to be written. DOM owners may be placed in a specified mode in which received I/O instructions are ignored unless they are designated as being for metadata repair purposes, such as by including a physical address.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Rayfeng LI, Wenguang WANG, Quanxing LIU, Pascal RENAULD, Kiran PATIL
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Patent number: 11928318Abstract: An artificial intelligence-based system and method for automatically generating and adjusting tags associated with one or more UI/UX related components or features is provided. Analysis may be performed on the data collected by the one or more tags so that design change recommendations can be dynamically recommended and/or implemented. When design changes are implemented, the system may automatically reconfigure or adjust all relevant tags. The AI-based system may be a standalone platform or may be incorporated into existing UI/UX programs.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Joseph Goldstein, Kevin Park, Wenjie Liu
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Patent number: 11919194Abstract: A method of plugging channels of a honeycomb body and a honeycomb body including plugged channels. The method includes applying a shear force to a plugging mixture including a plurality of inorganic particles, clay, and a liquid vehicle to alter the viscosity of the plugging mixture from a first viscosity prior to the vibrating to a second viscosity which is less than the first viscosity. A honeycomb body is placed into contact with the plugging mixture such that a portion of the plugging mixture having the second viscosity flows into the plurality of channels. Application of the shear force is stopped or reduced to increase the viscosity of the portion of the plugging mixture in the plurality of channels to greater than the first viscosity.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Keith Norman Bubb, Theresa Chang, Joseph Henry Citriniti, Kevin Eugene Elliott, Xinyuan Liu, Robert John Locker, Prashanth Abraham Vanniamparambil, Kevin Lee Wasson, Shu Yuan
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Patent number: 11921255Abstract: Method for modelling a reservoir including receiving a data set relating to one or more wells within a reservoir, processing the data set to identify one or more fractures extending from the one or more wells into the reservoir, categorizing the one or more fractures as principal fractures or secondary fractures, identifying a near well high permeability region for each of the one or more wells, generating a gridded fracture plane of the one or more wells, determining a fracture permeability region, assembling the gridded fracture plane, the fracture permeability regions, and the near well high permeability region for each of the one or more wells, and generating a three-dimensional reservoir model based on the assembled gridded fracture plane for each of the plurality of predetermined depths, the fracture permeability regions, and the near well high permeability region for each of the one or more wells.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANYInventors: Yongshe Liu, Kevin T. Raterman, Logan A. Warren
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Publication number: 20230338507Abstract: Embodiments of immunogens based on the HIV-1 Env fusion peptide and methods of their use and production are disclosed. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the immunogens are also provided. In several embodiments, the immunogens can be used to generate an immune response to HIV-1 Env in a subject, for example, to treat or prevent an HIV-1 infection in the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: The U.S.A., as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Peter Kwong, Rui Kong, Tongqing Zhou, John Mascola, Kai Xu, Cheng Cheng, Gwo-Yu Chuang, Kevin Liu, Baoshan Zhang, Li Ou, Wing-Pui Kong
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Publication number: 20230314736Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an optical transceiver housing for use in an optical transceiver module with at least one vapor chamber integrated into the transceiver housing. In more detail, the transceiver housing includes at least first and second housing portions on opposite sides and forming a compartment defined by one or more inner surfaces therein. The vapor chamber includes a heat input side and a heat output side on opposite sides of the vapor chamber. An outer wall of at least one of the housing portions may be defined at least in part by the heat output side of the vapor chamber such that the heat output side is exposed to outside of the transceiver housing for transferring heat from inside to outside the optical transceiver module.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Hao-Chiang CHENG, Kai-Sheng LIN, Kevin LIU