Patents by Inventor Lei Zhang

Lei Zhang 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: 20250207566
    Abstract: A silk fibroin-based multi-responsive soft actuator and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. The soft actuator includes a silk fibroin membrane and a flexible substrate, the silk fibroin membrane being arranged on and tightly bonded with the flexible substrate to form a double-layer membrane structure, thermal expansion coefficients of the silk fibroin membrane and the flexible substrate being different. The manufacturing method for a soft actuator includes: performing plasma processing on a flexible substrate; then scrap-coating the flexible substrate with a silk fibroin wet membrane, drying same to obtain a silk fibroin membrane, the silk fibroin membrane together with the flexible substrate forming a double-layer membrane; soaking the double-layer membrane into water, and then drying same; and integrally or locally soaking in a calcium chloride aqueous solution the silk fibroin membrane in the dried double-layer membrane, then taking out same, and drying same to obtain a soft actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2025
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Jianliang XIAO, Haitao LIU, Lei ZHANG, Shan WANG
  • Publication number: 20250208093
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for capturing an analyte having an affinity marker, including a first electrode, a second electrode, a porous material between the first and second electrodes, a first flow channel for flowing a fluid medium in between the first electrode and the porous material, and a second flow channel for flowing a fluid medium in between the second electrode and the porous material. The first and second electrodes generate an electrophoretic force steering, in operation, the analyte from the first flow channel into the porous material. The porous material is a porous monolith of titania, silica, or titania-silica comprising capture sites for binding to the affinity marker, having a contact area of at least 5 cm by 5 cm with each flow channel, a surface area larger than a surface area of the porous material, and a pore size of at least 100 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Camila Dalben Madeira Campos, Rita Vos, Lei Zhang, Kathrin Hoelz, Chengxun Liu
  • Publication number: 20250209337
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for controlling agents. In particular, an agent can be controlled using a policy neural network that has been trained to allow the agent to achieve cultural transmission after training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Avishkar Ajay Bhoopchand, Adrian Ashley Collister, Ashley Deloris Edwards, Richard Everett, Edward Fauchon Hughes, Kory Wallace Mathewson, Miruna Pîslar, Alexander Zacherl, Lei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250207739
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a medium for gas pipeline safety monitoring based on a regulatory Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first vibration sequence based on vibration data uploaded by a plurality of pipeline monitoring devices; obtaining construction information corresponding to each pipeline region, and determining a second vibration sequence based on the construction information and the first vibration sequence; receiving feedback information from a people user platform; identifying a suspected leak point location based on the feedback information and the second vibration sequence; generating, based on the suspected leak point location, a maintenance instruction and a parameter adjustment instruction; and sending the maintenance instruction to an intelligent device or a maintenance personnel terminal corresponding to the maintenance instruction, and sending the parameter adjustment instruction to one or more target pipeline monitoring devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2025
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua SHAO, Yong LI, Yunbai CHEN, Lei ZHANG, Lei HE
  • Publication number: 20250208092
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for capturing a target molecule. The device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a permeable structure between the first and second electrode, a first flow channel for flowing a fluid medium in between the first electrode and the permeable structure, and a second flow channel for flowing a fluid medium in between the second electrode and the permeable structure. The first and second electrodes are for generating an electrophoretic force steering, in operation, the target molecule from the first flow channel into the permeable structure, and the permeable structure includes capture sites for binding the target molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Camila Dalben Madeira Campos, Rita Vos, Lei Zhang, Kathrin Hoelz, Chengxun Liu
  • Patent number: 12340152
    Abstract: A large-scale underground shield docking model test platform and a test method using the same are provided. The test platform includes a test soil tank, a partition wall, a shield docking model, and a freezing system. The test soil tank is of an underground foundation pit structure, the partition wall is disposed in the test soil tank to separate the test soil tank into a filling area and a non-filling area. The shield docking model is disposed in the filling area and is a reduced-scale test model. The shield docking model is provided with the freezing system, including a refrigeration system, a coolant circulation system, and freezing pipes. The freezing pipes are arranged on the shield docking model and are connected to the refrigeration system through the coolant circulation system. The refrigeration system is placed on a laminate in the non-filling area of the test soil tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: CCCC TUNNEL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhanhu Yao, Yazhou Zhang, Ping Lu, Yisheng Wang, Hui Li, Lei Zhang, Chi Wei, Xiao Yan, Yuqiang Liang, Yahui Li, Chao Zhang
  • Patent number: 12339422
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a camera optical lens with six-piece lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence, a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: ?6.00f4/f5?2.00, R5/R3?50.00; and 3.00f2/f6.00. The camera optical lens according to the present invention has excellent optical characteristics, such as large aperture, wide angle, and ultra-thin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Oinuma, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12340324
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an Internet of Things system for determining a smart gas work order set allocation plan. The method includes: obtaining relevant data of the gas device, and uploading the relevant data to a smart gas management platform; extracting work order features of a work order to be assigned based on the relevant data of the gas device; determining a plurality of cluster sets based on a cluster distance between the work order features; determining at least one linked work order set based on the plurality of cluster sets; extracting set features of the linked work order set; determining an assignment scheme of the linked work order set based on the set features; determining an optimal scheme, determining a linkage processing scheme based on the optimal scheme; sending the assignment scheme and the linkage processing scheme to a smart gas service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Junyan Zhou, Guanghua Huang, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12337876
    Abstract: A collision detection method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence technology, and in particular to fields of intelligent transportation and autonomous driving technologies. The method includes: determining a predicted travel range of a target object based on a planned travel trajectory of the target object and a historical travel trajectory of the target object; determining, in response to a target obstacle being detected, a predicted travel range of the target obstacle based on a current travel state of the target obstacle; and determining whether the target object has a risk of colliding with the target obstacle, based on the predicted travel range of the target object and the predicted travel range of the target obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Kai Yang, Qijuan Yin, Wuzhao Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang
  • Patent number: 12341742
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method, apparatus and electronic device for information display. The method comprises: displaying at least two session filtering identifiers, a session corresponding to each session filtering identifier satisfying a filtering condition corresponding to the session filtering identifier; displaying information of respective sessions corresponding to a first filtering identifier in a preset display area of a message page, the first filtering identifier being a currently selected filtering identifier; in response to a message of a session corresponding to a second filtering identifier satisfying a preset condition, displaying information of the session in the preset display area, the second filtering identifier being other filtering identifier than the first filtering identifier. The method makes it possible that a message satisfying the preset condition under a filtering identifier which is not selected currently can be displayed in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junxiao Hu, Zhaoyuan Peng, Bowen Shen, Hongze Liu, Lei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250199674
    Abstract: A panoramic system can receive content (e.g., live video) recorded in a landscape orientation and use a portrait dynamic crop window to display a portrait area of the received content. The panoramic system can further display the content in a landscape dynamic crop window that has a moveable user interface control that can pan the portrait crop window as the content plays in one or both of the dynamic crop windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Joseph Burfitt, Andrew Grosvenor Cooper, Yamill Antonio Vallecillo, Sivakumar Loganathan, Gene Michael Cahill, JR., Lei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250200237
    Abstract: A large-scale underground shield docking model test platform and a test method using the same are provided. The test platform includes a test soil tank, a partition wall, a shield docking model, and a freezing system. The test soil tank is of an underground foundation pit structure, the partition wall is disposed in the test soil tank to separate the test soil tank into a filling area and a non-filling area. The shield docking model is disposed in the filling area and is a reduced-scale test model. The shield docking model is provided with the freezing system, including a refrigeration system, a coolant circulation system, and freezing pipes. The freezing pipes are arranged on the shield docking model and are connected to the refrigeration system through the coolant circulation system. The refrigeration system is placed on a laminate in the non-filling area of the test soil tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: CCCC TUNNEL ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhanhu YAO, Yazhou ZHANG, Ping LU, Yisheng WANG, Hui LI, Lei ZHANG, Chi WEI, Xiao YAN, Yuqiang LIANG, Yahui LI, Chao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250196355
    Abstract: Disclosed is an IoT system for determining a work situation of a collaborative robot, comprising: a service platform, a management platform, and a sensing network platform. The management platform includes a selection module configured to select at least one key moment from a processing cycle of a target collaborative robot; a space module configured to establish a collaborative robot space and a key point of the collaborative robot; a benchmark module configured to take coordinates of the key point of the target collaborative robot in the collaborative robot space at the key moment in a standard processing situation as benchmark coordinates; an acquisition module configured to obtain first coordinates and second coordinates; and a calculation module configured to determine a confidence of each key moment; adjust the key moment; and monitor the work situation of the target collaborative robot, and send the work situation to a user platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua SHAO, Yaqiang QUAN, Lei ZHANG, Yongzeng LIANG, Xiaojun WEI
  • Publication number: 20250199902
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, apparatuses, and systems for obtaining node state information. In one example method, a computing node and a management node use a low latency of remote direct memory access (RDMA), and node state information is obtained by executing a structured query language (SQL) statement to avoid a network latency and CPU overheads caused by a TCP/IP-based heartbeat detection solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Lei ZHANG, Wenliang ZHANG, Jinquan LV
  • Publication number: 20250199340
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides glasses including: a glasses rim; a glasses temple comprising a control circuit or a battery; a rotating shaft configured to connect the glasses rim and the glasses temple, so that the glasses rim and the glasses temple are able to relatively rotate around the rotating shaft, the rotating shaft being disposed with a rotating shaft wiring channel along an axial direction; a connection wire passing through the rotating shaft wiring channel and extending to the glasses rim and the glasses temple, respectively; a speaker comprising an earphone core and being connected to the glasses temple, the control circuit or the battery driving the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound through the connection wire; and at least two microphones disposed in the glasses temple or the speaker, the at least two microphones being located at positions with different distances from a mouth of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueqiang WANG, Haofeng ZHANG, Yongjian LI, Yunbin CHEN, Fen YOU, Lei ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12335761
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for indicating a measurement purpose of channel state information (CSI) and a communication system. The method includes: a terminal equipment receives first indication information transmitted by a network device, the first indication information indicating a measurement purpose of a first channel state information (CSI) measurement resource set of the terminal equipment; and the terminal equipment determines the measurement purpose of the first CSI measurement resource set according to the first indication information. A network device and the terminal equipment may have a common understanding of a purpose of the same CSI measurement resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhe Chen, Lei Zhang, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 12332945
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving copies of notes that were originally recorded by participants, the notes corresponding to a source document. Note fragments in the received copies of notes are identified and one or more machine learning models are used to compare the identified note fragments to pages and paragraphs in the source document that the respective note fragments are located in. Based at least in part on the comparison, the identified note fragments are merged with a copy of the source document to form a pseudo-source document. Furthermore, the pseudo-source document is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dong Chen, Ming Lei Zhang, Yuan Jie Zhang, Yin Xi Guo, Ting Ting Zhan
  • Publication number: 20250191207
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described herein for modifying depth maps. For instance, a method for modifying depth maps is provided. The method may include obtaining a depth map comprising a plurality of depth values; obtaining a plurality of confidence values comprising a respective confidence value for each depth value of the plurality of depth values; dividing the depth map into a plurality of depth sections; determining, based on the plurality of confidence values, a plurality of section confidences comprising a respective section confidence for each of the plurality of depth sections; and modifying the depth map based on the plurality of section confidences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Sumeer ARYA, Bhupinder Singh PARHAR, Aydin Emre GUZEL, Lei ZHANG, Aditya KULKARNI, Eric LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20250188013
    Abstract: The present application provides a novel lipid compound, a lipid nanoparticle comprising the same, and use thereof in targeted delivery of a drug. Specifically, the present application provides a compound of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a prodrug, or a stereoisomer thereof. Furthermore, the present application provides a lipid nanoparticle comprising the compound of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a prodrug, or a stereoisomer thereof; still further, the lipid nanoparticle may further comprise a cationic lipid; yet still further, the lipid nanoparticle may further comprise a helper lipid. A composition comprising the above compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a prodrug, or a stereoisomer thereof, or the lipid nanoparticle can achieve the organ-targeted delivery of a therapeutic/prophylactic agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: THEMEDIUM THERAPEUTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei ZHANG, JIANXIN CHEN, Lu YAN, Wei PENG, Qiaoqiao MA
  • Patent number: D1080102
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Junxian Liang