Patents by Inventor Liang Ma

Liang Ma 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: 20240141773
    Abstract: A method may include acquiring NMR data and sonic data for a borehole in a subsurface geologic region; inverting the NMR data and the sonic data to determine volume fractions for a number of classes of pore types, where the classes include shape and size-based classes; and characterizing the subsurface geologic region based on the volume fractions for the number of classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Jun Tao Ma, Lin Liang, Xi Yan, Gong Rui Yan, Marie Van Steene, Wael Abdallah, Shouxiang Ma
  • Publication number: 20240135606
    Abstract: A method of displaying awareness lines in a camera monitor system for a vehicle includes detecting an adjacent lane marker to the vehicle, calculating an awareness line that is perpendicular to the adjacent lane marker, and displaying the awareness line in relation to a trailer end location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Utkarsh Sharma, Liang Ma, Nguyen Phan, Troy Cooprider
  • Patent number: 11968409
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for determining and/or generating a queue of content items to improve the playback experience of the content items for a user. The content items may be obtained, for example, by a client device from an online service in response to a query, a request for content items, and the like. Relevance rankings and/or scores associated with the content items may be replaced and/or augmented with a playability score, which can represent a quality of the playback experience associated with each content item. The playability score for each content item may be aggregated with the relevance and/or user engagement score associated with each content item to determine an overall playback score for each content item. The content items may be ranked, ordered, arranged, and/or presented in accordance with the overall playback scores associated with the content items to facilitate an improved playback experience for a user associated with the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.
    Inventor: Liang Ma
  • Publication number: 20240125853
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a chip for monitoring performance of a motor and a performance monitoring system for a rotating apparatus. The system includes a sensing module, including a plurality of sensing sensors. The sensing module detecting a working state of the rotating apparatus and generating a working condition signal. A diagnosis module receives the working condition signal from the sensing module, determines a performance state of the rotating apparatus based on the working condition signal, and generates a performance state detection result. The performance state detection result includes a normal performance state and an abnormal performance state. A communication module sends an alarm signal to a central control platform when the performance state detection result is the abnormal performance state. The sensing module, the diagnosis module and the communication module are integrated on the same chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Xing YI, Liang WENG, Kaihuan ZHANG, Xiaoyuan MA
  • Publication number: 20240116950
    Abstract: Provided are small molecule inhibitors of the KRAS(G12D) mutant oncoprotein having the structural formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and compositions thereof, which are useful for treating cancers and related conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Weiwen Ying, Chenghao Ying, Kevin P. Foley, Zhiyong Wang, Wei Yin, Liang Ma, Guoqiang Wang, Jinhua Li, Yaya Wang, Yan Dai, Thomas Prince
  • Publication number: 20240118264
    Abstract: A method for establishing a biological model on joint toxicity of Caenorhabditis elegans and an application thereof are provided. The method for establishing the biological model includes adding the L1-stage Caenorhabditis elegans to a mixed system of working solution of mycotoxins containing tenuazonic acid and penicillin, K-medium solution and E. coli OP50 to obtain L1-stage Caenorhabditis elegans. The biological model indicates that TeA and PAT have a synergistic effect on the growth, development and reproductive ability of Caenorhabditis elegans, and their toxicity mechanism is related to inducing nematodes and stimulating transcriptional factors of Daf-16 genes. The biological model and detection method are simple to operate and its test period is short.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongyuan ZHOU, Liang MA, Yuhao ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11953512
    Abstract: An intelligent experimental device for collaborative mining of associated resources includes a signal transmission mechanism, a pressure maintaining mechanism, a feeding mechanism, and a reaction mechanism. The signal transmission mechanism includes a centralized controller, an annunciator, signal receivers, a power supply, a power cord, signal transmitters, and signal sensing valves. The pressure maintaining mechanism includes ambient and axial pressure oil chambers, ambient and axial pressure pumps, ambient and axial pressure liquid distribution tanks, a comprehensive pressure distribution pipe, and hydraulic transmission pipes. The feeding mechanism includes monitoring analyzers, temperature controllers, solution transfer pipes, seepage pumps, mixture conveying pipes, a comprehensive liquid distributor, an aggregate chamber, a liquid chamber, an oil chamber, a gas chamber, a mixing chamber and an analytical purifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Xiang Yu, Yankun Ma, Yanfang Li, Liang Yuan, Zegong Liu
  • Patent number: 11951618
    Abstract: A multi-procedure integrated automatic production line for hard alloy blades under robot control is provided. The production line includes a rail-guided robot. A cutter passivation device and a blade cleaning and drying device are arranged on one side of the rail-guided robot. A blade-coating transfer table, a blade coating device, a blade boxing transfer table, a blade-tooling dismounting device and a blade boxing device are sequentially arranged on another side of the rail-guided robot. The blade-tooling dismounting device is arranged on one side of the blade boxing transfer table. The production line further includes squirrel-cage toolings for carrying the blades. The squirrel-cage tooling that are loaded with the blades can run among the cutter passivation device, the blade cleaning and drying device, the blade-coating transfer table and the blade boxing transfer table. The blades after being treated through the blade-tooling dismounting device are sent to the blade boxing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Qingdao University of Technology, Ningbo Sanhan Alloy Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changhe Li, Teng Gao, Liang Luo, Lizhi Tang, Yanbin Zhang, Weixi Ji, Binhui Wan, Shuo Yin, Huajun Cao, Bingheng Lu, Xin Cui, Mingzheng Liu, Jie Xu, Huiming Luo, Haizhou Xu, Min Yang, Huaping Hong, Yuying Yang, Haogang Li, Wuxing Ma, Shuai Chen
  • Patent number: 11947372
    Abstract: A device includes a voltage regulator circuit configured to pull up a voltage at an output terminal to equal to half of a supply voltage; multiple first transistors coupled between the output terminal and a voltage terminal providing the supply voltage; and a control circuit configured to pull down gate voltages of the first transistors from the supply voltage to a voltage level between the supply voltage and a ground voltage at a first time. The first transistors are configured to pull up the voltage at the output terminal to the supply voltage at a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., TSMC CHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yong-Liang Jin, Ya-Qi Ma, Wei Li, Di Fan
  • Publication number: 20240101475
    Abstract: A glass composite includes a first glass member and a second glass member. The first glass member and the second glass member are at least partially connected with each other at the surfaces; and the glass composite has a light transmittance not lower than 95% of the light transmittance of the one, with the lower light transmittance, of the first glass member and the second glass member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Lan MA, Liang CHEN, Xiong YUAN, Chen LI
  • Publication number: 20240106090
    Abstract: An electrode cell manufacturing process may include forming an electrode sheet including an electrode material and an active material. A first plurality of electrode tab windows may be defined in the active material to expose first portions of the electrode material. The process may also include slitting the electrode sheet along a first line that orthogonally intersects the first plurality of electrode tab windows to define a first electrode strip including a first set of electrodes and a second electrode strip including a second set of electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jinjun Shi, Ghazal Shoorideh, Liang Guo, Lin Ma, Premanand Ramadass, Rui Guo, Yao Lu
  • Patent number: 11940573
    Abstract: A navigation-communication-integrated metamaterial sonar for underwater vehicles is provided, and belongs to the field of ocean detection and communication. The metamaterial sonar is a metamaterial composite structure including a group of disc array with the same diameters, a disc backboard and water gaps. By adjusting the period p of the disc array, a board thickness t1 of each disc, the thickness g of each water gap, the radius w1 of the disc array, the radius w2 and the thickness t2 of the backboard, the working states of underwater navigation and underwater acoustic communication may be flexibly switched by changing working frequencies, and the navigation-communication-integrated sonar may be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY, HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yongyao Chen, Xin Wang, Junjie Li, Liang Zhang, Zedong Ma
  • Patent number: 11941411
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for starting an application and a related apparatus. The method includes the following: A user terminal may acquire a configuration parameter of a target application from a data management server when a start instruction for the target application is detected. The configuration parameter includes plugin configuration information and code package configuration information. The target application can be executed by using a target code package and a locally cached target plugin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Lingbo Cai, Liang Ma, Qingjie Lin, Hongzheng Ke, Yue Hu, Canhui Huang, Yuyang Peng, Deming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11930975
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing including an upright handle assembly and a base mounted to the upright handle assembly. The surface cleaning apparatus is further provided with a brushroll and a fluid delivery system comprising a fluid supply chamber and a fluid dispenser configured to dispense fluid to the brushroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BISSELL Inc.
    Inventors: Jincheng Xia, Jianjun Ge, Zhenjiang Yin, Xin Chen, Yongsheng Liang, Kam Hoi Ma
  • Patent number: 11932606
    Abstract: This invention provides, among other things, compounds useful for treating diseases such as fibrosis and/or cancer, pharmaceutical formulations containing such compounds, as well as combinations of these compounds with at least one additional therapeutic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: David M. Jablons, Wei Xu, Liang You, Shu Liu, Shendong Yuan, Sunghoon Ma, Morrison Mac
  • Publication number: 20240084370
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a kit for detecting microsatellite instability and a method therefor. The kit includes a negative control, a plurality of qPCR reaction solutions, a qPCR premix and a sterile enzyme-free water; the plurality of qPCR reaction solutions includes 6 pairs of upstream primers and downstream primers of which the MSI mutation site is amplified, and a reference probe for the internal reference and a detection probe for the mutation site. The difference between the amplification of the gene and the gene at the mutation site of the samples and the negative control is used to detect the microsatellite instability. The method and kit as provided is easy and simple without the need of normal tissues being a control, and the need to open the cap. By doing so, aerosol pollution is avoided and sample supplies are conserved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Chun MENG, Jing HONG, Liang GUO, Wenxiao MA, Yiwei HUANG, Xiaodie LIN, Liling XIE, Xiaoya WANG, Qixin LIN
  • Publication number: 20240083356
    Abstract: An method for automatically panning a view for a commercial vehicle includes analyzing a portion of a first view at a first time to determine a position of a vehicle feature within the first view, wherein the first view is a subset of a second view, estimating an expected position of the vehicle feature in the first view at a second time subsequent to the first time, defining a region of interest centered on the expected position of the vehicle feature in the second view and analyzing the region of interest to determine an exact position of the vehicle feature at the second time, and determining a current trailer angle based on a position of the vehicle feature within the second view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Mohammad Gudarzi, Liang Ma, Troy Otis Cooprider
  • Publication number: 20240087331
    Abstract: A method for detecting a trailer presence includes identifying a region of interest within a video feed from one or more cameras secured to a vehicle. The video feed depicts a scene having a first pixel area, and the region of interest corresponds to a portion of the scene having a second pixel area that is less than the first pixel area. The method also includes determining an optical flow within the region of interest, and determining that a trailer is connected to the vehicle in response to the optical flow within the region of interest matching a predetermined pattern corresponding to a connected trailer. A camera monitoring system for a vehicle is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Wenpeng Wei, Liang Ma, Troy Otis Cooprider
  • Publication number: 20240087159
    Abstract: A method for estimating a trailer wheel position includes identifying a first set of wheel locations in at least a first image. Each of the wheel locations in the first set of wheel locations is associated with a corresponding trailer angle. A subset of wheel locations is identified in the first set of wheel locations as being false positives and the false positives are removed from the first set of wheel locations. A quadratic regression is applied to the first set of wheel locations and a parabola curve is determined relating a y position in the at least the first image to an x position in the at least the first image. A trailer angle is determined. A current wheel location is estimated by applying the determined trailer angle to the parabola curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Wenpeng Wei, Liang Ma, Yifan Men, Troy Otis Cooprider
  • Publication number: 20240086625
    Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The information processing method comprises: determining first content in response to a first operation event of a first control in a first document (S11); and adding the first content to the first document on the basis of content information and type information of the first content (S12). The type information comprises first type information and/or second type information, the second type information having an association with the first type information. In the described method, first content can be added to a first document according to content information and type information of the first content, so as to distinguish different ways of adding the first content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Lu ZHANG, Wenzong MA, Xinlei GUO, Xiaolin FANG, Hao HUANG, Liang CHEN, Lanjin ZHOU, Linghui ZHOU, Yingtao LIU, Dirun HUANG, Xuebing ZENG, Zejian LIN, Yingjie YOU, Yunzhao TONG, Yuxiang CHEN, Jiawei CHEN