Patents by Inventor Lu Zheng

Lu Zheng 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).

  • Patent number: 11960845
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to decoding communications with token sky maps. At least one electronic communication including emoticons having a non-original meaning is received. A candidate meaning is determined for the emoticons having the non-original meaning in the at least one electronic communication based at least in part on token neighborhood distribution structures. The candidate meaning for the emoticons having the non-original meaning is caused to be displayed on at least one device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ziqiumin Wang, Qing Lu, Wei Jun Zheng, Xiao Feng Ji, Yuan Jin
  • Publication number: 20240119862
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for syllable-based pronunciation help are provided. An input text in a first language may be received. A selection of a target language that is different from the first language may be received. From the target language, syllables with a pronunciation most closely matching a pronunciation of the input text in the first language are obtained. The obtaining is based on a comparison of one or more spectrograms for the input text with one or more spectrograms for text of the target language. The obtained syllables in the target language are presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Wei Jun Zheng, Xiao Xia Mao, QING LU, Yuan Jin, Xiao Feng Ji
  • Publication number: 20240108743
    Abstract: A linker peptide for constructing a fusion protein. The linker peptide comprises a flexible peptide and a rigid peptide. The flexible peptide consists of one or more flexible units. The rigid peptide consists of one or more rigid units. The flexible unit comprises two or more amino acid residues selected from Gly, Ser, Ala, and Thr. The rigid unit comprises a human chorionic gonadotropin ?-subunit carboxy-terminal peptide (CTP) bearing a plurality of glycosylation sites. The linker peptide can more effectively eliminate mutual steric hindrance of two fusion molecules, decreasing a reduction/loss of polymerization or activity resulting from improper folding of an active protein or a conformational change. On the other hand, the negatively charged, highly sialylated CTP can resist renal clearance, further prolonging a half-life of a fused molecule and enhancing bioavailability of a fused protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Qiang LI, Yuanli LI, Si CHEN, Zhu WANG, Zhao DONG, Zirui LI, Xinlu MA, Lu YANG, Yongjuan GAO, Yuncheng ZHENG, Naichao SUN
  • Publication number: 20240093258
    Abstract: In various aspects and embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods for making glycosylated products, as well as bacterial cells and uridine diphosphate (UDP)-dependent glycosyltransferase (UGT) enzymes useful for the same. In other aspects and embodiments, the disclosure provides methods for high yield and/or high purity recovery of such glycoside products from microbial cultures or cell free reactions. In various aspects and embodiments, the disclosure provides for whole cell bioconversion processes involving the glycosylation of a desired substrate, and/or the recovery of the glycosylated product at high yield and/or high purity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Ajikumar PARAYIL KUMARAN, Christine Nicole S. SANTOS, Jason DONALD, Aaron LOVE, Yiying ZHENG, Adel GHADERI, Vineet SHASTRY, Lu CHEN, Christopher TOOMEY, Hannah LYNCH, Eric NIEMINEN
  • Patent number: 11912598
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device for kitchen waste digestion, including: a first treatment container, provided with a feed pipe and an exhaust pipe at a top, and internally configured with a plurality of pole plate pairs, the pole plate pairs including two pole plates, one of the pole plates being connected to a positive pole of a power source and another being connected to a negative pole of the power source, and a plurality of sieve holes being provided in each of the pole plates; and a second treatment container, a top of the second treatment container connecting to a bottom of the first treatment container, a middle part being configured with a plurality of filler layers spaced apart in a vertical direction, and a bottom being configured with an iron-carbon filler; and a filler in the filler layers including calcium peroxide and magnetite particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mingguo Peng, Jianfeng Ma, Yang Qu, Linqiang Mao, Erdeng Du, Fang Zhu, Weibing Zhu, Dongxiao Shi, Qiuya Zhang, Yanqiu Zhang, Lu Zheng
  • Patent number: 11905694
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a centralized treatment device for kitchen waste. The centralized treatment device includes an upper box, an outer cover, a pulverizer, an inner cover, a filter press, a drying granulator, a lower box, an electrolysis device, a hanging basket, a material box, an exhaust fan, and a linkage mechanism. Smashed kitchen waste is subjected to solid-liquid separation by the filter press. Filter residues enter the drying granulator to be partially carbonized, and partially carbonized filter residues and mixed powder treatment agent form solid residue particles. The solid residue particles degrade and adsorb pollutants in the water after being activated by an acidic solution. Meanwhile, accumulated water-absorbing solid residue particles help to degrade the pollutants in the water through the electrolysis device. A separation area is configured to separate oil and discharge the oil separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mingguo Peng, Jianfeng Ma, Yang Qu, Linqiang Mao, Erdeng Du, Fang Zhu, Weibing Zhu, Dongxiao Shi, Yanqiu Zhang, Lu Zheng, Qiuya Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240043299
    Abstract: Devices for controlling to remove food waste digestion foam are provided. The device includes a digestion tank. The digestion tank includes two hermetically sealed boxes. Each of the two boxes is opened with a liquid inlet connected to an interior of each of the two boxes. A conveying mechanism is connected between the two boxes. The conveying mechanism conveys a gas in the two boxes in a reciprocal manner. The gas in the two boxes is conveyed in the reciprocal manner through the conveying mechanism to generate a pressure difference between the two boxes distributed left and right to remove the foam, which adopts physical defoaming without adding any reagent, is cost-effective and efficient, and does not affect an anaerobic reaction process due to addition of a chemical defoaming agent. The entire device has a simple structure and is easy to operate, and the process is controllable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mingguo PENG, Jianfeng MA, Yang QU, Linqiang MAO, Erdeng DU, Fang ZHU, Weibing ZHU, Dongxiao SHI, Qiuya ZHANG, Yanqiu ZHANG, Lu ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20240034656
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device for kitchen waste digestion, including: a first treatment container, provided with a feed pipe and an exhaust pipe at a top, and internally configured with a plurality of pole plate pairs, the pole plate pairs including two pole plates, one of the pole plates being connected to a positive pole of a power source and another being connected to a negative pole of the power source, and a plurality of sieve holes being provided in each of the pole plates; and a second treatment container, a top of the second treatment container connecting to a bottom of the first treatment container, a middle part being configured with a plurality of filler layers spaced apart in a vertical direction, and a bottom being configured with an iron-carbon filler; and a filler in the filler layers including calcium peroxide and magnetite particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mingguo PENG, Jianfeng MA, Yang QU, Linqiang MAO, Erdeng DU, Fang ZHU, Weibing ZHU, Dongxiao SHI, Qiuya ZHANG, Yanqiu ZHANG, Lu ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20230399831
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a centralized treatment device for kitchen waste. The centralized treatment device includes an upper box, an outer cover, a pulverizer, an inner cover, a filter press, a drying granulator, a lower box, an electrolysis device, a hanging basket, a material box, an exhaust fan, and a linkage mechanism. Smashed kitchen waste is subjected to solid-liquid separation by the filter press. Filter residues enter the drying granulator to be partially carbonized, and partially carbonized filter residues and mixed powder treatment agent form solid residue particles. The solid residue particles degrade and adsorb pollutants in the water after being activated by an acidic solution. Meanwhile, accumulated water-absorbing solid residue particles help to degrade the pollutants in the water through the electrolysis device. A separation area is configured to separate oil and discharge the oil separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mingguo PENG, Jianfeng MA, Yang QU, Linqiang MAO, Erdeng DU, Fang ZHU, Weibing ZHU, Dongxiao SHI, Yanqiu ZHANG, Lu ZHENG, Qiuya ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230289349
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations using at least one of query-compliant hash databases, segmentation-based hashing models, and hash segmentation models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Lorcan B. Mac Manus, Peter Cogan, Lu Zheng
  • Publication number: 20230289350
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations using at least one of query-compliant hash databases, segmentation-based hashing models, and hash segmentation models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Lorcan B. Mac Manus, Peter Cogan, Lu Zheng
  • Patent number: 11741103
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations using at least one of query-compliant hash databases, segmentation-based hashing models, and hash segmentation models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Optum Services (Ireland) Limited
    Inventors: Lorcan B. MacManus, Peter Cogan, Lu Zheng
  • Patent number: 11734281
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations. For example, various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for facilitating efficient and effective execution of database management operations using at least one of query-compliant hash databases, segmentation-based hashing models, and hash segmentation models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Optum Services (Ireland) Limited
    Inventors: Lorcan B. Mac Manus, Peter Cogan, Lu Zheng
  • Publication number: 20220204937
    Abstract: The invention provides a force stimulation loading device and a working method thereof, the force stimulation loading device comprises: a containing body, a stretching mechanism and a twisting mechanism; the containing body is suitable for containing a gel encapsulating cardiomyocytes, and is made of a non-rigid material; the stretching mechanism is suitable for stretching or squeezing the containing body from opposite sides of the containing body to apply a stretching or squeezing force to the gel; the twisting mechanism is suitable for twisting the containing body to apply a twisting stress to the gel; the force stimulation loading device of the present invention is capable of simultaneously applying the stretching or squeezing force and the twisting stress to the gel encapsulating the cardiomyocytes through the stretching mechanism and the twisting mechanism, that is, applying the stretching or squeezing force and the twisting stress to the cardiomyocytes at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Yuanping SHI, Lu ZHENG, Guanghua LUO, Xiaolu ZHU, Zheng WANG, Xi YIN, Qiang YIN
  • Patent number: 11310223
    Abstract: An identity authentication method, includes: at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, the electronic device coupled with a display and one or more input devices: receiving an identity authentication request; in response to receiving the identity authentication request, performing an interactive authentication information exchange between the electronic device and a user, including: displaying, on the display, first visual information in a first manner; displaying, on the display, the first visual information in a second manner that is distinct from the first manner, wherein the first visual information displayed in the second manner includes a timing characteristic that is absent from the first visual information displayed in the first manner; receiving user input entered in accordance with the first visual information displayed in the second manner; and verifying that the user input conforms to the timing characteristic in the first visual information displayed in the second manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Lu Zheng, Shuai Zhang, Tingting Shang, Rui Rao, Yan Chen, Yaode Huang, Zhenhua Wang
  • Patent number: 11157955
    Abstract: An online system tracks stores information identifying content provided by third party systems and accessed by online system users as well as interactions with advertisements performed by online system users. When the online system identifies an opportunity to present an advertisement to a viewing user, the online system identifies content from third party systems accessed by the viewing user and content from third party systems accessed by additional online system users who interacted with advertisements. A score is computed for various advertisements based at least in part on correlations between content from third party systems accessed by the viewing user and content from third party systems accessed by additional online system users who interacted with advertisements. The online system selects candidate advertisements to evaluate for presentation to the viewing user based on the scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Feng Yan, Shyamsundar Rajaram, Hao Zhang, Lu Zheng, Tianshi Gao, David Michael Viner
  • Patent number: 10831570
    Abstract: One or more resources of a first computer device to monitor are determined based on a single page application of a second computer device. A value for each resource of the one or more resources is determined. A save command is issued to the save single page application based on the determined value of each resource of the one or more resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Noguchi, Akiko Matsuoka, Lu Zheng, Naoko Rikiyama
  • Publication number: 20200319943
    Abstract: One or more resources of a first computer device to monitor are determined based on a single page application of a second computer device. A value for each resource of the one or more resources is determined. A save command is issued to the save single page application based on the determined value of each resource of the one or more resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi Noguchi, Akiko Matsuoka, Lu Zheng, Naoko Rikiyama
  • Publication number: 20200287893
    Abstract: An identity authentication method, comprising: at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, the electronic device coupled with a display and one or more input devices: receiving an identity authentication request; in response to receiving the identity authentication request, performing an interactive authentication information exchange between the electronic device and a user, including: displaying, on the display, first visual information in a first manner; displaying, on the display, the first visual information in a second manner that is distinct from the first manner, wherein the first visual information displayed in the second manner includes a timing characteristic that is absent from the first visual information displayed in the first manner; receiving user input entered in accordance with the first visual information displayed in the second manner; and verifying that the user input conforms to the timing characteristic in the first visual information displayed in the second manner
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Lu Zheng, Shuai Zhang, Tingting Shang, Rui Rao, Yan Chen, Yaode Huang, Zhenhua Wang
  • Patent number: D980731
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI HOTO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lidan Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Fei Lei, Lu Zheng