Patents by Inventor Mi Zhang

Mi 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: 20240312681
    Abstract: The present invention provides an undercooling solidification method for preparing an amorphous or nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy with high Fe content and the applicable amorphous or nanocrystalline alloy composition. The undercooling solidification is realized by glass purification combined with cyclical superheating or electromagnetic levitation melting. An undercooling solidification alloy is prepared into amorphous strips or powders through rapid quenching or atomization of melt, and can be prepared into a nanocrystalline alloy through heat treatment. The chemical formula of the applicable amorphous or nanocrystalline alloy is FeSiBM, wherein M is one or more of P, C, Nb, Mo, Zr, Hf, Mo, Y, Cu and Co. The amorphous or nanocrystalline alloy prepared by undercooling non-equilibrium solidification has the characteristics of high amorphous forming ability, high saturation magnetization and low coercive force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Chen Wu, Kebing Wang, Xinyang Zhang, Mi Yan, Jiaying Jin
  • Publication number: 20240314484
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a hearable with on-head detection using a single optical sensor. The hearable determines on-head detection based on a distance measured by the single optical sensor being less than a distance limit associated with on-head detection. A shape of the hearable's housing causes the hearable to have at least one orientation while at static equilibrium on a flat surface. This orientation causes the flat surface to be within the field-of-view of the optical sensor and causes a distance between the flat surface and the optical sensor to be greater than the distance limit associated with on-head detection. In this way, false positives associated with on-head detection can be mitigated without adding additional sensors (e.g., another infrared sensor, another proximity sensor, or a motion sensor) and without utilizing more complex optical sensors that determine additional information about the object, such as material composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Melissa Mira Zucker, Yi Zhang, Yao Xue, Mi Zhou
  • Patent number: 12084470
    Abstract: A method for preparing a bisphenol phosphate hydroxyl aluminum salt nucleating agent is provided, which adopts organic aluminum alcoholate as raw materials to prepare bisphenol phosphate hydroxyl aluminum salt. In prior art, a neutralization reaction of bisphenol phosphate and sodium hydroxide is firstly performed, so as to prepare bisphenol phosphate sodium salt; then a double decomposition reaction of sodium salt and inorganic aluminum salt is performed to prepare the bisphenol phosphate hydroxyl aluminum salt. The present invention combines the two-step reaction in prior art into the one-step reaction of phosphate and organic aluminum alcoholate for synthesizing the bisphenol phosphate hydroxyl aluminum salt, thereby simplifying the production process, improving the production efficiency, shortening the reaction time, and improving the product quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHANXI INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (LTD.)
    Inventors: Kezhi Wang, Jianjun Zhang, Chenxi Mao, Xiangyang Li, Fuhua Lin, Xungang Li, Jing Wang, Ran Wang, Fengyu Liu, Chen Wang, Kai Wang, Shaoyang Li, Hongyu Zhang, Yanwen Zhong, Huifang Zhang, Yanqin Dai, Kai Cui, Mi Zhang, Yilong Gong, Chaoyang Lu
  • Publication number: 20240273649
    Abstract: A trusted anonymous voting method includes: performing a hash operation on original voting content to obtain a hash output including a commitment value cvi; blinding the commitment value cvi based on information of other voters to obtain commitment value tuples {tilde over (c)} and {tilde over (x)}; signing the commitment value tuple {tilde over (c)} by using an ESDSA to obtain a signature tuple {tilde over (s)}; and establishing a vote tuple ({tilde over (c)}, {tilde over (s)}, {tilde over (d)}) based on the commitment value tuple {tilde over (c)}, the signature tuple {tilde over (s)} and a signature tuple {acute over (d)} of other voters, and uploading the vote tuple (?, ?, {acute over (d)}) and the commitment value tuple {tilde over (x)} to the blockchain, where signature tuple {tilde over (d)} is generated in a case that other voters verify the signature tuple {tilde over (s)} and the signature tuple {tilde over (s)} passes the verification, and the commitment value tuple {tilde over (x)} is used to decry
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicants: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID, GUIZHOU POWER GRID CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong XIAO, Jiaxiang OU, Yi LUO, Houpeng HU, Bin QIAN, Peilin HE, Mi ZHOU, Yaodan DENG, Ji WANG, Tianqiang DONG, Fusheng LI, Pengcheng LI, Fan ZHANG, Yanhong XIAO, Xiaoming LIN, Gaoyi LONG, Jianlin TANG, Kunlin HE, Chaoying LIU, Hangfeng LI, Zerui CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240259196
    Abstract: A timestamp generation method and apparatus, and an electronic device and a storage medium, which are used for solving the technical problem of recorded information being easily leaked because a trusted third party is usually needed as a timestamp authority for recording in a traditional trusted timestamp generation method. In the present invention, the method comprises: acquiring a file record; calculating a hash value of the file record; sending the hash value to a random issuer, and receiving a signature result returned by the random issuer, wherein the signature result is generated after the random issuer signs the hash value and a receiving time, and the receiving time is the time when the random issuer receives the hash value; and storing the signature result in a blockchain as a timestamp of the file record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicants: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHINA SOUTHERN POWER GRID, GUIZHOU POWER GRID CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi LUO, Jiaxiang OU, Bin QIAN, Houpeng HU, Yong XIAO, Yanhong XIAO, Ji WANG, Pengcheng LI, Mi ZHOU, Tianqiang DONG, Fan ZHANG, Xin WU, Fusheng LI, Zhenghao GAO, Xiaoming LIN, Hangfeng LI, Jianlin TANG, Zilong RAN, Xuan LUO, Wei ZHOU, Yaodan DENG
  • Patent number: 12008462
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which allow mobile devices, and other resource constrained applications, to more efficiently and effectively utilize deep learning neural networks using only (or primarily) local resources. These systems and methods take the dynamics of runtime resources into account to enable resource-aware, multi-tenant on-device deep learning for artificial intelligence functions for use in tasks like mobile vision systems. The multi-capacity framework enables deep learning models to offer flexible resource-accuracy trade-offs and other similar balancing of performance and resources consumed. At runtime, various systems disclosed herein may dynamically select the optimal resource-accuracy trade-off for each deep learning model to fit the model's resource demand to the system's available runtime resources and the needs of the task being performed by the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mi Zhang, Biyi Fang, Xiao Zeng
  • Publication number: 20240074840
    Abstract: A multifunctional portable tool is provided, which includes a housing; a motor received in the housing and having a first output end; a pump head movably received in the housing and having a driven shaft that is connectable with the first output end; and a first reset mechanism disposed between the motor and the pump head. The multifunctional portable tool has a first working state in which the driven shaft of the pump head is connected with the first output end of the motor so that the pump head and the motor together function as a pump, and a second working state in which the pump head is driven by the first reset mechanism to move away from the motor until the driven shaft of the pump head is disconnected with the first output end of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Mi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230220042
    Abstract: Provided is a modified Fc region. The Fc region has at least one amino acid mutation with respect to a parent Fc region. The modified Fc region has improved affinity to Fc?RIIB with respect to the affinity of the parent Fc region to Fc?RIIB Also provided is an antibody containing the modified Fc region, especially an agonistic antibody. The modified Fc region has significant use for optimizing the agonistic activity of the antibody.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    Inventors: Fubin LI, Yan ZHANG, Mi ZHANG, Yanxia BI, Shihao TIAN, Huihui ZHANG, Shujun LIU
  • Publication number: 20230210237
    Abstract: A lockable storage case mechanism for electronic device includes a case and a fixing mechanism connected to the case, the case includes a front cover and a rear cover, the front cover is provided with a film, a middle portion of the rear cover is provided with a placing portion for an electronic device, the front cover and the rear cover are connected by a pressing mechanism, and the fixing mechanism includes a connecting member which is configured to be a disc with a notch; when the case is rotated so that the notch corresponds to the pressing mechanism, the pressing mechanism is unlocked; when the notch leaves from the pressing mechanism, the disc is inserted into the pressing mechanism, and the pressing mechanism is locked. The present disclosure utilizes the rotating of the case to lock or unlock the pressing mechanism, and is convenient to use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: MI ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230183305
    Abstract: The present invention provides a keratin BD-11, an encoding nucleic acid molecule, an expression vector, a host cell, a preparation method thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the keratin. The keratin BD-11 can be used in the preparation of medicamnet for antipyretic, analgesic, antitussive, expectorant, anticonvulsant, antiepileptic, anti-hypertension, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Shishan YU, Xiaoliang WANG, Jiang FU, Yong LI, Mi ZHANG, Nan FENG, Guozhu SU, Jiang LI, Yunbao LIU
  • Publication number: 20230146533
    Abstract: The present invention provides a keratin BD-10, an encoding nucleic acid molecule, an expression vector, a host cell thereof, a preparation method for BD-10, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the keratin BD-10. Also provides the use of the keratin BD-10, nucleic acid molecule, expression vector, host cell or pharmaceutical composition in the preparation of medicament for antipyretic, analgesic, antitussive, expectorant, anticonvulsant, antiepileptic, anti-hypertension, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Shishan YU, Xiaoliang WANG, Jiang FU, Yunbao LIU, Nan FENG, Mi ZHANG, Guoru SHI, Jie CAI
  • Publication number: 20230127159
    Abstract: A method for preparing a bisphenol phosphate hydroxyl aluminum salt nucleating agent is provided, which adopts organic aluminum alcoholate as raw materials to prepare bisphenol phosphate hydroxyl aluminum salt. In prior art, a neutralization reaction of bisphenol phosphate and sodium hydroxide is firstly performed, so as to prepare bisphenol phosphate sodium salt; then a double decomposition reaction of sodium salt and inorganic aluminum salt is performed to prepare the bisphenol phosphate hydroxyl aluminum salt. The present invention combines the two-step reaction in prior art into the one-step reaction of phosphate and organic aluminum alcoholate for synthesizing the bisphenol phosphate hydroxyl aluminum salt, thereby simplifying the production process, improving the production efficiency, shortening the reaction time, and improving the product quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Kezhi Wang, Jianjun Zhang, Chenxi Mao, Xiangyang Li, Fuhua Lin, Xungang Li, Jing Wang, Ran Wang, Fengyu Liu, Chen Wang, Kai Wang, Shaoyang Li, Hongyu Zhang, Yanwen Zhong, Huifang Zhang, Yanqin Dai, Kai Cui, Mi Zhang, Yilong Gong, Chaoyang Lu
  • Patent number: 11626125
    Abstract: A system may perform speech enhancement of audio data in real-time by suppressing noise components that are present in the audio data while preserving speech components. The system may include an in-ear module and a separate signal processing module that is wirelessly communicatively coupled to the in-ear module. The system may include non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) dictionaries capable of identifying frequency band components associated with speech and frequency band components associated with noise. The NMF dictionaries may be trained using voice samples and noise samples. The NMF dictionaries may be applied to noisy speech data to produce an NMF representation of the speech data which may then be applied using a dynamic mask to the noisy speech data in order to suppress the noise components of the noisy speech data and produce speech enhanced data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mi Zhang, Kai Cao, Xiao Zeng, Haochen Sun
  • Publication number: 20230089895
    Abstract: A method of operating a demand side platform (DSP) includes determining a current state of the DSP, wherein the current state of the DSP is based on a remaining bid budget and remaining number of opportunities, receiving, at the DSP, a bid request for one or more advertisement impressions, and determining an uncertainty of a predicted user response probability. The method further includes determining a risk tendency value based on the current state of the DSP, determining an adjusted value of the one or more advertisement impressions based on the uncertainty and risk tendency, determining a bid price for each of the one or more advertisement impressions based on the adjusted value of the one or more advertisement impressions, transmitting the bid price to an exchange platform to participate in an auction, receiving an auction result and updating the current state of the DSP based on the auction result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Zhimeng Jiang, Kaixiong Zhou, Mi Zhang, Rui Chen, Xia Hu, Soo-Hyun Choi
  • Patent number: 11263409
    Abstract: A sign language translation system may capture infrared images of the formation of a sign language sign or sequence of signs. The captured infrared images may be used to produce skeletal joints data that includes a temporal sequence of 3D coordinates of skeletal joints of hands and forearms that produced the sign language sign(s). A hierarchical bidirectional recurrent neural network may be used to translate the skeletal joints data into a word or sentence of a spoken language. End-to-end sentence translation may be performed using a probabilistic connectionist temporal classification based approach that may not require pre-segmentation of the sequence of signs or post-processing of the translated sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mi Zhang, Biyi Fang
  • Publication number: 20220048821
    Abstract: A karst channel type water inrush efficient-blocking ultra-high expansion grouting material, preparation, methods and application thereof, the grouting material includes macromolecule polymer particles A and a cross-linking solidifying fluid B, wherein the macromolecule polymer particles A are an inlaid type core-shell structure, primary macromolecule water-absorbent resin serves as an inner core, part of a gelling catalyzer is attached to an the inner core surface forming a shell, and the gelling catalyzer permeates the inner core forming an inlaid structure; before use, the macromolecule polymer particle A and the cross-linking solidifying fluid B are stirred; and then obtained mixed liquid is used as the grouting material to be injected into a fracture of a rock mass fracture zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shucai LI, Rentai LIU, Chenyang MA, Mengjun CHEN, Jiwen BAI, Zhenjun WANG, Huasheng ZHANG, Shaolong DUAN, Jiawei TIAN, Mi ZHANG, Chunyu ZHANG, Xiuhao LI, Xiangchao SHENG
  • Publication number: 20210295174
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which allow mobile devices, and other resource constrained applications, to more efficiently and effectively utilize deep learning neural networks using only (or primarily) local resources. These systems and methods take the dynamics of runtime resources into account to enable resource-aware, multi-tenant on-device deep learning for artificial intelligence functions for use in tasks like mobile vision systems. The multi-capacity framework enables deep learning models to offer flexible resource-accuracy trade-offs and other similar balancing of performance and resources consumed. At runtime, various systems disclosed herein may dynamically select the optimal resource-accuracy trade-off for each deep learning model to fit the model's resource demand to the system's available runtime resources and the needs of the task being performed by the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Mi ZHANG, Biyi FANG, Xiao ZENG
  • Patent number: 10982869
    Abstract: Existing indoor air quality monitoring technologies focus on measuring which turn out to be effective in increasing people's awareness of air quality. However, the lack of identification of pollution sources is prone to lead to general and monotonous suggestions. In this disclosure, an indoor air quality analytics system is presented that is able to detect pollution events and identify pollution sources in real-time. The system can also forecast personal exposure to air pollution and provide actionable suggestions to help people improve indoor air quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Mi Zhang, Biyi Fang, Taiwoo Park
  • Publication number: 20210056357
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for implementing input-adaptive neural networks. Several approaches and systems are presented for creating flexible and computationally-efficient deep neural networks that adapt their complexity based upon input data such as video streams. The approach may use fine-grained design and an automatic approach for generating optimal network architectures based on early-exit mechanisms. A neural network modified according to such principles can be implemented in various devices including mobile vision systems such as smartphones, drones, and head-mounted augmented reality devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Mi Zhang, Biyi Fang, Xiao Zeng
  • Publication number: 20210050030
    Abstract: A system may perform speech enhancement of audio data in real-time by suppressing noise components that are present in the audio data while preserving speech components. The system may include an in-ear module and a separate signal processing module that is wirelessly communicatively coupled to the in-ear module. The system may include non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) dictionaries capable of identifying frequency band components associated with speech and frequency band components associated with noise. The NMF dictionaries may be trained using voice samples and noise samples. The NMF dictionaries may be applied to noisy speech data to produce an NMF representation of the speech data which may then be applied using a dynamic mask to the noisy speech data in order to suppress the noise components of the noisy speech data and produce speech enhanced data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Mi Zhang, Kai Cao, Xiao Zeng, Haochen Sun