Patents by Inventor Michael (Zi-Qiang) Lo

Michael (Zi-Qiang) Lo 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: 12383601
    Abstract: The invention provides immune effector cells (for example, T cells, NK cells) that express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and compositions and methods thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Aida Abujoub, John Blankenship, Attilio Bondanza, Jennifer Brogdon, Dexiu Bu, Serena De Vita, Glenn Dranoff, Boris Engels, Tony Fleming, Brian Walter Granda, Michael R. Greene, Carla Patricia Guimaraes, Anniesha Hack, Brian Holmberg, Connie Hong, Lu Huang, Olja Kodrasi, Joni Waiee Lam, Hyungwook Lim, Elizabeth Dorothy Pratico, Andrew Price, Akash Sohoni, Andrew Marc Stein, Louise Treanor, Chonghui Zhang, Xu Zhu
  • Patent number: 12383663
    Abstract: A peritoneal dialysis (“PD”) system includes a PD fluid pump; a disinfection loop including the PD fluid pump, the disinfection loop including PD fluid used for disinfecting the disinfection loop; and a carbon dioxide (CO2), source positioned and arranged to supply CO2 to the disinfection loop to inhibit and/or remove the production of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) during a disinfection sequence. The PD system includes a control unit configured to open a valve to allow CO2 to be supplied, wherein the control unit may use a lookup table or algorithm to determine the desired pressure or pressure increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA
    Inventors: Oskar Erik Frode Styrbjorn Fallman, Michael Pettersson
  • Patent number: 12384387
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to leveraging corresponding streams of speed readings of a vehicle generated by different speed sensors of different computing devices to automatically determine an updated tire size of tires of the vehicle. For example, while a user of the vehicle is driving, a first stream of speed readings can be generated by a vehicle speed sensor of an in-vehicle computing device of the vehicle and a second stream of speed readings can be generated by a mobile speed sensor of a mobile computing device of the user of the vehicle. Processor(s) can obtain the different streams of speed readings from the different computing devices and process the different streams using various operations to determine the update tire size of the tires of the vehicle. The updated tire size can be subsequently utilized to update operational parameter(s) of the vehicle that influence how the vehicle operates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Powerteq LLC
    Inventors: Kendall J. Mosher, Anthony R. Pitman, Michael Jebb, Aaron Stewart
  • Patent number: 12383397
    Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve system includes a prosthetic heart valve having an inflow side, and an outflow side. The heart valve further includes a base at the inflow side, a plurality of commissure posts and valve leaflets secured to the commissure posts to permit flow through the heart valve. An anti-loop member has a first portion on the inflow side of the heart valve and a second portion on the outflow side of the heart valve. The second portion of the anti-loop member is arranged along each commissure post at the tip of each commissure post, and arranged along at least one commissure post twice to form a loop around all of the commissure posts. The anti-loop member is made of a material sufficiently flexible to be removed from the commissure posts without damaging the heart valve yet rigid enough to retain its shape when coming in contact with sutures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yimin Yang, Michael Quach
  • Patent number: 12384023
    Abstract: Various implementations include a modular soft robot including a base, an arm coupled to the base, and an actuator. The arm includes a first surface and a second surface opposite and spaced apart from the first surface. The first surface defines a plurality of channels, each channel comprising a proximal end at the first surface and a distal end spaced apart from the proximal end. Each channel has a longitudinal axis extending therethrough. The actuator is configured to deform the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama
    Inventors: Vishesh Vikas, Caitlin Freeman, Michael Maynard
  • Patent number: 12384042
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for equipping a mounting plate with equipping components of a switchgear and/or control system, the method comprising the steps: Reading planning data of a switchgear and/or control system into an automatic equipping machine, which has a equipping robot; Extracting position data of at least one equipping component to be mounted on the mounting plate and/or at least one machining position of the mounting plate from the planning data; Detecting a spatial orientation and/or a position of the mounting plate with an image processing system of the equipping robot; Assigning the position data to at least one position on the mounting plate; and Execution of at least one processing or equipping step linked to the position on the mounting plate via the planning data at the position on the mounting plate with the equipping robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Michael Bächler
  • Patent number: 12389274
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for alleviating congestion of data traffic in a wireless network in a cell site. The methods determine congestion levels for respective data connections from mobile computing devices to a network through a cell tower in a cell site. The method further determines a congestion level associated with the cell site based on a weighted aggregate of varying congestion levels associated with the respective data connections in the cell site. The disclosed technology includes flow policies associated with congestion levels. The flow policies determine weights used for determining the weighted aggregate and maximum network bandwidth enforced for the respective data connections. The disclosed technology identifies data connections that consume abnormally high amount of network bandwidth and throttles with bias against data traffic associated with these data connections with heavy traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Huimin Xu, Charles Crisler, John Elias Maroun, Kaykhosrow Jahanian Parsi, Michael Perron, Piotr Galecki
  • Patent number: 12388661
    Abstract: Methods and systems for cross-certification to bind together two cryptographic systems are disclosed. One method includes receiving, from a first certificate authority at a second certificate authority, a cross certificate request, the cross certificate request including an attribute unique to the first certificate authority. The method also includes calculating a signature at the second certificate authority based at least in part on the attribute, and calculating a hash value based on a combination of the signature calculated at the second certificate authority and a key associated with the second certificate authority. The method includes generating a cross certificate and embedding the hash value as a certificate extension within the cross certificate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Entrust Corporation
    Inventors: John Robert Gray, Michael Ounsworth, Serge Jean Maurice Mister
  • Patent number: 12388822
    Abstract: A digital wallet generates an identification value associated with a DID of a DID owner. The digital wallet generates a first request including the identification value for an authentication token from an identification provider. The first request is provided to the identification provider. The digital wallet receives, in response to the identification provider validating the first request, the authentication token that authenticates the digital wallet with a verifiable claim issuer including the identification value from the identification provider. The digital wallet generates a second request for one or more verifiable claims from the verifiable claim issuer. The second request includes the DID and authentication token including the identification value. In response to the verifiable claim issuer validating the authentication token and the identification value, one or more verifiable claims from the verifiable claim issuer are received by the digital wallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Brandon Brian Murdoch, Daniel Godbout, Michael Blair Jones, Kristina Yasuda
  • Patent number: 12389075
    Abstract: Generally disclosed herein is a system for automatically controlling media being viewed by a user based on the user attention levels predicted from gaze and drowsiness estimation and the user's position in a pre-marked monitoring zone. The system may be configured to adjust the monitoring zones based on varying lighting conditions, varying poses of the subjects or users, and the varying distances between the media devices and the users. The system may be further configured to automatically pause or play back the media content based on the user's attention level or changes in positions of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Rovi Product Corporation
    Inventors: Enda Loughman, Michael Buckley
  • Patent number: 12386833
    Abstract: A system receives ETL specification for processing stream data, including a transform operation represented using a database query specification. The system generates a dataflow graph of a sequence of database queries by decomposing the database query into a first database query that generates an intermediate results table, and a second database query that receives as input the intermediate results table and outputs data used for performing the transform operation. The system executes the sequence of database queries for performing the transform operation on stream data received from the source. When receiving an incremental data set, the system determines an output change set based on the received incremental data set by traversing an execution plan and processing each operator in the execution plan, and computing a change set of a particular operator from the change sets output by the one or more other operators based on the incremental data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Databricks, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Armbrust, Vuk Ercegovac, Paul Lappas, Xi Liang, Mukul Murthy, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Nitin Sharma, John Sismanis, Joseph Torres, Min Yang
  • Patent number: 12388058
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device comprises a layer stack, which includes a carrier layer, a cover layer, and a first layer. The first layer is in particular an intermediate layer, arranged between the cover layer and the carrier layer. At least one electronic or optoelectronic element, in particular an optoelectronic light source, is arranged on the first layer and at least one layer of the layer stack and preferably all layers of the layer stack are at least partially transparent. The layer stack comprises at least one layer which comprises particles with a high thermal conductivity and/or at least one thermally conductive layer which is arranged between two adjacent layers of the layer stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Brandl, Andreas Dobner, Matthias Goldbach, Sebastian Wittmann, Uli Hiller, Markus Klein, Thomas Schwarz, Andreas Waldschik, Michael Wittmann, Matthias Bruckschloegl, Stefan Groetsch, Rainer Huber, Peter Brick, Ludwig Hofbauer
  • Patent number: 12387429
    Abstract: A method for image generation, preferably including: generating a set of mission parameters for a UAV mission of the UAV associated with aerial scanning of a region of interest; controlling the UAV to perform the mission; generating an image subassembly corresponding to the mission; and/or rendering the image subassembly at a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: DroneDeploy, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan James Millin, Nicholas Pilkington, Devin Lane, Christopher Sullivan, Michael Winn
  • Patent number: 12387463
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method. Includes determining an estimate of a state of an object detected at a first time step, based on a pointwise estimate of the state of the object at the first time step and pointwise measurements of the state of the object at a plurality of further time steps. Includes generating, using the estimate of the state of the object, a proposed annotation associated with the object at the first time step. Includes rendering, via a user interface, a visual representation of the environment at the first time step and a visual representation of the proposed annotation. Includes receiving, via the user interface, user input indicating a user-approved annotation associated with the object at the first time step. Includes generating training data for a machine learning model for use in controlling an autonomous vehicle, based at least in part on the user-approved annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Carsten Bosse, Gerry Chen, Subhasis Das, Francesco Papi, Zachary Sun
  • Patent number: 12387816
    Abstract: Processes to identify a subset of trait-related genes and classify individuals are described. Generally, systems generate classification models which are used to identify the subset of trait-related genes and classify individuals. The classification models are also used in various applications, including developing research tools, performing diagnostics, and treating individuals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The United States Government as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Jingjing Li, Sai Zhang, Michael P. Snyder, Cuiping Pan, Philip S. Tsao
  • Patent number: 12383002
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are protective apparatuses for minimizing the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases between individuals in close proximity to one another. Said apparatuses may comprise a receiving component comprising a first aperture comprising a series of flanges; as well as a substantially transparent shield component. Protective apparatuses of the present disclosure may be used to protect dentists and other healthcare workers from transmission of infectious agents through aerosols and through transmission of droplets and other bodily fluids that may contain infectious agents and likewise may be used to protect patients in the same manner. Also disclosed herein are systems comprising such protective apparatuses installed to a substantially cylindrical suctioning device such as a vacuum hose or operatively attached to an articulating mechanical arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Inventors: James L. Orrington, II, Michael Prince, Hyunchul Kim, McKayla Barber
  • Patent number: 12383025
    Abstract: An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole coupled to the upper. The sole includes an insole for receiving a foot of a wearer and a sole member disposed below the insole to support the foot of the wearer. The sole member includes a web extending along a length of the sole and a plurality of pillars projecting upwardly from the web toward the insole. Each of the pillars includes a curved sidewall and a lid extending from an upper end of the curved sidewall. The curved sidewall and the lid define a cavity. The web and the plurality of pillars of the sole member are unitary and made of an elastomeric material that allows the pillars to flex or deform at a compressed state and return to an upright position at a relaxed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Reebok International Limited
    Inventors: Michael Andrews, Daniel R. Hobson, Jeffrey J. Acheson
  • Patent number: 12383058
    Abstract: Load-bearing furniture (such as beds, tables, desks, benches, and the like) made from lightweight, foldable material, comprised of base supports with beveled crenellations along certain top edges of the supports, designed to securely receive beams formed in the shape of flanged triangular prisms, said beams optionally featuring ventilation holes to facilitate air circulation through beam cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Inventor: Michael Voorhees
  • Patent number: 12386417
    Abstract: Configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users. An augmented reality display system comprises a handheld component housing an electromagnetic field emitter, the electromagnetic field emitter emitting a known magnetic field, the head mounted component coupled to one or more electromagnetic sensors that detect the magnetic field emitted by the electromagnetic field emitter housed in the handheld component, wherein a head pose is known, and a controller communicatively coupled to the handheld component and the head mounted component, the controller receiving magnetic field data from the handheld component, and receiving sensor data from the head mounted component, wherein the controller determining a hand pose based at least in part on the received magnetic field data and the received sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Woods
  • Patent number: D1087748
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Wire, Daniel Riordan Smith