Patents by Inventor Ming Chen
Ming Chen 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).
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Publication number: 20260148724Abstract: An acoustic structure includes a first core layer having a lattice structure between a first major surface and a second major surface, a first scrim coupled to the first major surface, a second scrim coupled to the second major surface, a second core layer having a lattice structure between a first major surface opposite a second major surface coupled to the second scrim, and a third scrim coupled to the second major surface of the second core layer. The acoustic structure has a bulk density of less than about 12 pounds per cubic foot.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2025Publication date: May 28, 2026Applicant: ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Christopher D. Gaydos, Ming Chen
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Publication number: 20260137634Abstract: A stilbene derivative can be used in the prevention and/or treatment of ulcers. A compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof can effectively prevent or treat ulcers, and in particular, has a curative effect on oral ulcers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: May 21, 2026Inventors: Jianmin JIA, Yaxian CAI, Zhilong MA, Ming CHEN, Xiaowen OUYANG, Xiangyan JING
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Publication number: 20260126438Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for the detection and quantification of a target protein via bioluminescence and/or bioluminescent resonance energy transfer (BRET). In particular, provided herein are assay methods using a multi-component biochemical system that assembles into a detectable in vitro chemical complex at a protein target of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2025Publication date: May 7, 2026Inventors: Cesear CORONA, Ming CHEN, Wenhui ZHOU
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Publication number: 20260109711Abstract: Disclosed are compounds, compositions, and methods useful for preventing or treating a disease which is at least partially mediated by orexin receptor 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2025Publication date: April 23, 2026Applicant: Vertex Pharmaceuticals IncorporatedInventors: Jun Myun AHN, Emily Elizabeth ALLEN, David John CHARBONEAU, Ming CHEN, Leslie A. DAKIN, Christina Anne DE BRUYN KOPS, Travis Jon DELANO, Pedro Manuel GARCIA BARRANTES, Ronald Lee GREY, JR., Megan Elizabeth HOERRNER, Sheila NAMIREMBE, Arjun Venkat NARAYANAN, Jessica Howard OLSEN, Madison Henry POWERS, Tony Z. SCOTT, Steven David STONE, Emil Francois THOMAS, Xiaoxu WANG, Ashley K. Z. ZACHMANN, Mariam ZAKY, Chenlong ZHANG
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Patent number: 12603436Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a housing having peripheral conductive housing structures. The wireless circuitry may include first and second antennas. The first antenna may have a resonating element arm formed from a first segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures. The second antenna may have a resonating element arm formed from a second segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures separated from the first segment by a gap. Switchable short paths may be coupled between the second segment and ground on opposing sides of an antenna feed for the second antenna and/or may be coupled between the first and second segments and ground on opposing sides of the gap. Additionally or alternatively, a switch may be coupled between the first and second segments across the gap and a tuning component may couple the second segment to the ground structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ahmed Ali Abdelhaliem Nafe, Ali Pourghorban Saghati, Ana Papio Toda, Carlo Di Nallo, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Erdinc Irci, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Jingni Zhong, Mattia Pascolini, Ming Chen, Mohsen Salehi, Nikolaj P Kammersgaard, Orbay Tuncay, Salih Yarga, Seyed Mohammad Amjadi, Tiejun Yu, Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao
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Patent number: 12570682Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for increasing the bulk density of a nicotinamide mononucleotide crystal and a crystal thereof. The method includes: dissolving nicotinamide mononucleotide in water to obtain an aqueous solution of nicotinamide mononucleotide; performing vacuum concentration or freeze drying on the aqueous solution of nicotinamide mononucleotide to obtain a semi-solid with a water content equal to or less than 15%; adding a solventing-out agent dropwise to the semi-solid under stirring, and meanwhile, performing cooling at a rate of 1-15° C./h to a crystallization end temperature of 5-18° C.; and after a crystal is completely precipitated, performing filtration and drying on the crystal to obtain a nicotinamide mononucleotide crystal with increased bulk density. An NMN crystal of a bulk structure can be prepared by the method, and compared with existing NMN crystals, the bulk density of the NMN crystal is doubled.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignee: BONTAC BIO-ENGINEERING (SHENZHEN) CO., LTDInventors: Zhang Zhang, Ming Chen, Chunliang Zhang
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Patent number: 12565404Abstract: A construction lifting device and a leaping method for a construction lifting device. The leaping method includes erecting a top crossbeam above a target floor in a shaft; connecting a host platform of the construction lifting device to the top crossbeam by a drive device; raising a car of the construction lifting device close to the host platform and fixedly connecting the car to the host platform; and activating the drive device to lift the host platform to the target floor.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2024Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Wenxiang Liu, Jianfeng Wu, Chenfeng Shi, Ming Chen, Jiajun Zhu, Linfeng Song
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Patent number: 12567673Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna module having a substrate. An antenna may be disposed on the substrate. The antenna may have a directly fed patch and parasitic patches. The antenna may be fed by a feed via. The parasitic patches may include a first layer of parasitic patches separated by a gap overlapping the directly fed patch. The parasitic patches may include an additional parasitic patch formed in a second layer. The additional parasitic patch may overlap the gap. A floating ground via may couple a center of the additional parasitic patch and a center of the directly fed patch to a landing pad in a ground layer. The landing pad may short the via to the ground layer at the radiating frequency of the antenna. The landing pad may be electrically floating at DC frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 3, 2026Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Behnam Ghassemiparvin, Jingni Zhong, Ming Chen, Bhaskara R Rupakula, Yiren Wang, Han Wang, Yuan Tao, Victor C Lee, Salih Yarga, Erdinc Irci, Jennifer M Edwards, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Carlo Di Nallo, Mattia Pascolini
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Patent number: 12560986Abstract: A chassis includes a chassis body and an installation frame, and the chassis body has a channel that passes through a first end and a second end that are of the chassis body. The installation frame is slidably disposed in the channel of the chassis body. The installation frame has a first part facing the first end of the chassis body and a second part facing the second end of the chassis body; and the first part is capable of sliding out from the first end of the chassis body, and the second part is capable of sliding out from the second end of the chassis body.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yinzhong Tang, Ming Chen, Can Chen
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Patent number: 12560769Abstract: A connector plug usable to be connected to the connector socket in a fitting manner. The connector plug includes a housing component and an inner core component in the housing component. The housing component includes an inner housing and an outer housing movably sleeved at an outer side of the inner housing in an axial direction. A socket housing includes a socket locking mechanism, and a plug housing includes a corresponding plug locking mechanism usable to be connected to the socket to implement plug-socket locking, and an inner wall of the socket housing includes at least one socket anti-rotating structure in the axial direction, and a plug inner housing includes a matching plug anti-rotating structure usable to implement anti-rotation of the plug and the socket.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: AVIC JONHON OPTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Naichang Liu, Xiaoming Zhao, Ming Chen, Jingang Xue, Xutao Wang, Yunzhao Han, Weike Li
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Patent number: 12555032Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to feature selection via an ensemble of gating layers. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a plurality of gating layers is provided to be trained together with a machine learning model. At each update step, one of the plurality of gating layers is selected to perform gating parameter value update together with model parameter value update of the machine learning model. After the iterative update process, a set of target gating parameter values is determined from a plurality of sets of gating parameter values of the plurality of gating layers after the iterative update, and can be used to select a target subset of features to be conveyed from one layer to a next layer in the machine learning model.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: Lemon Inc.Inventors: Ming Chen, Xia Xiao, Youlong Cheng
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Patent number: 12554267Abstract: This disclosure relates to an automatic driving method, apparatus and system, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and relates to the field of agricultural machine automatic driving. The automatic driving method includes acquiring a trajectory of travel of an agricultural machine on a current row and an image of an operated area of a farm implement connected with the agricultural machine on the current row; determining a boundary of the operated area of the farm implement on the current row according to the image of the operated area of the farm implement on the current row; determining an operating width of the farm implement; and determining a space between a trajectory of travel of the agricultural machine on a next row and the trajectory of travel of the agricultural machine on the current row.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: JIANGSU XCMG CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD.Inventors: Shuai Zuo, Liang Gao, Ming Chen, Chenghao Liu
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Publication number: 20260039751Abstract: Systems and methods for smart dialogue communication are provided. A method may include receiving, from a responder terminal device, a dialogue request configured to request a smart dialogue communication, wherein the dialogue request is associated with an incoming call request that is initiated by a requester via a requester terminal device and satisfies a smart dialogue condition determined by the responder terminal device; performing the smart dialogue communication with the requester terminal device associated with the requester; recording voice information associated with the smart dialogue communication; converting the voice information into the text information; and transmitting the text information to the responder terminal device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Applicant: HITHINK ROYALFLUSH INFORMATION NETWORK CO., LTD.Inventor: Ming CHEN
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Publication number: 20260039204Abstract: A multiphase switching converter has a first plurality of switching circuits, a second plurality of switching circuits, a master controller and a slave controller. The master controller provides a first total current signal based on a sum of a plurality of currents flowing through the first plurality of switching circuits, provides a first plurality of switching control signals based on the output voltage to control the first plurality of switching circuits. The slave controller receives the first total current signal, provides a second total current signal based on a sum of a plurality of currents flowing through the second plurality of switching circuits, and provides a second plurality of switching control signals based on at least the first total current signal and the second total current signal to control the second plurality of switching circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Inventors: Daocheng HUANG, Fangyu ZHANG, Ming CHEN
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Patent number: 12539608Abstract: A method and system for motion control may be provided. A target trajectory of an object to be moved may be obtained. The object may be caused to move along the target trajectory of the object based on one or more motion parameters of the object during the movement of the object. At least a portion of the one or more motion parameters of the object may be determined using a motion parameter determination model. The one or more motion parameters of the object may include at least one of a pose parameter, an acceleration parameter, or a speed parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 3, 2026Assignee: KEYWESTTECH LLC.Inventor: Ming Chen
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Publication number: 20260020418Abstract: A light-emitting panel includes at least one light-emitting control region. In any one of the at least one light-emitting control region, the light-emitting panel includes inorganic light-emitting diodes distributed in an array and includes at least one first line extending along a first direction and at least one second line extending along a second direction. One of the inorganic light-emitting diodes has a plurality of first pins and a second pin. A first pin of one of two inorganic light-emitting diodes adjacent along the first direction is electrically connected to an adjacent first pin of the other one of the two inorganic light-emitting diodes through a corresponding first line, the second pin of one of the inorganic light-emitting diodes is electrically connected to a corresponding second line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: January 15, 2026Inventors: Bao FU, Qibing GU, Lili JIA, Lingyun SHI, Changhao WANG, Xiuling LI, Ming CHEN, Xue DONG, Peng LIU, Hao ZHOU
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Publication number: 20260011815Abstract: An energy storage box includes: a box body, a power distribution box, an energy storage device having a first medium flow path; and a heat exchange mechanism including a heat exchange device and a temperature adjustment device. At least part of the heat exchange device is arranged in the power distribution box. The heat exchange device has a second medium flow path. The temperature adjustment device communicates with the first medium flow path to form a first medium circulation flow path. The temperature adjustment device is connected to the second medium flow path to form a second medium circulation flow path. The first medium circulation flow path and the second medium circulation flow path include a heat exchange medium therein, and the temperature adjustment device is configured to adjust the temperature of the heat exchange medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2025Publication date: January 8, 2026Inventors: Ming CHEN, Xiyang ZUO, Kaibo YIN, Guangsheng LUO, Zhonghong LI, Jinmei XU, Kai WU
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Patent number: 12519234Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a housing and an antenna. The antenna may be on a first substrate mounted to a second substrate. The housing may include a dielectric cover, a conductive plate on the dielectric cover, and a mid-chassis. The second substrate may be mounted to the mid-chassis. The antenna may include a conductive patch extending from a segment of a conductive ring on the first substrate. The conductive plate may have an opening aligned with the conductive patch. The first substrate may be separated from the dielectric cover by an air gap. A conductive gasket may couple the conductive ring to the conductive plate and may laterally surround the air gap and the opening. The antenna may convey ultra-wideband (UWB) signals through the air gap, the opening, and the dielectric cover layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alden T Rush, Han Wang, Jingni Zhong, Ming Chen, Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Mattia Pascolini
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Patent number: 12513344Abstract: In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimating a location of a viewport at a future time. According to such techniques, the viewport may represent a portion of an image from a multi-directional video to be displayed at the future time, and tile(s) of the image may be identified in which the viewport is estimated to be located. In these techniques, the image data of tile(s) in which the viewport is estimated to be located may be requested at a first service tier, and the other tile in which the viewport is not estimated to be located may be requested at a second service tier, lower than the first service tier.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2024Date of Patent: December 30, 2025Inventors: Xiaohua Yang, Alexandros Tourapis, Dazhong Zhang, Hang Yuan, Hsi-Jung Wu, Jae Hoon Kim, Jiefu Zhai, Ming Chen, Xiaosong Zhou
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Patent number: D1122926Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2024Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Inventor: Ming Chen