Patents by Inventor Ming Gao

Ming Gao 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: 20240130276
    Abstract: A riding mowing device includes a seat used for a user to sit on and including a seat cushion and a backrest; a frame for supporting the seat; a cutting assembly including a cutting deck and a mowing element for mowing grass, where the mowing element is at least partially accommodated in the cutting deck, and the cutting assembly is mounted to the frame; a traveling assembly for driving the riding mowing device to travel; a control circuit board for controlling at least the cutting assembly and the traveling assembly; and a power supply assembly for supplying power to at least the cutting assembly and the traveling assembly. At least part of the control circuit board is disposed between the seat and the power supply assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Li Li, Tianfang Wei, Fan Gao, Liang Chen, Haishen XU, Ming Gao, Min Zhang, Tao Zhang, Jiajun Huang, Yunfei Gao
  • Patent number: 11966999
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs a method of real time simulation of physical visual effect on one or more Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The method includes a plurality of time steps. Each of the time steps includes: building up a mapping between particles and background grid blocks; sorting the particles to a level of granularity; transferring momenta and masses of the particles to grid nodes on the background grid blocks to compute forces on the grid nodes; updating velocities and resolving collisions from the computed forces on the grid nodes; and applying the updated velocities back to the particles from the grid nodes and advecting the particles. In some embodiments, the frequency of building up and sorting is reduced compared with the frequency of transferring, updating, and applying in the plurality of time steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Yun Fei, Ming Gao
  • Patent number: 11960942
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a plurality of lock sequences associated with a plurality of objects of the computing device. A plurality of matrices may be generated for each lock sequence of the plurality of lock sequences, thus defining a plurality of lock sequence matrix towers. The plurality of lock sequence matrix towers may be combined, thus defining a combined lock sequence matrix tower. One or more lock sequence conflicts may be identified within the plurality of lock sequences based upon, at least in part, the combined lock sequence matrix tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Zhang, Lei Gao, Wai Chuen Yim
  • Patent number: 11960167
    Abstract: A backplane includes: a substrate including a circuit structure layer, a first reflective layer disposed on a bearing surface of the substrate, a plurality of light-emitting diode chips, and a plurality of optical structures. The first reflective layer includes a plurality of through holes spaced apart. A light-emitting diode chip in the plurality of light-emitting diode chips is located in one of the plurality of through holes. The plurality of light-emitting diode chips are electrically connected to the circuit structure layer. The circuit structure layer is configured to drive the plurality of light-emitting diode chips to emit light. An optical structure in the plurality of optical structures covers the light-emitting diode chip, a light incident surface of the optical structure is in contact with a light exit surface of the light-emitting diode chip, and a light exit surface of the optical structure is a curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: BOE MLED Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pei Li, Haiwei Sun, Ming Zhai, Lu Yu, Kangle Chang, Jinpeng Li, Pengjun Cao, Yutao Hao, Shubai Zhang, Shuo Wang, Pei Qin, Zewen Gao, Yali Zhang
  • Patent number: 11958011
    Abstract: A separation device includes a membrane separation module (10), an adsorption module (20), and a gas intake module (30). The membrane separation module includes a first housing (110), and a membrane assembly (130) disposed in the first housing. The first housing has a first gas inlet (121), a first gas outlet (122), and a retentate gas outlet (123). The membrane module has a permeate gas outlet, the permeate gas outlet being in communication with the first gas outlet. The adsorption module has a second housing (210) and an adsorbent layer (230) disposed in it. The second housing is disposed on the first housing and has a second gas inlet (221), a second gas outlet (222), and a desorption gas outlet (223). The second gas inlet is in communication with the first gas outlet. The gas intake module has a third gas outlet (321) in communication with the first gas inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, DALIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS, CORP.
    Inventors: Shengzhong Zhang, Ying Zhang, Kai Qiao, Dequan Fan, Yanpeng Zhang, Ming Gao
  • Publication number: 20240117957
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lighting fixture in which a threadless fit is achieved between a lens cover and a housing. The lighting fixture comprises a housing, a circuit board and a lens cover. The housing and the lens cover are arranged on opposite sides of the circuit board. The housing comprises a first slot. The lens cover comprises a first tab configured to fit into the first slot by a threadless fit, thereby securing the lens cover to the housing. Compared with lighting fixtures in the prior art, the lighting fixture of the present disclosure can save process steps, simplify manufacturing process, reduce manufacturing cost, and improve heat dissipation and light distribution efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jianming HUANG, Kai CHEN, Ming XU, Mingzhi GAO, Takeshi TAKANO
  • Patent number: 11942285
    Abstract: An electronic device has a keyboard with an internal membrane. The membrane has a set of strain gauges configured to respond to a key press, such as when a collapsible dome collapses into contact with the membrane. The strain gauges are connected in a half Wheatstone bridge configuration and are positioned on the membrane in order to limit effects of temperature and subtle flexure of the membrane. The strain gauges are also configured to magnify detection of a resistance differential when a keycap is pressed with sufficient force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chia Chi Wu, Michael Vosgueritchian, Ming Gao, Nan Chen, Vyom Sharma, Wenhao Wang
  • Publication number: 20240094881
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker may have an array of strain gauges and light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes may be configured to display dynamically adjustable button icons overlapping the strain gauges. Force measurements from the strain gauges may be used to adjust speaker output and other device operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Zhengyu Li, Ming Gao, Wenhao Wang, Yuanzhen Fan
  • Patent number: 11933850
    Abstract: A device for detecting a slot wedge, an air gap and a broken rotor bar is provided, where a sequential circuit generates double concurrent pulses; the sequential circuit is connected to driving power modules; the driving power modules are connected to front-end interface circuits; the front-end interface circuits convert the double concurrent pulses into corresponding magnetic-field pulses; the magnetic-field pulses are transmitted to power supply terminals on adjacent phases of stator windings through impedance matching pins and coupled at a corresponding coil, air gap and squirrel cage rotor to generate single groups of cyclic rotating magnetic potentials; single rotating magnetic potentials are sequentially generated in adjacent slots on each of the phases of the stator windings; rotating electric potentials in magnetic circuits with two symmetrical phases are magnetically coupled to form distributed coupling magnetic field reflected full-cycle waves for reflecting a difference of a corresponding slot wedg
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HENUOVA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuewu Zhang, Weixing Yang, Boyan Zhao, Jie Luo, Gang Du, Chao Wang, Han Gao, Liwei Qiu, Ming Xu, Jiamin Li, Yanxing Bao, Qianyi Zhang, Zuting Cao, Junliang Liu
  • Publication number: 20240078796
    Abstract: A method of crowdsourcing annotation for medical image data based on image comparison, includes developing an annotation task; acquiring and verifying medical images according to requirements of the annotation task, and performing statistics on the medical images that meet verification standards to obtain an amount of image data acquired; archiving the medical images that meet the verification standards to form a medical image database; setting up annotation rules, and generating annotation schemes and annotation samples according to the requirements of the annotation task and annotation rules; distributing the medical images in the medical image database to multiple crowdsourcing annotation sides, so that each medical image being annotated by the multiple crowdsourcing annotation sides; annotating, by the crowdsourcing annotation sides, the distributed medical images according to the annotation schemes and the annotation examples to form the annotated images; and merging multiple annotated images correspondi
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Xianying He, Jinming Shi, Fangfang Cui, Ming Ye, Yaoen Lu, Lin Wang, Jinghong Gao, Xiaobing Shi, Dongqing Liu, Xu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240077626
    Abstract: A signal processing system and method for a radiation detector based on a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor are disclosed. The signal processing system includes a power supply generation module, an analog signal processing module, and a digital signal acquiring-processing module. The power supply generation module provides a novel power supply method, and converts a positive high voltage power supply into a negative high voltage power supply to supply power to a last dynode of a photomultiplier tube (PMT). The analog signal processing module converts a negative current pulse signal into a voltage difference signal. The digital signal acquiring-processing module acquires a signal of the analog signal processing module, and converts the signal into a digital signal for identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Qiang Liu, Zhenhua Lin, Jinhan Wang, Kunliang Yao, Yudong Luo, Sheng Wu, Yongjie Wang, Jianzheng Gao, Ming Cui
  • Patent number: 11920472
    Abstract: A reasonable millisecond time control method for excavation blasting of a tunnel is provided, and includes: acquiring physical mechanical parameters to establish a millisecond blasting model, and designing four dimensions blasting parameters of explosive quantity, hole number, inter-hole millisecond and inter-row millisecond; simulating, based on the millisecond blasting model, a blasting process of an explosive package using blasting parameters to obtain a blasting vibration curve; obtaining single-hole blasting vibration waveforms, solving a vibration synthesis curve through a vibration synthesis theory; comparing the vibration synthesis curve with the blasting vibration curve to obtain a coupling relationship of blasting parameters; determining a target group of explosive quantity and hole numbers, determining a target millisecond through the coupling relationship of blasting parameters, and relating a millisecond blasting control strategy to control, and it is used for tunneling project to reduce cut blas
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA RAILWAY ELEVENTH BUREAU GROUP CO., LTD, CHINA RAILWAY ELEVENTH BUREAU GROUP FOURTH ENGINEERING CO., LTD., WUJIU RAILWAY PASSENGER DEDICATED LINE HUBEI CO., LTD, CHINA RAILWAY FOURTH BUREAU GROUP CO., LTD, ANHUI CHINA RAILWAY ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CO., LTD, WUHAN INSTITUTE OF GEOTECHNICAL MECHANICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CHINA RAILWAY SOUTHWEST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jun Gao, Liyun Yang, Xiao Lin, Ming Zhang, kaiwen Liu, Xiaowei Zuo, Bin Zhou, Feng Wang, Yuxin Gao, Dan Xu, Ling Wang, Zhengyi Wang, Xiaokai Wen, Yongtai Wang, Huiling Xue
  • Patent number: 11923250
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein are directed to a method for reducing fin oxidation during the formation of fin isolation regions. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate with an n-doped region and a p-doped region formed on a top portion of the semiconductor substrate; epitaxially growing a first layer on the p-doped region; epitaxially growing a second layer different from the first layer on the n-doped region; epitaxially growing a third layer on top surfaces of the first and second layers, where the third layer is thinner than the first and second layers. The method further includes etching the first, second, and third layers to form fin structures on the semiconductor substrate and forming an isolation region between the fin structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Ju Chou, Chih-Chung Chang, Jiun-Ming Kuo, Che-Yuan Hsu, Pei-Ling Gao, Chen-Hsuan Liao
  • Patent number: 11923205
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a wafer-bonding stack structure having a sidewall layer and an exposed first component layer; forming a photoresist layer on the first component layer; performing an edge trimming process to at least remove the sidewall layer; and removing the photoresist layer. In this way, contaminant particles generated from the blade during the edge trimming process may fall on the photoresist layer but not fall on the first component layer, so as to protect the first component layer from being contaminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun-Ju Li, Ang Chan, Hsin-Jung Liu, Wei-Xin Gao, Jhih-Yuan Chen, Chun-Han Chen, Zong-Sian Wu, Chau-Chung Hou, I-Ming Lai, Fu-Shou Tsai
  • Publication number: 20240073287
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for activating at least a first edge server and a second edge server. The first edge server includes a first service processor, and the second edge server includes a second service processor. The method includes establishing a data communication connection between the first service processor and the second service processor, establishing a data communication connection between the first service processor and a specified website, establishing a trusted communication between the first service processor and the specified website, establishing a trusted communication between the first service processor and the second service processor, obtaining an activation right from the specified website by the first service processor, and performing the activation right to activate the first edge server and the second edge server by the first service processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ming LEI, Haijun XU, Zhipeng GAO, Da LI, Shaohua LI
  • Patent number: 11899448
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle is described herein. The autonomous vehicle is configured to determine that a person is proximate the autonomous vehicle at a location that is external to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is further configured to determine that the person is attempting to hail the autonomous vehicle through use of a gesture. The autonomous vehicle identifies the gesture being performed by the person, and responsive to identifying the gesture, identifies a travel intent that the person is imparting to the autonomous vehicle by way of the gesture. The autonomous vehicle then operates based upon the travel intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Scott, Peter Ming Gao
  • Publication number: 20240045885
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. Based on an insert/update/delete (IUD) feature being enabled, and based on receiving an IUD request at a massively parallel processing (MPP) database management system (DBMS) engine, identifying a partition optimized for the IUD request. A partition map is loaded corresponding to a partition optimized for only IUD requests. Based on the IUD request being an insert row operation, a new distribution key is calculated by hash. A new partition map is generated, the insert row operation is executed using the new partition map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yue Li, Peng Hui Jiang, He Fang Zhang, Yang Qu, Ming Gao, Hai Long Shi
  • Publication number: 20230409151
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a speaker device may have a curved housing characterized by a vertical longitudinal axis. A layer of fabric may cover the curved housing. A touch sensor may be used to detect touch input on the layer of fabric. The touch sensor may include capacitive touch sensor electrodes including drive lines and sense lines. In some arrangements, the touch sensor is formed from conductive strands in the layer of fabric. In other arrangements, the touch sensor is formed from conductive traces on a substrate. The substrate may be formed from portions of the curved housing or may be formed from a layer that is separate from the housing. Light-emitting components and/or fabric with different visual characteristics may be used to mark where the touch-sensitive regions of the fabric are located. The touch-sensitive regions may be shaped as media control symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Zhengyu Li, Elvis M. Kibiti, Ming Gao, Qiliang Xu, Chen Zhang
  • Patent number: D1017469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Weilong Wang, Kuan Kang, Ming Li, Chunquan Gao, Zihan Zhao, Yunlong Cao, Hongju Gao, Baowang Li, Qiang Guo, Fa Lu
  • Patent number: D1020664
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AUTEL INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Gao, Yuelong Liao