Patents by Inventor Ming Zhou

Ming Zhou 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: 11965412
    Abstract: A quantitative evaluation method for integrity and damage evolution of a cement sheath in an oil-gas well is provided based on a fractal theory, an image processing technology, structural features and failure mechanisms of a casing-cement sheath-formation combination. The method uses correlations among fractal dimensions of casing-cement sheath interface morphology, cement sheath microscopic pore morphology, particle morphology of an initial blank group, and macroscopic mechanical properties including a radial cementing strength of the cement sheath interface, a tensile strength, and a compressive strength to quantitatively evaluate the integrity of the cement sheath of the blank group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kuanhai Deng, Niantao Zhou, Yuanhua Lin, Mingyuan Yao, Ming Zhang, Deqiang Yi, Pengfei Xie, Yang Peng
  • Publication number: 20240130022
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of lighting, and discloses an LED filament. The LED filament includes an LED chip unit, a light conversion layer, and an electrode. The light conversion layer covers the LED chip unit and part of the electrode, and a color of a light emitted by the LED filament after lighting is different from a color of the light conversion layer. This application has the characteristics of uniform light emission and good heat dissipation effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tao Jiang, Lin Zhou, Ming-Bin Wang, Chih-Shan Yu, Rong-Huan Yang, Ji-Feng Xu, Heng Zhao, Jian Lu, Qi Wu
  • Publication number: 20240118660
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide example holographic recording media, holographic polymer materials, methods for preparing holographic polymer materials, and display devices. An example holographic recording medium includes a first-order crosslinked network, a photoinitiator, and a second-order monomer. The first-order crosslinked network provides a mechanical support for the holographic recording medium. The second-order monomer includes a monomer with a free radical reactivity. The photoinitiator is used to initiate polymerization of the second-order monomer. The holographic recording medium includes at least one of an ester group (I), a urethane group (II), a carbamido group (III), an allophanate group (IV), or an amide group (V). Groups linked to the ester group (I), the urethane group (II), the carbamido group (III), the allophanate group (IV), and the amide group (V) are separately selected from at least one of the following: alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl, or aryl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Haiyan PENG, Shaoqin XU, Xiaolin XIE, Xingping ZHOU, Ming YAO, Botong QIU
  • Patent number: 11952305
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for processing an optical fiber includes: drawing an optical fiber through a draw furnace, conveying the optical fiber through a flame reheating device downstream from the draw furnace, wherein the flame reheating device comprises one or more burners each comprising: a body having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, an opening within the body extending from the top surface through the body to the bottom surface, wherein the optical fiber passes through the opening, and one or more gas outlets within the body; and igniting a flammable gas provided by the one or more gas outlets to form a flame encircling the optical fiber passing through the opening, wherein the flame heats the optical fiber by at least 100 degrees Celsius at a heating rate exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius/second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ravindra Kumar Akarapu, Joel Patrick Carberry, David Alan Deneka, Steven Akin Dunwoody, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, John Michael Jewell, Yuanjie Jiang, Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Ming-Jun Li, Barada Kanta Nayak, Dale Robert Powers, Chunfeng Zhou, Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti, Christopher Scott Thomas
  • Patent number: 11947914
    Abstract: In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an approach for fact checking based on semantic graphs. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, after obtaining a text to be fact checked, a plurality of evidence sentences related to the text are retrieved from an evidence database. Then, semantic graphs of the text and the evidence sentences are constructed based on the semantic analysis, and a veracity of a statement in the text can be determined based on the semantic graphs. Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a graph-based reasoning approach for fact checking, and use the constructed semantic graphs to facilitate verification of the truthfulness of the text, thereby improving the accuracy for fact checking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Duyu Tang, Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Jiun-Hung Chen, Pengcheng Wang, Ying Qiao
  • Patent number: 11931483
    Abstract: Inserts can be formed with elution characteristics to cause the inserts to elute an antimicrobial agent when subject to a fluid within a medical device. An insert can be formed with a desired geometry to allow the insert to be compression fit within a medical device to prevent the insert from moving or becoming dislodged once inserted into the medical device. The material may also be hygroscopic so that the insert swells when subject to a fluid thereby enhancing the compression fit of the device within the medical device. In some cases, the material can be reinforced using an internal structure. Inserts can be formed in many ways including by casting, thermoforming, or extrusion. In some cases, the inserts can be formed using a peel-away sleeve or material. The peel-away sleeves can be formed of a non-sticky material which facilitates removal of the inserts once the inserts have cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Siddarth K. Shevgoor, Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Huibin Liu, Yiping Ma, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240085717
    Abstract: Disclosed are a super-resolution imaging system (1, 41, 51), a super-resolution imaging method, a biological sample identification system (4, 61) and method, a nucleic acid sequencing imaging system (5) and method, and a nucleic acid identification system (6) and method. The super-resolution imaging system (1, 41, 51) includes an illumination system (A) and an imaging system (B). The illumination system (A) outputs excitation light to irradiate a biological sample to generate excited light, and the imaging system (B) collects and records the excited light to generate an excited light image. The illumination system (A) includes an excitation light source (10, 10a) and a structured light generation and modulation device (11, 11a). The excitation light source (10, 10a) outputs the excitation light, and the structured light generation and modulation device (11, 11a) modulates the excitation light into structured light to irradiate the biological sample to generate the excited light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: JIELEI NI, MING NI, FAN ZHOU, ZEYU SU, KE JI, DONG WEI, MENGZHE SHEN, YUANQING LIANG, MEI LI, XUN XU
  • Publication number: 20240090059
    Abstract: A STA in a STA MLD sends an information frame on a link corresponding to the station, and the information frame is used to indicate a STA in an awake state in the STA MLD. An AP MLD receives the information frame, and sends a downlink message frame on a one or more links corresponding to a part of or all of STAs in the awake state in the STA MLD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Ming Gan, Yifan Zhou, Yunbo Li, Yuchen Guo, Jian Yu, Dandan Liang
  • Patent number: 11926787
    Abstract: A well cementing method is described for improving cementing quality by controlling the hydration heat of cement slurry. By controlling the degree and/or rate of hydration heat release from cement slurry, the method improves the hydration heat release during formation of cement with curing of cement slurry, improves the binding quality between the cement and the interfaces, and in turn improves the cementing quality at the open hole section and/or the overlap section. The cementing method improves cementing quality of oil and gas wells and reduces the risk of annular pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: PetroChina Company Limited, CNPC Engineering Technology R&D Company Limited
    Inventors: Shuoqiong Liu, Hua Zhang, Jianzhou Jin, Ming Xu, Yongjin Yu, Fengzhong Qi, Congfeng Qu, Hong Yue, Youcheng Zheng, Wei Li, Yong Ma, Youzhi Zheng, Zhao Huang, Jinping Yuan, Zhiwei Ding, Chongfeng Zhou, Chi Zhang, Zishuai Liu, Hongfei Ji, Yuchao Guo, Xiujian Xia, Yong Li, Jiyun Shen, Huiting Liu, Yusi Feng, Bin Lyu
  • Publication number: 20240079784
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element and a light source module mounted to a flexible printed circuit and a metal cowling. The module may emit light through a rear housing wall. The printed circuit may be interposed between the metal cowling and a conductive support plate in the rear housing wall. The printed circuit may include a ground trace coupled to the resonating element. A dimpled pad may couple the ground trace to the support plate. Compressive foam may be used to exert a force against the flexible printed circuit that presses the dimpled pad against the conductive support plate. The ground trace and the dimpled pad may form a return path to ground for the resonating element. The dimpled pad may occupy less height within the device than other structures such as metal springs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Han Wang, Victor C. Lee, Jingni Zhong, Ming Chen, Bhaskara R. Rupakula, Yiren Wang, Yuan Tao, Christopher Q. Ma, Zhiheng Zhou, Sherry Cao, Kevin M. Froese, Hao Xu, Hongfei Hu, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11923041
    Abstract: A device includes a memory array, bit line pairs, word lines, a modulation circuit and a control signal generator. The memory array has bit cells arranged in rows and columns. Each bit line pair is connected to a respective column of bit cells. Each word line is connected to a respective row of bit cells. The modulation circuit is coupled with at least one bit line pair. The control signal generator is coupled with the modulation circuit. The control signal generator includes a tracking wiring with a tracking length positively correlated with a depth distance of the word lines. The control signal generator is configured to produce a control signal, switching to a first voltage level for a first time duration in reference with the tracking length, for controlling the modulation circuit. A method of controlling aforesaid device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., TSMC NANJING COMPANY LIMITED, TSMC CHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiu-Li Yang, He-Zhou Wan, Mu-Yang Ye, Lu-Ping Kong, Ming-Hung Chang
  • Patent number: 11921782
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution of multi-modal chatting, which may provide response to user query by using multi-modal response in the interaction between chatbot and human beings, so that the expressing ways and the expressed content by the chatbot could be richer by using such response in a multi-modal way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nan Duan, Lei Ji, Ming Zhou
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240069426
    Abstract: A projection curtain is provided in the present invention. The projection curtain at least comprises a reflective layer and one of a colored layer, a diffusion layer, and a Fresnel lens layer. The Fresnel lens layer is a spherical Fresnel lens layer or an aspherical Fresnel lens layer. The Fresnel lens layer comprises a plurality of annular protrusions protruding from a plane, the plurality of annular protrusions are arranged in circular bands. A cross-sectional shape of each annular protrusion along a cross section perpendicular to the plane is a triangular shape or a multi-step shape or a free surface shape. The width of one side of each cross-sectional shape parallel to the plane gradually changes, and gradual change of the cross-sectional shape and the width thereof determines light gathering characteristics of the spherical Fresnel lens layer or the aspherical Fresnel lens layer. A surface of each annular protrusion has scattered microstructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: IVTECH JIANGSU CO., LTD., IVTOUCH CO., LTD., SVG TECH GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohong ZHOU, Ming ZHU, Donglin PU, Pengfei ZHU, Haoshu ZHU, Rubin SUN, Linsen Chen
  • Publication number: 20240053384
    Abstract: A wedge amplitude-modulation probe card and a main body thereof. The probe card includes a probe card main body, upper wedge plates and lower wedge plates. Several upper wedge plates and several lower wedge plates are slidably arranged inside the probe card main body, and the several upper wedge plates and the several lower wedge plates are sequentially arranged at intervals in a staggered manner, so that by means of inserting different numbers of upper wedge plates between the lower wedge plates, probes on the upper wedge plates can be inserted into or shifted out of a probe queue thereunder, so as to increase or decrease the number of probes for testing, and thus, the testing amplitude of a single probe card can be adjusted, such that the probe card has universality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: MAXONE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haichao YU, Ming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240049056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to terminal devices, multi-link communication methods, and chips. In one example method, when a terminal device supports Wi-Fi and D2D (for example, V2X) communication, the terminal device may communicate with another terminal device in a multi-link collaborative transmission manner such as a Wi-Fi link and a D2D link to implement multi-link accelerated transmission in a local area network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Haw-Wei SHU, Tongbo WANG, Ming ZHOU, Ronggui XIE
  • Patent number: 11894399
    Abstract: Hyperspectral resonant cavity imaging spectrometers and imaging systems incorporating the resonant cavity spectrometers are provided. The spectrometers include an array of photodetectors based on photosensitive semiconductor nanomembranes disposed between two dielectric spacers, each of the dielectric spacers having a thickness gradient along a lateral direction, such that the resonant cavity height differs for different photodetectors in the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Zhenqiang Ma, Zhenyang Xia, Ming Zhou, Qiaoqiang Gan, Zongfu Yu
  • Publication number: 20240033652
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides processes and systems for ethanol production. In one embodiment, a first beer column receives a first portion of a feed mixture including ethanol and water to form a first beer column bottom stream and a first beer column vaporous overhead stream. A beer column receives a second portion of the feed mixture. A first portion of the first beer column bottom stream is forwarded to a first beer column reboiler. A second portion of the first beer column bottom stream is forwarded to a plurality of evaporators. A condensed portion of the first beer column vaporous overhead stream is forwarded to a stripper column. The stripper column forms a feed stream, which is contacted with a separation system, thereby forming a permeate and a retentate. The permeate is forwarded directly to at least one selected from the first beer column and the stripper column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Whitefox Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Virginia Andrade, Jin Ming ZHOU, Stephan Rudiger BLUM
  • Patent number: 11882521
    Abstract: A mode switching method in a WI-FI network includes after a terminal device accesses a WI-FI network, the terminal device communicates, in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mode, with an access point that provides an access service of the WI-FI network. The terminal device obtains first received signal strength and a first throughput of the WI-FI network in the MIMO mode, and when the first received signal strength is greater than a first strength threshold and the first throughput is less than a first throughput threshold, the terminal device switches from the MIMO mode to the single-input single-output (SISO) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tongbo Wang, Ming Zhou, Ji Ding
  • Publication number: 20240022646
    Abstract: A chaos engineering experimentation method for a system, a device and a storage medium. Minimum experimental traffic of a service request required by a chaos engineering experiment is determined as target service request traffic; service request traffic is adjusted for a canary cluster in a to-be-tested server cluster according to the target service request traffic, where the canary cluster is a cluster formed by servers in the to-be-tested server cluster, the servers being used for canary release when a service is upgraded; an experimental task of the chaos engineering experiment is executed in the canary cluster, and an experimental result is outputted. The chaos engineering experiment is conducted on the canary cluster, and the service request traffic of the canary cluster is adjusted to the minimum experimental traffic of the service request required by the chaos engineering experiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Weijie NI, Jinlie LIN, Ming ZHOU