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: 11727270
    Abstract: A method and system for training a text-to-content recommendation ML model includes training a first ML model using a first training data set, utilizing the trained first ML model to infer information about the data contained in the first training data set, collecting the inferred information to generate a second training data set, and utilizing the first training data set and the second training data set to train a second ML model. The second ML model may be a text-to-content recommendation ML model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ji Li, Amit Srivastava, Xingxing Zhang, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230255118
    Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes providing a substrate, where the substrate includes a conductive layer therein, and a surface of the substrate exposes a surface of the conductive layer; forming a groove adjacent to the conductive layer in the substrate, where the groove exposes a portion of a sidewall surface of the conductive layer; and forming a lower electrode layer in the groove and on a top surface of the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventor: Ming ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11718652
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a recombinant fusion protein comprising a fragment of the cardioprotective protein neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) fused to a monoclonal antibody (mAb) backbone and to a method of treating a disease or condition in a subject in need thereof comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of the recombinant fusion protein or the pharmaceutical composition comprising the recombinant fusion protein disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: Salubris Biotherapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: John Li, Shengwei Li, Dixiang Luo, Yiran Wu, Ming Zhou, Yang Wang, Xiaolei Zhuang, Liang Hua, Pengyi Luo
  • Patent number: 11705096
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution that enables a machine to automatically generate a melody. In this solution, user emotion and/or environment information is used to select a first melody feature parameter from a plurality of melody feature parameters, wherein each of the plurality of melody feature parameters corresponds to a music style of one of a plurality of reference melodies. The first melody feature parameter is further used to generate a first melody that conforms to the music style and is different from the reference melody. Thus, a melody that matches user emotions and/or environmental information may be automatically created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shaohan Huang, Lei Cui, Tao Ge, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11693894
    Abstract: In implementations of the subject matter described herein, a new approach for presenting a response to a message in a conversation is proposed. Generally speaking, in response to receiving a message in a conversation, the received message will be matched with one or more documents on the sentence basis. That is, the received message is compared with the sentences from a document(s), rather than predefined query-response pairs. In this way, a whole sentence may be selected from the document as a candidate response. Then the suitability of this sentence with respect to the ongoing conversation will be determined, and the response will be generated and rendered in an adaptive way based on the suitability. As a result, the user experiences may be significantly enhanced in the chatbot scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nan Duan, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230194446
    Abstract: An X-ray-based test device for a plugging removal effect of a sulfur dissolvent on a sulfur deposition rock sample includes a constant speed and pressure pump, a first intermediate container, a second intermediate container, a first pressure transmitter, a core holder, a second pressure transmitter, a first electric pump, a third intermediate container, a back-pressure valve, a gas flow meter, an H2S neutralization tank, a second electric pump, a back-pressure transmitter, a confining pressure transmitter, an X-ray generator, an X-ray detector and a thermotank. A sour gas sample is placed in the first intermediate container, and nitrogen is filled in the second intermediate container. The sulfur dissolvent is placed into the third intermediate container. A confining pressure inlet is formed in the core holder. The test device may be used for evaluating the plugging removal effect of the sulfur dissolvent injected into the sulfur deposition rock sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Southwest Petroleum University
    Inventors: Xiao GUO, Pengkun WANG, Tao LI, Jingjing MA, Changqing JIA, Li ZHOU, Ming ZHOU, Yi HE, Bing KONG, Linkai LI, Lan WANG
  • Patent number: 11672871
    Abstract: Provided herein are oligonucleotides, peptides, and peptide-oligonucleotide-conjugates. Also provided herein are methods of treating a muscle disease, a viral infection, or a bacterial infection in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject oligonucleotides, peptides, and peptide-oligonucleotide-conjugates described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Gunnar J. Hanson, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230171248
    Abstract: A password recovery method, system, cloud server and electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Ming ZHOU, Kezhang LIN
  • Patent number: 11665972
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, and a conductive layer in the substrate and having a surface exposed by the substrate. A groove is formed in the substrate and adjacent to the conductive layer, and a sidewall of the groove exposes a portion of a sidewall surface of the conductive layer. The semiconductor structure also includes a lower electrode layer located in the groove and on a top surface of the conductive layer. The lower electrode layer covers the top surface and the portion of the sidewall surface of the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (BEIJING) CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230150959
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition contains tizoxanide and choline hydroxide, a choline salt of tizoxanide and crystal form thereof. A mixture of tizoxanide and choline hydroxide, or a salt thereof and crystal form of the salt significantly improve the solubility and bioavailability of tizoxanide, and exhibits favorable effects in drugs for treating viruses, fibrosis, bacteria, tumors and intestinal parasites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Bohua ZHONG, Ming ZHOU, Hongwu LI
  • Publication number: 20230147131
    Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method, apparatus and system, so as to copy data in a system memory to a sending queue of a first communications module through a system bus, and then send the data to a second terminal based on the first communications module. Device to device communication, directly through system memory copying and MAC/PHY layer 2 forwarding, greatly optimizes load and delay of Wi-Fi packet forwarding, which can effectively reduce time spent on data transmission of device to device services, effectively reduce system load, reduce transmission delay, and increase the Wi-Fi throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Ming ZHOU, Yuren XIAO, Haw-Wei SHU, Tongbo WANG
  • Publication number: 20230137593
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a radar reflector configured for radar-based distance measurements for determining a position of an elevator car within an elevator shaft. The radar reflector comprises three or more triangular panels defining a pyramidal frustum volume having a base plane and an upper plane that are parallel. The pyramidal frustum volume is configured to directly reflect radar signals originating from a radar transceiver back to the radar transceiver based at least in part on the triangular panels being mutually perpendicular at a projected apex above the upper plane. The reflected radar signals reflected by the radar reflector have substantially parallel trajectories with the original, pre-reflected radar signals emitted by the radar transceiver. The triangular panels of the radar reflector being mutually perpendicular advantageously maintains direct reflection of radar signals in spite of any potential horizontal tilt of the radar reflector to a certain extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: En Yi CHEN, Yang LU, Ming Zhou YAN
  • Patent number: 11639687
    Abstract: A method of purging fuel injectors of a gas turbine engine, the fuel injectors fluidly connected to a fuel manifold and having primary and secondary fuel passages fluidly connectable to the fuel manifold, the method includes: selectively fluidly disconnecting one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages from the fuel manifold; and purging the one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages by injecting a purging fluid into the one or more of the primary and secondary fuel passages while bypassing the fuel manifold. A fuel injector having two fuel passages, a flow divider valve, and a purging valve is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Joseph Cirtwill, Jian-Ming Zhou, Kian McCaldon
  • Publication number: 20230123549
    Abstract: A distillation and dehydration system is provided that produces an anhydrous organic solvent. The provided system includes vapor recompression (e.g., a mechanical or thermal vapor recompression unit) to recover heat from a rectification-distillation section (e.g., a rectifier/stripper column). The addition of vapor recompression enables further heat recovery within a stream by increasing the condensation temperature and pressure of that stream and later using its latent heat by condensing it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: WHITEFOX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jin Ming ZHOU, Thiago Righi, Chenxu Shi, Stephan BLUM, Virginia Andrade
  • Publication number: 20230076387
    Abstract: Methods and systems for linking comments to portions of content items. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network and receives a comment associated with the content item, the comment produced by one of the other computing devices. In response to receiving the information and the comment, the computing device predicts a subsection of the content item to link to the received comment based at least on details associated with the content item and the comment, then makes information associated with the predicted subsection of the content item available to other computing devices requesting access to the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Furu WEI, Ming ZHOU, Yang LIU, Ziqiang CAO, Shaohan HUANG, Li DONG, Lei CUI
  • Publication number: 20230060079
    Abstract: A surface modifying coating for an article that includes a first component having a surface in frictional engagement with a surface of a second component. At least a portion of a surface of one of the components is coated with a coating including a mixture of at least two silicones: (i) a hydrolyzable organopolysiloxane with a viscosity of less than or equal to 1,000 centistokes and that is capable of crosslinking reaction upon exposure to moisture at ambient temperature; and (ii) a second organopolysiloxane copolymerizable with the first hydrolyzable organopolysiloxane and having viscosity of greater than or equal to 5,000 centistoke; wherein the coating provides a maximum break loose force equal to or less than three times a kinetic extrusion force such that stiction is reduced between engaged surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Hospira, Inc.
    Inventors: Yann-Per Lee, Benjamin L. Rush, Ming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11572405
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for the clinical treatment of tumors (e.g., advanced solid tumors) in patients having certain levels of serum IL-8 using an anti-IL-8 antibody in combination with an anti-PD-1 antibody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Michael Carleton, David Feltquate, Olivier De Henau, Timothy Patrick Reilly, Tian Chen, Ye Feng, Shu-Pang Ben Huang, Ming Zhou, Ramachandran Suresh
  • Patent number: 11544474
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide a solution for generating a text from the structured data. In this solution, the structured data is converted into its representation, where the structured data comprises a plurality of cells, and the representation of the structured data comprises plurality of representations of the plurality of cells. A natural language sentence associated with the structured data may be determined based on the representation of the structured data, thereby implementing the function of converting the structured data into a text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nan Duan, Yuanhua Lv, Ming Zhou, Duyu Tang
  • Publication number: 20220410028
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides processes and systems for heat integration in ethanol production. In one embodiment, a feed mixture is distilled with one or more distillation units to remove at least a portion of the water, and form a distillation unit bottom stream, a vaporous overhead stream, and a fusel oil stream. Molecular sieve units are regenerated by vacuum or a combination of vacuum and optionally a portion of the product stream to form one or more regenerate streams. A feed tank is configured to receive at least one selected from a condensed portion of the regenerate streams and a portion of a vaporous depressure stream, to form a feed stream. The energy contained in the depressure vapor is recovered by the depressure vapor contacting the feed tank and heating up at least one stream forwarded into the feed tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Whitefox Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Virginia ANDRADE, Jin Ming ZHOU, Stephan RĂ¼diger BLUM
  • Patent number: D974819
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Ming Zhou