Patents by Inventor Minhua Hu

Minhua Hu 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: 11931225
    Abstract: One or more embodiments include antimicrobial bandages with nanostructures, formation thereof, and usage thereof to facilitate wound healing. In one embodiment, a bandage apparatus that facilitates healing a wound is provided. The bandage apparatus includes a substrate having an attachment mechanism that facilitates removably attaching the substrate to a part of a body having the wound. The bandage apparatus also includes a nanostructure film provided on a surface of the substrate and configured to contact the wound when the substrate is attached to the part of the body having the wound, wherein the nanostructure film includes a plurality of nanostructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Huan Hu, Minhua Lu, Vince Siu, Gustavo Alejandro Stolovitzky
  • Publication number: 20240062582
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for dynamic recognition of emotion based on facial muscle movement monitoring, including: obtaining muscle movement data on one side and continuous frame images on the other side; obtaining multiple emotional states related to emotions, associating each emotional state with its corresponding continuous frame images, associating each emotional state with the muscle movement data corresponding to the continuous frame images at the same location and at the same time, to form a training set, building an emotion recognition model; inputting the muscle movement data and continuous frame images obtained in real time into the emotion recognition model to obtain a corresponding emotional state. This method builds an emotion recognition model through muscle movement data and continuous frame image, and uses motion data to make up for the parts of small action images that cannot be collected, thereby obtaining accurate emotion detection results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Air Force Medical University
    Inventors: Shengjun Wu, Xufeng Liu, Zhikang Zou, Xuefeng Wang, Xiang Xu, Ping Wei, Xiuchao Wang, Hui Wang, Peng Fang, Kangning Xie, Guoxin Li, Minhua Hu