Patents by Inventor Nan Zhang

Nan Zhang 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: 20240381130
    Abstract: This application provides an information transmitting method and an information transmitting apparatus, which relate to the field of communications technology. The method of this application is applied in establishing, by a remote UE, a communication with a network-side device through a relay UE. The method includes: obtaining first relevant information generated during a communication process; and transmitting the first relevant information to a network-side device. The first relevant information includes one or more of the following: information of the relay UE; information of the remote UE; identification information of a serving cell; time information; measurement information; cause information; type information corresponding to the communication process; a condition for triggering a successful handover report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingzhu ZHANG, Nan YAN, Xue YAN
  • Publication number: 20240379325
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing charged particle flooding in a charged particle beam apparatus are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a charged particle beam system includes a charged particle source and a controller which controls the charged particle beam system to emit a charged particle beam in a first mode where the beam is defocused and a second mode where the beam is focused on a surface of a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Frank Nan ZHANG, Zhongwei CHEN, Yixiang WANG, Ying Crystal SHEN
  • Publication number: 20240381071
    Abstract: Wireless communication methods and corresponding apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The wireless communication method comprises transmitting, from a first communication node to a second communication node, user equipment (UE) subscription information, wherein the UE subscription information is used to indicate if the UE is allowed to use an aerial UE function. Other methods are disclosed in this disclosure, which improve the functionality of a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Mengjie ZHANG, He HUANG, Jing LIU, Jianxun AI, Nan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240378441
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network to perform any one or more of a variety of machine learning tasks. For example, the neural network can be configured as a generative neural network, e.g., an autoregressive generative neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Slav Petrov, Yonghui Wu, Andrew M. Dai, David Richard So, Dmitry Lepikhin, Erica Ann Moreira, Gaurav Mishra, Jonathan Hudson Clark, Maxim Krikun, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Nan Du, Orhan Firat, Rohan Anil, Siamak Shakeri, Xavier Garcia, Yanping Huang, Yong Cheng, Yuanzhong Xu, Yujing Zhang, Zachary Alexander Nado, Eric Jun Jie Ni, Kefan Xiao, Vladimir Feinberg, Jin Young Sohn, Aurko Roy
  • Publication number: 20240381044
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems and methods for managing a first earpiece and a second earpiece for presenting an audio stream from a wireless device. Various embodiments may include monitoring a battery level of the first earpiece and a battery level of the second earpiece, determining whether the battery level of the first earpiece meets a threshold, and configuring the wireless device to send a monophonic audio stream to the second earpiece in response to determining that the battery level of the first earpiece meets the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Yongjun XU, Weipeng FU
  • Publication number: 20240378427
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network to perform any one or more of a variety of machine learning tasks. For example, the neural network can be configured as a generative neural network, e.g., an autoregressive generative neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Slav Petrov, Yonghui Wu, Andrew M. Dai, David Richard So, Dmitry Lepikhin, Erica Ann Moreira, Gaurav Mishra, Jonathan Hudson Clark, Maxim Krikun, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Nan Du, Orhan Firat, Rohan Anil, Siamak Shakeri, Xavier Garcia, Yanping Huang, Yong Cheng, Yuanzhong Xu, Yujing Zhang, Zachary Alexander Nado, Eric Jun Jie Ni, Kefan Xiao, Vladimir Feinberg, Jin Young Sohn, Aurko Roy
  • Publication number: 20240373488
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to network-controllable repeater management, including establishing a first communication link between a first network node and a second network node, communicating, by the second network node with the first network node via the first communication link, and communicating, by the second network node with a third network node via a second communication link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei CAO, Nan ZHANG, Ziyang LI, Jianwu DOU, Shuang ZHENG
  • Patent number: 12136968
    Abstract: Provided are a positioning method, device and system for a transmitting device, and a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes that: control information is determined by a receiving device, wherein the control information includes temporal information and control direction information, and the control direction information is used for instructing a meta-surface control unit to adjust a reflection coefficient of a meta-surface to a target reflection coefficient corresponding to a preset direction within a target time period; a pilot signal is transmitted to the meta-surface by a transmitting device; the control information is sent to the meta-surface control unit by the receiving device; and a signal measurement result corresponding to the preset direction is determined, and the transmitting device is positioned according to the preset direction and the signal measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianwu Dou, Min Fang, Yijian Chen, Nan Zhang, Lin Peng
  • Publication number: 20240365324
    Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving control signaling. The method include determining second information according to first information, where the second information includes at least one of: the number N of bits used in first control signaling to notify a first transmission parameter, a correspondence mapping table between an index value referenced by the first transmission parameter in the first control signaling and the value of the first transmission parameter, the type of the first transmission parameter notified by a predetermined indication field in the first control signaling, or position information of the bits used in the first control signaling to notify the first transmission parameter; and where the first information includes a relationship between a transmission time interval between the first control signaling and a first signal and a predetermined threshold K, where N and K are non-negative integers; and transmitting the first control signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shujuan ZHANG, Yu Ngok LI, Bo GAO, Chuangxin JIANG, Nan ZHANG, Hao WU, Zhaohua LU
  • Publication number: 20240360746
    Abstract: A shale gas formation oxidation induced rock burst stimulation method, the method including: performing hydraulic fracturing stimulation on a shale gas well to be fractured; and in the hydraulic fracturing process, injecting slick water A (f), oxidation fluid (e), slick water containing glue liquid (d), catalytic decomposition fluid (c), and slick water B (b) in a slug mode in sequence, and integrating shale physical characteristics and chemical thermodynamic properties to provide a fracturing fluid usage and the radius of the oxidation induced rock burst calculation formula. According to the method, the methane gas released by the shale gas formation after fracturing by the slick water A (f) is mixed with oxygen generated by the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide in the oxidation solution (e), and the shale gas formation is burst, such that the safe, efficient and damage-free multi-scale yield increasing stimulation of hydraulic fractures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Lijun YOU, Rui QIAN, Qiuyang CHENG, Yili KANG, Nan ZHANG, Yang ZHOU, Yang CHEN, Furong WANG, Daoquan FAN
  • Publication number: 20240364201
    Abstract: A circuit that includes a power transistor and at least one sense transistor and that uses the control drive terminal to not only control the power transistor and the sense transistor, but also to provide power to a current sense circuit. The control nodes of the power transistor and sense transistor are connected, and the input nodes of the power transistor and the sense transistor are also connected. The current sense circuit is connected to the sense transistor control node and is configured to detect current passing through the sense transistor. The current sense circuit is also connected to the control drive terminal and is configured to draw power from the control drive terminal when a high control signal is present on the control drive terminal. Accordingly, the current sense circuit does not require an independent fixed high voltage supply in order to operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Yalong LI, Yinglai XIA, Robert Wayne Mounger, Nan XING, Edward MacRobbie, Zhemin ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12130377
    Abstract: In some aspects, a radar device may receive a received signal comprising a reflected frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar signal and interference. The radar device may identify the reflected FMCW radar signal based at least in part on performing a phase based search procedure to facilitate removing the interference from the received signal. The radar device may perform an action based at least in part on a characteristic of the identified reflected FMCW radar signal. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xinjie Yang, Nan Zhang, Roberto Rimini, Danlu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240356335
    Abstract: A micro-power wind-solar hybrid energy harvesting and power generating device including a solar power generation module, a wind power generation module, a control module, an energy storage module, and an accessory structure are provided. The solar power generation module is mainly composed of a solar thin film cell and a corresponding interface control circuit, and the wind power generation module includes a wind-induced vibration structure, a cantilever beam structure, a piezoelectric element, and a corresponding interface control circuit. The solar thin film cell is mounted at a top of the wind-induced vibration structure, and interface control circuits, the energy storage module, etc. are all arranged inside the wind-induced vibration structure. The control module is configured to handle an energy harvesting and power generating algorithm of the wind-solar hybrid power generating device to maximize the power generation quality and the power generation efficiency of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicants: State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Co.,Ltd. Research Institute, STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD., TAIZHOU POWER SUPPLY BRANCH OF STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD., JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongling LU, Zhen WANG, Chengbo HU, Jinggang YANG, Jun JIA, Guojiang ZHANG, Rong SUN, Hui FU, Rushan WANG, Ting CHEN, Nan YAO, Ziquan LIU, Xueqiong ZHU, Hai XUE
  • Patent number: 12126481
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless communication method comprises determining at least one synchronization value based on at least one time stamp, and transmitting, to a wireless network node, a signal based on the at least one synchronization value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Fangyu Cui, Nan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240345584
    Abstract: Systems and methods for updating navigational maps based using at least one sensor are provided. In one aspect, a control system for an autonomous vehicle, includes a processor and a computer-readable memory configured to cause the processor to: receive output from at least one sensor located on the autonomous vehicle indicative of a driving environment of the autonomous vehicle, retrieve a navigational map used for driving the autonomous vehicle, and detect one or more inconsistencies between the output of the at least one sensor and the navigational map. The computer-readable memory is further configured to cause the processor to: in response to detecting the one or more inconsistencies, trigger mapping of the driving environment based on the output of the at least one sensor, update the navigational map based on the mapped driving environment, and drive the autonomous vehicle using the updated navigational map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Bolun Zhang, Nan Yu
  • Publication number: 20240343447
    Abstract: Provided are a seamless can and a coated metal sheet that can be used to mold the seamless can. The seamless can includes an inner surface coating film at least on a can inner surface side. The inner surface coating film contains a polyester resin and a resol-type phenolic resin and/or an amino resin as a curing agent, and the inner surface coating film has a gel fraction represented by the following formula of 55% or more and less than 90%: Gel fraction=(W2a/W1a)×100 (%). In the formula, W1a represents a mass of the inner surface coating film isolated from a coated metal substrate cut out from the seamless can, and W2a represents a mass of the isolated inner surface coating film after being immersed in MEK at ordinary temperature for 60 minutes and then taken out and dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi YAMAMOTO, Takuya KASHIWAKURA, Arata SAKURAGI, Nan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240344845
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems of maintaining a map suitable for guiding autonomous driving. In some embodiments, the method may include receiving a sensor dataset acquired by a sensor subsystem, wherein: the sensor dataset includes information about a road, the sensor subsystem comprises multiple different types of sensors; determining, by a processor, a confidence level by comparing the sensor dataset and the map that includes prior information about the road; in response to determining that the confidence level exceeds a confidence threshold, processing the map by the processor; and storing the processed map as an electronic file, wherein the processed map is configured to guide an autonomous vehicle to operate on the road.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Wan-Ting HUNG, Anping WANG, Ke XU, Guoxiang ZHAO, Bolun ZHANG, Nan YU
  • Patent number: 12117782
    Abstract: A linear motor motion control method, device, equipment and storage medium. The proposed invention uses an extended state observer constructed in advance based on the model parameters of the linear motor, and performs state estimation based on the total control amount of the linear motor and the actual displacement signal to obtain each observation signal. The phase advance controller is used to improve the estimated lag of the disturbance observation signal, and a model prediction controller built in advance based on the mathematical model of the linear motor is used to perform rolling optimization based on each observation signal to obtain the optimal control amount increment; The total control amount is updated based on the improved disturbance observation signal and the optimal control amount increment, and the corresponding drive signal is output to the drive end of the linear motor based on the updated total control amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lanyu Zhang, Boyu Zhan, Jian Gao, Yachao Liu, Yun Chen, Xin Chen, Nan Huang, Huake Wang, Xuanzhu Chen
  • Publication number: 20240336804
    Abstract: Provided is a seamless can. The seamless can includes an inner surface coating film at least on a can inner surface side. When the inner surface coating film contains a polyester resin and a total amount of polyvalent carboxylic acid components in the polyester resin is 100 mol %, a content of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid is 70 mol % or more. The inner surface coating film has a gel fraction represented by the following formula of less than 90%: Gel fraction=(W2a/W1a)×100 (%), where W1a represents a mass of the inner surface coating film isolated from a coated metal substrate cut out from the seamless can, and W2a represents a mass of the isolated inner surface coating film after being immersed in MEK at ordinary temperature for 60 minutes and then taken out and dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya KASHIWAKURA, Arata SAKURAGI, Hiromi YAMAMOTO, Nan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240340855
    Abstract: A wireless terminal receives a network identifier in a message received on a broadcast channel. The wireless terminal determines that a mobile network code in the network identifier corresponds to a non-terrestrial network. The wireless terminal updates a tracking area list of the wireless terminal by adding or deleting a tracking area identifier corresponding to the non-terrestrial network to the tracking area list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Jianwu DOU, Nan ZHANG, Xiaojuan SHI, Wei CAO, He HUANG, Li YANG