Patents by Inventor Nan Zhou

Nan 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: 12268139
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a water recycling type greenhouse, including a greenhouse body; a water collection device is arranged in the greenhouse body; the water collection device is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet; a condensation portion and a reheating portion are arranged in the water collection device; and the water recycling type greenhouse further includes an energy supply system. Air in the greenhouse body can be poured into the water collection device from the air inlet, flow through the condensation portion and the reheating portion in sequence, and finally be discharged into the greenhouse body again from the air outlet. When the heated air is discharged into the greenhouse body again, a decrease of the temperature of the greenhouse is not likely to occur, and normal growth of plants is not easily affected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
    Inventors: Wanlai Zhou, Qichang Yang, Zhiyong Qi, Wei Lu, Bo Zhou, Nan Wang
  • Publication number: 20250101445
    Abstract: Provided herein are promoters and related compositions and methods of use. Such promoters are useful for expression cassettes for plants, such as soybean. Such expression cassettes are useful, e.g., to drive expression of trait genes in plants, such as soybean. In some aspects, the disclosure provides an expression cassette comprising a promoter, a 5? UTR, and an intron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Zhongying Chen, Nan Zhou, Joseph Dallas Clarke V, Qiudeng Que
  • Patent number: 12260338
    Abstract: A transformer-based neural network includes at least one mask attention network (MAN). The MAN computes an original attention data structure that expresses influence between pairs of data items in a sequence of data items. The MAN then modifies the original data structure by mask values in a mask data structure, to produce a modified attention data structure. Compared to the original attention data structure, the modified attention data structure better accounts for the influence of neighboring data items in the sequence of data items, given a particular data item under consideration. The mask data structure used by the MAN can have static and/or machine-trained mask values. In one implementation, the transformer-based neural network includes at least one MAN in combination with at least one other attention network that does not use a mask data structure, and at least one feed-forward neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jian Jiao, Yeyun Gong, Nan Duan, Ruofei Zhang, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20250086406
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure relate to text generation with a customizable style. In a method, a first natural language is received; the first natural language text is converted, via a text generation model, into a second natural language text that at least partly reflects the meaning of the first natural language text and has a style distinguishable from the first natural language text, the text generation model comprising a modifiable parameter; and in response to receiving a modification to the parameter, the first natural language text is converted, via the text generation model, into a third natural language text that at least partly reflects the meaning of the first natural language text and includes a style distinguishable from both the first natural language text and the second natural language text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Nan Duan, Ming Zhou, Yaobo Liang
  • Patent number: 12248934
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a resource transfer data management method and apparatus, and a storage medium, which belong to the field of Internet technologies. The method includes: receiving transaction data transmitted by a first server, wherein the transaction data is obtained by the first server by signing resource transfer data according to a private key of the first server; verifying the transaction data according to a public key of the first server; and generating a second block according to the transaction data and a feature value of a first block in a blockchain when the verification succeeds, and adding the second block as a next block of the first block to the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Rui Guo, Maocai Li, Zongyou Wang, Haitao Tu, Li Kong, Kaiban Zhou, Changqing Yang, Nan Wang, Yong Ding, Yifang Shi
  • Publication number: 20250079453
    Abstract: A negative electrode plate, a secondary battery, and an electronic apparatus are provided. The negative electrode plate includes a metal foil, a first conductive coating, and a first active material layer. The metal foil includes a first surface. The first conductive coating is applied on the first surface. The first active material layer is disposed on a surface of the first conductive coating facing away from the first surface. A thickness of the first conductive coating is h, and ten-point average roughness of the first surface is Rz1, satisfying 0.5?Rz1/h?0.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Ningde Amperex Technology Limited
    Inventors: Yahuan Zhou, Nan Jiang
  • Publication number: 20250071040
    Abstract: Flexible scheduling, self-healing, high-utilization strong stability for cellular network communications are discussed. Cellular network communication settings and strategies are developed with communication interval, transmit power data rate, channel delay, spectrum occupancy, source coding, receiving sensitivity, channel coding, signal-to-noise ratio, packet loss rate, channel occupancy rate, reception frequencies frequency band size of data package transmission frequencies, data package structure, modulation scheme, information coding scheme, antenna configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Tiejun Wang, Tiehong Wang, Chengshuang Yang, Guang Zhang, Wei Zhang, Nan Zhou, Hao Weng, Tonghui Sun, Tao Liu
  • Patent number: 12235898
    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: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nan Duan, Lei Ji, Ming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20250060856
    Abstract: Mechanisms for performing cross-screen movement operations in a multiple display device computer configuration are provided. An input is received, from a user interface device, that specifies a movement of a displayed element on a first display screen of the multiple display device computer configuration. A path of motion of the displayed element is calculated and compared to a junction margin of the first display screen to determine if the path of motion intersects the junction margin. In response to the path of motion intersecting the junction margin, the displayed element is placed at a first point of the junction margin. In response to receiving a subsequent input having a subsequent path of motion that intersects the junction margin, performing a cross-screen movement operation moving the displayed element to an end point of the subsequent path of motion in the second display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Hui Gao, Yue Chen, Yanfeng Shi, Hai Jun Xu, Huai Nan Zhou, Ying Yu
  • Patent number: 12229879
    Abstract: An image rendering method and a related apparatus, terminal and storage medium that: obtains a low-resolution first shadow map and a high-resolution second shadow map of a target virtual object, determines a first texel range of each texel and a central point in the first shadow map, performs scaling processing, based on the central point, on the first texel range by using a scaling coefficient to obtain a second texel range, and performs shadow rendering on the target virtual object according to the second texel range. A shadow map-based image rendering process is implemented, and since a calculation amount of determining a map position according to a low-resolution map is relatively small, image rendering efficiency is improved. Additionally, rendering of a high-resolution shadow map is completed, generation of edge aliasing is avoided, and an image rendering effect is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Huabing Xu, Shun Cao, Nan Wei, Xiaochun Cui, Congbing Li, Rongxin Zhou, Wenyan Li
  • Publication number: 20250052607
    Abstract: A method for determining natural illumination duration and an electronic device are provided, to more accurately determine a scenario in which a user is located and effectively determine natural illumination duration, to help the user improve vision. The method is applied to an electronic device having a display screen and includes: determining a current scenario based on a preset reference factor (S901), where the preset reference factor includes any one or more of ultraviolet intensity, illumination intensity, and locating signal strength; and counting current natural illumination duration towards cumulative natural illumination duration if the current scenario is a preset scenario (S902), where the preset scenario includes any one or more of an outdoor scenario, an indoor near-window scenario, and an outdoor blocked scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Chunyong HE, Nan LU, Jie ZHOU
  • Patent number: 12217144
    Abstract: A deep state space generative model is augmented with intervention prediction. The state space model provides a principled way to capture the interactions among observations, interventions, critical event occurrences, true states, and associated uncertainty. The state space model can include a discrete-time hazard rate model that provides flexible fitting of general survival time distributions. The state space model can output a joint prediction of event risk, observation and intervention trajectories based on patterns in temporal progressions, and correlations between past measurements and interventions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yuan Xue, Dengyong Zhou, Nan Du, Andrew Mingbo Dai, Zhen Xu, Kun Zhang, Yingwei Cui
  • Patent number: 12211267
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, medium and device for extracting a river drying-up region and frequency, and belongs to the technical field of remote sensing. The method for extracting a river drying-up region and frequency can be applied to efficiently acquiring river drying-up information for a long time within the large spatial region. With the inverse normalized difference water index (iNDWI) and the maximum value composite (MVC) method for the remote sensing images, the present disclosure omits the troublesome step of separately extracting a river range for each image in the conventional method. In addition, the present disclosure quickly obtains the drying-up frequency by counting the total number of available images and the number of non-water images at the same pixel position, and yields a greater efficiency for extracting the river drying-up region and frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: Satellite Application Center for Ecology and Environment, MEE, Wuhan University
    Inventors: Chen Wang, Jixi Gao, Chao Wang, Jianhui Zhang, Xuelei Wang, Yihuang Nie, Xing Jia, Huan Zhao, Shoujing Yin, Qian Zhao, Xiaogang Zhang, Yanting Wu, Dan Xu, Hao Sun, Nan Wang, Hongyan Yang, Bin Meng, Yaming Zhou
  • Patent number: 12195735
    Abstract: Provided herein are promoters and related compositions and methods of use. Such promoters are useful for expression cassettes for plants, such as soybean. Such expression cassettes are useful, e.g., to drive expression of trait genes in plants, such as soybean. In some aspects, the disclosure provides an expression cassette comprising a promoter, a 5? UTR, and an intron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventors: Zhongying Chen, Nan Zhou, Joseph Dallas Clarke, V, Qiudeng Que
  • Publication number: 20240398371
    Abstract: An ultrasound imaging method, including: using a probe to perform real-time ultrasound imaging on a site to be imaged so as to generate an ultrasound image of the site to be imaged; receiving a location selection on the ultrasound image from an input device; acquiring blood flow information at the selected location on the ultrasound image; and on the basis of the blood flow information at the selected location, in real time, controlling the input device to generate force feedback. Other embodiments of the present application further provide an ultrasound imaging system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Renjie Dai, Nan Zhou, Jintao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11951647
    Abstract: Provided is a node diaphragm scraping and sorting device for a bamboo split, which is configured to scrape node diaphragms of the bamboo splits and to sequentially sort the bamboo inner layers and bamboo outer layers of the bamboo splits towards the same direction. The device includes a scraping device, a sorting device and a clamping and conveying device which are arranged from front to back along an axis. The scraping device includes a conical cylinder, two pressing semi-rings, and a scraping ring. The sorting device includes an e-shaped sleeve composed of an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder, and two shifting forks located at both ends of the sleeve. The clamping and conveying device includes an inner ring moving on the axis, two clamping semi-rings and a conveying power device. The structure, function and technical parameters of each branch device are also introduced in detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Nanjing Forestry University, JM Industries Group, Fujian Shuangyi Bamboo and Wood Development Co Ltd
    Inventors: Jiabin Cai, Shuai Cao, Minghan Li, Nan Zhou, Chang Liu, Pengyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11928145
    Abstract: Methods for creating a knowledge graph for a video are disclosed. Aspects include obtaining the video, processing the video to extract audio information and video information, and storing the extracted audio information and video information with a timestamp corresponding its occurrence in the video. Aspects also include creating a plurality of groups of the extracted audio information and video information based at least in part on the timestamps and extracting two or more keywords from each of the plurality of groups. Aspects further include identifying a relationship between the two or more keywords based on the extracted audio information and video information and creating a graph having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links that connect a pair of nodes of the plurality of nodes. Each node corresponds to an extracted keyword and each link corresponds to the identified relationship between the pair of nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yanfeng Shi, Hui Gao, Yue Chen, Yuan Yuan Ding, Hai Jun Xu, Huai Nan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240065501
    Abstract: A cleaning robot includes a housing, a dust box and a dust extraction duct. The housing is enclosed to form a mounting chamber and is provided with a dust outlet. The dust box is arranged in the mounting chamber and configured to collect dust, and the dust box is provided with a dust collection port and a dust extraction port. The dust collection port and the dust extraction port are respectively disposed on two sides of a centerline of the dust box. One end of the dust extraction duct communicates with the dust extraction port, and the other end of the dust extraction duct is connected to the dust outlet of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: XUE LIANG, JUN YANG, QUANLONG LU, WUJI ZHANG, JUNJIAN HUANG, NAN ZHOU, DINGRUI LU, LIRONG YE
  • Patent number: 11890386
    Abstract: Disinfecting particulate material includes combining the particulate material with a photocatalyst to yield a mixture, irradiating the mixture for a length of time with pulses from a light source having broadband emission spectrum between 190 nm-1100 nm to yield an irradiated mixture, and separating the photocatalyst from the disinfected mixture to yield the disinfected particulate matter. Irradiating the mixture inactivates microorganisms in the mixture to yield a disinfected mixture. A system for disinfecting particulate material includes a pulsed light source having a broadband emission spectrum in a range between about 190 nm and about 1100 nm, a chamber defining a cavity optically coupled to the pulsed light source, a humidifier, a fan, and one or more sensors. The chamber includes a conveyor configured to accept the particulate material and arranged such that the pulses emitted by the pulsed light source irradiate the particulate material on the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Rongsheng Ruan, Yanling Cheng, Nan Zhou, Dongjie Chen, Peng Peng, Yunpu Wang, Renchuan Zhang, Charles Schiappacasse, Ling Chen
  • Publication number: 20230404863
    Abstract: A microneedle patch and a preparation method therefor are disclosed. The microneedle patch includes a base and a number of needles arranged on a surface of the base. The needles are dissolvable pointed bodies and contain a composition with cosmetic effects. The composition includes astaxanthin, hydrophilically modified resveratrol, collagen and hyaluromic acid. The method includes the steps of: pouring an aqueous solution of the composition into a mold; vacuumizing the mold; removing water therefrom; and demoulding the mold, thereby obtaining the microneedle patch. The present invention provides a variety of advantages including high safety, high stability, good absorption into the skin and obvious cosmetic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Bing LI, Qinghui JIANG, Nan ZHOU, Ping YAN