Patents by Inventor Ning Zhang

Ning 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: 20230180131
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) employing different radio access technologies (RATs) concurrently or successively provides the UE the opportunity to select a particular RAT to support an access service used by one or more software applications of the UE. A RAT operational control scheme provides for opportunistic enablement and disablement of a RAT and/or intra-RAT configuration so as to provide sufficient uplink and downlink throughput for supported software applications while reducing unnecessary power consumption by the UE, which often is battery powered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Blake Kragten, Ning Zhang, Madhusudan Kinthada Venkata, Shivank Nayak, Jibing Wang, Siddharth Ray, Qin Zhang, Srinivas Vangaru, Sathish Karunakaran, Xiantao Sun, Simon Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11670012
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for encoding information in a graphic image. The information may be encoded so as to have a visual appearance that adopts a particular style, so that the encoded information is visually pleasing in the environment in which it is displayed. An encoder and decoder are trained during an integrated training process, where the encoder is tuned to minimize a loss when its encoded images are decoded. Similarly, the decoder is also trained to minimize loss when decoding the encoded images. Both the encoder and decoder may utilize a convolutional neural network in some aspects to analyze data and/or images. Once data is encoded, a style from a sample image is transferred to the encoded data. When decoding, the decoder may largely ignore the style aspects of the encoded data and decode based on a content portion of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Drake Austin Rehfeld, Rahul Bhupendra Sheth, Ning Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230167036
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for enhancing plant growth and resistance to abiotic stressors are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
    Inventors: Bingru Huang, Ning Zhang, William Errickson
  • Patent number: 11644405
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dissociation reagent for tumor tissues. The dissociation reagent does not contain collagenase or trypsin but further contains hyaluronidase or a mixture of hyaluronidase and DNase I. The present disclosure also relates to use of the dissociation reagent in dispersing tumor tissues and detecting expression level of molecular markers on cell surface by flow cytometry. The dissociation reagent of the present disclosure does not cause degradation of molecular markers on cell surface such as CD8, PD-1, Tim-3, Lag-3 and the like, thus does not affect downstream assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: WuXi AppTec (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ning Zhang, Qiyao Zhang, Yan Liu, Qunsheng Ji
  • Patent number: 11645834
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for identifying and categorically labeling objects within a set of images. The systems and methods receive an image depicting an object of interest, detect at least a portion of the object of interest within the image using a multilayer object model, determine context information, and identify the object of interest included in two or more bounding boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Han, Jianchao Yang, Ning Zhang, Jia Li
  • Publication number: 20230139076
    Abstract: A method for predicting mtDNA mutation threshold, fertility risk and oocyte retrieval number includes: establishing an incidence probability prediction model of mitochondrial mutation and estimating a mutation threshold s; establishing a fertility risk prediction model and predicting a fertility risk of a mutation carrier; and establishing an oocyte retrieval prediction model by binomial distribution and calculating oocyte retrieval number by PGT of a mutation carrier. The incidence probability prediction model is used to estimate a threshold value of common mtDNA mutations and predict a mother's fertility risk and the oocyte retrieval number by PGT. On the basis of the fertility risk prediction model and oocyte retrieval prediction model, the fertility risk and a minimum oocyte retrieval number by PGT needed to give birth to a healthy offspring can be calculated by knowing a mitochondrial DNA mutation ratio of mutation carrier which is helpful for genetic management and genetic consultation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Yunxia Cao, Dongmei Ji, Yinan Du, Ning Zhang, Zhikang Zhang, Zhuoli Liu, Weiwei Zou, Kai Zong
  • Publication number: 20230137353
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell is provided, which includes a substrate; a first passivation layer and a first anti-reflection layer disposed on a front surface of the substrate; and a second passivation layer, a PPW layer and at least one silicon nitride layer SiuNv(1<u/v<4) disposed on a rear surface of the substrate. The at least one silicon nitride layer has a refractive index and a thickness in respective ranges of 1.9 to 2.5 and 50 nm to 100 nm. The second passivation layer includes at least one aluminum oxide layer AlxOy (0.8<y/x<1.6), a refractive index and a thickness of which are respectively in ranges of 1.4 to 1.6 and 4 nm to 20 nm. The PPW layer includes at least one silicon oxynitride layer SirOsNt (r>s>t), a refractive index and a thickness of which are respectively in ranges of 1.5 to 1.8 and 1 nm to 30 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Ruifeng LI, Wenqi LI, Yankai QIU, Ning ZHANG, Bin LI
  • Publication number: 20230132664
    Abstract: A visual interaction method. The control method includes obtaining first input information; outputting visual guidance information for the first input information in response to a query request for the first input information, the visual guidance information being generated when the first input information is in a queuing state and is used to indicate a visual response mode of the query request; and outputting a visual response for the first input information based on the visual response mode in response to a trigger operation on the visual guidance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Ning ZHANG, Xuguang GU, Baohai FU
  • Patent number: 11640292
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide for generating behavior profiles for a plurality of end devices associated with an end user; receiving, from the end user, a request for an over-the-air (OTA) update for the plurality of end devices; generating an OTA update campaign plan based on the behavior profiles responsive to the request; providing the OTA update campaign plan to the end user; receiving, from the end user, a modified request for the OTA update; and generating an OTA update campaign schedule responsive to the modified request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Rachel Y. Ward, Ning Zhang, Ye Huang, Prema Kumar Yendrapati, Brian Matthew White, Khamis I. Abulgubein
  • Patent number: 11637723
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some systems (e.g., Wi-Fi systems), a transmitting device such as an access point (AP) or mobile station (STA), may identify a number of spatial streams for a data transmission that is less than a number of transmit antennas, and may transmit a packet over a channel. In a first implementation, the packet may be formatted in a multi-user frame format, with a number of long training field (LTF) symbols equal to the number of transmit antennas. In a second implementation, the packet may be a null data packet (NDP), and the device may transmit a separate data packet. In a third implementation, the packet may be formatted in single-user frame format with a modified LTF. A receiving device may receive the packet, and may perform channel estimation and power amplifier (PA) distortion cancellation based on the received packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Bin Tian, Jialing Li Chen, Louay Jalloul, Vincent Knowles Jones, IV, Ning Zhang, Chi-Lin Su, Ahmad Abdulrahman Mohammed
  • Patent number: 11621719
    Abstract: Disclosed are a pre-drive module of an analog-to-digital converter and an analog-to-digital conversion device. The pre-drive module includes a sampling capacitor; a controller configured to output a reset control signal, a pre-sampling control signal, and a sampling control signal according to a preset timing sequence; a reset module configured to reset the sampling capacitor upon receiving the reset control signal; a first auxiliary drive circuit configured to amplify an input analog signal and output to the sampling capacitor for sampling upon receiving the sample control signal; and a second auxiliary drive circuit. The controller is configured to output the pre-sampling control signal before outputting the sampling control signal, control the second auxiliary drive circuit to amplify the input analog signal, and output to the sampling capacitor for pre-sampling, and when a charging voltage of the sampling capacitor during pre-sampling reaches a preset voltage value, output the sampling control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Guo, Erkan Alpman, Jon Sweat Duster, Yulin Tan, Haigang Feng, Ning Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230087117
    Abstract: A device for sand sampling through a water method includes a sampling cylinder and a triaxial sampler, where the sampling cylinder includes a cylinder, two ends of the cylinder being hermetically provided with an upper sealing cover and a lower sealing cover separately, one ends, facing inside of the cylinder, of the upper sealing cover and the lower sealing cover being provided with water-permeable stones, one end, facing outside of the cylinder, of the upper sealing cover being connected to a control valve, and the control valve being in communication with the inside of the cylinder; and the sampling cylinder is arranged in the triaxial sampler when sand sampling is performed through a water method, a lower end of the triaxial sampler is provided with a test operation table, and an upper end of the triaxial sampler is nested inside a restraint ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hengxing LAN, Xin LIU, Ning ZHANG, Hui QIN, Xinyu XU
  • Publication number: 20230092597
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a system and method for testing the spatial distribution uniformity of an alkali metal atom number density of an atom magnetometer. The system includes a detection laser, a laser beam expanding system, a polarizing element, a magnetic shielding system, an alkali metal atom gas chamber, a beam profile camera, a beam splitting prism, etc., which are sequentially arranged in a light advancing direction. In the method, based on an optical absorption principle, light intensity attenuations of linearly polarized light before and after passing through the alkali metal gas chamber are tested by using the beam profile camera with pixels in the level of um, a two-dimensional distribution matrix of an atom number density in space is calculated, and the distribution uniformity of the atom number density is analyzed by using a discrete coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Qiang GUO, Ning ZHANG, Ziwen LI, Zixuan WANG, Mengshi ZHANG, Tingting YU
  • Patent number: 11604963
    Abstract: Disclosed is a feedback adversarial learning framework, a recurrent framework for generative adversarial networks that can be widely adapted to not only stabilize training but also generate higher quality images. In some aspects, a discriminator's spatial outputs are distilled to improve generation quality. The disclosed embodiments model the discriminator into the generator, and the generator learns from its mistakes over time. In some aspects, a discriminator architecture encourages the model to be locally and globally consistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Minyoung Huh, Shao-Hua Sun, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 11600731
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell is provided, which includes a substrate; a first passivation layer and a first anti-reflection layer disposed on a front surface of the substrate; and a second passivation layer, a PPW layer and at least one silicon nitride layer SiuNv (1<u/v<4) disposed on a rear surface of the substrate. The at least one silicon nitride layer has a refractive index and a thickness in respective ranges of 1.9 to 2.5 and 50 nm to 100 nm. The second passivation layer includes at least one aluminum oxide layer AlxOy (0.8<y/x<1.6), a refractive index and a thickness of which are respectively in ranges of 1.4 to 1.6 and 4 nm to 20 nm. The PPW layer includes at least one silicon oxynitride layer SirOsNt (r>s>t), a refractive index and a thickness of which are respectively in ranges of 1.5 to 1.8 and 1 nm to 30 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR CO., LTD., JINKO SOLAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruifeng Li, Yankai Qiu, Ning Zhang, Bin Li
  • Patent number: 11588555
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a monolithic transceiver are described, which may be fabricated on a semiconductor substrate. The monolithic transceiver includes a coherent receiver module (CRM), a coherent transmitter module (CTM), and a local oscillation splitter to feed a local oscillation to the CRM and the CTM with a tunable power ratio. The monolithic transceiver provides tunable responsivity by employing photodiodes for opto-electrical conversion. The monolithic transceiver also employs a polarization beam rotator-splitter (PBRS) and a polarization beam rotator-combiner (PBRC) for supporting modulation schemes including polarization multiplexed quadrature amplitude modulation (PM-QAM) and polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Pengfei Cai, Zhou Fang, Yi Li, Ning Zhang, Rangchen Yu, Ching-yin Hong, Dong Pan
  • Publication number: 20230048092
    Abstract: An application, executed by a User Equipment (“UE”), may receive an identifier, which may be used to monitor Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) associated with the UE. Such KPIs may be monitored in conjunction with execution of the application, such as at times that the application sends and/or receives traffic. The KPIs may be associated with sensor data, resources, and/or other features or functionality of the UE. The UE may obtain an identifier associated with the application and/or the UE from a KPI monitoring system of some embodiments, may obtain user consent to monitor and/or report KPIs associated with the application, and may provide such KPIs to the KPI monitoring system in conjunction with the identifier. The KPI monitoring system may generate aggregated KPI information, associated with the application, based on the KPIs received from the UE and/or KPIs received from one or more other sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Matthew White, Ning Zhang, Andrew F. Patka
  • Patent number: 11581900
    Abstract: Disclosed are an analog-to-digital converter error shaping circuit and a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter. The analog-to-digital converter error shaping circuit includes a decentralized capacitor array, a data weighted average module, a mismatch error shaping module, a control logic generation circuit, a digital filter and a decimator. The decentralized capacitor array includes two symmetrically arranged capacitor array units, each capacitor array unit includes a first sub-capacitor array of a high segment bit and a second sub-capacitor array of a low segment bit. The data weighted average module is configured to eliminate correlation between the first sub-capacitor array and an input signal, and the mismatch error shaping module is configured to eliminate correlation between the second sub-capacitor array and the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Radiawave Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Xiaofeng Guo, Jon Sweat Duster, Yulin Tan, Ning Zhang, Haigang Feng
  • Publication number: 20230033278
    Abstract: Disclosed are an aluminum-coated precursor and a preparation method therefor. The aluminum coated precursor has a chemical formula of xMCO3(1-x).Al(OH)3, wherein M is at least one of nickel, cobalt and manganese, and x is 0.995-0.999. The aluminum-coated precursor has the advantages of a controllable particle size and uniform particle size distribution, a high degree of sphericity, a smooth particle surface, a high tap density, not easily breaking, and an excellent electrochemical performance and energy density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: SVolt Energy Technology Company Limited
    Inventors: Yongjie Zhang, Jiangtao Wan, Haipeng Ren, Ning Zhang, Jinxin Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230028735
    Abstract: An implant delivery instrument includes a housing with a main body section that defines a passage therethrough from a front end of the main body section to a back end of the main body section. The passage receives an obturator through an opening at the back end, and also receives an implant device. Movement of the obturator through the passage pushes the implant device through a discharge opening at the front end and through an incision into a subdermal pocket of a patient. The housing includes a tab connected to and projecting from the front end of the main body section. The tab has a blunt dissection tip for maintaining the incision in an open state without creating or enlarging the incision, and the tab is configured to surround the implant device moving through the discharge opening along only one side of the implant device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Zachary Hanze, Bei Ning Zhang, Arees Garabed, Rodney Hawkins, Xiangqun Chen, Alexander Davis Robertson, Alex Soriano, Kyungmoo Ryu