Patents by Inventor Ping Zhang

Ping 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).

  • Patent number: 10855200
    Abstract: A line commutated converter (LCC) for a high voltage direct current power converter, the LCC comprising at least one LCC bridge circuit for connection to at least one terminal of a DC system, each bridge circuit comprising a plurality of arms, each associated with a respective phase of an AC system, each arm comprising: an upper thyristor valve or valves, and lower thyristor valve or valves connected in series; an associated branch extending from between the upper and lower thyristors; and at least one thyristor-based capacitor module for each phase, each module comprising a plurality of module thyristors, the or each capacitor module operable to insert a main capacitor into the respective arm of the bridge circuit by firing at least one or more of said module thyristors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventors: Xiao-Ping Zhang, Ying Xue
  • Patent number: 10849426
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rear structure coupled to a display panel. The rear structure comprises a rear cover comprising a rib structure for supporting the display panel, the rib structure comprising a plurality of horizontal bars, a plurality of vertical bars, and a plurality of blocks, and each of the blocks formed by at least one of the horizontal bars and at least one of the vertical bars. Wherein a first section of the rib structure comprises at least two aligned adjacent horizontal bars and at least two aligned adjacent vertical bars, and a second section of the rib structure comprises at least two non-aligned vertical bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: ShenZhen Hongfei Precision Technology Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Pin Wang, Yao-Shih Chung, I-Ting Huang, Yu-Jen Chang, Hai-Ping Xiang, Hui Huang, Xiu-Gao Yang, Dong-Ping Zhang, Yong Yang, Hui Zhang, Bo Hu, Qin Sun
  • Publication number: 20200368984
    Abstract: This invention discloses a tire having enhanced wet traction and ice traction characteristics. These tires are comprised of a generally toroidal-shaped carcass with an outer circumferential tread, two spaced beads, at least one ply extending from bead to bead and sidewalls extending radially from and connecting said tread to said beads, wherein said tread is adapted to be ground-contacting, wherein the tread includes at least one circumferential groove which separates circumferential ribs, each circumferential groove having two sides and a base therebetween, and wherein the sides of each circumferential groove are comprised of a rubbery composition that includes silicate microflakes which are substantially aligned in an orientation which is parallel with the sides of the grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Paul Harry Sandstrom, John Joseph Andre Verthe, Ping Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200368710
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synthesizing chemical products, including active pharmaceutical ingredients, are provided. Certain of the systems and methods described herein are capable of manufacturing multiple chemical products without the need to fluidically connect or disconnect unit operations when switching from one making chemical product to making another chemical product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Klavs F. Jensen, Timothy F. Jamison, Allan S. Myerson, Jean-Christophe M. Monbaliu, Mohsen Behnam, Shin Yee Wong, Nopphon Weeranoppanant, Eve Marie Revalor, Torsten Stelzer, Jie Chen, Andrea Adamo, David R. Snead, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10839936
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention receives input including a list of drugs, drug characteristics of each drug, and known drug-disease associations including a disease and a drug having a threshold efficacy for treating the disease. For each drug in the list of drugs, a processor predicts whether the drug meets a threshold efficacy for treating a first disease based on the drug characteristics and the drug-disease associations. For each drug in the list of drugs, the processor predicts whether the drug meets a threshold efficacy for treating a second disease based on the drug characteristics and the predicting of whether the drug meets the threshold efficacy for treating the first disease. Output is generated output based on the predictions, the output including an identified drug-disease association, an identified disease-disease association, an identified chemical fingerprint for the first disease, and an identified chemical fingerprint for the second disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianying Hu, Zhaonan Sun, Fei Wang, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10838568
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display substrate having a display area including a plurality of subpixel regions and an inter-subpixel region. The display substrate includes an array of matrix of a plurality of subpixels. Each subpixel includes a subpixel region surrounded by multiple sections of the inter-sub-pixel region and at least one antenna is in the inter-subpixel region and configured to detect an electromagnetic wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chihjen Cheng, Yanling Han, Xiaoliang Ding, Xueyou Cao, Ping Zhang, Wei Liu, Pengpeng Wang
  • Publication number: 20200354239
    Abstract: Methods and systems for electrochemical treatment of fertigation water for use and for recycling in agricultural systems such as in controlled environment agricultural systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Serge Levesque, Thomas Graham, Dorin Bejan, Jamie Lawson, Mike Dixon, Ping Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200357490
    Abstract: A data analysis system is configured for alerting to the results of a virtual clinical trial. The data analysis system has an extraction system configured to extract a correlation between an ingredient and an effect from a clinical trial document using natural language processing, and extract medical history information for a population exposed to the ingredient and a population unexposed to the ingredient from stored electronic medical records. The data analysis system also has a virtual trial system configured to perform statistical analysis on the medical history information to assess the level of association between the ingredient and the effect, a decision system configured to determine an accuracy score for the correlation based on the statistical analysis, and an alerting system configured to provide the accuracy score to a user interface of an end-user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Uri Kartoun, Ping Zhang, Yoonyoung Park, Kenney Ng, Fang Lu, Michael J. LaScaleia, Francis Campion
  • Publication number: 20200359297
    Abstract: A method of route construction of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network includes: obtaining transmission information of the UAV network; determining a relay set from the UAV network based on the transmission information; wherein, the relay set includes at least one UAV; determining environment state parameters according to the transmission information and the information of the relay set; inputting the environment state parameters into a Deep Q-Learning network (DQN) to obtain an accumulated reward corresponding to each UAV; and selecting a UAV with the largest accumulated reward as a target UAV. This disclosure also discloses a UAV and computer readable storage medium that can be used to construct routes for a UAV network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Wenjun XU, Chunlei HUANG, Zhi ZHANG, Shaosheng LI, Ping ZHANG, Jiaru LIN
  • Publication number: 20200349334
    Abstract: A display panel has a light-exit side and a non-light-exit side opposite to the light-exit side. A direction pointing to the non-light-exit side from the light-exit side is a first direction. In the first direction, the display panel includes a coded aperture mask layer and an optical sensing layer. The coded aperture mask layer includes a plurality of first light-transmission portions and a plurality of first light-shielding portions. The coded aperture mask layer is configured to form at least one part of a coded aperture array. The optical sensing layer includes a plurality of optical sensors. The optical sensing layer is configured to receive texture recognition light passed through the coded aperture array and convert optical signals of the texture recognition light into electrical signals. The texture recognition light is light carrying information about a texture to be recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Yangbing LI, Haisheng WANG, Xiaoliang DING, Pengpeng WANG, Jiabin WANG, Ping ZHANG, Likai DENG, Yapeng LI, Chihjen CHENG, Yanling HAN, Xueyou CAO
  • Patent number: 10825389
    Abstract: A pixel control circuit and control method, a pixel unit, a display substrate and device are provided. The pixel control circuit includes: a pressure detecting sub-circuit and a switching sub-circuit; the pressure detecting sub-circuit is connected to a control node, and configured to control a potential of the control node to be a first potential when a pressure signal is detected; and the switching sub-circuit is connected to a first power source terminal, a light-emitting sub-circuit in the pixel unit and the control node respectively, and configured to provide a first power source signal from the first power source terminal for the light-emitting sub-circuit when the potential of the control node is the first potential. The pixel control circuit effectively raises the speed of fingerprint detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Ding, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Yingming Liu, Chihjen Cheng, Yuzhen Guo, Pengpeng Wang, Xueyou Cao, Yanling Han, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10817699
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a fingerprint recognition device, a display substrate and a display apparatus. The fingerprint recognition device includes: at least one fingerprint detection component; at least one fingerprint recognition signal line, the fingerprint detection component outputs a detection current to the fingerprint recognition signal line; at least one noise reduction circuit serially coupled in the fingerprint recognition signal line, the noise reduction circuit being a resistive component; and a fingerprint determination circuit coupled to the fingerprint recognition signal line, configured to determine a morphology of a fingerprint according to a current signal, subjected to a noise reduction by the noise reduction circuit and transmitted by the fingerprint recognition signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueyou Cao, Xue Dong, Jing Lv, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Yingming Liu, Yanling Han, Wei Liu, Chunwei Wu, Pengpeng Wang, Ping Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200333505
    Abstract: Methods, computing systems, and computer-readable media for predicting pore pressure. As an example, the method includes receiving data representing a subterranean domain, modeling the domain based on the data, ranking the data, testing and validating the model, calibrating the model, and predicting a pore pressure in the domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Gong Rui Yan, Ping Zhang, Ping Lu, Jing Zhang, Chang Liu
  • Publication number: 20200332627
    Abstract: A system, computer-readable medium, and method for identifying drilling events in drilling reports, of which the method includes receiving one or more drilling reports including text data representing one or more observations recorded during a drilling activity, identifying a drilling event, a drilling activity, or both from the text data using a model, obtaining feedback based at least in part on the drilling event, the drilling activity, or both that were identified, and training the model based on the feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Yuxin Tang, Qing Liu, Paul Bolchover, Di Cao, Jean-Pierre Poyet, Benoit Foubert, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10803144
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method, computer program product and system are provided for predicting drug-drug interactions based on clinical side effects. The method includes constructing a drug-drug interactions training dataset that includes pharmaceutical, pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamics drug-drug interactions from multiple data sources for each of a plurality of drugs. The method also includes constructing side effect features for each of the drugs from side effects associated with the drugs. The method further includes building, using the drug-drug interactions training dataset, a drug-drug interactions classifier that predicts adverse drug-drug interactions for drug pairs derivable from the drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianying Hu, Robert K. Sorrentino, Fei Wang, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10802596
    Abstract: A display device, a self-luminous display panel and a gesture recognition method are provided. The display device includes a self-luminous display panel, an infrared light source, at least one camera device, and an image processing device. The image processing device is coupled to the at least one camera device and configured to perform gesture recognition based on a plurality of successive infrared images and a plurality of successive visible light images of an operation body taken within a same period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueyou Cao, Xue Dong, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Chih Jen Cheng, Pengpeng Wang, Wei Liu, Yanling Han, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10789443
    Abstract: A recognition device, a fingerprint recognition device and a fingerprint recognition apparatus are provided, and the fingerprint recognition device includes: a detection substrate provided with fingerprint detector units; a light barrier which is provided at a side, provided with the fingerprint detector units, of the detection substrate, and provided with light through holes corresponding to the fingerprint detector units; a cover plate which is provided at a side, facing away from the detection substrate, of the light barrier, and includes a light exit surface facing the light barrier and a touch surface facing away from the light barrier; and a light source for emitting light to the cover plate. Each fingerprint detector unit is configured to output an electrical signal according to an intensity of light incident on the fingerprint detector unit, after the light passes through the light through hole corresponding to the fingerprint detector unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xueyou Cao, Haisheng Wang, Xiaoliang Ding, Chih Jen Cheng, Yanling Han, Pengpeng Wang, Wei Liu, Ping Zhang, Xue Dong, Jing Lv
  • Publication number: 20200303358
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) device includes a base plate, an LED chip unit disposed on the base plate, and a light conversion layer disposed on and covering the LED chip unit. The LED chip unit includes a first chip and a second chip. The first chip emits a first excitation light having an emission peak wavelength ranging from 385 nm to 425 nm. The second chip emits a second excitation light having an emission peak wavelength greater than that of the first excitation light. The light conversion layer is configured to convert the first and second excitation lights to excited lights having different emission peak wavelengths, each of which ranges from 440 nm to 700 nm. A mixture of the excited lights is white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Ping ZHANG, Junpeng SHI, Senpeng HUANG, Zhen-Duan LIN, Shunyi CHEN, Chen-ke HSU
  • Patent number: 10780410
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synthesizing chemical products, including active pharmaceutical ingredients, are provided. Certain of the systems and methods described herein are capable of manufacturing multiple chemical products without the need to fluidically connect or disconnect unit operations when switching from one making chemical product to making another chemical product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Klavs F. Jensen, Timothy F. Jamison, Allan S. Myerson, Jean-Christophe M. Monbaliu, Mohsen Behnam, Shin Yee Wong, Nopphon Weeranoppanant, Eve Marie Revalor, Torsten Stelzer, Jie Chen, Andrea Adamo, David R. Snead, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: D899090
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Inventor: Zhi Ping Zhang