Patents by Inventor Sergey Li

Sergey Li 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: 20240070521
    Abstract: A layer freezing and data sieving technique used in a sparse training domain for object recognition, providing end-to-end dataset-efficient training. The layer freezing and data sieving methods are seamlessly incorporated into a sparse training algorithm to form a generic framework. The generic framework consistently outperforms prior approaches and significantly reduces training floating point operations per second (FLOPs) and memory costs while preserving high accuracy. The reduction in training FLOPs comes from three sources: weight sparsity, frozen layers, and a shrunken dataset. The training acceleration depends on different factors, e.g., the support of the sparse computation, layer type and size, and system overhead. The FLOPs reduction from the frozen layers and shrunken dataset leads to higher actual training acceleration than weight sparsity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jian Ren, Sergey Tulyakov, Yanyu Li, Geng Yuan
  • Publication number: 20220319740
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a superconducting wire includes forming a buffer layer on the substrate, the buffer layer including an Al2O3 layer, the Al2O3 layer being formed by reactive magnetron sputtering in which first oxygen gas as reactant gas and a sputtering target made of aluminium metal are used, the Al2O3 layer being formed while being supplied the first oxygen gas at a first concentration, the first concentration being a concentration of the first oxygen gas at which an emission intensity of Al in plasma near a surface of the sputtering target is not less than 25% and not more than 80% of a first reference value, the first reference value being the emission intensity of Al at which the concentration of the first oxygen gas is zero; and forming a superconducting layer above the buffer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Valery PETRYKIN, Sergey LI
  • Patent number: 11434881
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of manufacturing an apparatus that includes a rectangular frame, a first load bearing conductive support bisecting the rectangular frame lengthwise, and two artificial muscle actuators disposed on the same sides of the rectangular frame as the first load bearing conductive support on opposite sides of the first load bearing conductive support is disclosed. The apparatus includes a non-conductive platform, where the width of the frame is sufficiently wide to prevent the non-conductive platform from touching the sides of the frame when rotated about the axis of the load bearing support. The apparatus includes a device disposed in the center of the non-conductive platform. Individual actuation of the artificial muscle actuators rotates the non-conductive platform about the axis of the first load bearing conductive support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LINTEC OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Marcio Dias Lima, Sergey Li
  • Patent number: 11299825
    Abstract: Methods and a device for the continuous manufacturing of artificial muscle actuator device fibers are disclosed. The method includes: threading an untwisted fiber along the axis of a tube and inside the tube that includes a heating means to raise the localized temperature of a cross-section of the tube to a predetermined temperature; providing a tension on the untwisted fiber; and twisting the untwisted fiber while the fiber is within the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: LINTEC OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Marcio Dias Lima, Sergey Li
  • Patent number: 11199181
    Abstract: Methods, system, and apparatus for producing an actuator device are disclosed. The method may include twisting a muscle fiber; coiling the twisted muscle fiber about a mandrel; securing the muscle fiber onto the mandrel using a securing means; heating the muscle fiber to a predetermined temperature using a heating means; and removing the coiled muscle fiber from the mandrel. The twisting, coiling, securing, heating, and removing is a process that is continued until the muscle fiber is a desired length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: LINTEC OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Randy Allen, Marcio Dias Lima, Sergey Li
  • Patent number: 11067063
    Abstract: An actuating device and a method for manufacturing an actuating device, where the method includes wrapping a conductive wire (204) around a polymer fiber (202) at a set tension, and heating the polymer fiber and wire to a temperature that exceeds the glass transition temperature of the polymer fiber for a predetermined amount of time to partially embed the conductive wire into the polymer fiber. The method also includes cooling the polymer fiber and wire to below the glass transition temperature resulting in a wired polymer fiber wherein at least part of the conductive wire is embedded in the polymer fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: LINTEC OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Marilu Guerrero, Sergey Li, Randy Allen, Anthony Hingeley
  • Publication number: 20210164452
    Abstract: Polymer and nanotube-based actuators that include a thermochromic coating is disclosed. The actuators include a thermochromic material applied to a surface of the core fiber or the conductive element. Upon heating the actuator, the thermochromic coating undergoes a color transition to indicate a pre-determined temperature correlated to a rated critical temperature, important temperature of the actuator components, or a level of actuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: LINTEC OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Jaeah LEE, Marcio Dias LIMA, Sergey LI, Raquel OVALLE-ROBLES
  • Publication number: 20200362836
    Abstract: An actuating device and a method for manufacturing an actuating device, where the method includes wrapping a conductive wire (204) around a polymer fiber (202) at a set tension, and heating the polymer fiber and wire to a temperature that exceeds the glass transition temperature of the polymer fiber for a predetermined amount of time to partially embed the conductive wire into the polymer fiber. The method also includes cooling the polymer fiber and wire to below the glass transition temperature resulting in a wired polymer fiber wherein at least part of the conductive wire is embedded in the polymer fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Lintec of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Marilu Guerrero, Sergey Li, Randy Allen, Anthony Hingeley
  • Publication number: 20200200153
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of manufacturing an apparatus that includes a rectangular frame, a first load bearing conductive support bisecting the rectangular frame lengthwise, and two artificial muscle actuators disposed on the same sides of the rectangular frame as the first load bearing conductive support on opposite sides of the first load bearing conductive support is disclosed. The apparatus includes a non-conductive platform, where the width of the frame is sufficiently wide to prevent the non-conductive platform from touching the sides of the frame when rotated about the axis of the load bearing support. The apparatus includes a device disposed in the center of the non-conductive platform. Individual actuation of the artificial muscle actuators rotates the non-conductive platform about the axis of the first load bearing conductive support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Lintec of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcio Dias Lima, Sergey Li
  • Publication number: 20200000572
    Abstract: Methods and a device for the continuous manufacturing of artificial muscle actuator device fibers are disclosed. The method includes: threading an untwisted fiber along the axis of a tube and inside the tube that includes a heating means to raise the localized temperature of a cross-section of the tube to a predetermined temperature; providing a tension on the untwisted fiber; and twisting the untwisted fiber while the fiber is within the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Lintec of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcio Dias Lima, Sergey Li
  • Publication number: 20200003189
    Abstract: Methods, system, and apparatus for producing an actuator device are disclosed. The method may include twisting a muscle fiber; coiling the twisted muscle fiber about a mandrel; securing the muscle fiber onto the mandrel using a securing means; heating the muscle fiber to a predetermined temperature using a heating means; and removing the coiled muscle fiber from the mandrel. The twisting, coiling, securing, heating, and removing is a process that is continued until the muscle fiber is a desired length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Lintec of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Allen, Marcio Dias Lima, Sergey Li
  • Publication number: 20190307919
    Abstract: An actuator device that includes at least one fiber, and at least one first coating is disclosed. The first coating encloses the at least one fiber. The actuator device may include a plurality of fibers and/or a conducting material. The coatings may enclose the plurality of fibers, or each individual fiber. The coatings may provide moisture protection, UV protection, saline protection, and oxidation protection. The coating may be thermally and electrically conducting or insulating, depending on the specific function and environment of the actuator device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Lintec of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcio Dias Lima, Sergey Li
  • Patent number: 10196271
    Abstract: A nanofiber yarn that includes a plurality of nanofibers twisted into a yarn along an alignment axis. The nanofibers of the plurality of nanofibers have a ratio of nanofiber length to nanofiber circumference of at least 50. The yarn has a helix angle measured relative to the alignment axis of from 5° to 30°. The yarn has tensile strength of at least 280 MPa. A nanofiber fabric that includes a first sheet of multiwalled nanotubes and a second sheet of multiwalled nanotubes on the first sheet of multiwalled nanotubes. The multiwalled nanotubes of the first sheet are aligned in a first direction. The multiwalled nanotubes of the second sheet are aligned in the first direction. The first sheet and the second sheet are aligned so that the multiwalled nanotubes of the first sheet and the second sheet are both aligned in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Kenneth Ross Atkinson, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams
  • Publication number: 20190002283
    Abstract: A nanofiber forest on a substrate can be patterned to produce a patterned assembly of nanofibers that can be drawn to form nanofiber sheets, ribbons, or yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Kenneth Ross Atkinson, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams
  • Patent number: 9944529
    Abstract: A process of producing a yarn, ribbon or sheet that includes nanofibers in which the process includes forming a yarn, ribbon or sheet comprising nanofibers, and applying an enhancing agent comprising a polymer to the yarn, ribbon or sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Kenneth Ross Atkinson, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams
  • Patent number: 9862607
    Abstract: Fabricating a nanofiber sheet, ribbon, or yarn by a continuous process that includes synthesizing a nanofiber forest in a forest growth region on a substrate, wherein the nanofiber forest comprises a parallel array of nanofibers, and further includes drawing said nanofibers from the nanofiber forest to form a primary assembly that is a sheet, ribbon or yarn. The substrate continuously moves from the furnace growth region into a region where the nanofibers in the forest are drawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Kenneth Ross Atkinson, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams
  • Patent number: 9845554
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to nanofiber yarns, ribbons, and sheets; to methods of making said yarns, ribbons, and sheets; and to applications of said yarns, ribbons, and sheets. In some embodiments, the nanotube yarns, ribbons, and sheets comprise carbon nanotubes. Particularly, such carbon nanotube yarns of the present invention provide unique properties and property combinations such as extreme toughness, resistance to failure at knots, high electrical and thermal conductivities, high absorption of energy that occurs reversibly, up to 13% strain-to-failure compared with the few percent strain-to-failure of other fibers with similar toughness, very high resistance to creep, retention of strength even when heated in air at 450° C. for one hour, and very high radiation and UV resistance, even when irradiated in air. Furthermore these nanotube yarns can be spun as one micron diameter yarns and plied at will to make two-fold, four-fold, and higher fold yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams
  • Publication number: 20170327377
    Abstract: A nanofiber forest on a substrate can be patterned to produce a patterned assembly of nanofibers that can be drawn to form nanofiber sheets, ribbons, or yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Kenneth Ross Atkinson, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams
  • Patent number: 9815699
    Abstract: A nanofiber forest on a substrate can be patterned to produce a patterned assembly of nanofibers that can be drawn to form nanofiber sheets, ribbons, or yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Kenneth Ross Atkinson, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams
  • Patent number: 9688536
    Abstract: A process of producing a yarn, ribbon or sheet comprising nanofibers that includes infiltrating a liquid into the yarn, ribbon or sheet and evaporating the liquid from the yarn, ribbon, or sheet to strengthen the yarn, ribbon or sheet. The yarn, ribbon, or sheet can be formed by solid-state draw from a carbon nanotube forest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mei Zhang, Shaoli Fang, Ray H. Baughman, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Kenneth Ross Atkinson, Ali E. Aliev, Sergey Li, Chris Williams