Patents by Inventor To Liu

To Liu 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: 11782474
    Abstract: A clock control method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. By the method, timing optimization of bidirectional data communication between a server mainboard and a Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) expansion board is relatively implemented, and the occurrence of a situation where in any data communication direction between the server mainboard and the PCIe expansion board, data transmitted by the initiating end at a given high-level moment does not reach the receiving end at a next high-level moment may be prevented, thus ensuring the reliability of communication between the server mainboard and the PCIe expansion board. In addition, the present application further provides a clock control apparatus and device, and a storage medium, and the beneficial effects are as stated above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: INSPUR (BEIJING) ELECTRONIC INFORMATION INDUSTRY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jingwei Zhang, Tiejun Liu, Dan Liu
  • Patent number: 11780077
    Abstract: A self-moving robot includes a shell, a driving module, driving the self-moving robot to move on the ground; a mowing module, executing mowing work; an energy module, providing energy for the self-moving robot; a control module, controlling the self-moving robot to automatically move and execute work, the self-moving robot further includes a cleaning module executing ground cleaning work; the self-moving robot has a mowing mode and a cleaning mode, under the mowing mode, the control module controls the self-moving robot to execute mowing work, and under the cleaning mode, the control module controls the self-moving robot to execute cleaning work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Positec Technology (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingming He, Zhendong Gao, Ka Tat Kelvin Wong, Gen Sun, Qiang Liu, Yue Rao
  • Patent number: 11779946
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a system for quality inspection in the entire process of inkjet printing manufacturing of display devices, which includes a substrate inspection module, a nozzle inspection module, an ink droplet inspection module, a coating thickness inspection module and a control module. Through design and matching of these modules, it is possible to realize a series of operations such as substrate inspection, nozzle inspection, flying ink droplet inspection, liquid coating inspection and cured coating inspection. The invention also discloses a corresponding quality inspection method for the entire inkjet printing manufacturing process for display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiankui Chen, Zhouping Yin, Qiangqiang Liu
  • Patent number: 11782105
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes forming a coil in a coil layer, performing planarization on the coil layer, and depositing a magnetoresistance (MR) element on the planarized coil layer. No dielectric material is between the planarized coil layer and the MR element. In another aspect, a magnetic field sensor includes a substrate, a planarized coil layer comprising a coil on the substrate, a magnetoresistance (MR) element in contact with the planarized coil layer, and a capping layer deposited over the MR element and the planarized coil layer. No dielectric material is between the planarized coil layer and the MR element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Maxim Klebanov, Yen Ting Liu, Paolo Campiglio, Sundar Chetlur, Harianto Wong
  • Patent number: 11784312
    Abstract: This application provides a current collector and a preparation method thereof, a secondary battery containing such current collector, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electric apparatus. The current collector in this application includes a support layer, a binder layer, and a metal layer, where the binder layer is arranged between the support layer and the metal layer, the binder layer includes an organic binder and inorganic particles, a thickness D0 of the binder layer is 1.0-5.0 ?m, optionally 1.0-3.0 ?m; and the inorganic particles include large particles with a median particle size D50large and small particles with a median particle size D50small, and the median particle sizes of the large particles and the small particles satisfy the following relationships: D50large>D50small; D50large=(0.5-0.9)×D0; and D50small=(0.1-0.4)×D0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Mingling Li, Jia Peng, Xin Liu, Cheng Li, Xianghui Liu, Qisen Huang
  • Patent number: 11783163
    Abstract: The present disclosure advantageously provides a matrix expansion unit that includes an input data selector, a first register set, a second register set, and an output data selector. The input data selector is configured to receive first matrix data in a columnwise format. The first register set is coupled to the input data selector, and includes a plurality of data selectors and a plurality of registers arranged in a first shift loop. The second register set is coupled to the data selector, and includes a plurality of data selectors and a plurality of registers arranged in a second shift loop. The output data selector is coupled to the first register set and the second register set, and is configured to output second matrix data in a rowwise format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Zhi-Gang Liu, Paul Nicholas Whatmough, Matthew Mattina
  • Patent number: 11785254
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data is received, and a set of hybrid transform kernels corresponding to the video data is identified. A subset of hybrid transform kernels is selected, either explicitly or implicitly, from among the set of hybrid transform kernels. The video data is decoded based on the selected subset of hybrid transform kernels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Madhu Peringassery Krishna, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11782881
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for recommending remotely executed applications for opening files. In one approach, an indication is received that a user desires to open the local file of a client device remotely. At least one remotely executed application is identified to open the local file remotely. A user interface is rendered by the client device that facilitates selection from among the remotely executed application(s). A user selection of a particular remotely executed application generated through the user interface is received. The particular remotely executed application opens the local file remotely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Liu, Songli Li, Tong Zhao, Yanchao Zhang, Lin Lv, Mac Lu, Yue Zhao, Ken Song
  • Patent number: 11781118
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses preparation of an L-amino acid deaminase mutant and application thereof, belonging to the technical field of gene engineering. Through pmirLAAD protein modification, analysis of a flexible loop structure around a binding site of the pmirLAAD product, and design of the best mutant, the modification method of the disclosure overcomes the defect that the catalytic efficiency of the previous wild-type enzyme is reduced due to product inhibition, and is tested by experiments. Compared with the control, the catalytic efficiency (1.61 mM?1·min?1) and the product inhibition constant (5.4 mM) of the finally obtained best mutant pmirLAADM4 are respectively increased by 5.2 times and 5.7 times. The yield of ?-ketoisovaleric acid can reach 96.5 g/L, and the transformation rate is greater than 97%. By adopting the method of the disclosure, the cost can be greatly reduced, and the industrialization process of production of ?-ketoisovaleric acid by an enzymatic transformation method is accelerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Jing Wu, Shanshan Pei, Jia Liu, Wei Song, Xiulai Chen, Qiuling Luo
  • Patent number: 11784853
    Abstract: Example channel measurement methods and a communication apparatus are described. One example method include receiving a precoded reference signal and indication information by a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate a relative delay between a first delay and a second delay, and the first delay and the second delay are determined through uplink channel measurement. The terminal device performs channel measurement based on the precoded reference signal and the indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huangping Jin, Shibin Ge, Zhimeng Zhong, Yong Liu, Xiaoyan Bi, Li Fan
  • Patent number: 11784864
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a physical layer protocol data unit PPDU transmission method and a corresponding PPDU transmission apparatus. Application of the method and apparatus in the embodiments of the present invention enables a receive end to quickly determine the starting position of the feature signal sequence by means of blind detection, and ensures that the receive end quickly completes data processing and status switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meilu Lin, Sheng Liu, Wei Lin, Jian Yu, Le Liu, Xun Yang, Shimon Shilo, Doron Ezri, Genadiy Tsodik, Oded Redlich
  • Patent number: 11778989
    Abstract: A water changing device for aquaculture breeding, comprises a breeding box. A drainage pipe is inserted into the inner wall below the breeding box; the drainage pipe has an L-shaped structure, and the horizontal side is located at the lower side of the breeding box; a sealing block is tightly inserted above the drainage pipe; a circular ring is arranged on the outer side wall of the upper end of the drainage pipe; a groove is arranged above the circular ring along the circumferential direction, and a filter screen is tightly inserted into the groove; the side wall of the drainage pipe below the breeding box is fixedly connected with a horizontal rod, and one side of the side wall below the breeding box close to the horizontal rod is fixedly provided with a threaded rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaorou Zhang, Hanhao Zhu, Yeyi Si, Chenchen Lin, Yue Pan, Qingqian Xu, Guiming He, Kangkang Jian, Yiwei Yao, Zhigang Chai, Xu Liu, Jiahui Wang, Zhiqiang Cui, Qile Wang
  • Patent number: 11783100
    Abstract: Integrated process-structure-property modeling framework and method for design optimization and/or performance prediction of a material system are provided. The Integrated process-structure-property modeling framework includes a powder spreading model using a discrete element method to generate a powder bed; a thermal-fluid flow model of the powder melting process to predict voids and temperature profile; a cellular automaton model to simulate grain growth based on the temperature profile; and a reduced-order micromechanics model to predict mechanical properties and fatigue resistance of resultant structures by resolving the voids and grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wing Kam Liu, Jiaying Gao, Cheng Yu, Orion L. Kafka
  • Patent number: 11781222
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photoelectric film and a fabrication method thereof, and in particular, to a layered polycrystalline lead selenide (PbSe) film and a fabrication method thereof. The fabrication method mainly includes: (1) fabricating a dense PbSe layer on a substrate through chemical bath deposition (CBD); (2) fabricating a loose plumbonacrite (Pb10O(OH)6(CO3)6) layer on the dense PbSe layer through CBD; (3) placing a sample with the dense PbSe layer and the Pb10O(OH)6(CO3)6 layer in a selenium ion-containing solution to allow an ion exchange reaction to finally form the layered polycrystalline PbSe film. The fabrication method has the advantages of simple process, low cost, and high controllability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Guiwu Liu, Junlin Liu, Yuan Zhu, Guanjun Qiao, Xiangzhao Zhang, Quanjiang Lv, Haigang Hou, Jian Yang
  • Patent number: 11783035
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-representational learning models for static analysis of source code are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for multi-representational learning models for static analysis of source code includes receiving at a networked device a set comprising one or more multi-representation learning (MRL) models for static analysis of source code; performing a static analysis of source code associated with a sample received at the network device, wherein performing the static analysis includes using at least one MRL model; and determining that the sample is malicious based at least in part on the static analysis of the source code associated with the sample and without performing dynamic analysis of the sample, and in response to determining that the sample is malicious, performing an action based on a security policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Brody James Kutt, William Redington Hewlett, II, Oleksii Starov, Yuchen Zhou, Fang Liu
  • Patent number: 11781968
    Abstract: A device for a cigarette tipping paper anti-adhesion test is disclosed. The device includes the following components: an upper cover (1), a plurality of upper cover semi-cylinders (11) inside the upper cover, having the same radius and arranged in parallel, and a box (2) with a plurality of holes (211) on the box upper surface (21), connected with the inner cavity of the box (2). Each upper cover semi-cylinder has a cross-section with a bow shape. The side wall of the box (2) also has an opening (22). A method for testing anti-adhesion of the cigarette tipping paper using the device is also disclosed. The present device can qualitatively and quantitatively simulate adhesion of tipping paper in various conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruizhi Zhu, Ji Yang, Zhijiang Yin, Zhihua Liu, Kai Wang, Yanqun Xu, Xiaoxi Si, Chunbo Liu, Fengmei Zhang, Wei Jiang, Zhenjie Li
  • Patent number: 11779124
    Abstract: A zero gap foldable powered bed comprises a bed frame and a sliding mechanism disposed upon said bed frame. The bed further comprises back, lumbar, seat, thigh, and leg decks operatively connected to the sliding mechanism, and the bed frame includes a head end frame member which is disposed within a vertically oriented plane. Linear actuators are operatively connected to the back and leg decks, and when the back deck is elevated or lowered, the sliding mechanism slides upon the bed frame so as to maintain the head end frame member, to which a headboard may be attached, within the vertically oriented plane such that a free end portion of the back deck will always be disposed immediately adjacent to the vertically oriented plane such that the back and shoulders of a person, lying or sitting upon the bed, will remain close to a nightstand, which may be disposed close to the bed, such that articles disposed upon the nightstand are always readily accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MOTOMOTION CHINA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih Hsiung Liu, Mei Jun Xu, Hai Guo Jiang, Kui Zhao
  • Patent number: 11782440
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle simulation system for analyzing motion planners is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving map data corresponding to a real world driving environment; obtaining perception data and configuration data including pre-defined parameters and executables defining a specific driving behavior for each of a plurality of simulated dynamic vehicles; generating simulated perception data for each of the plurality of simulated dynamic vehicles based on the map data, the perception data, and the configuration data; receiving vehicle control messages from an autonomous vehicle control system; and simulating the operation and behavior of areal world autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle control messages received from the autonomous vehicle control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Liu Liu, Yuwei Wang, Xing Sun, Yufei Zhao, Wutu Lin
  • Patent number: 11782628
    Abstract: Example methods and systems to perform a migration of a virtualized computing instance and its first snapshot hierarchy from a first object store to a second object store have been disclosed. One example method includes identifying a first disk chain of the first snapshot hierarchy having an object running point, identifying a second disk chain of the first snapshot hierarchy different from the first disk chain, and migrating the second disk chain from the first object store to the second object store to form a first branch of a second snapshot hierarchy in the second object store. After the migrating, the example method includes instructing to take a first native snapshot on the object running point in the second object store, instructing to revert the object running point along the first branch and migrating the first disk chain from the first object store to the second object store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Banghui Luo, Tao Xie, Zhen Liu, Enning Xiang, YangYang Zhang, Wenguang Wang, Kiran Patil
  • Patent number: 11781710
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic signboard and a wall hanging device. The electronic signboard includes a display device and a wall hanging device. The display device is provided with a first fitting portion, and the wall hanging device is provided with a second fitting portion detachably connected to the first fitting portion. The wall hanging device is further provided a fixing surface via which the wall hanging device is fixed to a mounting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanjun Liu, Qingqing Ma, Yinan Gao, Tianjiao Wang, Junpeng Han, Yin Yuan, Jinmiao Tang, Hui Sun, Bangcan Xue, Jia Meng, Tao Jia, Wenfeng Jin, Ming Zhai, Shuo Li, Liguang Deng