Patents by Inventor Tong Zhang

Tong 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: 20180081363
    Abstract: An aerial system, preferably including one or more proximity sensors, such as sensors arranged in opposing directions. A method for aerial system operation, preferably including: determining a set of sensors; sampling measurements at the set of sensors; localizing the aerial system based on the measurements, such as to determine one or more obstacle clearances; and controlling system flight, such as based on the clearances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Zheng Qu, Pengxiang Jin, Tong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9923577
    Abstract: A system, method and product for providing data compression and decompression. A method is disclosed that includes: utilizing a CPU to perform a matching-bytes search, byte-oriented search result coding, and content analysis on a set of raw data to generate a set of initially compressed data; forwarding the set of initially compressed data from the CPU to a hardware accelerator; utilizing the hardware accelerator to perform search result re-coding, table construction, and encoding to generate a set of further compressed data; and forwarding the set of further compressed data back to the CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: SCALEFLUX, INC.
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Yang Liu, Fei Sun, Hao Zhong
  • Patent number: 9922599
    Abstract: A device and method for applying a data voltage signal, a display panel, and a display device. The device for applying the data voltage signal includes: a voltage signal detection module configured to detect an image signal inputted to a display assembly; and a threshold compensation signal outputting module configured to process the inputted image signal and apply the processed image signal to a gate electrode of a driving transistor so that the driving transistor is turned on before a threshold compensation for the driving transistor is conducted; where, the processed image signal is obtained by subtracting a preset voltage signal from the inputted image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA AM-OLED CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Tong Zhang, Dong Qian, Yi Du
  • Publication number: 20180074519
    Abstract: An aerial system and method of operating an aerial system is provided. The aerial system includes a body, a lift mechanism, a processing system, a camera, and a sensor module. The lift mechanism is coupled to the body and configured to controllably provide lift and/or thrust. The processing system is configured to control the lift mechanism to provide flight to the aerial system. The camera is coupled to the body and is configured to obtain images of an environment proximate the aerial system. The sensor module is coupled to the body and includes an emitter and a receiver. The receiver is configured to sense data related to an ambient environment associated with the aerial system. The processing system controls a controllable parameter of the lift mechanism or the emitter as a function of the sensed data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Yusen Qin, Tong Zhang, Menqiu Wang
  • Patent number: 9917100
    Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of electrically conductive layers and insulating layers located over a substrate, an array of memory stack structures. A source conductive line structure is provided between the substrate and the alternating stack. The source conductive line structure includes a plurality of parallel conductive rail structures extending along a same horizontal direction and adjoined to a common conductive straddling structure. Each memory stack structure straddles a vertical interface between a conductive rail structure and a support matrix. A semiconductor channel in each memory stack structure contacts a respective conductive rail structure and the support matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Johann Alsmeier, James Kai, Jin Liu, Yanli Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180069568
    Abstract: A system, method and product for providing data compression and decompression. A method is disclosed that includes: utilizing a CPU to perform a matching-bytes search, byte-oriented search result coding, and content analysis on a set of raw data to generate a set of initially compressed data; forwarding the set of initially compressed data from the CPU to a hardware accelerator; utilizing the hardware accelerator to perform search result re-coding, table construction, and encoding to generate a set of further compressed data; and forwarding the set of further compressed data back to the CPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Yang Liu, Fei Sun, Hao Zhong
  • Publication number: 20180066059
    Abstract: Antibodies, chimeric antigen receptors, and bispecific T-cell engagers having specificity for B7-H6 and methods for using the same in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders associated with B7-H6 expression are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Charles L. SENTMAN, Tong ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9858679
    Abstract: Systems and methods associated with dynamic face identification are disclosed. One example method includes matching a query face against a set of clusters in a dynamic collection. Matching the query face against the set of clusters may facilitate identifying a person associated with the query face. The example method also includes matching the query face against a set of images in a static gallery to identify the person. Matching the query face against the static gallery may be performed when matching the query face against the set of clusters fails to identify the person. The example method also includes updating the set of clusters in the dynamic collection using the query face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Tong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9858008
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for transferring contiguous blocks of data between a host storage and a flash memory. A method is disclosed that includes: receiving from a host at a flash controller a host command that specifies a contiguous set of LBAs and specifies a corresponding sub-section of an LBA to PBA mapping table; fetching the sub-section of the LBA to PBA mapping table from the host and storing the sub-section in a sub-mapping table; and for each LBA in the contiguous set of LBAs, performing a look-up into the sub-mapping table to retrieve a corresponding PBA and using the corresponding PBA to effectuate a data transfer between the host and flash memory from the flash controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: ScaleFlux
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Hao Zhong, Fei Sun, Tong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9859363
    Abstract: A method of dividing drain select gate electrodes in a three-dimensional vertical memory device is provided. An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed over a substrate. A first insulating cap layer is formed over the alternating stack. A plurality of memory stack structures is formed through the alternating stack and the first insulating cap layer. The first insulating cap layer is vertically recessed, and a conformal material layer is formed over protruding portions of the memory stack structures. Spacer portions are formed by an anisotropic etch of the conformal material layer such that the sidewalls of the spacer portions having protruding portions. A self-aligned separator trench with non-uniform sidewalls having protruding portions is formed through an upper portion of the alternating stack by etching the upper portions of the alternating stack between the spacer portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Zhenyu Lu, Kota Funayama, Chun-Ming Wang, Jixin Yu, Chenche Huang, Tong Zhang, Daxin Mao, Johann Alsmeier, Makoto Yoshida, Lauren Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9860829
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a management apparatus and a method for wireless communication as well as an apparatus and a method for wireless communication. The management apparatus includes: a determining module, configured to select a communication unit satisfying a predetermined condition from among a communication unit cluster managed by the management apparatus, and determine interference information or load information of at least part of resource blocks corresponding to the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yanzhao Hou, Qimei Cui, Hui Liang, Qinyan Jiang, Tong Zhang, Xin Guo, Jinhui Chen, Chen Sun
  • Patent number: 9858629
    Abstract: A method and a system are provided determining affiliation of foreign payment card holders (e.g., students) with domestic educational institutions (e.g., universities and colleges). In particular, the present disclosure provides a method and a system for assessing the relative degree of proximity of the residential geolocation of the foreign payment card holders and the geolocation of the domestic educational institutions to facilitate determining whether the foreign payment card holders are affiliated with the domestic educational institutions, and also for assessing purchasing and payment behavior of the foreign payment card holders at domestic merchants. Predictive behavioral profiles are generated based on the purchasing and payment activities and shopping patterns of the foreign payment card holders by date at the domestic merchants, and the relative degree of proximity of the residential geolocation of the foreign payment card holders with the geolocation of the domestic educational institutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Edward M. Lee, Tong Zhang, Qian Wang
  • Patent number: 9853043
    Abstract: A method of forming a three-dimensional memory device, includes forming a lower stack structure of insulating and first sacrificial material layers over a substrate, forming first memory openings through the lower stack structure and filling the first memory openings with a sacrificial fill material, replacing the first sacrificial material layers with first electrically conductive layers, forming an upper stack structure of insulating and second sacrificial material layers over the lower stack structure after replacing the first sacrificial material layers, forming second memory openings through the upper stack structure in areas overlying the first memory openings, replacing the second sacrificial material layers with second electrically conductive layers, removing the sacrificial fill material from the first memory openings underneath the second memory openings to form inter-stack memory openings after replacing the second sacrificial material layers, and forming memory stack structures within the inter-st
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Zhenyu Lu, Daxin Mao, Tong Zhang, Johann Alsmeier, Wenguang Shi, Henry Chien
  • Publication number: 20170364933
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for predicting an order value. The method includes: obtaining information, wherein the information includes a historical order; determining an attribute feature of the historical order based on the information; and predicting the order value based on the attribute feature. The present disclosure also relates to a system for predicting the order value. The system includes a receiving module and a processing module, wherein the processing module is configured to predict the order value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guobao CHEN, Chengxiang ZHUO, Ming XU, Tong ZHANG, Haiyang LU, Kaijie QIN, Qi SONG
  • Patent number: 9838498
    Abstract: A system and method of providing direct data access between a non-volatile cache and a NIC in a computing system. A system is disclosed that includes a processing core embedded in a controller that controls a non-volatile cache; and a direct access manager for directing the processing core, wherein the direct access manager includes: a switch configuration system that includes logic to control a switch for either a remote direct access mode or a host access mode, wherein the switch couples each of the NIC, a local bus, and the non-volatile cache; a command processing system that includes logic to process data transfer commands; and a data transfer system that includes logic to manage the flow of data directly between the non-volatile cache and the NIC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ScaleFlux
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Hao Zhong, Fei Sun, Tong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9834606
    Abstract: Provided are antibodies that specifically bind to Programmed Death-1 (PD1, Pdcd-1, or CD279) and inhibit PD1-mediated cellular signaling and activities in immune cells, antibodies binding to a set of amino acid residues required for its ligand binding, and uses of these antibodies to treat or diagnose cancer, infectious diseases or other pathological disorders modulated by PD1-mediated functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: BEIGENE, LTD
    Inventors: Kang Li, Tong Zhang, Jing Song, Lanlan Xu, Qi Liu, Hao Peng
  • Patent number: 9833476
    Abstract: The invention is directed to T cells and other cells that express chimeric NK-p30 receptors (“chimeric NKp30 T cells”), methods of making and using chimeric NKp30 T cells, and methods of using these chimeric NKp30 T cells, isolated populations thereof, and compositions comprising the same. In another aspect, said chimeric NKp30 T cells are further designed to express a functional non-TCR receptor. The disclosure also pertains to methods of making said chimeric NKp30 T cells, and methods of reducing or ameliorating, or preventing or treating, diseases and disorders using said chimeric NKp30 T cells, populations thereof, or compositions comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Charles L. Sentman
  • Patent number: 9836248
    Abstract: A storage infrastructure, device and associated method for storing compressed data is provided. Included is a method for compressing data on a storage device in a storage infrastructure, including: receiving a compressed extent from a host, wherein the compressed extent includes data compressed with entropy-coding-less data compression; receiving logical identification information about the compressed extent from the host; performing in-memory entropy encoding on the compressed extent to generate a compressed unit; storing the compressed unit in a physical memory; and in a case where the host is aware of the in-memory entropy encoding, reporting size information of the compressed unit back the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ScaleFlux
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Hao Zhong, Fei Sun, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: D809969
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: BEIJING ZERO ZERO INFINITY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guanqun Zhang, Tong Zhang, Mengqiu Wang, Zhaozhe Wang, Lixin Liu
  • Patent number: D811264
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: HANGZHOU ZERO ZERO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guanqun Zhang, Tong Zhang, Mengqiu Wang, Zhaozhe Wang, Lixin Liu