Patents by Inventor Tuo Shi

Tuo Shi 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: 20240061827
    Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein useful for managing a plurality of concurrent and nearly concurrent data requests within a computer system. The systems have a main data storage for storing source data, and a high speed, and/or remote data storage for storing computed data. In some embodiments, a combination of data filters and distributed mutex processes are used to eliminate or limit duplicate reads and writes into the high speed data storage units by ensuring only a single service module gets a lock to do the read and update of the cache; and makes it possible for keys to expire and be removed from the data filter. The systems and methods herein have various applications including retail sales environments where the requested data is related to product sales, product availability and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Gaurav Agrawal, Mingfeng Gong, Deiva Saranya Mandadi, Sandeep Singh, Tuo Shi
  • Publication number: 20230399667
    Abstract: Provided are a polynucleotide having promoter activity and an application of the polynucleotide in producing an amino acid. Also disclosed are a transcription expression cassette, a recombinant expression vector, and a recombinant host cell which contain the polynucleotide, and a method for enhancing expression of a target gene, a method for preparing a protein, and a method for producing an amino acid. The polynucleotide having the promoter activity is a mutant of a polynucleotide having the sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 9. Compared with the polynucleotide having the sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 9, the promoter activity of the mutant is significantly enhanced, thereby promoting the stable and efficient expression of the target gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Ping Zheng, Jiao Liu, Jibin Sun, Wenjuan Zhou, Tuo Shi, Xuan Guo, Yanhe Ma
  • Patent number: 11841843
    Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein useful for managing a plurality of concurrent and nearly concurrent data requests within a computer system. The systems have a main data storage for storing source data, and a high speed, and/or remote data storage for storing computed data. In some embodiments, a combination of data filters and distributed mutex processes are used to eliminate or limit duplicate reads and writes into the high speed data storage units by ensuring only a single service module gets a lock to do the read and update of the cache; and makes it possible for keys to expire and be removed from the data filter. The systems and methods herein have various applications including retail sales environments where the requested data is related to product sales, product availability and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Agrawal, Mingfeng Gong, Deiva Saranya Mandadi, Sandeep Singh, Tuo Shi
  • Patent number: 11772193
    Abstract: An annular hollow offset-focus laser cladding device, including a housing, a conical reflector arranged in the housing, an annular off-axis parabolic focusing mirror opposite to and arranged coaxially with the conical reflector, a nozzle installed below the conical reflector and a powder-spraying tube connected to a lower end of the nozzle. A top of the housing is provided with a light entrance; the conical reflector faces the light entrance; The powder-spraying tube is coaxial with the annular hollow offset-focusing light reflected by the annular off-axis parabolic focusing mirror; a collimating protective gas jacket is arranged on a periphery of the powder-spraying tube, and the collimating protective gas jacket is located between the annular hollow offset-focused light and the powder-spraying tube; the annular off-axis parabolic focusing mirror is configured to create a horizontally offset of parent parabola focus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tuo Shi, Rongwei Zhang, Geyan Fu, Shihong Shi
  • Patent number: 11759891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for depositing a horizontal rib on an unequal-height section by laser cladding, including the following steps: providing an unequal-height section and a laser cladding device, determining a deposition position on the unequal-height section, and determining a length of a rib on the unequal-height section according to the deposition position; using a lowest point of the deposition position as a first segment of the rib and a highest point as a last segment of the rib; determining a number of segments of the rib according to the length and a vertical height of each segment of the rib; determining a cladding speed of each segment of the rib according to a relationship between a cladding height of each segment of the rib and a scanning speed under a certain parameter, and carrying out laser cladding to obtain a horizontal rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tuo Shi, Dongsheng Li, Gang Li, Weiwei Jiang, Hao Su
  • Publication number: 20230272366
    Abstract: Disclosed are a mutant of a pyruvate carboxylase gene promoter of Corynebacterium glutamicum and applications thereof. The mutant has improved promoter activity compared with a wild-type promoter, and can be used for enhancing expression of a target gene, for example, operably ligating the mutant to a pyruvate carboxylase gene enhances the expression intensity of the pyruvate carboxylase, thereby improving the production efficiency of amino acids of the strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Jibin Sun, Jiao Liu, Ping Zheng, Tuo Shi, Wenjuan Zhou, Jiuzhou Chen, Xuan Guo, Yanhe Ma
  • Publication number: 20230242952
    Abstract: Provided are Corynebacterium glutamicum that produces L-lysine, a method for constructing the L-lysine producing strain, and a method for producing L-lysine from the strain. The lysine yield and glucose conversion of the L-lysine producing strain are improved, thereby reducing the production cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Jibin Sun, Jiuzhou Chen, Ping Zheng, Wenjuan Zhou, Xuan Guo, Tuo Shi, Jiao Liu, Yanhe Ma
  • Publication number: 20230184905
    Abstract: An optical system of a laser radar is provided, which includes: a laser emitting module (100) configured to emit an initial beam; a beam splitting conversion module (200) configured to split the initial beam; a first lens group (05) configured to focus split beams; a reflective mirror group (06) configured to reflect focused beams to a MEMS scanning module (07); the MEMS scanning module (07) configured to reflect focused beams, receive return light formed by the focused beams when being reflected back, and reflect the return light to the reflective mirror group (06), in which the return light is outputted from the reflective mirror group (06) to the beam splitting conversion module (200); and a laser receiving module (300) configured to output a light detection value based on the received return light. A laser radar system is further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Jiayao LIU, Xiandong MENG, Tuo SHI
  • Patent number: 11675058
    Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) includes: a light-emitting unit, a light receiving unit and a control unit. In the light emitting unit, first light from a first light source, after being reflected by a first surface of a first mirror, reaches the scan unit. In the light emitting unit, second light from a second light source, after being reflected by a second mirror and transmitted through the first mirror via a second surface of the first mirror, reaches the scan unit, using an overlapping path with the first light. Light intensity of the second light transmitted through the first mirror is lower than that of the first light reflected by the first mirror. The control unit enables only the first light source, and in response to determining that measurements from the light receiving unit are saturated, automatically switches off the first light source and enable the second light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Zvision Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tuo Shi, Bingbing Xia, Jiayao Liu
  • Patent number: 11541456
    Abstract: Provided is a FeCrCuTiV high-entropy alloy powder for laser melting deposition manufacturing and a preparation method thereof, in percent by weight, the composition of the high-entropy alloy powder is: chromium 17-20%; copper 22-25%; titanium 16-19%; vanadium 17-20%; and ferrum 19-22%, wherein by utilizing the solid solution effect of alloying elements such as Ti, V and Cu of the high-entropy alloy, it can effectively alleviate the differences in thermal expansion coefficient, melting point, elastic modulus, etc. of the tungsten/steel or tungsten/copper heterogeneous interface, can reduce the residual stress level at the heterogeneous interface during the laser melting deposition manufacturing process and avoid the precipitation of Laves phase, and can meet the manufacturing requirements of tungsten/steel and tungsten/copper heterogeneous components for fusion reactors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhixin Xia, Wenjuan Jiang, Tuo Shi, Lei Chen, Jiachao Xu
  • Patent number: 11542719
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flexible connecting structure of a prefabricated component and a building main body. The flexible connecting structure comprises multiple layers of cast-in-situ building main bodies spaced up and down, a prefabricated component is connected between two adjacent cast-in-situ building main bodies, a tenon is provided at the lower end of the prefabricated component, a mortise matching the tenon is provided on the top surface of the cast-in-situ building main body, and the prefabricated component is socketed to the lower layer of cast-in-situ building main body by tenon-and-mortise cooperation; and a first flexible layer for reducing the connection rigidity between the prefabricated component and the upper layer of cast-in-situ building main body is provided at the junction between the prefabricated component and the upper layer of cast-in-situ building main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: HUNAN CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING GROUP CO., LTD., HUNAN CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Weichao Chen, Weijun Tang, Mingliang Zhang, Qingfeng Dai, Tuo Shi, Zengguang Wang, Qinglian Yuan, Wei Liu
  • Publication number: 20220371124
    Abstract: A method for realizing high-speed cladding of hollow offset-focus annual laser. The method includes the following steps: dividing laser into annual light, and forming an offset-focus annual light spot after the annual light is focused, which acts on a surface of a matrix; during cladding for the surface of the matrix, selecting laser parameters according to different materials; after every cladding, making a shift by 20-80% of the diameter of the light spot in a vertical direction of a scanning speed of the laser; in the cladding process, selecting shielding gas for protection, and blowing the shielding gas to the molten powder in the air to spray the molten powder in air towards the surface of the matrix at a certain speed so that the cladding layer and the matrix are bonded firmly, and cladding the surface of the matrix to form a coating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Soochow University
    Inventors: Tuo Shi, Rongwei Zhang, Geyan Fu, Shihong Shi, Yu Wang
  • Publication number: 20220362885
    Abstract: An annular hollow offset-focus laser cladding device, including a housing, a conical reflector arranged in the housing, an annular off-axis parabolic focusing mirror opposite to and arranged coaxially with the conical reflector, a nozzle installed below the conical reflector and a powder-spraying tube connected to a lower end of the nozzle. A top of the housing is provided with a light entrance; the conical reflector faces the light entrance; The powder-spraying tube is coaxial with the annular hollow offset-focusing light reflected by the annular off-axis parabolic focusing mirror; a collimating protective gas jacket is arranged on a periphery of the powder-spraying tube, and the collimating protective gas jacket is located between the annular hollow offset-focused light and the powder-spraying tube; the annular off-axis parabolic focusing mirror is configured to create a horizontally offset of parent parabola focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tuo SHI, Rongwei ZHANG, Geyan FU, Shihong SHI
  • Publication number: 20220358112
    Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein useful for managing a plurality of concurrent and nearly concurrent data requests within a computer system. The systems have a main data storage for storing source data, and a high speed, and/or remote data storage for storing computed data. In some embodiments, a combination of data filters and distributed mutex processes are used to eliminate or limit duplicate reads and writes into the high speed data storage units by ensuring only a single service module gets a lock to do the read and update of the cache; and makes it possible for keys to expire and be removed from the data filter. The systems and methods herein have various applications including retail sales environments where the requested data is related to product sales, product availability and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Gaurav Agrawal, Mingfeng Gong, Deiva Saranya Mandadi, Sandeep Singh, Tuo Shi
  • Publication number: 20220317273
    Abstract: The present invention provides an underwater acoustic target ranging method based on feature extraction and a neural network, including: acquiring underwater acoustic signals transmitted by an underwater acoustic target at different distances, dividing data by seconds, and using data of one second as one sample; performing framing on each sample; and separately calculating a zero-crossing rate of a time domain waveform, the second, fifth, and eighth coefficients of MFCC, a spectral centroid, a spectral skewness, a spectral entropy, and a spectral sharpness for each frame of data of each sample. In the underwater acoustic target ranging method based on feature extraction and a neural network provided in the present invention, the received underwater acoustic signal data is directly processed, so that the real-time performance is high and the reaction speed is fast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Zhongzhe XIAO, Min HUANG, Junjun JIANG, Tuo SHI, Di WU
  • Patent number: 11453086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for laser cladding and forming of a metal or alloy under partial atmosphere protection. Including: transporting a metal or alloy powder beam by an inert carrier gas to move on a machined surface with a focused laser beam; and forming at least one layer of inert protective gas at the outer periphery of the metal or alloy powder beam. The inert protective gas includes first inert protective gas, and the first inert protective gas is at the outer periphery of the focused laser beam. The problems of limited size, high cost and difficulty in moving a cladding and forming system and the like during part forming are solved by forming the inert protective gas at the outer periphery of the focused laser beam. Compared with the prior art, the convenient, fast and economical method is provided for on-site part forming and repair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tuo Shi, Geyan Fu, Shihong Shi, Jizhuo Wu
  • Patent number: 11429585
    Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided herein useful for managing a plurality of concurrent and nearly concurrent data requests within a computer system. The systems have a main data storage for storing source data, and a high speed, and/or remote data storage for storing computed data. In some embodiments, a combination of data filters and distributed mutex processes are used to eliminate or limit duplicate reads and writes into the high speed data storage units by ensuring only a single service module gets a lock to do the read and update of the cache; and makes it possible for keys to expire and be removed from the data filter. The systems and methods herein have various applications including retail sales environments where the requested data is related to product sales, product availability and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Agrawal, Mingfeng Gong, Deiva Saranya Mandadi, Sandeep Singh, Tuo Shi
  • Publication number: 20220268891
    Abstract: A lidar system includes a laser emitting light source-044, a scanning unit, a transmitting-receiving-coaxial optical unit and a differential reception unit. The laser emitting light source includes a laser and a modulator. The transmitting-receiving-coaxial optical unit is configured to receiving receive a frequency-modulated emission light signal, and pass the same to the scanning unit and the differential reception unit, and is also configured to pass a reflected light signal to the differential reception unit. The scanning unit is configured to reflecting the frequency-modulated emission light signal to a target object at a deflectable angle, and reflect the reflected light signal from the target object to the transmitting-receiving-coaxial optical unit. The differential reception unit is configured to differentially receive the reflected light signal based on the received frequency-modulated emission light signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Tuo SHI
  • Publication number: 20220261621
    Abstract: Disclosed are an artificial sensory nervous circuit and a manufacturing method thereof. The artificial sensory nervous circuit includes a sensor (S), a first memristor (RS), and a neuron circuit, where the first memristor (RS) has a unidirectional resistance characteristic. The sensor (S) is configured to sensing an external signal and generating an excitation signal according to the external signal. The first memristor (RS) is configured to generating a response signal according to the excitation signal. The neuron circuit is configured to perform charging and discharging according to the response signal so as to output a pulse signal. With the artificial sensory nervous circuit and the manufacturing method thereof, sensitivity and habituation characteristics of biological perception are realized by using a simple circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Qi LIU, Zuheng WU, Tuo SHI, Ming LIU, Hangbing LV, Xumeng ZHANG, Wei WANG
  • Patent number: D988888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: ZVISION TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiayao Liu, Chengliang Yan, Bin Cheng, Tuo Shi