Patents by Inventor WADE (WEIXUAN) ZHANG

WADE (WEIXUAN) 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: 12210453
    Abstract: A method for configurable caching, deduplication, and rate limit handling of user interface data requests according to an embodiment includes receiving a data request initiated by a user interface element of a user interface, determining whether a deduplication cache includes a deduplication entry associated with the data request, determining whether a main cache includes a cache entry associated with the data request in response to determining that the deduplication cache does not include the deduplication entry, determining whether the data request is associated with a rate-limited group of application programming interface endpoints in response to determining that the main cache does not include the cache entry or determining that the cache entry has expired, and making the data request to a backend system after a predefined server retry period associated with the rate-limited group has elapsed in response to determining that the data request is associated with the rate-limited group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Genesys Cloud Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles D. Fico, Stefan Brinton, Chad Slappey, Hanna Wade
  • Patent number: 12209693
    Abstract: A locking apparatus includes a housing, a fixing member, and a locking mechanism within the housing configured to resist movement of the fixing member in a first direction and to allow movement of the fixing member in a second direction opposite the first direction. The locking apparatus includes a lock path extending from a lock path entrance, through the locking mechanism, to a lock path exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Easy Solar Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Brady Schimpf, Benjamin Wade
  • Patent number: 12213019
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an image of a machine-readable data representation that is located on a physical object using a camera of an electronic device. The machine-readable data representation includes an encoded form of a data value. The method further includes decoding the machine-readable data representation to determine the data value, whereby the data value includes a content identifier and a content source identifier. The method also includes selecting a content source based on the content source identifier, obtaining a content item and content location information based on the content identifier from the content source, determining a content position and a content orientation for the content item relative to the physical object based on the content location information, and displaying a representation of the content item using the electronic device according to the content position and the content orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David W. Padgett, Christopher D. Fu, Scott G. Wade, Paul Ewers, Ioana Negoita, Thomas G. Salter, Dhruv Aditya Govil, Dimitris Ladopoulos
  • Publication number: 20250027771
    Abstract: A method of operating a resonator optical gyroscope includes generating optical signals having a broadband frequency range. The method includes coupling the optical signals into an optical resonator (OR) to propagate in a first direction and coupling the optical signals out of the OR after the optical signals pass through the OR in the first direction. The method includes coupling optical signals into the OR to propagate in a second direction and coupling optical signals out of the OR after the optical signals pass through the OR in the second direction. The method includes amplifying the optical signals coupled out of the OR by the second optical coupler or the optical signals coupled out of the OR by the first optical coupler to generate amplified optical signals and generating electrical signals corresponding to the amplified optical signals. The method includes determining a rotation rate based on the electrical signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Tiequn Qiu, Jianfeng Wu, Glen A. Sanders, Matthew Wade Puckett, Steven Tin, Marc Smiciklas
  • Publication number: 20250027772
    Abstract: Embodiments utilize an optical frequency comb generator coupled to an optical resonator of an optical gyroscope. The optical frequency comb generator generates an optical frequency comb having frequency peaks that each correspond to a respective resonance frequency of the optical resonator. A control servo can be coupled to the optical frequency comb generator and controls the optical frequency comb output from the optical frequency comb generator. In doing so, the optical frequency comb remains tuned to the resonance frequencies of the optical resonator during gyroscope operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Wu, Steven Tin, Tiequn Qiu, Matthew Wade Puckett, Glen A. Sanders, Chad Hoyt
  • Publication number: 20250025219
    Abstract: A tether assembly may be attached to a bone to correct a rotational deformity. The bone may have a growth plate that separates a first section of the bone from a second section of the bone. The tether assembly may have a tether member with a first end, a second end, and a central portion extending between the first end and the second end. The first end may have a closed outer wall that defines and fully bounds a first aperture. The second end may have an open outer wall that defines and partially bounds a second aperture. The open outer wall may define a slot in communication with the second aperture. The first and second ends may be securable to the first and second sections of the bone via coupling members inserted through the first and second apertures and anchored in the first and second sections, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Zackery EVANS, T. Wade FALLIN, Peter M. STEVENS
  • Publication number: 20250026187
    Abstract: A panel assembly for a vehicle door includes an interior panel that has an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface and the outer surface collectively define a body and a trim element that is integrally formed with the body with a living hinge disposed therebetween. The panel assembly also includes an exterior panel that has an inner surface that is coupled to the body at the inner surface of the interior panel and has an opposing outer surface that is coupled to the trim element in a folded position of the trim element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Wade W. Bryant, Thiago Canola Afonso, Junglim Huh
  • Publication number: 20250027911
    Abstract: A frit and a chromatography column that includes the frit are described. The frit is formed as a disk having a porosity, a radius and a thickness. The disk has a variation in porosity, thickness, or both porosity and thickness along a radial direction. A flow of a liquid through an outer region of the disk is advanced at an outlet end of the disk relative to a flow of the liquid through an inner region of the disk. The frit is configured to be disposed at one end of a column bed of a liquid chromatography column where the advance in the flow in the outer region relative to the flow in the inner region is predetermined to at least partially compensate for a radial variation in the linear velocity of the flow through the column bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Wade P. Leveille, Fabrice Gritti, Jason F. Hill, Sornanathan Meyyappan, Joseph D. Michienzi
  • Publication number: 20250026150
    Abstract: A method of making a non-pneumatic tire includes providing a non-pneumatic tire structure, and providing a first disk and a second disk. The method further includes securing the first disk to a first side of the non-pneumatic tire structure and securing the second disk to a second side of the non-pneumatic tire structure. The method also includes providing an elastomeric tread circumferentially about a top of the non-pneumatic tire structure and securing a curing envelope about the elastomeric tread. The securing of the curing envelope about the elastomeric tread includes the steps of securing a first end of the curing envelope to the first side of the non-pneumatic tire structure and securing a second end of the curing envelope to the second side of the non-pneumatic tire structure. The method further includes applying heat within the curing envelope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Wade L. Terrill, Merle R. Schlapkohl, Alexander G. Tomtschik, Chad M. Zeck, Terry A. Westway
  • Publication number: 20250029089
    Abstract: A method for providing data connectivity for a passenger in a commercial passenger vehicle is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: John WADE, Kevin ROGERS, Marshal PERLMAN, Andrej RONCEVIC, Andrew THOMPSON
  • Publication number: 20250025544
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are vectors that include antigen-encoding nucleic acid sequences and co-express immune modulators. Also disclosed are nucleotides, cells, and methods associated with the vectors including their use as vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Wade Blair, Karin Jooss, Leonid Gitlin, Ciaran Daniel Scallan, Amy Rachel Rappaport, Gijsbert Grotenbreg
  • Patent number: 12203294
    Abstract: An anti-theft device for securing an article of merchandise against unauthorized removal from a display counter. The anti-theft device comprises a latch plate and a pedestal having a quick-release interface. The latch plate is configured to selectively couple to the quick-release interface. A latch bolt is disposed within the pedestal. The latch bolt locks the latch plate relative to the quick-release interface. A plurality of retaining arms is configured to receive and retain an article of merchandise. The retaining arms cannot be disengaged from the article of merchandise while the latch plate is locked relative to the quick-release interface. A solenoid is housed within the pedestal and operationally connected to the latch bolt. The solenoid is configured to retract the latch bolt into a position in which the latch bolt disengages the latch plate, thereby releasing the latch plate from the quick-release interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Vanguard Products Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher A. Kelsch, Douglas Barthold, Joel Jenkins, Sarah Johnson, Chris Nelson, Wade Zhu, Matthew Kuntz, Lee Eckert, John N. Figh, Jr., Jasen Paul Biggins
  • Patent number: 12207539
    Abstract: Foldable substrates have a first portion, a second portion, and a central portion positioned therebetween with a first transition region having a first central surface area of the central portion with a first average angle. In aspects, the first average angle is from about 176.10 to about 179.9° or from about 177.0° to about 179.9°. In aspects, a polymer angle is from 178.3° to about 179.9° or from about 179.10 to about 179.9°. Methods comprise disposing an etch mask over the first major surface of the foldable substrate before etching the foldable substrate. In aspects, the etch mask comprises a first polymer layer positioned between a first barrier layer and the first major surface. In aspects, the etch mask comprises a plurality of ink-jet printed shapes. Methods of measuring a contrast ratio comprise impinging a transparent apparatus with a collimated beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Gabriel Pierce Agnello, Matthew Wade Fenton, Aize Li, Katherine Anne Lindberg, Ren Liu, Robert Arthur McIntosh, Adam James Ruggles, Vitor Marino Schneider
  • Patent number: 12206283
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to operating uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). The embodiments may include a plurality of capacitor banks, a UPS control circuit, and a central control circuit. The UPS control circuit is configured to cause an output of a clean electrical power, sample the clean electrical power, calculate control algorithm outputs based on the sampled clean electrical power, and output control algorithm results to the central control circuit. The central control circuit configured to detect a degradation of the plurality of capacitor banks, and transmit a service alert in response to the detection of the degradation of the plurality of capacitor banks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: VERTIV CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory Wade Ratcliff, Xian Chen
  • Patent number: 12206223
    Abstract: An electrical distribution enclosure includes an electrically insulated panel defining an access portion of the enclosure and a load portion of the enclosure; at least one electrically insulated compartment panel positioned within the access portion; and two or more compartments within the access portion, each compartment separated from an adjacent compartment by an electrically insulated compartment panel, each of the two or more compartments having a front-accessible neutral connection, at least one front-accessible phase connection and a at least rear phase connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Rebecca Ann Waddell, Gilbert Taylor Miller, Zachary Wade Smith, Thomas Anthony Kendzia, III, Frank Allen Cowan
  • Publication number: 20250019183
    Abstract: A conveyor assembly is provided with one or more partitions to divide or segment one or more conveyor rows. The assembly comprises a conveyor including an inlet and an outlet, with conveyor transport surface extending between the inlet and the outlet, which may by roller wheels. A plurality of retainers are supported by the conveyor in spaced relation with at least one partition extending between the retainers. Mounting interfaces between the retainers and the at least one partition facilitate removable support of each partition by the retainers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Mallard Handling Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Mark DeSmit, JR., Anthony Wade
  • Publication number: 20250017445
    Abstract: Medical software tools platform utilizes a surgical display to provide access to specific medical software tools, such as medically-oriented applications or widgets, that can assist those in the operating room, such as a surgeon or surgical team, with a surgery. For various embodiments, the medical software tools platform and its associated medical software tools are presented on a surgical display (e.g., being utilized in an operating room) over an image stream provided by a surgical camera (e.g., in use in the operating room or with other endoscopic procedures). Various medical software tools can provide features and functions that can facilitate integration of equipment in an operating room or add medical context awareness to anatomic structures presented in the image stream from the surgical camera and provide archived information pertaining to the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventor: JACK WADE
  • Publication number: 20250017686
    Abstract: Medical software tools platforms utilize a surgical display to provide access to specific medical software tools, such as medically-oriented applications or widgets, that can assist surgeons or surgical team in performing various procedures. In particular, an endoscopic camera may register the momentary rise in the optical signature reflected from a tissue surface and in turn transmit it to a medical image processing system which can also receive patient heart rate data and display relevant anomalies. Changes in various spectral components and the speed at which they change in relation to a source of stimulus (heartbeat, breathing, light source modulation, etc.) may indicate the arrival of blood, contrast agents or oxygen absorption. Combinations of these may indicate various states of differing disease or margins of tumors, and so forth. Also, changes in temperatures, physical dimensions, pressures, photoacoustic pressures and the rate of change may indicate tissue anomalies in comparison to historic values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventor: JACK WADE
  • Publication number: 20250021151
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dynamic backup battery for updating the firmware of a media device. The media device includes a memory device that is electrically coupled to a port. The port of the media device is configured to receive a first power. The media device also includes a battery that is electrically coupled to the port and is configured to supply a second power to the port. The media device includes a processor electrically coupled to the battery and is configured to monitor the power level of the first power received and based on the power level of the first power received falling below a threshold value, the battery supplies a second power to the port of the media device. The processor is further configured to activate a low power mode, detect an event while in low power mode, deactivate low power mode, perform a task, and reactivate low power mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony John WOOD, Wade Charles Brown
  • Publication number: 20250021099
    Abstract: A method comprises monitoring, by a processor, using a sensor of a first vehicle, data associated with a retroreflective feature near a road being driven by the first vehicle; vectorizing, by the processor, the data associated with the retroreflective feature; generating, by the processor, a digital map including vectorized data associated with the retroreflective feature and a location associated with the retroreflective feature; receiving, by the processor, data associated with the retroreflective feature from a second vehicle; and executing, by the processor, a localization protocol to identify a location of the second vehicle using the digital map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: TORC Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade FOSTER, Ryan CHILTON, Karan Vivek BHARGAVA, Gowtham Raj Gunaseela UDAYAKUMAR, Harish PULLAGURLA, Jason HARPER, Zachary MILLER