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).

  • Publication number: 20240384929
    Abstract: A system and method for treating associated gas in which a stream of raw gas is passed through safety valving, an inlet pressure control mechanism, and an inlet scrubber. Pressure/temperature data is transmitted to a control system via pressure and temperature transducers. The raw gas is sent to a gas compressor to generate pressurized gas, which is sent to an aerial cooler and a chiller heat exchanger, in which a chilling media contacts the pressurized gas. The chilled pressurized gas is sent to a vapor liquid separator to generate processed gas, which is routed through either a system backpressure valve or a pressure reducing recycle valve that directs the processed gas to the inlet scrubber. The processed gas that has passed through the system backpressure valve is delivered as fuel or routed through a backpressure regulating recycle valve that directs the processed gas to a system inlet pressure reducing valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Peterson, James L. Haider, Brian R. Cebull, Austin VanDelinder, Tim Boelter, Stephen Doll, Wade Wolf, Joey Hope
  • Publication number: 20240382235
    Abstract: Devices for treating uterine bleeding. An actuator is configured to receive an input to deploy an intrauterine portion of the device to assume a larger outer profile within the uterus. The actuator may be coupled to a device body and configured to receive a pull input, a push input, or a twist input. The intrauterine portion may include flexible opposing members, rotatable tines, a segmented hook, an adjustable loop, or compressible foam. The intrauterine portion defines a lumen and suction ports configured to draw suction within the uterus. Indicia may be provided on the actuator to indicate an extent by which the intrauterine portion has been deployed within the uterus. An orientation of the actuator may correspond to a direction of deployment of the intrauterine portion. The device may include valves and an auxiliary suction source configured to provide suction with the device decoupled from a vacuum source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Brian MacLachlan, Robert L. Esser, Laura Frank, Patrick Lafleche, Leif Norland, Lucas Wade, Lauren R. West, John P. Bernero, Christy Sepulveda, Spencer Gage VanSickle
  • Publication number: 20240387044
    Abstract: A system for improving patient outcomes for musculoskeletal care that utilizes an algorithm trained using images of musculoskeletal pathology. The system can include numerous models where each model can be trained with images from MRIs, CT Scans, X-Rays, and PET scans, or any other existing imaging technology capable of imaging a patient's musculoskeletal pathology. The system can annotate the images to generate reports with the annotations for further use in diagnosing a disease or reporting to an insurance provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Sreenivas Sukumar, Adam Bruggeman, John Burrow, Lloyd Wade, Larry Roberts
  • Publication number: 20240388093
    Abstract: A system for accounting for and allocating energy value amongst (i) energy equivalent quantity (EEQ) suppliers associated with supplier accounts and that contribute EEQ to a total energy supply and (ii) energy consumers associated with a consumer account and that issue energy demands for energy. An energy cloud value allocation system (e-cloud) facilitates and controls an exchange of EEQ and energy between the EEQ suppliers and the energy consumers. The e-cloud receives EEQ contributions from the EEQ suppliers and generates energy credits, where a value of each energy credit is based on the EEQ contribution. The e-cloud is also configured to receive energy demands from the energy consumers and to satisfy the energy demands by delivering energy and EEQ to the consumers. Finally, the e-cloud generates energy debits, where a value of each energy debit is based on the EEQ that is delivered to the energy consumer from the e-cloud in response to energy demands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Electric Power Board, an Independent Board of the City of Chattanooga
    Inventors: David Wade, Jim Ingraham
  • Publication number: 20240382232
    Abstract: A loading tool for loading a biostimulator onto a biostimulator delivery system is described. The loading tool includes a first body portion and a second body portion connected by a hinge. A latch is mounted on the first body portion, and the latch can be locked to fasten the first body portion to the second body portion. A biostimulator can be mounted in the loading tool, and a tether of a biostimulator delivery system can be inserted through a funnel in the loading tool to engage the biostimulator. An operator can use only one hand to unlock the latch, open the loading tool, and remove the loading tool from the biostimulator prior to delivering the biostimulator into a patient. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Byron Liehwah Chun, Sondra Orts, Thomas B. Eby, Stephanie M. Raymond, Mike Sacha, Bernhard Arnar, Adam Weber, Jennifer Heisel, Wade Keller
  • Patent number: 12149532
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for securely distributing computational analysis across analytics nodes. In some embodiments, a system includes a plurality of analytics nodes with each analytics node managing access to its own data sources. The system includes an analytics controller configured to interact with a user to generate an analytic request including a selection of one or more analytics and a selection of one or more data sources determined based on the one or more selected analytics. The generated analytic request is transmitted to one or more analytics nodes corresponding to the one or more selected data sources. Each analytics node that receives the analytic request is configured to execute the analytic request to generate a result. The result from each analytics node of the one or more analytics nodes can be transmitted to the user issuing the analytic request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Cj Rieser, Robyn J. Wade
  • Patent number: 12144709
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprises first and second substrates and one or more elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the substrates. The second substrate is attached to the first substrate and/or to portions of the elastic elements. The absorbent article comprises an adhesive having a first and second pattern of elements disposed on first substrate, and first and second texture zones. The first texture zone comprises a first portion of the substrates, a first portion of the elastic elements, and the first pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a background pattern in the first portion of the substrates. The second texture zone comprises a second portion of the substrates, a second portion of the one or more elastic elements, and the second pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a macro pattern in the second portion of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ronald Joseph Zink, Sarah Marie Wade, Tina Marie Glahn, Rachael Eden Walther, Gary Dean LaVon, Nicholas Paul Goyette, Kaoru Ishihara, Amanda Margaret Bicking, Diana Juratovac
  • Publication number: 20240380586
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for secure encryption and decryption of a file may be provided which may include generating, by a first processor, a plurality of encryption isokeys, wherein the plurality of encryption isokeys include a first public isokey, a second public isokey, and a private isounit; and encrypting, by the first processor, ciphertext associated with a message based on the plurality of encryption isokeys. The approach may also include receiving, by a second processor, the ciphertext associated with the message; generating, by the second processor, a plurality of decryption isokeys, wherein the plurality of decryption isokeys include the private isounit, a private decryption isokey, and the first public isokey; and decrypting, by the second processor, the message associated with the ciphertext based on the plurality of decryption isokeys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Mamadou I. WADE
  • Publication number: 20240374089
    Abstract: A device may include an enclosure configured to receive, store, and dispense a cleaning fluid. A device may include a support base, wherein the enclosure and support base can be configured to support a roll of cleaning wipes in a manner that permits the roll to rotate when one or more cleaning wipes are removed from the roll, wherein the enclosure is configured to be securely attached to the support base by pushing the enclosure downward onto an attachment region of the support base; and wherein the enclosure is configured to be released from the support base by pushing the enclosure downward. A liquid dispenser can have an elongate interior reservoir, a protruding carry loop, and an engagement zone with contours that engage with a latch in a paper-towel holder. The dispenser can have a spray trigger underneath the carry loop and a protruding roll stop. It can be sized to fit within a cylindrical cardboard tube configured to hold paper towels. A paper-towel holder can support and engage a liquid dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Frank Yang, Joseph Sandor, Myk Wayne Lum, Adam C. Wade
  • Publication number: 20240380177
    Abstract: A photonics device comprises a waveguide platform including a substrate layer, a cladding layer over the substrate layer, and a waveguide layer embedded in the cladding layer. The waveguide layer includes a waveguide ring resonator, and a bus waveguide in optical communication with the waveguide ring resonator. The waveguide ring resonator is configured to generate a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) beam when a pump laser beam is optically coupled into the waveguide ring resonator from the bus waveguide. The waveguide ring resonator has a radius and corresponding round-trip path length such that a free-spectral range (FSR) of the waveguide ring resonator is misaligned with respect to a SBS gain peak of the SBS beam, such that an SBS gain coefficient has a magnitude to produce a substantially reduced linewidth of the SBS beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Wade Puckett, Jianfeng Wu, Tiequn Qiu, Steven Tin, Karl D. Nelson, Chad Hoyt
  • Publication number: 20240374046
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, among other things, techniques for waking a user by changing the user's sleep environment. In one example, a method includes receiving, at a central controller of an air mattress system, at least one user alarm setting, generating, via the central controller, at least one instruction based on the received user alarm setting, and transmitting, from the central controller, the at least one instruction to a first component of the air mattress system to adjust a feature of the first component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Rob Nunn, Wade Daniel Palashewski, Matthew Wayne Tilstra, Stacy Marie Stusynski, Steven Jay Young, Carl Hewitt
  • Publication number: 20240377199
    Abstract: A gyroscope comprises a source emitting a broadband beam, and a first waveguide arrangement that splits the beam into CCW and CW beams. First and second phase modulators are coupled to the waveguide arrangement and provide phase modulations or frequency shifts to the CCW and CW beams. An optical resonator is in communication with the phase modulators such that the CCW and CW beams are optically coupled into the resonator. A second waveguide arrangement receives the CCW and CW beams transmitted from the resonator. First and second RIN detectors are coupled to the second waveguide arrangement and respectively receive the CCW and CW beams. A rate detector receives the CCW and CW beams. A rate calculation unit receives intensity noise signals from the RIN detectors, and rate and intensity noise signals from the rate detector. The rate calculation unit performs a RIN subtraction technique to reduce intensity noise limited ARW.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Jianfeng Wu, Tiequn Qiu, Steven Tin, Glen A. Sanders, Matthew Wade Puckett
  • Publication number: 20240374442
    Abstract: A first aid medical treatment apparatus, wherein the apparatus' case and duct tape allow for efficient and easy use and creation of different bandages without necessitating every type of bandage being part of the first aid kit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: WADE MELLING, MITCHELL J. MELLING
  • Patent number: 12138461
    Abstract: An intracardiac pacemaker system is configured to produce physiological atrial event signals by a sensing circuit of a ventricular intracardiac pacemaker and select a first atrial event input as the physiological atrial event signals. The ventricular intracardiac pacemaker detects atrial events from the selected first atrial event input, determines if input switching criteria are met, and switches from the first atrial event input to a second atrial event input in response to the input switching criteria being met. The second atrial event input includes broadcast atrial event signals produced by a second implantable medical device and received by the ventricular intracardiac pacemaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade M. Demmer, Yong K. Cho, Mark K. Erickson, Todd J. Sheldon
  • Patent number: 12141826
    Abstract: A method of providing digital content is disclosed. A request to view and interact with the digital content is received from a user. In response to the request, it is determined whether the user has advert-free rights to view and interact with the digital content. In response to determining that the user does not have the advert-free rights to view and interact with the digital content, the user is provided with an alternative advert (AA) query that includes AA query items. The AA query items include at least one preselected AA query item, where the preselected AA query item is enabled or not enabled to be unselected by the user. In response to determining that an AA query response to the AA query was received from the user within a predefined time period, the requested digital content is provided to a user device of the user without adverts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Rivit TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Bradley, Shrikesh Karunakaran Pillai
  • Patent number: 12141009
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony John Wood, Wade Charles Brown
  • Patent number: 12139831
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for providing crimped bast fibers which may include providing an input of bast fibers, adjusting the moisture content of the bast fibers to be in the range of about 10% to about 40% by weight to form a fiber mat, and contacting the fiber mat with a pair of heated crimping rolls to provide crimped bast fibers having a crimp of about 1 to about 10 crimps per centimeter. The invention further provides for a nonwoven fabric comprising at least 5% of the crimped bast fibers. The crimping of the bast fibers in these nonwoven fabrics is beneficial to forming a drylaid, airlaid or wetlaid nonwoven fabric that has desirable properties related to performance in a variety of nonwoven product applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: BAST FIBRE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Jason David Finnis, Wade Edsel Chute
  • Patent number: 12139236
    Abstract: A foil displacement system includes one or more foils that can be deployed and stowed. When deployed, each foil can exert downforce or uplift depending on its orientation. For example, each foil may be positioned to have an angle of attack that creates a downward force effectively transmitted to the hull to pull the hull deeper within the water to, for example, create a larger wake. Use of the foil displacement system can enhance or replace the use of a ballast tank system, can be integrated into a new boat or retrofitted to existing boats, can be electronically or manually positioned, can enhance activities such as wake surfing, wake boarding, water skiing or other similar or related water sports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Malibu Boats, LLC
    Inventors: Cory Wade Dugger, Rachael Marie Green, Jeffrey Lee Predmore, Scott Thomas Ward, Matthew Welton
  • Patent number: 12141786
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a printed circuit board having a physically unclonable function (PUF) source. The electronic device may also include processing circuitry positioned on the printed circuit board. The PUF source includes a plurality of traces and each trace includes a first portion and a second portion having an increased surface area relative to the first portion. The PUF source is responsive to an input from the processing circuitry to provide PUF data based on the impedance characteristics of the plurality of traces. The processing circuitry is further configured to process the PUF data from the PUF source to perform an operation within the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamran Sharifi, Jeremy Wade, Bertram Leesti, Afshin Rezayee, Yue Yang, Max Joseph Guise
  • Publication number: 20240369766
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for implementing a low insertion loss optical coupler utilizing a low confinement planar optical waveguide and two high confinement planar optical waveguides. The optical coupler efficiently couples an optical signal with a cross section greater than either high confinement planar optical waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Wade Puckett, Chad Hoyt, Karl D. Nelson, Jianfeng Wu