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: 12121788
    Abstract: A golf club fitting apparatus and a method for fitting using the apparatus are provided. The golf club fitting apparatus may be attached to a golf club and provide fitting information including effective lie angle and effective loft angle. The golf club fitting apparatus includes a lower surface that contacts a butt end of a grip, an upper surface opposite the lower surface, and a side surface connecting the upper and lower surfaces. An angle indicator is disposed at a predetermined angle relative to a shaft axis of the golf club so as to rest in a neutral position when the golf club is in a normal address position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Don T. Cameron, Nicholas C. Wade
  • Publication number: 20240345185
    Abstract: A photonics device for threshold magnetometry includes an absorbent material with nonlinear optical susceptibility, such as a diamond material with nitrogen vacancy defects, that is disposed in an optical resonator. The optical resonator receives light from an input source and includes nonlinear optical properties that enable the resonator to undergo a nonlinear photon generation process at a certain threshold power level to generate photons at distinct frequencies from the input light. The absorbent material absorbs photons entering the resonator when excited, which causes the threshold power level to shift as a function of the absorption. This may cause the optical resonator to stop generating photons via the nonlinear photon generation process and output a change in power. The change in power can be used to determine the characteristics of a present magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Wade Puckett, Neal Eldrich Solmeyer, Mary Salit, Jianfeng Wu, Matthew Robbins
  • Publication number: 20240347930
    Abstract: Register banks are used to allow for fast beam switching in a phased array system. Each beam forming channel is associated with a register bank containing M register sets for configuring such things as gain/amplitude and phase parameters of the beam forming channel. The register banks for all beam forming channels can be pre-programmed and then fast beam switching circuitry allows all beam forming channels across the array to be switched to use the same register set from its corresponding register bank at substantially the same time, thereby allowing the phased array system to be quickly switched between various beam patterns and orientations. Active power control circuitry may be used to control the amount of electrical power provided to or consumed by one or more individual beam forming channels such as to reduce DC power consumption of the array and/or to selectively change the effective directivity of the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Kristian N. Madsen, Wade C. Allen, Jonathan P. Comeau, Robert J. McMorrow, David W. Corman, Nitin Jain, Robert Ian Gresham, Gaurav Menon, Vipul Jain
  • Publication number: 20240342453
    Abstract: In an aspect of the invention, an array of microprotrusions is formed by providing a mold with cavities corresponding to the negative of the microprotrusions, casting atop the mold a first solution comprising a biocompatible material and a solvent, removing the solvent, casting a second solution atop the first cast solution, removing the solvent from the second solution, and demolding the resulting array from the mold. The first solution preferably contains an active ingredient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Parminder Singh, Robert Wade Worsham, Joseph C. Trautman, Danir Bayramov, Danny Lee Bowers, Andrew Richard Klemm, Steven Richard Klemm, Guohua Chen
  • Publication number: 20240349169
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a single platform that provides controller functionality for each of security, monitoring and automation, as well as providing a capacity to function as a bidirectional internet gateway. Embodiments of the present invention provide such functionality by virtue of a configurable architecture that enables a user to adapt the system for the user's specific needs. Embodiments of the present invention further provide for a software-based installation workflow to activate and provision the controller and associated sensors and network. Embodiments of the present invention also provide for downloading of previously-stored configuration data to the controller from a remote server, and for activation and provisioning of the controller from the previously-stored configuration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Alan Wade COHN, Gary Robert FAULKNER, James Edward KITCHEN, David Leon PROFT, Corey Wayne QUAIN
  • Publication number: 20240341491
    Abstract: A cushion, such as a body cushion, includes a cover that includes a support grid, as well as a primary cushion within the cover. The cushion and, thus, its cover and primary cushion may be elongated. For example the cushion, its cover, and its primary cushion may have cylindrical shapes. Methods of manufacturing and using such cushions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventor: Wade Hoover
  • Publication number: 20240344334
    Abstract: This invention relates to clip (1) and clip installation apparatus and more particularly, but not exclusively, to a decking board clip for securing decking boards to a support structure and apparatuses for installing decking board clips. The clip comprising a body having an inner part (3) made of a first material and an outer part (4) made of a second material, the body having a first retaining formation and a second retaining formation (8), the first retaining formation being resiliently moveable between an engaged position in which it engages in a groove of a decking board to provide a bias onto part of the groove and a disengaged position wherein it is not engaged inside the groove of the decking board and extends freely from the body, the body also having a receiving formation (5) for receiving a fastener to fasten the clip to a support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Wesley Raymond CHAPMAN, Gareth Wade Gadsby CHAPMAN, Caitlynne Gail COLLENDER, Marc Peter MINNE
  • Patent number: 12120784
    Abstract: A garage door threshold warmer is provided. The garage door threshold warmer includes an electric heating element positioned within a seal that is securable at the lower end of a garage door. The heating element is designed to prevent the seal from freezing to the garage floor in cold climates, thus minimizing damage to the garage door and maintaining an effective seal against snow entry. The heating element is in electronic communication with a power source via a wire system that includes mating first and second connectors for ease of disconnection and reconnection as the garage door moves between an open and closed position, respectively. This automatic disconnection and reconnection mechanism engages as the garage door opens and closes to ensure that the heating element is only activated when the door is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: Stephen Wade Victor Dyck
  • Patent number: 12115043
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to absorbent articles comprising belts comprising one or more pluralities of tightly spaced (less than 4 mm, less than 3 mm, less than 2 mm, and less than 1 mm) and/or low decitex (less than 300, less than 200, less than 100 dtex) and/or low strain (less than 300%, less than 200%, less than 100%) elastics to deliver low pressure less than 1 psi (according to the conditions defined by the Pressure-Under-Strand Test in the Method below) under the elastics, while providing adequate Section-Modulus of (between about 2 gf/mm and 15 gf/mm), resulting in a Product Length-to-Waist Silhouette that is within from about ?0.3 to about 0.3 of the Target Body Length-to-Waist Silhouette to make the article conform better to the body of the wearer at a lower Pressure-Under-Strand, even with a loaded core (holding at least 50 mls of liquid), to provide for the advantages described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gary Dean LaVon, Bret Darren Seitz, Uwe Schneider, Sarah Marie Wade, Joseph Allen Eckstein
  • Patent number: 12117869
    Abstract: Systems involve implementations such as an electronic-controller-implemented method for use with an accessory assembly couplable with a device assembly and a payment card reader assembly, the method including determining activation status of the accessory assembly; and controlling charging status of the device assembly based at least in part on the activation status of the accessory assembly. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Pioneer Square Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Riley Edwin Lynch, Quentin Wade Forbes
  • Patent number: 12115389
    Abstract: A motion-enable device includes a mechanical switch and a capacitive sensor with a sensing region that is located adjacent to the mechanical switch. The mechanical switch enables a first signal when closed or actuated that indicates that the mechanical switch is in an active state. The capacitive sensor enables a second signal when a conductive object is disposed in the sensing region, where the second signal indicates that the capacitive sensor is in an active state. Enablement of operation of an apparatus depends on receipt of both the first signal and the second signal. The mechanical switch and the capacitive sensor act as the two separate switches required by functional safety requirements for a motion enable device. Because the sensing region of the capacitive sensor is adjacent to the mechanical switch, the first and second signals are generated when an operator actuates the mechanical switch with a single digit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ross Hannibal, Wade Curtiss
  • Patent number: 12116560
    Abstract: Adjustable gravity simulators, mechanical loading devices, and methods for simulating gravitational loads and cell culturing are described. Further provided is an adjustable gravity simulator having a simulator chamber and a mechanical loading device configured to apply a mechanical load to samples in the simulator chamber while the simulator chamber experiences a microgravity or partial gravity simulation. Advantageously, the adjustable gravity simulator as described herein can address the challenges associated with cell culturing in simulated microgravity or partial gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The University of Toledo
    Inventors: Eda Yildirim-Ayan, Halim Ayan, Charles Wade
  • Patent number: 12119691
    Abstract: A portable electronic device charger system includes (I) a portable electronic device charger assembly including (A) at least one device bay including (i) a floor including an electrical interface; (ii) a first wall extending perpendicularly from the floor; (II) a portable electronic device case assembly; and (III) an electrical power coupler removably electrically couplable to the interface, and removably couplable to the first wall, and removably couplable to the portable electronic device case assembly. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Pioneer Square Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Riley Edwin Lynch, Quentin Wade Forbes, William Miles Haskins
  • Publication number: 20240335355
    Abstract: A vial adaptor is disclosed. The vial adaptor can include a cap member and a piston. The cap member can removably couple to a vial storing, for example, liquid constituent for facilitating sample collection for detecting pathogens. The piston can distally translate through the cap member and into the vial to generate volume displacement and positive pressure, which can cause the liquid constituent stored in the vial to flow out from the vial via a channel formed within the piston. The piston can include a cover that creates a water-tight seal with an inner surface of the vial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Jordan Wade, Aman Adam Ullah
  • Publication number: 20240337051
    Abstract: Nonwoven fabrics are provided that include a first nonwoven layer comprising a first plurality of fine fibers. The first plurality of fine fibers comprises a first polymeric material including (i) a first polymer component and (ii) optionally one or more first additives, wherein the first polymer component comprises a first recycled-polypropylene (rPP) comprising a visbroken spunbond grade polypropylene having a first melt flow rate (MFR) before visbreaking and second MFR after visbreaking, and wherein the second MFR is larger than the first MFR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Ralph A. Moody, III, Mehmet Selcuk Sinangil, James Ernest Sparks, Michael Wade Hayes, Christopher Bradley Walter, Sergio Rafael Diaz de Leon Izquierdo
  • Publication number: 20240339546
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a channel region between a source region and a drain region, a gate over the channel region, a dielectric layer over the gate, a capacitive field plate over the dielectric layer, and a word line electrically coupled to the capacitive field plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Chin-Yi HUANG, Wade SHIH
  • Publication number: 20240339193
    Abstract: Example embodiments may relate systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media configured to correlate image data of a user performing physical activity with data collected during the user's performance. Data may include sensor data measuring, force, acceleration, speed, and/or processed sensor data from one or more sensors. Certain embodiments may determine whether the user is within a performance zone based on user attributes. Correlation of the image data with physical activity data may be based, at least in part, whether the user is within a performance zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon S. Burroughs, Richard J. Engelberg, Jordan M. Rice, Bob Sweet, Aaron B. Weast, Wade Convay, Joshua Rooke-Ley
  • Patent number: 12109257
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are alphavirus vectors that include neoantigen-encoding nucleic acid sequences derived from a tumor of a subject. Also disclosed are nucleotides, cells, and methods associated with the vectors including their use as vaccines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Gritstone Bio, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade Blair, Karin Jooss, Amy Rachel Rappaport, Ciaran Daniel Scallan, Leonid Gitlin
  • Patent number: D1047338
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MESO SCALE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.
    Inventors: Jacob N. Wohlstadter, Rodger Darin Osborne, Jennifer Parker, Aaron Leimkuehler, Manish Kochar, Peter Bosco, Michael Wade, Gary Krivoy
  • Patent number: D1047339
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MESO SCALE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.
    Inventors: Jacob N. Wohlstadter, Rodger Darin Osborne, Jennifer Parker, Aaron Leimkuehler, Manish Kochar, Peter Bosco, Michael Wade, Gary Krivoy, Charles M. Clinton