Patents by Inventor Wan Liang

Wan Liang 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: 20230362293
    Abstract: A method for configuring a theme color of a terminal device includes obtaining a tone type of a to-be-switched-to picture when it is detected that a terminal device switches a screen picture, determining cool and warm color system information of the picture, identifying arrangement and proportion information of a representative color system of the picture, and configuring a theme color of the terminal device based on the tone type, the cool and warm color system information, and the arrangement and proportion information of the representative color system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jiasi Gao, Qianyao Xu, Hao Sun, Wan Liang, Yingqing Xu, Yundie Zhang, Mengdi Liu, Aibing Liu
  • Publication number: 20210161332
    Abstract: A cooking and processing appliance includes a container having a lid and a stirring mechanism for rotating at least one processing attachment of a plurality of processing attachments, a housing having a receptacle for receiving the container and having a motor in communication with the stirring mechanism, a heating structure disposed within the housing and a wall of the container, a heating activation system included within the housing and the container, wherein the heating structure defines a heating-active state when the container is received within the receptacle, a mixing activation system, wherein the motor defines a mixing active state when the container is received within the receptacle and the lid is in a closed position and a control in communication with the heating structure and the stirring mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaitlyn M. Benoit, Michael P. Conti, Jeffrey Loebig, Wan Liang
  • Patent number: 10993583
    Abstract: A cooking and processing appliance includes a container having a lid and a stirring mechanism for rotating at least one processing attachment of a plurality of processing attachments, a housing having a receptacle for receiving the container and having a motor in communication with the stirring mechanism, a heating structure disposed within the housing and a wall of the container, a heating activation system included within the housing and the container, wherein the heating structure defines a heating-active state when the container is received within the receptacle, a mixing activation system, wherein the motor defines a mixing active state when the container is received within the receptacle and the lid is in a closed position and a control in communication with the heating structure and the stirring mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kaitlyn M. Benoit, Michael P. Conti, Jeffrey Loebig, Wan Liang
  • Publication number: 20180353016
    Abstract: A cooking and processing appliance includes a container having a lid and a stirring mechanism for rotating at least one processing attachment of a plurality of processing attachments, a housing having a receptacle for receiving the container and having a motor in communication with the stirring mechanism, a heating structure disposed within the housing and a wall of the container, a heating activation system included within the housing and the container, wherein the heating structure defines a heating-active state when the container is received within the receptacle, a mixing activation system, wherein the motor defines a mixing active state when the container is received within the receptacle and the lid is in a closed position and a control in communication with the heating structure and the stirring mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaitlyn M. Benoit, Michael P. Conti, Jeffrey Loebig, Wan Liang
  • Patent number: 10085599
    Abstract: A cooking and processing appliance includes a container having a lid and a stirring mechanism for rotating at least one processing attachment of a plurality of processing attachments, a housing having a receptacle for receiving the container and having a motor in communication with the stirring mechanism, a heating structure disposed within the housing and a wall of the container, a heating activation system included within the housing and the container, wherein the heating structure defines a heating-active state when the container is received within the receptacle, a mixing activation system, wherein the motor defines a mixing active state when the container is received within the receptacle and the lid is in a closed position and a control in communication with the heating structure and the stirring mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kaitlyn M. Benoit, Michael P. Conti, Wan Liang, Jeffrey Loebig
  • Publication number: 20160174771
    Abstract: A cooking and processing appliance includes a container having a lid and a stirring mechanism for rotating at least one processing attachment of a plurality of processing attachments, a housing having a receptacle for receiving the container and having a motor in communication with the stirring mechanism, a heating structure disposed within the housing and a wall of the container, a heating activation system included within the housing and the container, wherein the heating structure defines a heating-active state when the container is received within the receptacle, a mixing activation system, wherein the motor defines a mixing active state when the container is received within the receptacle and the lid is in a closed position and a control in communication with the heating structure and the stirring mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kaitlyn M. Benoit, Michael P. Conti, Wan Liang, Jeffrey Loebig
  • Patent number: 6838244
    Abstract: Oligonucleotide molecules labeled with a plurality of fluorophores of one or more types embedded in the backbone of said oligonucleotide, wherein at least one of said fluorophores is not located at either the 3? or 5? terminus of said oligonucleotide. The invention further provide methods for using the subject labeled oligonucleotides in detecting biological molecules, sequencing DNA molecules and particularly generating cDNA molecules for characterizing the differential expression of genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Wan-Liang Robert Li, Jian S. Zhou
  • Publication number: 20010018183
    Abstract: The invention comprises a multi-color, comparative hybridization assay method using an array of nucleic acid target elements attached to a solid support for the simultaneous detection of both gene expression and chromosomal abnormalities in a tissue sample. The method of the invention employs a comparative hybridization of a tissue mRNA or cDNA sample labeled in a first fluorescent color, a tissue chromosomal DNA sample labeled in a second fluorescent color, and at least one reference nucleic acid labeled in a third fluorescent color, to the array. The fluorescent color presence and intensity at each of at least two target elements are detected and the fluorescent ratios (i) of the first and third colors and (ii) the second and third colors determined. Gene expression and chromosomal abnormalities are thus simultaneously detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventors: Yijia Bao, Diping Che, Wan-Liang Li, Uwe Richard Muller, Steven A. Seelig, Jufang Shi
  • Patent number: 6251601
    Abstract: The invention comprises a multi-color, comparative hybridization assay method using an array of nucleic acid target elements attached to a solid support for the simultaneous detection of both gene expression and chromosomal abnormalities in a tissue sample. The method of the invention employs a comparative hybridization of a tissue mRNA or cDNA sample labeled in a first fluorescent color, a tissue chromosomal DNA sample labeled in a second fluorescent color, and at least one reference nucleic acid labeled in a third fluorescent color, to the array. The fluorescent color presence and intensity at each of at least two target elements are detected and the fluorescent ratios (i) of the first and third colors and (ii) the second and third colors determined. Gene expression and chromosomal abnormalities are thus simultaneously detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Vysis, Inc.
    Inventors: Yijia Bao, Diping Che, Wan-Liang Li, Uwe Richard Müller, Steven A. Seelig, Jufang Shi
  • Patent number: 5422452
    Abstract: A movable electrical contact assembly forms a potentiometer and includes at least one strip of electrically conductive material having a significant resistance, a conductive rolling contact device in contact with the strip, a mechanism for moving the rolling contact device along the strip, and the rolling contact device or the strip being made of a deformable conductive material. In one preferred embodiment, two strips are provided at least one of which has a significant resistance. Also in one embodiment, the rolling contact device is deformable and is defined by a conductive elastomeric contact roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Associated Assembly, Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Chih Chang, Wan-Liang Hu