Patents by Inventor Weidong Zhang

Weidong 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: 20250119840
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) performs uplink (UL) transmissions to a network. The UE receives a frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) configuration from a network, the FDRA configuration comprising at least one of a first FDRA mode or a second FDRA mode, wherein the first FDRA mode utilizes an FDRA unit comprising a set of consecutive resource blocks (RBs) and the second FDRA mode utilizes an FDRA unit comprising a set of interlaced RBs, when both of the first and second FDRA modes are configured, the UE receives a signal indicating which one of the two FDRA modes are to be used for an uplink (UL) transmission and performs the UL transmission in accordance with the indicated FDRA mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Hong HE, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Oghenekome OTERI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12273741
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a UE to determine a UL spatial relation for an UL transmission in response to an unknown UL spatial relation switch. The UE may determine whether the UL spatial relation is based on an SRS transmission in UL, a CSI-RS in DL, or an SSB in the DL. If the UL spatial relation is based on the SRS transmission, the UE may select the UL spatial relation for the UL transmission corresponding to a Tx beam of the SRS transmission. If the UL spatial relation is based on the CSI-RS or the SSB, the UE may select the UL spatial relation for the UL transmission based on whether the unknown UL spatial relation switch is due to a corresponding resource for beam training not being configured by a communication network or a corresponding beam information being expired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Haitong Sun, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu, Oghenekome Oteri
  • Patent number: 12273908
    Abstract: A transmitting device is configured to transmit, to a second device, a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) comprising a plurality of MAC subPDUs, each MAC subPDU comprising at least one of a subheader, a MAC service data unit (SDU) or a MAC control element (CE), receive, from the second device, feedback indicating that the MAC PDU was received incorrectly, determine that a partial transmission scheme criteria is satisfied, transmit, to the second device, an indication that the partial transmission scheme is to be used to retransmit the MAC PDU and retransmit, to the second device, the MAC PDU using the partial transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Ralf Rossbach, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12269227
    Abstract: A skin manufacturing post-treatment device for an automobile collision dummy device includes a post-treatment mechanism, where the post-treatment mechanism includes a rotary operation table that is provided with a cutting station, a grinding station, a skin patching station and a removal station in a circumferential direction; the cutting station is configured to cut an injection molding residual material on a surface of a dummy skin, and the grinding station is configured to grind a cut position to form a frustum-shaped patching recess; and the skin patching station is configured to fill the patching recess with a welding skin patching material, and the removal station is configured to clean a skin patching position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH CENTER CO., LTD., CATARC AUTOMOTIVE TEST CENTER (TIANJIN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhixin Liu, Haitao Zhu, Tianyi Hao, Yongqiang Wu, Weidong Liu, Kai Wang, Hanxiao Zhang, Weinan Ju, Shuo Zhao, Bosong Liu
  • Patent number: 12273889
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure different sets of resources including different sequence lengths for an uplink (UL) transmission via a UL channel. A first length or at least one of different second lengths can be selected to configure the UL transmission based on one or more conditions, which can include a coexisting radio access technology (RAT), a UE capability, an occupied channel bandwidth (OCB), the type of UL transmission or the like. The UL transmission can be based on at least one of: the first or the second sequence length such as for an initial access procedure based on the coexisting RAT and the OCB, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250113346
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for supporting eight transmitter uplink operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Ankit Bhamri, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Xiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20250112393
    Abstract: A terminal includes a horizontal plate having a first side and a second side opposite to each other in a first horizontal direction, a first elastic arm, and a second elastic arm. A first end of the first elastic arm is connected to a first side edge of the horizontal plate and a second end of the first elastic arm is fixed to a circuit board. A first end of the second elastic arm is connected to a second side edge of the horizontal plate and a second end of the second elastic arm is fixed to the circuit board. The first elastic arm and the second elastic arm grip a mating plug inserted between them to make electrical contact with the mating plug. The horizontal plate is suspended above the circuit board by the first elastic arm and the second elastic arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics Technology (SIP) Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Pan, Weidong Zhang, Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 12267853
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. To monitor a PDCCH for CA, a UE may receive PDCCH candidates in a plurality of configured component carriers (CCs). In response to a determination that a maximum number of virtual CCs that the UE is capable of monitoring for PDCCH is smaller than a number of the plurality of configured CCs, the UE groups the plurality of configured CCs into CC groups based at least in part on SCS numerologies and PDCCH monitoring configurations corresponding to span patterns within a slot of a DL subframe. The UE determines a maximum number of blind decoding operations and non-overlapped CCEs for each of the CC groups. The UE then monitors at least a first portion of the PDCCH candidates based on the maximum number of blind decoding operations and non-overlapped CCEs for each of the CC groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12267871
    Abstract: Providing coverage enhancements for a user equipment (UE) includes decoding a random access channel (RACH) preamble received from a user equipment (UE) via a physical random access channel (PRACH). A number of repetitions associated with transmitting a random access response (RAR) over a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) may be determined in response to the RACH preamble. A transmission for the UE to be sent over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) may be encoded. The transmission may indicate the number of repetitions to the UE using one or more reserved bits of a downlink control information (DCI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12267697
    Abstract: A message can be communicated from a base station to a user equipment (UE) device. In the message, a unified TCI state can be provided. The TCI state can support two QCL types, wherein the QCL types are based on QCL-TypeA and QCL-TypeD. Other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12264825
    Abstract: An air guiding device, an air conditioner indoor unit, and an air-conditioning system are provided. The air guiding device has an air guiding part used for guiding a flow of air blown out of an air outlet of the air-conditioning system. The air guiding part is rotatable, so as to change an angle used by the air guiding part for guiding the flow of air. At least one side of the air guiding part, which is in an airflow flowing direction, is provided with a flow straightening grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongliang Yuan, Weidong Zhang, Fenghua Jiang, Tao Rao, Zheyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12266486
    Abstract: A balance spring assembly for a disconnector comprises a push rod partially and coaxially arranged in a blade of the disconnector which is rotatable about a first shaft to change an operation status of the disconnector, a first end of the push rod fixed to a second shaft so that the push rod is rotatable about the second shaft; and a spring arranged in the blade and around the push rod, the spring held between a second end of the push rod and an end of the blade adjacent to the first shaft, wherein the second shaft is arranged parallel to the first shaft to enable the push rod to axially move in the blade with a rotation of the blade to thereby compress or decompress the spring. By arranging the balance spring assembly at least in part in the blade of the disconnector, only one set of the springs is needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTD
    Inventors: JiaQuan Yan, ShengQiang Li, ZhanGang Lv, WeiDong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12267270
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for SRS collision handling. A wireless device may determine whether simultaneous transmission of at least two sounding reference signals (SRSs) is allowed; if it is determined that the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is allowed, transmit the at least two SRSs simultaneously; and if it is determined that the simultaneous transmission of the at least two SRSs is not allowed, transmit one SRS of the at least two SRSs, and drop the other SRS of the at least two SRSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Publication number: 20250105949
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium, a user equipment, a method and an integrated circuit that are used to perform operations. Operations include receiving, from a network, a plurality of Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmissions in slots of a hybrid automatic repeating request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) window, decoding each of the PDSCH transmissions in the slots of the HARQ window, determining a HARQ-ACK feedback for each PDSCH transmission in the HARQ-ACK window, bundling the HARQ-ACK feedback for at least two of the PDSCH transmissions and reporting the bundled HARQ-ACK feedback for the HARQ window to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hong HE, Dawei ZHANG, Fangli XU, Jie CUI, Oghenekome OTERI, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Yang TANG, Zhibin WU
  • Publication number: 20250101402
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are novel selectable markers and uses thereof. Specifically, provided herein are uses of nucleotide sequences encoding a glutamine synthetase (GS) derived from platypus, turtle, rat, opossum, wombat, or zebra finch as selectable markers for identifying genomic loci with high transcriptional activity or host cells having high productivity of a protein of interest, and/or allowing accelerated cell isolation expressing a protein of interest. Related methods of screening, methods of production, and expression systems are also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Wei Shao, Jinggong Chen, Ying Xu, Yu Long, Jing Zhang, Xingxing Liu, Jinrong Liu, Wei Wu, Weidong Hao, Jianxin Chen
  • Publication number: 20250098913
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is provided with a motor, and an impeller driven by the motor to rotate so as to generate suction airflow. The vacuum cleaner is further provided with an exhaust air duct, an air window wall for ventilation, a first noise reducer which is breathable, and a second noise reducer which is breathable. A tail end of the exhaust air duct is provided with an air duct outlet for air exhaust of the exhaust air duct, the air window wall is located downstream of the air duct outlet, the first noise reducer blocks the exhaust air duct, the second noise reducer is covered with an inner side of the air window wall, and an airflow discharged by the impeller flows through the exhaust air duct and sequentially passes through the first noise reducer, the second noise reducer, and the air window wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Weidong LU, Jinbo LIU, Menghuan ZHANG, Shuhua SANG
  • Patent number: 12256854
    Abstract: A beverage brewing pot and a beverage brewing method using the same. The brewing pot includes a first pot liner, a second pot liner, a water-air pump and a controller. A brewing chamber is arranged between the first pot liner and the second pot liner. The first pot liner, the second pot liner and the brewing chamber are in communication. At least the first pot liner is sealed during operation. A first water-level sensor is provided at the top of the first pot liner, and a second water-level sensor is provided at the top of the second pot liner. The controller controls the water-air pump to feed air to the first pot liner to direct the water to flow into the second pot liner. The controller controls the water-air pump to operate reversely, such that the water in the second pot liner is pumped back to the first pot liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Weidong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12262395
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capable wireless device configured to perform sidelink cellular communications. The wireless device performs sidelink communications using a two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) protocol including Stage 1 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and Stage 2 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The SCI messaging may be encoded using polar codes. Channel interleaving is utilized on the SCI to interleave the SCI between two or more layers of a MIMO transmission system. Scrambling for Stage 2 SCI messaging is performed based on the result of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) performed on Stage 1 SCI messaging. Collisions between sidelink HARQ feedback to be transmitted to a base station and other transmissions are avoided based on a priority analysis of the sidelink HARQ feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12262349
    Abstract: A base station may transmit beam indication information to one or more user equipment (UE) devices. For each of a plurality of time units (e.g., symbols) in a time interval (e.g., spanning one or more slots), the beam indication information indicates a corresponding beam that the base station will use to transmit or receive. A UE device may have knowledge of the beam in which it currently resides, e.g., by performing power measurements during a beam scan procedure. Thus, the beam indication information enables the UE to perform transmissions and/or receptions (e.g., configured transmissions and/or receptions) during the appropriate time unit(s). The beam indication information may be dynamically transmitted as part of downlink control information. This transmission may omni-directional, wide beam, or narrow beam. Various schemes of encoding the beam indication information are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12262406
    Abstract: Uplink transmissions of a mobile device (UE) may be improved in a number of ways. Uplink Transmission Time Interval (TTI) bundling, including both Type-A and Type B PUSCH repetitions, may be implemented with variable TTI bundle sizing. The TTI bundle size may be determined by a base station and communicated to the UE explicitly, or may be determined by the UE implicitly, based on an indicated repetition number and frequency hopping number. The UE may also report frequency hopping (FH) assist information to the base station for use by the base station to more efficiently configure FH for the uplink transmissions. Finally, the UE may use (or maintain) the same transmission power, for each TTI transmit occasion of the same TTI bundle in order to improve (cross-slot) channel estimation accuracy. Power allocation may be prioritized to ensure that at the same time a total power for the uplink transmissions of the UE does not exceed a specified threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Weidong Yang