Patents by Inventor Weiling Li
Weiling Li 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).
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Publication number: 20250098731Abstract: An exemplary smoking article includes a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. MISHRA, Shaoyong YU, Bernard S. APPLETON, Weiling LI
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Patent number: 12193476Abstract: An exemplary smoking article includes a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Bernard S. Appleton, Weiling Li
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Patent number: 12118698Abstract: Provided are a method for inpainting a highlight region of a vegetation image captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle, a device, a medium, and a product. The method includes: acquiring an image to be inpainted, and a historic image; inputting the image to be inpainted to a trained target detection network to obtain a waterbody highlight region image block; determining a template image block of the image to be inpainted based on the waterbody highlight region image block; cropping the historical image to obtain a plurality of candidate image blocks of the image to be inpainted; determining similarity between each candidate image block and the template image block by using a deep learning image coarse matching method; and screening candidate image blocks with the similarity greater than a predetermined threshold, and determining an optimal candidate image block in the candidate image blocks by using a pixel-by-pixel matching method.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2024Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Jing He, Yifu Chen, Gang Liu, Weile Li
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Publication number: 20220322731Abstract: An exemplary smoking article includes a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. MISHRA, Shaoyong YU, Bernard S. APPLETON, Weiling LI
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Patent number: 11375742Abstract: An exemplary smoking article including a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Bernard S. Appleton, Weiling Li
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Publication number: 20200359674Abstract: An exemplary smoking article including a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Bernard S. Appleton, Weiling Li
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Patent number: 10765143Abstract: An exemplary smoking article including a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Bernard S. Appleton, Weiling Li
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Patent number: 10327472Abstract: A pre-vaporization formulation for an e-vaping device includes a vapor former, optionally water, nicotine, nicotine bitartrate and an acid. The pH of the pre-vaporization formulation is between about 4 and about 6. The acid can include one or more of pyruvic acid, formic acid, oxalic acid, glycolic acid, acetic acid, isovaleric acid, valeric acid, propionic acid, octanoic acid, lactic acid, sorbic acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, succinic acid, citric acid, benzoic acid, oleic acid, aconitic acid, butyric acid, cinnamic acid, decanoic acid, 3,7-diemthyl-6-octenoic acid, 1-glutamic acid, heptanoic acid, hexanoic acid, 3-hexenoic acid, trans-2-hexenoic acid, isobutyric acid, lauric acid, 2-methylbutyric acid, 2-methylvaleric acid, myristic acid, nonanoic acid, palmitic acid, 4-pentenoic acid, phenylacetic acid, 3-phenylpropionic acid, hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid and sulfuric acid.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: San Li, Georgios Karles, Gerd Kobal, Weiling Li, Rebecca Secrist, Maria Del Carmen Jarquin, Christopher Di Novi, Yezdi Pithawalla, David Kane
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Publication number: 20190174814Abstract: An example smoking article includes a smoking rod filled with a filler material. The filler material includes tobacco material and non-tobacco leaf material, and the filler material is distributed along a length of the smoking rod. In certain examples the tobacco material, non-tobacco leaf material, or both may be treated with one or more additives, and in other examples the filler material may not include additives. The smoking article can be formed as a cigarette, cigarillo, or cigar.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Weiling Li
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Publication number: 20190075838Abstract: An exemplary smoking article including a smoking rod filled with a combination including tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material. The tobacco filler material and cellulose filler material can be arranged such that the constituent material particles are generally distributed throughout the smoking rod, the tobacco filler material at least partially surrounds the cellulose filler material along a length of the smoking rod, and/or the cellulose filler material particles have a higher concentration along a central axis of the smoking rod than the tobacco filler material particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Munmaya K. Mishra, Shaoyong Yu, Bernard S. Appleton, Weiling Li
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Patent number: 9915779Abstract: The low magnetic sensitivity PM-PCF based on mechanical buffer is obtained by adding buffer structures in the cladding layer of the photonic crystal fiber. In the center of the fiber, the core region contains at least 3 layers of air-holes, enclosed by the cladding layer. The buffer structures are placed in the cladding layer. These buffer structures are formed by replacing silica of any shape by air, and are symmetrically located in X-axis and Y-axis directions to achieve mechanical isotropy. The buffer structures improve the fiber's performance in fiber coiling and stress conditions. Therefore, the fiber optic gyroscope using the PM-PCF can do without a magnetic shield, thus greatly reducing the weight of the fiber optic gyroscope and extending the scope of its application. Compared with the conventional commercial PCF, the PM-PCF provides the fiber optic gyroscope with lower temperature sensitivity and improved accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Jingming Song, Chunxi Zhang, Weile Li, Wei Cai, Jing Jin, Ningfang Song
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Publication number: 20180003889Abstract: The low magnetic sensitivity PM-PCF based on mechanical buffer is obtained by adding buffer structures in the cladding layer of the photonic crystal fiber. In the center of the fiber, the core region contains at least 3 layers of air-holes, enclosed by the cladding layer. The buffer structures are placed in the cladding layer. These buffer structures are formed by replacing silica of any shape by air, and are symmetrically located in X-axis and Y-axis directions to achieve mechanical isotropy. The buffer structures improve the fiber's performance in fiber coiling and stress conditions. Therefore, the fiber optic gyroscope using the PM-PCF can do without a magnetic shield, thus greatly reducing the weight of the fiber optic gyroscope and extending the scope of its application. Compared with the conventional commercial PCF, the PM-PCF provides the fiber optic gyroscope with lower temperature sensitivity and improved accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Jingming Song, Chunxi Zhang, Weile Li, Wei Cai, Jing Jin, Ningfang Song
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Publication number: 20170245543Abstract: A method of extracting volatiles from tobacco material and a method of making a pre-vapor formulation including the volatiles includes heating tobacco material to release volatiles, collecting the extracted volatiles, and combining the volatiles with a pre-vapor formulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Georgios D. KARLES, San LI, Ben RAGLAND, Weiling LI, Erica SENA
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Patent number: D859530Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Inventor: Weiling Li
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Patent number: D887411Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: SHENZHEN BESTODO TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Weiling Li
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Patent number: D912154Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: SHENZHEN BESTODO TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Weiling Li
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Patent number: D922492Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SHENZHEN BESTODO TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Weiling Li
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Patent number: D948363Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Shenzhen Shine Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xinqiang Xu, Bo Li, Weiling Li
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Patent number: D948364Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Shenzhen Shine Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xinqiang Xu, Bo Li, Weiling Li
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Patent number: D1015911Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Shenzhen Shine Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xinqiang Xu, Weiling Li