Patents by Inventor Wenzhuo Yang

Wenzhuo Yang 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: 20240020486
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a parameter-efficient finetuning mechanism, referred to as “factor-tuning,” which first learns a compact representation of parameter changes with existing datasets on multiple domains, and then fine-tunes a small number of parameters (automatically extracted from the learned representation) on a new downstream task. In this way, the representation learned in the first step is shared across domains and transferred to new downstream tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Wenzhuo Yang, Chu Hong Hoi, Kun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230275256
    Abstract: Clamps for electrochemical cells and related systems and methods are generally described. In some embodiments, a clamp system can apply a compressive clamp force to reinforce a contact between first and second portions of a container of an electrochemical cell (e.g., to reinforce a seal of an electrochemical cell pouch). In some embodiments, a clamp system can apply a compressive clamp force to reinforce electronic communication between an electrode tab and an electrode tab extension. Application of such compressive clamp forces via a clamp may assist with maintaining integrity of contacts (e.g., seals, electrode tab connections) under challenging conditions such as during testing of the electrochemical cell (e.g., at elevated temperatures) and/or during shipping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Sion Power Corporation
    Inventors: Shane Harrel, Daniel G. Milobar, Wenzhuo Yang
  • Publication number: 20230244925
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a system and method for unsupervised anomaly detection. The system receives, via a communication interface, a dataset of instances that include anomalies. The system determines, via an inlier model, a set of noisy labels. The system trains a causality-based label-noise model based at least in part on the set of noisy labels and the set of high-confidence instances. The system determines an estimated proportion of anomalies in the dataset of instances. The system retrains the inlier model based on the estimated inlier samples. The system iteratively retrains the inlier model and the trained causality-based label-noise model based on the output from the corresponding retrained models not converging within the convergence threshold. The system extracts the anomaly detection model from the iteratively trained causality-based label-noise model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Wenzhuo Yang, Chu Hong Hoi, Kun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230123462
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an in vitro proliferation medium, an in vitro culture kit and an in vitro proliferation culture method of umbilical cord blood (UCB)-derived natural killer (NK) cells, and relates to the technical field of cell in vitro culture. In the present disclosure, the in vitro proliferation medium does not include animal serum to reduce immune responses when being used, with better safety. The in vitro proliferation medium is used to proliferate the UCB-derived NK cells in vitro, with simple and easy operations and low cost, and without coating, sorting and trophoblast cells. The medium does not include animal-derived ingredients, and has desirable safety and stability. The medium can be used for direct culture of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) isolated by Ficoll, and harvest more NK cells that meet clinical use standards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Zhaoyong YANG, Yuanyuan JIN, Qiang HAN, Kun LIU, Wenzhuo YANG, Zhengyang SUN, Zhongbo WANG, Shuai FAN
  • Publication number: 20220382856
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a causality-based anomaly detection mechanism that formulates multivariate time series as instances that do not follow the regular causal mechanism. Specifically, the causality-based anomaly detection mechanism leverages the causal structure discovered from data so that the joint distribution of multivariate time series is factorized into simpler modules where each module corresponds to a local causal mechanism, reflected by the corresponding conditional distribution. Those local mechanisms are modular or autonomous and can then be handled separately. In light of this modularity property, the anomaly detection problem then naturally decomposed into a series of low-dimensional anomaly detection problems. Each sub-problem is concerned with a local mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Wenzhuo Yang, Chu Hong Hoi, Kun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220114481
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a two-stage model-agnostic approach for generating counterfactual explanation via counterfactual feature selection and counterfactual feature optimization. Given a query instance, counterfactual feature selection picks a subset of feature columns and values that can potentially change the prediction and then counterfactual feature optimization determines the best feature value for the selected feature as a counterfactual example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Wenzhuo Yang, Jia Li, Chu Hong Hoi, Caiming Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220114464
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a two-stage model-agnostic approach for generating counterfactual explanation via counterfactual feature selection and counterfactual feature optimization. Given a query instance, counterfactual feature selection picks a subset of feature columns and values that can potentially change the prediction and then counterfactual feature optimization determines the best feature value for the selected feature as a counterfactual example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Wenzhuo Yang, Jia Li, Chu Hong Hoi, Caiming Xiong
  • Publication number: 20210374132
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a machine learning recommendation system. The system receives a user query for generating a recommendation for one or more items with an explanation associated with recommending the one or more items. The system obtains first features of at least one user and second features of a set of items. The system provides the first features and the second features to a first machine learning network for determining a predicted score for an item. The system provides a portion of the first features and a portion of the second features to second machine learning networks for determining explainability scores for an item and generating corresponding explanation narratives. The system provides the recommendation for one or more items and corresponding explanation narratives based on ranking predicted scores and explainability scores for the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Wenzhuo Yang, Jia Li, Chenxi Li, Latrice Barnett, Markus Anderle, Simo Arajarvi, Harshavardhan Utharavalli, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Chu Hong Hoi
  • Patent number: 9960397
    Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing and a stack of electrochemical cells in the housing. Each electrochemical cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and an electrolyte. The electrochemical device also includes a current collector located between adjacent electrochemical cells, an anode bus operatively connected to the anodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack and a cathode bus operatively connected to the cathodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack. The housing, the anode electrode, the cathode electrode, the separator, the anode bus and the cathode bus are non-metallic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: AQUION ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, Don Humphreys, Wenzhuo Yang, Edward Lynch-Bell, Alex Mohamed, Eric Weber, David Blackwood
  • Patent number: 9331320
    Abstract: An assembly includes non-load bearing housings, each housing including several cavities. Each cavity includes a stack of freely stacked electrochemical storage cells in the housings. Each electrochemical storage cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The assembly is configured such that pressure applied to the assembly is born by the freely stacked electrochemical storage cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: AQUION ENERGY INC.
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, David Blackwood, Eric Weber, Wenzhuo Yang, Eric Sheen, William Campbell, Don Humphreys, Edward Lynch-Bell
  • Publication number: 20150147628
    Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing and a stack of electrochemical cells in the housing. Each electrochemical cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and an electrolyte. The electrochemical device also includes a current collector located between adjacent electrochemical cells, an anode bus operatively connected to the anodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack and a cathode bus operatively connected to the cathodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack. The housing, the anode electrode, the cathode electrode, the separator, the anode bus and the cathode bus are non-metallic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, Don Humphreys, Wenzhuo Yang, Edward Lynch-Bell, Alex Mohamed, Eric Weber, David Blackwood
  • Patent number: 8962175
    Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing and a stack of electrochemical cells in the housing. Each electrochemical cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and an electrolyte. The electrochemical device also includes a current collector located between adjacent electrochemical cells, an anode bus operatively connected to the anodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack and a cathode bus operatively connected to the cathodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack. The housing, the anode electrode, the cathode electrode, the separator, the anode bus and the cathode bus are non-metallic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Aquion Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, Don Humphreys, Wenzhuo Yang, Edward Lynch-Bell, Alex Mohamed, Eric Weber, David Blackwood
  • Patent number: 8855408
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method may estimate binocular disparity maps of middle views from among a plurality of views through use of images of the plurality of views. The image processing apparatus may detect a moving object from the middle views based on the binocular disparity maps of the frames. Pixels in the middle views may be separated into dynamic pixels and static pixels through detection of the moving object. The image processing apparatus may apply bundle optimization and a local three-dimensional (3D) line model-based temporal optimization to the middle views so as to enhance binocular disparity values of the static pixels and dynamic pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kim, Guofeng Zhang, Du Sik Park, Ho Young Lee, Hujun Bao, Wenzhuo Yang
  • Publication number: 20140162090
    Abstract: An assembly includes non-load bearing housings, each housing including several cavities. Each cavity includes a stack of freely stacked electrochemical storage cells in the housings. Each electrochemical storage cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The assembly is configured such that pressure applied to the assembly is born by the freely stacked electrochemical storage cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: AQUION ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, David Blackwood, Eric Weber, Wenzhuo Yang, Eric Sheen, William Campbell, Don Humphreys, Edward Lynch-Bell
  • Publication number: 20140037996
    Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing and a stack of electrochemical cells in the housing. Each electrochemical cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and an electrolyte. The electrochemical device also includes a current collector located between adjacent electrochemical cells, an anode bus operatively connected to the anodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack and a cathode bus operatively connected to the cathodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack. The housing, the anode electrode, the cathode electrode, the separator, the anode bus and the cathode bus are non-metallic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Aquion Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, Don Humphreys, Wenzhuo Yang, Edward Lynch-Bell, Alex Mohamed, Eric Weber, David Blackwood
  • Patent number: 8580422
    Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing and a stack of electrochemical cells in the housing. Each electrochemical cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and an electrolyte. The electrochemical device also includes a current collector located between adjacent electrochemical cells, an anode bus operatively connected to the anodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack and a cathode bus operatively connected to the cathodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack. The housing, the anode electrode, the cathode electrode, the separator, the anode bus and the cathode bus are non-metallic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Aquion Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, Don Humphreys, Wenzhuo Yang, Edward Lynch-Bell, Alex Mohammad, Eric Weber, David Blackwood
  • Publication number: 20130136299
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method may estimate binocular disparity maps of middle views from among a plurality of views through use of images of the plurality of views. The image processing apparatus may detect a moving object from the middle views based on the binocular disparity maps of the frames. Pixels in the middle views may be separated into dynamic pixels and static pixels through detection of the moving object. The image processing apparatus may apply bundle optimization and a local three-dimensional (3D) line model-based temporal optimization to the middle views so as to enhance binocular disparity values of the static pixels and dynamic pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kim, Guofeng Zhang, Du Sik Park, Ho Young Lee, Hujun Bao, Wenzhuo Yang
  • Publication number: 20130017417
    Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing and a stack of electrochemical cells in the housing. Each electrochemical cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and an electrolyte. The electrochemical device also includes a current collector located between adjacent electrochemical cells, an anode bus operatively connected to the anodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack and a cathode bus operatively connected to the cathodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack. The housing, the anode electrode, the cathode electrode, the separator, the anode bus and the cathode bus are non-metallic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: AQUION ENERGY INC.
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, Don Humphreys, Wenzhuo Yang, Edward Lynch-Bell, Alex Mohammad, Eric Weber, David Blackwood
  • Patent number: 8298701
    Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing and a stack of electrochemical cells in the housing. Each electrochemical cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and an electrolyte. The electrochemical device also includes a current collector located between adjacent electrochemical cells, an anode bus operatively connected to the anodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack and a cathode bus operatively connected to the cathodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack. The housing, the anode electrode, the cathode electrode, the separator, the anode bus and the cathode bus are non-metallic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Aquion Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, Don Humphreys, Wenzhuo Yang, Edward Lynch-Bell, Alex Mohammad, Eric Weber, David Blackwood
  • Publication number: 20120064388
    Abstract: An electrochemical device including a housing and a stack of electrochemical cells in the housing. Each electrochemical cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode and an electrolyte. The electrochemical device also includes a current collector located between adjacent electrochemical cells, an anode bus operatively connected to the anodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack and a cathode bus operatively connected to the cathodes of the electrochemical cells in the stack. The housing, the anode electrode, the cathode electrode, the separator, the anode bus and the cathode bus are non-metallic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Jay Whitacre, Don Humphreys, Wenzhuo Yang, Edward Lynch-Bell, Alex Mohammad, Eric Weber