Patents by Inventor William Zhao

William Zhao 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: 20240137583
    Abstract: An imaging system includes a first camera configured to capture a first video stream of a first tissue surface and a second camera configured to capture a second video stream of a second tissue surface, the first tissue surface opposing the second tissue surface of the tissue. The system also includes a video processing device configured to receive the first video stream from the first camera and the second video stream from the second camera and modify at least one the first video stream or the second video stream based on one the first video stream or the second video stream to generate a 3D volume having a modified video stream. The system further includes a first screen coupled to the video processing device and configured to display the 3D volume with the modified video stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: William J. Peine, Jared N. Farlow, Jing Zhao
  • Patent number: 11960683
    Abstract: A display system for sensing a finger of a user applied to the display system includes a display panel; a sensor for sensing the finger; a sensing light source configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength W1; and a reflective polarizer disposed between the display panel and the sensor. For a substantially normally incident light, an optical transmittance of the reflective polarizer versus wavelength for a first polarization state has a band edge such that for a first wavelength range extending from a smaller wavelength L1 to a greater wavelength L2 and including W1, where 30 nm?L2?L1?50 nm and L1 is greater than and within about 20 nm of a wavelength L3 corresponding to an optical transmittance of about 50% along the band edge, the optical transmittance has an average of greater than about 75%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Bharat R. Acharya, Robert D. Taylor, Joseph P. Attard, Benjamin J. Forsythe, David T. Yust, Matthew E. Sousa, Jason S. Petaja, Anthony M. Renstrom, William Blake Kolb, Matthew S. Cole, Matthew S. Stay, Matthew R. D. Smith, Jeremy O. Swanson, Tri D. Pham, David A. Rosen, Qunyi Chen, Lisa A. DeNicola, Quinn D. Sanford, Carl A. Stover, Lin Zhao, Gilles J. Benoit
  • Publication number: 20240084380
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and related methods, e.g., for preparing immobilized nucleic acid nanostructures using compaction oligonucleotides. In some embodiments, rolling circle amplification reaction can be conducted with compaction oligonucleotides on-support or in-solution to generate concatemer molecules having multiple copies of a polynucleotide unit arranged in tandem. Each polynucleotide unit comprises a sequence-of-interest and at least one universal adaptor sequence that binds one end of a compaction oligonucleotide. The 5? and 3? regions of the compaction oligonucleotide can hybridize to the concatemer to pull together distal portions of the concatemer causing compaction of the concatemer to form a nanostructure. Nanostructures having tighter size and shape compared to concatemers generated in the absence of the compaction oligonucleotides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sinan ARSLAN, Michael KIM, Ramreddy TIPANNA, Chunhong ZHOU, William LIGHT, Hua YU, Junhua ZHAO, Tsung-Li LIU
  • Patent number: 11923074
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for identifying those entities within a network that have the most influence on other entities within the network. A multi-relational network comprising links among a plurality of physicians is generated based on peer network data, wherein each link indicates a first physician that influences a second physician, and a weight of the influence. A decision by a treating physician of the plurality of physicians is decomposed, using a deep learning engine, into a magnitude of peer influence and a magnitude of control factor influence based on the multi-relational network and a plurality of control factors respectively. The magnitude of peer influence among one or more physicians in the multi-relational network is distributed among physicians in the multi-relational network based on the links each physician maintains with other physicians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: IQVIA Inc.
    Inventors: Ruoxin Li, Yong Cai, John H. Eichert, Jr., Emily Zhao, Yilian Yuan, Yanping Liu, Steve Eichert, D. Bruce West, William McClellan
  • Patent number: 11734648
    Abstract: A system and method are presented relating to emotion-based action recommendations. The present invention may include a recommender engine that analyzes several pieces of information and using artificial intelligence derived models, provides a course of action for a contact center agent and the probability and estimations behind the recommendation as a justification. System inputs include cost of the item or service being troubleshooted, estimated costs for different resolutions, cost of each escalation level of the interaction, history of previous interactions, agent costs, history of the current interaction, acoustic events and sentiment or primary detected emotions of the customer's transcript. The recommended course of action, rationale, and authorization can be provided as output. The system may record whether the agent followed the recommendation to improve further recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Jessica Li, Leor Grebler, Ankit Pat, William Zhao
  • Patent number: 11689662
    Abstract: A system including a mobile application on a user's mobile device for connecting to a plurality of contact centers and providing personalized context to the user. The system includes: the mobile application; a connection from the mobile application to a central API service, wherein the central API service provides authentication tokens to the mobile application for facilitating interaction therebetween; a plurality of vendors which the user has associated with their profile and have been integrated with the central API service, wherein the vendors are operably connected with the central API service for information sharing; and a plurality of media channels connecting the plurality of vendors with the central API service, allowing the user to: view personalized context from past interactions between the user and the plurality of contact centers through the mobile application; and connect with the contact centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventors: John Bohan Jiang, Clive John-Chuan, William Zhao, Robert J. Culbert, Colin Kum-Teng Hung
  • Patent number: 11611911
    Abstract: A routing device for installation on a moving platform connects with multiple wireless access devices for wireless interconnection with a wide-area network (WAN). The routing device routes traffic to the WAN through an active one of the wireless access devices. The routing device monitors connection quality between each of the wireless access devices and the WAN and in response to the metric of connection quality for the wireless access device at the active port dropping below a threshold value, reconfigure the routing device to route data traffic to the WAN through a wireless access device at a targeted one of the ports, different from the active one of the ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Canada Limited
    Inventors: Noam Ivri, William Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220141337
    Abstract: A system including a mobile application on a user's mobile device for connecting to a plurality of contact centers and providing personalized context to the user. The system includes: the mobile application; a connection from the mobile application to a central API service, wherein the central API service provides authentication tokens to the mobile application for facilitating interaction therebetween; a plurality of vendors which the user has associated with their profile and have been integrated with the central API service, wherein the vendors are operably connected with the central API service for information sharing; and a plurality of media channels connecting the plurality of vendors with the central API service, allowing the user to: view personalized context from past interactions between the user and the plurality of contact centers through the mobile application; and connect with the contact centers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: GENESYS TELECOMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: JOHN BOHAN JIANG, CLIVE JOHN-CHUAN, WILLIAM ZHAO, ROBERT J. CULBERT, COLIN KUM-TENG HUNG
  • Publication number: 20210374671
    Abstract: A system and method are presented relating to emotion-based action recommendations. The present invention may include a recommender engine that analyzes several pieces of information and using artificial intelligence derived models, provides a course of action for a contact center agent and the probability and estimations behind the recommendation as a justification. System inputs include cost of the item or service being troubleshooted, estimated costs for different resolutions, cost of each escalation level of the interaction, history of previous interactions, agent costs, history of the current interaction, acoustic events and sentiment or primary detected emotions of the customer's transcript. The recommended course of action, rationale, and authorization can be provided as output. The system may record whether the agent followed the recommendation to improve further recommendations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jessica Li, Leor Grebler, Ankit Pat, William Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210266795
    Abstract: A routing device for installation on a moving platform connects with multiple wireless access devices for wireless interconnection with a wide-area network (WAN). The routing device routes traffic to the WAN through an active one of the wireless access devices. The routing device monitors connection quality between each of the wireless access devices and the WAN and in response to the metric of connection quality for the wireless access device at the active port dropping below a threshold value, reconfigure the routing device to route data traffic to the WAN through a wireless access device at a targeted one of the ports, different from the active one of the ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Noam Ivri, William Zhao
  • Patent number: 9782801
    Abstract: A vibratory screener apparatus has a housing with upper and lower ends, the lower end having a first mounting area characterized by a first attachment diameter. A drive assembly is employed to vibrate the apparatus. The drive assembly has a second mounting area characterized by a second attachment diameter to mount the frame to the drive assembly. An adapter frame is disposed between the drive assembly and the lower end of the housing. The adapter frame has a first end and a second end, the first end is characterized by the first attachment diameter and is attached to the lower end of the housing. The second end is characterized by the second attachment diameter and attached is to the drive assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Kason Corporation
    Inventors: Hossein Alamzad, Jonathan Weiner, William Zhao
  • Publication number: 20160348966
    Abstract: A vibrating fluid bed dryer includes a first dryer stage including a first fluid bed air distribution plate mounted therein, and also includes a first air inlet. A a second dryer stage that includes a second fluid bed air distribution plate mounted therein is positioned to receive material from the first dryer stage. The second dryer stage includes a second air inlet. A drive assembly is coupled to vibrate the first dryer stage and the second dryer stage. The first dryer stage may be coupled to a source of cooling air and the second dryer stage may be coupled to a source of warming air, or vice-versa, or both dryer stages may be coupled to a source or warming air or cooling air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: KASON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hossein Alamzad, James Schak, William Zhao
  • Publication number: 20160288170
    Abstract: A vibratory screener apparatus has a housing with upper and lower ends, the lower end having a first mounting area characterized by a first attachment diameter. A drive assembly is employed to vibrate the apparatus. The drive assembly has a second mounting area characterized by a second attachment diameter to mount the frame to the drive assembly. An adapter frame is disposed between the drive assembly and the lower end of the housing. The adapter frame has a first end and a second end, the first end is characterized by the first attachment diameter and is attached to the lower end of the housing. The second end is characterized by the second attachment diameter and attached is to the drive assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: KASON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hossein Alamzad, Jonathan Weiner, William Zhao
  • Patent number: 5799799
    Abstract: A device for screening cohesive material, and for eliminating screen blinding, is disclosed. The device includes a transducer for transmitting ultrasonic frequency throughout the screen surface, with the transducer supported independently of the screen in order to prolong screen life and to lower screen replacement costs. The transducers are provided with adjustable mounting means in order to adjust the transducer position with respect to the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Kason Corporation
    Inventors: Hossein Alamzad, William Zhao, Alfred Heidinger
  • Patent number: D895928
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Shanghai Select Safety Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: William Zhao