Patents by Inventor Xian Zhang

Xian 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).

  • Patent number: 11001825
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a thermophilic L-asparaginase mutant and screening and fermentation methods thereof, and belongs to the field of gene engineering, enzyme engineering and fermentation engineering. In Bacillus subtilis 168, a Pyrococcus yayanosii CH1-derived L-asparaginase encoding gene is used as a template, and a mutation library is constructed by an error-prone PCR (epPCR) technology. A mutant strain with improved specific enzyme activity is screened through a high-flux screening method of synchronous cell disruption and enzyme activity measurement. Mutated residues included in a positive mutant are analyzed to construct a composite mutant strain S17G/A90S/R156S/K272A with improved specific enzyme activity and specific enzyme activity of 3108 U/mg. An expression quantity of the composite mutant strain in the Bacillus subtilis 168 is increased through measures of a strong promoter P43 and RBS optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Zhiming Rao, Xu Li, Xian Zhang, Shuqin Xu, Jingyi Hu, Meijuan Xu, Taowei Yang
  • Publication number: 20210130797
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sucrose phosphorylase mutant with improved enzyme activity, and construction method thereof and use thereof, and belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering. The amino acid sequence of the mutant of the disclosure is as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. The mutant of the disclosure is based on sucrose phosphorylase derived from Leuconostoc mesenteroides, and subjected to site-directed mutagenesis to improve the enzyme activity of sucrose phosphorylase. The mutant is expressed in Corynebacterium glutamicum and used as a whole cell catalyst to produce 2-O-?-D-glycerol glucoside. At a 5L fermentation tank level, a large quantity of 2-O-?-D-glycerol glucoside can be produced efficiently in a short time, which is conducive to expanding the prospect of industrial application of sucrose phosphorylase for the production of 2-O-?-D-glycerol glucoside and realizing its large-scale industrial application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Zhiming Rao, Peifeng Duan, Jianing Zhang, Xian Zhang, Taowei Yang, Meijuan Xu, Minglong Shao, Yu Liu, Ziwei Wang, Yan Chen, Qi Chen
  • Publication number: 20210087539
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses 17?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase mutants and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of biology. The disclosure provides 17?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase mutants V107A, T155N, H164Y and V107A/T155N/H164Y with high specific enzyme activities, and the specific enzyme activities of the 17?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase mutants V107A, T155N, H164Y and V107A/T155N/H164Y are as high as 1.85, 1.93, 2.06 and 5.15 U/mg, respectively, which are 1.11, 1.16, 1.24 and 3.10 times larger than that of wild-type 17?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (1.66 U/mg).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Zhiming RAO, Minglong SHAO, Yetong WANG, Yuling WU, Taowei YANG, Xian ZHANG, Meijuan XU
  • Patent number: 10920251
    Abstract: This invention describes a method of using microbial to produce fats, such as fatty acids and their derivatives, or products derived from the fatty acid synthesis cycle, such as hydroxyfatty acids, methyl ketones, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ka-Yiu San, Zhilin Li, Xian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10865404
    Abstract: The present invention provides an aspartase mutant, a recombinant expression vector and recombinant bacterium containing the aspartase mutant, and the use thereof, and belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering. The amino acid sequence of the aspartase mutant is as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. In the aspartase mutant of the present invention, on the basis of wild type aspartase (with an amino acid sequence as set out in SEQ ID NO: 3), glutamic acid at position 427 is mutated into glutamine. In the present invention, by mutating the amino acid residue at position 427 into glutamine, the polar environment near an active site is changed, and thus ammonia supply during substrate reaction is further facilitated, thereby improving an enzyme activity, enhancing the ability of the enzyme in synthesizing a ?-amino acid, and providing a practical and effective strategy for industrial production of the ?-amino acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhiming Rao, Yaling Wang, Jiamin Chen, Taowei Yang, Meijuan Xu, Xian Zhang, Minglong Shao, Jianing Zhang, Anqi Peng, Shuping Xu, Meiqi Wu
  • Patent number: 10851393
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a genetically engineered a KASIII-independent fatty acid biosynthetic pathway that makes use of the promiscuous nature of the rest of the FAS enzymes (3-ketoacyl-ACP synthetase, 3-ketoacyl-ACP reductase, 3-hydroxyacyl ACP dehydrase, enoyl-ACP reductase) to bypass the KASIII step by providing a Co-A precursor of two or higher than two carbons (such as the four carbon butyryl-CoA) as the starting molecule. Since many CoA-based starter molecules can be supplied for the fatty acid synthesis, much more diversified products can be obtained with various carbon-chain lengths. As such, this disclosure will serve as a powerful and efficient platform to produce low to medium chain length products carrying many different functional groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Ka-Yiu San, Xian Zhang, Hui Wu, Dan Wang
  • Patent number: 10851352
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a Mycobacterium neoaurum-derived steroid C27-monooxygenase and an application thereof, which belong to the technical fields of genetic engineering and enzyme engineering. By the method of gene knockout and intensive expression, the present invention screens out three isoenzymes of a key enzyme SMO in the process of degrading sterol side chains from Mycobacterium neoaurum. The three isoenzymes are intensively expressed respectively in the Mycobacterium neoaurum for the high yield of androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione (ADD), the yield of ADD is increased remarkably, wherein the effect of SMO2 is most remarkable. By overexpressing SMO2, the final ADD yield is increased from 5.2 g·L?1 to 7.3 g·L?1. The present invention provides a helpful guidance for the industrialization of the microbial fermentation method for increasing the ADD yield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhiming Rao, Minglong Shao, Xian Zhang, Taowei Yang, Meijuan Xu
  • Patent number: 10841815
    Abstract: A link control node and method, and a system are provided. An MPTCP sublink is identified; and from the MPTCP sublink, a first MPTCP sublink on which link control needs to be performed is determined, and an adjustment manner applicable to the first MPTCP sublink is determined. By adding centralized management and control measures on MPTCP connections, a data transmission process on each MPTCP sublink can be performed on an expected communication link, which adapts to running requirements of a system. Therefore, radio resources can be appropriately allocated, and system performance can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Huang, Xian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200293536
    Abstract: Architecture that decomposes of one or more monolithic data concepts into atomic concepts and related atomic concept dependencies, and provides streaming data processing that processes individual or separate (atomic) data concepts and defined atomic dependencies. The architecture can comprise data-driven data processing that enables the plug-in of new data concepts with minimal effort. Efficient processing of the data concepts is enabled by streaming only required data concepts and corresponding dependencies and enablement of the seamless configuration of data processing between stream processing systems and batch processing systems as a result of data concept decomposition. Incremental and non-incremental metric processing enables realtime access and monitoring of operational parameters and queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Wei Lu, Michael Kinoti, Shengquan Yan, Peng Yu, Xian Zhang, Guixi Zou, Yin He, Xavier Drudis Rius, Miriam Rosenberg, Zijian Zheng
  • Patent number: 10778751
    Abstract: It involves the field of power trading technology and a method for microservice transformation of power trading function comprising the following steps: (1) divide the function in extranet trading cloud into many multiple individual micro services and divide the function in intranet trading cloud into multiple individual micro services; (2) register a node information for each individual micro service in service registry when service deployment starts; (3) extranet users and intranet users enter into extranet trading cloud and intranet trading cloud respectively through PC terminal or mobile terminal, obtain the actual network address that needs to be served from service registry, send a request to the requested service, and perform related business operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING KEDONG POWER CONTROL SYSTEM CO., LTD, NARI GROUP CORPORATION, STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA
    Inventors: Lin Cheng, Haining Wang, Xian Zhang, Chuncheng Gao, Yonghui Liu, Yin Fang, Shuhong Shi, Yong Dai, Li Tao, Chunyan Wang, Mingzhu Yuan, Lei Wang, Tao Wang, Jie Liu, Xian Zhao, Xiang Tan, Ning Yang, Shoubao Li, Peiyu Xi, Qian Zhang, Dong Liu, Wujun Dong, Wentao Lv, Shulu Wan, Wei Wang, Xiaopeng Yuan, Junliang Lv, Lin Zhang, Xin Chang, Yujian Wu
  • Patent number: 10731138
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a formate dehydrogenase mutant with improved enzyme activity and stability and a construction method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering. The mutant of the present invention is obtained by mutating alanine at a 10th site to cysteine based on the amino acid shown in SEQ ID NO. 2. The specific enzyme activity of the mutant enzyme obtained by the present invention is improved by 1.3 times compared with that before the mutation, a half-life period (t1/2) at 60° C. is increased by 6.8 times compared with that in the mutation period, the copper ion tolerance is increased by 30 times compared with that before the mutation, and when pH is 4, the stability is improved by 2.0 times, and the catalytic efficiency is increased by 1.4 times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Zhiming Rao, Junxian Zheng, Taowei Tao, Junping Zhou, Xian Zhang, Meijuan Xu
  • Publication number: 20200233823
    Abstract: A connector includes a first pin which is configured to indicate an in-service signal, a second pin which is configured to indicate a power supply signal, a third pin which is configured to indicate a clock signal, and a fourth pin; the first pin which is configured to indicate a PCIe port signal; the first pin, the second pin, the third pin, and the fourth pin have an equal length; and the connector includes a first face and a second face, a limiting structure is arranged on the first face, the limiting structure is a boss or a groove, and the first pin is located in the middle of the first face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Xian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200209859
    Abstract: A method of detecting a roadway shoulder in an at least partially autonomous vehicle, during a minimum risk maneuver, comprising sensing a vibration within a vehicle, identifying a frequency of the vibration, and determining whether the vehicle is in contact with rumble strips in response to the identified frequency, when at least one or more sensors in a typical known sensor system is compromised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Xian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200209860
    Abstract: A method and system for navigating traffic for an autonomously controllable vehicle operates by detecting at least one target vehicle within a traffic environment with at least one sensor disposed on a primary vehicle. The system obtains information with a plurality of sensors disposed on the primary vehicle of the traffic environment and the at least target vehicle and predicts a maneuver of the at least one target vehicle with a controller disposed on the primary vehicle for a future time based on the information obtained relating to the traffic environment and the at least one target vehicle. The system further generates a recommended path for the primary vehicle with the controller that avoids conflicts with a future position of the at least one target vehicle based on predicted maneuvers of the at least one target vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Xian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200197487
    Abstract: Treatment of chronic neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) remains a major challenge. Here we genetically engineer neural stem cells (NSCs) to produce a triply therapeutic cocktail comprising IL-10, NT-3, and LINGO-1-Fc, thus simultaneously targeting all mechanisms underlie chronicity of MS in the central nervous system (CNS): persistent inflammation, loss of trophic support for oligodendrocytes and neurons, and accumulation of neuroregeneration inhibitors. After transplantation, NSCs migrated into the CNS inflamed foci and delivered these therapeutic molecules in situ. NSCs transduced with one, two, or none of these molecules had no or limited effect when injected at the chronic stage of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; cocktail -producing NSCs, in contrast, mediated the most effective recovery through inducing M2 macrophages/microglia, reducing astrogliosis, and promoting axonal integrity and endogenous oligodendrocyte/neuron differentiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Thomas Jefferson University
    Inventors: Guang-Xian Zhang, Yaping Yan, Xing Li
  • Patent number: 10666562
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a network path computation method, apparatus and system, where the method includes: sending, by a first node, a path computation request to a first path computation element PCE, where the path computation request includes a resource sharing object, and a head node and a last node of a first label switched path LSP; and receiving, by the first node, a path computation result that is returned by the first PCE and that is obtained by means of computation according to the resource sharing object, and establishing a second path from the head node to the last node according to the path computation result. According to the network path computation method, apparatus, and system provided in the embodiments of the present invention, link resource utilization can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haomian Zheng, Xian Zhang, Yi Lin
  • Publication number: 20200154437
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications apparatus are applied to discrete narrowband communication information. In a communication method, comprising: sending, by a network device, first indication information to a terminal, wherein the first indication information comprises a frequency channel number of a start sub-band in all discrete sub-bands of a serving cell in which the terminal is currently located, a bitmap representing whether each sub-band in a frequency band belongs to the serving cell, and a frequency spacing between sub-bands in the frequency band, wherein the frequency band is a frequency band to which all the discrete sub-bands of the serving cell belong; and sending, by the network device, second indication information to the terminal, wherein the second indication information is used to indicate a sub-band available to the terminal in all the discrete sub-bands of the serving cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Nizhong LIN, Lingli PANG, Xian ZHANG, Zhang ZHANG, Xinzheng WANG, Xinyou MA
  • Publication number: 20200149077
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for producing a 1,2-amino alcohol compound by utilizing whole-cell transformation, and belongs to the technical field of gene engineering and microorganism engineering. According to the present invention, engineered Escherichia coli co-expresses epoxide hydrolase, alcohol dehydrogenase, ?-transaminase and glutamate dehydrogenase, is capable of realizing whole-cell catalysis of an epoxide in one step to synthesize a 1,2-amino alcohol compound, and meanwhile, can realize regeneration of coenzyme NADP+ and an amino doner L-Glu; alcohol dehydrogenase expressed by the engineered Escherichia coli is RBS optimized alcohol dehydrogenase, and such RBS optimization can control the expression quantity of alcohol dehydrogenase, so that the catalysis rate of alcohol dehydrogenase and transaminase can achieve an optimum ratio, to eliminate influence caused by a rate-limiting step in a catalyzing course.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhiming RAO, Song LIU, Renjie GAO, Xian ZHANG, Taowei YANG, Meijuan XU
  • Patent number: 10628423
    Abstract: Architecture that decomposes of one or more monolithic data concepts into atomic concepts and related atomic concept dependencies, and provides streaming data processing that processes individual or separate (atomic) data concepts and defined atomic dependencies. The architecture can comprise data-driven data processing that enables the plug-in of new data concepts with minimal effort. Efficient processing of the data concepts is enabled by streaming only required data concepts and corresponding dependencies and enablement of the seamless configuration of data processing between stream processing systems and batch processing systems as a result of data concept decomposition. Incremental and non-incremental metric processing enables realtime access and monitoring of operational parameters and queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Wei Lu, Michael Kinoti, Shengquan Yan, Peng Yu, Xian Zhang, Guixi Zou, Yin He, Xavier Drudis Rius, Miriam Rosenberg, Zijian Zheng
  • Publication number: 20200115708
    Abstract: A DNA probe library for hybridization with microsatellite loci associated with microsatellite instability (MSI) detection. The said DNA probe library comprises one or more DNA probes that are capable of hybridizing with the MSI status-related microsatellite loci. Among the said DNA probes, probes for the MSI-related microsatellite loci are shown in the following sequences: SEQ ID NOS. 1-66. In addition, the present invention provides a method for enriching and detecting the MSI-related microsatellite loci using the probe library. The combination of this method and next-generation sequencing technology (NGS) can greatly improve the sensitivity, accuracy and comprehensiveness of the MSI detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: GENESEEQ TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Yang SHAO, Siming JIANG, Xiaonan WANG, Xue WU, Zhili CHANG, Xiangyuan MA, Xian ZHANG