Patents by Inventor Xiang Wu

Xiang Wu 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: 20220266884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a CTC3.0-based implementation method for route handling of a regional centralized control station. The method is based on a CTC3.0 technology, and includes the following steps: step (1): generating multi-station train and shunting plans according to a multi-station planning terminal, and executing steps (2) and (4) at the same time; step (2): sending the train plan to an autonomous computer to generate a train route sequence, and executing step (3); step (3): sending, by the autonomous computer, the train route sequence to a regional centralized control route handling terminal; step (4): compiling, by the multi-station planning terminal, an automatically generated shunting route sequence in the shunting plan, and executing step (5); and step (5): synchronizing, by a center service, the shunting route sequence to the regional centralized control route handling terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Xuan CHEN, Xingli WANG, Huarong LI, Zhenhao FEI, Xiang WU, Zhenguo FENG, Jiannian WANG, Yahui CAO
  • Patent number: 11421561
    Abstract: A synchronous belt drive system having: a synchronous belt with a tensile cord of high-modulus fiber such as glass, carbon, PBO, or aramid; a driver sprocket and at least one driven sprocket, at least one of which is an obround sprocket; and a tensioner having: a base having a cylindrical portion extending axially with a radially outer surface and a receiving portion, an eccentric arm pivotally engaged with the radially outer surface, a torsion spring disposed within the receiving portion, the torsion spring applying a biasing force to the eccentric arm, and a pulley journalled to the eccentric arm. Preferably, no one of the eccentric arm, pulley, or torsion spring is axially displaced along an axis A-A from the others. The obround sprocket has a toothed surface and at least one linear portion disposed between two arcuate portions having a constant radius, the linear portion having a predetermined length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Gates Corporation
    Inventors: Min Gao, Cindy Decker, Carol Weber, Douglas D. Schelhaas, Kevin Ward, Leslee Brown, William Fraser Lacy, Guogong Chen, John Muri, Cindy Cookson, Jennifer E. Pease, Justin Paulsen, Patrick Joseph McNamee, Shawn Xiang Wu, Andrzej Dec
  • Patent number: 11420961
    Abstract: The invention provides new heterocyclic compounds having the general formula (IA) wherein A, L, X, Y, m, n, R1 and R2 are as described herein, compositions including the compounds, processes of manufacturing the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Joerg Benz, Uwe Grether, Benoit Hornsperger, Buelent Kocer, Bernd Kuhn, Hans Richter, Satoshi Tsuchiya, Charles Bell, Xiang Wu, Xiaofei Yan, Luca Gobbi
  • Publication number: 20220257052
    Abstract: A method for controlling a cooking apparatus includes counting a number of times that an operation temperature of the cooking apparatus exceeds a set temperature within a previous set duration, updating a control parameter corresponding to a current set duration based on the number of times, and controlling a heating device of the cooking apparatus to heat within the current set duration based on the updated control parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Maoqiao TIAN, Yongdong AI, Xiang WU, Longjian XUAN, Jie LI, Wei CHEN, Xiaohui LI, Biao WANG, Sheng ZHOU, Xianxin MENG, Yanxia ZENG, Fuxing YANG, Wenqi TIAN, Weijie LU
  • Patent number: 11415720
    Abstract: A method for generating acoustic images corrected for distortions caused by attenuation of the ultrasonic signal by the mud may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a borehole, transmitting a pressure pulse from at least one transducer into the borehole, recording an echo with the at least one transducer, measuring a travel time, measuring an amplitude, determining a geometry of the borehole, determining a location of the downhole tool in the borehole, calculating an incident angle, mapping a mud attenuation, and correcting an image. A system for generating acoustic images corrected for distortions caused by attenuation of the ultrasonic signal by the mud comprising a downhole tool that may comprise a measuring assembly, wherein the measuring assembly comprises at least one transducer and wherein the at least one transducer is configured to emit a pressure pulse and record an echo. The system may further comprise an information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Weng, Peng Li, Chung Chang, Richard Coates, Rodney Allen Marlow, Xiang Wu, Yao Ge, Jing Jin
  • Patent number: 11392596
    Abstract: A systems and method for providing various improvements in the computing time and accuracy for finding items using a hybrid vector space inner-product search are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Wu, Dave Dopson, David Morris Simcha, Sanjiv Kumar, Ruiqi Guo
  • Publication number: 20220214468
    Abstract: A wellbore system includes a logging unit having a retrievable logging cable coupled to a downhole tool within a wellbore and a depth correlation unit in the downhole tool that provides current depth data for the wellbore through the retrievable logging cable for recording of a current depth by the logging unit. The wellbore system also includes a distributed acoustic sensing unit that includes a seismic processing unit and a seismic profiling unit connected to a separate optical cable of the retrievable logging cable having distributed acoustic sensing channels, wherein an assignment of the distributed acoustic sensing channels along the separate optical cable is determined by an offset distance between the current depth of a formation reference region within the wellbore and a previous reference depth of the formation reference region within the wellbore. A distributed acoustic sensing method is also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Ellmauthaler, Simon Shaw, Michel Joseph LeBlanc, Mark Elliott Willis, Xiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11371340
    Abstract: A downhole tool is placed in a borehole of a subsurface formation. The downhole tool comprises a plurality of calipers arranged around a circumference of the downhole tool. A plurality of standoff measurements is received for different rotation angles of the downhole tool, wherein each standoff measurement is indicative of a distance between one of the plurality of calipers and a wall of the borehole. A plurality of apparent diameters of the borehole is determined for the different rotation angles of the downhole tool based on the plurality of standoff measurements and a radius of the downhole tool. A probability function is determined based on the plurality of apparent diameters and at least one of a semiminor axis, semimajor axis, and ellipticity of the borehole is identified based on the probability function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Glenn Andrew Wilson, Wei Li, Xiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11354287
    Abstract: Techniques of indexing a database and processing a query involve decomposing the residual term according to a projection matrix that is based on a given direction v. For example, for each database element of a partition, the residual for that database element is split into a component parallel to a given direction and a component perpendicular to that direction. The parallel component lies in a one-dimensional subspace spanned by the direction and may be efficiently quantized with a scalar quantization. The perpendicular component is quantized using multiscale quantization techniques. The quantized residual components and the center elements of each partition define the indexed database. Upon receipt of a query from a user, the inner products of q with the residual may be computed efficiently using the quantized residual components. From these inner products, the database elements that are most similar to the query are selected and returned to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Wu, David Morris Simcha, Sanjiv Kumar, Ruiqi Guo
  • Patent number: 11350329
    Abstract: A signal measurement method, a related apparatus, and a related system. The signal measurement method executed by a terminal may include: measuring at least one candidate cell by using a second panel in a process in which the terminal performs service transmission with a first network device by using a first panel; and sending a measurement result to the first network device. The terminal is configured with a plurality of panels including the first panel and the second panel, the first panel is configured to form a beam pointing to the first network device, and the second panel is configured to form a beam pointing to the candidate cell. The measurement result includes information about a target candidate cell selected from the at least one candidate cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunquan Yao, Xiang Wu
  • Patent number: 11333016
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer positionable in a wellbore environment may include a piezoelectric material layer, a protective layer, and connecting plate positioned between the piezoelectric material layer and the protective layer. The piezoelectric material layer may be formed as a plurality of columns of piezoelectric material for detecting a characteristic of the wellbore environment during a drilling operation. The protective layer may be positionable between the piezoelectric material layer and an acoustic medium in the wellbore environment. The connecting plate may be positioned between the piezoelectric material layer and the protective layer. The connecting plate may have a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) in a range between the CTE of the piezoelectric material layer and that of the protective layer, and an acoustic impedance in a range between the acoustic impedance of the piezoelectric material layer and that of the protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu
  • Publication number: 20220136385
    Abstract: A hydrophone array tool as described herein is configured to locate leakages throughout a borehole with improved accuracy using acoustic beamforming techniques with acoustic velocity estimation. An acoustic beamforming processor generates an initial beamforming map and corresponding initial estimated leakage location using acoustic measurements throughout the borehole. The acoustic beamforming processor generates additional beamforming maps at the initial estimated leakage location, each additional beamforming map corresponding to an acoustic velocity within a range of anticipated acoustic velocities. An acoustic velocity estimator determines an acoustic velocity corresponding to a beamforming map with spatial statistics that indicate a most prominent leakage location. The acoustic beamforming processor updates the leakage location according to this beamforming map for improved accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Yadong Wang, Yao Ge, Xiang Wu
  • Publication number: 20220100887
    Abstract: The invention discloses privacy protection query language PQL and system thereof, comprising PQL statement and system, the system comprises parsing module, query module and noise-injection module; the parsing module comprises lexical analyzer and syntactic analyzer; user inputs PQL statement according to predetermined semantic and syntactic rules, after parsing module receives the PQL statement, lexical analyzer performs error checks on the PQL statement, correct results are sent to syntactic analyzer; the syntactic analyzer performs grammatical and semantic checks on PQL statement, generates a mapping table and a parameter table with correct results; after receiving mapping table, the query module encapsulates the same into SQL statement, and verifies the encapsulated SQL statement; the noise-injection module obtains final query results of the query module, calculates noise injection sensitivity according to parameter table; the invention ensures the data privacy security and satisfies that the injected nois
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Xiang Wu, Huanhuan Wang, Lian Liu, Ruirui Li, Yu Chen, Jingyuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20220082720
    Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatus and methods implemented to take into consideration gauge length in optical measurements. In an embodiment, systems and methods are implemented to interrogate an optical fiber disposed in a wellbore, where the optical fiber is subjected to seismic waves, and to generate a seismic wavefield free of gauge length effect and/or to generate a prediction of a seismic wavefield of arbitrary gauge length, based on attenuation factors of a plurality of wavefields acquired from interrogating the optical fiber. In an embodiment, systems and methods are implemented to interrogate an optical fiber disposed in a wellbore, where the optical fiber is subjected to seismic waves, and to convert a seismic wavefield associated with a first gauge length to a seismic wavefield associated with a different gauge length that is a multiple of the first gauge length. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Xiang Wu, Mark Elliott Willis, David Andrew Barfoot
  • Patent number: 11269098
    Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to the inversion of geophysical and/or logging measurements for formation evaluation and monitoring. The disclosure may be related to methods of deconvolution and/or inversion of piecewise formation properties. A method for formation evaluation from a downhole tool may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a wellbore, broadcasting a signal into a formation penetrated by the wellbore, recording the signal from the formation with at least one receiver disposed on the downhole tool, computing an objective function, and determining formation properties by minimizing the objective function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang Wu, Mark Elliott Willis, Wei-Bin Ewe, Glenn Andrew Wilson
  • Publication number: 20220065085
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure generally relate to monitoring, evaluating, and controlling fracture geometry during a hydraulic fracturing operation, in real time. A method comprises measuring a signal representing a condition in a wellbore; inputting the signal into a model for estimating a dimension of a dominant fracture; determining the dimension of the dominant fracture; determining a target dimension for the dominant fracture; and minimizing a difference between the dimension of the dominant fracture and the target dimension in real time, by adjusting at least an injection pressure or flow rate of a hydraulic fracturing fluid into the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dinesh Ananda Shetty, Xusong Wang, Xiang Wu, Srividhya Sridhar
  • Publication number: 20220057074
    Abstract: An apparatus for a lighting device with a rotatable support includes a lamp body, the lamp body is provided with the support capable of rotating relative to the lamp body, the support is provided with a magnetic block, and a lighting port of the lamp body is arranged on the side wall of the lamp body toward the direction of the rotation center line of the support. When the adjustable lighting device is used, the support is fixed on a metal object in a place to be illuminated through the magnetic block and the side face direction of the lighting port of the lamp body can be adjusted by adjusting the lamp body to rotate relative to the support, and therefore the side face lighting angle of the lighting port is adjusted, and due to the fact that the lamp body can rotate relative to the support at any angle, stepless adjustment of the side lighting angle of the lighting port can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jing-xiang WU, Liang-bin LING, Rong-fu LI
  • Patent number: 11249210
    Abstract: A method and system for processing a slowness profile. A method may comprise disposing a geophone array into a borehole, positioning the geophone array at a first location within the borehole; discharging a seismic source; positioning the geophone array at a second location within the borehole; discharging the seismic source, wherein the seismic source produces an acoustic wave; recording a vertical seismic profiling dataset, wherein vertical seismic profiling comprises a dataset of recorded acoustic waves by the geophone array at the first location within the borehole and the second location within the borehole; picking a first gap travel time from the vertical seismic profiling dataset; and determining the slowness profile, wherein the slowness profile comprises determining a slowness of the acoustic wave through a formation by the geophone arrays. A well system may comprise a geophone array, comprising a plurality of geophones, and an information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang Wu, Mark Elliott Willis, Oscar Augusto Barrios
  • Patent number: D962259
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC, EMD Millipore Corporation
    Inventors: Sarah Trice, Lindsey Rickershauser, Xiang Wu, Churl Oh, Nadia Brugger, Emma Gardener
  • Patent number: D962260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: Sigma-Aldrich Co. LLC, EMD Millipore Corporation
    Inventors: Sarah Trice, Lindsey Rickershauser, Xiang Wu, Churl Oh, Nadia Brugger, Emma Gardener