Patents by Inventor Yang Zhang

Yang 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).

  • Publication number: 20230096512
    Abstract: The application provides a porous carbon block material having high elasticity and high sealing, and provides a method for preparing the same. Particularly, the present application provides a porous carbon block material, wherein the porous carbon block material has a pore size in the range of from 3 nm to 100 nm, a porosity of from 50% to 87%, and the pores in the material are closed pores. In addition, the application provides a method for preparing the porous carbon block material according to the present application. The porous carbon block material according to the present application has small pore size, high porosity, and closed pores, and thus has high strength combined with high elasticity, high sealing property, and low density. Hence, the porous carbon block material according to the present application may be used as a sealing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Zhisheng Zhao, Yingju Wu, Zitai Liang, Yang Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Zewen Zhuge, Julong He, Dongli Yu, Bo Xu, Yongjun Tian
  • Publication number: 20230094856
    Abstract: A system for streamlined analysis of access sub-networks in a cloud environment is disclosed. The system comprises memory storing access sub-networks in a cloud environment between a plurality of resources and a plurality of users, memory storing user-to-role mappings for roles assigned to the plurality of users, and accumulation logic having access to the access sub-networks and to the user-to-role mappings. The accumulation logic is configured to traverse the access sub-networks to build a number U user-to-resource mappings between the plurality of users and the plurality of resources, and evaluate the U user-to-resource mappings against the user-to-role mappings to accumulate a number R role-to-resource mappings between the roles and the plurality of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Normalyze, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravishankar Ganesh ITHAL, Yang ZHANG, Mummoorthy MURUGESAN
  • Publication number: 20230100812
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preserving a pulse width modulation (PWM) resolution while increasing the frequency of a pulse width modulation (PWM) clock are provided. An electronic display backlight system may include a backlight element and backlight dimming circuitry. The backlight element may be driven according to a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal over a PWM clock cycle equal to a multiple M of a baseline PWM clock frequency associated with a baseline PWM resolution. The backlight dimming circuitry may receive a brightness code of the baseline PWM resolution and generate the PWM signal at least in part by dividing the brightness code by M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Behzad Mohtashemi, Mohammad J Navabi-Shirazi, Feng Guo, Omar Alnaggar, Venkataraman V Iyer, Jingdong Chen, Yang Zhang, Ming Gu, Asif Hussain
  • Publication number: 20230099403
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to streamlined analysis of security posture of a cloud environment. In particular, the disclosed technology relates to a data schema detection system that uses a content-based data classifier to classify data items in a cloud environment. A computer-implemented method includes accessing a data store in the cloud environment and obtaining metadata representing a structure of schema objects in the data store. The method includes executing, based on the metadata, a content-based data classifier to classify data items in the schema objects and outputting a classifier result that represents the classification of the data in the schema objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Normalyze, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravishankar Ganesh ITHAL, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11612105
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a kelp harvester. The kelp harvester includes a ship body and a U-shaped tripping piece, where two working chain racks are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the ship body; each working chain rack is provided with a chain and a chain driving device used to drive the chain to operate; multiple rope clamping devices are fixedly arranged on each chain; the rope clamping devices can clamp main ropes, so that when the chains operate, the rope clamping devices can drive the ship body to move along with the operation of the chains; the U-shaped tripping piece is rotatablely connected to the ship body through a hinge; and the ship body is further fixedly provided with a limiting baffle, and the limiting baffle limits the U-shaped tripping piece to stopping rotation when the U-shaped tripping piece is in a vertical state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ocean University of China
    Inventors: Zhongqiang Zheng, Zongyu Chang, Rong Wan, Zhipeng Yao, Yang Zhang, Dapeng Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230087093
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to streamlined analysis of security posture of a cloud environment. In particular, the disclosed technology relates to a system that analyzes data posture in a cloud environment database using a snapshot of the database. A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to access a database in the cloud environment, wherein the database includes a first authentication requirement. The method includes identifying a snapshot of the database, wherein the snapshot includes a second authentication requirement that is different than the first authentication requirement. The method includes accessing the snapshot using the second authentication requirement, generating a representation of the database using the snapshot, and generating a data posture analysis result indicative of a data posture of the database based on scanning the representation of the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Normalyze, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravishankar Ganesh ITHAL, Yang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230087054
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to in-cloud, constant time content scanning. In particular, it relates to obtaining administrative access to a cloud environment account for bulk content scanning of storage resources, and deploying serverless, containerized scanners to run locally on the cloud environment account, including queuing objects in the cloud environment account, partitioning the objects into a plurality of object chunks, and depending upon a M number of object chunks in the plurality of object chunks, initializing a N number of instances of the serverless, containerized scanners, where M»N. Each initialized serverless, containerized scanner scans a corresponding object chunk exactly once to detect a multiplicity of different data patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Normalyze, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravishankar Ganesh ITHAL, Yang ZHANG, Kapil NEERALGI
  • Publication number: 20230085621
    Abstract: A display device include a first light emitting diode (LED), a second LED, and at least one processor of a driver. The processor drives the first LED and the second LED. The processor determines a first pulse width associated with the first LED and a second pulse width associated with the second LED based on a level of brightness to be emitted by the first LED and the second LED. The processor also receives a gap clock and determines a first pulse start time and a first pulse end time for the first LED based on the first pulse width. Moreover, the processor determines a second pulse start time and a second pulse end time for the second LED based on the first pulse end time, the second pulse width, and/or the gap clock, in which the first pulse end time and the second pulse end time are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Behzad Mohtashemi, Asif Hussain, Feng Guo, Jingdong Chen, Ming Gu, Mohammad J. Navabi-Shirazi, Omar Alnaggar, Venkataraman V. Iyer, Yang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230089771
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for determining time-of-arrival of a PRACH preamble. A method is performed by a radio access network node. The radio access network node is configured for beamformed communication in a set of beams. The method comprises receiving, from a UE and at a TRP of the radio access network node, a PRACH preamble. The method comprises determining a weight factor value for the PRACH preamble. The weight factor value is dependent on beam information mapped to the PRACH preamble. The beam information identifies one of the beams in the set of beams. The method comprises determining time-of-arrival of the PRACH preamble using hypothesis testing that incorporates the weight factor value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yang Zhang, Oskar Mauritz
  • Publication number: 20230092500
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for self-learning geofences is disclosed. In one aspect, a method involves gathering a plurality of data points associated with one or more Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) deployers; determining respective identifiers of the one or more CBRS deployers associated with the plurality of data points; clustering, based on the respective identifiers of the one or more CBRS deployers, the plurality of data points into one or more clusters, where each cluster is associated with one of the one or more CBRS deployers, and where each cluster is associated with a geofence of a network of the one or more CBRS deployers; identifying an opportunity for uploading the one or more clusters to a central server; and uploading the one or more clusters to the central server during the identified opportunity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Li Li, Raj Sukumar Chaugule, En Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11611573
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to in-cloud, constant time content scanning. In particular, it relates to obtaining administrative access to a cloud environment account for bulk content scanning of storage resources, and deploying serverless, containerized scanners to run locally on the cloud environment account, including queuing objects in the cloud environment account, partitioning the objects into a plurality of object chunks, and depending upon a M number of object chunks in the plurality of object chunks, initializing a N number of instances of the serverless, containerized scanners, where M>>N. Each initialized serverless, containerized scanner scans a corresponding object chunk exactly once to detect a multiplicity of different data patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Normalyze, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravishankar Ganesh Ithal, Yang Zhang, Kapil Neeralgi
  • Patent number: 11611064
    Abstract: This application relates to an electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, and an apparatus thereof. The electrode plate includes a current collector, an electrode active material layer provided on at least one surface of the current collector, and an electrical connection member electrically connected to the current collector. The electrode active material layer is provided at a zone referred to as a membrane zone on a main body portion of the current collector, the electrical connection member and the current collector are welded and connected at a welding zone referred to as an adapting welding zone at an edge of the current collector, and a transition zone is referred to as an extension zone, where the transition zone is of the current collector between the membrane zone and the adapting welding zone and coated with no electrode active material layer. The current collector is a composite current collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Wei Li, Qingrui Xue, Jing Li, Zige Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yang Lu, Pengxiang Wang
  • Publication number: 20230084160
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for parallelizing service function chains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Bo Han, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Muhammad Bilal Anwer, Zhi-Li Zhang, Yang Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230083060
    Abstract: A method for producing hydrogen from pork by using photosynthetic organisms includes: 1) mixing pork and trypsin, and adding a citric acid-sodium citrate buffer solution to a mixture of the pork and the trypsin; adjusting the pH of the citric acid-sodium citrate buffer mixed with the pork and the trypsin to neutral, to yield a neutral solution; adding a hydrogen-production medium and photosynthetic bacteria HAU-M1 in the late logarithmic phase to the neutral solution; and 2) placing a mixture of the neutral solution, the hydrogen-production medium, and the photosynthetic bacteria HAU-Ml in an incubator at 28-32° C. and a light intensity of 2800-3200 lux in the nitrogen atmosphere for hydrogen production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Chaoyang LU, Quanguo ZHANG, Zhiping ZHANG, Huan ZHANG, Danping JIANG, Yanyan JING, Jianzhi YUE, Yameng LI, Yang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230083219
    Abstract: Recombinant BCG, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. A shuttle plasmid that can express a FimH protein on the surface of BCG is constructed, and a gene fragment that expresses the FimH protein is transformed into wild-type BCG to thereby obtain recombinant BCG. Upon verification, the recombinant BCG can express the FimH protein on the surface of BCG; therefore, the BCG can specifically bind to subjects that can selectively bind to the FimH protein. The recombinant BCG can also enhance the local innate immune effect and adaptive immune effect induced by BCG and the anti-tumor effect of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and also significantly improves the effect of BCG against bladder tumors, and is used to treat bladder tumors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: XUZHOU HAIRUN BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang ZHANG, Pengjv LI
  • Patent number: 11604994
    Abstract: Methods and systems for explainable machine learning are described. In an example, a processor can receive a data set from a plurality of data sources corresponding to a plurality of domains. The processor can train a machine learning model to learn a plurality of vectors that indicate impact of the plurality of domains on a plurality of assets. The machine learning model can be operable to generate forecasts relating to performance metrics of the plurality of assets based on the plurality of vectors. In some examples, the machine learning model can be a neural attention network with shared hidden layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yada Zhu, Yang Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen, Kumar Bhaskaran
  • Patent number: 11604163
    Abstract: The present utility model relates to a device for improving gas detection in a photoionization detector. A gas detector is provided. The device reduces interference of photoelectric noise on the reading of the gas detector for target gases such as volatile organic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Chang Liu, Guangli Xie, Zhiguo Wang, Bo Chen, Yang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11606208
    Abstract: Techniques of keyless authentication of computing services in distributed computing systems are disclosed herein. One example technique includes upon receiving a command to instantiate a computing service, transmitting a request to an authentication service for an identity assertion token corresponding to an application execution of which instantiates the computing service. The example technique can also include upon receiving the requested identity assertion token, storing the received identity assertion token in the container and modifying an entry of a configuration file in the container that allows the instantiated computing service to access the stored identity assertion token and authenticate to the authentication service using the identity assertion token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paranthaman Saravanan, Marc Andrew Power, Yang Zhang, Matthias Adam Leibmann, Grigory V. Kaplin, Yi Zeng
  • Patent number: 11603366
    Abstract: Provided are crystalline forms of pyrazine-2(1H)-ketone compound and a preparation method thereof; specifically disclosed are a method for preparing the compound of formula (II) and crystalline forms thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ZHANGZHOU PIEN TZE HUANG PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juan Yu, Fei Hong, Tingting Yin, Zhiliang Chen, Yichao Zhuang, Zhifei Fu, Miaorong Luo, Yang Zhang, Jian Li, Shuhui Chen
  • Publication number: 20230071607
    Abstract: System for image correction in PET is provided. The system may acquire a PET image and a CT image of a subject. The system may generate, based on the PET image and the CT image, an attenuation-corrected PET image of the subject by application of an attenuation correction model. The attenuation correction model may be a trained cascaded neural network including a trained first model and at least one trained second model downstream to the trained first model. During the application of the attenuation correction model, an input of each of the at least one trained second model may include the PET image, the CT image, and an output image of a previous trained model that is upstream and connected to the trained second model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING INTELLIGENCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang ZHANG, Yang LYU, Chen XI