Patents by Inventor Yao Liu
Yao Liu 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).
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Publication number: 20240220958Abstract: A transaction record is created showing a purchase transaction of a customer. A CV profile showing a list of items in the transaction obtained from images is also obtained. The items in the transaction record are compared to items on the list. When there is a discrepancy, an action to take is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: Zhichun Xiao, Lingfeng Zhang, Jon Hammer, Joseph Duffy, Yao Liu, Sicong Fang, Xiang Yao, Pingyuan Wang, Yu Tao, Tianyi Mao, Yutao Tang, Feiyun Zhu, Han Zhang, Chunmei Wang, Pingjian Yu, Muzzammil Afroz, Haining Liu
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Patent number: 12019241Abstract: A light guide includes a first and second transparent monolithic optical parts (TMOP). The first TMOP has a first surface having two sets with one flat surface followed by one prism array. Each flat surface has a partially-reflective coating, and the first TMOP has a flat opposite second surface. Each prism array has two prisms having a first and a second surfaces which are oblique to each other and to the first TMOP's opposite second surface. The prism arrays first surfaces have a partially-reflective coating. The second TMOP has a first surface with a geometrically complementary shape relative to the shape of the first TMOP's first surface, and has a flat opposite second surface. The first and second TMOPs are assembled together using an optically transparent adhesive material, such that the second surfaces of the first and second TMOP of the light guide assembly are parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: OPTINVENTInventors: Khaled Sarayeddine, Simon Julien, Yao Liu, Kayvan Mirza
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Patent number: 12002080Abstract: There are provided systems and methods relating to checking and confirming merchandise purchased at shopping facilities. In one form, the system includes: a shopping cart containing merchandise items to be purchased; a sales transaction database; a point-of-sales system that creates transaction records identified by transaction identifiers; and a mobile device used by an employee that includes a sensor to scan a paper or digital receipt to obtain the transaction identifier and a camera to capture images of the items in the shopping cart. The system also includes a control circuit that receives the transaction identifier, accesses the database using the identifier to determine the purchased items; analyzes the images of the merchandise items in the shopping cart and creates a computer vision receipt listing detected items; compares the purchased items with the detected items; and takes an action if there is a discrepancy.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Zhichun Xiao, Lingfeng Zhang, Yao Liu, Jon Hammer, Yutao Tang, Sicong Fang, Haining Liu, Yijing Sun, Mingquan Yuan, Shouyi Zhang, Pingjian Yu, Ryan B. Reagan, Tianyi Mao, Shangeetha Ravichandran Susseelaa, Zhenyu Wang, Feiyun Zhu
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Patent number: 12002221Abstract: A control method for a mobile platform includes obtaining a captured image, determining a target first characteristic part of a target object from the captured image, determining a second characteristic part of the target object in the captured image, and switching from tracking the second characteristic part to tracking the target first characteristic part in response to a tracking parameter of the target object meeting a preset tracking condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Lei Pang, Cong Zhao, Liliang Zhang, Gao Zhu, Sijin Li, Yao Liu
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Patent number: 11997820Abstract: A cage assembly includes a cage body and an adjustable component, where the adjustable component is movably disposed on the cage body, the adjustable component has a connector-installing portion, and a position of the connector-installing portion is changed along with the adjustable component.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: WISTRON CORP.Inventors: Zih-Yao Liu, Shin-Yi Hsieh
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Publication number: 20240160832Abstract: A method and system provide and utilize obfuscated fonts for displayable content. Responsive to a request for displayable content having text, a text portion of the requested displayable content to be obfuscated is determined. For that text portion, obfuscated fonts are provided, by retrieving obfuscated fonts or by generating obfuscated fonts from a set of obfuscated glyphs created from a plurality of glyphs representative of a plurality of characters of the text portion of the displayable content. The obfuscated fonts can be created by assigning obfuscated glyphs of the set into the obfuscated fonts in accordance with one or more messages. The obfuscated fonts are mapped by assigning a value to each obfuscated glyph in the set that is different from an original value of the glyph.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicants: George Mason University, University of South FloridaInventors: Mingkui Wei, Yao Liu, Zhuo Lu, Junjie Xiong
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Publication number: 20240140848Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of wastewater treatment, and discloses an electrochemical nitrogen and phosphorus removal device and a method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Yongsheng BAI, Jiang CHANG, Bojun SU, Luyuan SHI, Jun HAN, Yao LIU, Lixin YU, Huanhuan WANG
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Patent number: 11966900Abstract: A transaction record is created showing a purchase transaction of a customer. A CV profile showing a list of items in the transaction obtained from images is also obtained. The items in the transaction record are compared to items on the list. When there is a discrepancy, an action to take is determined.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Zhichun Xiao, Lingfeng Zhang, Jon Hammer, Joseph Duffy, Yao Liu, Sicong Fang, Xiang Yao, Pingyuan Wang, Yu Tao, Tianyi Mao, Yutao Tang, Feiyun Zhu, Han Zhang, Chunmei Wang, Pingjian Yu, Muzzammil Afroz, Haining Liu
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Publication number: 20240129233Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining slice information, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: receiving an initial packet; determining, from pre-configured templates, a target template matching the initial packet, wherein the target template contains a target format of target slice information of a target slice associated with the initial packet; generating a target packet based on the initial packet and the target template, wherein the target packet contains the target slice information in the target format; and sending the target packet to a receiving end to instruct the receiving end to execute following operations: parsing the target packet based on the target template, so as to determine the target slice information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: Yao LIU
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Publication number: 20240121178Abstract: Provided are a failure protection method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: configuring a protection relationship on a standby node, wherein the protection relationship is configured to indicate an object to be protected by the standby node; receiving SID information advertised by a primary node, wherein the SID information at least includes: an SID network programming function type and an SID value; matching the SID network programming function type with an SID network programming function type of the standby node, matching the SID value with the protection relationship, and in a case where the SID network programming function type is successfully matched with an SID network programming function type of the standby node and the SID value is successfully matched with the protection relationship, generating a protection entry.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Yao LIU, Yubao WANG, Shaofu PENG
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Patent number: 11954928Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to detecting text in images. In some embodiments, a system for detecting text in images comprises a database configured to store images and a control circuit configured to retrieve an image, generate, based on the image, a collection of augmented images, detect characters in each of the augmented images, generate bounding boxes for the characters in each of augmented images, recognize the characters in each of the augmented images, select, based on the recognition of the characters in each of the augmented images, candidate characters, wherein the candidate characters are selected based on consistency of the recognition of the characters in each of the augmented images, detect, for the image, a color associated with the characters, and store, in the database, the image, the candidate characters, and the color associated with the characters.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Haining Liu, Feiyun Zhu, Jon Hammer, Ryan B. Reagan, Pingjian Yu, Zhichun Xiao, Yuqi Zhang, Yao Liu
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Publication number: 20240101559Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and prodrugs thereof. The provided compounds may be kinase (e.g., Janus kinase (JAK) (e.g., Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)) and/or cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) (e.g., cyclin-dependent kinase 11 (CDK11)) inhibitors. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and kits including the provided compounds. Further provided are methods of using the provided compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits (e.g., for treating a disease (e.g., proliferative disease) in a subject in need thereof).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Yao Liu, David Weinstock, Loretta Sze-Mun Li
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Publication number: 20240094608Abstract: A rapid telescoping support pole, a photographic equipment, and a hiking pole having an operation driving member, a transverse driving wheel, and a vertical transmission wheel cooperating with said transverse driving wheel; the vertical transmission wheel driving multi-section inner tubes cooperatively to make the multi-stage outer tube conversion between a telescopic unlocked state and a telescopic locked state so as to achieve the rapid telescoping purpose. It has the advantages of rapid telescoping, extremely convenient use and movement, and simultaneous operation of upper and lower telescopic poles in one cooperating movement, therefore it has superior performance in terms of technology, practicality and economy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventor: Yao Liu
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Publication number: 20240059712Abstract: The disclosure relates to bifunctional KRAS-G12D-modulating compounds having the structure W-L-T, where W is a targeting group that binds specifically to KRAS-G12D protein, T is an E3-ligase binding group, and L is absent or is a bivalent linking group that connects W and T together via a covalent linkage. Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof can promote degradation of the KRAS-G12D protein in a cell and are thus useful for treating, inhibiting, and preventing KRAS-G12D-associated diseases, disorders and conditions, including cancers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Jiasheng LV, Xiang JI, Gang WU, Bin ZONG, Qiguo ZHANG, Yanpeng WU, Xiangyang LI, Yuhui CHEN, Yongyue CHEN, Chuanhao HUANG, Xingwu ZHU, Xiaolin HE, Yao LIU, Yuhua ZHANG, Jian GE, Tianlun ZHOU, Xiangsheng YE, Xianqi KONG, Dawei CHEN
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Publication number: 20240050577Abstract: The disclosure relates to bifunctional CDK-modulating compounds having the structure W-L-T, where W is a targeting group that binds specifically to a CDK protein, T is an E3-ligase binding group, and L is absent or is a bivalent linking group that connects W and T together via a covalent linkage. Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof can promote degradation of one or more CDK protein in a cell and are thus useful for treating, inhibiting, and preventing CDK-associated diseases, disorders and conditions, including cancers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Jiasheng LV, Yao LIU, Xiangyang LI, Xianfeng LIN, Qisheng LIU, Yuanhong GU, Kang DU, Zhihong ZHANG, Mengchao SHI, Yuhua ZHANG, Jian GE, Tianlun ZHOU, Xiangsheng YE, Xianqi KONG, Dawei CHEN
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Publication number: 20240017585Abstract: Provided is a thermal management system for an electric vehicle. The thermal management system includes: first heat exchange means configured to regulate a temperature of a vehicle interior; and second heat exchange means configured to regulate a temperature of the battery; where the first heat exchange means and the second heat exchange means are coupled in series or in parallel for simultaneously regulating the temperatures of the vehicle interior and the battery. The thermal management system for the electric vehicle simultaneously regulates the temperatures of the battery and the vehicle interior through the first heat exchange means and the second heat exchange means, a vehicle interior thermal management system and a battery thermal management system which is beneficial to keeping the battery (10) in a normal working temperature range, to improving the energy utilization, and to increasing a cruising range of the electric vehicle. An electric vehicle is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yao LIU, Yu ZHAO, Zhengzhu ZHOU, Liwen JIANG, Kai WU
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Publication number: 20240017605Abstract: A fluid management apparatus and a heat management system are provided. The fluid management apparatus includes a connecting piece and a liquid storage part. The connecting piece and the liquid storage part are arranged separately, and a first mating part of a liquid storage part shell is sealedly connected to a first connecting port portion of the connecting piece. A liquid storage cavity of the liquid storage part is in communication with a flow channel of the connecting piece, and the connecting piece, which is provided with a flow channel, is arranged separately from the liquid storage part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Deping HE, Jiahe LIANG, Zhengyi YIN, Yao LIU
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Patent number: 11870430Abstract: An over-current protection circuit for composite transistor devices is provided, connected between an input terminal and a load, and including: a control-terminal voltage-generation module whose output voltage varies with its input voltage when driven by a first voltage, wherein the output voltage of the control-terminal voltage-generation module serves as a control-terminal voltage; a composite transistor device, connected between the control-terminal voltage-generation module and the load, configured to conduct in response to the control-terminal voltage and a second voltage to generate an output current flowing through the load; and an over-current protection module, connected between the composite transistor device and the load, wherein when the output current of the composite transistor device exceeds a preset limit, a clamping voltage is applied to the composite transistor device by the over-current protection module to limit a current flowing through the composite transistor device, thereby limiting thType: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: MICROTERA SEMICONDUCTOR (GUANGZHOU) CO., LTD.Inventors: Franco Maloberti, Alper Akdikmen, Yao Liu, Sen Liu, Jianping Li, Xinglong Liu, Linsen Shi, Guichun Ban, Xiaowei Liu, Haibin Liu, Huahua Duan, Chao Yang, Jie Yin
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Publication number: 20230398832Abstract: Disclosed are a power drive system and a vehicle. The power drive system may include a first motor, a second motor, a first clutch, a transmission device, and an air conditioning compressor; the first motor may be in transmission connection to the air conditioning compressor via a first transmission path, and may be in transmission connection to the transmission device via a second transmission path; the second motor may be in transmission connection to the air conditioning compressor; and the first clutch may be disposed on the first transmission path for connection or disconnection of the first transmission path.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yao LIU, Liwen JIANG, Kai WU, Hongguang SHI
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Publication number: 20230391768Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (I?) (e.g., compounds of Formula (I)), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and prodrugs thereof. The provided compounds may be kinase (e.g., Janus kinase (JAK), e.g., Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)) inhibitors. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and kits including the provided compounds. Further provided are methods of using the provided compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits (e.g., for treating a disease (e.g., proliferative disease) in a subject in need thereof).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2019Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.Inventors: Nathanael S. Gray, Tinghu Zhang, Yao Liu, Zhixiang He, Mingfeng Hao, David Weinstock, Loretta Sze-Mun Li