Patents by Inventor Youping Huang

Youping Huang 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: 20240051768
    Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Richard B. COHEN, Brian SVOBODA, Kirill K. PANKRATOV, Jason CHRISOS, Rick YOUPING-HUANG, Juergen D. CONRAD, Elizabeth CLARK-POLNER
  • Publication number: 20240017941
    Abstract: A material handling system for handling, placing packages onto pallets destined for an order store, the material handling system comprising, a storage array with storage spaces for holding packages therein, an automated package transport system communicably connected to the storage array for storing packages within the storage spaces of the storage array and retrieving packages from the storage spaces of the storage array, an automated palletizer for placing mixed packages onto a pallet to form a pallet load of mixed packages, the automated palletizer is communicably connected to the automated package transport system which provides individual packages from the storage array to the automated palletizer for forming the pallet load of mixed packages, the pallet load of mixed packages including more than one composite layers of mixed packages, a controller operably connected to the automated palletizer, the controller being programmed with a pallet load generator with an initial pallet load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kirill Pankratov, Ilya Erokhin, Oleksandr Muzychko, Rick Youping Huang
  • Publication number: 20230382644
    Abstract: A product order fulfillment system of mixed product units, the product order fulfillment system comprising a storage array, with at least one elevated storage level, wherein mixed product units are input and distributed in the storage array in cases, of product units of common kind per case, an automated transport system, with at least one asynchronous transport system, for level transport, and a lift for between level transport, communicably connected to the storage array so as to automatically retrieve and output, from the storage array, product units distributed in the cases in the at least one elevated storage level of the storage array, the output product units being one or more of mixed singulated product units, in mixed packed groups, and in mixed cases, wherein the at least one asynchronous transport system, and the lift are configured so as to form more than one transport channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ashish Aggarwal, Rick Youping Huang, Andrew Goodwin, Aaron Vande Ven
  • Patent number: 11787642
    Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SYMBOTIC LLC
    Inventors: Richard B. Cohen, Brian Svoboda, Kirill K. Pankratov, Jason Chrisos, Rick Youping-Huang, Juergen D. Conrad, Elizabeth Clark-Polner
  • Publication number: 20230081259
    Abstract: A method for producing a screen body for a screen used in a screw press, which screen body comprises one or more openings on a screen surface. In order to achieve a particularly long service life, it is provided that the screen body is formed by a sintering process and/or an additive manufacturing process, in particular a 31) printing process. Further embodiments include a screen, in particular for a screw press, having a screen body Which has openings on a screen surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: ANDRITZ AG
    Inventors: Youping HUANG, Daniel STELZER, Franco PICHLER, Stefan WILLBERGER, Markus EGGER
  • Publication number: 20230002171
    Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Richard B. COHEN, Brian SVOBODA, Kirill K. PANKRATOV, Jason CHRISOS, Rick YOUPING-HUANG, Juergen D. CONRAD, Elizabeth CLARK-POLNER
  • Patent number: 11440746
    Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Symbolic LLC
    Inventors: Richard B. Cohen, Brian Svoboda, Kirill K. Pankratov, Jason Chrisos, Rick Youping-Huang, Juergen D. Conrad, Elizabeth Clark-Polner
  • Publication number: 20220241976
    Abstract: An automated palletizer for building a mixed case pallet, the automated palletizer including a case infeed that feeds mixed cases to provide an input queue feed sequence of mixed cases. At least one pallet building robot communicably connected to the case infeed and configured to receive the mixed cases in the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases, and place the mixed cases according to and dependent on the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases so as to effect building the mixed case pallet at a predetermined substantially steady placement rate. A controller communicably connected to the case infeed and at least one pallet building robot, and being configured so as to generate a complete and stable mixed case arrangement plan that completes at least a predetermined whole part of the mixed case pallet and that describes a predetermined planned location and pose for each case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Ke FU, Wenyin SAN, Rick Youping HUANG
  • Patent number: 11305430
    Abstract: An automated palletizer for building a mixed case pallet, the automated palletizer including a case infeed that feeds mixed cases to provide an input queue feed sequence of mixed cases. At least one pallet building robot communicably connected to the case infeed and configured to receive the mixed cases in the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases, and place the mixed cases according to and dependent on the input queue feed sequence of mixed cases so as to effect building the mixed case pallet at a predetermined substantially steady placement rate. A controller communicably connected to the case infeed and at least one pallet building robot, and being configured so as to generate a complete and stable mixed case arrangement plan that completes at least a predetermined whole part of the mixed case pallet and that describes a predetermined planned location and pose for each case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Symbotic LLC
    Inventors: Ke Fu, Wenyin San, Rick Youping Huang
  • Publication number: 20210347581
    Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Richard B. COHEN, Brian Svoboda, Kirill K. Pankratov, Jason Chrisos, Rick Youping-Huang, Juergen D. Conrad, Elizabeth Clark-Polner
  • Patent number: 10947060
    Abstract: A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Symbolic LLC
    Inventors: Richard B Cohen, Brian Svoboda, Kirill K. Pankratov, Jason Chrisos, Rick Youping-Huang, Juergen D. Conrad, Elizabeth Clark-Polner
  • Publication number: 20190378023
    Abstract: A system and method for recommending a business experience package. The method includes recommending the business experience package stored in the cloud think tank, related to an industry in which a user is engaged and not downloaded to the user to the user after the user logs into the system, and recommending, according to detected content edited by the user in the man-machine interaction interface, the business experience package with the business type matching the edited content to the user; and, recommend according to the user's historical information of interest and historical search information, the business experience package with the business type related to the historical information of interest and the historical search information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Guangzhou Henghao Data Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youping HUANG, Yu Zheng
  • Publication number: 20100293118
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and systems for predicting or evaluating protein-ligand coupling specificities. A pattern recognition model can be trained by selected sequence segments of training proteins which have a specified ligand coupling specificity. Each selected sequence segment is believed to include amino acid residue(s) that may contribute to the ligand coupling specificity of the corresponding training protein. Sequence segments in a protein of interest can be similarly selected and used to query the trained model to determine if the protein of interest has the same ligand coupling specificity as the training proteins. In one embodiment, the pattern recognition model employed is a hidden Markov model which is trained by concatenated cytosolic domains of GPCRs which have interaction preference to a specified class of G proteins. This trained model can be used to evaluate G protein coupling specificity of orphan GPCRs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Wyeth LLC
    Inventors: Kodangattil R. SREEKUMAR, Youping Huang, Mark H. Pausch, Kamalakar Gulukota
  • Publication number: 20060008831
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and systems for predicting or evaluating protein-ligand coupling specificities. A pattern recognition model can be trained by selected sequence segments of training proteins which have a specified ligand coupling specificity. Each selected sequence segment is believed to include amino acid residue(s) that may contribute to the ligand coupling specificity of the corresponding training protein. Sequence segments in a protein of interest can be similarly selected and used to query the trained model to determine if the protein of interest has the same ligand coupling specificity as the training proteins. In one embodiment, the pattern recognition model employed is a hidden Markov model which is trained by concatenated cytosolic domains of GPCRs which have interaction preference to a specified class of G proteins. This trained model can be used to evaluate G protein coupling specificity of orphan GPCRs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Kodangattil Sreekumar, Youping Huang, Mark Pausch, Kamalakar Gulukota