Patents by Inventor Yuan Zhang

Yuan 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: 12374173
    Abstract: A power distribution system includes a contactor between a traction battery and a high-voltage bus. The system includes a controller configured to generate a contactor status to determine if the contactor is operating as commanded. The controller identifies a contactor as closed responsive to a rate of change of a voltage difference between a traction battery voltage and a high-voltage bus voltage over each of a predetermined number of time intervals being within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Rui Wang, Xu Wang
  • Patent number: 12370504
    Abstract: The invention relates to hydrophobic hollow fiber membranes, and in particular, to hydrophobic organic-inorganic composite hollow fiber membranes. Methods for forming the hydrophobic organic-inorganic composite hollow fiber membranes are also disclosed. The hydrophobic organic-inorganic composite hollow fiber membranes may be used in membrane contactor applications such as gas-liquid (G-L) contactor and liquid-liquid (L-L) contactor processes. Applications for G-L membrane contactors include gas streams purification (gas absorption), water ozonation, and water deoxygenation. Applications for L-L membrane contactors include direct contact membrane distillation and liquid-liquid extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Nanyang Technological University
    Inventors: Rong Wang, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12346356
    Abstract: A method for conversational query resolution includes receiving a query input from a user. The query input is decomposed into a plurality of tasks. A knowledge graph is queried to identify one or more relevant entities based on at least one of the plurality of tasks. A vector database is searched to identify one or more text chunks that correspond to the one or more relevant entities. Content relevant to at least one of the plurality of tasks is identified from the one or more text chunks. An answer is generated based on the identified content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Jin Chen, Yuan Li, Tong Liu, Yuan Yuan Li, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250199830
    Abstract: An information display method, a medium and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: displaying a first interface, in which the first interface includes a question input control and a first intention control; displaying a questioning text on the first interface in response to an input operation on the question input control; displaying, in response to a selection operation on a plurality of candidate intentions provided by the first intention control, a first target intention corresponding to the selection operation in a display area corresponding to the first intention control; and displaying, in response to a generation operation, response information that corresponds to the questioning text and satisfies the first target intention on the first interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Qing LIU, Shuisheng ZHANG, Danchi FAN, Yuan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250200021
    Abstract: A data generation method and apparatus, a medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: displaying a data generation page of a data table; in response to a configuration operation for a configuration item of the data table in the data generation page, displaying configuration information corresponding to the configuration item; in response to a trigger operation for a generation control in the data generation page, generating metadata of the data table based on a constraint condition, in which the constraint condition comprises the configuration information and user information corresponding to a user who performs the configuration operation; and displaying the metadata in a display region for displaying the metadata in the data generation page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Qing LIU, Shuisheng ZHANG, Danchi FAN, Yuan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250199663
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of data visualization technologies, and discloses a data analysis method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. The present disclosure provides a data analysis method, including: displaying a data analysis page, where the data analysis page includes a data analysis control; obtaining a data analysis statement based on interaction with the data analysis control, and displaying the data analysis statement on the data analysis page; and displaying a message card representing an attribution result on the data analysis page based on the data analysis statement, where the message card includes a data display area and an analysis result display area, the data display area is configured to display to-be-attributed data corresponding to the data analysis statement, and the analysis result display area is configured to display attribution result details corresponding to the to-be-attributed data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Miao Chen, Shuisheng Zhang, Danchi Fan, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12330241
    Abstract: Disclosed is a robot welding assembly mechanism and an application in annular welding seam detection and postweld heat treatment. The robot welding assembly mechanism comprises a rotatable column. A plurality of transverse clamping portions are disposed at intervals on the column. A height-adjustable first V-shaped support portion is disposed at a periphery of the column. The first V-shaped support portion is mounted on a radial track. An annular track is disposed on an outer side of the radial track. A plurality of height-adjustable second V-shaped support portions are disposed on the annular track. The first V-shaped support portion and the second V-shaped support portions are capable of supporting a non-welded portion of the welded workpiece. A first driving mechanism of the rotation base, a second driving mechanism of the transverse clamping portions, and a third driving mechanism of each of the second V-shaped support portions are connected with a control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Limeng Yin, Hehe Zhang, Long Zhang, Wei Feng, Yuhua Chen, Xuejun Wang, Yuan Zhang, Jing Wang, Chengjie Zhang
  • Patent number: 12311931
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for vehicle speed planning based on timing of traffic lights. In an exemplary embodiment, a disclosed system includes one or more sensors of a vehicle; a transceiver; and a processor. The one or more sensors are configured to obtain vehicle sensor data pertaining to operation of the vehicle. The transceiver is configured to obtain traffic light data with respect to a plurality of traffic lights along a path or roadway on which the vehicle is travelling. The processor is coupled to the one or more sensors and to the transceiver, and is configured to at least facilitate: determining a desired control of movement of the vehicle based on the vehicle sensor data, the traffic light data, and one or more optimization criteria pertaining to the vehicle; and taking a vehicle action based on the desired control of movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12315098
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for multi-view point cloud registration for a whole aircraft based on a spherical harmonic feature (SHF). Gaussian sphere projection is mainly performed on a local point cloud. An SHF of each point is obtained by using a spherical harmonic transform technology. A constraint correspondence between feature points is found based on an SHF of each point in the point cloud. Multi-view point cloud data registration is performed according to an optimization graph method under a constraint of the SHF. A key of multi-view point cloud registration is to search for feature constraint relationships between different observation stations and perform non-linear solution based on these relationships, so as to obtain a pose parameter of a point cloud in each viewing angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Yuan Zhang, Hu Li, Zikuan Li
  • Publication number: 20250166337
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods of converting media dimensions. A device may identify a set of frames from a video in a first orientation as belonging to a scene. The device may receive a selected coordinate on a frame of the set of frames for the scene. The device may identify a first region within the frame including a first feature corresponding to the selected coordinate and a second region within the frame including a second feature. The device may generate a first score for the first feature and a second score for the second feature. The first score may be greater than the second score based on the first feature corresponding to the selected coordinate. The device may crop the frame to include the first region and the second region within a predetermined display area comprising a subset of regions of the frame in a second orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Brian Mulford, Nathan Frey, Alexandros Panagopoulos, Yinquan Hao, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250157066
    Abstract: A method for SLAM-based parking assist includes determining that a host vehicle is entering a corridor adjacent a target parking slot and determining a potential reusability of at least one of a plurality of previously determined training outcome of a training process for the target parking slot. The training outcome includes training identifying data of a potential parking slot. The method further includes receiving identifying data of the target parking slot, identifying which of the plurality of training outcomes is reusable based on the identifying data of the target parking slot to select an identified training outcome, comparing the identifying data of the target parking slot with the identifying data of the potential parking slot of the identified training outcome, and loading the identifying data of the target parking slot into a SLAM-based parking assist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Wenyuan Qi
  • Publication number: 20250147993
    Abstract: A method for conversational query resolution includes receiving a query input from a user. The query input is decomposed into a plurality of tasks. A knowledge graph is queried to identify one or more relevant entities based on at least one of the plurality of tasks. A vector database is searched to identify one or more text chunks that correspond to the one or more relevant entities. Content relevant to at least one of the plurality of tasks is identified from the one or more text chunks. An answer is generated based on the identified content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Ming Jin CHEN, Yuan LI, Tong LIU, Yuan Yuan LI, Yuan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12286129
    Abstract: A method of soliciting an occupant intervention for a simultaneous localization and mapping-based navigation system. A vehicle path plan and a motion control instruction are created and a suspected obstacle in a drive path is identified, wherein the drive path provides a portion of the vehicle path plan. The method further includes providing an indication on a first display that an intervention by an occupant is requested and determining if the occupant is paying attention to the indication on the first display. A system of performing the method includes a controller configured to execute instructions executing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Wenyuan Qi, Tianxiang Cao
  • Publication number: 20250126728
    Abstract: A position lock is provided for a rack assembly. The position lock includes a cam operable to rotate in a push direction. When the cam is rotated in the push direction, the cam is operable to push against an inner rail of the rack assembly to linearly translate the inner rail along the rack assembly in a frontward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Chen An, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12277861
    Abstract: A method can be used to provide smart notifications to avoid collisions while the vehicle maneuvers in a tight structural environment, such as a home garage or an underground parking lot. The method includes receiving historical vehicle-trajectory data. The historical vehicle-trajectory data includes the location and the heading of the vehicle for each of the plurality of historical trajectories along the structure. The method further includes clustering the plurality of historical trajectories of the vehicle along the structure by types of maneuvers to generate a plurality of trajectory clusters. The method also includes creating a probability distribution bitmap using the plurality of trajectory clusters and creating a topographic map based on the probability distribution bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Bo Yu, Brent Navin Roger Bacchus, Jiabin Shen, Yuan Zhang, Wenyuan Qi
  • Patent number: 12277443
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for improving debugging speed by rearranging debugging priority functions. In one embodiment, runtime input may be received about a program to be debugged. Feedback information is obtained about at least one similar program previously debugged. The compiling time information and runtime information are analyzed to determine a status of functions including one or more focused functions that will be used frequently and one or more unreachable functions that may never will be executed. A priority list of debugging functions is generated based on the feedback information, the runtime input and a function status. A plurality of debugging information are rearranged and parsed on the priority list prior to said program being debugged based on said debugging information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jiu Fu Guo, Ke Wen Lin, Zheng Chen, Si Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20250115728
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for preparing a polyurethane foam using an extract of cotton spinning black liquor, including the following steps: step (1): extracting biomass in cotton spinning black liquor by acid precipitation to obtain the extract of cotton spinning black liquor; step (2): pretreating the extract of cotton spinning black liquor, and uniformly mixing the pretreated extract of cotton spinning black liquor with a polyether polyol to obtain a mixed raw material; and step (3): preparing the polyurethane foam from the mixed raw material, dibutyltin dilaurate, distilled water, a foam stabilizer, aluminum hypophosphite and an isocyanate by one-step foaming. The present disclosure can solve the problems of high treatment cost and low utilization rate of the existing cotton spinning black liquor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Jianbo Zhao, Xiumin Li, Cuiping Yang, Xuejiao Wang, Yuan Zhang, Chunhui Shi, Lili Huang
  • Patent number: 12272082
    Abstract: The disclosed method includes acquiring sample models and marking sample feature points; selecting target feature points and regional points on bones; transforming the target feature points and the regional points, and registering the target feature points with the sample feature points; formulating a strategy for assigning impact factors to the sample models, linearly combining all sample models to construct an initial model, and determining initial feature points corresponding to the target feature points in the initial model; adjusting the strategy according to the distance between initial feature points and the target feature points, selecting the strategy corresponding to the minimum distance as an optimal strategy, and determining an optimal initial model; determining a matching point corresponding to each regional point in the optimal initial model, and calculating a transformation relationship; and transmitting all points of the optimal initial model according to the transformation relationship to obt
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignees: Vostro Medical Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd, The Fourth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital
    Inventors: Mingjun Fu, Wei Chai, Yuan Zhang, Mingmin Ren, Guoqing Yu, Linshuai He, Mingcheng Shen, Zhongwei Wang, Chengcheng Shang
  • Publication number: 20250101082
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of treating human chronic hepatitis B virus infection by reducing or eliminating cccDNA in liver cell of an HBV infected patient for 3 months or longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: HBVtech, LLC
    Inventor: Yong-yuan ZHANG
  • Patent number: D1072378
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Dongguan Nanxuan E-Commerce Co.. Ltd.
    Inventors: Taogen Chen, Yuan Zhang, Ziyong Huang