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).

  • Publication number: 20240247610
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) power generation system with a regenerator utilizing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cold energy and industrial waste heat, the system comprising: an LNG regasification circuit, an ORC circuit, and an industrial waste heat circuit. The ORC circuit utilizes the cold energy released by the LNG regasification circuit and the heat energy dispersed by the industrial waste heat circuit. A bypass is set up in the ORC circuit to adjust the working medium flow rate via the expander to ensure efficient operation of the system. The invention improves the LNG cold energy recovery method based on the existing ORC cycle. The three-fluid heat exchanger and the regenerator could make full use of the cold energy provided by the LNG regasification process, reduce the thermal stress caused by the large temperature difference, alleviate the working load of the evaporator, and thus improve the heat to electricity conversion efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Zhen Tian, Wenzhong Gao, Yuan Zhang, Leping Xu
  • Publication number: 20240248110
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a consumable recycling apparatus and a nucleic acid test analyzer. The consumable recycling apparatus includes: a bearing frame; a supporting plate structure, wherein the supporting plate structure is provided with a consumable bearing area; a recycling structure including a rack, a mounting beam movably arranged on the rack, and a driving structure arranged on the rack and driving the mounting beam to move, the mounting beam is provided with a plurality of recycling rods arranged at intervals in a horizontal direction, and each of the recycling rods is internally provided with an airflow channel; and a stripping structure arranged on the bearing frame, wherein the stripping structure includes a plurality of notch structures, the plurality of notch structures are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of recycling rods, and a width of the notch structure is greater than a diameter of the recycling rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Hao XIAO, Guoyao HE, Yingchao XIONG, Zefeng QIU, Yangyang PENG, Hao SHI, Yuan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12043124
    Abstract: A vehicle power system includes at least one main switch to electrically connect a traction battery and electric machine, at least one DC charge switch to electrically connect the traction battery and a DC charge port when the at least one main switch is closed, and a controller to, while the DC charge port is disconnected from a DC power source, sequentially close the at least one DC charge switch and then the at least one main switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Graham Lynn Briggs, Yuan Zhang, Jonathan Andrew Butcher, Wai Hwa Fong
  • Publication number: 20240241704
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for reducing register pressure. Loops of a computer program with a number of live variables that exceeds a threshold number, such as the number of available registers with capacity to store data, are identified. Such identified loops may be the to be subject to high register pressure. Upon identifying such loops in the computer program, chains within each identified loop are identified, where each chain includes load and store instructions from the same induction address and where the variable offsets of the load and store instructions are loop invariants. The address expressions for the load and store instructions in the identified chains may then be modified or changed to reuse common variable offsets using an analysis and transformation process. By reusing common variable offsets, there are less variable offsets that need to be stored in the registers thereby mitigating register pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zheng Chen, Ke Wen Lin, Si Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240232909
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of monitoring, evaluating and early-warning pollution for key pollution sources in an industrial park. The method comprises: a multi-index on-line early-warning monitoring method for pollution from key pollution sources, a hierarchical pollution risk evaluating method, and a pollution early-warning grade evaluating method, which are in line with the environmental management solution that pollution prevention is the priority in an industrial park in China.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: BEIJING MUNICIPAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
    Inventors: Shijie WANG, Yuan Zhang, Tianxiang Xia, Lin Jiang, Maosheng Zhong
  • Patent number: 12034168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite of a cobalt-based perovskite material with a negative thermal expansion material, and a preparation method of the same, and a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) comprising the same, and belongs to the technical field of fuel cells. In the present invention, a negative thermal expansion material is introduced into a cobalt-based perovskite oxide to successfully prepare an SOFC cathode material with excellent electrochemical performance and low thermal expansivity. The composite electrode achieves prominent mechanical tolerance in SOFC, which can moderate a volume change during the whole calcination process and enable a smooth transition to a high-temperature stage. The composite electrode has a thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) only of 12.9×10?6 K?1, which is perfectly matched with that of an SDC electrolyte. In addition, the composite shows excellent oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity, high TEC, and extremely-excellent anti-CO2 poisoning performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Yuan Zhang, Chuan Zhou, Guangming Yang, Zongping Shao
  • Patent number: 12033345
    Abstract: A positioning method including: acquiring a gray-scale image of an object to be measured to determine a gray-scale value of each pixel on the gray-scale image; determining a target area to be measured and a first gray-scale change area adjacent to the target area to be measured based on the gray-scale value of each pixel; determining a target gray-scale value based on a gray-scale value of the target area to be measured and a gray-scale value of each pixel in the first gray-scale change area; determining target pixels that conform to the target gray-scale value in the first gray-scale change area, to use the target pixels as actual edge pixels of the target area to be measured; and determining a relative distance between a center position of the target area to be measured and a reference position, to obtain position information of the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Naixi Chen
  • Patent number: 12019596
    Abstract: An integrated platform system that employ a series of machine learning techniques and prediction and detection units that can process input data and extract and generate meaningful insights and predictions therefrom. The system integrates together multiple different data storage types and applications that generates data of different types, and an associated processing system for processing the different data types, store the data in a common data model to normalize the data, determine the data lineage of the data, and then process the data using different types of techniques. The data can also be processed by a prediction unit for generating meaningful insights and predictions or by an anomaly detection unit for detecting one or more anomalies in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: KPMG LLP
    Inventors: Niels Hanson, James Johnson Gardner, Punit S. Orpe, Wendy Du, Laurence Anthony Brown, Ranjan Vivek Mannige, David Green, Michael Ahn, Yang Zhou, Andrew Yuan, Adam Helio Rosa, Kyle B. Chen, Alex Perusse, Christian Alexander Manaog, Yeshwanth Somu, Xin Cheng, Torey C. Bearly, Raghav Saboo, Sphoorthy Pamaraju, Erik Ernst, Can Ozuretmen, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240199044
    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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Wenyuan Qi, Tianxiang Cao
  • Publication number: 20240192288
    Abstract: An all-in-one sensing apparatus for transformer bushing tap monitoring includes: a tap lead device connected to a grounding wire of a transformer bushing through a mounting bracket and configured to lead out the grounding wire; a sensor assembly provided on the mounting bracket, connected to an oil taking port of the bushing, and configured to detect a temperature, a pressure, a partial discharge current and a hydrogen content of the bushing and upload the temperature, the pressure, the partial discharge current and the hydrogen content of the bushing; and a power module provided on the mounting bracket, and configured to supply power to the sensor assembly through coil induction, where an output terminal of the tap lead device is connected to the power module, and an output terminal of the power module is connected to the sensor assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Guanghu Xu, Dingqian Yang, Dandong He, Xiaoguang Li, Duohu Gong, Shan Li, Yunkai Yue, Yuxuan Feng, Qingchuan Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Yadi Xie
  • Publication number: 20240195980
    Abstract: The method of the present disclosure includes: for a feature matrix of each channel of an image output from an intermediate layer of a neural network: determining row(s) and column(s) having same feature values at edges of the feature matrix as row(s) to be compressed and column(s) to be compressed, deleting the feature values of the row(s) to be compressed and the column(s) to be compressed, and reserving remaining feature values as reserved values; compressing the feature values of the row(s) to be compressed and the column(s) to be compressed to obtain edge value(s); and encoding the reserved values and the edge value(s), as well as a number of the row(s) to be compressed and a number of the column(s) to be compressed, and sending a result of the encoding to a decoder for restoring the feature matrix of the each channel by the decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Huifen WANG, Yuan ZHANG, Mingchuan YANG, Leping SHEN
  • Publication number: 20240189383
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of biotechnology, and in particular to an application of inhibitors targeting CD226 molecules in anti-tumor metastasis. In view of the important role of platelets in mediating tumor metastasis, the present disclosure develops small-molecule inhibitors with blocking effects by targeting CD226 molecules, an important target. It can destroy the interaction between platelets and tumor cells, and inhibit the metastasis of tumor cells, and it is important for research and development of new methods to control tumor metastasis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: AIR FORCE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ran Zhuang, Yuan Zhang, Yong Ding, Yitian Liu
  • Patent number: 12006777
    Abstract: The disclosure presents apparatuses and systems to reduce drag and friction forces on a drill string located downhole a borehole. The drill string can have two or more movement isolators to allow a movement sensitive tool to be movement isolated from other portions of the drill string that have powered movement. The other drill string portions can be powered by a surface equipment or by a downhole movement motor attached to the drill string, such as a rotational mud motor, an agitator, a jar motor, or a rotary steerable. Portions of the drill string located further downhole than the movement sensitive tool can utilize a movement motor attached to the drill string to provide movement to reduce drag and friction force where the movement isolators can reduce the movement force experienced by the movement sensitive tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan Zhang, Robello Samuel
  • Patent number: 12001388
    Abstract: Provided in one or more embodiments of the description are an information importing method and apparatus. The method may comprise: a server receiving an information importing file uploaded by a user, wherein the information importing file includes information to be imported into a system; the server verifying the information included in the information importing file; the server marking information in the information importing file that does not pass the verification, so as to generate an error comparison file; and the server returning the error comparison file to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: DINGTALK HOLDING (CAYMAN) LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia Guo, Yuan Zhang, Ke Xu
  • Publication number: 20240169713
    Abstract: The invention relates to an image feature transmission method, device and system, and relates to the technical field of communication. The transmission method the following steps: extracting a feature matrix of a to-be-processed image for each channel by using a machine learning model; determining one or more incidence matrix pairs according to a comparison result of the correlation degree between the feature matrixes and a first threshold value; according to the information amount, determining a representation matrix and a represented matrix in the two feature matrixes of each incidence matrix pair; determining a corresponding relation between each representation matrix and each represented matrix; and carrying out quantization processing and coding processing on each representation matrix, the corresponding relation and the maximum characteristic value and the minimum characteristic value in each represented matrix, and then transmitting to a decoding end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Huifen WANG, Yuan ZHANG, Mingchuan YANG, Zheng HE
  • Publication number: 20240153536
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a video editing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: creating at least one editing subtask for a video editing task; in response to a first operation for triggering a target editing subtask, obtaining an initial video material and presenting an editing interface of the target editing subtask; recording the editing operation triggered in the editing interface and presenting an indication identifier of the editing operation in the editing track; generating an editing result of the target editing subtask based on the recorded information of the editing operation and the initial video material; based on the editing result of each editing subtask of the video editing task, generating a target video as an editing result of the video editing task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaoran Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Xinyi Zha, Zhirui Jiang, Min Shen, Yu Zhang, Yan He, Jiahui Qiu, Shangshang Xiang, Long Ma
  • Patent number: 11978238
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Mulford, Nathan Frey, Alexandros Panagopoulos, Yinquan Hao, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240140842
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an MABR-based method for treating rare earth mine tailwater, comprising: introducing rare earth mine tailwater into a sedimentation pond and simultaneously injecting pig farm breeding tailwater into the sedimentation pond, and fully mixing the two in the sedimentation pond for solid particulate sedimentation; performing pH adjustment, MABR enhancement treatment, percolation treatment with a percolation dam, and ecological purification with an ecological purification pond; and overflowing and discharging the rare earth mine tailwater purified by the ecological purification pond to a natural water body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: YUAN ZHANG, HONGHAO XIE, XINFEI ZHANG, JIANHUI ZHAN, YULIANG WU, ZHIFENG YANG
  • Patent number: 11969465
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are polynucleotides encoding multi-epitope polypeptides and assemblies thereof, and their use for treating or limiting Toxoplasma gondii infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: EMERGENT TRAVEL HEALTH INC.
    Inventors: Rima McLeod, Kamal El Bissati, Ying Zhou, Jeff Alexander, Steve Reed, Peter Burkhard, Mariane Melo, Darrel Irvine, Ron Weiss, Yuan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240135389
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of monitoring, evaluating and early-warning pollution for key pollution sources in an industrial park. The method comprises: a multi-index on-line early-warning monitoring method for pollution from key pollution sources, a hierarchical pollution risk evaluating method, and a pollution early-warning grade evaluating method, which are in line with the environmental management solution that pollution prevention is the priority in an industrial park in China.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: BEIJING MUNICIPAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ECO-ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
    Inventors: Shijie WANG, Yuan Zhang, Tianxiang Xia, Lin Jiang, Maosheng Zhong