Patents by Inventor Yun Zhang

Yun 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: 11952472
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a preparation method and product of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites with a designable characteristic structure. The method includes: (a) choosing carbon fabrics as raw material, where a predetermined number of the fabrics are selected to deposit the reinforcement phase; (b) coating all carbon fabrics with resin matrix, placing the fabrics layer by layer, where the carbon fabrics with the reinforcement phases are placed in a predetermined layer, meanwhile a micro power supply is placed in a setting layer during the stacking process, then a prefabricated product is obtained; (c) placing the prefabricated product in a vacuum bag then evacuating and sealing, hot pressing the sealed prefabricated product, finally the carbon fiber reinforced polymer composite product in the vacuum bag after hot pressing is successfully manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Huamin Zhou, Helezi Zhou, Zhigao Huang, Fengjia Zhang, Yun Zhang, Yunming Wang, Dequn Li
  • Publication number: 20240114125
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a method includes obtaining a sensor assembly that includes at least a first camera and a second camera, and positioning the sensor assembly in an enclosure of a sensor testing system. The enclosure has a first enclosure target and a second enclosure target affixed thereon, and includes a sensor arrangement. The sensor testing assembly further includes a computing arrangement and a data acquisition arrangement, The method also includes performing a first test on the sensor assembly by providing commands to the sensor assembly using the computing arrangement, and monitoring the sensor assembly during the first test. Monitoring the sensor assembly includes obtaining data from the sensor assembly and/or the sensor arrangement, and providing the data to the data acquisition arrangement. Finally, the method includes processing the data, wherein processing the data includes determining whether the data indicates that the sensor assembly passes the first test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Nuro, Inc.
    Inventors: Fan Yang, Samuel Cheng, Yun Zhang, Brian Hufnagel, Tarik Snyder, Jordan Aaron, Biyu Ye
  • Publication number: 20240111038
    Abstract: A customer terminal device, a position detection method and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The c device may include an ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning module, which is configured to output a first detection signal; a first transmission component configured to receive the first detection signal and output a second detection signal according to the first detection signal; a second transmission component configured to receive the first detection signal and output a third detection signal according to first detection signal; an antenna module provided with a UWB positioning beacon configured to receive and send first, second and third detection signals to UWB positioning module; the UWB positioning module is further configured to receive first, second and third detection signals from UWB positioning beacon, and perform position detection on the antenna module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Quan SUN, Yun'an ZHANG, Rui MAO
  • Patent number: 11945895
    Abstract: The invention provides a class of photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers. Each of the photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers of the invention comprise (1) a polydiorganosiloxane polymer chain comprising dimethylsiloxane units and photochromic siloxane unit having one methyl substituent and one organic substituent having a photochromic moiety that capable of undergoing a reversible color change upon exposure to UV-irradiation or high-energy-violet light; (2) two terminal ethylenically-unsaturated groups. The invention also provides a soft photochromic contact lens, especially a photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lens, which comprises a crosslinked polymeric material comprising repeating units of at least one of such a class of photochromic polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinkers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan Chang, Junhao Ge, Steve Yun Zhang, Weihong Lang
  • Patent number: 11947426
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for recommending a protection strategy. The method includes obtaining contents of attributes of a plurality of data assets adjusted. The method further includes generating a plurality of vector representations for the plurality of data assets based on the contents of the attributes. The method further includes dividing the plurality of data assets into at least one category based on the plurality of vector representations. The method further includes if it is determined that a protection strategy for one data asset in the at least one category exists, determining the protection strategy as a recommended strategy for another data asset in the at least one category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Ren Wang, Qi Wang, Yun Zhang, Ming Zhang, Weiyang Liu
  • Patent number: 11945181
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for producing photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lenses in a relatively efficient and consistent manner from a polymerizable composition under a controlled thermal curing scheme. The main polymerizable components in the polymerizable composition are a high radical-reactive hydrophilic (meth)acrylamido monomer, a high radical-reactive siloxane-containing (meth)acrylamido monomer, and a polysiloxane vinylic crosslinker(s) free of low-reactive ethylenically unsaturated group as the main crosslinker. The thermal free radical initiator having a 10 hour half-life temperature (T10h?) of from about 50° C. to about 90° C. The controlled thermal curing scheme includes maintaining a first curing temperature of from about (T10h??20)° C. to about T10h?° C. for a first curing time and maintaining a second curing temperature of from about (T10h?+10)° C. to about (T10h?+35)° C. for a second curing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Junhao Ge, Yuan Chang, Steve Yun Zhang, Michelle Plavnik, Augustine Twum Kumi, Daqing Wu
  • Patent number: 11931454
    Abstract: The invention is generally related to a soft hydrogel ocular insert that is composed of at least one hydrogel material in fully hydrated state and can be comfortable for wearing. The hydrogel material comprises polymer chains, which are derived from at least one arylborono-containing hydrophilic copolymer and at least one mucoadhesive polymer, and cyclic boronic ester crosslinks for crosslinking those mucoadhesive polymer chains and arylborono-containing hydrophilic copolymer chains to form a 3-dimensional polymer network. Those cyclic boronic ester crosslinks can be hydrolyzed slowly in the tear of the eyes of a patient, resulting in the disintegration (dissolution) of the 3-dimensional polymer network and thereby providing mucoadhesisve polymers and optionally drugs impregnated in the hydrogel ocular insert in a controlled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Junhao Ge, Steve Yun Zhang, Daqing Wu, Jing Cheng
  • Patent number: 11936541
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for prediction of device failure. The method includes receiving from a network exposure node a request for subscribing to a monitoring report related to a device failure predicted for a terminal device; obtaining, in response to the request, traffic data and current power consumption data of the terminal device; detecting, based on the traffic data, a traffic anomaly of the terminal device; predicting, in response to the detection of the traffic anomaly of the terminal device, a device failure based on the current power consumption data; and transmitting the monitoring report indicating the predicted device failure to the network exposure node. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the monitoring event can be extended to predict the device failure of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Minyi Wang, Jingrui Tao, Yun Zhang, Fengpei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11926689
    Abstract: The invention provides a hydrophilized polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinker which comprises (1) a polydiorganosiloxane polymer chain comprising dimethylsiloxane units and hydrophilized siloxane units each having one methyl substituent and one monovalent C4-C40 organic radical substituent having two to six hydroxyl groups, wherein the molar ratio of the hydrophilized siloxane units to the dimethylsiloxane units is from about 0.035 to about 0.15, and (2) two terminal (meth)acryloyl groups. The hydrophilized polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinker has a number average molecular weight of from about 3000 Daltons to about 80,000 Daltons. The present invention is also related to a silicone hydrogel contact lens, which comprises repeating units derived from a hydrophilized polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinker of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Jinyu Huang, Frank Chang, Steve Yun Zhang, Feng Jing
  • Patent number: 11927512
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for imaging and thickness determination of coatings on coated contact lenses. The method comprises selectively staining a negatively-charged-groups-containing coating over the lens body of a coated contact lens by immersing the coated contact lens in an aqueous solution comprising a fluorescently-labeled polycationic polymer and having a pH of from about 6.5 to 8.0; orthogonally cutting the selectively-stained coated contact lens; and determining the thickness of the coating on the coated contact lens. In addition, the invention provides a method for selecting a candidate coating material comprising negatively charged groups for applying a coating with a desired thickness onto silicone hydrogel contact lenses and for optimizing a coating process for producing coated silicone hydrogel contact lenses with a desired thickness coating thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan Chang, Ying Zheng, Junhao Ge, Steve Yun Zhang, Karen Belinda Sentell, Jinbo Dou
  • Patent number: 11908426
    Abstract: A display panel driving method, a display device and a driving device are provided. The method obtains a standard driving voltage value of a target pixel when a subject display content is being displayed and a target compression unit corresponding to the target pixel, determines a target compensation curve parameter from compressed de-Mura data corresponding to the target compression unit according to the standard driving voltage value, determines an effective driving voltage value of the target pixel when the subject content is being displayed according to a position information where the target pixel is in the target compression unit and the target compensation curve parameter, and drives the display panel according to the effective driving voltage. This method could correctly identify the corresponding decompression data and thus the decompressed data could be close to the actual data. This raises the decompression accuracy of decompressing the de-Mura data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Zhang, Xinhong Chen
  • Publication number: 20240050583
    Abstract: The present application relates to a protein-drug conjugate, containing an antigen binding protein portion and a drug conjugate portion. The antigen binding protein portion comprises one or more antigen binding fragments, and at least two linker peptides are directly or indirectly connected to the antigen binding fragments. The two linker peptides can each independently contain a first cysteine Cys1 and a second cysteine Cys2. The drug conjugate portion is covalently bonded on Cys1. The present application further relates to a preparation method for the protein-drug conjugate, and a use for the protein-drug conjugate in preventing or treating tumors or other diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: HARBOUR BIOMED (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yun HE, Lei SHI, Yang CAO, Ming WANG, Yun ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240046835
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display device brightness compensation look-up table obtaining method. The method includes a parameter reading step, an initial grayscale brightness detection step, a compensation region brightness detection step, a compensation data obtaining step, and a compensation look-up table generation step. The above method solves a technical issue that conventional demura technologies cannot uniform brightness of the display panel to result in poor quality of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yun ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240034792
    Abstract: Provided are an antigen binding protein capable of binding to PD-1 and a fusion protein thereof, and corresponding preparation method therefor and the use thereof. The fusion protein is capable of targeting PD-1 and CD73.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Haishan LUO, Qianqian SHAN, Yongqiang WANG, Xuekun ZHANG, Lei SHI, Yun ZHANG, Chuchu ZHAO, Wei ZHOU, Xin GAN
  • Patent number: 11886045
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for producing photochromic contact lenses, in particular, photochromic silicone hydrogel contact lenses. The method comprises a step of cast molding of a lens-forming composition including an iniferter to form an unprocessed contact lens having iniferter moieties covalently incorporated into its polymer matrix and a step of iniferter-induced graft-polymerization of a photochromic vinylic monomer to the polymer matrix only in its central region which is circular and concentric with the central axis of the unprocessed contact lens. The obtained photochromic contact lens has a central pupillary region that only can undergo a reversible color change upon exposure to UV/HEVL-radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan Chang, Junhao Ge, Steve Yun Zhang, Michelle Plavnik, Augustine Twum Kumi
  • Publication number: 20240031050
    Abstract: This application discloses a signal processing method and an apparatus. The method includes: A transmit device generates a PPDU, and sends the PPDU; and a receive device receives the PPDU, and processes M sequences carried in the PPDU. The PPDU shown in this application includes a first field, the first field is used for carrying M sequences, the M sequences correspond to M space-time streams, one sequence corresponds to one space-time stream, and M is a positive integer. According to the method provided in this application, sequence sending efficiency can be effectively improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Rui DU, Qian ZHANG, Xiao HAN, Xun YANG, Chenchen LIU, Meihong ZHANG, Yingxiang SUN, Yun ZHANG, Yang LI
  • Publication number: 20240018309
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Steve Yun Zhang, Daqing Wu, Junhao Ge, Richard Charles Breitkopf, Xinming Qian, Zach Munoz, Matthew D. Nelson, Augustine Twum Kumi, Weihong Lang, Ying Zheng, Feng Jing, Frank Chang
  • Patent number: 11867874
    Abstract: The invention is generally related to an insert for being embedded in a silicone hydrogel contact lens. The insert is made of a crosslinked materials which are rigid in dry state at room temperature (from about 22° C. to about 26° C.), have a high oxygen permeability and a high refractive index in fully hydrated state, and can become softer at a temperature great than 32° C. Such materials are useful for making inserts in embedded contact lenses for correcting corneal astigmatism, presbyopia, and color blindness lenses and for imparting photochromic characteristics to the lenses. The invention is also related to a method for making embedded silicone hydrogel contact lenses comprising an insert of the invention therein and to embedded silicone hydrogel contact lenses comprising an insert of the invention therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Cheng, Wei Liang, Steve Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11858166
    Abstract: An unit narrow board glue application device and method suitable for high-frequency hot pressing of solid wood edge glued panel is disclosed, including a transverse chain feeding device, a longitudinal roller feeding device and a gluing device. The transverse chain feeding device includes a fixed chain transport mechanism and a movable chain transport mechanism. The longitudinal roller feeding device includes the lifting power roller assembly, the longitudinal feed roller assembly and the pneumatic compression roller assemblies. The gluing device includes a glue pump, a glue application head, and a pneumatic slide table. The front end face of the hollow structure glue application head has a number of small round holes for glue liquid discharge and horizontal glue guiding grooves. The disclosure has a high degree of automation, can give full play to the efficiency of the high-frequency hot press, and is conducive to the intelligent manufacturing of solid wood furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Forestry University
    Inventors: Baojin Wang, Qi Xu, Peibin Tian, Yun Zhang, Xinqi Zhu, Song Yang, Xinyu Yan, Anqi Wu, Zhibao Chen, Nanfeng Zhu, Sheping Wang, Jintao Shen
  • Publication number: 20230421446
    Abstract: A virtual device management system for creating and implementing virtual devices and associated methods are provided herein. The system presents to a user a list of devices available for combining to create the virtual device. When the system receives from the user a selection of two or more devices that the user wishes to combine to create the virtual device, the system presents to the user a list of available functions that can be performed by the virtual device based on the selected devices. The system then receives from the user a selection of one or more functions and configures the virtual device to perform the selected functions. The system can also be configured to present, via a user interface via a mobile application running on a user device, a plurality of virtual devices with predetermined functionalities that are created by detecting the various connected devices within an IoT network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yeqing Lou, Mark Tan, Yun Zhang, Dongsheng Song