Patents by Inventor Zhen Ma

Zhen Ma 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: 20240122200
    Abstract: Provided is a functional edible oil (FEO), a preparation method therefor and use thereof. The FEO is prepared by ternary transesterification of medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs), oils rich in linoleic acid, and oils rich in linolenic acid. The fatty acid composition and distribution of the FEO were determined and optimized via comparative analysis of indexes such as melting point, and effect of improving glucose and lipid metabolism as determined by animal tests. The FEO has a mass ratio of 2.3 to 4.0 for medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs) in MCTs to long chain fatty acids (LCFAs) in the oils rich in linoleic acid, and oils rich in linolenic acid and a mass ratio of 0.5 to 1.0 for linoleic acid to linolenic acid in the LCFAs, by mass of fatty acids. The FEO is added to food products at ?18.00%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zheling ZENG, Guibing ZENG, Zhen OUYANG, Bo YANG, Ping YU, Jiaheng XIA, Maomao MA, Dongman WAN, Miao LUO, Cheng ZENG, Xuefang WEN
  • Publication number: 20240123049
    Abstract: Provided is a new-type cis-replicon construct for efficiently expressing a target protein, which comprises an RNA polymerase coding unit and a target protein coding unit. The replicon construct can drive the replication of the target protein coding unit and reduce or avoid the replication and expression of the RNA polymerase, thereby effectively improving the expression of the target protein and reducing the expression of the non-target protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shoutao ZHANG, Qiang MA, Qingnan TIAN, Tian WANG, Yonghui HUANG, Guotao LIU, Zhen TIAN
  • Patent number: 11958719
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of elevator braking, in particular to an action state detection method and system for an elevator brake, comprising: acquiring matching pairs of brake linings in the same braking state; constructing normal record data sets based on the matching pairs; grouping the normal record data sets based on braking power corresponding to samples in the normal record data sets to determine a median of elevator running speed corresponding to the samples in each group; dividing the operating state levels of the elevator brake according to the size of the median; constructing a data training set; training a constructed network model to obtain a trained network model; acquiring the operating state levels of an elevator to be detected by the trained network model, evaluating the elevator brake according to the operating state levels, and controlling the elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Changshu Institute of Technology, Dongnan Elevator Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Ge, Fusheng Zhang, Anbo Jiang, Lingyun Ma, Zhen Zhao, Jianxin Ding, Jiancong Qin, Yong Ren, Guodong Sun
  • Publication number: 20240102979
    Abstract: A calibration concentration selection method includes steps of: using a gas sensor array to obtain a concentration variation sequence and a response variation sequence of the gas mixture; constructing and training an AE-BP model; constructing VAE and identically distributing the response variation sequence; inputting the identically distributed response variation sequence into the trained AE-BP model to output a predicted concentration variation sequence; and then normalizing the predicted concentration variation sequence to generate a target concentration variation sequence; sorting a target concentration variation sequence and calculating a response gradient sequence; processing the response gradient sequence for obtaining a corresponding smoothed gradient sequence; if the spike is greater than a preset hyperparameter, finding a large gradient concentration interval; and selecting concentration test points by random uniform sampling according to weights; and selecting concentration test points from all othe
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Huiling Tai, Yadong Jiang, Yilun Ma, Zaihua Duan, Yuanming Wu, Zhen Yuan
  • Patent number: 11938653
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a powder dry-pressing molding device and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SHENYANG HONGYANG PRECISION CERAMICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changhe Li, Mingcun Shi, Xiangyang Ma, Baoda Xing, Xiaohong Ma, Yanbin Zhang, Min Yang, Xin Cui, Teng Gao, Xiaoming Wang, Yali Hou, Han Zhai, Zhen Wang, Bingheng Lu, Huajun Cao, Naiqing Zhang, Qidong Wu
  • Publication number: 20240081360
    Abstract: Disclosed is a base oil for functional food oils and fats, a preparation method therefor and the use thereof. The base oil for functional food oils and fats is formed through ternary transesterification on medium-chain triglycerides, high-melting-point fat and oils rich in linolenic acid. The base oil for functional food oils and fats has a wide melting range, can significantly improve the glucose and lipid metabolism disorder, balance the essential and functional fatty acids in the body, and quickly replenish energy. Animal experiments were conducted and the fatty acid composition and distribution of the base oil were optimized and determined through comparative analysis based on evaluation indicators such as the improved effect in glucose and lipid metabolism and melting point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Nanchang University
    Inventors: Zheling Zeng, Guibing Zeng, Zhen Ouyang, Bo Yang, Ping Yu, Jiaheng Xia, Maomao Ma, Dongman Wan, Miao Luo, Cheng Zeng, Xuefang Wen
  • Patent number: 11925669
    Abstract: Herbal composition having an effect of reducing uric acid, which is made from the following herbal materials in specified portions by weight: 4-30 portions of Glabrous greenbrier rhizome, 2-15 portions of Chicory, 2-15 portions of Herba Plantaginis, 2-20 portions of Coix seed, and 2-10 portions of Kudzuvine Root. The composition may be used in combination with modern Western medicines to achieve optimal effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: INFINITUS (CHINA) COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofei Xu, Xiaolei Guo, Chungwah Ma, Bin Shi, Zhen Luo
  • Publication number: 20240078372
    Abstract: The freshness of one or more terms in a documentation, indicative of a currency of the one or more terms is computed. Each term includes one or more constituent words, and the terms are visually marked as current or out-of-date based on the computed freshness. Upon marking a term as out-of-date, a latest term for the out-of-date term is retrieved or a most possible latest term for the out-of-date term is predicted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Dan Zhang, Jun Qian Zhou, Yuan Jie Song, Meng Chai, Zhen Ma, Xiao Feng Ji
  • Publication number: 20240081051
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a memory stack of gate layers and insulating layers. The gate layers and the insulating layers are stacked alternatingly and are formed into stair steps in a staircase region. The semiconductor device includes a first landing pad on a first gate layer of a first stair step. The first gate layer is a top gate layer of the first stair step. The semiconductor device further includes a first sidewall isolation structure on a riser sidewall of a second gate layer of a second stair step. The second gate layer is a top gate layer of the second stair step and is stacked on the first gate layer in the memory stack. The first sidewall isolation structure isolates the second gate layer from the first landing pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhen GUO, Wei XU, Bin YUAN, Chuang MA, Jiashi ZHANG, ZongLiang HUO
  • Publication number: 20240030604
    Abstract: A wireless microphone system utilizes an antenna structure that supports dual frequency bands. With some embodiments, the wireless microphone system comprises a first apparatus (for example, a wireless transmitter) and an attached second apparatus (for example, an attached microphone), where the chassis of the first apparatus and the housing of the second apparatus support the antenna structure through an electrical connector (for example, through an outer shell of a Cannon (XLR) connector) between the two apparatuses. The chassis and the housing may support first and second halves of a dipole antenna, respectively. The first apparatus supports first and second electrical circuits that are operational within a first and second frequency band, respectively, and that connect to first and second input ports of a combining circuit (for example, a diplexer filter). The output port of the combining circuit connects to the housing through the electrical connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Adem Celebi, Mark Allen Kenkel, Tracy Wang, Zhen Ma
  • Patent number: 11802414
    Abstract: Provided a bolt-bearing circumferential device for reinforcing and correcting an angle iron of a transmission tower, comprising a reinforcing angle iron, a holding hoop, and a connector; the reinforcing angle iron is arranged at an inner side of two limbs of an angle iron to be reinforced, an axis direction of the reinforcing angle iron is parallel to the angle iron to be reinforced, and an outer wall of two limbs of the reinforcing angle iron are fitted with an inner wall of the angle iron to be reinforced; the holding hoop is arranged at an outer side of the reinforcing angle iron and the angle iron to be reinforced, and each part of the holding hoop are connected together through the high-strength bolts; a side wall of the holding hoop is provided with three groups of threaded holes, wherein an axis of a first group of the threaded holes and an axis of a second group of the threaded holes are perpendicular to each other, a first group of bolts pass through the first group of the threaded holes to apply a r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Li Tian, Meng Yang, Juncai Liu, Xianchao Luo, Xiaoyang Wang, Zhen Ma, Xiangrui Meng
  • Publication number: 20230340442
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to compositions and methods for constructing and/or obtaining B. licheniformis cells (e.g., protein production hosts) comprising enhanced protein production capabilities. Thus, certain embodiments are related to genetically modified Bacillus licheniformis strains derived from parental B. licheniformis strains producing increased amounts of one or more proteins of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Steven D. Doig, Ryan L. Frisch, Hongxian He, Chris Leeflang, Zhen Ma, Brian James Paul
  • Publication number: 20230272634
    Abstract: Provided a bolt-bearing circumferential device for reinforcing and correcting an angle iron of a transmission tower, comprising a reinforcing angle iron, a holding hoop, and a connector; the reinforcing angle iron is arranged at an inner side of two limbs of an angle iron to be reinforced, an axis direction of the reinforcing angle iron is parallel to the angle iron to be reinforced, and an outer wall of two limbs of the reinforcing angle iron are fitted with an inner wall of the angle iron to be reinforced; the holding hoop is arranged at an outer side of the reinforcing angle iron and the angle iron to be reinforced, and each part of the holding hoop are connected together through the high-strength bolts; a side wall of the holding hoop is provided with three groups of threaded holes, wherein an axis of a first group of the threaded holes and an axis of a second group of the threaded holes are perpendicular to each other, a first group of bolts pass through the first group of the threaded holes to apply a r
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Li TIAN, Meng YANG, Juncai LIU, Xianchao LUO, Xiaoyang WANG, Zhen MA, Xiangrui MENG
  • Publication number: 20230250394
    Abstract: Non-naturally occurring perinatal mesenchymal stem cells differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem cells. The differentiation medium includes an amount of SB431542, an amount of BMP-4, and an amount of PD173074 and is repeated over the course of six days period until perinatal mesenchymal stem-like cells are formed. The resulting non-naturally occurring perinatal mesenchymal stem cells exhibit the relevant characteristics of naturally occurring perinatal mesenchymal stem cells, such as the positive expression of the mesenchymal stem cell markers CD73, CD90, and CD105. The non-naturally occurring perinatal mesenchymal stem cells may be used to produce paracrine factors and similar compounds for therapeutic purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhen MA, Tackla Simon WINSTON
  • Publication number: 20230063711
    Abstract: A method for displaying item information includes: displaying by an audience terminal, category information corresponding to a combined item object and an interaction operation control on an item display interface of a live broadcast room, in which the interaction operation control is configured to view basic information of sub-item objects and the combined item object includes at least two sub-item objects of the same category; in response to a trigger operation of the interaction operation control, determining by the audience terminal, a target sub-item object matching specified geographic information of the audience terminal from the at least two sub-item objects; and displaying by the audience terminal, basic information corresponding to the target sub-item object on the item display interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Peng Liu, Zhiguo Liu, Haolei Yang, Yayun Zuo, Zhenhang Ning, Wei Gao, Kai Yang, Zhuai Wang, Jifeng Yao, Guangyuan Lu, Zhen Ma, Wei Ni
  • Publication number: 20220397564
    Abstract: A developmental toxicity screening assay using spatially organized cardiac organoids with contracting cardiomyocytes in the center surrounded by stromal cells distributed along the pattern perimeter engineered from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Cardiac organoids generated from 600 ?m-diameter circles were used as a developmental toxicity screening assay for the quantification of the embryotoxic potential of nine pharmaceutical compounds. The cardiac organoids were demonstrated as having a potential use as an in vitro platform for studying organoid structure-function relationships, developmental processes, and drug-induced cardiac developmental toxicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhen Ma, Plansky Hoang
  • Publication number: 20220389372
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to compositions and methods for constructing and obtaining Bacillus sp. host cells (strains) having enhanced protein production phenotypes. Certain embodiments of the disclosure are therefore related to genetically modified Bacillus sp. cells derived (obtained) from parental Bacillus sp. cells (e.g., such as parental Bacillus cells expressing/producing a protein of interest). Thus, certain embodiments are directed to modified Bacillus sp. cells expressing/producing an endogenous protein of interest, or a heterologous protein of interest, wherein the modified Bacillus sp. cell comprises a genetic modification of a yitMOP operon, a combined genetic modification of a yitMOP operon and a sdpABC operon, a genetic modification of a yitM gene and the like, wherein the modified Bacillus sp. cells produce an increased amount of the POI relative the parental cells from which they were derived (i.e., when grown/cultivated/fermented under identical conditions).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Cristina Bongiorni, Zhen Ma, Anita Van Kimmenade
  • Publication number: 20220360102
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a charging apparatus and a charging method. The charging apparatus comprises: a housing adapted to be mounted in wall; a power assembly arranged within the housing and configured to supply output power to a device to be charged from a power source; a temperature sensing unit, arranged within the housing and configured to sense temperature inside the housing; a control assembly arranged within the housing and coupled to the power assembly and the temperature sensing unit, the control assembly being configured to control, based on temperature information from the temperature sensing unit, the power assembly to change the output power, thereby suppressing rise of temperature inside the housing. In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, the charging apparatus mounted in the wall can provide an effectively boosted charging power and is further applied to a broader scope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD
    Inventors: Guoqiang Zhang, Zhen Ma
  • Patent number: D990434
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Schneider Electric (Australia) PTY LTD
    Inventors: Jiayu Fu, Youliang Zhang, Dahai Zhang, Zhen Ma
  • Patent number: D1022361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Yunjing Intelligence Technology (Dongguan) Co., Ltd., Yunjing Intelligence (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Jiajun Ma, Zhen Wang