Patents by Inventor Zheng Yan

Zheng Yan 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: 20250108679
    Abstract: A patterned glass and a vehicle are provided. The patterned glass includes a display region having a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. A direction from the first edge towards the second edge serves as a first direction. The patterned glass further includes an outer glass, an inner glass, and a light control functional layer disposed between the outer glass and the inner glass. The light control functional layer has multiple partitions distributed in the first direction at intervals, where each of the multiple partitions has a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side and the second side are sequentially distributed in the first direction, and a distance between the first side and the second side is greater than or equal to 20 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: FUYAO GLASS INDUSTRY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zheng YAN, Jinliang GUAN, Jiansen ZHENG
  • Patent number: 12235914
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and cause the one or more processors to perform acts of: in response to receiving search queries at a search engine, storing search event data and ranking features in one or more databases; generating, using the search event data and the ranking features, a training dataset comprising training event samples; executing a hybrid labeling procedure that assigns labels to the training event samples based, at least in part, on individual engagement information associated with the training event samples; and training a personalized ranking model to rank search results using the training event samples and the labels. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Jingbo Liu, Jun Zhao, Zheng Yan, Weiqi Tong, Nitin Shailesh Baliga
  • Publication number: 20250022033
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a system is provided. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computing instructions. The instructions, when executed on the processor, perform: receiving user search queries and product items, the product items including metadata corresponding to product types, the product types comprising an error, and the error corresponding to one of the product items having a non-compliant product type; modifying the metadata corresponding to the product types based on a product type group to mitigate a computing system from displaying non-compliant material to a user; and in response to a product type of the product type group being the non-compliant product type, performing a computer vision prediction on an image of a product corresponding to the product type to detect a misclassification in the product type group. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Weiqi Tong, Nidhin Pattaniyil, Antonio Khalil Moretti, Tanwir Zaman, Yiyi Huang, Guang Yang, Zheng Yan
  • Publication number: 20250001153
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for preparing an electro-responsive silk fibroin material, which method comprises the following steps: (1) activation of silk fibroin, which involves: diluting an aqueous solution of silk fibroin, then stabilizing the temperature to 0° C.-4° C., adjusting a pH value to 5-6, adding 1-10 wt % of N-hydroxysuccinimide relative to the mass of silk fibroin, then adding 2-20 wt % of 1-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-3-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride relative to the mass of silk fibroin, mixing the resulting mixture uniformly, and performing a reaction to obtain an activated silk fibroin solution; (2) thiolation of silk fibroin, which involves: adding a cysteamine hydrochloride solution dropwise to the activated silk fibroin solution, adjusting the pH value of the final solution to 5-6, performing a reaction under stirring at 0° C.-4° C., taking out the resulting product, and then leaving the resulting product to stand for a reacting at 2° C.-8° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Shenzhou Lu, Zhenzhen Qi, Xiaosheng Tao, Shijie Guo, Zheng Yan, Yujian Li
  • Publication number: 20240384884
    Abstract: The present invention provides an active capture device for African Swine fever aerosol and a detection method therefor. The device includes a hollow casing, and an aerosol capture mechanism and an internal circulating filtering mechanism which are disposed inside the casing; the casing includes a top plate and a bottom plate, and an annular side plate is disposed between edge positions of the top plate and the bottom plate; the aerosol capture mechanism includes a ventilation duct disposed at the front end of the annular side plate; one end of the ventilation duct is disposed inside the hollow casing and the other end of the ventilation duct penetrates through the annular side plate and is disposed outside the hollow casing; a fan is disposed inside the casing; the fan is communicated with the ventilation duct; and an adsorption pipe network is disposed inside the ventilation duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicants: Xiajin New hope Liuhe agriculture and animal husbandry Co., LTD, Shandong New hope Liuhe Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co. LTD, Qingdao Xinmu Zhikang Biotechnology Co., LTD, Shandong new hope Liuhe Group Co., Ltd, New Hope Liuhe Co., Ltd, Juye Xinhao Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co. LTD
    Inventors: Xiaowen Li, Lujie Bian, Zhiqiang Hu, Qingyuan Liu, Mingyu Fan, Weisheng Wu, Xiaogang Tian, Lili Wu, Zheng Yan, Yongquan Wang
  • Publication number: 20240362266
    Abstract: A method including pre-screening one or more second images from a database for a search result based on one or more substring distances between one or more first binary substrings for a first image and one or more second binary substrings for the one or more second images, comprises: determining the one or more substring distances between one or more substring pairs of the one or more first binary substrings and the one or more second binary substrings of the one or more second images, and upon determining that the one or more substring distances and the one or more second binary substrings are not greater than one or more substring distance thresholds, including the one or more second images in the search result. The method further can include after pre-screening, determining one or more image distances for one or more third images of the search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Binwei Yang, Omer Ovenc, Behzad Ahmadi, Cun Mu, Zheng Yan, Guang Yang, Jun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240346081
    Abstract: A method includes coordinating at a first system in an online mode: analyzing at least a portion of a search query using one or more query suggestion systems to determine scores for suggested search queries from the one or more query suggestion systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Junchao Zheng, Vishal Kumar Rathi, Andrew Thomas Catalano, Sanjay Shah, Aniket Ashok Limaye, Jun Zhao, Zheng Yan
  • Patent number: 12106350
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, perform: receiving user search queries and product items, the product items including metadata corresponding to product types; determining a data relationship between the user search queries and the product items based on a weighting factor, the data relationship including user search query nodes and product item nodes; determining a first vector representation for first ones of the product item nodes in the data relationship; determining a second vector representation for second ones of the product item nodes in the data relationship; grouping the first vector representation for first ones of the product item nodes and the second vector representation for second ones of the product item nodes into a product type group based on a proximity search; and modifying the metadata corresponding to the product types based on the p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Sun, Weiqi Tong, Nidhin Pattaniyil, Antonio Khalil Moretti, Tanwir Zaman, Yiyi Huang, Guang Yang, Zheng Yan
  • Publication number: 20240303575
    Abstract: Disclosed implementations provide a time limit monitoring method and system for ticket control in a call center computing environment. The implementations include novel data models for affecting the method and system. The time limit monitoring method of the disclosed implementations dynamically generates a service level agreement template, which can be applied to improve the flow speed of the ticket to meet service level agreements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Zheng YAN, Shuanhu WANG, Ning ZHANG, Wenqiang ZHOU, Shaohua CAI
  • Publication number: 20240256768
    Abstract: A method including extracting queries from historical search query data. The method also can include spellchecking each of the queries (i) using a first spellcheck model and (ii) using a second spellcheck model. A latency of the first spellcheck model is lower than a latency of the second spellcheck model, and an overall accuracy of the second spellcheck model is higher than an overall accuracy of the first spellcheck model. The method additionally can include determining first queries of the queries in which, for each of the first queries, a first respective spellcheck output from the first spellcheck model is different from a second respective spellcheck output from the second spellcheck model. The method further can include adding at least a portion of the first queries to a spellcheck cache for runtime spellchecking. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Adithya Rajan, Weiqi Tong, Zheng Yan
  • Publication number: 20240257208
    Abstract: A method including receiving a request from a user to view a page. The page is one of a search results page or a browse shelf page. The method also can include obtaining a respective brand affinity score for the user for each of one or more product types associated with the request. The method additionally can include generating a respective brand affinity signal for the user for each respective item in a baseline list of items to be displayed on the page, based on the request and the respective brand affinity score for the user for a product type of the one or more product types associated with the respective item. The method further can include generating a reranking of the items to be displayed on the page, based on a machine learning model and based on factors comprising the respective brand affinity signals for the user for the items and other rerank signals. The method additionally can include outputting the reranking of the items. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Jingbo Liu, Jie Zhao, Junchao Zheng, Jun Zhao, Cun Mu, Zheng Yan
  • Publication number: 20240256555
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform functions relating to detecting trending search queries that are popular in a short-term time period. User engagement metrics are derived from historical search engine data. A trending analysis function executes statistical analyses on the user engagement to identify the trending search queries. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Junchao Zheng, Chen Song, Jun Zhao, Zheng Yan
  • Publication number: 20240257213
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions executed by the one or more processors can perform functions comprising: storing a category classification hierarchy that classifies items into a plurality of browse categories; monitoring user engagement metrics for each of the items; using the user engagement metrics to compute shelf importance signals for the items; executing a ranking engine that generates a ranked item listing for a browse category based, at least in part, on the shelf importance signals for the items; and transmitting the ranked item listing for the browse category to a computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Varun Joshi, Cun Mu, Zheng Yan
  • Publication number: 20240242987
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a wet etch semiconductor-processing system, which can include a wet processing bath configured to be filled with a processing liquid and configured for one or more semiconductor samples to be placed vertically in parallel therein and immersed in the processing liquid, and a sensor optically coupled to one of the semiconductor samples. The sensor can be configured to form an illumination beam, collect bandgap photoluminescence (PL) light excited by the illumination beam onto a surface of the semiconductor sample at an illuminated spot, and measure spectral intensities of the bandgap PL light in a vicinity of a semiconductor bandgap wavelength of the semiconductor sample. The sensor can be arranged with respect to the wet processing bath such that the sensor directs the illumination beam onto the surface of the semiconductor sample at the illuminated spot and receives the bandgap PL light from the illuminated spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Ivan MALEEV, Yaowu MA, Zheng YAN, Basanta BHADURI
  • Patent number: D1038150
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ching-Yuan Chuang, Zheng-Yan Lee, Chung-Hsien Lee, Hsiao-Wei Chi
  • Patent number: D1046905
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ching-Yuan Chuang, Zheng-Yan Lee, Chung-Hsien Lee, Hsiao-Wei Chi
  • Patent number: D1061575
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ting-Chun Liao, Zheng-Yan Lee, Chung-Hsien Lee
  • Patent number: D1067252
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ting-Chun Liao, Zheng-Yan Lee, Chung-Hsien Lee
  • Patent number: D1071966
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ting-Chun Liao, Zheng-Yan Lee, Chung-Hsien Lee
  • Patent number: D1071984
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ching-Yuan Chuang, Zheng-Yan Lee, Chung-Hsien Lee, Hsiao-Wei Chi