Patents by Inventor Zhenyu Liu

Zhenyu Liu 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: 9537168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved membrane electrode assemblies, having two electrochemically active electrodes separated by a polymer electrolyte membrane. The membrane electrode assemblies according to the instant invention contains at least one phosphoric acid-containing polymer electrolyte membrane and two gas diffusion electrodes one of each located at both sides of said membrane, each of the gas diffusion electrodes having at least one catalyst layer facing towards the membrane. At least one of the gas diffusion electrodes contains a gas diffusion medium comprising an electrically conductive macroporous layer in which the pores have a mean pore diameter in the range from 10 ?m to 30 ?m and at least one micro porous layer arranged between said gas diffusion medium and said catalyst layer facing towards the membrane having a defined pore void volume and pore hydrophobicity measured by the Cobb Titration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Zhenyu Liu, Yu-Min Tsou, Emory De Castro
  • Patent number: 9508087
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for identifying similar publisher display items for potential placement of content items therein. In accordance with some embodiments, a population of publisher display items is provided each adapted to be respectively displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a network accessible device. The display items are sorted into sets of similar display items responsive to user interactions with said display items so that, for each display item in the population, a number of similar display items is associated therewith. A content item is received for potential display in conjunction with the display of a first selected display item in the population of display items. The content item is thereafter displayed in one of the other display items of the set of similar display items associated with the first selected display item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Liu, Ping Wu
  • Publication number: 20160340670
    Abstract: A method for generating a library of expression vectors comprising a plurality of donor sequences and a plurality of oligo-linker nucleic acids, termed Oligonucleotide Linker-Mediated DNA Assembly (OLMA), is described. Also described are applications of the OLMA method, including the simultaneous tuning of several factors in metabolic and biological pathways, and the combinatorial high throughput optimization of metabolic and biological pathways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Chunbo LOU, Yong TAO, Xuejin ZHAO, Shasha ZHANG, Lihua ZHANG, Chunhua ZHAI, Zhenyu LIU
  • Publication number: 20160305018
    Abstract: A coated cutting insert for a chipforming material removal operation wherein the coated insert has a substrate and a coating scheme on the substrate. The coating scheme includes a CVD transition coating layer. The coating scheme further includes a CVD multi-layered coating scheme having a plurality of coating sets. Each one of the coating sets has an aluminum oxide coating layer and a nitrogen-containing coating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Rodrigo A. Cooper, Zhenyu Liu, Peter R. Leicht, Yixiong Liu
  • Patent number: 9473560
    Abstract: A method for enabling a user of a computing device to designate a content item for subsequent review is provided. The computing device is coupled to a memory device and a display. The method is implemented using the computing device. The method includes displaying, by the computing device, a first publication. The method further includes the steps of displaying, by the computing device, a content item at a first time, wherein the content item is displayed in conjunction with the first publication. The method further includes receiving, by the computing device, a first input from the user to designate the content item for subsequent review, generating an indicator that the content item has been designated for subsequent review, causing the memory device to store the indicator, determining a second time to display the content item, and displaying the content item at the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yifang Liu, Zhenyu Liu, Roberto Javier Bayardo, Mayur Dhondu Datar, Allen Pin-Hsiu Huang
  • Patent number: 9451308
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for content presentation. One of the methods includes determining current programming being presented to a user from a first device, wherein the determining includes receiving information from the first device associated with the current programming being presented; determining one or more sponsored content items to provide to a second device, wherein the one or more sponsored content items are identified as associated with the current programming including determining that one or more presentation criteria as specified by a respective sponsored content provider have been satisfied; and providing the one or more sponsored content items to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Liu, Yong Yao
  • Publication number: 20160247613
    Abstract: The preparation method includes steps of (1) melting steel according to in weight percentage 0.001-0.003% of C, 5.0-6.6% of Si, 0.2-0.3% of Mn, 0.05-0.12% of Al, 0.01-0.04% of V, 0.03-0.06% of Nb, 0.02-0.03% of S, 0.009-0.020% of N, O which is less than or equal to 0.0020%, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities; (2) forming cast strips after a thin-strip casting course; (3) hot-rolling the cast strips under inert atmosphere conditions; (4) cooling the hot-rolled cast strips to 550-600 DEG C, coiling and performing low-temperature hot rolling/warm rolling on the coiled cast strips under a nitrogen atmosphere condition; (5) removing oxidized scales though pickling, performing cold rolling multiple times; (6) performing recrystallization annealing, coating with an MgO layer, and coiling; (7) performing purification annealing under hydrogen circulation conditions; and (8) removing oxidized scales, coating with an insulating layer, performing flat stretch annealing, and air-cooled coiling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Guodong WANG, Yuanxiang ZHANG, Yang WANG, Xiang LU, Feng FANG, Guangming CAO, Chenggang LI, Guo YUAN, Yunbo XU, Zhenyu LIU, Zhaodong WANG
  • Publication number: 20160215387
    Abstract: In one aspect, articles employing CVD coatings deposited at low temperatures are described herein. Briefly, a coated article described herein comprises a substrate and a refractory coating adhered to the substrate, the refractory coating including a layer of TiN deposited by thermal CVD, the layer of TiN having an average crystallite size of 0.05 ?m to 0.5 ?m and residual tensile stress of 100 MPa to 700 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Zhenyu LIU, Qingjun Zheng, Peter Rudolf Leicht, Yixiong Liu
  • Publication number: 20160194754
    Abstract: A coated cutting insert and a method for making the same. The coated cutting insert has a substrate with a substrate surface. There is a backing coating scheme on the substrate surface, and a TiAl2O3 coating layer wherein the TiAl2O3 coating layer is deposited using chemical vapor deposition from a gaseous composition including AiCl3, H2, TiCl4, CO2 and HCl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Zhenyu Liu, Rodrigo A. Cooper, Peter R. Leicht, Mark S. Greenfield, Yixiong Liu
  • Patent number: 9384290
    Abstract: Systems, methods, routines and/or techniques for a local mobile memo for non-interrupting link noting are described. One or more embodiments may include a method that may include displaying to a user a page containing a link, receiving a first user input that indicates the link should be saved for potential later processing and saving the link to a local repository so that the link can be processed later. The saving may occur while the page continues to be displayed. The saving may occur without processing the link to perform the associated action. The method may include displaying a list (e.g., including the link) of one or more links saved in the repository, for example, in response to an event that indicates that the user may be interested in viewing links in the link repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yifang Liu, Zhenyu Liu
  • Patent number: 9379754
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio frequency channel, including: a first antenna, a low noise amplifier, a power divider, at least two first single-pole, n-throw switches, at least four first filters, and at least two first radio frequency chips. The power divider divides a received radio frequency signal into two first radio frequency sub-signals, and transmits the two first radio frequency sub-signals to the at least four first filters, where the at least four first filters correspond to at least four filtering bands and the at least four first filters may cover frequency bands involved in at least six carrier aggregation CA technologies, the at least four first filters filter the first radio frequency sub-signals, and the at least two first radio frequency chips process the filtered first radio frequency sub-signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhigang Liu, Shutian Yuan, Zhenyu Liu, Liqian Wang, Shanqing Zeng, Jian Sun
  • Patent number: 9371580
    Abstract: A coated cutting insert and a method for making the same. The coated cutting insert has a substrate with a substrate surface. There is a backing coating scheme on the substrate surface, and a TiAl2O3 coating layer wherein the TiAl2O3 coating layer is deposited using chemical vapor deposition from a gaseous composition including AlCl3, H2, TiCl4, CO2 and HCl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Liu, Rodrigo A. Cooper, Peter R. Leicht, Mark S. Greenfield, Yixiong Liu
  • Patent number: 9365925
    Abstract: In one aspect, cutting tools are described having coatings adhered thereto which, in some embodiments, can demonstrate desirable wear resistance and increased cutting lifetimes. A coated cutting tool described herein comprises a substrate and a coating adhered to the substrate, the coating having a multilayer structure including a plurality of structural units each comprising a bonding layer and an adjacent alumina layer, the alumina layer having a thickness of less than 0.5 ?m and the bonding layer having a thickness less than 1 ?m, the bonding layer comprising TiCN and TiAlOC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Peter Rudolf Leicht, Zhenyu Liu, Mark S Greenfield, Yixiong Liu
  • Publication number: 20160160346
    Abstract: In one aspect, articles are described herein comprising refractory coatings employing an inter-anchored multilayer architecture. Articles having refractory coatings described herein, in some embodiments, are suitable for high wear and/or abrasion applications such as metal cutting operations. A coated article described herein comprises a substrate and a coating deposited by CVD adhered to the substrate, the coating including a refractory layer comprising a plurality of sublayer groups, a sublayer group comprising a Group IVB metal nitride sublayer and an adjacent layer alumina sublayer, the Group IVB metal nitride sublayer comprising a plurality of nodules interfacing with the alumina sublayer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Zhenyu LIU, Yixiong Liu
  • Publication number: 20160160347
    Abstract: In one aspect, articles are described comprising refractory coatings employing nanocomposite architectures. Articles having such refractory coatings, in some embodiments, are suitable for high wear and/or abrasion applications such as metal cutting operations. A coated article described herein comprises a substrate and a coating deposited by CVD adhered to the substrate, the coating including a refractory layer having a matrix phase comprising alumina and a nanoparticle phase contained within the matrix phase, the nanoparticles phase comprising crystalline nanoparticles formed of at least one of a carbide, nitride or carbonitride of a Group IVB metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Zhenyu LIU, Peter Rudolf Leicht, Rodrigo Alejandro Cooper, Yixiong Liu
  • Publication number: 20160135782
    Abstract: A method of acquiring ultrasound images for a rheumatoid arthritis examination comprises receiving a hand in a scanning assembly including a transducer array and a fluid providing an acoustic coupling between the transducer array and the hand and identifying locations of a plurality of finger joints of the hand while the hand is held stationary in the scanning assembly. Ultrasound images of the plurality of finger joints are acquired with the transducer array while the hand is held stationary in the scanning assembly, wherein the ultrasound images are of an area less than an entire area of the hand based on the identified locations of the finger joints of the hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Dongqing Chen, Xiaodong Han, Gang Cheng, Menachem Halmann, Kun Tao, Zhenyu Liu, Hong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160090654
    Abstract: Cutting tools are described having coatings which can demonstrate desirable wear resistance and increased cutting lifetimes. A coated cutting tool described herein has a substrate and a coating with a plurality of alternating layers of a first layer of Al2O3 and a second layer of at least one of MeAl2O3 and MeAl2O3/MeO2 composite, wherein Me is Zr, Hf, Ti or a combination thereof. The coating has a superlattice-like structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Liu, Peter Rudolf Leicht, Yixiong Liu
  • Publication number: 20150339704
    Abstract: Methods and systems for valuing an item of online content served to an online publisher, such as an advertisement, are provided. The methods and systems described herein enable an advertiser to determine the relative value of an advertisement presented to one consumer as compared to the value of the same advertisement presented to another consumer. The expected total lifetime revenue generated as a result of presentation of a specific advertisement to a specific consumer is determined, to enable an advertiser to determine how aggressively to bid for placement of the advertisement with a publisher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Liu, Ping Wu
  • Patent number: 9181621
    Abstract: In one aspect, cutting tools are described having coatings adhered thereto which, in some embodiments, can demonstrate desirable wear resistance and increased cutting lifetimes. A coated cutting tool, in some embodiments, comprises a substrate and a coating adhered to the substrate, the coating comprising a polycrystalline layer of TiZrAl2O3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Liu, Peter Rudolf Leicht, Rodrigo Alejandro Cooper, Mark S. Greenfield, Yixiong Liu
  • Patent number: 9142723
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer comprising a substrate layer and a first GaN layer having one or more SiNx interlayers therein, wherein in the first GaN layer at least one SiNx interlayer has GaN penetrated through one or more portions of said SiNx interlayer and preferably has a thickness of from 0.5 to 10 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Intellec Limited
    Inventors: Colin Humphreys, Clifford McAleese, Menno Kappers, Zhenyu Liu, Dandan Zhu