Patents by Inventor Zhi Liu

Zhi 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).

  • Publication number: 20250077729
    Abstract: The present invention describes an electric-thermal-hydrogen multi-energy device planning method for zero energy buildings, including the following specific steps: firstly, constructing operation constraints of electric and thermal devices in the zero energy buildings; secondly, constructing operation constraints of hydrogen devices including the electrolyzer, the fuel cell and the hydrogen storage device; then, in view of constraints on annual zero energy of the buildings, establishing the robust electric-thermal-hydrogen multi-energy device planning model considering source-load uncertainties; and finally, solving the robust electric-thermal-hydrogen multi-energy device planning model of the zero energy buildings by adopting an alternating optimization procedure based column-and-constraint generation algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicants: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY, Yunnan Power Grid Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi WU, Qirun Sun, Wei GU, Yuping LU, Pengxiang LIU, Hai LU, Enbo LUO
  • Publication number: 20250077471
    Abstract: A method comprises: determining a container directory entry in a container virtual file system corresponding to a container, where the container virtual file system is configured to manage at least one file corresponding to the container, and has a container directory entry that reflects a hierarchical relationship between the at least one file; and tagging the container directory entry in the container virtual file system as a first control level, to make a distinction from a control level of a directory entry that is different from that in the container virtual file system and that is in a host virtual file system of a processing device, where the host virtual file system is configured to manage files in the processing device, and has a directory entry that reflects a hierarchical relationship between the files in the processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Weijie LIU, Zhi LI, Hongliang TIAN, Shoumeng YAN
  • Publication number: 20250074012
    Abstract: A device for forming a V-shaped full-composite pressure vessel includes a semi-cylinder body mold, where the length of a cylinder body part of the semi-cylinder body mold is half of the length of a cylinder body of a processed pressure vessel; a groove for placing a valve seat is reserved at one end of a dome part of the semi-cylinder body mold, and a fiber yarn-dividing ring is mounted at the other end; the semi-cylinder body mold is connected to the valve seat through a spline; and the valve seat and the fiber yarn-dividing ring are in threaded connection with a rotating shaft of fiber winding equipment. According to this disclosure, a liner-free pressure vessel can be manufactured completely by processing a composite material, so the mass of the pressure vessel can be reduced. Furthermore, the mold is not required to be dissolved and taken out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Jianguo LIANG, Qingxue Huang, Zemin Ning, Yuqin Xue, Zhaotun Jia, Jianglin Liu, Yujie Duan, Hui Li, Lianyun Jiang, Zhi Li
  • Publication number: 20250075214
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to RNAi agents, e.g., double stranded RNAi agents such as siRNAs, able to Inhibin Subunit Beta E (INHBE) gene expression. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions that include INHBE RNAi agents and methods of use thereof. The INHBE RNAi agents disclosed herein may be conjugated to targeting ligands to facilitate the delivery to cells, including to hepatocytes. Delivery of the INHBE RNAi agents in vivo provides for inhibition of INHBE gene expression. The RNAi agents can be used in methods of treatment of diseases, disorders, or symptoms mediated in part by INHBE gene expression, such as obesity, diabetes, liver inflammation, dyslipidemia, or metabolic disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michelle Ngai, Feng Liu, Puhui Li, Xiaokai Li, Zhi-Ming Ding, Tao Pei, Daniel Braas, So Wong, James C. Hamilton, Grigoriy Shekhtman
  • Publication number: 20250078279
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for fully automatically segmenting a cerebral cortex surface based on a graph network, belongs to the field of medical image technology and devices, and solves the problem that space mapping noise is easily introduced in the mapping process in the related art, and a lot of time is cost for mapping to a sphere surface space to finish segmentation and then mapping back to an original space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhi LIU, Mujun AN, Kemeng TAO, Yankun CAO
  • Publication number: 20250079635
    Abstract: A separator includes a base film and a coating disposed on a surface of at least one side of the base film. The coating includes a central region disposed in a length direction of the base film with a center line of the base film in a width direction as a center line, and an edge region disposed outside the central region. The central region includes a region A having a coating thickness of D1, and the edge region includes a first region having a thickness of D0, where D1<D0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Zhisheng CHAI, Zhi LIU, Qingkui CHI, Haizu JIN
  • Publication number: 20250070118
    Abstract: An electrode plate includes a current collector and an active substance layer. A surface of the active substance layer is configured to form a concave surface of a bending layer is depressed inwardly and is provided with multiple buffer spaces, and the multiple buffer spaces are arranged to not penetrate through the current collector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Zhi LIU, Ning CHEN, Yaqian DENG, Ruijing LV, Dongyang SHI, Haizu JIN, Baiqing LI
  • Publication number: 20250068535
    Abstract: In several aspects for generation of high quality synthetic observability data for computing systems, traces and logs from a system are collected as a seed dataset. Multiple conditional variational autoencoder (VAE) models are trained using the seed dataset for learning association between the traces and the logs. Synthetic traces and logs are generated using the multiple CVAE models while retaining the association between the traces and the logs for the synthetic traces and logs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Ying Mo, Wu Di, Xing Tian, Qing Zhi Yu, Nan Chen, Ju Ling Liu
  • Publication number: 20250070925
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses of frequency hopping for full duplex (FD). According to an embodiment of the present application, a user equipment (UE) includes a processor and a transceiver coupled to the processor; and the processor of the UE is configured: to receive, via the transceiver of the UE from a network node, configuration information regarding frequency hopping for a subset of symbols or slots of a plurality of available symbols or slots in a time domain; and to determine, based on the configuration information regarding frequency hopping, a frequency hopping operation in the subset of symbols or slots for at least one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Yuantao Zhang, Ruixiang Ma, Hongmei Liu, Zhi Yan, Yingying Li, Haiming Wang
  • Publication number: 20250071817
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for physical random access channel (PRACH) repetition. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a user equipment (UE) can include: a receiver that receives configuration information; a processor coupled to the receiver, wherein the processor: determines a plurality of synchronization signal block (SSB) patterns based on the configuration information, wherein each SSB pattern includes one or more SSBs; determines an SSB pattern from the plurality of SSB patterns; determines a set of random access channel (RACH) occasions (ROs) for PRACH repetition based on the determined SSB pattern; determines, from the plurality of SSB patterns, a set of SSB patterns associated with each RO of the set of ROs, wherein the set of SSB patterns include the determined SSB pattern; and determines a set of preambles associated with each SSB pattern of the set of SSB patterns; and a transmitter coupled to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Yuantao ZHANG, Hongmei LIU, Zhi YAN, Haiming WANG
  • Publication number: 20250070265
    Abstract: A positive electrode plate has a plurality of corner areas spaced along a first direction. Each corner area forms a first bending layer of an electrode assembly when the positive electrode plate is wound along the first direction. The positive electrode plate includes a current collector and active substance layers arranged on two opposite surfaces of the current collector. The first bending layer is provided with a concave surface, and in at least one of the plurality of corner areas, one or a plurality of aperture(s) is/are arranged on the active substance layers configured to form the concave surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Zhi LIU, Dongyang SHI, Zhipeng CHENG, Ruijing LV, Ning CHEN, Haizu JIN, Baiqing LI
  • Patent number: 12236203
    Abstract: A translation method, a model training method, apparatuses, electronic devices and storage mediums, which relate to the field of artificial intelligence technologies, such as machine learning technologies, information processing technologies, are disclosed. In an implementation, a weight for each translation model in at least two pre-trained translation models translating a to-be-translated specified sentence is acquired based on the specified sentence and a pre-trained weighting model; and the specified sentence is translating using the at least two translation models based on the weight for each translation model translating the specified sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruiqing Zhang, Xiyang Wang, Hui Liu, Zhongjun He, Zhi Li, Hua Wu
  • Patent number: 12232035
    Abstract: Methods, a remote unit and a base unit are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method at a base unit, comprising: generating a wake up signal (WUS) set consisted of a number of WUSs to indicate that are mote unit shall attempt to receive a paging message in a paging occasion (PO) on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in a cell, mapping each of the WUSs to a number of resource sets, transmitting, to the remote unit, the WUS set on a time-frequency resource, wherein the PO is a set of PDCCH monitoring occasions (MOs), wherein the number of the WUSs is determined by the number of Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) actually transmitted by the base unit, and wherein the Kth WUS and the Kth transmitted SSB are quasi co-located, where K is an integer no more than the number of the WUSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingying Li, Zhi Yan, Haipeng Lei, Hongmei Liu, Jie Shi
  • Publication number: 20250053433
    Abstract: Capability orchestration in a cloud-native environment includes one or more new combined capability definitions generated by one or more processing units based on existing capability definitions and a combined capability manifest to form a hierarchy of capability definitions. A capability request directed to one or more capabilities can be received by the one or more processing units. One or more capability definitions corresponding to the one or more capabilities can be determined from the hierarchy of capability definitions by the one or more processing units based on the capability request. Deployable resources can be derived by the one or more processing units based on the determined one or more capability definitions. The one or more capabilities can be generated by the one or more processing units based on the derived deployable resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Guangya Liu, Hou Fang Zhao, Jian Huang, Ying Mo, Xiaoli Duan, Yan Wei Li, Zhi Li
  • Patent number: 12220064
    Abstract: Disclosed is a folding seat which comprises a chair pocket, a first supporting assembly, and a second supporting assembly, the chair pocket is sheathed on the first supporting assembly and the second supporting assembly. The first supporting assembly comprises a supporting rod and a supporting base, the supporting rod is hinged in the supporting base and rotates in a preset range. The second supporting assembly and the first supporting assembly have the same structure and arranged opposite to each other detachably. By arranging the first supporting assembly and the second supporting assembly detachably to support the chair pocket, the folding seat can be fixed. By dissembling the first supporting assembly and the second supporting assembly, then rotating and adjusting the supporting rods in the first supporting assembly and the second supporting assembly, the folding seat can be folded and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN THOUSANDSHORES TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ding He, Zhi Liu
  • Publication number: 20250048365
    Abstract: Embodiment of the present application is directed to a method and apparatus for slot format indication. According to an embodiment of the present application, the method includes receiving at least one signal indicating one of: whether at least one symbol at a beginning of a sequence of consecutive symbols transmitted or received over a communication link is reserved or is to be reserved, and whether at least one symbol at an end of the sequence of consecutive symbols transmitted or received over the communication link is reserved or is to be reserved. The at least one uplink transmission is performed based on the received signal in response to the communication link being associated with an uplink transmission. The at least one downlink reception is performed based on the received signal in response to the communication link being associated with downlink reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Hongmei Liu, Lianhai Wu, Zhennian Sun, Haipeng Lei, Zhi Yan
  • Publication number: 20250046986
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an electronic device and an electronic device assembly. The electronic device includes at least a casing and an antenna assembly. At least one outer side wall of the casing is provided with a first groove that is configured to connect at least the electronic device and an external component, a first receiving cavity is further provided inside the casing, at least a part of a radiating element of the antenna assembly is located in the first receiving cavity, and a projection of the first receiving cavity in a thickness direction of the electronic device at least partially overlaps with a projection of the first groove in the thickness direction of the electronic device. In this way, a size of the electronic device can be reduced, so that the entire electronic device is small. This can improve wearing experience of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Bin Zou, Zhi Guo, Bing Liu, Ziyi Wang
  • Publication number: 20250048435
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for wake up signal for uplink transmission are disclosed. A method at a UE comprises: receiving PRACH configuration, where one or multiple ROs are in a PRACH configuration period; and transmitting at least a WUS (wake up signal) within a wake, the WUS transmitted at the first or first several ROs within the wake-up period or at a resource in front of RO(s) within the wake-up period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: ZHI YAN, HONGMEI LIU, YUANTAO ZHANG, YINGYING LI, HAIMING WANG
  • Patent number: 12214261
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a buoyant device including a body composed of a material with a specific gravity less than 0.3. The body is composed of a portion between a first distance and a second distance from an axis. The body includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. Differences of the first portion and distance differences of the second portion are less than a distance difference of the third portion. The first portion includes a first difference group and a second difference group composed of a plurality of distance differences, and distance differences of the first difference group are greater than distance differences of the second difference group. The second portion is located away from the axis relative to the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: SHENZHEN THOUSANDSHORES TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., YIWU CHEN HU E-BUSINESS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Liu, Ding He
  • Patent number: D1064488
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Zhi Liu