Patents by Inventor Zhifeng Chen

Zhifeng Chen 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: 20240247052
    Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies which have high anti-RSV neutralizing titers. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. The invention yet further provides for diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention, particularly as a passive immunotherapy agent in infants and the elderly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Kalpit A. Vora, Kara S. Cox, Aimin Tang, Zhifeng Chen, Daniel DiStefano, Lan Zhang, Hua-Poo Su
  • Patent number: 12032920
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that train and use machine-learned models such as, for example, sequence-to-sequence models, to perform direct and text-free speech-to-speech translation. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure provide an attention-based sequence-to-sequence neural network which can directly translate speech from one language into speech in another language, without relying on an intermediate text representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ye Jia, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Melvin Johnson, Fadi Biadsy, Ron Weiss, Wolfgang Macherey
  • Publication number: 20240165762
    Abstract: A cutting device includes a box, a workbench disposed on the box, and a cutting assembly disposed on the box, where the workbench includes a platen for carrying a workpiece, and the platen is provided with a first cutting slot along a first direction; the platen is slidably connected to the box along the first direction, and when the platen slides towards the cutting assembly, the cutting assembly penetrates through the first cutting slot so that the cutting assembly cuts the workpiece on the platen, where a slide stroke of the platen is greater than a cutting stroke of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Changning Zhang, Zhifeng Chen, Fangyong Sun
  • Publication number: 20240161732
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable media, for speech recognition using multi-dialect and multilingual models. In some implementations, audio data indicating audio characteristics of an utterance is received. Input features determined based on the audio data are provided to a speech recognition model that has been trained to output score indicating the likelihood of linguistic units for each of multiple different language or dialects. The speech recognition model can be one that has been trained using cluster adaptive training. Output that the speech recognition model generated in response to receiving the input features determined based on the audio data is received. A transcription of the utterance generated based on the output of the speech recognition model is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Bo Li, Eugene Weinstein, Yonghui Wu, Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Ron J. Weiss, Khe Chai Sim, Tara N. Sainath, Patrick An Phu Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11981726
    Abstract: The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies which have high anti-RSV neutralizing titers. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. The invention yet further provides for diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention, particularly as a passive immunotherapy agent in infants and the elderly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Kalpit A. Vora, Kara S. Cox, Aimin Tang, Zhifeng Chen, Daniel DiStefano, Lan Zhang, Hua-Poo Su
  • Publication number: 20240127791
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating speech from text. One of the systems includes one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to implement: a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network configured to: receive a sequence of characters in a particular natural language, and process the sequence of characters to generate a spectrogram of a verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; and a subsystem configured to: receive the sequence of characters in the particular natural language, and provide the sequence of characters as input to the sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network to obtain as output the spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Samuel Bengio, Yuxuan Wang, Zongheng Yang, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Ioannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Ron J. Weiss, Navdeep Jaitly, Ryan M. Rifkin, Robert Andrew James Clark, Quoc V. Le, Russell J. Ryan, Ying Xiao
  • Publication number: 20240112027
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing neural architecture search for machine learning models. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving training data for a machine learning, generating a plurality of candidate neural networks for performing the machine learning task, wherein each candidate neural network comprises a plurality of instances of a layer block composed of a plurality of layers, for each candidate neural network, selecting a respective type for each of the plurality of layers from a set of layer types that comprises, training the candidate neural network and evaluating performance scores for the trained candidate neural networks as applied to the machine learning task, and determining a final neural network for performing the machine learning task based at least on the performance scores for the candidate neural networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yanqi Zhou, Yanping Huang, Yifeng Lu, Andrew M. Dai, Siamak Shakeri, Zhifeng Chen, James Laudon, Quoc V. Le, Da Huang, Nan Du, David Richard So, Daiyi Peng, Yingwei Cui, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Chang Lan
  • Publication number: 20240112667
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ye Jia, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Jonathan Shen, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Fei Ren, Yu Zhang, Quan Wang, Patrick An Phu Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11938581
    Abstract: A power device includes a power tool, a mounting plate, a mounting table, a positioning assembly, and a locking assembly. The positioning assembly includes a positioning piece. A positioning space is formed between the positioning piece and the mounting table. An end of the mounting plate is enabled to be inserted into the positioning space so that the mounting plate is pre-positioned. The locking assembly includes a movable piece and a locking piece. The movable piece includes a support position where the mounting plate is supported and an unlocked position where support for the mounting plate is released. The locking piece fixes at least the mounting plate to the mounting table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Dianbo Zhu, Bo Zhang, Xia Wang
  • Patent number: 11922932
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for speech recognition using attention-based sequence-to-sequence models. In some implementations, audio data indicating acoustic characteristics of an utterance is received. A sequence of feature vectors indicative of the acoustic characteristics of the utterance is generated. The sequence of feature vectors is processed using a speech recognition model that has been trained using a loss function that uses a set of speech recognition hypothesis samples, the speech recognition model including an encoder, an attention module, and a decoder. The encoder and decoder each include one or more recurrent neural network layers. A sequence of output vectors representing distributions over a predetermined set of linguistic units is obtained. A transcription for the utterance is obtained based on the sequence of output vectors. Data indicating the transcription of the utterance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Tara N. Sainath, Yonghui Wu, Patrick An Phu Nguyen, Zhifeng Chen, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Anjuli Patricia Kannan
  • Patent number: 11900915
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable media, for speech recognition using multi-dialect and multilingual models. In some implementations, audio data indicating audio characteristics of an utterance is received. Input features determined based on the audio data are provided to a speech recognition model that has been trained to output score indicating the likelihood of linguistic units for each of multiple different language or dialects. The speech recognition model can be one that has been trained using cluster adaptive training. Output that the speech recognition model generated in response to receiving the input features determined based on the audio data is received. A transcription of the utterance generated based on the output of the speech recognition model is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Bo Li, Eugene Weinstein, Yonghui Wu, Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Ron J. Weiss, Khe Chai Sim, Tara N. Sainath, Patrick An Phu Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20240020491
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for machine translation using neural networks. In some implementations, a text in one language is translated into a second language using a neural network model. The model can include an encoder neural network comprising a plurality of bidirectional recurrent neural network layers. The encoding vectors are processed using a multi-headed attention module configured to generate multiple attention context vectors for each encoding vector. A decoder neural network generates a sequence of decoder output vectors using the attention context vectors. The decoder output vectors can represent distributions over various language elements of the second language, allowing a translation of the text into the second language to be determined based on the sequence of decoder output vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Macduff Richard Hughes, Yonghui Wu, Michael Schuster, Xu Chen, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, George Foster, Orhan Firat, Ankur Bapna, Wolfgang Macherey, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar
  • Patent number: 11862142
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating speech from text. One of the systems includes one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to implement: a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network configured to: receive a sequence of characters in a particular natural language, and process the sequence of characters to generate a spectrogram of a verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language; and a subsystem configured to: receive the sequence of characters in the particular natural language, and provide the sequence of characters as input to the sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural network to obtain as output the spectrogram of the verbal utterance of the sequence of characters in the particular natural language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Bengio, Yuxuan Wang, Zongheng Yang, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Ioannis Agiomyrgiannakis, Ron J. Weiss, Navdeep Jaitly, Ryan M. Rifkin, Robert Andrew James Clark, Quoc V. Le, Russell J. Ryan, Ying Xiao
  • Patent number: 11858848
    Abstract: A regulating cementitious material for promoting hydration of Portland cement is provided. The regulating cementitious material may include ingredients by weight as follows: ye'elimite, 27˜68 parts; anhydrite, 29˜68 parts; lithium nitrite, 2˜5 parts; ethylene glycol monoisopropanolamine, 0.14˜0.29 parts; triethanolamine acetate, 0.04˜0.09 parts; and polyglycerol, 0.04˜0.09 parts. An early strength of Portland cement can be improved through a cooperative hydration between minerals and an enhanced solubilization of a complexing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing University of Technology
    Inventors: Mingzhang Lan, Tianrui Pei, Jianfeng Wang, Junjian Yang, Zhifeng Chen, Suping Cui, Yali Wang
  • Patent number: 11849153
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems associated with viewing condition adaption of multimedia content. A method for receiving multimedia content with a device from a network may include determining a viewing parameter, transmitting a request for the multimedia content to the network, whereby the request may be based on the viewing parameter, and receiving the multimedia content from the network, whereby the multimedia content may be processed at a rate according to the viewing parameter. The viewing parameter may include at least one of: a user viewing parameter, a device viewing parameter, or a content viewing parameter. The method may further include receiving a multimedia presentation description (MPD) file from the network. The MPD file may include information relating to the rate of the multimedia content and information relating to the rate may include a descriptor relating to the viewing parameter, whereby the descriptor may be required or optional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: VID SCALE, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuriy Reznik, Eduardo Asbun, Zhifeng Chen, Yan Ye, Eldad M. Zeira, Ariela Zeira, Naresh Soni, Hang Liu
  • Patent number: 11848002
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ye Jia, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Jonathan Shen, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Ignacio Lopez Moreno, Fei Ren, Yu Zhang, Quan Wang, Patrick An Phu Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20230364693
    Abstract: A table cutting device includes: a workbench on which a workpiece is capable of being placed; a cutting assembly capable of performing a cutting operation on the workpiece; a drive assembly including a motor and driving the cutting assembly to move; and a power supply connection assembly for connecting a battery pack. The battery pack supplies an energy source to the table cutting device. The table cutting device further includes a display assembly capable of displaying an electric quantity of the battery pack. When the battery pack is mounted to the table cutting device, the distance between the display assembly and the battery pack is greater than or equal to 5 mm. The table cutting device has the additional display assembly so that an operator can observe electric quantity information of the battery pack when operating the table cutting device, thereby greatly improving operation convenience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Dianbo Zhu, Zhifeng Chen, Shisheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11809834
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for machine translation using neural networks. In some implementations, a text in one language is translated into a second language using a neural network model. The model can include an encoder neural network comprising a plurality of bidirectional recurrent neural network layers. The encoding vectors are processed using a multi-headed attention module configured to generate multiple attention context vectors for each encoding vector. A decoder neural network generates a sequence of decoder output vectors using the attention context vectors. The decoder output vectors can represent distributions over various language elements of the second language, allowing a translation of the text into the second language to be determined based on the sequence of decoder output vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Zhifeng Chen, Macduff Richard Hughes, Yonghui Wu, Michael Schuster, Xu Chen, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, George Foster, Orhan Firat, Ankur Bapna, Wolfgang Macherey, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar
  • Patent number: 11774596
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing data generated by a sensing system that rotationally senses an environment. In one aspect, a method comprises partitioning a predetermined period of time into a plurality of sub-periods, wherein the predetermined period of time is a period of time for which data generated by the sensing system constitutes a complete rotational sensing of the environment; for each sub-period: receiving current data generated by the sensing system during the sub-period and characterizing a respective partial scene of the environment; processing the current data using an object detection neural network to generate a current object detection output that is specific to the respective partial scene of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathon Shlens, Vijay Vasudevan, Jiquan Ngiam, Wei Han, Zhifeng Chen, Brandon Chauloon Yang, Benjamin James Caine, Zhengdong Zhang, Christoph Sprunk, Ouais Alsharif, Junhua Mao, Chen Wu
  • Patent number: D1020998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOLDENYAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuai Li, ZhiFeng Chen