Patents by Inventor Zhiqiang Pan

Zhiqiang Pan 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: 20240077170
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a composite bearing. The composite bearing includes a housing, two locking assemblies, a transmission assembly, and an unlocking assembly. The housing is defined with a mounting hole. The two locking assemblies are rotatably arranged in the mounting hole in sequence, both two locking assemblies are defined with a through hole configured to mount an external shaft. A side wall of the locking assemblies is provided with rolling members located between an inner wall of the mounting hole and the external shaft. The transmission assembly is connected to the two locking assemblies respectively so that the two locking assemblies may clamp the external shaft in the through hole. The unlocking assembly is connected to the two locking assemblies respectively to drive the two locking assemblies to release the external shaft. In the present disclosure makes it convenient for users to quickly adjust the desired shooting angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Feng ZHOU, Keman YAN, Haiwu XIONG, Yang ZHOU, Zhiqiang PAN, Jiawei XU
  • Patent number: 11551284
    Abstract: A session-based recommendation method and device according to one or more embodiments of this disclosure are provided, which use a pre-trained recommendation model to perform item recommend. The method includes following contents: a directed session graph is constructed according to a session to be predicted; the directed session graph is then input into a gated graph neural network which outputs the item embedding vector; a user's dynamic preference is determined according to a user's current preference and a first long-term preference, the current preference is an item embedding vector of a last item in the session and the first long-term preference is determined according to the item embedding vector and an importance score of the item; a prediction score of a respective item is determined according to the dynamic preference and the item embedding vector; and a recommended item is output according to the prediction score of the respective item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: National University of Defense Technology
    Inventors: Fei Cai, Chengyu Song, Yitong Wang, Zhiqiang Pan, Xin Zhang, Mengru Wang, Wanyu Chen, Honghui Chen
  • Publication number: 20220374962
    Abstract: A session-based recommendation method and device according to one or more embodiments of this disclosure are provided, which use a pre-trained recommendation model to perform item recommend. The method includes following contents: a directed session graph is constructed according to a session to be predicted; the directed session graph is then input into a gated graph neural network which outputs the item embedding vector; a user's dynamic preference is determined according to a user's current preference and a first long-term preference, the current preference is an item embedding vector of a last item in the session and the first long-term preference is determined according to the item embedding vector and an importance score of the item; a prediction score of a respective item is determined according to the dynamic preference and the item embedding vector; and a recommended item is output according to the prediction score of the respective item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Fei CAI, Chengyu SONG, Yitong WANG, Zhiqiang PAN, Xin ZHANG, Mengru WANG, Wanyu CHEN, Honghui CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220198546
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an item recommendation method and system based on importance of item in a conversation session and a system thereof. In the present disclosure, an importance extracting module extracts an importance of each item in the conversation session, and then a long-term preference of a user is obtained in combination with the importance and the corresponding item, and then a preference of the user is obtained accurately in combination with a current interest and the long-term preference of the user, and finally item recommendation is performed according to the preference of the user. In this way, the accuracy of the item recommendation is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Fei CAI, Wanyu CHEN, Zhiqiang PAN, Chengyu SONG, Yitong WANG, Yanxiang LING, Xin ZHANG, Honghui CHEN
  • Patent number: 11257140
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an item recommendation method and system based on a user intention in a conversation session. In this method, a current conversation session is encoded by use of items of prior time sequence and the last item so as to generate an accurate conversation session representation which is then used to perform initial item prediction as a user intention. Afterwards, an intention-guided neighbor detector is used to locate an accurate neighbor conversation session. Finally, the current conversation session and the neighbor conversation session representations are combined adaptively by a gated mixed layer to generate the final item recommendation, so as to effectively improve the accuracy of item recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: National University of Defense Technology
    Inventors: Fei Cai, Wanyu Chen, Zhiqiang Pan, Yitong Wang, Chengyu Song, Yanxiang Ling, Xin Zhang, Honghui Chen
  • Publication number: 20210366024
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an item recommendation method based on importance of item in a session and a system thereof. In the present disclosure, an importance extracting module extracts an importance of each item in the session, and then a long-term preference of a user is obtained in combination with the importance and the corresponding item, and then a preference of the user is obtained accurately in combination with a current interest and the long-term preference of the user, and finally item recommendation is performed according to the preference of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Fei CAI, Wanyu CHEN, Zhiqiang PAN, Chengyu SONG, Yitong WANG, Yanxiang LING, Xin ZHANG, Honghui CHEN
  • Publication number: 20210366025
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an item recommendation method and system based on a user intention in a session. In this method, a current session is encoded by use of items of prior time sequence and the last item so as to generate an accurate session representation which is then used to perform initial item prediction as a user intention. Afterwards, an intention-guided neighbor detector is used to locate an accurate neighbor session. Finally, the current session and the neighbor session representations are combined adaptively by a gated mixed layer to generate the final item recommendation, so as to effectively improve the accuracy of item recommendation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Fei CAI, Wanyu CHEN, Zhiqiang PAN, Yitong WANG, Chengyu SONG, Yanxiang LING, Xin ZHANG, Honghui CHEN
  • Patent number: 10815491
    Abstract: Transcription regulatory elements, namely promoter and terminator sequences, obtained from Sorghum bicolor that drive RNA transcription predominately in root hair cells are described, as well as cassettes, expression vectors, and genetically modified plants containing these transcription regulatory elements. The genetically modified plants can be gymnosperms, dicots, or monocots. Methods of directing transcription of a heterologous polynucleotide under control of these transcription regulatory elements in a genetically modified plant's root hair cells are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Scott R. Baerson, Zhiqiang Pan, James J Polashock
  • Publication number: 20180327763
    Abstract: Transcription regulatory elements, namely promoter and terminator sequences, obtained from Sorghum bicolor that drive RNA transcription predominately in root hair cells are described, as well as cassettes, expression vectors, and genetically modified plants containing these transcription regulatory elements. The genetically modified plants can be gymnosperms, dicots, or monocots. Methods of directing transcription of a heterologous polynucleotide under control of these transcription regulatory elements in a genetically modified plant's root hair cells are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Scott R. Baerson, Zhiqiang Pan, James J Polashock
  • Patent number: 10000762
    Abstract: Transcription regulatory elements, namely promoter and terminator sequences, obtained from Sorghum bicolor that drive RNA transcription predominately in root hair cells are described, as well as cassettes, expression vectors, and genetically modified plants containing these transcription regulatory elements. The genetically modified plants can be gymnosperms, dicots, or monocots. Methods of directing transcription of a heterologous polynucleotide under control of these transcription regulatory elements in a genetically modified plant's root hair cells are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Scott R. Baerson, Zhiqiang Pan, James J Polashock
  • Patent number: 9926539
    Abstract: Two novel cytochrome P450 genes are isolated from sorghum, each gene encoding a protein having pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase activity. Expression vectors containing these sequences are made and used to elevate levels of pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase in transgenic cells and organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Pan, Scott Baerson
  • Publication number: 20160340685
    Abstract: Transcription regulatory elements, namely promoter and terminator sequences, obtained from Sorghum bicolor that drive RNA transcription predominately in root hair cells are described, as well as cassettes, expression vectors, and genetically modified plants containing these transcription regulatory elements. The genetically modified plants can be gymnosperms, dicots, or monocots. Methods of directing transcription of a heterologous polynucleotide under control of these transcription regulatory elements in a genetically modified plant's root hair cells are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Scott R. Baerson, Zhiqiang Pan, James J. Polashock
  • Publication number: 20160137988
    Abstract: Two novel cytochrome P450 genes are isolated from sorghum, each gene encoding a protein having pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase activity. Expression vectors containing these sequences are made and used to elevate levels of pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase in transgenic cells and organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Pan, Scott Baerson
  • Patent number: 9284537
    Abstract: Two novel cytochrome P450 genes are isolated from sorghum, each gene encoding a protein having pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase activity. Expression vectors containing these sequences are made and used to elevate levels of pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase in transgenic cells and organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Pan, Scott R. Baerson
  • Patent number: 9248145
    Abstract: Sorghum is considered an allelopathic crop species and sorgoleone likely accounts for much of its allelopathic properties. Prior investigations into the biosynthesis of sorgoleone suggested the participation of one or more alkylresorcinol synthases (ARS), which are type III polyketide synthases (PKS) that produce 5-alkylresorcinols using medium to long-chain fatty acyl-CoA starter units via iterative condensations with malonyl-CoA. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR analysis of PKS-like sequences mined from isolated root hairs revealed that two sequences, designated ARS1 and ARS2, were preferentially expressed. Recombinant enzyme studies demonstrated that both sequences encode ARS enzymes capable of accepting a variety of fatty acyl-CoA starter units. RNA interference (RNAi) experiments directed against ARS1 and ARS2 resulted in the generation of multiple independent transformant events exhibiting dramatically reduced sorgoleone levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Scott R. Baerson, Zhiqiang Pan, Agnes M. Rimando, Franck E. Dayan, Daniel Cook
  • Patent number: 8917143
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) chip has a class D PWM (pulse width modulation) amplifier configured for generating first and second PWM signals. The class-D PWM modulator includes a differential output driver configured for driving a first and a second output signals in response to the first and the second PWM signals. A clipping detection circuit is configured to turn on a clipping indication signal when one or both of the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal maintain the same state between two consecutive edges of the oscillator clock signal. The clipping detection circuit is also configured to turn off the clipping indication signal when both the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal change states between two consecutive edges of the oscillator clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Nuvoton Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Peter J Holzmann, Zhiqiang Pan, Yao-Ching Liu
  • Publication number: 20140125411
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) chip has a class D PWM (pulse width modulation) amplifier configured for generating first and second PWM signals. The class-D PWM modulator includes a differential output driver configured for driving a first and a second output signals in response to the first and the second PWM signals. A clipping detection circuit is configured to turn on a clipping indication signal when one or both of the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal maintain the same state between two consecutive edges of the oscillator clock signal. The clipping detection circuit is also configured to turn off the clipping indication signal when both the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal change states between two consecutive edges of the oscillator clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Nuvoton Technology Corporation
    Inventors: PETER J. HOLZMANN, Zhiqiang PAN, Yao-Ching LIU
  • Patent number: 8383890
    Abstract: This invention relates to the fatty acid desaturase genes, designated SbDES2 and SbDES3, cloned from an expressed sequence tag (EST) database prepared from isolated root hairs from sorghum. Heterologous expression of the cDNAs in S. cerevisiae revealed that recombinant SbDES2 converted palmitoleic acid (16:1?9) to hexadecadienoic acid (16:2?9, 12), and that recombinant SbDES3 was capable of converting hexadecadienoic acid into hexadecatrienoic acid (16:3?9, 12, 15). Desaturase enzymes capable of performing desaturation reactions producing a terminal double bond have not previously been characterized in a plant system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Pan, Agnes M. Rimando, Scott R. Baerson
  • Publication number: 20110225676
    Abstract: Sorghum is considered to be an allelopathic crop species, producing phytotoxins such as the lipid benzoquinone sorgoleone (2-hydroxy-5-methoxy-3-[(Z,Z)-8?,11?,14?-pentadecatriene]-p-benzoquinone) which likely accounts for much of its allelopathic properties. Prior investigations into the biosynthesis of sorgoleone have suggested the participation of one or more alkylresorcinol synthases (ARS), which are type III polyketide synthases (PKS) that produce 5-alkylresorcinols using medium to long-chain fatty acyl-CoA starter units via iterative condensations with malonyl-CoA. Current evidence suggests that sorgoleone biosynthesis occurs exclusively in root hair cells, involving the synthesis of a 5-pentadecatrienyl resorcinol intermediate derived from an unusual 16:3 fatty acyl-CoA starter unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Scott R. Baerson, Zhiqiang Pan, Agnes M. Rimando, Franck E. Dayan, Daniel Cook
  • Patent number: D859620
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Guangdong Shunde Noon Appliance Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinliang Le, Zhiqiang Pan, Chao Shang, Xianhao Cai