Patents by Inventor Zhou Lu

Zhou Lu 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: 20240138603
    Abstract: Provided is a cup lid with a retractable drinking spout and drinking cup, including a cup lid body provided with a through hole; a base fixedly connected to the cup lid body and located at a bottom of the through hole; a drinking spout movably installed in the through hole and capable of stretching out from a top of the through hole or retracting into the through hole; and an elastic part arranged in the through hole and having one end in butting connection with the base and the other end in butting connection with the drinking spout, the elastic part pushing the drinking spout to stretch out when popping up, and the elastic part being compressed to accumulate force when the drinking spout retracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Li Lixin, Zhou Yongning, Liu Junhui, Wang Lu
  • Patent number: 11972651
    Abstract: An intelligent key device and a verification method therefor. The verification method comprises: determining the type of an instruction by means of an intelligent key device; determining a key area according to the type of the instruction; acquiring a biometric verification identifier corresponding to the key area; determining, according to the biometric verification identifier, a biometric verification mode corresponding to the key area; and executing a corresponding operation according to the biometric verification mode. According to the present invention, a user can realize multiple verification modes of biometric features according to a key area in the process of performing verification using the intelligent key device, such that different verification requirements of the user for the key used in different application scenarios are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Feitian Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhou Lu, Huazhang Yu
  • Patent number: 11972122
    Abstract: In some implementations, a memory device may detect a read command associated with reading data stored by the memory device. The memory device may determine whether the read command is from a host device in communication with the memory device. The memory device may select, based on whether the read command is from the host device, one of a first voltage pattern or a second voltage pattern to be applied to memory cells of the memory device to execute the read command, wherein the first voltage pattern is selected if the read command is from the host device and the second voltage pattern is selected if the read command is not from the host device, wherein the second voltage pattern is different from the first voltage pattern. The memory device may execute the read command using a selected one of the first voltage pattern or the second voltage pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Chung Lien, Ching-Huang Lu, Zhenming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11966006
    Abstract: A cable detection system for detecting an end of a cable having a plurality of exposed different sections includes an illumination device and a camera. The illumination device emits an illuminating light to the end of the cable. The illumination device simultaneously emits a parallel light and a diffuse light to the end of the cable. The camera captures an image of the end of the cable. The parallel light sharpens a boundary between the different sections of the cable in the image, and the diffuse light clarifies a surface of the different sections in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Kunshan League Automechanism Co., Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Sonny O. Osunkwo, Sai Tarun Kosaraju, Cong Lin, Tianshu Wu
  • Publication number: 20240125699
    Abstract: A microfluidic ion detection chip having a bubble brightening structure includes a substrate, an upper plate, two glass cover plates, and a foam board. The substrate is provided with a fluid mixing region, a lower optical detection through hole, and a lower gas flow channel. The upper plate is adhesively connected to the substrate and is provided with a sample outlet, an upper optical detection through hole, an upper gas flow channel, and two sample inlets, the upper gas flow channel and the lower gas flow channel are combined to form a gas flow channel. The two glass cover plates are respectively disposed at the lower optical detection through hole and the upper optical detection through hole. The foam board is provided with a foaming structure capable of generating bubbles and a surfactant coated on the foam board, the foam board is disposed at the gas flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zongtao LI, Hong WANG, Yongheng XING, Jiasheng LI, Jiexin LI, Zhou LU, Junhao WU
  • Publication number: 20240120991
    Abstract: The present application presents a method and an apparatus for synchronizing time by parsing satellite navigation data. A service application obtains current time of a system and caches it as a first time variable, receives and parses the satellite navigation data to obtain all character strings, obtains a character string as a current character string to be processed, determines a type of a system protocol identifier, if it is a preset system protocol identifier, converts a time field of the current character string to be processed into a local time zone time value for storing, obtains the current time and stores it as a second time variable, obtains a first time compensation value according to the first and second time variables, obtains satellite navigation time according to the first time compensation value and the maximum local time zone time value and sets system time as satellite navigation time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Feitian Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhou LU, Huazhang YU
  • Patent number: 11954374
    Abstract: A processing method and system of cloud broadcasting and printing data, relating to the field of information security. When receiving a service obtaining request, a server processes first data in the service obtaining request into printing and broadcasting data, processes the printing and broadcasting data into first verifying data and then sends the first verifying data to a cloud broadcasting and printing service platform. The cloud broadcasting and printing service platform processes the first verifying data into second verifying data and then sends the second verifying data to a cloud broadcasting and printing all-in-one machine. The cloud broadcasting and printing all-in-one machine processes the second verifying data into printing and broadcasting data, and extracts printing information and broadcasting information from the printing and broadcasting data at a time and performs broadcasting and printing respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: FEITIAN TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhou Lu, Huazhang Yu
  • Patent number: 11953333
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive transportation information associated with a transportation request, the transportation information comprising a pick up location and a drop off location. A first route associated with the transportation request and a non-autonomous vehicle can be determined. A second route associated with the transportation request and an autonomous vehicle can be determined based on an operating design domain (ODD) associated with one or more autonomous vehicles in a fleet of vehicles. At least one performance metric associated with the second route can be determined. The second route can be selected based at least in part on the at least one performance metric and a comparison of the first route and the second route. An autonomous vehicle from the fleet of vehicles can be assigned to the transportation request based on selection of the second route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Kumar Hemachandra Chellapilla, Emilie Jeanne Anne Danna, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Sameer Qureshi, Alexis Weill
  • Publication number: 20240110776
    Abstract: A detection device adapted to verify or determine a welding quality includes a housing, a moving assembly, a mounting bracket, and a rotating assembly. The moving assembly is movably installed on the housing and is adapted to be moved up and down in a vertical direction. The mounting bracket is fixed to the housing. The rotating assembly includes a rotating member rotatably connected to the mounting bracket and movably connected to the moving assembly, and a contact probe fixed to the rotating member. The contact probe is adapted to make sliding contact with a second component welded on a first component and to push the moving assembly to move in the vertical direction through the rotating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Dongguan) Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Xuyan Yu, Haoquan Yao, Hongzhou (Andy) Shen, Yi Li
  • Patent number: 11945754
    Abstract: A method for forming a complex shape three-dimensional ceramic article by printing a first layer of a first material having a first fraction of first ceramic particles and a first fraction of a first polymeric ceramic precursor. A second layer is printed such that it is at least partially disposed on the first layer of a second material having a second fraction of second ceramic particles and a second fraction of a second polymeric ceramic precursor. A composite of the first layer and the second layer is heated at a temperature sufficient to decompose the first and second polymeric ceramic precursors and sinter the article. During the sintering process, the first and second layers with different fractions of ceramic particles undergo different degrees of shrinkage, resulting in a tuneable mismatch of the bilayer structure and accurately achieving a targeted geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Jian Lu, Lei Wan, Zhou Chen, Zhengyi Mao
  • Patent number: 11947831
    Abstract: A system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including: receiving a request to perform a read operation on a segment of the memory device; determining a program erase cycle count associated with the segment of the memory device; determining a temperature offset value for the segment of the memory device based on a write temperature and a read temperature, determining whether the temperature offset value satisfies a threshold criterion associated with the program erase cycle count of the segment; and responsive to determining that the temperature offset value satisfies the threshold criterion, performing a corrective read operation on the segment of the memory device, wherein a sense time parameter of the corrective read operation is modified according to the temperature offset value and the program erase cycle count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenming Zhou, Murong Lang, Ching-Huang Lu, Nagendra Prasad Ganesh Rao
  • Publication number: 20240101320
    Abstract: Provided is an automatic air-release box lid, including: a box lid body provided with an air hole, the air hole being configured as a through-hole structure, openings at two ends of the air hole being located on an upper surface and a lower surface of the box lid body respectively; and a fastening lug having a rotating shaft part by which the fastening lug is hinged to the upper surface of the box lid body, the rotating shaft part and one opening of the air hole being arranged corresponding to each other and one above the other, the rotating shaft part having a blocking surface. Further provided is a preservation box, including: an automatic air-release box lid and a box body. The box lid is fitted to cover the box body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Li Lixin, Zhou Yongning, Zheng Peng, Wang Lu
  • Publication number: 20240104932
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can access a plurality of parameter-based encodings providing a structured representation of an environment captured by one or more sensors associated with a plurality of vehicles traveling through the environment. A given parameter-based encoding of the environment identifies one or more agents that were detected by a vehicle within the environment and respective location information for the one or more agents within the environment. The plurality of parameter-based encodings can be clustered into one or more clusters of parameter-based encodings. At least one scenario associated with the environment can be determined based at least in part on the one or more clusters of parameter-based encodings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Kirigan, David Tse-Zhou Lu, Sheng Yang, Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Emilie Jeanne Anne Danna, Weiyi Hou, Daxiao Liu, Suneet Rajendra Shah, Ying Liu
  • Patent number: 11933737
    Abstract: A detection device for detecting a workpiece with multiple surfaces includes a rotary table carrying the workpiece and moving the workpiece by rotation and a plurality of photographing devices arranged at a plurality of different positions around the rotary table. Each photographing device has an image capture device capturing an image of a corresponding surface of the workpiece that is moved to the image capture device. An orientation of the image capture device is defined by a first offset angle and a second offset angle when the image capture device captures the image of the corresponding surface of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics AMP Guangdong Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei (Alex) Zhou, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu, Yanlin Huang, Yangqin Ma, Wei Yang, Guishou Chen, Ming Yang, Yuanyi Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240085191
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine sensor data captured by at least one sensor of a vehicle while navigating a road segment. A plurality of features describing the road segment can be extracted from the sensor data. A map representation of the road segment can be determined based at least in part on the sensor data and the plurality of features extracted from the sensor data, the map representation being determined as the vehicle navigates the road segment. While the map representation of the road segment is being determined, at least one scenario associated with the road segment can be determined based at least in part on the map representation and the plurality of features extracted from the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: David Tse-Zhou Lu, Asif Haque
  • Publication number: 20240087637
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a compensating circuit for a boost circuit that outputs a voltage that is a function of a voltage signal. In one or more examples, the compensation circuit may include a gain that is adjustable in proportion to voltage output of the boost circuit and inversely proportionate to input current to the boost circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Zhongfeng Pan, Qingfeng Xia, Qiang Zhou, Wei Jia Lu
  • Patent number: 11930118
    Abstract: An authentication method includes: receiving a command of an upper host; parsing an option parameter in the command; determining a value of a fingerprint authentication identifier in the option parameter, and if the value is a first preset value, prompting a user to input a fingerprint and verifying the fingerprint input to obtain a user operation verification result; if the value is a second preset value, prompting the user to press a key and verifying the key pressed to obtain a user operation verification result; determining the user operation verification result, and if the user operation verification result is success, setting an authentication mode confirmation identifier, obtaining client data from the command, generating data to be signed, signing the data to be signed to generate a signature result, sending the signature result to the upper host; if the user operation verification result is failure, reporting an error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FEITIAN TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhou Lu, Huazhang Yu
  • Patent number: 11928672
    Abstract: A personalization method for a financial IC card having a dynamic verification code, comprising: an upper apparatus organizes second personalization information comprising a second disperse key, and organizes a personalization data packet according to the second personalization information; after the upper apparatus and a personalization device establish a security channel, if the upper apparatus transmits the personalization data packet to the personalization device by means of the security channel, the personalization device writes the second personalization information into a financial IC card; if the upper apparatus transmits a verification request to the personalization device by means of the security channel, the personalization device reads a time window and a dynamic verification code from the financial IC card, returns the time window and the dynamic verification code to the upper apparatus by means of the security channel for verification, receives a verification result returned by the upper apparat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Feitian Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhou Lu, Huazhang Yu
  • Publication number: 20240077927
    Abstract: Reducing power consumption in an electronic device can include analyzing device usage data associated with the device to predict an extended period of user inactivity, the usage data including at least one of historical usage data and present usage signals and entering an enhanced reduced power state by implementing one or more power saving optimizations for at least a portion the extended period of extended user inactivity, the one or more power saving optimizations slowing, delaying, or interrupting one or more normal activities normally performed by the device. The method can further include exiting the enhanced reduced power state by suspending the one or more power saving optimizations. Exiting the enhanced reduced power state can be performed in response to at least one of: user activity; a specified user routine; or a time predicted by the analyzing device usage data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Archana Venkatesh, Jingran Zhou, Gina B Lu, Kartik R Venkatraman, Aaron Cotter, Alexander D. Palmer
  • Publication number: 20240078775
    Abstract: A system and method for changing an overall style of a public area based on a virtual scene are provided. The system includes: an information storage module configured to store user profile information, user interaction and operation information, and interior style information on a computer host or a cloud server; a scene rendering module configured to obtain data in the information storage module and present panorama information of a public area to a user through a real-time rendering system; a style interaction module configured to change overall style information attached to a structure to implement ideas of different users for the public area in real time; and a control module configured to change and record style information in a virtual scene and provide roaming experience in the public area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shaoming LU, Zhou LI, Ziyu SONG