Patents Examined by Daniel C Puentes
  • Patent number: 11636227
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a circuit system, including: an original circuit; a dual circuit, wherein the dual circuit is a dual of the original circuit; an input inverter connected the dual circuit, wherein the input inverter inverts system inputs; an output inverter connected to one of the original circuit and the dual circuit, wherein the output inverter inverts the output of the connected original circuit or dual circuit; and a comparator receiving and comparing the output of the invertor and the output of one of the original circuit and the dual circuit not connected to the inverter, wherein the comparator indicates an error when the received outputs are not identical and indicating no error when the received outputs are identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Vitaly Ocheretny
  • Patent number: 11621700
    Abstract: RF co-designed bandpass filters/isolators (BPFIs) are based on series-cascaded non-reciprocal resonant stages, microwave resonators and multi-resonant cells. The non-reciprocal stages are shaped by an in-parallel cascaded transistor-based path and a transmission line (TL) that result in a zero-phase resonance in the forward direction and high isolation in the reversed one. This includes coupling routing diagrams (CRDs) of BPFs that result in low- and high-order transfer functions with and without transmission zeros in their forward direction and high levels of isolation in the reverse one. BPFIs provide alternative-type of filtering responses (e.g., flat-passband, quasi-elliptic) with and without gain in the forward direction and high levels of isolation in the reversed one. BPFIs include five planar microstrip/lumped element (LE) prototypes using hybrid combinations of non-reciprocal resonant stages, microwave resonators and multi-resonant cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
    Inventors: Dimitra Psychogiou, Andrea M. Ashley
  • Patent number: 11621709
    Abstract: A power module, including a high-side switching element and a low-side switching element connected to form a half bridge circuit, a high-side drive circuit which drives the high-side switching element, a low-side drive circuit which drives the low-side switching element, and a high-side current detection circuit which detects a current of the high-side switching element. The high-side drive circuit includes a high-side variable delay circuit which adjusts, according to a value detected by the high-side current detection circuit, a length of a high-side delay time from a time when a signal is inputted to the high-side drive circuit to a time when the high-side switching element is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryu Araki
  • Patent number: 11615313
    Abstract: A training set may be created to train a machine learning engine, such as an artificial neural network (ANN), to value a target domain name using data from previously sold domain names. The training set may comprise a plurality of word features vector of real numbers (information related to the words or tokens within the sold domain names), a plurality of word embedding vector of real numbers (word embedding of the words within the sold domain names), a plurality of context embedding vector of real numbers (sale context, i.e., location and date of a sale of a sold domain name), a plurality of DNS embedding vector of real number (DNS information of the sold domain name) and/or a plurality of domain name features vector of real numbers (data regarding the sold domain name). The ANN may then be trained on the training set, using the methods of gradient descent and back propagation, to value a target domain name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Ansel
  • Patent number: 11601121
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bootstrapped switch circuit, a track-and-hold circuit, an analog-to-digital converter, a method for operating a track-and-hold circuit, a base station, and a mobile station. The bootstrapped switch circuit comprises an output for an output signal, a first input, a switching element configured to couple the output with a signal from the first input, a bootstrapper capacitor configured to drive the switching element, and a second input coupled to the bootstrapper capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Giacomo Cascio, Martin Clara, Christian Lindholm
  • Patent number: 11586419
    Abstract: A processing system includes a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS) control unit and a PRBS generator that is used to dynamically generate a PRBS from, for example, a first PRBS and a second PRBS. The PRBS generator is coupled to the PRBS control unit. The PRBS generator generates the second PRBS by dynamically adjusting from a first set of flip-flops of a master set of flip-flops that generate the first PRBS to a second set of flip-flops of the first master set of flip-flops that generate the second PRBS. The PRBS generator includes a plurality of PRBS logic engines coupled to a first PRBS multiplexer, the first PRBS multiplexer being used to select either the first PRBS or the second PRBS that is output by the PRBS generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventor: Daniel Harvey McLean
  • Patent number: 11567109
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided to control an electrical component of an electric power distribution system with an intelligent electronic device using electrical measurements from a wireless electrical measurement device located away from the electrical component. One such system includes a capacitor bank on a lateral of an electric power distribution system, a first set of one or more wireless electrical measurement devices that obtain one or more electrical measurements of a first feeder of the electric power distribution system, and a capacitor bank controller. The capacitor bank controller may use the one or more electrical measurements of the first feeder to control the capacitor bank on the lateral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy William Blair, Raymond W. Rice
  • Patent number: 11569811
    Abstract: An electronic fuse circuit includes an electronic switch with a load current path coupled between an output node and a supply node and that connects or disconnects the output node and the supply node in accordance with a drive signal. The circuit includes a control circuit to generate the drive signal based on an input signal. A monitoring circuit is included in the control circuit to receive a current sense signal representing the load current passing through the load current path and to determine a first protection signal based on the current sense signal and a wire parameter. The first protection signal is indicative of whether to disconnect the output node from supply node. The control circuit changes from normal mode to idle mode when the load current is below a given current threshold and another criterion is fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Alexander Mayer, Marco Faricelli, Robert Illing
  • Patent number: 11567229
    Abstract: A detector (10) for detecting electrically conductive material is provided. The detector (10) comprises at least one transmitter (11) having a transmitter coil (12) and a supply source (13), a receiver (14) having a receiver coil (15), and an evaluation unit (16), wherein the transmitter coil (12) is connected to the supply source (13), the supply source (13) is configured to provide an alternating voltage or an alternating current when in use, the receiver (14) is designed as a resonant-circuit-free receiver, the receiver (14) is connected to the evaluation unit (16), and the evaluation unit (16) is configured to detect a signal induced in the receiver coil (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Frauscher Sensortechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Günther Mader
  • Patent number: 11558039
    Abstract: A digital value obtained from a preceding circuit element is temporarily stored and made available for a subsequent circuit element at a controlled moment of time. The digital value is received through a data input. A triggering signal is also received, a triggering edge of which defines an allowable time limit before which a digital value must be available at said data input to become available for said subsequent circuit element. Between first and second pulse-enabled subregister stages, an internal digital value from the first pulse-enabled subregister stage and information of the changing moment of said digital value at the data input in relation to said allowable time limit are used to ensure passing a valid internal digital value to the second pulse-enabled subregister stage. Said second pulse-enabled subregister stage makes said valid internal digital value available for said subsequent circuit element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MINIMA PROCESSOR OY
    Inventor: Navneet Gupta
  • Patent number: 11558053
    Abstract: A sensor switch with water suppression includes a sensor electrode and a photodiode connected to an evaluation circuit. The evaluation circuit generates a capacitive sensor signal indicative of an electrically-conductive object in the proximity of the sensor switch and an optical sensor signal indicative of an object at least partially opaque or impermeable to light in the proximity of the sensor switch. The capacitive sensor signal and the optical sensor signal are correlated with one another to generate an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: CAPTRON ELECTRONIC GmbH
    Inventor: Kilian Hüttenhofer
  • Patent number: 11552638
    Abstract: An optical switch module including a light generation circuit, a light receiving circuit, and a control unit is provided. The light generation circuit includes a light generation unit and a control end, and generates light according to a control signal from the control end. The light receiving circuit includes a light receiving unit and a signal reading end, and is configured to receive light to generate a detection signal at the signal reading end. The control unit is configured to generate the control signal and receive the detection signal. The control unit further selectively configures the signal reading end in an input mode or an output mode. Before the control unit configures the signal reading end in the input mode to read the detection signal, the control unit configures the signal reading end in the output mode to pull up a potential of the light receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Kuo-En Lin, Chih-Yuan Lin, Shih-Hung Chou, Xin-Han Cai, I-Ting Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11551097
    Abstract: A system and method for utilizing weak supervision and a generative adversarial network to identify a location that includes receiving location data and time based data associated with locations of a vehicle and analyzing the location data and the time based data to filter noisy data associated with the locations of the vehicle. The system and method also include determining a plurality of labeling functions that are associated with at least one center point that is associated with a point of interest location that is regularly visited by the vehicle and the time based data. The system and method further include inputting the plurality of labeling functions to the generative adversarial network to train at least one model of the generative adversarial network to identify the point of interest location that is regularly visited by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Armin Moridi
  • Patent number: 11521056
    Abstract: A learning agent is disclosed that receives data in sequence from one or more sequential data sources; generates a model modelling sequences of data and actions; and selects an action maximizing the expected future value of a reward function, wherein the reward function depends at least partly on at least one of: a measure of the change in complexity of the model, or a measure of the complexity of the change in the model. The measure of the change in complexity of the model may be based on, for example, the change in description length of the first part of a two-part code describing one or more sequences of received data and actions, the change in description length of a statistical distribution modelling, the description length of the change in the first part of the two-part code, or the description length of the change in the statistical distribution modelling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Graham Fyffe
  • Patent number: 11522527
    Abstract: This application discloses a chip and a signal level shifter circuit for use on a mobile terminal such as a charger or an adapter. The chip is co-packaged with a first silicon-based driver die and a second silicon-based driver die that are manufactured by using a BCD technology, and a first gallium nitride die and a second gallium nitride die that are manufactured by using a gallium nitride technology. A first silicon-based circuit is integrated on the first silicon-based driver die, a second silicon-based circuit is integrated on the second silicon-based driver die, and a high-voltage resistant gallium nitride circuit is integrated on the first gallium nitride die. In this way, it can be ensured that a second low-voltage silicon-based driver die manufactured by using a low-voltage BCD technology is not damaged by a high input voltage, thereby reducing costs of the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qimeng Jiang, Xingqiang Peng, Chenghao Sun
  • Patent number: 11514295
    Abstract: Continuous learning may include receiving a first neural network trained using a first training data set to predict outputs; determining whether the first neural network has a successful prediction rate greater than a prediction threshold; and responsive to determining the first neural network does not have a successful prediction rate greater than the prediction threshold, performing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventor: Sorin Faibish
  • Patent number: 11509297
    Abstract: A duty cycle correction circuit includes a first duty cycle detecting circuit configured to detect a duty cycle of a clock signal with a first resolution; a reference clock generating circuit configured to generate a reference clock signal by adjusting a phase of the clock signal; a second duty cycle detecting circuit configured to detect a duty cycle of the clock signal with a second resolution according to the reference clock signal and the clock signal, the second resolution being finer than the first resolution; a first duty cycle adjusting circuit configured to adjust the duty cycle of the clock signal according to one or more first control signals output from the first duty cycle detecting circuit; and a second duty cycle adjusting circuit configured to adjust the duty cycle of the clock signal according to one or more second control signals output from the second duty cycle detecting circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: SK hynix Inc., Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Minseop Lee, Hyunsu Park, Jincheol Sim, Chulwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11507834
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide systems and methods relating to a machine comprehension test with a learning-based approach, harnessing neural networks arranged in a parallel hierarchy. This parallel hierarchy enables the model to compare the passage, question, and answer from a variety of perspectives, as opposed to using a manually designed set of features. Perspectives may range from the word level to sentence fragments to sequences of sentences, and networks operate on word-embedding representations of text. A training methodology for small data is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Trischler, Zheng Ye, Xingdi Yuan, Philip Bachman
  • Patent number: 11486914
    Abstract: A circuit includes a tank capacitor coupled between first and second nodes, and a sense resistor having a first terminal coupled to the first node and a second terminal coupled to a regulator input. A switching circuit has first and second inputs coupled to the first and second terminals of the sense resistor. A gain stage has first and second inputs capacitively coupled to first and second outputs of the switching circuit. An analog-to-digital converter receives the output of the gain stage, and receives first and second differential voltages. A reference voltage generator has a temperature independent current source coupled to source current to a reference resistor, the first differential reference voltage being formed across the reference resistor. The reference resistor and sense resistor are located sufficiently close to one another on a single common substrate such that they remain at substantially a same temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Yannick Guedon, Baris Volkan Yildirim, Teerasak Lee
  • Patent number: 11481691
    Abstract: A non-transitory processor-readable medium stores instructions to be executed by a processor. The instructions cause the processor to receive a first trained machine learning model that generates a transcription based on a document. The instructions cause the processor to execute the first trained machine learning model and a second trained machine learning model to generate a refined transcription based on the transcription. The instructions cause the processor to execute a quality assurance program to generate a transcription score based on the document and the transcription. The instructions cause the processor to execute the quality assurance program to generate a refined transcription score based on the refined transcription and at least one of the document or the transcription. The at least one refined transcription score indicates an automation performance better than an automation performance for the at least one transcription score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hyper Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Iliev Stefanov, Boris Nikolaev Daskalov, Akhil Lohchab