Patents Examined by Eva Y Puente
  • Patent number: 11979160
    Abstract: A single-signal receiver including an active inductor continuous time linear equalizer and a reference voltage selection equalizer is provided. The single-signal receiver includes a continuous time linear equalizing unit to receive a single signal, and compensate for distortion of the single signal to generate an output, and a reference voltage selection equalizing unit to select one of a first reference voltage value and a second reference voltage value based on a previous output from a comparator, and sample the output from the continuous time linear equalizing unit, based on the one of the first reference voltage value and the second reference voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Chulwoo Kim, Jong-Hyuck Choi
  • Patent number: 11979482
    Abstract: A detection system includes: a signal output unit configured to output, to a measurement target, a measurement signal that exhibits a predetermined temporal change; a signal measurement unit configured to measure a response signal, to the measurement signal, from the measurement target; a calculation unit configured to calculate an impulse response of the measurement target, based on a measurement result of the response signal measured by the signal measurement unit; and a detection unit configured to detect abnormality regarding the measurement target, based on the impulse response calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru Sakurazawa, Isao Kato, Takanori Miyoshi, Yoichi Hata, Takumi Asaina
  • Patent number: 11973624
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to link training between network connected devices. In some examples, an amount to extend link training is determined. The amount to extend link training can be determined by: receiving, by a receiver in a first device, signals over a lane from a transmitter in a second device, the signals indicating capability to extend link training time and amount to extend link training time; determining, at the first device, a link training time based on a default link training time and an amount to extend link training time; and performing link training based on the determined link training time. In some examples, the determined amount is highest common denominator of the received identified capability and transmitted indicated capability. In some examples, if the received communication indicates no ability to extend link training time, the link training time is a default link training time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce McLoughlin
  • Patent number: 11968062
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink message which may include an indication of a precoder applied to one or more downlink signals. The UE may receive the one or more downlink signals using a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and the precoder, where the one or more downlink signals may be mismatched in gain and phase. The UE may perform an iterative channel estimation procedure to estimate the downlink channel. The UE may then perform a gain and phase mismatch equalization procedure to equalize an estimated gain and phase mismatch of the one or more downlink signals based on the estimated downlink channel and the precoder. The UE may then receive one or more equalized downlink signals in accordance with the gain and phase mismatch equalization procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aviv Regev, Ronen Shaked, Yaniv Eistein
  • Patent number: 11962373
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a feed port comprising multiple input feeds, a precoding subsystem that is electrically connected to the feed port; and an antenna subsystem electrically connected to the precoding subsystem. The antenna subsystem is configured to transmit an output signal of the precoding subsystem to multiple wireless stations using multiple beams. The precoding subsystem is configured to perform a precoding operation on an input signal from the feed port, wherein the precoding operation maximizes a desired signal level to interference ratio of transmissions to the multiple wireless stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shlomo Selim Rakib, Ronny Hadani, Shachar Kons
  • Patent number: 11962374
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a synchronization signal block (SSB) burst set including a first set of SSBs transmitted using a first codebook and a second set of SSBs transmitted using a second codebook. In some cases, the first codebook may be configured for beamforming at a first transmission distance range (e.g., for far field transmissions) and the second codebook may be configured for beamforming at a second transmission distance range (e.g., for near field transmissions). Based on transmitting the SSB burst, the base station may receive an indication of a first SSB from the first set or the second set from a user equipment (UE). The base station may then communicate messages to the UE using a transmission beam and codebook associated with the first SSB indicated by the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11956007
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise a communication processor; an intermediate frequency integrated circuit (IFIC) to convert a baseband signal received from the communication processor into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal; a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) convert the received IF signal into a first radio frequency (RF) signal; an ultra-wideband (UWB) integrated circuit (IC) generating a UWB signal corresponding to a first frequency; at least one UWB antenna to transmit/receive the UWB signal corresponding to the first frequency; and at least one first switch connected between the UWB IC and the UWB antenna. The at least one first switch may be controlled so that the UWB signal corresponding to the first frequency, generated by the UWB IC, is transmitted to the RFIC in a state in which a communication operation, for a signal transmitted/received from the communication processor, by the RFIC is inactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Namjun Cho
  • Patent number: 11949423
    Abstract: A clock and data recovery device that includes a first phase detector, a pulse filter, a charge pump, a loop filter and a voltage-controlled oscillator is introduced. The first phase detector generates a first phase state signal according to a data signal and a first output signal. The pulse filter adjusts the first phase state signal according to a capacitance of a loop capacitor to generate a filtered signal. The charge pump generates a pumping signal according to the filtered signal. The loop filter generates a control signal according to the pumping signal. The voltage-controlled oscillator generates a second output signal and adjust a frequency of the second output signal according to the control signal, wherein the first output signal is generated according to the second output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Faraday Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Mikhail Tamrazyan, Vinod Kumar Jain, Prateek Kumar Goyal
  • Patent number: 11943002
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to a method including receiving a set of signals from transmitters of a communication system, the communication system having a system configuration. A first and second set of machine learned parameters may be provided in accordance with the system configuration. The received signals may be weighted using the first set of machine learned parameters. The weighted signals may be combined to generate a composite signal. The composite signal may be weighted with the second set of machine learned parameters in order to estimate an interference signal that is caused by the set of signals at a receiver of the communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Marko Fleischer, Helmut Heinz
  • Patent number: 11943088
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reference signal design methods and devices. In one example method, a first communication device obtains at least one sequence from a subset of sequences in a set of sequences and obtains at least one reference signal based on the obtained at least one sequence. The sequence is phase rotated during its generation, phase rotated in the frequency domain, or cyclically shifted in the time domain based on a constant value ?q. The first communication device transmits the reference signal to a second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Branislav M. Popovic, Peng Wang, Fredrik Berggren
  • Patent number: 11936447
    Abstract: The OAM mode multiplexing transmission apparatus includes a UCA antenna, a correction circuit, a correction value calculation circuit that calculates correction values, and a correction value feedback part that regularly feeds back the correction values from a receiving end to a transmitting end. The correction value calculation circuit is connected to a database that stores information about an ideal MIMO channel matrix, which is calculated by using an array diameter of the UCA antenna, a number of antenna elements, an RF frequency, and a link distance as parameters, in a state in which transmission and reception UCA antennas face each other, or is connected to a calculation apparatus that calculates the information. The correction value calculation circuit regularly calculates the correction values relating to signal phase rotation by using a MIMO channel matrix estimated with known signals embedded in received transmission frames and the ideal MIMO channel matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuji Zenkyu
  • Patent number: 11936456
    Abstract: A method performed by a UE for providing CSI feedback in the form of CSI reports in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a gNB, higher layer configurations of one or more downlink reference signals, and CSI report configurations associated with the downlink reference signal configurations, and a radio signal including the downlink reference signals according to the one or more downlink reference signal configurations, the downlink reference signals provided over a configured number of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and one or more ports; determining, for each CSI report, a precoding matrix based on the downlink reference signals and two codebooks, and one or more non-zero combining coefficients for complex combining of one or more spatial domain and delay domain basis vectors; and reporting to the network node the CSI reports for the CSI report configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Ramireddy Venkatesh, Markus Landmann
  • Patent number: 11923858
    Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes a phase detector, a first signal processing path, a second signal processing path, an oscillator circuit and a phase control circuit. The phase detector samples input data signal according to first clock signals to generate an up control signal and a down control signal. The first signal processing path includes at least one first signal processing device generating a phase control signal according to the up control signal and the down control signal. The second signal processing path includes at least one second signal processing device generating a frequency control signal according to the up control signal and the down control signal. The oscillator circuit generates second clock signals according to the frequency control signal. The phase control circuit controls phases of the second clock signals according to the phase control signal to generate the first clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventor: Yi-Jyun Lin
  • Patent number: 11909568
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for communicating multi-level signals are described. A first device may be configured to communicate signals with a second device according to a modulation scheme. The first device may transmit a first signal to the second device at a first voltage level of the modulation scheme corresponding to a first multi-bit value. The first device may select a second voltage level of the modulation scheme based on a difference between the first voltage level and a third voltage level of the PAM scheme, and may transmit a second signal to the second device at the second voltage level to indicate a second multi-bit value corresponding to the third voltage level. The second device may decode the second signal to determine the second multi-bit value based on receiving the first signal at the first voltage level and the second signal at the second voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Mayer, Nobuyuki Umeda, Casto Salobrena Garcia, Rethin Raj, Andreas Schneider
  • Patent number: 11909567
    Abstract: An equalizer that has a wide variable gain range and that can implement equalization for a communication medium such as on-board wiring or a cable having various wiring lengths. The equalizer includes a core circuit and a source follower connected to a subsequent stage of the core circuit. The core circuit includes a differential pair including a first transistor and a second transistor, and a zero point generation circuit connected between a second terminal of the first transistor and a second terminal of the second transistor. The source follower includes a third transistor and a fourth transistor, a variable bias current source is connected to the third and fourth transistors, and a load in which a capacitive element and a resistor element are connected in series via a switching element is connected to wiring that connects the third and fourth transistors to an output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Wachi
  • Patent number: 11909473
    Abstract: Methods, a base unit and a remote unit are disclosed. A method comprises determining two or more SRS resource sets for codebook or non-codebook based UL transmission of the mobile unit in the condition that the number of antenna ports simultaneously used by the mobile unit for transmitting is smaller than the number of antenna ports simultaneously used by the mobile unit for receiving; and transmitting a trigger associated with the two or more SRS resource sets to the mobile unit to trigger SRS resource transmissions by the mobile unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Bingchao Liu, Chenxi Zhu, Lingling Xiao
  • Patent number: 11902078
    Abstract: Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. ‘geometrically’ shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a capacity optimized constellation can be perturbed and are still likely to achieve a given percentage of the optimal capacity increase compared to a constellation that maximizes dmin, are also described. Capacity measures that are used in the selection of the location of constellation points include, but are not limited to, parallel decode (PD) capacity and joint capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Constellation Designs, LLC
    Inventors: Maged F. Barsoum, Christopher R. Jones
  • Patent number: 11902006
    Abstract: Provided are a method of operating a communication system, the method comprises mapping some antennas selected from among a plurality of antennas of each of a plurality of first communication nodes and reception ports of a second communication node, combining uplink signals mapped to an identical reception port of the second communication node from among uplink signals received through the plurality of antennas, and transmitting the combined signals to the mapped reception ports of the second communication node, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Woosik Moon, Hoony Hong, Kwon Kim, Hyunchae Kim
  • Patent number: 11888555
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a network node is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to receive channel state information, CSI, from each of a plurality of wireless devices and determine at least one null space based on the received CSI from each of the plurality of wireless devices. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine a common precoding matrix index, PMI, where a common beamforming vector is not in the at least one null space and cause a multicast broadcast transmission to the plurality of wireless devices using at least the common PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ratheesh Kumar Mungara, Sairamesh Nammi, Jörg Huschke
  • Patent number: 11881919
    Abstract: A method performed by a UE for providing CSI feedback in the form of CSI reports in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a gNB, higher layer configurations of one or more downlink reference signals, and CSI report configurations associated with the downlink reference signal configurations, and a radio signal including the downlink reference signals according to the one or more downlink reference signal configurations, the downlink reference signals provided over a configured number of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and one or more ports; determining, for each CSI report, a precoding matrix based on the downlink reference signals and two codebooks, and one or more non-zero combining coefficients for complex combining of one or more spatial domain and delay domain basis vectors; and reporting to the network node the CSI reports for the CSI report configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann, Ramireddy Venkatesh