Patents Examined by Max Mathew
  • Patent number: 11012163
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adaptive near-field data acquisition during a sampling process; it includes measuring at least one of an amplitude and phase of a field using one or more probes, wherein the measuring is performed at a plurality of points; selecting, for each point of the plurality of points, a set of neighboring points; calculating a field variation to determine the presence of a strongly varying near-field pattern; for each location corresponding to each point of the plurality of points where a varying near-field pattern is determined after the calculating of the field variation, inserting one or more new points; and for each of said one or more new points, calculating a field variation to obtain a higher near-field resolution for said each location where a near-field variation is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    Inventors: Rezvan Rafiee Alavi, Rashid Mirzavand Boroujeni, Pedram Mousavi
  • Patent number: 11005979
    Abstract: The invention provides a modular electronic device, in particular a portable device, more in particular a handheld device, said modular electronic device comprising a chassis comprising a frame holding a computational module comprising a circuit board holding a data processor, and a display module comprising a planar display device having a viewing side and a rear side, said display module comprising a back plate on the rear side of the display device, wherein said frame further comprises a frame attachment part and said back plate comprises a display attachment part for allowing said display module to be attached to said frame in a sliding manner in a sliding direction in-plane of said planar display device, and said frame comprising a frame lock part and said display module comprising a display lock part for in a mutually locked position locking said frame and said display module onto one another, blocking said sliding, and in a mutually released position allowing sliding of said display module and said fra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FAIRPHONE B.V.
    Inventors: Olivier Hebert, George Henry Hines, Hugh Daniel Brogan
  • Patent number: 10998627
    Abstract: A phase adjustment circuit includes: a local frequency band phase shifter that adjusts a phase of a signal in a local signal frequency band and that outputs the adjusted signal; a frequency-converting mixer that receives the adjusted signal and another signal different from the adjusted signal, and that mixes the adjusted signal with the other signal; and a buffer amplifier that is provided between the local frequency band phase shifter and the frequency-converting mixer, and that is capable of amplifying an input power that is to be input to the frequency-converting mixer so that the input power is up to be in an input power range in which an input-output characteristic of power of the frequency-converting mixer is out of a linear region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kenichi Okada, Keiichi Motoi, Naoki Oshima, Rui Wu, Jian Pang
  • Patent number: 10998929
    Abstract: A remedial signal for potentially harmful radiation that is emitted by a portable electronic battery powered communication device is implemented directly within the handset of the portable communication device the portable communication device is operated by a microprocessor (3) and the remedial signal module is controlled by an algorithm in the microprocessor (3) wherein the algorithm obtains information concerning radio frequency communications associated with the portable telecommunications device from the transceivers (1) of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: TRUST TECHNOLOGY WORLD DMCC
    Inventors: Bruce Holley, Joshua Mihill
  • Patent number: 10985793
    Abstract: An advantageously fast and asynchronous interface is disclosed for the tuning of an RF frontend. The interface transmits a tuning word to the RF frontend that controls a tuning of the RF frontend responsive to a channel index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chan Hong Park, Charles James Persico, Beomsup Kim, Yongwang Ding, Jin-Su Ko
  • Patent number: 10972198
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The disclosure is to receive and measure a wireless signal, and provides a device for measuring a wireless signal. The device includes a first antenna set including a plurality of antennas having adjustable oriented directions, a second antenna set including a plurality of antennas having fixed oriented directions, and at least one processor configured to receive and analyze wireless signals by using the first antenna set and the second antenna set, wherein the at least one processor may adjust the oriented directions of the plurality of antennas included in the first antenna set, receive the wireless signals by using the first antenna set and the second antenna set, and control to analyze the wireless signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minsung Cho
  • Patent number: 10966075
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing virtual beacons are presented. According to one aspect, a method for providing a virtual beacon at a first location comprises transmitting, by a transmitter at a second location geographically different from the first location, an information signal using a transmit power level, Pj, and including an advertised transmit power level, PA, both selected to be indicative of a distance, d, between a location of a receiver of the information signal and the first location. The signal transmitted from the second location emulates a signal that would have been produced by a beacon located at the first location. The information signals may be aimed at one or more User Equipments (UEs), and/or may be focused on one or more specific target locations rather than on individual UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Roland Smith, Pontus Arvidson, Leif Wilhelmsson
  • Patent number: 10951328
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing undesirable behaviors in RF communications in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a vehicle telematics device includes a processor, a transceiver, an amplifier, and a memory connected to the processor and storing a transmission control application, wherein the transceiver is connected to the amplifier, the amplifier is connected to the processor, and the transmission control application directs the processor to format data to be transmitted by the transceiver, determine a leading bit-edge of the transceiver signal, direct the amplifier to sequentially amplify the transceiver signal, transmit data, and direct the amplifier to sequentially de-amplify the transceiver signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CalAmp Wireless Networks Corporation
    Inventor: Yvonne Whelan
  • Patent number: 10938369
    Abstract: Technologies directed to sharing an antenna and a frequency band between coexistence radios are described herein. In one device, semi-active front-end circuitry includes a directional coupler and a phase-shifter circuit coupled to two radios that use the same antenna and the same frequency band. The phase-shifter circuit and directional coupler create an isolation null at an isolated port of the directional coupler that cancels a copy of an incident wave of a transmit signal being applied at an input port of the directional coupler. The isolation null permits the second radio to receive a receive signal concurrently with the first radio transmitting the transmit signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Adrian Gradinaru
  • Patent number: 10932305
    Abstract: Example systems, methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for dynamic provisioning of wireless devices with health gateways are disclosed. One example method includes detecting, by a wireless device, a signal from a health gateway, the signal including connection information and service information; determining whether the health gateway is a suitable based on the connection information and the service information; and in response to determining that the health gateway is suitable, establishing a communications connection with the health gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Daphna Zeilingold, Robert Ganton, Soumya Das, Ashutosh Aggarwal, John Earl Amschler
  • Patent number: 10931319
    Abstract: An antenna module, a control method, a control device, and a storage medium can be employed by a terminal. The antenna module includes: an antenna and an RSE improvement component. The antenna includes a feed source, a ground point, and at least one radiation arm. The RSE improvement component is connected to the antenna for suppressing high order harmonics generated by the antenna when the antenna operates in a target frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changqing Ke, Jiang Xiao
  • Patent number: 10887440
    Abstract: A sensing device includes a radio-wave based sensor module, and a control processor configured to transmit data sensed by the radio-wave based sensor module to a mobile terminal. A holder is configured to hold the mobile terminal and to comprise the radio-wave based sensor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Young Jung, Minchul Seo, Dong Seok Cho, Jonghee Han
  • Patent number: 10863374
    Abstract: A system and method for mobility in a wireless network are presented. A user equipment with a processor configured to inform a network component of a closed subscriber group (CSG) capability of the UE. The processor informs the network component during capability exchange signaling. The processor informs the network component whether the UE is capable of detecting a CSG cell and whether the UE is a member of at least one CSG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mo-Han Fong, David Philip Hole, Jeffrey William Wirtanen, Johanna Lisa Dwyer, Young Ae Kim
  • Patent number: 10862538
    Abstract: A method can include energizing, by a vehicle, a passive wireless communication device along a route over which the vehicle is traveling; and transmitting information about the route from the energized wireless communication device to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Troia, Antonino Mondello
  • Patent number: 10836326
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle mobile phone holder, including a base, a surface cover, a hinge member making a clamp force between the base and the surface cover, and a wireless charging component; when the surface cover is rotated to have an included angle with the base, certain clamp force is formed between the surface cover and the base to clamp a mobile phone in between the surface cover and the base. The wireless charging component has one end in rotatable connection with the base, and a rotation axis of the wireless charging component is parallel to an axis of the hinge member. According to the disclosure, the base of the vehicle mobile phone holder is fixed in a car; when a mobile phone needs to be charged, the mobile phone may be clamped tight between the base and the surface cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Inventor: Liping Yang
  • Patent number: 10833777
    Abstract: A method of making available personalization data in respect of a service between a terminal and a device. The terminal is able to communicate with the device on a first near-field channel and on a second wireless channel distinct from the first channel. The method includes, on the terminal, the steps of: obtaining a first message on the first channel, comprising at least one random datum; transmission on the second channel of a second message in response to the first message; establishment of a communication session on the second channel with the device; calculation of a secret datum as a function of the random datum received; transmission of the secret datum on the second channel; reception of a request for a personalization datum; transmission of at least one personalization datum in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Philippe Levionnais, Clement Duval
  • Patent number: 10833757
    Abstract: Systems and methods of mitigating signal interference in communications involving an antenna array can include determining a radiation pattern of the antenna array in communication with a first communication device. The method can include determining that a power level or gain of the antenna array in a direction pointing to a second communication device exceeds a predefined threshold value, using the radiation pattern of the antenna array and a position of the second communication device. The method can include identifying one or more antenna elements among a plurality of antenna elements of the antenna array to be powered off or applying non-uniform weighting to the antenna elements to distort the radiation pattern of the antenna array in a way to reduce the power level or gain of the antenna array in the direction pointing to the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger A. Dana, Lee M. Paulsen, Nahiyan Ali, Connor C. McBryde
  • Patent number: 10812640
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a housing, a display screen, a functional module and a rotating member, the housing defines a recess and a first engaging structure; the display screen is positioned in the housing; the rotating member is rotatably coupled to the housing, wherein the functional module is mounted on the rotating member, the rotating member comprises a second engaging structure cooperated with the first engaging structure, one of the first engaging structure and the second engaging structure is a curved slot communicated with the recess, the other one of the first engaging structure and the second engaging structure is a slider slidably engaged in the curved slot thereby enabling the rotating member to rotate according to an axis of the curved slot, such that the functional module is positioned in the recess or exposed from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNCATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Guan Gong, Xiaoyu Fan
  • Patent number: 10813142
    Abstract: A vehicle computer system (VCS) configured to communicate with one or more mobile devices, comprising a first processor configured to automatically create a priority list by utilizing one or more factors associated with communication activity between the vehicle computer system and the one or more mobile devices, wherein the priority list includes instructions to pair one or more mobile devices with the VCS and indicates the order of connecting to the one or more mobile devices. The vehicle computer system also includes a wireless transceiver including a second processor configured to receive the priority list from the first processor and establish a wireless connection with one or more mobile devices based on the priority list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Hadi Elzein
  • Patent number: 10804584
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for diverting surface current on a display panel support plate are provided. An electronic transceiver device including a display panel may include a display back plate and a support plate, such that the support plate is disposed beneath the display back plate. The support plate may include an array of slots etched into the support plate, such that the array of slots may be used and positioned to divert an electromagnetic field on the support plate to redirect propagation of the surface current towards ground pins located on the display panel housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Foudazi, Cheung-Wei Lam, Mahmoud N. Mahmoud