Patents Examined by Nghia M. Doan
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Patent number: 11556684Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing integrated circuit architectures or compiler designs using an optimization engine. The optimization engine includes an auto-encoder and one or more regressors. Once trained, the optimization engine can encode initial, discrete input values of a set of input characteristics into a continuous domain and use continuous optimization techniques to identify final input values of the set of input characteristics that optimize one or more output characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Amir Yazdanbakhsh
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Patent number: 11552505Abstract: A wireless power system for an implantable device is described. The system includes multiple inductive charging coils to increase an effective area for receiving an electromagnetic charging field from a wireless charging device. The multiple inductive charging coils produce different alternating current signals in response to receiving the electromagnetic charging field. The system includes a rectifying circuit for rectifying the alternating current signals into direct current signals. The system also includes a current combination circuit for combining the multiple direct current signals into a single direct current for powering an operation of the implantable device. Methods and devices for implementing the power system in an implantable device are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLCInventors: Damiano Patron, Arvind Govindaraj
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Patent number: 11551131Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate Hamiltonian simulation based on simultaneous-diagonalization are provided. In various embodiments, a partition component can partition one or more Pauli operators of a Hamiltonian into one or more subsets of commuting Pauli operators. In various embodiments, a diagonalization component can generate one or more simultaneous-diagonalization circuits corresponding to the one or more subsets. In various aspects, a one of the one or more simultaneous-diagonalization circuits can diagonalize the commuting Pauli operators in a corresponding one of the one or more subsets. In various embodiments, an exponentiation component can generate one or more exponentiation circuits corresponding to the one or more subsets. In various aspects, a one of the one or more exponentiation circuits can exponentiate the simultaneously diagonalized commuting Pauli operators in a corresponding one of the one or more subsets.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Ewout van den Berg, Paul Kristan Temme
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Patent number: 11537770Abstract: Mapping of logical qubits to physical qubits is provided. In various embodiments, a first candidate subgraph is selected from a hardware graph. The hardware graph represents a physical quantum circuit. The hardware graph comprises a plurality of nodes corresponding to physical qubits and a plurality of edges corresponding to coupling among the plurality of qubits.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventor: Yudong Cao
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Patent number: 11539242Abstract: Method for activating predefined functions, implemented in a host appliance integrating or linked to a wireless charging device, and including the steps of: detecting that a mobile appliance has just been positioned on a reception surface of the wireless charging device in order to be recharged; following the detection that the mobile appliance has just been positioned on the reception surface, activating or deactivating at least one predefined first function performed by the host appliance, in addition to recharging the mobile appliance; then, detecting that the mobile appliance has just been moved away from the reception surface; following the detection that the mobile appliance has just been moved away from the reception surface, activating or deactivating at least one predefined second function performed by the host appliance.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SASInventor: Nicolas Vankieken
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Patent number: 11515738Abstract: A wireless power transmission system comprising a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device is configured to enter a cloak state when a temporary pause in power transfer is desired. The wireless power receiving device may allow or deny a communication data stream with the wireless power transmitting device during the cloak state. The wireless power receiving device may request a hot start power transfer phase with the wireless power transmitting device after the cloak state. The wireless power transmitting device may or revert (reset) to a default operating state in the event that a control error packet is received during the cloak state.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Douglas Louis, Juan Carls Pastrana, Zaid A. AbuKhalaf, Srinivasa V. Thirumalai Ananthan Pillai
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Patent number: 11515715Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a battery; a charging circuit; a wireless power reception circuit configured to acquire transmission power wirelessly output from an external electronic device; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to charge the battery through the charging circuit by using reception power acquired through the wireless power reception circuit, obtain status information related to the charging operation during the charging operation, and transmit a specified signal, corresponding to pausing of the transmission power, to the external electronic device such that the external electronic device pauses outputting of the transmission power, at least on the basis of the status information. In addition to the various embodiments according, other various embodiments are also possible.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Juhyang Lee, Yusu Kim, Kyungmin Park, Wooram Lee, Byungyeol Choi, Yongsang Yun, Chihyun Cho
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Patent number: 11509173Abstract: A method for wireless charging an electronic device and a method therefor are provided. The electronic device includes a near field communication device, a wireless charging device including a conductive coil, and at least one processor operatively connected to the near field communication device and the wireless charging device. The at least one processor is configured to transmit a first ping, using the near field communication device, receive first acknowledgement (ACK) information responsive to the first ping from an external electronic device, transmit a second ping, using the wireless charging device, based on that the first ACK information is received, and control the wireless charging device such that a charging current flows through the conductive coil based on second ACK information responsive to the second ping being received from the external electronic device within a specified time from the transmission of the second ping.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Myungkyoon Chung, Haekwon Lee, Dongil Son
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Patent number: 11502537Abstract: A charging device, in particular for machine tools, including a charging unit which in at least one operating state is provided for contactlessly charging at least one rechargeable battery unit, and which includes at least a first charging operating mode for transmitting electrical energy. The charging unit includes at least a second charging operating mode for transmitting electrical energy, the second charging operating mode differing from the first charging operating mode in at least one charging parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Bernd Eckert
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Patent number: 11493850Abstract: There are provided a lithography method capable of selecting best resist and a semiconductor device manufacturing method and exposure equipment based on the lithography method. The lithography method includes estimating a shape of a virtual resist pattern based on a multi-scale simulation for resist, forming a test resist pattern by performing exposure on selected resist based on the simulation result, comparing the test resist pattern with the virtual resist pattern, and forming a resist pattern on an object to be patterned by using the resist when an error between the test resist pattern and the virtual resist pattern is in an allowable range.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byunghoon Lee, Changyoung Jeong, Byunggook Kim, Maenghyo Cho, Muyoung Kim, Junghwan Moon, Sungwoo Park, Hyungwoo Lee, Joonmyung Choi
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Patent number: 11489212Abstract: A method of controlling a plurality of batteries and an electronic device to which the same is applied. The electronic device includes a housing and a plurality of batteries. The electronic device also includes a power management module, a plurality of current limiting ICs, and a processor operationally connected to the plurality of batteries, the power management module and the plurality of current limiting ICs. The processor is configured to sense a sum of the currents flowing into the plurality of batteries or a voltage of the power management module, perform a primary end of reducing a magnitude of the sum of the currents flowing into the plurality of batteries, sense the currents or voltages of the plurality of batteries, and perform a secondary end of blocking a current flowing into a battery.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youngmi Ha, Sungjoon Cho, Seungbeom Kang, Kyounghoon Kim, Duhyun Kim, Byungwook Kim, Jaeho Song, Dongik Sin, Hansol Choi
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Patent number: 11488016Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a network input using a neural network to generate a network output for the network input. One of the methods includes maintaining, for each of the plurality of neural network layers, a respective look-up table that maps each possible combination of a quantized input index and a quantized weight index to a multiplication result; and generating a network output from a network input, comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving data specifying a quantized input to the neural network layer, the quantized input comprising a plurality of quantized input values; and generating a layer output for the neural network layer from the quantized input to the neural network layer using the respective look-up table for the neural network layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Michele Covell, David Marwood, Shumeet Baluja, Nicholas Johnston
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Patent number: 11481532Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein may include receiving from a user a selection of at least one die, a package type, and at least one test condition; generating, using a processor, a product die configuration and a product package configuration using a predictive modeling module and the at least one die and the package type; generating a graphic design system file; generating a package bonding diagram; generating a product spice model of the discrete device product using a technology computer aided design module; generating, using a processor, one or more datasheet characteristics of the discrete device product with the product SPICE model; generating a product datasheet for the discrete device product using the graphic design system file; and using a second interface generated by a computing device to provide access to the graphic design system file, the package bonding diagram, the product datasheet, and the product SPICE model.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: James Joseph Victory, Thomas Neyer, YunPeng Xiao, Hyeongwoo Jang, Peter Dingenen, Vaclav Valenta, Tirthajyoti Sarkar, Mehrdad Baghaie Yazdi, Christopher Lawrence Rexer, Stanley Benczkowski, Thierry Bordignon, Wai Lun Chu, Roman Sickaruk
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Patent number: 11476726Abstract: A wireless charging device includes: a power supply circuit configured to provide an alternating current signal; a transmitting coil configured to convert the alternating current signal into electromagnetic waves to radiate to the receiving end; the wireless charging device further includes: a plurality of detecting coils configured to radiate energy to a receiving coil of the receiving end and generate an inductive signal; a movable coil carrier, the transmitting coil and the plurality of detecting coils are disposed on the movable coil carrier; a driving mechanism connected to the movable coil carrier and configured to drive the movable coil carrier to move; the controller configured to acquire inductive signals of the plurality of detecting coils, and control the position of the movable coil carrier by controlling the driving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yanteng Wang, Hui Li, Chunli Xu
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Patent number: 11476709Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a wheel end apparatus for a vehicle is provided that includes a wheel hub assembly configured to be mounted to a spindle and a wheel hub of the wheel hub assembly. The wheel end apparatus includes a coil of wire and at least one magnet of the wheel hub assembly configured to move relative to one another with rotation of the wheel hub around the spindle. The wheel end apparatus includes a wheel end device operably coupled to the coil of wire to receive electrical power generated by relative movement of the coil of wire and the at least one magnet. Further, the wheel end apparatus includes communication circuitry operably coupled to the wheel end device and configured to wirelessly communicate wheel end device information with a wheel end monitoring device.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Consolidated Metco, Inc.Inventors: Cody Seibert, Brian Bove, William Joseph Edwards, Benjamin David Mortensen
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Patent number: 11465281Abstract: A dynamic planning controller receives a maneuver for a robot and a current state of the robot and transforms the maneuver and the current state of the robot into a nonlinear optimization problem. The nonlinear optimization problem is configured to optimize an unknown force and an unknown position vector. At a first time instance, the controller linearizes the nonlinear optimization problem into a first linear optimization problem and determines a first solution to the first linear optimization problem using quadratic programming. At a second time instance, the controller linearizes the nonlinear optimization problem into a second linear optimization problem based on the first solution at the first time instance and determines a second solution to the second linear optimization problem based on the first solution using the quadratic programming. The controller also generates a joint command to control motion of the robot during the maneuver based on the second solution.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Eric Whitman, Alex Khripin
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Patent number: 11469040Abstract: This application relates to a wireless charger with increased efficiency during operation. The wireless charging assembly includes a wireless charger and an electronic device. A transmitter coil in the wireless charger can induct magnetic flux to a receiver coil in the electronic device via a magnetic flux pathway.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Saining Ren, Christopher S. Graham, Makiko K. Brzezinski, Rohan Dayal, Paul J. Thompson
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Patent number: 11462945Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a resonant circuit comprising one or more transmitting coils, a driver circuit configured to provide a charging current to the resonant circuit, a zero-crossing detector configured to provide a zero-crossing signal that includes edges corresponding to transitions of a voltage measured across the resonant circuit through a zero volt level or corresponding to transitions of a current in the resonant circuit through a zero ampere level and an Amplitude Shift Keying demodulator. The demodulator may be configured to receive a plurality of samples of voltage or current in the resonant circuit captured at times determined by the edges included in the zero-crossing signal, and demodulate a modulated signal obtained from the charging current using the plurality of samples of voltage or current in the resonant circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: AIRA, INC.Inventors: Eric Heindel Goodchild, James Scott
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Patent number: 11462954Abstract: A method for adjusting a coil position includes: acquiring position offset indication information between a transmitting coil in a power transmitting device and a receiving coil in a power receiving device; wherein the power transmitting device is configured to wirelessly charge the power receiving device, and the position offset indication information is used to reflect a position offset between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil; and adjusting a position of the transmitting coil according to the position offset indication information.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Changyu Sun
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Patent number: 11462944Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a resonant circuit that includes a transmitting coil. The charging device also has a driver circuit configured to power the resonant circuit, a pulse width modulator and a controller configured to provide a control signal to the pulse width modulator the control signal configuring the pulse width to provide a modulated drive signal to the driver circuit. The pulse width modulator is configured to provide the modulated drive signal to the resonant circuit. The resonant circuit is configured to operate as a low-pass filter that blocks frequency components of the modulated drive signal that correspond to the reference signal. The driver circuit is configured to use the modulated drive signal to produce a charging current in the resonant circuit. The charging current causes power to be wirelessly transferred to a receiving device through the transmitting coil.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: AIRA, INC.Inventor: Eric Heindel Goodchild