Patents by Inventor Edwin De Angel
Edwin De Angel 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).
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Publication number: 20230342642Abstract: Disclosed is a system for managing a user-controllable device. The system comprises at least one artificial intelligence engines comprising at least a first audio-based artificial intelligence; and at least one processor implementing a master finite state machine in software. The at least one processor is configured to: provide a predefined set of operations in one of a plurality of states of the master finite state machine to the user; receive voice input from the user relating to one of an operation from the predefined set of operations; determine at least one function of the user-controllable device based on the voice input from the user and state in which the voice input was received, using at least one artificial intelligence engine; and perform the at least one function of the user-controllable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Edwin De Angel, Kartik Nanda, Trenton Grale
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Patent number: 10917064Abstract: A power detector for use in an RF receiver. The detector includes a power reference generator and a power quantizer. The power reference generator develops a power reference current, voltage, or signal as a function of a power transferred via a received RF signal. The power quantizer is responsive to the power reference current, voltage, or signal to develop a digital field power value indicative of the power reference current, voltage, or signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin De Angel
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Publication number: 20200127629Abstract: A power detector for use in an RF receiver. The detector includes a power reference generator and a power quantizer. The power reference generator develops a power reference current, voltage, or signal as a function of a power transferred via a received RF signal. The power quantizer is responsive to the power reference current, voltage, or signal to develop a digital field power value indicative of the power reference current, voltage, or signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin De Angel
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Patent number: 10516380Abstract: A power detector for use in an RF receiver. The detector includes a power reference generator and a power quantizer. The power reference generator develops a power reference current, voltage, or signal as a function of a power transferred via a received RF signal. The power quantizer is responsive to the power reference current, voltage, or signal to develop a digital field power value indicative of the power reference current, voltage, or signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin De Angel
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Patent number: 10476467Abstract: A power detector for use in an RF receiver. The detector includes a power reference generator and a power quantizer. The power reference generator develops a power reference current, voltage, or signal as a function of a power transferred via a received RF signal. The power quantizer is responsive to the power reference current, voltage, or signal to develop a digital field power value indicative of the power reference current, voltage, or signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin De Angel
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Publication number: 20190097598Abstract: A power detector for use in an RF receiver. The detector includes a power reference generator and a power quantizer. The power reference generator develops a power reference current, voltage, or signal as a function of a power transferred via a received RF signal. The power quantizer is responsive to the power reference current, voltage, or signal to develop a digital field power value indicative of the power reference current, voltage, or signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin De Angel
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Patent number: 10079825Abstract: In an RFID system, a method and apparatus for linking an RFID tag to an associated object. The system includes a relatively simple tag, a reader, a linker, and a store. The reader interrogates the tag for an ID and selectively provides the ID to the linker. The linker, in turn, uses the ID to provide back to the reader an associated Uniform Resource Identifier (“URI”). The reader then forwards the URI to the store. In response, the store returns to the reader the object associated with the ID via the URI. The disclosed method and apparatus provide more efficient and secure tag authentication.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: RFMICRON, INC.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Publication number: 20180076789Abstract: A power detector for use in an RF receiver. The detector includes a power reference generator and a power quantizer. The power reference generator develops a power reference current, voltage, or signal as a function of a power transferred via a received RF signal. The power quantizer is responsive to the power reference current, voltage, or signal to develop a digital field power value indicative of the power reference current, voltage, or signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin De Angel
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Patent number: 9830548Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) circuit comprises an antenna operably coupled to receive an RF signal, a power harvesting circuit operable to generate a first power source from the RF signal, a tank circuit coupled to the antenna and a tuning circuit. The tank circuit includes a selectively variable impedance and the tuning circuit is adapted to dynamically vary the selectively variable impedance of the tank circuit based on resonance of the RF circuit and frequency of the RF signal to substantially align the resonance of the RF circuit with the frequency of the RF signal. When the resonance of the RF circuit is substantially aligned with the frequency of the RF signal, the power harvesting circuit generates a second power source from the RF signal such that the second power source is greater than the first power source.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Patent number: 9825608Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: RFMICRON, INC.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Publication number: 20170308783Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) circuit comprises an antenna operably coupled to receive an RF signal, a power harvesting circuit operable to generate a first power source from the RF signal, a tank circuit coupled to the antenna and a tuning circuit. The tank circuit includes a selectively variable impedance and the tuning circuit is adapted to dynamically vary the selectively variable impedance of the tank circuit based on resonance of the RF circuit and frequency of the RF signal to substantially align the resonance of the RF circuit with the frequency of the RF signal. When the resonance of the RF circuit is substantially aligned with the frequency of the RF signal, the power harvesting circuit generates a second power source from the RF signal such that the second power source is greater than the first power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Publication number: 20170302247Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: RFMICRON, INC.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Patent number: 9704085Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized. In another embodiment, using the quantized field strength to sense changes to the environment to which the RFID tag is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Publication number: 20170083805Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized. In another embodiment, using the quantized field strength to sense changes to the environment to which the RFID tag is exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Patent number: 9048819Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized. In another embodiment, using the quantized field strength to sense changes to the environment to which the RFID tag is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: RF Micron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Patent number: 8749319Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Publication number: 20140120836Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2014Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: RFMICRON, INC.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Patent number: 8165835Abstract: A power measurement and calibration system provides power and line frequency measurements by using a bandpass filter having complex voltage and current outputs from which real and imaginary power components can be determined. Calibration of the filter may be omitted if a complex wavelet filter is used to implement the bandpass filter and a determination of line frequency can also be provided for downstream use. A processor receiving data from the output of the filter can compute real and imaginary power, power factor and the line frequency. The filter may be implemented by a processor executing program instructions, or a digital circuit implementing the filter and optionally a CORDIC rotator for computing the current-to-voltage phase relationship can provide input to the processor for power measurement and calibration of the sample rate to line frequency relationship and for other uses.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.Inventors: Rahul Singh, Dale Brummel, Hang Liu, Robert Leon Gorsegner, Edwin De Angel, Jean Charles Pina
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Publication number: 20110300808Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: RFMICRON, INC.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel
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Publication number: 20110291810Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized. In another embodiment, using the quantized field strength to sense changes to the environment to which the RFID tag is exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: RFMicron, Inc.Inventors: Shahriar Rokhsaz, Edwin de Angel