Patents Examined by A. Harry
  • Patent number: 10778414
    Abstract: A system may include a host processor, an interposer having memory elements, a coprocessor mounted on the interposer for accelerating tasks received from the host processor, and an auxiliary chip. The coprocessor, interposer, and auxiliary chip may be part of an integrated circuit package. The memory elements on the interposer may convey configuration bit streams to one or more logic sectors in programmable circuitry of the coprocessor. The interposer may be connected to a package substrate of the integrated circuit package using through-silicon vias, such that an active surface of the interposer faces an active surface of the coprocessor. Each logic sector may include one or more data registers that are loaded with configuration data from the memory elements. In some instances, the auxiliary chip may include a secondary memory for storing additional configuration bit streams for configuring the logic sectors of the coprocessor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Peter John McElheny, Aravind Dasu
  • Patent number: 10778116
    Abstract: A three-phase inverter includes three series circuits that are connected in parallel to a capacitor connected in parallel to a DC voltage source. Each of the three series circuits includes two semiconductor switching elements connected in series. A connection point between the two semiconductor switching elements is used as an AC output terminal for each phase. The three-phase inverter generates PWM pulses of three phases including a PWM pulse of one phase, whose pulse width of a positive side pulse in one switching cycle is the largest, and including PWM pulses of the other two phases such that a positional relationship between positive side pulses of the other two phases is a positional relationship in which an overlapping range on a time axis is smaller as compared with a state in which a positive side pulse of one phase encompasses a positive side pulse of the other pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: National University Corporation Nagaoka University of Technology, FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Itoh, Koroku Nishizawa, Akio Toba, Akihiro Odaka
  • Patent number: 10778102
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first adjustable-gain conversion unit configured to receive a ramp signal, a second adjustable-gain conversion unit configured to receive a feedback signal proportional to an output voltage of a power converter, a third adjustable-gain conversion unit configured to receive an output signal of an error amplifier and a comparator configured to determine a turn-on of a high-side switch of the power converter based on outputs of the first adjustable-gain conversion unit, the second adjustable-gain conversion unit and the third adjustable-gain conversion unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: M3 Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyu Xi, Bo Yang
  • Patent number: 10774432
    Abstract: A hydrogen molecule remixing device includes a base, a first gas and water channelling disc, an anode, a cathode, an ion membrane, a second gas and water channelling disc, a cover, a cationic water outlet connector and a connector. In practice, the source water is electrolyzed in the anode cavities of the anode to form oxygen molecules, ozone and anionic water, and electrolyzed in the cathode cavities of the cathode to form hydrogen molecules and cationic water. The hydrogen molecules are carried by the cationic water into the collecting and guiding chambers of the second gas and water channelling disc, so that the hydrogen molecules and the cationic water produce a blending reaction, and more hydrogen molecules are dissolved into the cationic water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Inventor: Wen-Shing Shyu
  • Patent number: 10776294
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a system comprises: a first bus; a second bus; a first peripheral coupled to the first bus and the second bus, the first peripheral configured to receive a command from the first bus and to generate data in response to the first command; and a second peripheral coupled to the first bus and the second bus, the second peripheral configured to initiate transfer of the generated data from the first peripheral to the second peripheral over the second bus such that access to the generated data through the first bus is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Guillaume Pean, Vincent Debout, Marc Maunier
  • Patent number: 10777237
    Abstract: There may be provided an electronic device, and more particularly, a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the same. The semiconductor memory device may include a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells. The semiconductor memory device may include an operation control signal generator configured to receive a request for performing a target operation from the controller configured to control the semiconductor memory device and to generate a synchronizing signal for performing the target operation. The semiconductor memory device may include a temperature detect circuit configured to detect temperatures of the plurality of memory cells in response to the synchronizing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Byoung In Joo
  • Patent number: 10775471
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus receive a signal from a first wireless device through a first antenna, of a plurality of antennas, the signal including a first segment and a second segment. Responsive to detecting a change in the signal from the first segment to the second segment, embodiments traverse the plurality of antennas to receive the second segment through each of the plurality of antennas. Embodiments determine a plurality of phase samples, each associated with the second segment received through one of the plurality of antennas. Embodiment then use the plurality of phase samples to calculate direction data associated with the first wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Hulvey
  • Patent number: 10778843
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and method of routing incoming communications to a CSR and providing guidance to the CSR based on the incoming communication using feedback information such as sentiment feedback, survey feedback, and feedback from actions taken by CSRs based on skill level. A CEC system receives an incoming communication, analyzes the communication and creates metadata based off of the analysis. The metadata is used by the RAE routing module to route the communication to an appropriate party. The metadata is also used by the GAE guidance module to determine the guidance to provide to the CSR. The CSR then performs an action based on the guidance. The CEC system continues to monitor the interaction until the interaction is completed. The communication metadata, the communication, the guidance, and the CSRs action are all provided to a RAS rules analysis module wherein the RAS analyzes the data and automatedly updates the rules (RAR and GAR) according to the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Verint Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Mackie, Alastair Grant
  • Patent number: 10773728
    Abstract: Provided are a signal processing system and a signal processing method for sensors of a vehicle. More particularly, the signal processing system includes: a vehicle sensor unit 100 including the plurality of sensors previously provided in the vehicle and transmitting sensing information acquired through the sensors; an arithmetic and control unit 200 receiving sensing information from the vehicle sensor unit 100, and comparing and analyzing the received sensing information to discriminate only normal sensing information from the sensing information and set and transmit the normal sensing information as output information; and a display unit 300 including a plurality of displays previously provided in the vehicle, transmitting the output information received from the arithmetic and control unit 200 to the matched display of the plurality of displays, and outputting the output information through the matched display of the plurality of displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: COAVIS
    Inventors: Young Sub Jang, In Seok Sohn
  • Patent number: 10772689
    Abstract: To perform a tool exchange in a medical robotic system, tool is retracted back into an entry guide from a deployed position and pose so that an assistant in the operating room may replace it with a different tool. While the tool is being retracted back towards the entry guide by user action, its configuration is changed to an entry pose while avoiding collisions with other objects so that it may fit in the entry guide. After the tool exchange is completed, a new tool is inserted in the entry guide and extended out of the guide by user action to the original position of the old tool prior to its retraction into the entry guide while the tool's controller assists the user by reconfiguring the new tool so as to resemble the original deployed pose of the old tool prior to its retraction into the entry guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel H. Gomez, Nicola Diolaiti, David Q. Larkin, Tabish Mustufa, Probal Mitra, Paul E. Lilagan
  • Patent number: 10767942
    Abstract: A u-tube heat exchanger has inlet tubes arranged in a pressure neutral inlet tube plate, a heating medium flows via the inlet tubes into u-tubes arranged in a tube sheet where the medium splits in two and flows from both ends of the u-tubes into a heating medium outlet chamber and exits the heat exchanger via an outlet nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventor: Svend Høst-Madsen
  • Patent number: 10768297
    Abstract: A traffic radar system comprises a first radar transceiver assembly, a second radar transceiver assembly, a display, and a processing element. The first radar transceiver assembly transmits and receives radar beams and generates a first electronic signal corresponding to the received radar beam. The second radar transceiver assembly transmits and receives radar beams and generates a second electronic signal corresponding to the received radar beam. The display displays a plurality of speeds, each speed being a speed of a target vehicle. The processing element is configured to receive the first and second electronic signals, process the first electronic signal to determine speeds of target vehicles in the front zone, process the second electronic signal to determine speeds of target vehicles in the rear zone, and control the display to display the speeds of target vehicles in the front zone or target vehicles in the rear zone based on predetermined parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Kustom Signals, Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice Shelton, Mike Bietsch, Michael Paulson
  • Patent number: 10768614
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a robot speech control system including a robot body, a handheld device, a command receiver, an ambient sensor, a processor and a controller. The handheld device includes a display interface and a speech input interface, and the speech input interface is configured to input a speech command which is then converted, by a speech recognition program, into a speech control instruction. An auto-dodge program converts the information into an auto-dodge instruction. The processor receives the speech control instruction and the information associated with the environment, and use Bayesian regression algorithm to calculate a free space probability, so as to obtain weights of a speech command and a dodge command. The processor integrates the speech control instruction and the weight of the speech command, and the auto-dodge instruction and the weight of the dodge command, to generate a movement control instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Kai-Tai Song, Yao-Hsang Chen
  • Patent number: 10770963
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a direct-current to direct-current (DC-DC) converter having an output node and at least one electronic switch. The DC-DC converter also includes: 1) a first feedback loop configured to control a voltage at the output node by adjusting a first switching parameter of the at least one electronic switch; and 2) a second feedback loop configured to adjust a second switching parameter of the at least one electronic switch. The second feedback loop includes a switched-capacitor circuit configured to determine a threshold signal based on an error between a reference signal and a control signal for the at least one electronic switch. The second feedback loop is configured to adjust the second switching parameter based on a comparison of an on-time signal with the threshold signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Taisuke Kazama, Masahiro Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 10768310
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for multipath mitigation in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers are described. One method includes modifying the locally generated code in the GNSS receiver bit by bit in order to reduce offset peaks in the autocorrelation when receiving the satellite generated code signal. Such modified local codes may be pre-computed and stored or otherwise provided during reception. Moreover, the GNSS receiver may select whether or not to use the modified local code or the standard local code based on a selection criteria. Furthermore, multiple modified version of the same local code may be generated and/or stored in order to provide differing performance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Gary Lennen
  • Patent number: 10768313
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a first circuit for measuring positions using a first positioning method; a second circuit for measuring positions using a second positioning method; a memory for storing information on a service zone; and a processor is configured to identify a first position using the first circuit; determine whether the first position is included in the service zone; identify a second position using the second circuit when the first position is included in the service zone; and determine the second position to be a position of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Woo-Jin Jun, Hyun-Sang Jung
  • Patent number: 10769086
    Abstract: A recording medium to be used by being connected to a digital device includes a local bus, a plurality of recording units, an information storage unit, and a communication unit. The local bus has a plurality of switches or bridges. The plurality of recording units are connected to the local bus. The information storage unit stores information indicating a bus configuration of the local bus. The communication unit is used for transferring the information to and from the digital device. After the recording medium is inserted into the digital device, the bus configuration of the local bus is reconstructed based on the information acquired from the communication unit via the information storage unit by the digital device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Yamashita, Takeshi Otsuka, Masanori Mitsuzumi
  • Patent number: 10768311
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of manufacturing same, systems, and methods are described for combining received and correlated Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals and using the combined signal for improving GNSS reception in, inter alia, challenging environments. In one aspect, a first correlated GNSS signal and a second correlated GNSS signal are stored and then combined, and the combined signal is used to adjust reception of the first GNSS signal and/or the second GNSS signal. If the first and second correlated GNSS signals are stored by unequal time periods, time periods of one or both are added together until the total added first correlated GNSS signal is the same length of time as the total added second correlated GNSS signal. In order to properly combine the GNSS signals, gain/balancing factor(s) may be applied, the polarity of one or both may be flipped, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Gary Lennen
  • Patent number: 10769520
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device which can execute the product-sum operation. The semiconductor device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell, and an offset circuit. First analog data is stored in the first memory cell, and reference analog data is stored in the second memory cell. The first memory cell and the second memory cell supply a first current and a second current, respectively, when a reference potential is applied as a selection signal. The offset circuit has a function of supplying a third current corresponding to a differential current between the first current and the second current. In the semiconductor device, the first memory and the second memory supply a fourth current and a fifth current, respectively, when a potential corresponding to second analog data is applied as a selection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 10770116
    Abstract: A memory device includes active circuitry configured to process a segment set that corresponds to a source data, wherein: the source data comprises information corresponding to a device operation, the source data having a block length representing a number of bits therein, and the segment set includes at least a first segment and a second segment, the first segment and the second segment each including number of bits less than the block length; and a set of die pads coupled to the active circuitry and configured to communicate the segment set for operating a second device, wherein the set includes a number of die pads less than the block length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology
    Inventors: Vijayakrishna J. Vankayala, Liang Chen