Patents Examined by April G Gonzales
  • Patent number: 11955699
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a side member, a support member, a display, an antenna module including one or more patch antennas, a printed circuit board (PCB), a wireless communication circuit disposed on the PCB, a first conductive member, a first connector, a second connector, and a protrusion extending from the first end of the first conductive member toward an interior of the housing, and electrically connected to the first conductive member. The antenna module is disposed at locations corresponding to a first opening defined by the first conductive member, the support member, the first connector, and the second connector, and a second opening defined by the first conductive member, the support member, the first connector, and the protrusion, and the wireless communication circuit is electrically connected to the protrusion and the antenna module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mincheol Seo, Donghun Shin, Minkyung Lee, Jiho Kim, Sunghyup Lee, Kyihyun Jang, Huiwon Cho
  • Patent number: 11917094
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods include detecting a device ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver of a mobile device and a set of vehicle UWB transceivers of a vehicle, determining a defined driver zone within the vehicle, the defined driver zone indicating a set of relative positions within the vehicle, communicating between the device UWB transceiver and the set of vehicle UWB transceivers to determine a position of the mobile device within the vehicle, and automatically enabling a driver mode of the mobile device whereby operation of the mobile device is limited when the determined position of the mobile device is within the defined driver zone and the vehicle is moving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Todd P. Oman
  • Patent number: 11901928
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved electronic device enclosure and methods for manufacturing the same. One embodiment includes a front panel; a back panel with a patterned intrusion region to improve passive audio amplification; an electrically conductive front plate; an electrically conductive back plate with an open region configured to permit transmission of radiofrequency signals; wherein the front plate couples with the front panel, the back plate couples with the back panel, the front panel hingedly couples with the back panel, and the front plate and back plate are configured to enclose an electronic device; and the front plate is sized and dimensioned to block radiofrequency radiation from exiting the front panel of the electronic device enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: William James Scott
  • Patent number: 11903149
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a foldable display, a decoration member made of a resin material to surround at least a portion of the foldable display, a support member configured to support the foldable display and including a metal area connected to the decoration member, and a conductive member disposed on the decoration member and electrically connected to the metal area. The conductive member may include a first conductive member arranged to face the support member and a second conductive member arranged parallel to the first conductive member and electrically connected to the first conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seunghui Sunwoo, Suyoun Kim, Youngmin Bae, Daekyu Lee
  • Patent number: 11894620
    Abstract: A system includes a cellular transceiver to communicate with a predetermined target; one or more antennas coupled to the 5G or 6G transceiver each electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target; a processor to control a directionality of the one or more antennas in communication with the predetermined target; and an edge processing module coupled to the processor and the one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Bao Tran, Ha Tran
  • Patent number: 11882621
    Abstract: Provided is a data transmission/reception method performed in a data transmission/reception system including a sensing terminal and a user terminal connected through Bluetooth low energy (BLE) communication. The data transmission/reception method includes operations of allowing the sensing terminal to acquire sensing data, allowing the sensing terminal to sequentially assign a number on the basis of the time at which the sensing data is acquired and store the number in a packet of the sensing data, and allowing the sensing terminal to transmit the sensing data in which the number is stored to the user terminal in a broadcast mode of the BLE communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: METASOLUCOM CO., LTD
    Inventor: Joo Hyung Kang
  • Patent number: 11870480
    Abstract: An apparatus for enveloping a portable communication or storage device having one or more camera lenses for taking digital impressions, a power switch, and an interactive display. The apparatus has a plurality of walls defining and encasement that is configured to at least partially enclose the device, with that plurality of walls including one or more wall portions that are configured to overlie all of the one or more camera lenses. A lock of the apparatus is coupled to the encasement, with that lock having a locked state in which the lock hinders separation of the encasement from the device, and an unlocked state in which the lock permits unrestricted separation of the encasement from the device. In the locked state, the encasement provides unrestricted access to the power switch and substantially an entirety of the interactive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Jonathan Philip Landry
  • Patent number: 11860271
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to spherical dual-polarization phased array weather radar. The spherical dual-polarization phased array weather radar comprises a spherical crown phased array antenna module, a digital transceiver module and a signal processing module, wherein the spherical crown phased array antenna module comprises a spherical support frame and a plurality of dual-polarization micro-strip radiation units; the dual-polarized micro-strip radiation units are tightly arranged on the spherical support frame; the spherical crown phased array antenna module is used for detecting weather; wireless transmission is carried out between the digital transceiver module and the spherical crown phased array antenna module; the digital transceiver module is used for generating a frequency modulation signal or a phase coding signal required for detecting meteorological targets and receiving an echo signal reflected by the target; and the signal processing module is connected with the digital transceiver module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Meteorological Observation Centre of China Meteorological Administration
    Inventors: Yuchun Gao, Chen Li, Yubao Chen, Hu Chen, Changxing Li, Jianbing Lu, Haihe Liang, Xiaopeng Wang, Yingchun Chen, Zhichao Bu, Xu Han, Nan Shao, Jie Liu
  • Patent number: 11864078
    Abstract: An edge device using broadcasting is disclosed herein. The edge device may include one or more memories and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories. In some implementations, the edge device may receive individual sets of data from a plurality of sensors and compile the individual sets of data into a single dataset to be processed by a backend device. The edge device may generate a plurality of advertisements to include a corresponding plurality of portions of the dataset and a corresponding plurality of sequence identifiers. The edge device may broadcast each advertisement, without receiving an acknowledgement of each preceding advertisement. The edge device may receive, from the backend device, an indication of one or more sequence identifiers that were not received. Accordingly, the edge device may retransmit, based on the indication of the sequence identifier(s), a portion of the plurality of advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Calvarese, Sean Connolly, David Bellows
  • Patent number: 11856120
    Abstract: A mobile terminal comprises: a case; a display unit disposed on the front surface of the case and including a hole; a camera mounted in the case; an image output unit disposed at one side of the camera; a switching device for selectively placing the image output unit and the camera inward from the hole; and a control unit for controlling the camera, the image output unit, and the switching device. The mobile terminal outputs an image even to the hole of the display unit when the camera is not used through the hole, and thus can substantially implement full vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Yunsuk Jung
  • Patent number: 11856119
    Abstract: Provided is a synchronizing mechanism of a hinge of an infolding flexible screen of a mobile terminal. The hinge comprises a left rotating bracket, a right rotating bracket, and a middle mounting frame, wherein the left rotating bracket and the right rotating bracket are respectively connected to the middle mounting frame via a rotating connecting structure, and axes of the left rotating bracket and the right rotating bracket are not on the same line but are parallel to each other, and the synchronizing mechanism comprises a horizontally arranged intermediate gear having an axis perpendicular to the axes of the left rotating bracket and the right rotating bracket, and the left rotating bracket and the right rotating bracket are connected to the intermediate gear via gears or racks, so that the left rotating bracket and the right rotating bracket rotate synchronously and reversely. The position of the intermediate gear is lower than the top of the middle mounting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: HANGZHOU AMPHENOL PHOENIX TELECOM PARTS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaowei Shang
  • Patent number: 11838842
    Abstract: A method for controlling an application includes: triggering reading information of a second device included in a near-field communication (NFC) sensor in response to a distance between a first device and the NFC sensor reaching an NFC effective communication distance, and determining the second device based on the information of the second device; determining a function currently executed by the first device, and determining a capability of the second device; and switching to the second device to continue to execute the function in response to the capability of the second device matching the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fengqi Yang, Xuan Ma, Bo Wang
  • Patent number: 11824275
    Abstract: A system includes a transceiver to communicate with a predetermined target; one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver each electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target; and an edge processing module coupled to the transceiver and one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Bao Tran, Ha Tran
  • Patent number: 11817940
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a media reproduction device for a motor vehicle. Media information is received in a first and a second reception mode and reproduced based on the strength of the first and second reception. A temporal transmission delay between the reception modes is detected and compensated for by an electronic computing device. The surroundings of the motor vehicle are divided into at least two reception tiles, and each reception tile is assigned a first and a second reception strength value. The electronic computing device decides which reception mode to use to receive the media information in each reception tile and when to compensate the temporal transmission delay if it has been determined that the media information is received in the first reception tile in the first reception mode and in the second reception tile in the second reception mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Christian Winter
  • Patent number: 11800316
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a micro registry may be a mobile communication platform that is configured to connect to users and service hosts. The micro registry may facilitate advertisements, payments, communication, loyalty, behavior tracking, social media interaction, and/or any other suitable communication advertising, or transaction between a user and a service host. The micro registry may employ BLE beacons that enable the micro-registry to identify micro-locations and facilitate connections (e.g., interfaces, interactions, communications, etc.) between user devices and service hosts and/or merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, INC.
    Inventors: Mike Cahill, Graeme Fordyce, David Yoo
  • Patent number: 11792629
    Abstract: An electronic device, a control terminal, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a device connection method are provided. The electronic device includes: a device body and first Bluetooth equipment; the device body is configured to display information to be scanned, said information including identification information of the electronic device, the identification information including a media access control address; the first Bluetooth equipment is configured to send a broadcast signal outwards, the broadcast signal including: a name and content, the name including the identification information of the electronic device, and the content including the media access control address of the first Bluetooth equipment; and the first Bluetooth equipment is further configured to establish, in response to the information to be scanned being scanned by the control terminal, communication connection with the control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Wen, Xun Yang, Deli Fang
  • Patent number: 11792740
    Abstract: In certain aspects, a method implemented in a wireless device includes determining a specific absorption rate (SAR) distribution for a first wireless communication technology, determining a power density (PD) distribution for a second wireless communication technology, and combining the SAR distribution and the PD distribution to generate a combined RF exposure distribution. The method also includes determining at least one first maximum allowable power level and at least one second maximum allowable power level for a future time slot based on the combined RF exposure distribution, setting at least one transmission power limit for a first transmitter in the future time slot based on the at least one first maximum allowable power level, and setting at least one transmission power limit for a second transmitter in the future time slot based on the at least one second maximum allowable power level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jagadish Nadakuduti, Lin Lu, Paul Guckian, Mingming Cai, Junsheng Han, Udara Fernando, Raghu Challa
  • Patent number: 11783317
    Abstract: A near field communication (NFC) system includes an NFC reader that communicates with a remote NFC device through load modulation. The NFC reader transmits a wireless carrier signal from an antenna and has a plurality of passive receive antennas to receive the modulated signal. The NFC reader also has circuitry to provide a plurality of data streams that define data recovered from the modulated wireless carrier signal received from the plurality of receivers. The circuitry then selects, based on a location of the NFC device relative to the NFC reader, one of the plurality of data streams for use in processing a transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Haipeng Yan, Emad Bidari, Bertram Leesti, Afshin Rezayee
  • Patent number: 11783287
    Abstract: An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes an antenna array configured to detect one or more radio frequency signals from one or more radio emitters and an integrated circuit chip coupled to the array of antennas. The integrated circuit chip comprises a first plurality of processing elements configured to determine a location of the one or more emitters based on the one or more radio frequency signals and a second plurality of processing elements configured to process the location information for communication via a cellular network. The apparatus further includes an antenna coupled to the second plurality of processing elements and configured to communicate the processed location information via a cellular network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Chritz, John Schroeter
  • Patent number: 11778562
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method of reducing power consumption by a mobile telephone includes (1) providing a mobile telephone including a processor, an antenna, and a memory having computer program code; and (2) employing the processor of the mobile telephone and computer program code to (a) determine if the mobile telephone is in a vehicle; and (b) in response to the mobile telephone being in a vehicle, initiate a reduced power sequence in which the mobile telephone repeatedly turns off transmission by the antenna of the mobile telephone for a first time period and turns on transmission by the antenna of the mobile telephone for a second time period. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dugan Patents, LLC
    Inventors: Brian M. Dugan, Valerie G. Dugan