Patents Examined by April G Gonzales
  • Patent number: 12212294
    Abstract: Low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, an LNA includes an input balun configured to convert a single-ended radio frequency (RF) receive signal to a differential RF receive signal, an amplifier chain configured to amplify the differential RF receive signal to generate a differential amplified RF receive signal, and an output balun configured to convert the differential amplified RF receive signal into a single-ended amplified RF receive signal. The LNA's amplifier chain is operable in multiple gain modes, and includes a first differential amplification stage, a second differential amplification stage, and a third differential amplification stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjeev Jain, Haoran Yu, Nan Sen Lin, Hassan Sarbishaei
  • Patent number: 12213080
    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: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jagadish Nadakuduti, Lin Lu, Paul Guckian, Mingming Cai, Junsheng Han, Udara Fernando, Raghu Challa
  • Patent number: 12213043
    Abstract: Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) provides technical solutions for technical problems facing this shift toward public and private vehicles for hire, including providing a platform for users to identify and select public transportation and private vehicles for hire. Users may plan and book transportation services through a MaaS platform, such as a smartphone application. Technical solutions described herein include improved identification and selection of a vehicle based on wireless communication, such as using Near-Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and other wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Fabian Oboril, Frederik Pasch, Cornelius Buerkle, Bernd Gassmann, Kay-Ulrich Scholl
  • Patent number: 12207119
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for automatic signal detection in an RF environment. An apparatus comprises at least one receiver and at least one processor coupled with at least one memory. The apparatus is at the edge of a communication network. The apparatus sweeps and learns the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. The apparatus forms a knowledge map based on the learning data, scrubs a real-time spectral sweep against the knowledge map, and creates impressions on the RF environment based on a machine learning algorithm. The apparatus is operable to detect at least one signal in the RF environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Digital Global Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David William Kleinbeck, Ronald C. Dzierwa, Daniel Carbajal
  • Patent number: 12207118
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for automatic signal detection in an RF environment. An apparatus comprises at least one receiver and at least one processor coupled with at least one memory. The apparatus is at the edge of a communication network. The apparatus sweeps and learns the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. The apparatus forms a knowledge map based on the learning data, scrubs a real-time spectral sweep against the knowledge map, and creates impressions on the RF environment based on a machine learning algorithm. The apparatus is operable to detect at least one signal in the RF environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Digital Global Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David William Kleinbeck, Ronald C. Dzierwa, Daniel Carbajal
  • Patent number: 12204617
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to key fobs and menu access authorization for control panels via pairing with user devices. In exemplary embodiments, a method generally includes pairing a user device (e.g., smartphone, Bluetooth-enabled device, etc.) to a control panel (e.g., engine control panel, etc.) such that the user device is operable as or similar to a key fob for the control panel. After the initial pairing and entry of the user's menu access level PIN into the control panel, the control panel will thereafter automatically power up or wake up, pair with the user device, and grant menu access level rights based on the previously entered user's menu access level PIN when the user device is within range of the control panel and/or the user device manually connects with the control panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Cattron North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Brett Allen Davis
  • Patent number: 12199627
    Abstract: A device includes a first compensation circuit configured to adjust an analog front end (AFE) output to generate a first adjusted AFE output, a first data slicer configured to output a first voltage based on the first adjusted AFE output. The first compensation circuit includes a first path between a voltage source and a ground, including a first transistor, a first adjustable current source, a first input voltage node configured to receive the AFE output, and a first output voltage node coupled to the first data slicer, a second path between the voltage source and the ground, including a second transistor, a second adjustable current source, a second input voltage node configured to receive the AFE output, and a second output voltage node coupled to the second data slicer, and a configurable resistance resistor and a configurable capacitance capacitor coupled in parallel across the first path and the second path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Da Wei, Ali Fazli Yeknami
  • Patent number: 12200591
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a management system, including a beacon tag device, a docking station device, and a backend server. The beacon tag device includes a wireless communication chip and a processor. The wireless communication chip is configured to send a beacon signal. The docking station device includes an interface, a sensor, a wireless sensor network transceiver circuit, a wireless network transceiver circuit, and a control circuit. The backend server is communicatively connected to the docking station device. When the sensor receives the beacon signal, the control circuit determines whether the RSSI of the beacon signal is greater than a beacon strength threshold. If yes, the docking station device sends a sign-in/sign-out signal to the backend server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Good Way Technology Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsu-I Peng, Chang-Der Liu, Cheng-Kang Tsui
  • Patent number: 12191933
    Abstract: A near-field communication antenna includes a conductive plane; and four slots in the conductive plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Austria GmbH
    Inventor: Francesco Antonetti
  • Patent number: 12193047
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, devices and software that can be used for preventing damage to RF front end equipment used in wireless communication systems. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish a first communication having a first priority, wherein the first communication is associated with a first subscriber in a connected mode. The UE may establish a second communication having a second priority, wherein the second communication is associated with a second subscriber in the connected mode. The UE may identify a state of a transmit/receive (TRX) switch shared between the first communication and the second communication. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the state of the TRX switch, at least one of the first communication or the second communication using a TRX switching configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Qingxin Chen, Cheol Hee Park, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 12192870
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved network architecture which allows for many unique and specific interactions between LoRa networked devices, while still maintaining the security, range and low energy benefits of LoRa and LoRaWAN networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ORBCOMM, Inc.
    Inventors: Phil Lafleur, Ronald Straz, Guenther Kramer
  • Patent number: 12193111
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing decoding of control channel on a multi-SIM UE. A method includes receiving, by the UE, the plurality of control channels from at least one Base Station (BS), the plurality of control channels corresponding to a plurality of Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs), selecting, by the UE, a respective decoder for each of the plurality of SIMS, and decoding, by the UE, each respective control channel among the plurality of control channels using the respective decoder for a respective SIM among the plurality of SIMS, the respective SIM corresponding to the respective control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Samir Kumar Mishra, Sarvesha Anegundi Ganapathi
  • Patent number: 12185107
    Abstract: A method and device for a second User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the second UE establishes a unicast link with a first UE. Furthermore, the second UE is not allowed to initiate a direct link identifier update procedure or a direct link modification procedure if at least the second UE is performing any direct link re-keying procedure triggered by the first UE for the unicast link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ASUS Technology Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Li-Te Pan
  • Patent number: 12183983
    Abstract: A method of optimizing driving of an antenna for communication of an artificial satellite, by controlling a rotation angle of the antenna, according to an embodiment of the disclosure, includes: receiving a basic profile indicating a change in a rotation angle of the antenna such that a center line of the antenna points to a ground station in response to movement of the artificial satellite; determining a processing section with reference to points at which a rotation velocity of the antenna, for the basic profile, is zero; and generating an optimization profile that determines the change in the rotation angle of the antenna by configuring the rotation velocity of the antenna, for the processing section, with a preset optimized rotation velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Dae Kwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12185182
    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. A transaction card can be manufactured from rigid materials, such as glass, stone, or ceramics. First, a rigid layer of a transaction card can be placed within a first recess of a first metallic sheet. The first recess can comprise a lip and an opening. Next, a binding layer can be placed on top of the first rigid layer of the transaction card where the binding layer comprises a binding medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Cahill, Graeme Fordyce, David Yoo
  • Patent number: 12176630
    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: October 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: Bao Tran, Ha Tran
  • Patent number: 12170941
    Abstract: A communication device and method can include one or more processors operatively coupled to memory, a sensor and an output device, where the one or more processors to perform operations of identifying target person locations using internet searching and short range communication enabled devices such as Bluetooth LE devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: The Diablo Canyon Collective LLC
    Inventor: Steven Wayne Goldstein
  • Patent number: 12156282
    Abstract: Examples relate to a wireless communication device for a vehicle, to a method and a computer program for a wireless communication device and to a vehicle comprising a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device comprises a transceiver module for communicating with a further wireless communication device. The wireless communication device comprises a control module configured to scan one or more wireless communication channels for advertisement packets. The wireless communication device is configured to receive an advertisement packet from the further wireless communication device. The wireless communication device is configured to adjust a duty cycle of the scan for the advertisement packets for a pre-defined time interval in response to receiving the advertisement packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alaa Mourad, Alexander Maier
  • Patent number: 12154458
    Abstract: A training device system including a mobile phone simulator having a manually carryable housing and a controller positioned in the housing. The simulator includes a touch screen coupled to the housing and operatively coupled to the controller, wherein the touch screen is configured to selectively display a numerical keypad. The simulator further includes a short-range radio transceiver positioned in the housing, wherein the simulator is configured to, in response to proper operation of the numerical keypad by a user, transmit a signal via the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: LION GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Bradley, Ra Monne Donell Perez-Pearson
  • Patent number: 12149295
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automated testing of extremely-high frequency devices are disclosed. A device under test (DUT) is set in a simultaneous transmit and receive mode. The DUT receives a lower frequency radio frequency (RF) signal from a test unit and up-converts the lower frequency RF signal to a higher frequency RF signal. The DUT transmits the higher frequency RF signal using a first antenna, and receives the higher frequency RF signal using a second antenna. The DUT down-converts the received higher frequency RF signal to a received test RF signal and provides the received test RF signal to the test unit for comparing measurements derived from the received test signal to a design specification for the DUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gaurav Verma, David Collins, Ryan Reddy Wendlandt, Prachi Deshpande, Gaurav Singhania, Karthik Moncombu Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey Carr, Anushruti Bhattacharya, Dennis Feenaghty