Patents Examined by Aristocrats Fotakis
  • Patent number: 11424725
    Abstract: The present invention, a Digital Power Amplifier (DPA) with filtered output relates to the transmission circuitry of wireless communications systems and more particularly to high frequency power amplifier circuits using digital intensive techniques on cost efficient semiconductor technologies. Today, we experience an ever-increasing need for low cost, low power wireless transmitters in the millimeter wavelength region. Current solutions rely on analog PA circuits. The background art does not contain a solution for bridging the gap between the operation frequencies of the digital circuits on a cost-efficient technology such as CMOS and the millimeter wavelength transmission frequencies demanded in numerous applications. The DPA allowing the direct feeding of digital data to a high frequency amplifying circuit. In this way, design challenging and costly analog processing up-conversion stages are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ARGO SEMICONDUCTORS FS LTD (HE 359654)
    Inventors: Konstantinos Vrysas, Emmanouil Frantzeskakis, Georgios Sfikas
  • Patent number: 11057064
    Abstract: A Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) estimation device for generating an estimated RFI signal includes a combiner, a first multiplier and a second multiplier. The combiner is configured to combine a first digital signal and a second signal to generate the estimated RFI signal. The first multiplier is configured to generate the first digital signal according to an in-phase signal and a first cosine signal. The second multiplier is configured to generate the second digital signal according to a quadrature-phase signal and a first sine signal. The first cosine signal and the first sine signal are generated based on a frequency and the in-phase signal and the quadrature-phase signal are generated based on the frequency and one or more harmonics of the frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chi-Hsi Su, Liang-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 8411764
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating with contactless IC cards of multiple protocols includes transmitting an IC card polling signal and receiving a data transmission from an IC card. A processor is configured to determine whether or not a data transmission is received in response to the polling signal. The processor is configured to decode the data transmission in real-time if it is received in response to the polling signal. The processor is otherwise configured to first store the received data transmission in a memory and then decode the stored data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Farpointe Data, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Nelson, Kirk B. Bierach