Patents Examined by Awat M Salih
  • Beamforming antenna module comprising lens
    Patent number: 11527836
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication technique, which is a convergence of IoT technology and 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate than 4G system, and a system for same. The present invention can be applied to smart services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security-and safety-related services and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoongeon Kim, Seungtae Ko, Hyunjin Kim, Youngju Lee
  • Conformal RF antenna array and integrated out-of-band EME rejection filter
    Patent number: 11502422
    Abstract: A datalink such as used on high-speed vehicles (missiles, guided-projectiles, manned or unmanned aircraft) includes an integrated conformal antenna array and out-of-band rejection filter for use with an RF radio. Integration of a single rejection filter between the EME power received by the antenna array and the coaxial RF connector effectively protects the connector as well as the radio. The connector can now be designed based solely on the transmit power requirements of the radio. The resultant connector is smaller and takes up less space inside the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Chad M. Wangsvick, Michael E. Gomez, William D. Ake, Leonard Santa-Cruz
  • Single point heavy duty monopole platform
    Patent number: 11495872
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a brace for a mounting frame typically used for mounting antennas to a monopole tower. The brace may include a standoff connection comprising a first standoff bracket and a second standoff bracket; a first angled member attached to the first standoff bracket at a lower end of the first angled member, the first angled member also including a first handrail connector at an upper end of the first angled member; a second angled member attached to the second standoff bracket at a lower end of the second angled member, the second angled member also including a second handrail connector at an upper end of the second angled member; and a crossmember disposed between the upper end of the first angled member and the upper end of the second angled member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jyoti Ojha, Dale Richard Heath, Raphael J. de La Soujeole, Firoz Ahmed, Robert Campbell
  • Method for tuning an electrically small antenna
    Patent number: 11489263
    Abstract: A method of tuning an electrically small antenna comprising a radiating element and a support structure comprises applying a force to the support structure to change a shape or a dimension of the radiating element to increase or decrease a frequency at which the electrically small antenna resonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL FEDERAL MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle J. Byers, Louis Brown, Daniel John Salzman
  • Patch antenna for equipping a spacecraft
    Patent number: 11489248
    Abstract: A patch antenna intended to equip a spacecraft, the antenna comprising a dielectric substrate, a radiating antenna element present on the dielectric substrate, the radiating antenna element having a center of symmetry and an area devoid of material, the center of symmetry being present in the area devoid of material, and a protective layer covering the radiating antenna element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ARIANEGROUP SAS
    Inventors: Nathalie Lecerf, Serge Villers
  • Ultrawideband parallel plate lens multi-beamformer apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11476577
    Abstract: A parallel plate lens including a top plate, a bottom plate, a side-wall coupled to the top plate and the bottom plate to form the parallel plate lens with a cavity, and a plurality of capacitive probe feeds disposed in the cavity at a spacing interval associated with a guided wavelength (?) within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    Inventors: Christopher S. Merola, Marinos N. Vouvakis
  • Thermal management system for modular antenna housing
    Patent number: 11469488
    Abstract: An antenna housing configured to house a wireless antenna unit. The antenna housing defines an interior space sized to receive the antenna unit. Inlet and outlet ducting extend through a sidewall of the housing to connect to an internal cooling duct of the antenna unit allowing air to be drawn from outside the housing, through the antenna unit and expelled out of the hosing without intermingling with air in the interior of the housing. Additional airflow paths extend around side and/or rear surfaces antenna unit to provide additional cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventors: Dana Anthony Castronova, Kenneth Michael Hoganson
  • Terahertz transceivers
    Patent number: 11469509
    Abstract: A terahertz transceiver, comprising at least a first and a second antenna, wherein the first and/or the second antenna is a dipole antenna comprising a dipole section, wherein the dipole section has a gap through which light can be radiated onto the photoconductive material, and wherein a first ending of the dipole section is connected to a first feedline and a second ending of the dipole section is connected to a second feedline, the feedlines (extending with an angle to the dipole section. The first and/or the second antenna has an asymmetric design, wherein a first section of at least one of the feedlines extending on one side of the dipole section is longer than a second section of the at least one feedline extending on the other side of the dipole section and/or at least one of the feedlines extends on one side of the dipole section, only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Björn Globisch, Roman J. B. Dietz, Thorsten Göbel
  • Electronic device with advanced antenna
    Patent number: 11437709
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device with advanced antenna. The electronic device includes: a display screen; a metal frame surrounding a side edge of the display screen; and a connecting component disposed between the side edge of the display screen and a top end of the metal frame; wherein a height of the connecting component is larger than a preset height such that a portion of the side edge of the display screen not facing the metal frame has at least the preset height. Since the height of the connecting component is larger than the preset height such that the area of the portion of the side edge of the display screen which faces directly the metal frame may be smaller than a predetermined value. Thus, interruption between the display screen and the metal frame may be reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanhong Liu, Haijun Tang, Qing Wu, Guolin Liu
  • Artificial dielectric material and focusing lenses made of it
    Patent number: 11431101
    Abstract: Provided herein is an artificial dielectric material comprising a plurality of sheets of a dielectric material and a plurality of conductive elements disposed in holes made in the sheets of the dielectric material, wherein each conductive element is a three-dimensional object consisting of side plates connected to a central support and disposed to form conductive surfaces surrounding an empty space. Also provided are conductive elements and focusing lenses comprising the artificial dielectric materials and conductive elements along with methods for manufacture of such materials and method for their use. The artificial dielectric materials, lenses and their manufacture may provide desirable dielectric and radio wave focusing properties compared with known materials and manufacturing advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: VASANT LIMITED
    Inventor: Victor Aleksandrovich Sledkov
  • Phase control device, antenna system, and phase control method
    Patent number: 11431098
    Abstract: An object is to advantageously control a phase of an electromagnetic wave with high efficiency at target operational frequency band. A phase control device (10) comprising a two-dimensional array of three-dimensional units (101) and configured to shift a phase of an electromagnetic wave passing through the three-dimensional units (101). The two nearest three-dimensional units (101) having same phase shift coverage are configured such that the distance difference from phase center of the phase control device (10) to the units (101) is a wavelength of a reference frequency fk, and the reference frequency fk is higher than center frequency fc of operational frequency band and not higher than the highest frequency fh of the operational frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mingqi Wu, Keishi Kosaka, Eiji Hankui
  • Planar inverted F-antenna integrated with ground plane frequency agile defected ground structure
    Patent number: 11417965
    Abstract: An antenna system, an apparatus, and a method for configuring an antenna system are provided. The antenna system includes a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate has a top surface and a bottom surface. The antenna system also includes a first planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) radiating element and a second PIFA radiating element disposed on the top surface of the dielectric substrate, each of the PIFA radiating elements having a F-head portion. The antenna system also includes at least two defected ground structures (DGSs) disposed on the bottom surface of the dielectric substrate and configured to provide isolation between the first and the second PIFA radiating element. Each DGS includes a varactor diode. The antenna system also includes a bias circuit corresponding to each of the at least two DGSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Mohammad S. Sharawi, Rifaqat Hussain
  • Dual-beam antenna and hybrid antenna
    Patent number: 11411327
    Abstract: A dual-beam antenna includes an element array and a feed network. The element array includes a first element set and a second element set. The first element set includes at least three first elements arranged in a row. The second element set includes at least three second elements arranged in a row. The at least three first elements of the first element set and the at least three second elements of the second element set are independent of each other. The feed network includes a first feed network and a second feed network. The first feed network includes a first cable set and a first power divider. The second feed network includes a second cable set and a second power divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: ROSENBERGER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., ROSENBERGER TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Shengguang Wang, Zhongcao Yang, Guoqun Chen
  • Concentric pentagonal slot based MIMO antenna system
    Patent number: 11411322
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an antenna system. The antenna system can include a dielectric substrate that has a top surface and a bottom surface covered by a ground plane, and four identical antenna elements symmetrically distributed on each corner of the bottom surface. Each antenna element can have a concentric-pentagonal-slot-based structure that is etched out of the ground plane, and includes an outer pentagonal slot and an inner pentagonal slot. Each side of the outer pentagonal slot can be parallel with a corresponding side of the inner pentagonal slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Mohammad S. Sharawi, Rifaqat Hussain
  • Antenna system
    Patent number: 11404762
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an antenna system [1] comprising a mast [7], in turn comprising a base section [2b] and an extendable section [a], and an antenna [6]. The antenna [6] is arranged to be rotatable and the extendable section [2a] comprises a plurality of telescopic sections [8] whereby the extendable section [2a] may adopt a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration. The mast [7] is foldable in relation to a platform [5] in a vertical plane [PLxy] essentially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the extendable section [LD-es] and to the longitudinal direction of the base section [LD-bs] by means of a first pivot joint [9]. According to the disclosure the antenna system [1] may be arranged to the platform [5], wherein the platform [5] may be in form of a vehicle [5-v], whereby an antenna arrangement [101] is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SAAB AB
    Inventor: Jan Ryden
  • Split ring resonator antenna adapted for use in wirelessly controlled medical device
    Patent number: 11404776
    Abstract: An infusion pump assembly is disclosed. The infusion pump assembly includes a reservoir for receiving an infusible fluid, a pump assembly for pumping a quantity of infusible fluid from the reservoir to an exit, a first valve assembly configured to selectively isolate the pump assembly from the reservoir, a second valve assembly configured to selectively isolate the exit from the pumping assembly, and a split ring resonator antenna having a resonant frequency comprising a plurality of planar metallic layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventor: David Blumberg, Jr.
  • Antenna modules and communication devices
    Patent number: 11380979
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) packages, antenna boards, antenna modules, and communication devices (e.g., for millimeter wave communications). For example, in some embodiments, an antenna module may include: a logic die; a radio frequency front-end (RFFE) die in electrical communication with the logic die; and an antenna patch, wherein the RFFE die is closer to the antenna patch than the logic die is to the antenna patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sidharth Dalmia, Jonathan Jensen, Ozgur Inac, Trang Thai, William James Lambert, Benjamin Jann
  • Slim booster bars for electronic devices
    Patent number: 11349195
    Abstract: A wireless device includes at least one slim radiating system having a slim radiating structure and a radio-frequency system. The slim radiating structure includes one or more booster bars. The booster bar has slim width and height factors that facilitate its integration within the wireless device and the excitation of a resonant mode in the ground plane layer, and has a location factor that enables it to achieve the most favorable radio-frequency performance for the available space to allocate the booster bar. The at least one slim radiating system may be configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic wave signals in one or more frequency regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: IGNION, S.L.
    Inventors: Jaume Anguera Pros, Norman Toporcer, Aurora Andujar Linares
  • Secondary reflector with frequency selective surface
    Patent number: 11342681
    Abstract: A secondary reflector is provided which has structural strength based on the hexagonal design and which show frequency selective features and low insertion loss. The antenna system includes a main reflector at which an incoming RF signal from a signal source reaches, a secondary reflector at which the incoming RF signal reaches by being reflected from the main reflector, a second antenna feed to which a transmitted RF signal through the secondary reflector is directed and a first antenna feed to which a reflected RF signal from the secondary reflector is directed. The surface of the secondary reflector has a dielectric support layer with hexagonal holes and a frequency selective surface located on the support layer and having circular rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Isa Kocakarin, Seymur Shukurov
  • Nozzle cap multi-band antenna assembly
    Patent number: 11336004
    Abstract: A nozzle cap assembly includes a nozzle cap housing configured to mount on a hydrant, the nozzle cap housing defining an upper rim and a lower rim, the nozzle cap housing defining an interior cavity extending inward from the upper rim toward the lower rim, the nozzle cap housing defining an antenna mounting portion extending from the upper rim toward the lower rim; an antenna cover mounted on the nozzle cap housing, the antenna cover positioned over at least a portion of the antenna mounting portion, the antenna cover defining an inner cover surface facing the antenna mounting portion, an antenna cover cavity at least partially defined between the inner cover surface and the antenna mounting portion; and an antenna assembly positioned in the antenna cover cavity, the antenna assembly secured to the inner cover surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Daryl Lee Gibson, Jorge Isaac Ortiz, David James Carlos Dunn, Yanlong Li, Jesse Alvin Faunce