Patents Examined by Bo Fan
  • Patent number: 11686834
    Abstract: A system and method for one-way ranging is disclosed. The system comprises a transmitter, also referred to as tag, transmitting a packet having a first frequency. The receiver, also referred to as the locator, receives the first frequency and measures the phase at a specific point in time. At a predetermined time, the transmitter switches to a second frequency. This is performed while maintaining phase continuity. The receiver also switches to the second frequency at nearly the same time. The receiver then measures the phase of the second frequency at a second point in time. Based on these two phase measurements, the distance between the transmitter and the receiver may be calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Terry Lee Dickey, Yan Zhou, Michael Wu
  • Patent number: 11681010
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for the measurement and reporting of user equipment (UE) positioning in cellular networks. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Sosnin, Alexey Khoryaev, Mikhail Shilov, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 11681052
    Abstract: A ground antenna determines the current time and its own position from received signals that were transmitted by artificial earth satellites for communication. A high-gain multi-beam electrically-steered antenna is combined with a processing system to measure the angles between two or more satellites and determine the present distance to each satellite by the information broadcast on the TT&C channel. The knowledge of the angles and distances, as well as the trajectory of the satellites, can be combined with their locations as predicted by the satellite ephemeris data to triangulate the location of the receiver. This system is different from conventional GPS antennas because it does not require the cooperation of active communication with the satellites to derive a location estimate. The location is computed by the ground terminal, not by the satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: All. Space Networks Limited
    Inventors: Jeremiah P. Turpin, Brian Billman, John Finney
  • Patent number: 11670850
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for mitigating the beam squint effect in a wideband wireless communication device involving a phased antenna array. Time delay units are operated in series with phase shifters to apply phase shifts to signals fed to or received from antenna elements. The array may be subdivided into sub-arrays each associated with its own time delay unit, and with each antenna element associated with its own phase shifter. The phase shifters are operated to compensate for location mismatch between time delay units and antenna elements, and also to compensate for practical limitations of the time delay units, such as length and quantization limitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sahar Molla Aghajanzadeh, Samuel Alfred Tiller, Ming Jian
  • Patent number: 11668835
    Abstract: Systems and methods for GNSS spoofing detection using C/No based monitoring are provided. In certain embodiments, a system including at least one GNSS receiver that provides C/No for GNSS signals received from GNSS satellites. The system also includes a processor coupled to the at least one GNSS receiver. The processor executes instructions that cause the processor to calculate new C/No comparison values based on the C/No measurements and previous C/No comparison values. Further, the instructions cause the processor to compare the C/No measurements against the previous C/No comparison values. Moreover, the instructions cause the processor to determine whether one or more of the GNSS signals are spoofed based on the comparison of the C/No measurements against the previous C/No comparison values. Additionally, the instructions cause the processor to set the new C/No comparison values as the previous C/No comparison values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Pritchard, Karl Abraham Keyzer, James Arthur McDonald
  • Patent number: 11672189
    Abstract: A memory using mixed valence conductive oxides is disclosed. The memory includes a mixed valence conductive oxide that is less conductive in its oxygen deficient state and a mixed electronic ionic conductor that is an electrolyte to oxygen and promotes an electric filed to cause oxygen ionic motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Hefei Reliance Memory Limited
    Inventors: Darrell Rinerson, Christophe J. Chevallier, Wayne Kinney, Roy Lambertson, John E. Sanchez, Jr., Lawrence Schloss, Philip Swab, Edmond Ward
  • Patent number: 11668840
    Abstract: A Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) solution is provided to mobile devices having multi-constellation, multi-frequency (MCMF) functionality, in which a single base station may have a baseline much farther than traditional base station. To enable this, embodiments account for differences in atmospheric effects between the rover station and base station when determining a GNSS position fix for a mobile device (rover station), allowing for a separate tropospheric delay error for a base station to be determined. Embodiments may use additional satellite measurements for which no RTK correction is available, and may further use orbital clock correction for these additional satellite measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Min Wang, Mangesh Chansarkar, Ning Luo, Gengsheng Zhang, David Tuck, Bo Zheng, Yinghua Yang, Han Zhang
  • Patent number: 11663537
    Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods generate dynamic and interactive user interfaces. In one embodiment, a computerized system includes a user interface and at least one processor configured to receive data related to at least a first request of a department, receive data related to positioning of a plurality of employees of the department, and data indicative of equipment in the possession of the plurality of employees, generate an assignment for at least one employee based on the received data, provide for display at the at least one user interface, an interactive graphical user interface indicative of the assignment to the at least one employee, the graphical user interface including elements for indicating a status of the assignment. The at least one processor monitors whether the assignment has been accepted, and determines whether the assignment has been completed, based in part on interaction with the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TELETRACKING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Perry
  • Patent number: 11664591
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes: a plurality of array elements; at least one radio frequency component, including a plurality of feed ports; and a radio frequency switch, wherein the radio frequency switch is connected to at least two array elements and at least two feed ports of the at least one radio frequency component, the radio frequency switch is configured to switch a feed object of each feed port connected to the radio frequency switch to form a preset antenna array, and the feed object is any array element of the at least two array elements connected to the radio frequency switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Changqing Ke
  • Patent number: 11664381
    Abstract: Capacitor cells are provided. A first PMOS transistor is coupled between a power supply and a first node, and has a gate connected to a second node. A first NMOS transistor is coupled between a ground and the second node, and has a gate connected to the first node. A second PMOS transistor is coupled between the second node and the power supply, and has a gate connected to the second node. A second NMOS transistor is coupled between the first node and the ground, a gate connected to the first node, and has a gate connected to the first node. Sources of the first and second PMOS transistors share a P+ doped region in N-type well region, and the first PMOS transistor is disposed between the second PMOS transistor and the first and second NMOS transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Yao Huang, Wun-Jie Lin, Chia-Wei Hsu, Yu-Ti Su
  • Patent number: 11658406
    Abstract: In examples, systems and methods for direction finding of electromagnetic signals are described. The device includes a first antenna configured to receive electromagnetic energy. The device also includes a second antenna configured to separately receive the same electromagnetic energy. The device further includes a radome located in a receiving pathway of the first antenna, where the radome is configured to cause a predetermined phase shift that varies based on an angular position of the receiving pathway. The device includes 1 or more radio receivers to receive the signals independently from the antennas. Additionally, the direction finding device includes a processor configured to determine an angle of arrival of the electromagnetic energy based on a comparison of a phase of the electromagnetic energy received by the first antenna to a phase of the electromagnetic energy received by the second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Ronald O. Lavin, Michael M. LoRe, Andy H. Lee, Michael B. Carr
  • Patent number: 11650328
    Abstract: A method and apparatus detects and estimates geo-observables of navigation signals employing civil formats with repeating baseband signal components, i.e., “pilot signals,” including true GNSS signals generated by satellite vehicles (SV's) or ground beacons (pseudolites), and malicious GNSS signals, e.g., spoofers and repeaters. Multi-subband symbol-rate synchronous channelization can exploit the full substantive bandwidth of the GNSS signals with managed complexity in each subband. Spatial/polarization receivers can be provided to remove interference and geolocate non-GNSS jamming sources, as well as targeted GNSS spoofers that emulate GNSS signals. This can provide time-to-first-fix (TTFF) over much smaller time intervals than existing GNSS methods; can operate in the presence of signals with much wider disparity in received power than existing techniques; and can operate in the presence of arbitrary multipath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventor: Brian G. Agee
  • Patent number: 11650327
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for providing modified orbital assistance data to a mobile station to determine its location using global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The modified orbital assistance data may include predicted orbital information for the GNSS satellites combined with antenna phase center offset data for one or more GNSS satellites. The antenna phase center offset data may indicate an offset distance from the center of mass of the GNSS satellite to a position on an antenna of the respective GNSS satellite. The modified orbital assistance data may be in an earth-centered earth-fixed (ECEF) frame of reference and the antenna phase center offset data may be in a body-centered frame of reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kannan Muthuraman, Zoltan Biacs, Ning Luo, Ronald Blumstein
  • Patent number: 11646236
    Abstract: Semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a base substrate including a first device region, a second device region, and a transition region separating the first region from the second region. A first work function layer is formed on the base substrate in the second region. A second work function layer is formed on the base substrate in the first region and the transition region, and on the first work function layer in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (BEIJING) CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11632664
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial system (UAS) detection device includes a sensor having programmed instructions to cause the sensor to scan energy in an electromagnetic spectrum; process the energy in the electromagnetic spectrum into bursts; determine whether the bursts are valid UAS bursts based on burst criteria; and correlate the bursts into a single signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Counter-Drone Research Corporation
    Inventors: Justus Graham, Michael Piscopo, Timothy James O'Shea
  • Patent number: 11631673
    Abstract: Non-planar semiconductor devices having doped sub-fin regions and methods of fabricating non-planar semiconductor devices having doped sub-fin regions are described. For example, a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure involves forming a plurality of semiconductor fins above a semiconductor substrate. A solid state dopant source layer is formed above the semiconductor substrate, conformal with the plurality of semiconductor fins. A dielectric layer is formed above the solid state dopant source layer. The dielectric layer and the solid state dopant source layer are recessed to approximately a same level below a top surface of the plurality of semiconductor fins, exposing protruding portions of each of the plurality of semiconductor fins above sub-fin regions of each of the plurality of semiconductor fins. The method also involves driving dopants from the solid state dopant source layer into the sub-fin regions of each of the plurality of semiconductor fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Tahoe Research, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tahir Ghani, Salman Latif, Chanaka D. Munasinghe
  • Patent number: 11624841
    Abstract: A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver can include a code generator, a signal correlator circuit, and a processor. The code generator can generate samples of a plurality of ranging codes associated with corresponding GNSS transmitters. The signal correlator circuit can receive, according to a first clock rate, samples of a signal from a GNSS transmitter, and update, according to a second clock rate and a time division multiplexing scheme, cross-correlation values indicative of cross-correlations between the signal and a subset of the plurality of ranging codes. The second clock rate can be equal to at least multiple times the first clock rate. The signal correlator circuit can determine final results of the cross-correlation values based on the updating of the cross-correlation values, and a processor can identify the GNSS transmitter among the plurality of GNSS transmitters based on the final results of the cross correlation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Acheson, Thomas V. Dewulf
  • Patent number: 11609327
    Abstract: A target detecting device projects measuring light over a predetermined range in front of a vehicle, receives reflected light from a target, and detects the target or a distance to the target, based on a light reception signal output according to the light reception state. The light projecting unit includes a light emitting element emitting measuring light and light diffusion members. The light diffusion members are provided on an upper end portion and a lower end portion of a light projecting lens constituting part of a light projecting path, and diffuses, in the vertical direction, measuring light emitted from the light emitting element and traveling through the end portions in the vertical direction of the light traveling path while transmitting the measuring light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Keito Ando, Hidenori Miyazaki, Hoshibumi Ichiyanagi, Naoki Fujiwara, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11592580
    Abstract: A Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) solution is provided to mobile devices having multi-constellation, multi-frequency (MCMF) functionality, in which a single base station may have a baseline much farther than traditional base station and where the high accuracy positioning is achieved in a relatively short period of time. To enable this, embodiments involve modeling of an ionosphere-free carrier phase corresponding to combinations of at least three signals received from one or more satellites. The modeling retains the integer nature of carrier phase ambiguities, thereby allowing for fast convergence in determining the integer ambiguity of the carrier phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Min Wang, Ning Luo, Gengsheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11585886
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting radio frequency (“RF”) signals and corresponding origination locations are disclosed. An RF sensor device includes a software-defined radio and an antenna pair for receiving RF signals. Furthermore the RF sensor device may include a processing unit for processing/analyzing the RF signals, or the processing unit may be remote. The system calculates a phase difference between an RF signal received at two separate antennas of an antenna pair. The phase difference, the distance between the antennas, and the frequency of the RF signal are used for determining the origination direction of the RF signal. In various embodiments, the origination direction may indicate the location of a UAV controller or base station. The software-defined radio may include more than one antenna pair, connected to multiplexers, for efficiently scanning different frequencies by alternating active antenna pairs. Moreover, the system may execute packet-based processing on the RF signal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dedrone Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Henning Meyer, Nico Otterbach, Kai Baumgart