Patents Examined by Crystal L Hammond
  • Patent number: 11586164
    Abstract: An article of footwear may have an upper and a sole system secured to the upper. The sole system includes a bladder member with an illumination device. The bladder member is formed from at least a partially transparent or colored outer polymer layer that encloses a fluid. The illumination device is located within the sole system. Light from the illumination device may pass out the sole system by passing through the bladder member, thereby imparting the configuration of an illuminable fluid-filled bladder member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Parluhutan Siagian, Doug D. Wilken
  • Patent number: 11581650
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a multi-input multi-output antenna structure configured on a substrate, and the multi-input multi-output antenna structure includes two dipole antennas and two second grounded radiators. Each dipole antenna is used for resonating a first frequency band and a second frequency band. Each dipole antenna includes a feed-in radiator and a first grounded radiator. The feed-in radiator has a feed-in end. The first grounded radiator is disposed beside the feed-in radiator and has a first grounded end. The two second grounded radiators are positioned between the two dipole antennas, the two second grounded radiators are separated from the two first grounded radiators and are respectively corresponding to the two first grounded radiators, and a bent gap is formed between the two second grounded radiators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chien-Yi Wu, Chao-Hsu Wu, Cheng-Hsiung Wu, Shih-Keng Huang, Ching-Hsiang Ko, Sheng-Chin Hsu
  • Patent number: 11570880
    Abstract: An isochronous cyclotron including one or more coils and a plurality of pairs of bulk superconductor sectors. The one or more coils can be configured to generate a magnetic field in the beam chamber having a magnetic flux density that increases radially from the central axis of the beam chamber, and is orientated substantially perpendicular to the median acceleration plane of the beam chamber. Each pair of bulk superconductor sectors can be disposed on opposite sides of the median acceleration plane. The plurality of pairs of bulk superconductor sectors can be configured to guide or concentrate the magnetic field to provide an axial focusing component of the magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Bock, Arno Godeke
  • Patent number: 11569586
    Abstract: A antenna may include a first dielectric layer having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface; a second dielectric layer having a third surface, and a fourth surface opposing the third surface; an adhesive layer disposed between the second surface and the third surface and connecting the first dielectric layer to the second dielectric layer; a patch pattern disposed on the second surface and embedded in the adhesive layer; and a coupling pattern disposed on the fourth surface and having at least a portion overlapping the patch pattern on a plane. Each of the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer may include an organic binder and an inorganic filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangik Cho, Ju Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11539298
    Abstract: A power converter includes a primary winding and multiple output windings to provide multiple independently controlled and regulated outputs with a common return line. The outputs are coupled to independently regulate constant current, constant voltage, or both constant current and constant voltage outputs. A secondary control block is coupled to control a synchronous rectifier switch coupled to the common return line to synchronize switching with a primary side power switch to provide complementary conduction of the primary winding and the multiple output windings. A plurality of controlled power pulse switches is coupled to the multiple output windings. A request of a power pulse from each of the outputs is transferred through the secondary control block to a primary switch control block to turn on the primary side power switch to transfer a power pulse to the multiple output windings and through controlled power pulse switches to the outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Power Integrations, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonius Jacobus Johannes Werner, Matthew David Waterson, Yuncong Alex Jiang, Roland Sylvere Saint-Pierre
  • Patent number: 11540370
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a pulsed-output constant voltage LED driver comprising a PDM stage configured to provide power to an LED load by supplying energy at either a first or second predetermined voltage during each of a plurality of segments of a predetermined time period, wherein the number of segments during which the first voltage is supplied is correlated with the power provided to the LED, and wherein the positions within the time period of the segments during which the first voltage is applied are random.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hatch Transformers, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Herrera, Soufiane Daoudiya
  • Patent number: 11387076
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a high voltage waveform generator comprising: a generator inductor; a high voltage nanosecond pulser having one or more solid state switches electrically and/or inductively coupled with the generator inductor, the high voltage nanosecond pulser configured to produce a pulse burst having a burst period, the pulse burst comprising a plurality of pulses having different pulse widths; and a load electrically and/or inductively coupled with the high voltage nanosecond pulser, the generator inductor, and the generator capacitor, the voltage across the load having an output pulse with a pulse width substantially equal to the burst period and the voltage across the load varying in a manner that is substantially proportional with the pulse widths of the plurality of pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy M. Ziemba, Kenneth E. Miller, John G. Carscadden, James R. Prager, Ilia Slobodov
  • Patent number: 11371660
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems for generating tunable white light. The systems include a plurality of LED strings that generate light with color points that fall within red, blue, green, and cyan color ranges, with each LED string being driven with a separately controllable drive current in order to tune the generated light output. Methods of generating white light by combining light generated by red, blue, green, and cyan color channels. Methods of generating white light points at substantially the same 1931 CIE chromaticity diagram color coordinates having different EML.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KORRUS, INC.
    Inventors: Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Paul Kenneth Pickard
  • Patent number: 11363688
    Abstract: Lighting systems and methods implementing toggle control are provided. In one example implementation, a lighting system can include a first LED array having one or more LED devices and a second LED array having one or more LED devices. The system can further include a single throw circuit interrupter configured to receive power from a power source. The system can further include a power conversion circuit configured to convert an input power received via the toggle switch to a power output for the first LED array and the second LED array. The power conversion circuit can be configured to control a power distribution ratio between the first LED array and the second LED array based at least in part on a detected toggle input (e.g., a toggle pattern) implemented using the single throw circuit interrupter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hubbell Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Pritam Yadav, T. Warren Weeks, Jr., Douglas M. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11324088
    Abstract: A lighting system comprises one or more illuminants and a control device for adjusting light parameters of the illuminants during operation. The control device is arranged to adjust the light parameters time-dependently according to a predetermined course of the light parameters. The control device is further adapted to receive a one-dimensional user setting and to change the course of the light parameters according to the one-dimensional user setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Dieter Lang, Enzo Peres, Timo Weinert
  • Patent number: 11322829
    Abstract: An antenna assembly and an electronic device are provided according to the present disclosure. The antenna assembly includes an antenna module and a bandwidth matching layer. The antenna module is configured to transmit and receive, within a preset direction range, a millimeter wave signal in a target frequency band. The bandwidth matching layer is spaced apart from the antenna module, and at least part of the bandwidth matching layer is disposed within the preset direction range. The bandwidth matching layer is configured to match an impedance of the antenna module to an impedance of free space to enable an impedance bandwidth of the antenna module in the target frequency band when the bandwidth matching layer is provided to be greater than an impedance bandwidth of the antenna module in the free space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuhu Jia
  • Patent number: 11309895
    Abstract: Multi-chip systems and structures for modular scaling are described. In some embodiments an interfacing bar is utilized to couple adjacent chips. For example, a communication bar may utilized to coupled logic chips, and memory bar may be utilized to couple multiple memory chips to a logic chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Bahattin Kilic, Jie-Hua Zhao, Kunzhong Hu, Suk-Kyu Ryu
  • Patent number: 11310892
    Abstract: The described implementations provided herein relate to systems, methods, and apparatuses for using a network of luminaires to perform distributed computation of sensor data to identify hardware and network anomalies. In some implementations, a method is set forth as including operations such as receiving, from a first luminaire (114, 128, 216), first sensor data (122, 124) in response to a stimulus (204) affecting a network of luminaires (110), and receiving, from a second luminaire (208) in the network of luminaires, second sensor data. The method can also include determining a correlation between the first sensor data and the second sensor data, and modifying a luminaire spatial-temporal model (222) based at least partially on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Olaitan Philip Olaleye, Tamir Hegazy, Abhishek Murthy
  • Patent number: 11304275
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light source panel including light emitting units, and a printed circuit board including a light source driving circuit electrically connected to the light source panel. The light source driving circuit receives a feedback voltage from each of the light emitting units, and compares the feedback voltage with a reference voltage to output a current control signal. Each of the light emitting units includes a light emitting diode connected to a first voltage line, a switching element connected with the light emitting diode and operating in response to the current control signal, and a resistor electrically connected between a feedback node and a second voltage line. The resistor includes a conductive pattern having a predetermined width disposed on the light source panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dae-Sik Lee, Jiyoun Seo
  • Patent number: 11303020
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a high gain relay antenna system that includes a first passive reflect array configured to receive electromagnetic radiation from a transmitting source and generate a transmit beamforming signal with a first gain from the electromagnetic radiation. The high gain relay antenna system also includes a second passive reflect array positioned at a predetermined distance from the first passive reflect array and configured to collimate phases of the transmit beamforming signal from the first passive reflect array and transmit an outbound beamforming signal with a second gain greater than the first gain, to a coverage area. Other examples disclosed herein relate to a dual-reflect array system and a method of high gain relay with multiple passive reflect array antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventor: Jun Fang
  • Patent number: 11297705
    Abstract: An LED lighting system is disclosed. The example LED lighting system includes a first LED circuit and a second LED circuit. The second LED circuit is configured to emit a different color light compared to the first LED circuit. The LED lighting system also includes a switch capable of at least one of switching a voltage level input to at least one of the first LED circuit or the second LED circuit, or switching the second LED circuit ‘on’ or ‘off’. The LED lighting system further includes an LED driver connected to an AC voltage power source. The LED driver is configured to provide a DC voltage output to at least one of the first LED circuit or the second LED circuit. The switch is electrically connected between the DC voltage output and at least one of the first LED circuit or the second LED circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Lynk Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Miskin, Robert L. Kottritsch
  • Patent number: 11289630
    Abstract: Light emitting devices having a first LED with a first phosphor, a second LED with a second phosphor and a third LED with a third phosphor to emit a composite white light are described. The first LED and first phosphor emit the red spectral component, the second LED and the second phosphor emit the blue spectral component and the third LED and third phosphor emit the green spectral component of the composite white light. The green spectral component has at least 30% radiant flux in a deep red spectral wavelength region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Wouter Soer
  • Patent number: 11284489
    Abstract: An LED lighting package is described that contains a first LED string with a plurality of series-connected light-emitting diodes and a first linear regulator arranged to determine the current through the first LED string. At least one further LED string includes a plurality of series-connected light-emitting diodes of a different color, and a further linear regulator is arranged to determine the current through that LED string. The different colored LED strings are connected in parallel. A common voltage supply is used for the LED strings. The number of light-emitting diodes in the first LED string exceeds the number of light-emitting diodes in each further LED string (, and the number of light-emitting diodes in each LED string is chosen such that the total forward voltage of a further LED string is essentially the same as the total forward voltage of the first LED string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Manuel Grave, Udo Karbowski
  • Patent number: 11284494
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for an automatic dimming and color adjusting backlight LEDs of wall mounted control device buttons. The control device comprises a light sensor that detects light levels in a room where the control device is installed. The control device comprises a controller that operates the backlight LEDs according to day color setting when it receive a light level reading from the light sensor that is above a day/night threshold and according to a night color setting when it receives a light level reading from the light sensor that is below the day/night threshold. In addition, the controller dims the backlight LEDs based on the detected light level readings according an indication mode dimming curve when the backlight LEDs are in an indication mode and according to a backlight mode dimming curve when the backlight LEDs are in a backlight mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Slivka, Dennis J. Hromin
  • Patent number: 11281605
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to enhance the functionality of an integrated circuit. Such an integrated circuit may include a primary circuitry and an embedded programmable logic programmable to adjust the functionality of the primary circuitry. Specifically, the embedded programmable logic may be programmed to adjust the functionality of the primary circuitry to complement and/or support the functionality of another integrated circuit. Accordingly, the embedded programmable logic may be programmed with functions such as data/address manipulation functions, configuration/testing functions, computational functions, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Arifur Rahman, Bernhard Friebe