Patents Examined by Dac V. Ha
  • Patent number: 12267122
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first physical-layer (PHY) transceiver and a second PHY transceiver. The first PHY transceiver includes (i) a first transmitter and (ii) a first receiver including a first equalizer. The second PHY transceiver includes (i) a second transmitter and (ii) a second receiver including a second equalizer. The first PHY transceiver and the second PHY transceiver are configured to communicate with one another over a full-duplex link, including training the first equalizer on a second training signal transmitted from the second PHY transceiver, and concurrently training the second equalizer on a first training signal transmitted from the first PHY transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Seid Alireza Razavi Majomard, Ehab Tahir, Ragnar Hlynur Jonsson
  • Patent number: 12261723
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to estimating data symbols encoded in a received signal that has been transmitted at a faster than Nyquist rate. The present invention uses a heuristic method for non-convex problems and involves an input matrix and received samples from the received signal. These are preconditioned and the preconditioned input matrix is factorized. The method then iterates a three-step process that estimates the sequence of data symbols based on the current estimate, the preconditioned input matrix, the preconditioned samples vector, a multiplier vector, and an auxiliary vector. The process then calculates the next multiplier vector and the next auxiliary vector. If the result indicates a minimum as compared to the best estimate, then the result is used as the best estimate. Multiple iterations of the process are performed, and the multiple iterations are repeated for multiple random initializations of the estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: CARLETON UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN, SASKATOON
    Inventors: Ahmed Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, Ebrahim Bedeer, Halim Yanikomeroglu
  • Patent number: 12261724
    Abstract: An Automatic Gain Control (AGC) SERDES circuit may be used to provide improved gain control for SERDES operation. This AGC SERDES circuit uses an initial gain convergence to determine and store an initial gain level. Once the initial gain convergence is complete, the AGC SERDES circuit uses a signal peak tracking to reduce or prevent saturation events. By setting the gain target based on tracked changes in the equalizer coefficients, the AGC SERDES circuit adapts the gain target to reduce or prevent saturation events and provide the improved communication throughput. A SERDES receiver circuit also provides improved performance using an improved convergence flow within its subcomponent blocks. The improved convergence flow also provides the ability to track environmental changes, voltage changes, and changes to input parameters, and can be performed while data is running on the link to provide continuously improved communication channel performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Itamar Levin, Tali Warshavsky
  • Patent number: 12250106
    Abstract: Access to FR2 (high frequency bands) is essential for anticipated high-demand networking in 5G-Advanced and 6G systems. Unfortunately, phase noise is an unavoidable barrier, greatly limiting message reliability. Therefore, a low-cost solution is provided in which the transmitter (either base station or user device) transmits a special phase-tracking reference signal consisting of zero amplitude in one branch, and a predetermined non-zero amplitude in the other branch. For example, in QAM, the I-branch may be powered according to the maximum branch amplitude of the modulation scheme, and the Q-branch may have zero amplitude as transmitted. The receiver, on the other hand, generally measures a non-zero amplitude in the received Q branch due to phase noise, which rotates the I and Q branches into each other. The receiver can then determine the phase rotation angle precisely by measuring the non-zero amplitude in the Q branch, negating phase noise at negligible cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 12244334
    Abstract: Reliable communications is a central goal of 5G and 6G. However, due to signal fading at high frequencies and interference due to crowding, message faults continue to be a problem. Disclosed are methods for base station and user devices to adjust the modulation scheme according to the types of faults received, including amplitude faults (incorrectly demodulated amplitude levels) and phase faults (incorrectly demodulated phase levels), among others. The base station can select a more suitable modulation scheme based on the types of faults observed by user devices, such as modulation schemes with more or fewer amplitude levels and phase levels. In some versions, the number of amplitude levels is different from the number of phase levels, to combat specific fault problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 12237949
    Abstract: A communication receiver includes a first signal processing circuit and a second signal processing circuit. The first signal processing circuit includes a first feedforward equalizer and a decision circuit. The first feedforward equalizer processes a received signal to generate a first equalized signal. The decision circuit performs hard decision upon the first equalized signal to generate a first symbol decision signal. The second signal processing circuit includes a second feedforward equalizer, a decision feedforward equalizer, and a first decision feedback equalizer. The second feedforward equalizer processes the first equalized signal to generate a second equalized signal. The decision feedforward equalizer processes the first symbol decision signal to generate a third equalized signal. The first decision feedback equalizer generates a second symbol decision signal according to the second equalized signal and the third equalized signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Hsien Tsai, Che-Yu Chiang, Yu-Ting Liu, Tsung-Lin Lee, Chia-Sheng Peng, Ting-Ming Yang
  • Patent number: 12237956
    Abstract: A wireless device may use 2.5 MHz narrow band channel spacing. In some embodiments, clear channel assessment based listen before talk may be used to determine if a channel is idle or busy. In some embodiments, randomized channel access may be achieved using a pseudo random number generator on an allowed list of channels. In some embodiments, an avoid loitering mechanism may be employed to reduce interference with transmitters using the same frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Krebs, Yong Liu, Lochan Verma, Jinjing Jiang, Su Khiong Yong
  • Patent number: 12237865
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband (UWB) communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver is disclosed. In one embodiment, a symbol mapper circuit in the transmitter is adapted, in a first mode, to develop symbols having the number of pulses as currently defined in the 4z Standard; and, in a second mode, to develop symbols having fewer pulses than as currently defined in the 4z Standard. In an optional third mode, each data bit is mapped to a single pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: DecaWave, Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 12231210
    Abstract: A weak signal detection device for detecting a weak signal appearing intermittently with a level that is less than or equal to internal noise of a radio frequency (RF) receiving part may comprise: a cross-correlation spectrum processing part configured to generate a cross-correlation spectrum using a correlation between RF receiving channels; and a waveform combiner configured to generate an output spectrum having a spectrum persistent function by assigning weight values to a current waveform and a previous waveform of the cross-correlation spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Gwang Moon Park
  • Patent number: 12231271
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: An electronic device includes a first communication module and a second communication module configured to perform wireless communication, a spread spectrum clock generator (SSCG), a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to execute instructions to set a spread spectrum method and a spread ratio of the SSCG, determine whether the electronic device is communicatively coupled to at least one of a first and a second wireless communication, identify a frequency band of a channel of the at least one of the first and the second wireless communication, determine whether at least one of a frequency and multiplication frequencies of the frequency is included by the frequency band of the channel, and maintain the spread spectrum method and the spread ratio causing the SSCG to generate a spread spectrum clock signal based on first spread spectrum method and the spread ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Duckjin Kim, Cheolho Lee, Seungjoon Yoon
  • Patent number: 12212353
    Abstract: As solution for predistorting a signal is presented. The solution comprises receiving (600) as an input a signal comprising at least two signal components on a different band, sampling (602) the input signal comprising linear terms, composite non-linear terms causing intermodulation outside Nyquist band of the input signal and further non-linear terms causing intermodulation inside the Nyquist band, the further non-linear terms comprising multi-band terms. Oversampling (604) by a given factor is applied to the signal in a first predistortion circuit for processing the linear terms and composite non-linear terms causing intermodulation outside Nyquist band; processing (606) the input signal without oversampling in a second predistortion circuit in parallel with the first predistortion circuit for the further non-linear terms. The rates of the output signals of the predistortion circuits are matched (608), combined and filtered (610).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Chad Young, Tian He, Shavantha Kularatna, Peter Novak, Jacob Edward Longwell
  • Patent number: 12206514
    Abstract: A transmitter includes a transmission controller which outputs original data through an original data lane, an encoder which encodes the original data into encoded data and outputs the encoded data through an encoded data lane, and a transmission driver which outputs the encoded data at a speed of M (M is a real number greater than 0) gigabits per second through a transmission and reception interface. The transmission driver provides a first clock signal corresponding to an output speed to the encoder, the encoder provides a second clock signal having a second frequency less than a first frequency of the first clock signal to the transmission controller, the transmission controller outputs the original data based on the second clock signal, and the encoder outputs the encoded data based on the first clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Young Jin, Jun Dal Kim, Hyun Su Kim, Kyung Youl Min, Dong Won Park, Jong Man Bae
  • Patent number: 12206475
    Abstract: A communication device for detecting an object includes a power module, an antenna array, a first sensor pad, a second sensor pad, and a control unit. The antenna array is excited by the power module, and is configured to provide a first beam group and a second beam group. The first sensor pad is disposed adjacent to the first side of the antenna array. A first capacitance is formed between the first sensor pad and the object. The second sensor pad is disposed adjacent to the second side of the antenna array. A second capacitance is formed between the second sensor pad and the object. The control unit controls the power module according to the first capacitance and the second capacitance, so as to selectively apply at least one power backoff operation to the first beam group and/or the second beam group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Shao-Yu Huang, Chih-Wei Chiu, Chih-Wei Lee
  • Patent number: 12199663
    Abstract: Ultra-wide band frequencies used for extended reality (XR) services operate as unlicensed spectrum, which can result in unexpected interference. Although some link adaptation procedures can be used, uncertain link quality can result in sub-optimal utilization of spectrum resources, which may result in poor performance of an XR service. Some aspects described herein enable use of a fixed quantity of re-transmissions of data for an XR frame, with each of the re-transmissions having different XR frame qualities or different quantities of parity bits. The XR device may transmit a feedback message indicating whether the first transmission was successful and may receive a second transmission with additional data for the XR frame. In this way, the XR device can ensure a more efficient use of network resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, David Yunusov
  • Patent number: 12199798
    Abstract: A transmission/reception method and device for isolated communication is proposed. The transmission/reception method includes performing transmission, wherein bit streams are extracted from data and two or more predetermined number of bits are modulated into one DC balanced symbol so as to generate a signal in which a plurality of symbols are listed, thereby transmitting the signal through an isolated communication circuit, and performing reception, wherein the signal is received through the isolated communication circuit and the plurality of symbols included in the signal are demodulated into the two or more predetermined number of bits so as to generate the bit streams and organize the bit streams into the data. The transmission/reception method and device may reduce power consumption at the same communication speed because a plurality of bits is represented by the one DC balanced symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: SK ON CO., LTD., AUTOSILICON INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hee Lee, Woo Jung Kim, Ki Man La, Sang Hae Park, Jeong Min Seo, Ki Bum Sung, Ho Sang Jang, Jong Kyoung Lee, Jin Yong Jeon
  • Patent number: 12191968
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication apparatus and a communication method that permit realization of more reliable communication. Provided is a communication apparatus that includes a control section that performs control such that plural aggregated subframes are sent in a predetermined sequence for each frame included in each of spatially multiplexed streams when a frame is sent to another communication apparatus as plural spatially multiplexed streams. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a communication apparatus included in a wireless LAN system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Sugaya
  • Patent number: 12184473
    Abstract: Systems and methods of a field deployed access CPE device with smart and efficient agent integrated with an agile software architecture to collect and analyze proactive network maintenance (PNM) management information base (MIB) data. The access CPE device may determine the OFDMA channel's impulse response and group delay, stream the collected data to the operator's streaming and analytics platform to identify cable plant faults, determine whether the identified faults are located inside or outside the customer's home, and mitigate the impact of the identified faults via machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Shlomo Ovadia, Deependra Rawat
  • Patent number: 12160301
    Abstract: A terminal receives beams from a plurality of cells that include a non-serving cell and are formed by the same base station. The terminal determines a beam failure or a candidate beam by identifying received signals of the beams from the plurality of cells that include the non-serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12156105
    Abstract: A method includes sending, by a master beacon device and one or more beacon repeater devices, ultra-wideband (UWB) beacon frames. The UWB beacon frames are transmitted as interleaved pairs of UWB beacon frames. Each interleaved pair includes a first UWB beacon frame and a second UWB beacon frame. For each interleaved pair, the first UWB beacon frame and the second UWB beacon frame are transmitted with a master time delay. The method further includes receiving, by one or more tag devices, at least one of the interleaved pairs of UWB beacon frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: BE SPOON
    Inventor: Philippe Bollard
  • Patent number: 12149963
    Abstract: To maximize throughput, an optimization method includes determining at least one precoding matrix and at least one combining matrix together according to Bayesian Optimization, Causal Bayesian Optimization, or Dynamic Causal Bayesian Optimization, and outputting the at least one precoding matrix and the at least one combining matrix. The at least one precoding matrix is configured for at least one precoder of a transmitter. The at least one combining matrix is configured for at least one combiner of at least one receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Ming Chen