Patents Examined by David E Lotter
  • Patent number: 12763485
    Abstract: A Hybrid Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) antenna reflector improves performance of an Archimedean spiral antenna across all bands. The AMC reflector provides uni-directional radiation over a 1-5 GHz frequency range. The AMC reflector provides at least 3 dB of gain compared to the same antenna without a reflector. The AMC reflector includes a traditional Perfect Electric Conductor (PEC) reflector portion, used to reflect higher frequencies, and a capacitively loaded AMC reflector portion, used to reflect lower frequencies. The AMC patch size and capacitor values are optimized for best response across the 1-2 GHz frequency range. The center, high frequency section of the AMC reflector portion is removed to provide an optimized standoff distance from the antenna to allow direct reflection from the PEC reflector portion. The AMC reflector reduces the PEC reflector thickness dimension and provides improved antenna pattern symmetry at higher frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: David Rohde
  • Patent number: 12763479
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing and wireless circuitry. The housing may include a conductive body mounted to a dielectric foot. The wireless circuitry may include wedge-shaped cavity-backed antennas mounted within the dielectric foot. Each antenna may include a dielectric wall, a conductive plate, and a conductive cavity mounted to the conductive plate. The conductive cavity and the conductive plate may define edges of an antenna cavity. The dielectric wall may be mounted to the conductive plate and the conductive cavity overlapping the antenna cavity. The dielectric wall may have an outer surface with a continuous curvature that matches a curvature of the dielectric foot. The dielectric wall may have an inner surface facing the antenna cavity. An antenna resonating element may be mounted to the inner surface. The antenna resonating element may include planar segments separated by folds to help approximate the continuous curvature of the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Menglou Rao, Louis K Chamberlain, Michael J Williams, Joel D Barrera, Ayoub Yari Boroujeni
  • Patent number: 12763473
    Abstract: The present invention is a planar monopole loop composite multi-broadband antenna, which designs the ground wire into a loop shape, surrounding the asymmetric T-shaped monopole signal line to increase the path of the antenna surface current and create low-frequency resonant frequency band of the antenna. The antenna has the characteristics of a balanced antenna, and the radiation performance and bandwidth of the antenna are not affected when the ground plane changes Placing the signal line close to the ground line creates a coupling effect to increase the path of the antenna's surface current, thereby increasing the flatness of the antenna's high-frequency resonant frequency band impedance bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: WIESON TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: I-Fong Chen, Chia-Mei Peng
  • Patent number: 12756107
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave reflecting device includes: a reflection panel configured to reflect radio waves of a desired band selected from a frequency band between 1 GHz and 170 GHz; and a frame configured to hold the reflection panel. The reflection panel includes: a dielectric layer; a conductive pattern periodically provided on one surface of the dielectric layer; a ground layer provided on the other surface of the dielectric layer; and an adhesive layer configured to bond the conductive pattern to the one surface of the dielectric layer, and a gap is provided in the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: AGC INC.
    Inventors: Kumiko Kambara, Shinji Ueki
  • Patent number: 12749796
    Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a transceiver, a housing, and a handle. The transceiver comprises an antenna. The housing has an interior volume. The handle is coupled to the housing externally from the interior volume, and the antenna is positioned within the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: AES Global Holdings PTE. Ltd.
    Inventors: Carl Kenneth Walker, Chang-Chieh Yu, Vincent Vicente Vivar, Donald Cedrick Ongyanco, John Amos Tan, Khanderao Madhav Gaikwad, Ben Idris Pulumbarit Pascual, Paolo Chavez
  • Patent number: 12749820
    Abstract: A magneto-electric dipole antenna includes a substrate module, a director, a reflector and a feeding module. The substrate module has an upper surface and a lower surface. The director is disposed on the upper surface of the substrate module. The reflector is disposed on the lower surface of the substrate module. The feeding module is disposed in the substrate module between the director and the reflector. When a to-be-outputted signal is fed to the feeding module, a forward radiation that transmits in a forward direction pointing from bottom to top is generated, a backward radiation that transmits in a backward direction reverse to the forward direction is generated and is reflected by the reflector, and the forward radiation and the backward radiation thus reflected are directed by the director so as to generate the electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: ALPHA NETWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Ta-Chuan Bai, Ding-Bing Lin, Sung-Nien Hsieh, Meng-Zhe Wu
  • Patent number: 12738659
    Abstract: An antenna structure includes a ground element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, a nonconductive support element, and a metal mechanism element. The first radiation element has a feeding point. The second radiation element is coupled to a first grounding point on the ground element and adjacent to the first radiation element. The third radiation element is coupled to a second grounding point on the ground element. The third radiation element is adjacent to the first radiation element. The first radiation element is between the second radiation element and the third radiation element. The ground element, the first radiation element, the second radiation element, and the third radiation element are disposed on the nonconductive support element. The metal mechanism element has a slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Kai Chen, Wen-Pin Ho, Ching-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 12731910
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an antenna, an antenna array, a detection apparatus, and a terminal. According to the antenna provided in this application, the antenna includes a plurality of radiating elements, the plurality of radiating elements are sequentially connected, and an included angle between adjacent radiating elements is greater than 0° and less than 180°. In this way, the plurality of radiating elements form a broken-line structure (a broken-line antenna) or a curve structure (a curved antenna), and the plurality of radiating elements include a first radiating element. In a first direction, along a first side of the first radiating element, that is, from the first radiating element to a first end of the antenna, widths of radiating elements in the plurality of radiating elements gradually decrease. Therefore, low side lobes at the first end of the antenna can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haowei Li, Xiang Gao, Jie Peng, Paolo Rocca, Marco Salucci
  • Patent number: 12725931
    Abstract: An antenna module is an antenna module including at least a first radiation electrode, and a first power feeding electrode coupled with the first radiation electrode, and includes: a first dielectric layer including the first power feeding electrode; and a second dielectric layer disposed at one side of the first dielectric layer in a thickness direction of the first power feeding electrode, and a fracture toughness value of the second dielectric layer is larger than a fracture toughness value of the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Tezuka, Aozora Kawasaki, Shin Takane, Yousuke Futamata, Yasufumi Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 12719169
    Abstract: A first portion and a second portion are connected to a first surface of a connection portion having the first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A first radiating element is disposed on the first portion, and a second radiating element is disposed on the second portion. The connection portion includes a first flat board portion, a bent portion extending from the first flat board portion, and bent to have the first surface facing outward, and a second flat board portion further extended from the bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideki Ueda
  • Patent number: 12719152
    Abstract: Image pickup apparatuses capable of ensuring sufficient wireless performance while suppressing an increase in size of the image pickup apparatuses, are provided. An image pickup apparatus includes a rectangular wireless antenna with an antenna pattern in a planar shape, a housing having a substantially hexahedral shape and including a conductive member, and a wireless cover that forms a part of a ridge extending between a rear surface and an upper surface of the housing. The wireless cover is formed of a non-conductive member. The wireless antenna is arranged inside the image pickup apparatus while facing the wireless cover at a predetermined angle with respect to the housing around an axis extending in a width direction of the image pickup apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yamagata, Yuko Teruya, Yuta Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12712268
    Abstract: In an embodiment, this electronic device comprises: a housing forming the exterior of the electronic device; and an antenna structure provided inside the housing, wherein the antenna structure may comprise: a first coil; a second coil located to be adjacent to the first coil so as to overlap the first coil in a region of the first coil; and a first shielding member located between the first coil and the second coil. Various other embodiments can be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jungyouel Bang
  • Patent number: 12706373
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a wearable electronic device includes: a housing, a first conductive pattern disposed in an internal space of the housing, at least one second conductive pattern disposed within a specified distance of the first conductive pattern, a wireless communication circuit disposed in the internal space and configured to transmit and/or receive a radio signal in a designated frequency band through the first conductive pattern, and a touch sensor module disposed in the internal space and configured to detect a touch on the housing through the first conductive pattern. The second conductive pattern may be disposed at a position capable of being capacitively coupled with the first conductive pattern upon the touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donguk Choi, Yongjoo Shin, Jeonghoon Kim, Yoseb Oh, Jaebong Chun, Inyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 12704620
    Abstract: An active radio-frequency (RF) sensing technology for determining the relative and/or absolute state (e.g., position, velocity, and/or acceleration) of a target object (e.g., a person, a car, a truck a lamp post, a utility pole, a building) is described. The sensors described herein operate in the Terahertz band (300 GHz to 3 THz). An active RF sensing device comprises a substrate and first and second semiconductor dies mounted on the substrate. The first semiconductor die has an RF transmit antenna array integrated thereon, and the transmit antenna array comprises a first plurality of RF antennas configured to generate an RF signals having frequency content in the 300 GHz-3 THz band. The second semiconductor die has an RF receive antenna array integrated thereon, and the receive antenna array comprises a second plurality of RF antennas configured to receive RF signals having frequency content in the 300 GHz-3 THz band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: TeraDar, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory L. Charvat, Nicholas Saiz, Matthew Carey
  • Patent number: 12696149
    Abstract: The present application relates to methods and apparatuses for handling failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Le Yan, Lianhai Wu, Mingzeng Dai, Congchi Zhang, Yibin Zhuo
  • Patent number: 12695190
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes a signal source substrate, a feeding substrate, an intermediate substrate, a bridge substrate, a jointing element, and a modulation structure. The feeding substrate is partially disposed on the signal source substrate. The feeding substrate includes a second base. A first portion of the second base is disposed on the signal source substrate. A second portion of the second base is disposed outside an area of the signal source substrate. The intermediate substrate is disposed on the first portion of the feeding substrate. The bridge substrate is disposed on the intermediate substrate. The jointing element joints the bridge substrate, the intermediate substrate, the feeding substrate, and the signal source substrate. The modulation structure is disposed on the second portion of the feeding substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: AUO Corporation
    Inventors: Chuang Yueh Lin, Yi-Hsiang Lai, Ching-Huan Lin, Chun-I Wu, Yi-Chen Hsieh
  • Patent number: 12695193
    Abstract: In an antenna module, a supporting member has an outer wall and an inner wall which form an accommodation groove. A main portion of the coil is accommodated in the accommodation groove of the supporting member at least in part. End portions of the coil are connected to an FP. A lead portion of the FP is laid out to an outside of the supporting member. The supporting member has a first flange portion protruding from the outer wall in a first orientation and a second flange portion protruding from the outer wall in a second orientation. A part of the main portion of the coil is located under each of the first flange portion and the second flange portion when viewed from above. A magnetic sheet is attached to an upper part of the outer wall so that the magnetic sheet covers partly the main portion of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Ishizaki, Norimitsu Hoshi, Yoshihiro Saito, Katsuaki Tamashiro
  • Patent number: 12695215
    Abstract: There is provided an array antenna and a method of generating circularly polarized beams using an array antenna, the array antenna comprising, a plurality of sub-arrays, each of the plurality of sub-arrays comprising, a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element comprising a first feeding port and a second feeding port; a physical integrated circuit (IC) comprising a plurality of first and second output channels; a first feeding network comprising a plurality of first feed lines communicatively coupling each of the first output channels of the physical IC to a first feeding port of each of the plurality of antenna elements; and a second feeding network comprising a plurality of second feed lines communicatively coupling each of the second output channels of the physical IC to a second feeding port of each of the plurality of antenna elements; wherein the physical IC is configured to excite the plurality of antenna elements via the first feeding network to generate a first circularly polarized (CP) be
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Xianming Qing, Xinyi Tang, Nasimuddin, Yijun Zhou
  • Patent number: 12683284
    Abstract: An antenna for omnidirectional coverage and directional beam forming includes a multimode biconical waveguide with a first conical structure having a first base and a first apex, a second conical structure having a second base and a second apex, the first apex facing the second apex, and a radiation aperture. There is a coaxial interface between the first conical structure and the second conical structure that includes a coaxial waveguide to direct electromagnetic (EM) energy into the radiation aperture. An active electronic phased array (ASEA) included with the antenna controls independent sources of EM wave energy that excite multiple modes of the multimode biconical waveguide and provide omnidirectional radiation and directional beam steering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard G. Edwards
  • Patent number: 12684537
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic base station functional split configuration management are provided. In one embodiment, a system for base station functional split management for uplink fronthaul traffic comprises: a baseband controller coupled to a plurality of radio units via a fronthaul network, wherein the plurality of radio units comprise a signal zone from which uplink signals are combined by the base station: a split controller configured to dynamically select and control a functional split of a respective uplink receive chain between the baseband controller and each of the plurality of radio units: wherein the functional split defines a demarcation point on the receive chain prior to which processing operations are executed by a radio unit and after which processing operations are executed by the baseband controller: wherein the split controller selects between a plurality of functional split options to dynamically control the functional split and the demarcation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
    Inventors: Sunit Kumar Sharma, Irfaan Ahamed Salahuddeen, Stuart D. Sandberg, Boaz Pianka, Arthur J. Barabell, Pradeep Prabhu