Patents Examined by David S Huang
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Patent number: 12047126Abstract: A data transmission system having a data transmission channel (2; 21, 22) and a plurality of transmission and receiving units. The data transmission channel is an electric line which has a busbar made of an electrically insulating material and at least one electric conductor. Each of the at least one electric conductor runs in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the busbar. The lateral surface of the busbar is surrounded by one of the electric conductors and/or the busbar spaces apart at least two of the electric conductors from each other. The plurality of transmission and receiving units are arranged along the busbar, and each of the plurality of transmission and receiving units is designed to couple an electromagnetic wave into the electric line or couple an electromagnetic wave out of the electric line.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Wollitzer, Helmut Reiter
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Patent number: 12040864Abstract: The present subject matter relates to an apparatus for a communication system. The apparatus is configured for: for each beam direction of a set of beam directions of an antenna array of the communication system, determining a level of a passive intermodulation, PIM, signal at a receiver of the communication system, the PIM signal being caused by a set of signals transmitted by the antenna array in the beam direction, identifying beam directions of the set of beam directions whose PIM level is higher than a predefined threshold, adapting a beamforming of signals in at least part of the identified beam directions to mitigate the PIM level at the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Marko Fleischer, Jan Hellmann, Rene Roschke, Helmut Heinz
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Patent number: 12034221Abstract: System and method for determining the best downlink and uplink speeds, and optimal latency for a customer premise equipment (CPE) device. A series of three-dimensional positions are measured with the downlink speed, uplink speed, and latency taken at each position. The optimal downlink and uplink speeds and latency are determined. A mmWave antenna is moved to the position that coincides with the optimal downlink and uplink speeds, and optical latency.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLCInventor: Timur Kochiev
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Patent number: 12034515Abstract: Embodiments include methods for operating a user equipment (UE) in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) that utilizes one or more polarization modes for serving one or more cells. Such methods include sending, to a network node, an indication of one or more polarization capabilities of the UE. Such methods also include transmitting and/or receiving one or more signals or channels in a first cell of the NTN according to the indicated polarization capabilities of the UE. In some embodiments, the indicated polarization capabilities of the UE include: a UE type; one or more polarization modes supported by the UE; a polarization correspondence between uplink and downlink signals that is supported by the UE; and/or a list of antenna panels supported by the UE and polarization modes supported by the antenna panels. Other embodiments include complementary methods for operating network nodes, and UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Olof Liberg, Xingqin Lin, Talha Khan, Helka-Liina Määttänen, Mattias Frenne, Siva Muruganathan
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Patent number: 12034573Abstract: A transmitter includes a shift register, a lookup table, and a digital to analog converter. The shift register is configured to receive an input signal and to output delayed copies of the input signal. The lookup table is configured to store compensation values estimated based on the input signal and the delayed copies of the input signal. The digital to analog converter is configured to output a transmit signal based on the input signal and the compensation values. The compensation values are designed to mitigate distortion of the transmit signal from conversion of the input signal to a digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTDInventors: Dragos Cartina, Ankit Bhargav, Jamal Riani, Wen-Sin Liew, Yu Liao, Changfeng Loi
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Patent number: 12028131Abstract: The present disclosure relates to radio network communication. In one of its aspects, the present disclosure relates to a method, performed by a first APU, for sequential transmit precoding in a radio stripe system. The system comprises at least two APUs connected 5 in series from a CPU and serves at least two UEs. According to the method, channel estimates for channels to the served UEs are obtained and based on these, a precoding filter is determined. The precoding filter is going to be applied to signals that are to be transmitted from the first APU to the UEs. Thereafter, based on the determined precoding filter and the obtained channel estimates, effective precoded channels for the 0 signals to the UEs are determined. These represent the effective channel created after the precoding filter being applied to each channel for the UEs. The effective precoded channels are transmitted to at least one subsequent second APU.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Pål Frenger, Erik G. Larsson, Emil Björnson, Martin Hessler
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Patent number: 12015469Abstract: A method performed by a beam management system that obtains spatial and temporal measurements of a mobile terminal and geolocation information of an associated base station on a wireless communication network. The system determines a phase compensation value for the mobile terminal based on the obtained information, which is used to calculate or select coefficients for antenna elements that form an optimal antenna beam. Thus, the system can perform beam switching quickly and efficiently based on predicted spatial or temporal characteristics of the mobile terminal without needing to wait for actual beam measurements.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: ZEKU TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CORP., LTD.Inventors: Yuanye Wang, Yanming Wang
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Patent number: 12009884Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus comprising a main body and a kit connected to the main body, wherein the main body comprises a battery, a first motor, an electric wire connected to the battery and a first controller connected to the electric wire, wherein the kit comprises a second motor supplied with power through the electric wire and a second controller connected to the electric wire, wherein the first controller comprises a first signal generator configured to generate a signal to be transmitted to the kit and a first modulator configured to modulate the signal generated by the first signal generator, and wherein the signal modulated by the first modulator is transmitted to the second controller through the electric wire.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hee Gu Park, Dong Seong Kim, Kyung Jae Lee
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Patent number: 12003087Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for time-synchronized communication of packets between a first substation and a second substation interconnected by a communication channel. Samples obtained within the second substation are provided with time information associated with a common reference clock and sent to the first substation, at which a time-wise synchronization of the received samples with samples obtained within the first substation is performed by means of the time information and a time difference between the common reference clock and a local reference clock of the first substation.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Energy LtdInventor: Johan Salj
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Patent number: 12003310Abstract: A method by which a terminal performs a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: receiving setting information related to a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); transmitting the PUCCH on the basis of the setting information, the PUCCH being related to BFR of at least one secondary cell (SCell); and transmitting a message comprising information related to the BFR. The message comprising the information related to the BFR is related to a beam failure detected before a specific time point.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Jonghyun Park
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Patent number: 11996883Abstract: A computer-implemented method for recovering one or more active sub-signals from a composite signal of a blind source is provided. The method includes: performing an offline preparing process to generate a lookup table of Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT)-basic elements (WBEs); when receiving raw data of the composite signal of the blind source, performing a real-time process to recover the one or more active sub-signals of the composite signal according to the lookup table of WBEs by formulating the composite signal by a Realistic Adaptive Harmonic Model (RAHM); and generating analysis data comprising one or more attributes of the active sub-signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Inventor: Ka Luen Fung
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Patent number: 11997415Abstract: Digital or analog samples are sent from a video source to a video storage subsystem that encodes the samples into analog levels, stores the analog levels for a period of time, decodes the analog levels back into digital samples and then sends the digital samples to a video sink for display, N samples are encoded into L analog levels for storage. The storage subsystem may be located at the video source, at the video sink, or anywhere in between the two. The storage subsystem may be located on an electromagnetic pathway over which the L encoded analog levels are transmitted from a video source as an analog signal. The L encoded analog levels are written to storage and then later read from storage and retransmitted over the electromagnetic pathway toward a video sink. The storage subsystem may also be integrated with a transmitter that encodes the samples into analog levels for storage or may be integrated with a receiver that stores the analog levels and then decodes the analog levels back into samples.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: HYPHY USA INC.Inventor: Robert Steven Hannebauer
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Patent number: 11990922Abstract: The technology relates to bandwidth constrained communication systems with neural network based detection. In some embodiments, a bandwidth constrained equalized transport (BCET) communication system comprises: a transmitter comprising an error control code encoder, a pulse-shaping filter, and a first interleaver; a communication channel; and a receiver comprising a neural network processing block that processes a received signal. The error control code encoder can append redundant information onto the signal. The pulse-shaping filter can intentionally introduce memory into the signal in the form of inter-symbol interference. The first interleaver can change a temporal order of the symbols in the signal. The error control code encoder can be a low-density parity-check (LDPC) error control code encoder. The neural network can be trained with positive mappings between transmitted and decoded training signals, or negative mappings between training signals and a null space of an LDPC generation matrix.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: NTWINE, LLCInventors: Nikola Alic, Andreja Radosevic
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Patent number: 11984941Abstract: Universal Serial Bus (USB) repeater circuits and methods of operating the same for communicating data signals from a first pair of data terminals to a second pair of data terminals of the repeater. In a first channel, an amplifier stage in a receiver amplifies a differential signal received at the first pair of data terminals to generate a differential signal at first and second output nodes of the receiver, and a transmitting circuit transmits a differential signal at the second pair of data terminals responsive to the differential signal at the first and second output nodes of the receiver. The receiver includes a hysteresis stage that receives an offset in opposition to the differential signal at the first and second output nodes of the receiver. End-of-packet (EOP) dribble in USB communications in the HS mode is reduced by the offset at the hysteresis stage.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Srijan Rastogi, Mayank Garg, Anant Shankar Kamath
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Patent number: 11984942Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for power line control of devices. The system operates in two modes. In mode one, the system operates on an open loop architecture with a controller generating a sinusoidal wave using a crystal oscillator. Control information is added to the sinusoidal wave by alternating the output of two phase shifted waves which have the same frequency and amplitude to form a control signal. The resulting control signal is sent on a power line. The control signal is received using a crystal filter, decoded and converted to executable instructions for the devices and data parameters for sensors. In mode two, the system operates on a hybrid open loop/closed loop architecture where devices are jointly controlled by the controller and the sensors.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Focus Universal Inc.Inventors: Desheng Wang, Cailin Tian
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Patent number: 11984916Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for transmission setting selection. In an example aspect, an apparatus includes a wireless interface device with a communication processor and a radio-frequency front-end. The communication processor is configured to provide a signal. The radio-frequency front-end is coupled to the communication processor and configured to accept the signal. The radio-frequency front-end includes an amplifier configured to amplify the signal based on one or more amplifier settings. The wireless interface device is configured to adjust the one or more amplifier settings responsive to an output power being changed with a gain being unchanged.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Vladimir Aparin, Aidin Bassam, Nicholas Michael Carbone
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Patent number: 11973550Abstract: Beamforming communication systems with modular front-ends are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a beamforming communication system includes an antenna array partitioned into a plurality of sub-arrays, and a plurality of front-end modules each operatively associated with one of the sub-arrays. Each of the front-end modules includes at least two radio frequency (RF) transmit channels and at least two RF receive channels. Thus, the signals transmitted and received on the antenna array are processed using a multiple front-end modules servicing sub-arrays.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Joseph Kovacic
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Patent number: 11956026Abstract: A power line communication (PLC) system for a vehicle is contemplated. The system may include a plurality of power lines configured to connect at least a first node and a second node to negative and positive terminals of a vehicle battery. The system may include a filter connected to the power lines. The filter may be configured to attract a first portion of a PLC signal to the negative terminal prior to the first portion reaching the second node and to permit a second portion of the PLC signal to continue transmission to the second node.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Igal Kotzer, Shlomo Malka, Ayelet Aharon
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Patent number: 11956342Abstract: A system includes a link having one or more lanes associated with transmitting data and one or more lanes associated with transmitting a clock signal. The system includes a device coupled with the link, the device to receive a signal via the one or more lanes associated with transmitting the clock signal and determine a number of pulses associated with the signal over a period. The device is further to determine the number of pulses associated with the signal fail to satisfy a predetermined condition relating to a specified number of pulses for the period and initiate a power-down sequence in response to determining the number of pulses that fail to satisfy the predetermined condition relating to the specified number of pulses for the period.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Seema Kumar, Ish Chadha
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Patent number: 11956040Abstract: A method for a base station includes sending a request for a report on beamforming capability to a target user equipment; receiving the report on the beamforming capability from the target user equipment; allocating at least one positioning reference signal resource for use by the target user equipment based on at least the capability information included in the report; determining a beam sweeping mle based on the at least one positioning reference signal resource allocated for the target user equipment; and sending the positioning reference signal resource allocation and the beam sweeping mle to the target user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Yan Meng, Tao Tao, Ryan Keating, Jianguo Liu