Patents Examined by David S Huang
  • Patent number: 11582072
    Abstract: A three-level encoding transmitter is disclosed in which a transmitter circuit is configured to receive an input data signal including binary data and transmit an encoded data signal. The transmitter circuit can include an inverter circuit configured transmit first and second voltages for each logical level of the binary data. A transmission control circuit can cause the inverter circuit to transmit the voltages or deactivate the inverter circuit based on a first control signal. The transmitter circuit can further include an idle circuit configured to transmit an idle voltage between the first and second voltages when there is no data transmission. The idle circuit may transmit the idle voltage based on a second control signal. The first and second control signals may be configured to only be active when the other is inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEURALINK CORP.
    Inventors: SungWon Chung, Dongjin Seo
  • Patent number: 11575399
    Abstract: This electronic notch filter is able to receive an input signal and deliver a filtered signal having an amplitude, at a cut-off frequency, that is attenuated with respect to that of the input signal. It comprises a module for integrating the input signal during several successive time windows, each time window starting at a respective initial time instant and having a duration substantially equal to the inverse of the cut-off frequency, the initial temporal time instants of at least two distinct windows being separated by a temporal shift of a value greater than or equal to a predefined reference duration, each integration of the input signal during a respective temporal window resulting in a respective intermediate signal; and a module for summing the intermediate signals coming from the integration module; the filtered signal depending on the sum of said intermediate signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Gilles Masson
  • Patent number: 11569868
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, generating, by a power supply of an insulator, first output power that is at least partially consumed by an electronic device of the insulator, and generating, by the power supply, second output power that is consumed by a first waveguide device, wherein the first waveguide device is configured to obtain a first electromagnetic wave from a transmission medium, and wherein the first electromagnetic wave is guided by and propagates along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the insulator insulates medium-voltage infrastructure from low-voltage infrastructure. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Bennett, Irwin Gerszberg, Giovanni Vannucci, Farhad Barzegar
  • Patent number: 11563462
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Srijan Rastogi, Mayank Garg, Anant Shankar Kamath
  • Patent number: 11546032
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device (WCD) may transmit, to a second WCD, information for selecting transmission or reception directions for a first beam and a second beam for communications between the first WCD and the second WCD using a full duplex operation. The WCD may receive an indication to use, for the full duplex operation of the first WCD, the first beam to receive communications and the second beam to transmit communications. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM incorporated
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yan Zhou, Junyi Li, Navid Abedini, Kapil Gulati, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11545980
    Abstract: An apparatus has a plurality of multi-level comparison circuits, each coupled to a pair of wires in a three-wire communication link, a plurality of first-level clock recovery circuits and a second-level clock recovery circuit. Each multi-level comparison circuit provides a multibit signal as an output. Each first-level clock recovery circuit includes a plurality of first-level flipflops clocked by transitions in a multibit signal received from one multi-level comparison circuit of the plurality of multi-level comparison circuits, and a first delay circuit that delays an output of the each first-level clock recovery circuit to provide a first reset signal that resets the each first-level clock recovery circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Chulkyu Lee, Jeffrey Charles Lee, George Alan Wiley
  • Patent number: 11546017
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Focus Universal Inc.
    Inventors: Desheng Wang, Cailin Tian
  • Patent number: 11546024
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for optimizing channel bandwidth while increasing downlink multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output (DL MU-MIMO) gain. Depending on the access point (AP) platform, for example, APs exhibit certain characteristics regarding DL MU-MIMO gain as a function of the number of DL MU-MIMO clients associated to the AP. Accordingly, APs can be configured to operate in accordance with an algorithm that checks the number of DL MU-MIMO capable clients are associated to an AP, and dynamically switch between single- and dual-radio modes of operation to take advantage of those DL MU-MIMO gains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Amogh Guruprasad Deshmukh, Eldad Perahia, Sachin Ganu
  • Patent number: 11539395
    Abstract: Disclosed are a high-voltage pulse generator and a communication method therefor. The high-voltage pulse generator comprises a master controller and a sub-controller. Data transmitted between the master controller and the sub-controller at least comprise a first class of data and a second class of data, and, the second class of data at least comprise two types. The communication method comprises the following steps: during the present instance of transmitting a first class of data, transmitting partial types of a second class of data; during the next instance of transmitting the first class of data, transmitting other types of second class of data; and repeatedly executing the step until the transmission of all types of second class of data is completed. The present application ensures an increased real time performance in the transmission of the first class of data; moreover, controller pin resources occupied are reduced, costs are reduced, and the problem of data conflict is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Shengfang Fan, Xiaosen Chen, Fei Chen, Jianwei Hao, Wanquan Wang
  • Patent number: 11540145
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. To communicate messages using one or more grating lobes of a directional beam, a first device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a base station) may transmit, to a second device, control signaling that indicates the transmission of a message on a grating lobe. The first device may determine a set of beamforming parameters for simultaneously transmitting the message to the second device and a third device. The first device may simultaneously transmit the message to third device on a main lobe and to the second device on the grating lobe. Additionally, or alternatively, the first device may simultaneously receive a message on a main lobe and a grating lobe of a directional beam. The first device may also communicate control signaling that indicates whether to simultaneously communicate the message on the main lobe and the grating lobe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11533211
    Abstract: A system and method of DFT-S-OFDM modulation is provided that uses a set of frequency domain patterns. For a given transmitter, for a set of DFT-S-OFDM symbols, the frequency domain pattern changes according to a time domain hopping pattern. Advantageously, the time domain hopping patterns are defined to allow only a certain amount of overlap, for example for only one DFT-S-OFDM symbol, between any two time domain hopping patterns. This functions to reduce the effect of a collision, when two transmitters use the same frequency pattern, they will do so only for part of the overall transmission. Optionally, frequency domain spectral spreading is used in the transmitter. This can further reduce the PAPR. In the receiver, successive interference cancellation may be employed to reduce the effect of colliding transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 11522502
    Abstract: A wideband radio-frequency transceiver front-end is provided. The transceiver front-end includes an antenna port and a transmission path coupled to the antenna port comprising a power amplifier and a first matching network. The transceiver front-end further includes a reception path coupled to the antenna port comprising a low noise amplifier and a second matching network. Furthermore, the transceiver front-end includes an impedance inverter coupled in-between the antenna port and the second matching network. Moreover, the transceiver front-end includes a controller comprising switching arrangement for a gate and a drain of the power amplifier. In this context, the controller is configured to initiate a first reception mode by connecting the gate of the power amplifier to ground and by connecting the drain of the power amplifier to a supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: IMEC VZW, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
    Inventors: Xinyan Tang, Pierre Wambacq
  • Patent number: 11519626
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a signal transmission method, system, device, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: determining data to be transmitted by a unit in air conditioning units; and transmitting, by the unit, the data to be transmitted to other units through a designated power line in multiphase power lines, wherein the designated power line is any power line in the multiphase power lines, and the designated power line is a power line shared by all units in the air conditioning units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Jie Tang, Weiyou Yu, Tieying Ye, Chengkang Qu, Wencan Wang, Zhongwen Deng, Quanzhou Liu, Dongfeng Lai
  • Patent number: 11509032
    Abstract: A radio frequency waveguide communication system includes a guided electromagnetic transmission network, and a cooling air source. The guided electromagnetic transmission network includes one or more remote node in fluid communication with one or more waveguides. The cooling air source is in fluid communication with the guided electromagnetic transmission network and is configured to provide pressurized cooling air to the waveguide. The waveguides direct the pressurized cooling air to the remote node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Geoffrey T. Blackwell, Richard A. Poisson
  • Patent number: 11496342
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a receiver operable to receive a modulated input signal at a receiver input and output a demodulated signal at a receiver output, the receiver comprising a switch having a first current terminal and a first control terminal, the first current terminal coupled to the receiver output. The example apparatus includes a capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the second terminal coupled to the first control terminal and the first terminal coupled to the receiver input. The example apparatus includes a resistor having a third terminal and a fourth terminal, the fourth terminal coupled to the first control terminal. The example apparatus includes a voltage offset source having an input and an output, the output coupled to the third terminal. The example apparatus includes a current source coupled to the first current terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Hasibur Rahman, Yang Xu, Ariel Dario Moctezuma
  • Patent number: 11494328
    Abstract: A transmission unit, receiving unit, active transmission device and active transmission system applicable to USB signal, and is used for addressing the problem that the ping.LFPS signal is easy to lose; setting a detection threshold value to distinguish ping.LFPS signals from other LFPS signals to ensure that no ping.LFPS signals are missed; optimizing the USB3.X signal with a proxy module to generate proxy signals for ping.LFPS signals and other LFPS signals respectively; supporting and managing the Link training to improve the success rate of high-speed signal transmission by modifying circuit configuration and re-training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: EVERPRO (WUHAN) TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ting Chen, Hui Jiang, Xinliang Zhou, Yan Li, Yufeng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11489558
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wireless communication circuitry including a processor, a communication path and a channel detection path. The communication path is configured to wirelessly communicate with an electronic device by using a first channel. The channel detection path is configured to detect at least one channel different from the first channel to generate a detection result while the communication path is wirelessly communicating with the electronic device by using the first channel. The processor determines a second channel based on the detection result, and the processor controls the communication path to switch to the second channel from the first channel to communicate with the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Chen Wang, Chia-Wei Dai, Ray-Kuo Lin, Meng-Hsiang Lai, Ting-Che Tseng
  • Patent number: 11480642
    Abstract: A method for generating private eLoran signals includes receiving, by a transmitter that is configured to transmit a transmission at a fixed time, a transmission key; determining, by the transmitter, a pseudo-random transmission time for transmitting the transmission, where the pseudo-random transmission time is determined using the transmission key; and initiating transmission, by the transmitter, of the transmission at the pseudo-random transmission time. A receiving device includes a processor that is configured to obtain a pseudo-random time for receiving a transmission from a transmitter; receive the transmission at the pseudo-random time; and use the transmission to determine at least one of a time, a longitude, or a latitude at the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: UrsaNav, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Offermans, Stephen Bartlett, Charles Schue, Andrei Grebnev, John Allan, Arthur Helwig
  • Patent number: 11479279
    Abstract: An on-board device is configured for reading a telegram of a balise installed at a point along a route followed by a guided vehicle in which the on-board device is to be installed. The on-board device includes a receiver having an antenna for picking up the telegram transmitted by the balise and delivering a reception signal to a processing unit. The processing unit is configured for processing the reception signal in order to read the telegram sent by the balise. A test component is configured for adding a test signal to the reception signal before its processing by the processing unit. The test signal is configured to act as a noise for limiting a sensitivity of the receiver, making it therefore impossible to read a cross-talk signal. A method for protecting the on-board device from cross-talk is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens S.A.S
    Inventor: Pierre Pimmel
  • Patent number: 11483020
    Abstract: A gain adjustment circuit is coupled with a transmitting device and a receiving device that are in proximity to each other. The gain adjustment circuit receives a baseband signal that is generated based on gain signals and a power associated with a reception of a data packet by the receiving device. The gain adjustment circuit further receives previous transmission information of the transmitting device. The gain adjustment circuit predicts a time of transmission of a control packet from the transmitting device and determines whether the time of transmission overlaps with a time period of reception of the data packet by the receiving device. The gain adjustment circuit further generates and provides gain signals to the receiving device such that a signal interference during the transmission of the control packet and the reception of the data packet is mitigated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Sriharsha Madhira