Patents Examined by Dinh T. Le
  • Patent number: 11671242
    Abstract: A network platform, system and method for high volume transactions requiring verifiable transaction tracking is provided. The platform, system and method leverages the Blockchain as a ledger for tracking, e.g., bandwidth usage at a granular level, allowing for efficiency in selling parts of a pipeline, instead of the entire pipeline itself. Also provided is a platform, system and method which leverages the Blockchain to facilitate financial transactions such as trading, medical records ledgers, energy enterprises, supply chain functions, real estate asset management, intellectual property tokenization and cryptocurrency transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: OpenCT, AG
    Inventors: Moustafa Mohamed Amin, Mayande Gowon Walker
  • Patent number: 11654842
    Abstract: A wiring harness assembly includes a first flexible planar wire cable having a first plurality of separated conductors formed in a first insulating layer comprising a first substantially flat exterior surface, a second flexible planar wire cable having a second plurality of separated conductors formed in a second insulating layer comprising a second substantially flat exterior surface, and a first plurality of apertures formed in the first substantially flat exterior surface and a second plurality of apertures formed in the second substantially flat exterior surface. The first and second plurality of apertures are sized, shaped, and arranged such that an electrical connection is made between the first and second plurality of separated conductors through the first and second plurality of apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jared Bilas, Kurt P. Seifert, David G. Siegfried, David R. Peterson, Frank W. Szuba, Jr., Mark Intihar
  • Patent number: 11651885
    Abstract: Described herein are magnetic core inductors (MCI) and methods for manufacturing magnetic core inductors. A first embodiment of the MCI can be a snake-configuration MCI. The snake-configuration MCI can be formed by creating an opening in a base material, such as copper, and providing a nonconductive magnetic material in the opening. The inductor can be further formed by forming plated through holes into the core material. The conductive elements for the inductor can be formed in the plated through holes. The nonconductive magnetic material surrounds each conductive element and plated through hole. In embodiments, a layered coil inductor can be formed by drilling a laminate to form a cavity through the laminate within the metal rings of the layered coil inductor. The nonconductive magnetic material can be provided in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Junnan Zhao, Ying Wang, Cheng Xu, Kyu Oh Lee, Sheng Li, Yikang Deng
  • Patent number: 11652471
    Abstract: Biquad stage systems and methods include receiving at biquad sections a signal sample, generating, by each biquad section, a pair of output values based on the signal sample, including a first value based on fixed-point processing path and a second value emulating a floating-point processing path, and accumulating the pair of output values from each of the plurality of biquad sections to generate an output signal. The biquad stage receives an N-bit input signal, which is processed by a biquad section. Delay elements delay the signal sample before input to other biquad sections. The delayed signal sample is input to the first processing path and the second processing path of a corresponding biquad stage. By performing the processing based on two paths, a more accurate result can be found when using a reduced word length in the multiply operations resulting in a lowering of the power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Jens Kristian Poulsen
  • Patent number: 11631522
    Abstract: A coil component includes a support substrate, a coil portion including a first conductive layer being in contact with one surface of the support substrate, and a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer to be spaced apart from the one surface of the support substrate, and a body including the support substrate and the coil portion embedded in the body. One side of the first conductive layer is closer to a center of the second conductive layer in a width direction of the coil portion than one side of the second conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Min Hur, Dong Ho Han, Boum Seock Kim
  • Patent number: 11632097
    Abstract: A coupled resonator filter device is disclosed. The coupled resonator filter device includes a substrate with one or more acoustic reflector layers disposed over the substrate, a first lower electrode disposed over the one or more acoustic reflector layers, a first piezoelectric layer disposed over the first lower electrode, and a first upper electrode disposed over the first piezoelectric layer. The coupled resonator filter device further includes one or more acoustic coupling layers disposed over the first upper electrode, a second lower electrode disposed over the one or more acoustic coupling layers, a second piezoelectric layer disposed over the second lower electrode, a second upper electrode disposed over the second piezoelectric layer, and a first tuning capacitor having a first upper plate coupled to the first upper electrode and a first lower plate coupled to the first lower electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventor: Susanne Kreuzer
  • Patent number: 11626891
    Abstract: Multiplexing circuits with bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators as network elements for higher performance are provided. Multiplexing networks which support newer fourth generation (4G) and fifth generation (5G) standards may include a combination of multiplexers having a number of radio frequency (RF) filters connected to an antenna at the same time. One critical aspect of such a multiplexer design is the loading of these filters to each other, in which the static capacitance presented by a filter can be beneficial or detrimental to other filters in the multiplexing network. Aspects of the present disclosure introduce a BAW resonator to improve multiplexing network performance using the frequency-dependent capacitance, resonance, and/or anti-resonance of the BAW resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventor: José Enrique Varela Campelo
  • Patent number: 11615625
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a configurable system may be capable of verification and include a modular control unit configured to control power. The modular control unit may include a first contact element configured to receive the power, a backplate, and at least one device control assembly. Other embodiments may include a system configured for dynamically assignable pairings. Further embodiments may include a backplate configured to control power to at least one load device, the backplate including one or more power control elements. Additional embodiments may include a system including a receptacle. The system with the receptacle may include a modular control unit, a backplate, a contact element, and at least one device control assembly configured to be removably coupled to the backplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DEAKO, INC.
    Inventors: Derek Richardson, Patrick Prendergast, Cole Wilson, Erik Anderson, Dana Olson
  • Patent number: 11611331
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes a first filter located between a common terminal and a first terminal to pass a signal in a first passband, and a second filter located between the common terminal and a second terminal to pass a signal in a second passband. A first series arm circuit included in the first filter includes a first series arm resonator and a second series arm resonator. The first series arm circuit is connected to the common terminal not through a circuit including an elastic wave resonator and a connecting point of the circuit. The first series arm circuit has a first antiresonance frequency and a second antiresonance frequency higher than the first antiresonance frequency. The second antiresonance frequency is higher than a higher edge of the first passband. The first antiresonance frequency is at or lower than a higher edge of the second passband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Nosaka
  • Patent number: 11601108
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in an isolator, a first capacitive element is arranged on a first signal line. The first capacitive element has one end electrically connected to an input side circuit and having another end electrically connected to an output side circuit. A second capacitive element is arranged on a second signal line. The second capacitive element having one end electrically connected to the input side circuit and having another end electrically connected to the output side circuit. A first inductive element has one end electrically connected to a first node between the first capacitive element in the first signal line and the output side circuit. A second inductive element has one end electrically connected to a second node between the second capacitive element in the second signal line and the output side circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Sawahara
  • Patent number: 11594797
    Abstract: An electrically tunable radio frequency phase shifter with compact 3-D structure that integrates both ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials, and utilizes 3-D structure to increase the tuning efficiency and achieve miniaturization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Universtiy of South Carolina
    Inventors: Tengxing Wang, Guoan Wang
  • Patent number: 11588472
    Abstract: The technology relates to quantum computing devices and test arrangements for detecting information from the qubits of such devices. According to aspects of the technology, a Purcell filter is structured in a multi-pole architecture to provide a sharper filter response having a flatter signal pass band, sharper turn-off skirt, and enhanced out of band rejection. The system is able to determine the states of the qubits by detecting the frequency of the readout resonators of the test arrangement. The Purcell filter is configured to be sharply tuned to enable faster readout to avoid issues associated with a longer relaxation time (T1) of the qubits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Ofer Naaman
  • Patent number: 11581874
    Abstract: A signal conversion from an input signal to an output signal where the filter used is factorized so that the conversion comprises determining 1) only a first factor at each sampling time of the input signal, where this first factor is independent on the sampling times of the output signal, and 2) only a second factor at each sampling time of the output signal, where this second factor is independent of the sampling times of the input signal. This reduces the computational load for this conversion. In addition, for most filters, the factors may be calculated recursively further increasing the computational load and also reducing the storage requirements. This allows for instantaneous changes in the sampling rates or non-uniform sampling rates with low computational requirements and low memory usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Bang & Olufsen A/S
    Inventor: Pablo Martinez-Nuevo
  • Patent number: 11581883
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrical system for reducing differential-to-differential far end crosstalk (DDFEXT) includes converting a first S parameter representative of a design of a first electrical system into a differential-only S parameter, generating a second differential-only S parameter configured to add even-mode propagation delay and odd-mode propagation delay of the differential-only S parameter of the electrical system such that a total even-mode propagation delay and odd-mode propagation delay of the differential-only S parameter are substantially equivalent, and reconfiguring a second electrical system from the differential-only S parameter and the second differential-only S parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Chao Huang, Jeremy Buan, Jingqian Tian, Tadashi Ohshida
  • Patent number: 11581873
    Abstract: Dual mode filters having two reconfigurable multi-stage filters. In a dual band mode, each reconfigurable filter filters an input signal in a different band using every filter stage. In a single band mode, both reconfigurable filters are effectively divided into two sub-chains that include either the odd-numbered filter stages or the even-numbered filter stages. Together, the four sub-chains in the single band mode filter an input signal in a single band with a higher parallelization than each reconfigurable filter in the dual band mode. In some embodiments, the dual mode filter is a decimation filter. In other embodiments, the dual mode filter is a resampling filter. In still other embodiments, the dual mode filter is an interpolation filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jaiganesh Balakrishnan, Sriram Murali, Kalyan Gudipati, Venkateshwara Reddy Pothapu, Sarma Sundareswara Gunturi
  • Patent number: 11558033
    Abstract: A filter circuit includes a plurality of first resonators provided in a series arm, a plurality of second resonators provided in a parallel arm, and at least one or more third resonators that are electrically connected in series with each other and are electrically connected in parallel with the first resonators in the series arm. An anti-resonant frequency of the third resonators is lower than an anti-resonant frequency of the second resonators. A combined capacitance of the at least one or more third resonators electrically connected in series with each other is smaller than an electrostatic capacitance of the second resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Okude
  • Patent number: 11551133
    Abstract: Preparation of correlated fermionic states on a quantum computer for determining a ground state of a correlated fermionic system is provided. In various embodiments, a quantum circuit is provided that comprises a linear chain of qubits and a plurality of matchgates arranged in layers. Each matchgate is configured to perform a two-qubit rotation on neighboring qubits within the linear chain. An initial state is provided for each qubit in the linear chain, The quantum circuit is applied to the initial values, thereby preparing an ansastz on the linear chain of qubits, the ansatz corresponding to a fermionic state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, Jhonathan Romero Fontalvo, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Libor Veis
  • Patent number: 11551846
    Abstract: A coil is disposed in an element body such that a gap between the coil and a first principal surface is larger than a gap between the coil and a second principal surface, and has a coil axis along a direction intersecting with a direction in which the first principal surface and the second principal surface oppose each other. A terminal electrode is disposed on the element body such that at least a part of the first principal surface and a part of the second principal surface are exposed. The coil includes a plurality of coil conductors separated from each other in a direction along the coil axis and a through-hole conductor connecting the coil conductors adjacent to each other in the direction along the coil axis. The through-hole conductor does not overlap the plurality of terminal electrodes when viewed from the direction along the coil axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Hamachi, Kazuya Tobita, Youichi Kazuta, Yuto Shiga
  • Patent number: 11551851
    Abstract: A module substrate antenna includes: a laminate in which a plurality of ferrite layers are stacked; antennal coils provided on surfaces of the respective ferrite layers; a connection pad connected to an external circuit; and a lead wire provided between the laminate and the connection pad. In the laminate, the antenna coils are two types of the antenna coils, and the two types of the antenna coils are alternately stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: TODA KOGYO CORP., SECURITAG ASSEMBLY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Koujima, Mark Chang, Yoshiteru Kouno, Peter Yan
  • Patent number: 11545974
    Abstract: Techniques for designing, creating, and utilizing a current biased tunable qubit are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first Josephson junction (JJ) located along a first current path of the device, and a second JJ and third JJ coupled in series along a second current path in parallel with the first current path, wherein the second and third JJs facilitate controlling frequency of the device. The first JJ can be larger in area than each of the second and third JJs, wherein a current splitting ratio between the first current path and second current path can be increased thereby. The device can comprise a capacitor with a first terminal associated with the second and third JJs, and a second terminal associated with ground. Alternatively, a high kinetic inductance wire can be used in the first current path, instead of the JJ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Timothy Phung