Patents Examined by Dominic E. Rego
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Patent number: 12294953Abstract: A portable monitoring device, including a housing, a physiological parameter acquiring circuit, a signal transmitting circuit, and a signal receiving circuit, is provided. The physiological parameter acquiring circuit is configured to acquire physiological sign parameters of a monitoring object; the signal transmitting circuit is configured to determine a transmitting frequency of a communication signal according to the current communication state, and transmit the physiological sign parameters to a wireless access point by means of the communication signal of the transmitting frequency; the signal receiving circuit is configured to receive the communication signal transmitted by the wireless access point, and perform filter processing on the communication signal of the current communication channel to suppress interference signals from other communication signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Heng Wang, Changgen Chen, Wenbin Wu, Xiangjia Li, Bin Liu
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Patent number: 12284572Abstract: A Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) device, associated with a base station, may include a processor configured to receive a request to send data to a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices. The MEC device may be further configured to determine that the data is to be delivered to the plurality of UE devices by the base station via multicast; determine signal quality values for the plurality of UE devices; select a subset of the plurality of UE devices based on the determined signal quality values; and send, using the base station, the data to the selected subset of the plurality of UE devices via multicast, and delaying or terminating delivery of the requested data to UE devices, of the plurality of UE devices, that are not in the selected subset.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Jay J. Lee, Ambreen Habib, Julian Richards, Taher Farkhondeh
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Patent number: 12267789Abstract: Disclosed are a communication technique which merges, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security-and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Donggun Kim, Soenghun Kim
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Patent number: 12267090Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication apparatuses, methods, and other aspects of sliding intermediate frequency filters for carrier aggregation communications. One aspect a high band mixer including a radio frequency (RF) receive signal input, a local oscillator (LO) input, and an IF signal output, a tunable high pass filter including an input and an output, an intermediate frequency (IF) received signal multiplexer including a merged IF CA signal output, a first input, and a second input, an LO input, and an IF signal output, where the RF receive signal input is coupled to the low band mmW CA receive port, and a tunable low pass filter including an input and an output, where the input is coupled to the IF signal output of the low band mixer, and where the output is coupled to the second input of the IF received signal multiplexer.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wu-Hsin Chen, Yunfei Feng, Vinod Panikkath, Li Liu, Sher Jiun Fang
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Patent number: 12262209Abstract: In an embodiment the method a includes performing, by an integrated circuit (IC) card hosted in a local equipment, authentication with a contactless subscriber device when the subscriber device is within a communication range of a contactless interface of the local equipment, receiving, by the IC card, an identifier (SID) identifying a software module from the subscriber device, the software module configured to enable a subscription profile for a mobile network operator, performing a checking operation at the IC card whether the SID matches a software module identifier stored in the IC card and selectively performing one of downloading the software module to the IC card, enabling the software module at the IC card or disabling the software module at the IC card as a result of performing the checking operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.Inventors: Marco Alfarano, Sofia Massascusa
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Patent number: 12256338Abstract: A terminal (10) configured for communication with a wireless network (100), the terminal comprising: —a transceiver (313) for communicating with the wireless network; —logic (310) configured to control the transceiver to transmit (510), to the wireless network, a power class capability indication identifying communication capability of the terminal in the wireless network under at least a first power class (PC-A) and a second power class (PC-B); control the transceiver to receive (550), from the wireless network, resource configuration to execute wireless communication using an identified one, or both, of said first and second power class; and control the transceiver to operate (555) with the received resource configuration using the first and/or second power class.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Erik Bengtsson, Fredrik Rusek, Kun Zhao, Olof Zander, Rickard Ljung
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Patent number: 12245163Abstract: A method for dynamically adjusting transmit power of a first device that is in communication with a second device using a wireless communications protocol includes, in part, determining, by the second device, a received signal strength indication (RSSI) associated with a signal received from the first device; determining, by the second device, a first amount of power adjustment for the first device in accordance with the determined RSSI; transmitting the first amount of power adjustment from the second device to the first device; determining, by the first device, a second amount of power adjustment for the first device in accordance with the RSSI and the first amount of power adjustment; and changing a transmit power of the first device in accordance with the second amount of power adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.Inventor: Khaled M. F. Elsayed
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Patent number: 12239504Abstract: Methods for orthodontic treatment planning include modifying a digital picture of a patient based on a tooth model produced during simulated orthodontic treatment after movement of at least one model tooth to produce a modified digital image depicting the at least one model tooth after movement. The method includes matching and morphing information from the digital picture into the modified digital image. Modifying includes matching a model tooth in the T1 model to a tooth in the digital picture and morphing that information into the modified digital image. Morphing may include projecting a model tooth in the T1 model to an image plane of the digital picture and projecting a model tooth from an intermediate T model to the image plane. Parameterization of the projections of each model may be used to develop a pixel correspondence map, which is usable during rendering of a tooth in the modified digital image.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Ormco CorporationInventors: Evan Yifeng Tsai, Bindu Saran A. p. a., Barteld Wind
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Patent number: 12232097Abstract: The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present disclosure enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as flexible simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous/assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: DALI WIRELESS, INC.Inventors: Paul Lemson, Shawn Patrick Stapleton, Sasa Trajkovic, Albert S. Lee
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Patent number: 12231595Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an alert on an eyewear device are provided. The systems and methods include receiving, by an eyewear device, from a mobile device, data indicative of a first combination of notification attributes that trigger a first alert on the eyewear device; determining that the mobile device has received a new notification based on additional data received from the mobile device; determining that a combination of attributes of the new notification matches the first combination of notification attributes; and in response to determining that the combination of the attributes of the new notification matches the first combination of notification attributes, retrieving, from a storage device of the eyewear device, a first visual indicator animation that represents the first alert; and activating a visual indicator of the eyewear device in accordance with the retrieved first visual indicator animation to generate the first alert on the eyewear device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: John James Robertson, Andrew Joseph Bartow, Samuel Ahn, Matthew Du
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Patent number: 12229478Abstract: Disclosed is an atmospheric information network comprised of a group of low earth orbit satellite-based sensors providing global coverage of the earth, together with one or more ground-based sensor networks, together with one or more mobile sensor networks, all operating to collect near-real-time or real-time data, together with data gathering from other governmental and commercial atmospheric data sources, together with software algorithms and processes for data reduction, data analysis, correlation of information, data fusion, modeling, reporting of near-real-time or real-time atmospheric conditions of air pollution and wind, and prediction of future atmospheric conditions of air pollution and wind. Such information is presented in geospatial and infographic formats on computer or mobile device displays, or electronic billboards.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Scepter IncorporatedInventors: Peter Rosti, Philip Father, Alex Ramia
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Patent number: 12224848Abstract: This application provides a data packet processing method and apparatus, applied to a satellite communications system. An earth surface, space, and network space are divided based on a satellite constellation and an ephemeris of a satellite, and an identifier is allocated to each ground area, each space area, and each network that are sub-divisions of the earth surface, space and network space, to establish a fixed mapping relationship between the EID, the SID, and the NID. In addition, each satellite maintains mapping relationship information recording the mapping relationship. Unless a satellite joins the constellation or one satellite leave service, the mapping relationship recorded in the mapping relationship information does not need to be updated. Based on the mapping relationship information, a satellite may route a data packet, thereby reducing a large amount of signaling interaction caused by establishing and maintaining a routing table in the conventional manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Meixin Lin, Xueqiang Yan, Xian Meng, Yunfei Qiao
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Patent number: 12212375Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: compare a first index with a first reference value that has been determined for the first index, the first index indicating a receiving performance of a wireless signal that has been received by a receiving antenna from a medical device; perform switching to a first mode or a second mode based on a result of the comparing; and when the switching has been performed to the second mode, set a radiation direction of the receiving antenna toward a section in which a second index satisfies a condition relative to a second reference value that has been determined for the second index, from among a plurality of sections from which the receiving antenna receives the wireless signal, the second index indicating the receiving performance of the wireless signal that has been received.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yukako Kato
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Patent number: 12207205Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, while in dual connectivity with a carrier of a second cell group, a first grant for a first communication on a carrier of a first cell group. The UE may determine an allocated power for the first cell group by a specified time offset before a start of second cell group transmissions. The UE may receive a second grant, after the first grant, for a second communication on the first cell group. The UE may transmit the first communication with a first transmit power. The UE may transmit the second communication with a second transmit power that is based on the allocated power and the first transmit power and/or a maximum transmit power for the first cell group. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Jing Jiang, Heechoon Lee, Gavin Bernard Horn, Linhai He
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Patent number: 12193412Abstract: An animal collar device may include a circuit board, a sensing component carried by the circuit board and configured to collect data about an animal, a first elongate patch antenna carried by the circuit board and having a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side opposing the first longitudinal side, and a first end and a second end opposing the first end. The first and second ends are between the first and second longitudinal sides. The second longitudinal side may include a slots. The animal collar device may include a processor carried by the circuit board and coupled to the sensing component and the first elongate patch antenna, the processor configured to communicate the data about the animal to a base station and a mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SMART TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Colby Ryan, Brent Duncan, Donny C. Lamey, Jr., Joseph T. McKee, Paulina Mosley, Eugene Van Beljon
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Patent number: 12191971Abstract: An electronic device according to the present disclosure includes a processing circuit configured to: determine an interference user according to multiple available passive signal reflection apparatuses of user equipment; determine a set of available beam pairs according to the multiple available passive signal reflection apparatuses of the user equipment; select an available beam pair from the set of available beam pairs according to the reception signal quality of the user equipment and the reception signal quality of the interference user; and adjust, into two beams, the reflecting directions of two available passive signal reflection apparatuses to which the two beams in the selected available beam pair belong.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Wei Xu, Shaoqing Zhou, Zhikun Wu, Chen Sun
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Patent number: 12191552Abstract: A waveguide based variable attenuator device including one or more attenuators each including a porous dielectric material; and a metal coating on the top of the dielectric material; and an actuator coupled to the attenuator. The actuator is configured to position, with nanometer resolution, the one or more attenuators in a waveguide configured and dimensioned to guide an electromagnetic wave having a frequency in a range of 100 gigahertz (GHz) to 1 terahertz (THz). The actuator controls at least one of a position or a volume of the one attenuator inserted in the waveguide to achieve a variable or pre-determined attenuation of the electromagnetic wave transmitted through waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Goutam Chattopadhyay, Jacob W. Kooi, Choonsup Lee, Sofia Rahiminejad, Subash Khanal
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Patent number: 12191924Abstract: Technology described herein can gather and statistically analyze time domain power data for enabling real-time adjustment of one or more parameters of a radio system. In an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a read circuit communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the processor controls the read circuit to read power data in a time domain from a radio system, and an analysis component communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the analysis component compares the power data in the time domain to a power threshold, and wherein, based on a result of the power data being compared to the power threshold, the analysis component sorts the power data into bins at a storage component communicatively coupled to the processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.Inventors: John Bradley Deforge, Sewvanda Don, Tommy Ivarsson
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Patent number: 12184379Abstract: A beam selection method and a communication apparatus are provided, which relate to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: A terminal receives a downlink reference signal from a third beam of a network device on a first beam and a second beam; then, the terminal performs RSRP measurement and MPE measurement on the first beam and the second beam separately to obtain first RSRP, second RSRP, first back-off power, and second back-off power; and when a difference between the first RSRP and the first back-off power is greater than a difference between the second RSRP and the first back-off power, the terminal sends uplink data by using the first beam. In this technical solution, the terminal may select an uplink working beam with reference to the measured back-off power of the first beam and the measured back-off power of the second beam.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaoyong Yu, Zhilin Zhao, Haiquan Yang
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Patent number: 12185219Abstract: A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for NG based context release and data forwarding for multi-hop mobility. In an example implementation, the method may include a core network entity receiving a first message from a first network node, the first message including at least one of a user equipment context release request and a data forwarding request and detecting the at least one of the user equipment context release request and the data forwarding request from the first message. The method may further include sending a second message including at least one of a user equipment context release command and data forwarding information to a second network node based at least on the detected at least one of the user equipment context release request and the data forwarding request.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Subramanya Chandrashekar, Daniela Laselva, Ahlem Khlass, Philippe Godin