Patents Examined by Emmanuel Bayard
  • Patent number: 12267056
    Abstract: A communications system may include radio frequency (RF) circuitry, an antenna assembly, and an RF cable coupling the RF circuitry and the antenna assembly. The antenna assembly may include an antenna and RF impedance selection circuitry coupled thereto. The RF circuitry may be configured to communicate RF signals with the antenna via the RF cable, and communicate RF impedance selection signals to the RF impedance selection circuitry via the RF cable and using an alternating pulse width modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: L3HARRIS GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph D. Majkowski, Thomas Michael DiSanto
  • Patent number: 12261635
    Abstract: Radio frequency front-end systems with filter reuse. In certain embodiments, a front-end system includes a filter, a low noise amplifier (LNA), and a switch interposed between the filter and an input to the LNA. In a first state of the switch, the filter serves to filter a radio frequency signal that is amplified by the LNA. The front-end system further includes a power amplifier that is coupled to the switch. Additionally, in a second state of the switch, the filter serves to filter an amplified radio frequency transmit signal provided by the power amplifier. Accordingly, a filter along a receive path of the front-end system is reused for transmit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lup Meng Loh, Aleksey A. Lyalin, David Richard Pehlke, Anand Raghavan, Jin Hoon Cho
  • Patent number: 12250013
    Abstract: Systems and methods for digital predistortion (DPD) are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, a digital front-end circuit includes a digital predistortion (DPD) block having a first input terminal and first output terminal, a PA having a second input terminal and second output terminal, and a transmitter coupling the first output terminal at least indirectly with the second input terminal. The DPD block is configured to receive a first input signal and to provide a first output signal having first and second components at the first output terminal. The DPD block includes a main distortion kernel that is configured to generate the first component, and a nonlinear memory kernel that is configured to generate the second component. The nonlinear memory kernel is configured to perform processing at least in part by a nonlinear envelope modulator including a linear finite impulse response (FIR) filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mir Adeel Masood, Stephane Kerrurien, Peter Zahariev Rashev
  • Patent number: 12250037
    Abstract: A beamforming selection method of a first wireless communication node is disclosed. The method includes receiving first reference signaling, transmitted from a second wireless communication node using a first beamforming setting, generating a first channel estimate based on the first reference signaling, and transmitting, using a second beamforming setting, second reference signaling for reception by the second wireless communication node, wherein each coefficient of the second beamforming setting represents a complex conjugate of a corresponding component of the first channel estimate. In some embodiments, the method further includes iterating the receiving, generating, and transmitting steps until a stopping criterion is met. For example, the stopping criterion may include that a number of iterations performed equals a maximum number of iterations, and/or that a beamforming convergence criterion is met. Corresponding apparatus, wireless communication node and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Magnus Åström, Joao Vieira
  • Patent number: 12237864
    Abstract: Wireless digital communication of information over sound waves is provided using near near-ultrasonic acoustic (audio)-spectrum. A method includes receiving a modulated data signal generated from coupled direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) at a transmitter. The modulated data signal has a phase-shift key (PSK) modulated data signal spread by different Q length chip sequence. The method includes demodulating a synchronized data signal by extracting each OFDM data block having a data symbol and preamble and postamble symbols which were transmitted on an orthogonal sub-carrier with variable Q length chip sequence for multi-user communication over air as a transmission medium. This enables synchronization of communication over the air between transmitters and receivers in multiple user devices in the presence of multiple path propagation and different signal to noise ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TRILLBIT, INC.
    Inventor: Bashkar Deo
  • Patent number: 12237878
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a signaling link that overcomes or at least reduces the limitations of RC-dominated signaling wires, improving both the bandwidth and the power consumption of signaling circuits. Both an AC and a DC signaling link are disclosed. In one example, a signaling link is provided that includes: (1) a transmitter including a passive equalizer, (2) an over-terminated receiver, and (3) a lossy channel having a first end connected to the passive equalizer and a second end connected to the receiver, wherein the lossy channel has a channel characteristic impedance that is lower than a terminating impedance of the passive equalizer and a termination impedance of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: John Poulton, Sanquan Song, Xi Chen, Walker Turner, Yoshinori Nishi, John M. Wilson
  • Patent number: 12231281
    Abstract: A method for indicating a frame structure, a method for updating a frame structure, and related devices are provided. The method for indicating a frame structure, performed by a first device, includes: determining a first frame structure based on user data to be transmitted; and when the first frame structure is different from a second frame structure corresponding to a second device, sending indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate the first frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pu Yuan, Fei Qin, Dajie Jiang
  • Patent number: 12231217
    Abstract: An unmanned vehicle (20) for relaying radio frequency signals in a tactical communications network is described. The unmanned vehicle comprises a processor (22) arranged to receive the location of a first asset (40a); select a relay site (30) from at least one relay site; and control the unmanned vehicle to move to the selected relay site, wherein at the selected relay site, communication between the first asset and the unmanned vehicle is enabled. The unmanned vehicle also comprises a receiver for receiving data from the first asset; and a transmitter for transmitting the data to a second asset (40b, 20, 10). A control unit (60) for an unmanned vehicle, a tactical communications network comprising a plurality of unmanned vehicles, and a method of relaying signals in a tactical communications network using an unmanned vehicle are all also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Alexander Luke Adams, James Miller, Philip James Marchant, Adrian Lambert
  • Patent number: 12224886
    Abstract: An electronic control device includes: a circuit board configured to be provided in a frame and to have a communication circuit capable of receiving or transmitting differential signals via a pair of signal pins; a connector configured to be electrically connected to the circuit board and to input signals transmitted from an electronic device outside the frame by single-end transmission to the communication circuit; and a noise cancellation signal output circuit configured to output noise cancellation signals corresponding to noise superimposed on the signals in the connector, wherein one signal pin of the pair of signal pins of the communication circuit is connected to the connector, and the other signal pin is connected to the noise cancellation signal output circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Toyama, Yuki Nakamura, Yutaka Uematsu, Masayoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12224833
    Abstract: This application provides a channel state information (CSI) feedback method including: a terminal device selects B complex coefficients from K complex coefficients according to a preset priority rule, and provides feedback, where K is a quantity of complex coefficients that the terminal device is allowed to feed back, and the preset priority rule is related to at least one of the following: an index value of each complex coefficient in the K complex coefficients, an index value of a reference signal port corresponding to each complex coefficient in the K complex coefficients in S reference signal ports, or an index value of each complex coefficient in the K complex coefficients in a plurality of complex coefficients that are allowed to be selected for a corresponding reference signal port, where S is a quantity of reference signal ports that the terminal device is allowed to select.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Wang, Li Fan, Shibin Ge, Hui Wang, Zhimeng Zhong, Xiaoyan Bi
  • Patent number: 12212388
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for wireless communication configured for estimating a channel using a set of predefined sensing beams to measure reference signals. Estimating the channel may include generating an N×N channel correlation matrix, where N is a number of antenna elements in the antenna array. The implementations further include generating a set of dynamic beam weights to maximize a reference signal received power (RSRP) based on the estimated channel. The set of dynamic beam weights may be based on an eigenvector of the channel correlation matrix. Additionally, the implementations further include applying the set of dynamic beam weights to an antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kang Gao, Vasanthan Raghavan, Yongle Wu, Jun Zhu, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 12206482
    Abstract: Beam management performed for user equipment in a network. A method is performed by a network node. The method includes collecting performance feedback per beam upon having started to perform a current run of a beam management procedure. The performance feedback is derived from network statistics. The beam management procedure may include determining a candidate beam set from a set of available beams. The beam management procedure may include determining a beam switching command per user equipment for at least some of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Irfan Baig, Karol Krakowiak, Bhavinkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 12199716
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for performing channel occupancy time sensing. One method includes receiving information configuring a single channel occupancy time for multi-beam transmission in an unlicensed channel. The method includes performing sensing for the single channel occupancy time. The sensing includes: omni-directional sensing at a beginning of the single channel occupancy time; directional sensing on a plurality of beams at the beginning of the single channel occupancy time; directional sensing on the plurality of beams in a time domain multiplexing manner before each transmission based on a time gap between transmissions; or some combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Karthikeyan Ganesan, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Ali Ramadan Ali
  • Patent number: 12191929
    Abstract: A delay device and a control method of transmission delay capable of performing temperature compensation are provided. The delay device includes a first current source, a second current source, a first resistor, and a delay adjustment circuit. The first current source is configured to provide a first current with a constant temperature coefficient. The second current source is connected to the first current source in parallel and is configured to provide a second current with a negative temperature coefficient. A first terminal of the first resistor is coupled to the first current source and the second current source. A second terminal of the first resistor is coupled to a reference ground terminal. The first resistor generates a control voltage at the first terminal of the first resistor according to the first current and the second current. The delay adjustment circuit is coupled to a transmission wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Montage Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenlin Xu, Lixin Jiang
  • Patent number: 12191966
    Abstract: A communication device configured to operate in a communications network that includes a network node can determine that the communication device will perform a radio link procedure (“RLP”) in a mode of operation. The communication device can further determine information associated with a channel monitoring pattern (“CMP”) based on determining that the communication device will perform the RLP in the mode of operation. The communication device can further monitor a channel between the network node and the communication device based on the information associated with the CMP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Muhammad Ali Kazmi, Santhan Thangarasa, Kazuyoshi Uesaka, Sina Maleki, Ali Nader
  • Patent number: 12191950
    Abstract: A communication device for use in a cellular network includes a plurality of antenna panels for communication with cells in a cellular network, circuitry for carrying out a panel selection process based on received power level for selecting an antenna panel, and circuitry for performing measurement cycles requiring determination of respective power levels. The circuitry for performing measurement cycles measures a first received power level from said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said neighbor cell and measures a second received power level from said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said serving cell. The circuitry for performing measurement cycles measures a third power level received for said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said serving cell and adjusting said third power level with an offset function, said adjusted third power level being used as the respective power level for said neighbor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani, Samantha Caporal Del Barrio
  • Patent number: 12184364
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first communication device with multiple antennas, operably coupled to a processor and configured to access a codebook of transformation matrices. The processor generates a set of symbols based on an incoming data, and applies a permutation to each of the symbols to produce a set of permuted symbols. The processor transforms each of the permuted symbols based on at least one primitive transformation matrix, to produce a set of transformed symbols. The processor applies, to each of the transformed symbols, a precode matrix selected from the codebook of transformation matrices to produce a set of precoded symbols. The codebook of transformation matrices is accessible to a second communication device. The processor sends a signal to cause transmission, to the second communication device, of multiple signals, each representing a precoded symbol from the set of precoded symbols, each of the signals transmitted using a unique antenna from the plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Rampart Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Brandon Robinson
  • Patent number: 12181941
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a dynamic power estimation (DPE) unit that adapts weights in real-time are described. A system includes a processor, a DPE unit, and a power management unit (PMU). The DPE unit generates a power consumption estimate for the processor by multiplying a plurality of weights by a plurality of counter values, with each weight multiplied by a corresponding counter. The DPE unit calculates the sum of the products of the plurality of weights and plurality of counters. The accumulated sum is used as an estimate of the processor's power consumption. On a periodic basis, the estimate is compared to a current sense value to measure the error. If the error is greater than a threshold, then an on-chip learning algorithm dynamically adjust the weights. The PMU uses the power consumption estimates to keep the processor within a thermal envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent F. Chaouat, Saharsh Samir Oza, Hamza Saigol
  • Patent number: 12176978
    Abstract: A communication method includes: receiving, by a network device, first information sent by a terminal device: where the first information includes capability information of the terminal device and uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) antenna switch requirement information of the terminal device, the capability information of the terminal device is used for indicating antenna switch capability supported by the terminal device, and the SRS antenna switch requirement information is used for indicating requirement for terminal device to perform SRS antenna switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Rongyi Hu
  • Patent number: 12177043
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, performed in a network node, for estimating one or more relative channel gains and one or more channel phases associated with a wireless propagation channel (H) between N transmit antennas (220) and M receive antennas (230) in a line-of-sight, LOS, multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, communication system (200), the method comprising configuring a channel equalizer to compensate for differences in complex gain over the wireless propagation channel (H) between the N transmit antennas (220) and the M receive antennas (230), configuring a phase tracker to compensate for differences in phase between a set of transmit side oscillators (240) at the N transmit antennas (220) and a set of receive side oscillators (250) at the M receive antennas (230), obtaining a set of equalizer coefficients (W) from the channel equalizer indicative of relative complex gain differences of propagation paths between the N transmit antennas (220) and the M receive antennas (230), obtaining a set of phase
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sinh Nguyen, Cristian Czegledi, Lei Bao