Patents Examined by Emmanuel Bayard
  • Patent number: 11431362
    Abstract: A low noise block down converter for receiving satellite broadcasting comprises an input terminal; a low noise amplifying unit including one or more low noise amplifiers configured to amplify a signal received from the input terminal, and a built-in cavity waveguide band pass filter configured to pass a frequency band being higher or lower than a frequency band of a predetermined terrestrial transmission signal among satellite broadcasting frequency bands of signals amplified by the one or more low noise amplifiers; and a mixer configured to convert the signal output from the low noise amplifying unit into an intermediate frequency signal by mixing the signal output from the low noise amplifying unit with a local oscillation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ATRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Youn Gil Jang
  • Patent number: 11431363
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes: a module board; a first semiconductor device containing a first power amplifier and a second power amplifier, the first power amplifier being configured to amplify a radio frequency signal of a first communication band, the second power amplifier being configured to amplify a radio frequency signal of a second communication band, the second communication band being different from the first communication band; and a second semiconductor device containing a control circuit configured to control the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier. In the radio frequency module, the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device are stacked together and disposed on the module board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Matsumoto, Takayuki Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 11431540
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a signal generator which, in operation, generates a signal having an aggregate physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes a legacy preamble, a legacy header, a non-legacy preamble, a plurality of non-legacy headers and a plurality of data fields; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the generated signal, wherein the legacy preamble, the legacy header and the plurality of non-legacy headers are transmitted using a standard bandwidth, the non-legacy preamble and the plurality of data fields are transmitted using a variable bandwidth that is larger than the standard bandwidth and wherein a plurality of sets of each of the plurality of non-legacy headers and each of the plurality of data fields are transmitted sequentially in a time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Hong Cheng Michael Sim, Takenori Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11411785
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer readable medium for transmitting data using polynomials and instantaneous spectral analysis. In and/or prior to the transmitter, a signal may be formed by fitting the data with a Taylor series polynomial, which is projected onto Cairns series functions. The Cairns series functions are converted into Cairns exponential functions, which are combined based on frequency information to produce the set of sinusoidals with continuously time-varying amplitude, each of the sinusoidals having a different frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Astrapi Corporation
    Inventor: Jerrold Prothero
  • Patent number: 11411437
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an indication that a wireless-power receiver is located within one meter of a wireless-power transmission system and is authorized to receive wirelessly-delivered power from a wireless-power transmission system. The method includes, in response to receiving the indication, selecting a power level at which to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal using a power amplifier (PA). In accordance with a determination that transmitting the RF signal to the wireless-power receiver would satisfy safety thresholds, the method includes instructing the PA to amplify the RF signal using the power level to create an amplified RF signal, and providing the amplified RF signal to the one or more antennas. The one or more antennas are caused to, upon receiving the amplified RF signal, radiate RF energy that is focused within an operating area that includes the wireless-power receiver while forgoing any active beamforming control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Energous Corporation
    Inventors: Cesar A. Johnston, Erik Heinke, Daniel P. Lawless
  • Patent number: 11405243
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a received radio signal includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory storing computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least in part perform processing (received radio signal data with first and second signal processing chains, which respectively include first and second processing modules configured to respectively determine first output and an estimation of the first output data, and determine second output data using a neural network based on the estimation; updating parameters of the neural network based on the first output data and the second output data; and after the updating, processing the received radio signal data with the second signal processing chain, without applying the first processing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Manil Dev Gomony, Purushotham Murugappa Velayuthan
  • Patent number: 11405241
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a digital isolator includes a first metal portion, a first insulating portion, a second metal portion, a third metal portion, and a first layer. The first insulating portion is provided on the first metal portion. The second metal portion is provided on the first insulating portion. The third metal portion includes first, second, and third portions. The first portion is provided around the first metal portion in a direction perpendicular to a first direction. The second portion is provided on a portion of the first portion with a first conductive layer interposed. The third portion is provided on the second portion and provided around the second metal portion in the perpendicular direction. The first layer contacts the first conductive layer and an other portion of the first portion and is provided around a bottom portion of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ohguro, Tatsuhiro Oda, Kenichi Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 11398843
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes: a module board including a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the module board; an antenna connection terminal; a filter that is on the first principal surface and connected to the antenna connection terminal, wherein the filter includes one or more inductors and one or more capacitors, and is configured to allow a transmission signal and a reception signal to pass through; and a reception low noise amplifier on the second principal surface and configured to amplify the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Sawada, Yukiya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11398931
    Abstract: Data symbols in an input signal are detected with a slicer of a DFE of a transceiver device. An output of a feedback filter of the DFE is generated, during a particular clock cycle, based on a first set of one or more data symbols detected during first one or more previous clock cycles and a second set of one or more data symbols detected during second one or more previous clock cycles. The second set is separated from the first set by a third set of one or more data symbols detected during third one or more clock cycles that occur after the first one or more clock cycles and before the second one or more clock cycles, where the output is generated without use of the third set of symbols. The output is subtracted from the input signal to generate an equalized input to the slicer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Xing Wu, Yuansheng Jin, Junyi Xu, Jian-Hung Lin, Shaoan Dai
  • Patent number: 11394597
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses provide a transmitter architecture that directly generates 4N-QAM constellation using a raw bit stream as input and that does not require a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in the signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Huan Wang, Payam Heydari
  • Patent number: 11387920
    Abstract: According to methods of performing measurements to determine a distance to a passive-intermodulation (“PIM”) source, a first RF signal comprising a first frequency and a second RF signal comprising a second frequency may be applied to a device under test. A reference signal comprising a higher-order intermodulation-product of the first frequency and the second frequency may also be generated. An output signal from the device under test and the reference signal may be digitized and a calibration measurement may be applied. A phase difference between the device under test output and the reference signal may be determined. A plurality of phase differences may be determined for multiple first frequencies, and from the plurality of phase differences, a delay may be calculated, which may be multiplied by the velocity of propagation on the medium connecting the device under test to the test equipment to determine a distance to the PIM source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: George P. Vella-Coleiro, XiaoHua Hou
  • Patent number: 11381286
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learned communication over multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy James O'Shea, Tugba Erpek
  • Patent number: 11381428
    Abstract: A device (2) for determining optimal equalizer settings (setE_opt) for an equalizer (1) for equalizing a pulse amplitude modulation signal (L0, L1, L2, L3) comprises an estimator section (21) configured for receiving at least a part of the equalized pulse amplitude modulation signal (L0?, L1?, L2?, L3?) from the equalizer (1), and for receiving an offset signal (offS), and for generating an estimator signal (estS) indicative of a percentage of signal levels of the at least a part of the equalized pulse amplitude modulation signal (L0?, L1?, L2?, L3?) which are larger or smaller than the offset signal (offS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TETRA SEMICONDUCTORS AG
    Inventors: Martin Bossard, Jörg Wieland, Denis Müller
  • Patent number: 11374705
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provides a method and apparatus for data communication in an OFDM system. The method comprising receiving by a second OFDM apparatus a plurality of parameters, a signal comprising data and at least one of a Reference Signal (RS) and a message from a first OFDM apparatus. The plurality of parameters comprises at least one of a numerology of the first apparatus, a numerology of the second apparatus, a ratio of numerology of the first apparatus to the second apparatus and a measurement window. The method includes filtering a desired band comprising the at least one of the RS and the message from the received signal, removing a cyclic prefix from the filtered signal, and decoding at least one of the RS and the message from the signal with adjusting a circular shift in the set of symbols based on the plurality of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignees: CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (IIT MADRAS)
    Inventors: Abhijeet Abhimanyu Masal, Priyanka Dey, Sunil Kaimalettu, Dhivagar Baskaran, Paka Venkata Sriharsha, Jeniston Deviraj Klutto Milleth, Bhaskar Ramamurthi
  • Patent number: 11374598
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes a module board, a transmission power amplifier, a first inductance element mounted on the module board and connected to an output terminal of the transmission power amplifier, a reception low noise amplifier, a first inductance element mounted on the module board and connected to an input terminal of the reception low noise amplifier, and a wall body made of plated metal and disposed on the module board. The wall body is disposed between the first inductance element and the second inductance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 11362727
    Abstract: A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating a timer value of a bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timer. The BWP inactivity timer associated with the timer value is started in response to switching to a first BWP as an active BWP. The BWP inactivity timer is stopped based on initiating a random-access procedure. In response to receiving a control information, the random-access procedure is stopped before the random-access procedure completes. The BWP inactivity timer is restarted based on the stopping of the random-access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei
  • Patent number: 11358845
    Abstract: A device such as an autonomous mobile device may include an extensible mast or other structure that changes length during operation. A cable between electronics at the ends of the structure includes a data line for signals and a power line for electrical power. A deployed length of the cable is determined and used to determine the phase of an antinoise signal that is radiated using the power line. The antinoise signal destructively interferes with at least a portion of the radiated noise from the data line, reducing the overall amplitude of the radiated noise. The deployed length may also be used to adjust other parameters, such as equalizer settings for one or more of a transmitter or receiver that is connected to the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Akshay Mohan, Jagan Vaidyanathan Rajagopalan, Yue Zheng, Deepak Pai Hosadurga
  • Patent number: 11349695
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for transmitting a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) includes obtaining a first spreading function for spreading a first pi/2-BPSK sequence to occupy a first subset of a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain. A first DMRS is generated by applying the first spreading function to the first pi/2-BPSK sequence. The first DMRS is transmitted to a network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Lars Lindbom
  • Patent number: 11342970
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for a selection of one or more transmission and reception points (TRPs) within a multi-TRP system. In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of the selected TRPs and an indication of one or more beams that the selected TRPs may use to communicate with the UE based on a mismatch between a default operating frequency (DOF) of each TRP within the multi-TRP system and a DOF of the UE. For example, the UE may receive an indication of a DOF of each antenna port of the TRPs within the multi-TRP system and the UE may compare the indicated DOFs with a DOF of each antenna module of the UE. The UE may select to communicate with TRPs and select one or more ports that the selected TRPs may use to communicate with the UE based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11342950
    Abstract: A system filters out-of-band radio frequency emissions generated by wireless transmission of a first signal by a first transmitter from a wireless transmission of a second transmitter. The first signal is communicated from the first transmitter to the second transmitter via one or more wired connections. An out-of-band portion of a modulated format of the first signal is inverted to generate an inverted out-of-band component signal. The inverted out-of-band component signal is combined with a second signal of the second transmitter to create a filtering second signal. The filtering second signal is wirelessly transmitted from the second transmitter concurrently with wireless transmission of the first signal by the first transmitter, wherein the wireless transmission of the inverted out-of-band component signal in the filtering second signal by the second transmitter is synchronized with the wireless transmission of the first signal by the first transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Charbel Khawand