Patents Examined by Fitwi Y Hailegiorgis
  • Patent number: 12199724
    Abstract: A method includes determining one or more delay values and one or more phase shift values for generation of multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams. The method also includes configuring one or more true-time delay (TTD) elements and one or more phase shifters of a transceiver based on the one or more delay values and the one or more phase shift values, the transceiver having one or more radio-frequency (RF) chains connected to multiple antennas via the one or more TTD elements and the one or more phase shifters. The method also includes operating the transceiver to generate the multiple desired frequency-dependent analog beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam, Shadi Abu-Surra, Jianhua Mo, Gang Xu, Jin Yuan, Ahmad AlAmmouri, Boon Loong Ng, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12199619
    Abstract: A receiver includes a multi-phase clock generator to generate phases of a clock signal and a global phase interpolator (PI) circuit coupled to the multi-phase clock generator and to clock and data recovery (CDR) circuitry. The global PI circuit generates initial-adjusted phases from the phases of the clock signal based on a control signal received from the CDR circuitry. A first local PI receives the initial-adjusted phases of the clock signal and applies a first fixed phase shift to the initial-adjusted phases to generate first final-adjusted phases of the clock signal that are useable to sample a first level of multiple levels of a pulse-amplitude-modulated (PAM) data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Ofek Abadi, Omer Wolkovitz
  • Patent number: 12200576
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a feedback resource associated with groupcast data. One method includes receiving a configuration associated with a resource pool for PSFCH. The method includes receiving groupcast data via sidelink and determining HARQ feedback based at least in part on the received groupcast data. The method includes determining a PSFCH resource for the HARQ feedback based at least in part on the resource pool for the PSFCH and transmitting the HARQ feedback using the determined PSFCH resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Karthikeyan Ganesan, Prateek Basu Mallick, Joachim Loehr, Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Vijay Nangia, Robert T. Love
  • Patent number: 12188963
    Abstract: An oscilloscope includes a memory that stores instructions; and a processor that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the oscilloscope to obtain a measurement of a first radio frequency signal; split a first spectrum based on the first radio frequency signal into a first low-frequency band and a first high-frequency band; perform a first Fourier transform to compute a first new spectrum based on the first spectrum; compute a first waveform of the first new spectrum with noise of the oscilloscope reduced by performing a first inverse Fourier transform based on the first new spectrum; and combine the first new spectrum with noise of the oscilloscope reduced with the first low-frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: David L. Gines
  • Patent number: 12192040
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by an apparatus. Certain techniques include sending an indication that the apparatus is capable of supporting lattice reduction (LR) demodulation; receiving a first LR transformation matrix (to be used for demodulating a modulated signal); and receiving the modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jacob Pick, Shay Landis, Peer Berger, Tomer Geva
  • Patent number: 12192485
    Abstract: An on-vehicle device uploads information concerning a vehicle to an external device with a predetermined period, and includes a processor that uploads, to an external device, trimming information where a target area is trimmed from image information that is captured by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Hideaki Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12184365
    Abstract: A dual-polarized multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) mobile device is provided that includes a first array of antennas and a second array of antennas. Based upon a blockage of at least one of the array of antennas being less than a blockage threshold, the mobile device operates in a default configuration in which a default polarization selection from the second array is used in combination with a fixed polarization selection from the first array to form a first MIMO layer signal and a second MIMO layer signal. Should the blockage exceed the blockage threshold and an optional performance threshold be satisfied, the mobile device may operate in a dynamic configuration in which a dynamic polarization selection from the second array is reversed as compared to the default polarization selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Sinan Adibelli, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12170559
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may identify, based at least in part on a scaling factor, one or more phase weights associated with a transmit beam of the wireless communication device. The scaling factor is associated with a frequency in a frequency band associated with the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may generate, based at least in part on the one or more phase weights, the transmit beam. The wireless communication device may transmit a wireless communication using the transmit beam. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Surendra Kompala, Sachin Jain, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Isan Doshi, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 12155433
    Abstract: An antenna alignment device may have a camera that takes a line-of-sight image. For an antenna alignment device directed to a boresight of an antenna, the line-of-sight image is the “view” from the antenna to the surrounding environment. An antenna radiation pattern, based on the antenna type, may be overlaid on the line-of-sight image. A technician and or other user can therefore observe the radiation pattern vis-à-vis the surrounding environment. Therefore, it can be determined during the initial alignment stage, whether the antenna alignment may have to be changed to account for structures and or other blockages in the surrounding environment rather than just relying antenna alignment based on an ideal model site. The overlaying also speeds up troubleshooting as it can be used to provide clear and specific alignment instructions prior to deploying crew to the antenna site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Viavi Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Pettygrove, Jim Neuens
  • Patent number: 12155450
    Abstract: A WTRU may include a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive beam grouping information from a gNB or transmission and reception point (TRP). The beam grouping information may indicate a group of beams that the WTRU may report using group-based reporting. The group-based reporting may be a reduced level of reporting compared to a beam-based reporting. The group-based report may include measurement information for a representative beam. The representative beam may be one of the beams in the group or represents an average of the beams in the group. Alternatively, the representative beam may be a beam that has a maximum measurement value compared to other beams in the group. The group-based report may include a reference signal received power (RSRP) for the representative beam and a differential RSRP for each additional beamin the beam group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Fengjun Xi, Afshin Haghighat, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Frank La Sita, Robert Olesen, Moon-il Lee
  • Patent number: 12149316
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. Various aspects support beam switching and changing antenna array configurations for communicating in a near field range. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a beam group indicator to a network entity, and the UE and the network entity may perform beam switching operations associated with switch communication beams in association with changes to a distance between the UE and the network entity. In some such examples, the beam switching may switch from using beam weights for communications in a far field range to beam weights for communications in a near field range. Additionally or alternatively, the network entity may change configurations of an antenna array used to communicate with the UE in association with changes to the distance. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Juergen Cezanne, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Yu-Chin Ou, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 12147899
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an action selection neural network. One of the methods includes receiving an observation characterizing a current state of the environment; determining a target network output for the observation by performing a look ahead search of possible future states of the environment starting from the current state until the environment reaches a possible future state that satisfies one or more termination criteria, wherein the look ahead search is guided by the neural network in accordance with current values of the network parameters; selecting an action to be performed by the agent in response to the observation using the target network output generated by performing the look ahead search; and storing, in an exploration history data store, the target network output in association with the observation for use in updating the current values of the network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Karen Simonyan, David Silver, Julian Schrittwieser
  • Patent number: 12149311
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for special thermal density reduction by antenna thinning. A system comprises N transmit/receive (TX/RX) chains, where each TX/RX chain comprises an RFFE and each RFFE comprises one or more thermal sensors configured to measure heat in the RFFE. An antenna array coupled to the plurality of TX/RX chains. A codebook that comprises a plurality of code words configured to respond to real-time heat measurements from the thermal sensors in each TX/RX chain is configured to switch off selected TX/RX chains to reduce thermal density at the antenna array while maintaining M RFFEs switched on, where M<N and the desired beamforming gain is 10 log 10(M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oner Orhan, Brent Elliott, Hosein Nikopour, Eren Sasoglu, Shilpa Talwar
  • Patent number: 12149320
    Abstract: An operating method of a base station includes receiving, from a terminal, a user equipment (UE) capability signal including panel-related information of the terminal, determining whether to generate a panel change signal based on the panel-related information, determining a panel change of the terminal based on the panel-related information when it is determined to generate the panel change signal, and transmitting, to the terminal, the panel change signal including information regarding the panel change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunil Yum, Yangsoo Kwon, Jungmin Park
  • Patent number: 12143211
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). An operating method of a user equipment (UE) in a communication system includes performing radio resource control (RRC) signaling with a base station, determining a code rate based on an RRC configuration according to the RRC signaling, and determining a size of data using the code rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungjoong Kim, Seho Myung, Hongsil Jeong
  • Patent number: 12136977
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for hybrid beamforming. An example method can include determining a plurality of digital beamforming weights associated with a plurality of digital beamforming paths between digital beamformers and groups of analog beamforming circuits in a phased array antenna, each digital beamforming path being coupled to a group of analog beamforming circuits and each analog beamforming circuit being coupled to a respective set of antenna elements of the phased array antenna, and determining analog beamforming weights associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits. The analog beamforming weights are estimated to put analog beamforming paths associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits in a desired phase and gain relationship with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Pepin, Kim W. Schulze, Amir Agah, Dean A. De Carli, Philippe Riondet
  • Patent number: 12132815
    Abstract: A method includes providing a reference clock signal having a reference period, providing a sampling clock signal having a sampling clock period shorter than the reference period of the reference clock signal, measuring the first subperiod as a first ratio of the first subperiod to the period of the sampling clock signal, measuring the second subperiod as a second ratio of the second subperiod to the period of the sampling clock signal, detecting a starting edge of a clock signal having a clock period greater than the reference period, producing a reconstructed reference signal based on the first ratio, the second ratio, and the detected starting edge, comparing the clock period of the clock signal with a period of the reconstructed reference signal to obtain a differential signal indicating a difference therebetween, and providing the differential signal to user circuitry for calibrating the clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Riccardo Condorelli, Antonino Mondello, Michele Alessandro Carrano
  • Patent number: 12119905
    Abstract: A wireless audio system including a transmitter using multiple antenna diversity techniques for different signal types is provided. Multipath performance may be optimized, along with improved spectral efficiency of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rodriguez, Robert Mamola
  • Patent number: 12113596
    Abstract: An electronic device, which comprises a memory, a processor, and a serial number length adjustment program stored in the memory and operable on the processor is disclosed. The serial number length adjustment program is executed by the processor to implement following functions: performing an angle estimation algorithm on all user equipments (UEs) through a low-frequency band to estimate beam angles of the UEs relative to the electronic device; generating high-frequency band beams of the UEs relative to the electronic device according to the estimated beam angles; and enabling the electronic device to communicate with the UEs according to the generated high-frequency band beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Nanning FuLian FuGui Precision Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Sheng Li
  • Patent number: 12113600
    Abstract: A method for wireless communication is disclosed, wherein an access node is configured to transmit signals using beamforming to a user device, wherein transmitting signals using beamforming comprises transmitting signals using a selected beam of a plurality of available beams, and wherein beam tracking comprises measurements by the user device on a candidate set of beams of the plurality of available beams for beam selection. The method comprises predicting a future trajectory for the user device, and determining the candidate set of beams based on the predicted future trajectory. In some embodiments, determining the candidate set of beams based on the predicted future trajectory comprises giving preference to available beams covering the predicted future trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Bhavinkumar Patel, Per Fryking, Håkan Schang, Jianmin Hou