Patents Examined by James M Perez
  • Patent number: 11855789
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a controller operable to transmit digital data messages to a receiver via a communication link having at least a first and a second transmission path, the controller comprising a first signal terminal the first transmission path and a second signal terminal for the second transmission path. The first signal terminal is operable to digitally transmit a first message to the receiver according to a first transmission technique and the second signal terminal is being operable to digitally transmit a second message to the receiver according to a second, different transmission technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Friedrich Rasbornig, Wolfgang Granig, Bernhard Schaffer, Wolfgang Scherr, Michael Strasser
  • Patent number: 11855811
    Abstract: A method and apparatus comprises acquiring set of input streams associated with a spatial layer configured for a terminal device, and estimating a channel vector h representing a radio channel response associated with the spatial layer. An interference covariance matrix R representing power of interference is computed from at least one other spatial layer in the set of input streams and correlation of the interference within the set of input streams of the spatial layer. A per-layer interference rejection is performed, combining equalization on the set of input streams, comprising: a) estimating x=R?1h as a combination of a set of linear equations, wherein the number of linear equations is defined by an input parameter to be equal to or smaller than dimensions of the interference covariance matrix; and b) computing an estimate of a transmitted symbol on the basis of the channel vector and the estimated x.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventor: Toni Aleksi Levanen
  • Patent number: 11855915
    Abstract: A base station may generate and transmit a transport stream including a sequence of frames. A frame may include a plurality of partitions, where each partition includes a corresponding set of OFDM symbols. For each partition, the OFDM symbols in that partition may have a corresponding cyclic prefix size and a corresponding FFT size, allowing different partitions to be targeted for different collections of user devices, e.g., user devices having different expected values of maximum delay spread and/or different ranges of mobility. The base station may also dynamically re-configure the sample rate of each frame, allowing further resolution in control of subcarrier spacing. By allowing the cyclic prefixes of different OFDM symbols to have different lengths, it is feasible to construct a frame that confirms to a set payload duration and has arbitrary values of cyclic prefix size per partition and FFT size per partition. The partitions may be multiplexed in time and/or frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: One Media, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Simon, Kevin A. Shelby, Mark Earnshaw
  • Patent number: 11848654
    Abstract: A technology is described for a repeater. A repeater can comprise a first port; a second port; a first-direction amplification and filtering path coupled between the first port and the second port; a multiplexer coupled between: the first-direction amplification and filtering path; and the second port; and a power amplifier (PA) coupled between the first port and the multiplexer. The repeater can further comprise an adjustable matching network coupled between the PA and the multiplexer, wherein the adjustable matching network is actively adjusted to match an impedance of an output of the PA at a selected channel over a frequency range for a first-direction signal with an impedance of an input of the multiplexer over the selected channel over the frequency range for a first-direction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Wilson Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Ken Ashworth, Patrick Lee Cook, Dale Robert Anderson
  • Patent number: 11843430
    Abstract: A signal generation method is used in a transmission device that transmits a plurality of transmission signals from a plurality of antennas at the same frequency and at the same time, in the case where larger power change is performed on a first transmission signal than on a second transmission signal during generation process of the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal, the first transmission signal and the second transmission signal are mapped before the power change such that a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the first signal is longer than a minimum Euclidian distance between possible signal points for the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11838073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of underwater communications, and discloses a bridging transmission device for underwater wireless signals, which includes a coaxial cable and two conversion assemblies. The coaxial cable can transmit the weak electric signal. The transmission device transmits and converts wireless signals by means of signal bridging between two or among more independent intelligent terminal devices, converts the electromagnetic wave signal and the weak electric signal to each other through two groups of conversion antennas, and transmits the weak electric signal under water through the coaxial cable, so the purpose of the remote transmission of underwater wireless signals can be achieved. The conversion assembly has no need to be wired to the intelligent terminal device through an interface, so the waterproof performance is good, and the universality is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Songdong Liu, Jingsong Liu
  • Patent number: 11811565
    Abstract: Amplitude noise, phase noise, and interference can be mitigated in 5G and 6G by exploiting advantages of two different modulation schemes. A message may be modulated according to a first modulation scheme, such as multiplexed amplitude and phase modulation, and then received (including noise and interference) according to a second modulation scheme, such as QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation). In addition, a compact demodulation reference can be transmitted wherein a first resource element exhibits a particular phase along with a maximum and a minimum branch amplitude, and a second resource element is blank. The receiver calibrates the amplitude levels according to the demodulation reference, calculates the phase noise according to a ratio of the two branch amplitudes, and measures the interference according to the unpowered (blank) second resource element. The receiver can then demodulate the message according to the second modulation scheme, while correcting for phase noise, fading, and interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11804891
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is configured to receive an identifier of a beam. The WTRU is configured to measure a downlink quality associated with at least one beam. The WTRU is configured to determine whether the measured downlink quality is below a threshold value. The WTRU is configured to receive at least one control channel transmission using the beam of the identifier in response to a determination that the measured downlink quality is below the threshold value, wherein the beam used to receive the at least one control channel transmission is a same beam used to receive an associated data channel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Moon-il Lee, Yugeswar Deenoo, Tao Deng, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Ravikumar V. Pragada, Mihaela C. Beluri
  • Patent number: 11799700
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for decoding are provided. An example method may include receiving a communication from a second network entity via a channel, where the communication is encoded based on multi-level coding associated with at least a first coding level and a second coding level, and where the first coding level is associated with a first set of bits and the second coding level is associated with a second set of bits. The example method may further include means for generating a first estimate of a first LLR associated with the first coding level, a second estimate of a second LLR associated with the second coding level, and auxiliary information including a third estimate of a third LLR based on the first set of bits and the second set of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Jing Jiang, Jae Won Yoo
  • Patent number: 11799704
    Abstract: Communication systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention utilize modulation on zeros. Carrier frequency offsets (CFO) can result in an unknown rotation of all zeros of a received signal's z-transform. Therefore, a binary MOCZ scheme (BMOCZ) can be utilized in which the modulated binary data is encoded using a cycling register code (e.g. CPC or ACPC), enabling receivers to determine cyclic shifts in the BMOCZ symbol resulting from a CFO. Receivers in accordance with several embodiments of the invention include decoders capable of decoding information bits from received discrete-time baseband signals by: estimating a timing offset for the received signal; determining a plurality of zeros of a z-transform of the received symbol; identifying zeros from the plurality of zeros that encode received bits by correcting fractional rotations resulting from the CFO; and decoding information bits based upon the received bits using a cycling register code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of California, Technische Universität Berlin
    Inventors: Philipp Walk, Babak Hassibi, Peter Jung, Hamid Jafarkhani
  • Patent number: 11784855
    Abstract: A data receiver circuit includes a summer circuit configured to receive an input signal that encodes multiple data symbols, and combine the input signal with a feedback signal to generate an equalized input signal, which is used to generate a clock signal. The data receiver circuit also includes multiple data slicer circuits that sample, using the clock signal and multiple voltage offsets, the equalized input signal to generate multiple samples of a particular data symbol. A precursor compensation circuit included in the data receiver circuit may generate an output value for the particular data symbol using the multiple samples. The data receiver circuit also includes a post cursor compensation circuit that generates the feedback signal using at least one of the multiple samples and a value of a previously received sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Xun Zhang, Chaitanya Palusa, Dawei Huang, Muthukumar Vairavan, Jianghui Su
  • Patent number: 11784782
    Abstract: Generating, during a first and second signaling interval, an aggregated data signal by forming a linear combination of wire signals received in parallel from wires of a multi-wire bus, wherein at least some of the wire signals undergo a signal level transition during the first and second signaling interval; measuring a signal skew characteristic of the aggregated data signal; and, generating wire-specific skew offset metrics, each wire-specific skew offset metric based on the signal skew characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS, S.A.
    Inventors: Roger Ulrich, Armin Tajalli, Ali Hormati, Richard Simpson
  • Patent number: 11777565
    Abstract: A base station selects a subset of at least one geographically separated antennas for each of the plurality of user equipments. The base station forms at least layer of data stream including modulated symbols, precodes the data stream via multiplication with the NT-by-N precoding matrix where N is the number of said layers and NT is the number of transmit antenna elements and transmits the precoded layers of data stream to the user equipment via the selected geographically separated antennas. The base station signals the subset of the plurality of geographically separated antennas via higher layer Radio Resource Control or via a down link grant mechanism. The base station optionally does not signal the subset of the plurality of geographically separated antennas to the corresponding mobile user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Eko Onggosanusi, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Runhua Chen
  • Patent number: 11777585
    Abstract: A wireless receiving apparatus generates an N?×B? weight matrix W whose columns are orthogonal to each other by decomposing an estimated N?×M? channel matrix into the N?×B? weight matrix W and a B?×M? matrix containing two or more non-zero matrix elements in each column, where B? is an integer less than or equal to N?-1 and greater than or equal to M?. Alternatively, the wireless receiving apparatus generates a combination of an N?×B? sub-weight matrix W1 and at least one second sub-weight matrix, where the product of the sub-weight matrix W1 with the at least one second sub-weight matrix is equal to the weight matrix W. The wireless receiving apparatus performs receive beamforming on received signals of N? receiving antennas using the weight matrix W or the sub-weight matrix W1. The wireless receiving apparatus then performs a BP algorithm using receive-beamformed signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: NEC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, THE DOSHISHA
    Inventors: Takanobu Doi, Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii, Takumi Takahashi, Shinsuke Ibi
  • Patent number: 11770322
    Abstract: A two-wire electronic circuit can sense a voltage across terminals of a transistor and control an electrical current of the two-wire electronic circuit in accordance with the sensed voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Leandro Fuentes, Manuel Rivas, Ezequiel Rubinsztain
  • Patent number: 11764983
    Abstract: Described herein is a data communication system using power over Ethernet (PoE) for power distribution, comprising a first and second powered device (PD), each of which is adapted to communicate with each other through an Ethernet data path (EDP) and is further adapted to receive direct current (DC) power using a PoE protocol, and a mid-span power injection device (MSPID) adapted to provide a communications interface such that data communications passes through the MSPID to and from each of the PDs, and wherein the MSPID is further adapted to provide a first DC power to only the first PD using the EDP, and to provide a second DC power to only the second PD using the EDP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: John Hartnett, Mark LaBosco
  • Patent number: 11765008
    Abstract: Communication systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention utilize modulation on zeros. Carrier frequency offsets (CFO) can result in an unknown rotation of all zeros of a received signal's z-transform. Therefore, a binary MOCZ scheme (BMOCZ) can be utilized in which the modulated binary data is encoded using a cycling register code (e.g. CPC or ACPC), enabling receivers to determine cyclic shifts in the BMOCZ symbol resulting from a CFO. Receivers in accordance with several embodiments of the invention include decoders capable of decoding information bits from received discrete-time baseband signals by: estimating a timing offset for the received signal; determining a plurality of zeros of a z-transform of the received symbol; identifying zeros from the plurality of zeros that encode received bits by correcting fractional rotations resulting from the CFO; and decoding information bits based upon the received bits using a cycling register code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: California Institute of Technology, The Regents of the University of California, Technische Universität Berlin
    Inventors: Philipp Walk, Babak Hassibi, Peter Jung, Hamid Jafarkhani
  • Patent number: 11750407
    Abstract: A digital communications port for communications with an external device over multiple conductors, the digital communications port including communication electronics for communicating radio frequency modulation (RF) communications over the multiple conductors. The digital communications port further includes bidirectional power feed electronics that are programmable to be configured to at least receive power from the external device using at least two of the multiple conductors so as to power the bidirectional power feed electronics and to power the communications electronics, or provide power to the external device using at least two of the multiple conductors so as to power the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ReadyLinks Inc.
    Inventors: Justin L. Synstelien, Brady M. Synstelien, Alec R. Synstelien, Garrett D. Synstelien, Larry D. Synstelien
  • Patent number: 11750427
    Abstract: Vector modulation is illustrated. A method includes receiving an input signal. The input signal is split into a first 0° output and a 90° output. The first 0° output is split into a second 0° output and a first 180° output using a continuous transmission line. The 90° output is split into a third 0° output and a second 180° output using a continuous transmission line. The second 0° output, the first 180° output, the third 0° output, and the second 180° output are modulated. The modulated second 0° output, the first 180° output, the third 0° output, and the second 180° output are recombined to produce an output signal, where all four of the modulated second 0° output, the first 180° output, the third 0° output, and the second 180° output are used to create the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Janez Jeraj, Larry S. Thomson, Roy E. Prymek
  • Patent number: 11742893
    Abstract: In embodiments, instead of a uniform (global) hopping pattern that is used equally by all data transmitters and data receivers of a communication system, data transmitters and the data receiver use an individual hopping pattern for the communication. This individual hopping pattern may depend on an operation and is therefore only used by the data transmitter and the data receiver themselves or by a small group of data transmitters and/or data receivers, which may significantly increase the interference immunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG, E.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Wechsler, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Dominik Soller, Jakob Kneissl, Alexej Jarresch, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer