Patents Examined by Janice N Tieu
  • Patent number: 12250035
    Abstract: A method includes identifying ACF information by: obtaining channel information including multiple channels of expected operation scenarios; and based on the channel information for each of the channels, determining MMSE channel estimation (CE) weights expressed in a form of ACFs and an SNR, and covariance matrices. The method includes clustering the MMSE CE weights into K clusters. A center ACF weight of each of the K clusters represents a codeword. The method includes determining a distance metric based on a cluster distance after a re-clustering. The method includes, in response to a determination that cluster distances before and after the clustering differ from each other by a non-negligibly, iteratively re-clustering the ACF information thereby updating the center ACF weights and cluster distances. The method includes generating the codebook to include an index k of each of the K clusters and the center ACF weight of each of the K clusters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeqing Hu, Xiaowen Tian, Yang Li, Tiexing Wang, Jianzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12250063
    Abstract: An orbiting multiple access transceiver communicates with terrestrial mobile stations which are also capable of communicating with terrestrial base stations. The multiple access transceiver is configured to sample a signal when a terrestrial mobile station of interest is not transmitting to produce a sample signal. The sample signal may be processed to produce an out-of-phase signal that may be applied to a signal when the terrestrial mobile station of interest is transmitting to produce a clearer signal from the terrestrial mobile station of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Lynk Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyghe Robert Speidel, Kevin Jackson, Zheng Liu, Andrew J. Gerber
  • Patent number: 12250066
    Abstract: Disclosed is a channel-dependent multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) technique with adaptive spreading codes. Adaptive spreading codes are used for each subcarrier per user which increase the security level of conventional MC-CDMA. Two different map designs are proposed: fixed and adaptive interval maps. These maps are shared among all nodes and gives information about the spreading code sequences for corresponding channel gains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventors: Hüseyin Arslan, Sanaz Naderi, Hanadi Mohammad Yousef Salman
  • Patent number: 12231283
    Abstract: A system and method for correlating a received signal is disclosed. The system may include an antenna configured to receive the received signal. The system may also include a controller. The controller may include a field programmable gate array (FPGA) including a plurality of look-up tables (LUTs). The controller may also include a plurality of registers for storing and manipulating data. The plurality of registers may be coupled to the plurality of LUTs. The plurality of registers may include a known reference register, a secondary reference register, an in-phase register, and a quadrature register. Each LUT may be configured to receive Boolean inputs from the known reference register, the secondary reference register, the in-phase register, and the quadrature register and to output correlation results based on the Boolean inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventor: William B. Sorsby
  • Patent number: 12224821
    Abstract: A method, network node and customer premises equipment (CPE) and apparatus for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Fifth Generation (5G) hybrid fiber coax (HFC)-distributed antenna system (DAS) network with machine learning beam management are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method in a network node includes determining a set of beam weights for each CPE of the plurality of CPE, each set of beam weights being associated with a synchronization signal block, SSB, beam index, each SSB index being associated with a window of time for communication between the network node and CPE associated with a beam ID; and transmitting an SSB index to CPE associated with the beam ID to indicate to the CPE the window of time for communication between the network node and the CPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Miguel Berg, Elmar Trojer, Roland Smith
  • Patent number: 12224791
    Abstract: When signals are simultaneously received from K transmission-side apparatuses by a receiving antenna, and repetition is performed by the K transmission-side apparatuses, an information processing apparatus is configured to: in order to obtain a transmitted reference signal x(k,n) transmitted from a transmission-side apparatus k (k=1, . . . , K) by the n-th reference signal transmission in the repetition, acquire a phase rotation amount ?(g,n) given to a transmitted reference signal x(k) and assigned to a group g to which the transmission-side apparatus k belongs and transmit the phase rotation amount ?(g,n) to the transmission-side apparatus k. The phase rotation amount ?(g,n) is acquired so that received reference signals from transmission-side apparatuses not belonging to the group g are cancelled when a phase rotation amount opposite to the phase rotation amount ?(g,n) is given to a received reference signal r(n), and the first to N-th received reference signals in the repetition are added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Takizawa, Masafumi Moriyama
  • Patent number: 12216213
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a system includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) configured to provide a first local oscillator (LO) signal and a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) signal; a first quadrature demodulator configured to downconvert global navigation satellite system signals to produce a first intermediate frequency (IF) signal; a first signal processing chain configured to pass the first IF signal; a second signal processing chain comprising a first frequency divider configured to produce a second LO signal based on the first LO signal, and a second quadrature demodulator configured to convert the first IF signal to a second IF signal using the second LO signal; and a third signal processing chain comprising a second frequency divider configured to produce a third LO signal based on the VCO signal, and a third quadrature demodulator configured to convert the first IF signal to a third IF signal using the third LO signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventor: Gaetano Rivela
  • Patent number: 12218733
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein provide techniques for minimum mean-square error interference rejection combining (MMSE-IRC) processing of a received signal, distributed between a baseband unit (BBU) and a remote radio unit (RRU). The RRU may perform uplink receive beamforming (e.g., using maximum ratio combining (MRC)) based on multiple channel measurements (e.g., a set of multiple sounding reference signal (SRS) channel measurements) obtained on respective measurement signals transmitted by a user equipment (UE). The RRU may send the processed signal to the BBU for further processing. The BBU may perform MMSE-IRC based on the processed signal received from the RRU, e.g., using demodulation reference signals (DM-RSs). Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Artyom Putilin, Bishwarup Mondal
  • Patent number: 12212430
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a controller area network, CAN, transceiver comprising a monitoring unit configured to execute either a first process for detecting an error at the CAN signal lines or a different second process for detecting an error at the transceiver or the CAN signal lines depending on a mode of the CAN transceiver detected by the monitoring unit. The present invention also relates to a method for the CAN transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Lucas Pieter Lodewijk van Dijk
  • Patent number: 12191961
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting signals with delays. One method includes determining, at a user equipment, a first transmit signal based on a set of modulation symbols. The method includes determining a second transmit signal based on the first transmit signal, wherein the second transmit signal is a delayed copy of the first transmit signal that is delayed by a delay, and the delay is less than a maximum value. The method includes transmitting the first transmit signal from a first antenna of the user equipment. The method includes transmitting the second transmit signal from a second antenna of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park
    Inventors: Colin D. Frank, Vijay Nangia, Hyejung Jung
  • Patent number: 12192042
    Abstract: Example wireless communication methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a relay device receives a first signal sent by a first device, where the first signal carries a plurality of bits. The relay device decodes the first signal to determine first information corresponding to each of a plurality of first bits. The first information corresponding to each first bit is determined based on a probability that the first bit is 1 and a probability that the first bit is 0. The relay device sends the first information in a second signal to a second device, so that the second device can use the first information to decode the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Tang, Zhang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12184369
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described for adaptive phase-changing device power-saving operations. In aspects, a base station determines to transition an adaptive phase-changing device (APD) into an enabled APD-PS mode and determines an APD-PS configuration for the APD that specifies a framework for operating in the enabled APD-PS mode. The base station then directs the APD to operate in the enabled APD-PS mode by communicating the APD-PS configuration to the APD and transmits or receives wireless signals using a surface of the APD and based on the APD-PS configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Patent number: 12170537
    Abstract: A radio frequency, RF, receiver circuit that is configured to simultaneously monitor a two or more different RF frequencies. The RF receiver circuit uses a sub-sampler to sub-sample an RF signal that is at any of the monitored RF frequencies, and the sub-sampled signal is then demodulated and a digital code that was encoded in the RF signal is recovered. The RF receiver circuit may be particularly low power, in part owing to using the same sub-sampler for each of the two or more monitored RF frequencies, and not relying on superheterodyning. Furthermore, monitoring two or more different RF frequencies simultaneously means that signals received on the monitored RF frequencies may be acted on very quickly. These characteristics make the RF receiver circuit particularly suitable for use in low-power wake-up receivers, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wake-up receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Philip Eugene Quinlan, Joana Rochelle Ortiz Maramba, Catherine Francisco Andaya, Erwin Paul Ramos Santiago, Vernon H. Valles, Juan Miguel Judit Ugsimar
  • Patent number: 12160291
    Abstract: A communication system for point to multipoint communications by grouping client devices based on associated modes is provided. In one example implementation, point to multipoint communication improvements are achieved by grouping a plurality of client devices by their optimal modes for communication. For example, the communication system can determine, based on channel quality indicators (CQIs) that two client devices of a plurality of client devices are associated with an optimal first mode of a modal antenna. The system can group the two client devices into a first group, the first group associated with communication using the first mode of the modal antenna. The modal antenna can communicate with the first group using the first mode of a modal antenna during a single frame of communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Kyocera AVX Components (San Diego), Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Rowson, Norik Dzhandzhapanyan, Jeffrey L. Hilbert
  • Patent number: 12160287
    Abstract: Solutions pertaining to allocating antennas of a user equipment (UE) between connections using different RATs are proposed. A UE has a first connection to a first network and a second connection to a second network, each connection employing a respective radio access technology (RAT). During operation, the UE may identify a precondition of reconfiguring the connections. For example, the UE may intend to change a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) setting of the first connection in order to release some antennas that can be allocated to the second connection to relieve a communication bottleneck thereof. Prior to reconfiguring the connections, the UE may communicate its intent to the first network. The UE may not reconfigure the connections until a confirmation is received from the first network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chiao-Chih Chang, Che-Li Lin
  • Patent number: 12155441
    Abstract: Different frequency channel allocation techniques exist for transmissions. These frequency channel allocation techniques do not explicitly take into account the position of the terminal equipment and the antenna characteristics associated therewith. In addition, these techniques consume significant calculation power in order for the frequency channels to be allocated in the best possible way between the various terminal devices. The communication method is based on the selection of a single current transmission frequency using a metric referred to as metric representative of an overlap of collecting surfaces. The overlap metric evaluates an interference level associated with a spatial overlap between collecting surfaces of a first terminal device and an interfering device for a radio signal transmission frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Isabelle Siaud, Anne-Marie Ulmer-Moll
  • Patent number: 12155743
    Abstract: A clock data recovery circuit includes an inphase-quadrature (I-Q) merged phase interpolator circuit configured to generate a first clock pair and a second clock pair from a plurality of reference clock signals, the plurality of reference clock signals having different phases, the first clock pair comprising an I clock signal and an inverted I clock signal, and the second clock pair comprising a Q clock signal and an inverted Q clock signal, a sampler circuit configured to sample input data based on the first clock pair and the second clock pair, and a control circuit configured to control phases of the first clock pair and the second clock pair, the controlling including providing a control signal to the I-Q merged phase interpolator circuit based on a sampling result of the sampler circuit, the I-Q merged phase interpolator circuit is configured to share analog inputs based on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunggeun Kim, Nakwon Lee, Jaehyun Park, Kyeongjoon Ko, Kangjik Kim, Seuk Son, Byunghyun Lim
  • Patent number: 12143253
    Abstract: A method and a device for receiving a PPDU in a wireless LAN system are presented. Specifically, a reception STA receives a PPDU from a transmission STA through a broadband and decodes the PPDU. The broadband is a 320 MHz band or a 160+160 MHz band. The PPDU includes an STF signal. The STF signal is generated on the basis of a first STF sequence for a broadband. The first STF sequence is a sequence of which a phase rotation is applied to a sequence in which a second STF sequence is repeated. The second STF sequence is an STF sequence for a 80 MHz band defined in an 802.11ax wireless LAN system. If the broadband is a 320 MHz band, the first SFT sequence is a sequence in which preset sequence M is repeated, and is defined to be the same as {M 1 ?M 0 ?M 1 ?M 0 M 1 ?M 0 ?M 1 ?M 0 ?M ?1 M 0 M ?1 M 0 ?M ?1 M 0 M ?1 M}*(1+j)/sqrt(2)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunsung Park, Jinsoo Choi, Dongguk Lim
  • Patent number: 12132539
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 12126412
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (10; 100) performs wireless transmissions via an antenna array of the wireless communication device (10; 100). The antenna array comprises multiple antenna elements with a first polarization, a second polarization, and a third polarization. For at least some of the wireless transmissions, the wireless communication device (10; 100) performs beamforming processing by, for the first polarization, weighting antenna signals each corresponding to a respective one of the multiple antenna elements by a first beamforming vector, for the second polarization, weighting antenna signals each corresponding to a respective one of the multiple antenna elements by a second beamforming vector, and for the third polarization, weighting antenna signals each corresponding to a respective one of the multiple antenna elements by a third beamforming vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Maksym Girnyk, Jonas Medbo