Patents Examined by Kenneth B. Wells
  • Patent number: 12160802
    Abstract: Medical emergency detection, decision-making, and support are triggered based on location of the user, and protective health documents and other information supporting the user's desired health outcomes are notified and delivered for health care use. When the user's entry into a patient care facility is detected via geofencing or another method such as beacons, and an emergency state is auto detected and/or user declared, alert notifications are triggered. The user's emergency contact information, medical history and other relevant information may be shared with emergency care personnel. Also, the user's emergency contacts and others in the user's care circle may be notified and provided instant online access to the user's protective health documents and other content provided by the user. The access to content to entities and individuals can be based on permission rights the user has predetermined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Inventor: Robert M. Deubell
  • Patent number: 12160229
    Abstract: A switch assembly for a radio frequency signal and corresponding radio frequency module and wireless device is disclosed. An example switch assembly comprises a first node coupled to an input of the switch assembly, a second node coupled to an output of the switch assembly, a first control node, and a common node; a first switch having a first plurality of transistors coupled between the first and second nodes, each transistor of the first plurality of transistors having a gate, a drain, and a source, each gate of the first plurality of transistors being coupled to the common node; a common resistor coupled between the first control node and the common node; and a second switch coupled between the first control node and the common node in parallel to the common resistor, the second switch configured to selectively bypass the common resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Blum, Ajinkya Namdeorao More, Kyle James Miller
  • Patent number: 12155378
    Abstract: In a method of operating a circuit, at a beginning of a first edge of a driving signal, a first transistor is turned ON to pull, at a first changing rate, a voltage of the driving signal on the first edge from a first voltage toward a second voltage. Then, in response to the voltage of the driving signal on the first edge reaching a threshold voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage, the first transistor is turned OFF and an output circuit is caused to start a second edge of an output signal in response to the first edge of the driving signal. The second edge has a slew rate corresponding to a second changing rate of the voltage of the driving signal on the first edge from the threshold voltage toward the second voltage. The second changing rate is smaller than the first changing rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., TSMC CHINA COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhen Tang, Lei Pan, Miranda Ma
  • Patent number: 12149237
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with high arithmetic performance is provided. The semiconductor device employs the translinear principle, and the semiconductor device includes first to tenth transistors each including a metal oxide in a channel formation region and a first capacitor. A first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first terminal of the second transistor, a first terminal of the third transistor is electrically connected to a second terminal of the second transistor and a gate of the second transistor through the first capacitor. The second terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to first terminals of the fourth and the seventh transistors and gates of the fifth and the eighth transistors. A gate of the seventh transistor is electrically connected to first terminals of the fifth and the sixth transistors, and a gate of the tenth transistor is electrically connected to first terminals of the eighth and the ninth transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Shuhei Nagatsuka
  • Patent number: 12149232
    Abstract: A bootstrapping circuit that utilizes multiple pre-charged capacitor voltages and applies the capacitor voltages to the high side FET of a GaN bootstrapping driver. During the pre-charging phase of the bootstrapping driver, multiple capacitors are charged in parallel to the supply voltage. During the driving phase of the bootstrapping driver, the capacitors are connected in series through a number of FETs and connected to the gate terminal of the high side FET of the bootstrapping driver. As a result, the gate-to-source voltage of the high side FET is equal to or greater than the supply voltage during the driving phase, increasing the driving capability of the high side FET and reducing the total required capacitance and die area of the bootstrapping driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Efficient Power Conversion Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Lee, Michael Chapman, Ravi Ananth
  • Patent number: 12149239
    Abstract: A switched current source circuit, comprising first and second voltage source nodes; a load; a current source; and capacitor switching circuitry comprising a load node, a capacitor and a plurality of switches configured, based on a control signal, to adopt a biasing configuration followed by an active configuration, wherein in the biasing configuration, the load node is conductively connected to the second voltage source node to bias a voltage level at the load node, and the capacitor is connected so that it at least partly charges; and in the active configuration, the load node is conductively connected via the load to the first voltage source node, and via the capacitor to the current source to increase a potential difference between the first voltage source node and the load node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Stephen Hunt
  • Patent number: 12143090
    Abstract: Surface acoustic wave (SAW) structures with transverse mode suppression are disclosed. In one aspect, the SAW structure provides digits or fingers with broad interior terminal end shapes. By providing such shapes spurious modes above the resonance frequency of the SAW are suppressed thereby providing desired out of band rejection that helps satisfy design criteria such as keeping a higher Q value, a higher K2 value and better Temperature Coefficient of Frequency (TCF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Tabito Tanaka, Jun Sung Chun
  • Patent number: 12143815
    Abstract: A wireless repeater holds control information for controlling a communication status of a first wireless communication path for short-range wireless communication and authentication data required to permit short-range wireless communication, automatically permits connection when receiving a connection request using the first wireless communication path from the mobile terminal, determines, when receiving an authentication request with authentication data requesting a start of wireless communication from the connected mobile terminal, whether to authenticate the authentication-request-source mobile terminal, based on a result of comparing the authentication data attached to the authentication request from the mobile terminal with the authentication data held in the wireless repeater, and sets, when the mobile terminal is authenticated, a status of the wireless repeater to a status for performing wireless communication with the mobile terminal using the first wireless communication path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Tamai
  • Patent number: 12136914
    Abstract: A control circuit is provided for a field-effect transistor with a floating source node. The control circuit includes: a charge storage device electrically connected between a gate of the field-effect transistor and a DC power supply; a gate control circuit electrically connected between the charge storage device and the gate of the field-effect transistor; and a charge control circuit electrically connected between the DC power supply and the charge storage device. The gate control circuit is configured to receive a gate control signal and operates to turn on the field-effect transistor during on time of the gate control signal and turn off the field-effect transistor during off time of the gate control signal. The charge control circuit is also configured to receive the gate control signal and operates to charge the charge storage device with power from the DC power supply during off time of the gate control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventors: Kevin David Moran, Guoming George Zhu
  • Patent number: 12136917
    Abstract: Provided is a voltage level shifter that operates in sub-threshold voltages. The level shifter includes a level shifting stage. The level shifting stage receives a first signal from a first voltage domain and outputs a second signal to a second voltage domain. The level shifter includes a first auxiliary stage. In response to the first signal having a first voltage level corresponding to a first logical state and a first node of the level shifting stage having a supply voltage level, the first auxiliary stage sources current to a second node of the level shifting stage. Sourcing the current to the second node accelerates a transition of the first node to a reference voltage. The level shifting stage outputs a second signal to a second voltage domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Kallol Chatterjee, Rohit Kumar Gupta
  • Patent number: 12127152
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a registration message including a decode key associated with a ranging service. The UE may receive, from a second UE, an encoded value and an identifier associated with the second UE. The UE may validate the identifier using the encoded value and the decode key. The UE may establish a ranging session associated with the second UE based at least in part on validating the identifier. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mayank Arora, Ankit Kumar, Rajat Aggarwal, Amar Kumar Nandan
  • Patent number: 12119813
    Abstract: Disclosed is a switch device including a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, a switch element disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal, a control line that reaches a control end of the switch element from the third terminal, a first circuit block that is disposed on the control line and is configured to drive the switch element according to a control signal supplied to the third terminal, at least one second circuit block, each second circuit block being connected to a corresponding one of branch power supply lines that branch from the control line, a first resistor disposed between the third terminal and the first circuit block, and at least one second resistor, each second resistor being disposed on a corresponding one of the branch power supply lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Yamato, Shuntaro Takahashi, Kazuki Okuyama
  • Patent number: 12119814
    Abstract: A FET switch stack has a stacked arrangement of FET switches, a gate resistor network with ladder resistors and common gate resistors, and a gate resistor bypass arrangement. The bypass arrangement has a first set of bypass switches connected across the gate resistors and a second set of bypass switches connected across the ladder resistors. Bypass occurs during at least a portion of the transition state of the stacked arrangement of FET switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: pSemi Corporation
    Inventors: Ravindranath D. Shrivastava, Alper Genc
  • Patent number: 12113512
    Abstract: Acoustic filter devices and methods of making filter devices. An acoustic filter device includes a transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator (XBAR) including a plurality of sub-resonators and conductors to connect the plurality of sub-resonators in parallel between a first node and a second node. The conductors are configured such that a path length from the first node to the second node is effectively the same through each of the plurality of sub-resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Andrew Guyette
  • Patent number: 12107578
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for performing voltage level shifting using thin-oxide devices. The methods and systems convert an input signal associated with a first voltage domain to output signals associated with the first and second voltage domains. A first set of thin-oxide devices generate a first output signal at the high-level voltage signal when the input signal comprises a high logic level and generate the first output signal at a ground level voltage signal when the input signal comprises a low logic level. A second set of thin-oxide devices generate a second output signal at a power supply voltage level of the second voltage domain when the input signal comprises the high logic level and generate the second output signal at the second bias voltage when the input signal comprises the low logic level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Vinod Kumar
  • Patent number: 12107572
    Abstract: A switch device includes a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a first sub-switch unit, a second sub-switch unit, a first resistor and a second resistor. The first switch unit is coupled to a radio-frequency terminal and coupled to the second switch unit in cascode. The first sub-switch unit is coupled to the second sub-switch unit in cascode. The first sub-switch unit is further coupled between control terminals of the first switch unit and the second switch unit. The first sub-switch unit is further coupled to a node between the first resistor and the first switch unit. The second sub-switch unit is further coupled to a node between the second resistor and the second switch unit. When the first switch unit and the second switch unit are transitioned, the first sub-switch unit and the second sub-switch unit can be turned on to discharge and/or neutralize accumulated charges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: RichWave Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Chih-Sheng Chen, Hsien-Huang Tsai, Meng-Lun Li
  • Patent number: 12101626
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a method and a device for obtaining location information of a terminal by using a mobile communication system and provide a method and a device capable of securing location and movement information of a terminal even when the terminal changes call settings or carries out a handover. In particular, a control information reception device according to the present disclosure comprises: one or more downlink signal reception units for receiving downlink signals from a base station; a control unit for obtaining control information about a terminal from the downlink signals; and a communication unit for transmitting the control information about the terminal to a location measurement server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY), INFOSEIZE SYSTEMS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Hi Chan Moon
  • Patent number: 12101430
    Abstract: A method at a user equipment, the method including receiving a string of indicia identifying at the user equipment, the string further comprising an indicator bit; based on the indicator bit, performing one of: determining whether the user equipment supports one or more indicium of the string of indicia and skipping display of characters corresponding to non-supported indicia; or displaying all indicium within the string of indicia. In other embodiments, utilizing a language delineator to choose a string of indicia to display or providing a language delineator to a network element and using the complete string of indicia received from a network element based on the provided language delineator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier
  • Patent number: 12096248
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to method and system for improving Wi-Fi performance in co-existing communication networks using learning methodologies. In recent times, most of telecom operators have expressed interest in deploying LTE (Long-Term Evolution) over the unlicensed spectrum. However, simultaneous use of unlicensed band (by operators using LTE and other Wi-Fi) presents coexistence challenges in terms of network performance especially for the Wi-Fi. The disclosed techniques enable improving the Wi-Fi performance in the co-existing communication networks based on learning methodologies. The disclosed techniques improve Wi-Fi performance based on several steps that includes detecting an interfering channel, and further identifying an optimal channel to mitigate the interference caused by the detected interfering channel. The optimal channel is identified based on an optimization technique, wherein the optimization technique is a reinforcement learning technique based on a Q-learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Garima Mishra, Nikita Trivedi, Hemant Kumar Rath, Bighnaraj Panigrahi, Shameemraj Nadaf
  • Patent number: 12081193
    Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, functional elements, an outer peripheral support layer, a cover portion, and a protective layer covering the cover portion. A hollow space is defined by the piezoelectric substrate, the outer peripheral support layer, and the cover portion, and the functional elements are disposed in the hollow space. The acoustic wave device further includes an under bump metal layer, a wiring pattern, and a through-electrode that connects these elements. In the protective layer, a through-hole to be filled with a conductor to electrically connect a solder ball and the under bump metal layer is provided. The outer peripheral support layer includes a protruding portion protruding to the hollow space. When the acoustic wave device is seen in plan view, at least a portion of the through-hole overlaps the hollow space, and an end portion of the protruding portion overlaps an inner region of the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichiro Kawasaki