Patents Examined by Kenneth B. Wells
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 12074587
    Abstract: At least three acoustic filters circuits FC are arranged on a single chip CH. At least two of them are electrically connected already on the chip for multiplexing. This reduces space consumption and leads to smaller device size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: RF360 Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Florian Habel, Thomas Bauer, Peter Hagn, Thomas Dengler
  • Patent number: 12074582
    Abstract: An electroacoustic resonator comprises a substrate (3) with a piezoelectric material and an interdigital electrode structure on a top side (33) of the substrate. The electrode structure comprises a first electrode (1) and a second electrode (2) each with a busbar (20) and a plurality of fingers (10). The fingers of both electrodes interdigitate. The region of the top side between the two busbars is subdivided into two barrier regions (113), two trap regions (112) and one track region (111), the trap regions being located between the two barrier regions and the track region being located between the two trap regions. At least some fingers each comprise one barrier portion (13), two trap portions (12) and one track portion (11), wherein the barrier portion is associated with the barrier region closest to the busbar assigned to the finger, the trap portions are each associated with one of the trap regions and the track portion is associated with the track region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: RF360 Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Matthias Pernpeintner
  • Patent number: 12074589
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a first circuit, a second circuit, and a third circuit. The first transistor has one end connected to a power supply voltage terminal, the other end connected to a first node, and a gate connected to a first output terminal. The first circuit is configured to control a voltage of the first node based on a voltage of a ground voltage terminal. The second circuit is configured to control a voltage of the first output terminal based on the voltage of the ground voltage terminal and a voltage of an input terminal. The third circuit is configured to control switching between connection and disconnection between the ground voltage terminal and the first circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Chisaka
  • Patent number: 12074630
    Abstract: A transceiver includes a first integrated circuit, a second integrated circuit and an antenna array. The first integrated circuit including a transmission chain, a reception chain, and a control circuit, the transmission chain configured to transmit a first radio frequency (RF) signal and the reception chain configured to receive a second RF signal, and the control circuit configured to selectively ground any one of the transmission chain and the reception chain according to a transmission mode or a reception mode; the second integrated circuit including an active device connected to the transmission chain and the reception chain; and the antenna array including an antenna connected to the active device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngmin Kim, Hongjong Park, Iljin Lee
  • Patent number: 12074588
    Abstract: A switch device includes at least two bidirectional switches electrically connected in a cascode configuration. A first bidirectional switch and a second bidirectional switch of the at least two bidirectional switches each have a normally-on gate and a normally-off gate. Any remaining bidirectional switch of the at least two bidirectional switches cascoded between the first and second bidirectional switches has a first normally-on gate and a second normally-on gate. The switch device is actively controlled by the normally-off gate of the first bidirectional switch and the normally-off gate of the second bidirectional switch. Each normally-on gate of the at least two bidirectional switches is electrically connected to a source of another one of the at least two bidirectional switches by a voltage blocking device configured to block a portion of the voltage across the switch device when the switch device is off. Additional switch devices embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventor: Kennith Kin Leong
  • Patent number: 12074593
    Abstract: A differential multiplexer includes a number of input stages. Each stage includes, in part, first and second transistor receiving an input signal and the inverse of the input signal, a biasing circuit supplying a bias to the gate terminal of the first and second transistors, a current source coupled between a source terminal of the first and second transistors and a ground terminal, a first switch coupling a drain terminal of the first transistor to a first terminal of a first resistor having a second terminal coupled to a supply voltage, a second switch coupling a drain terminal of the second transistor to a first terminal of a second resistor having second terminal coupled to the supply voltage, a third switch coupling the drain terminal of the first transistor to the supply voltage, and a fourth switch coupling the drain terminal of the second transistor to the supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Yue, Raymond Tam
  • Patent number: 12075526
    Abstract: A wireless User Equipment (UE) delivers a priority communication service. In the UE, circuitry correlates a network Identifier (ID) for a wireless communication network with an instruction for the priority communication service. The circuitry identifies a user request for the priority communication service when the wireless UE is wirelessly attached to the wireless communication network. In response, the circuitry responsively identifies the instruction based on the correlation with the network ID. The circuitry exchanges network signaling with a radio based on the instruction and exchanges user data with the radio responsive to the exchange of the network signaling. The radio exchanges the network signaling and the user data with the UE circuitry and wirelessly exchanges the network signaling and the user data with the wireless communication network. The instruction may direct the circuitry to use an encoded public Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to identify the UE to the wireless communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Gregory David Schumacher
  • Patent number: 12075241
    Abstract: In response to a failure of a re-authentication and re-authorization procedure for a first network slice identifier currently allowed to a UE (1), the AMF node (2) initiates a release procedure to release a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with the first network slice identifier. This, for example, allows the AMF to appropriately manage a network slice configuration stored in the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tamura, Tsuyoshi Takakura
  • Patent number: 12068738
    Abstract: A configurable micro-acoustic RF filter comprises first and second filter subsections (140, 150) and at least one switch (160) to selectively bypass or activate the second filter subsection (150). The filter sections include at least one serially connected and at least one shunt connected micro-acoustic resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: RF360 Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Edgar Schmidhammer
  • Patent number: 12068520
    Abstract: A coaxial microstrip line conversion circuit includes a housing part including a protrusion protruding into the interior, a microstrip line substrate, a coaxial line including central and ground conductor parts, and a solder layer. The microstrip line substrate includes a microstrip line, a dielectric body having a recess cut into a lower surface, and a ground conductive part bent along the cut surface. The microstrip line substrate is mounted to a bottom surface of the housing part so that the recess and the protrusion fit together. A vertical distance between a lowest position of the ground conductor part facing the central conductor part and a ground surface of the ground conductive part adjacent to the cut surface is less than a vertical distance between the lowest position and a ground surface of the ground conductive part adjacent to a region of the dielectric body where the recess is not provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuaki Asahi
  • Patent number: 12058221
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards determining that information of interest, corresponding to as a meaningful event, is available to be captured and saved, and capturing the information. When an event is determined to satisfy a defined meaningful event likelihood criterion, sensor data (which can include media data), time data and location data are collected and associated with the meaningful event, e.g., in a data store. A presentation/package is generated from the various data, and maintained for subsequent access, e.g., for sending to a recipient. The presentation can include annotation data. The presentation can be conditionally marked for future presentation if and when certain condition data is satisfied. The presentation can be associated with at least one conditional gift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard Palazzo, Brian M. Novack, Rashmi Palamadai, Tan Xu, Eric Zavesky, Ari Craine, Robert Koch
  • Patent number: 12052018
    Abstract: A driver circuit includes a first deglitcher circuit that delays a rising edge or a falling edge of an input signal according to a mode control signal and supplies a first output signal. A second deglitcher circuit receives the first output signal and delays either a rising edge or a falling edge of the first output signal by a second delay according to the mode control signal and supplies a second output signal. Logic gates combine the first and second output signals to supply gate control signals for output transistors to drive the driver circuit output. A sum of the first delay and the second delay determines the total deglitch time defining a pulse width of pulses that are suppressed by the driver circuit and the second delay determines a non-overlap time. The non-overlap time overlaps in time with the total deglitch time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Péter Onódy, András V. Horváth
  • Patent number: 12041532
    Abstract: A method of system information transmission for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises broadcasting essential minimum system information (SI) of a cell of the wireless communication system with fixed scheduled on a downlink broadcast channel, wherein the essential minimum SI includes scheduling information for non-essential minimum SI of at least one of the cell and an auxiliary cell or a frequency location, the non-essential minimum SI is broadcasted with dynamically scheduled on a downlink shared channel, and the scheduling information includes a time and frequency resource configuration and an availability information for indicating whether the cell broadcasts the non-essential minimum SI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ACER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ching-Wen Cheng, Hung-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 12041510
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system including a plurality of access point (AP) devices configured to provide a wireless network at a site; and a network management system (NMS) including a memory storing client-side data collected by a plurality of client devices associated with the wireless network and storing location data associated with each of the plurality of client devices generated by a location engine in response to location requests issued by each of the plurality of client devices, and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to determine, based on at least one of the client-side data and the location data, one or more location metrics associated with the location requests issued by the plurality of client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Vladimirovich Kozin, David Luu
  • Patent number: 12041693
    Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for a wireless communication device to process network ID information. The method may include the steps of: receiving network ID information about a first network; and displaying the name of the first network on a display of the wireless communication device on the basis of the network ID information and language setting information pertaining to the network name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Ki-Dong Lee