Patents Examined by Khai M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11917575
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to automatic location of access points in a network. An embodiment of one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums includes instructions for transmitting a request from a computing device to multiple access points in a network to determine a distance between each pair of access points of the multiple access points; receiving at the computing device the determined distances between each pair of access points; generating a proximity matrix containing the determined distances between each pair of access points; solving the proximity matrix to automatically generate a set of locations for the multiple access points; and orienting the generated set of locations for the multiple access points based on known locations of one or more anchor points in a subset of the access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Vikram Raghu, Eldad Perahia, Sachin Ganu, Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Charles Lukaszewski
  • Patent number: 11909411
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein may reduce or even eliminate spurs introduced into the signals during analog to digital or digital to analog conversions. The spurs may be introduced by components such as clocks of the converter circuits. In an analog to digital conversion, the input signal may be split into two parts: the first portion passing through a first analog to digital converter (ADC) and an inverted second portion passing through a second ADC. A digital subtractor may subtract the output of the second ADC from the output of the first ADC converter thereby reducing the spurs. In digital to analog conversion, a digital input is passed through a first digital to analog converter (DAC) and an inverted digital input is passed through a second DAC. The output of the second DAC is inverted and combined with the output of the first DAC to reduce the spurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Viavi Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Michel Lecompte
  • Patent number: 11904364
    Abstract: A lens and/or a view screen of an electronic device having at least one case can be cleaned by wiping the view screen with a cleaning component wherein the cleaning component is configured to selectively couple to the at least one case or some other substrate using a magnetic attractive force. The cleaning devices may have secondary applications such as securing fly fishing lures, activating or deactivating a device having a magnetic switch, or preventing sunglasses from sinking. They may also be manufactured without a cleaning component for use with the secondary applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GUI GLOBAL PRODUCTS, LTD.
    Inventors: Walter G. Mayfield, Daniel Martin Valdez
  • Patent number: 11910196
    Abstract: A method of authenticating a passcode entered by a user on an unstable electronic computing device. The method includes receiving an indication that an input is unstable, impacting the ability of a user to provide the input; generating a dynamic keyboard including at least one alphanumeric key, the dynamic keyboard being configured to address the unstable input; presenting the dynamic keyboard to the user; receiving the input from the user, the input comprising a selection of at least one alphanumeric character of a passcode on the dynamic keyboard; and authenticating the input received from the user by comparing the at least one alphanumeric character and a stored passcode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Graham Linn, Marjorie Summit Anzalone, Andriy Fedorchuk, Robert Glenn Hamchuk, Jason Huang, Dennis E. Montenegro, Matthew Pearce, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Rajiv Ranjan, Debarchana Roy, Adam Benjamin Smith-Kipnis
  • Patent number: 11899492
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device including a rotation shaft, a first body and a second body which are foldable or unfoldable in relation to each other around the rotation shaft. The first body has a first end surface facing away from the rotation shaft and a second end surface connected between the first end surface and the rotation shaft. A first metal member is provided on the first body, includes a first and second parts connected in such a manner that the first metal member has a bent form, and constitutes a radiator of a first antenna set. The first part is arranged on the first end surface. The second part is arranged on the second end surface. A second metal member is provided on the second body, is grounded via a first switch component configured to adjust an electrical length of the second metal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Shijie Lin, Liang Gu
  • Patent number: 11897539
    Abstract: The circuit device includes an integration period signal generation circuit, a polarity switching signal generation circuit, and first and second integration circuits. The integration period signal generation circuit generates a first integration period signal kept in an active state in the first integration period. The polarity switching signal generation circuit generates a first integration polarity switching signal making a transition at a timing synchronized with the reference clock signal in the first integration period, and a second integration polarity switching signal making a transition a predetermined clock count of the reference clock signal after the transition timing of the first integration polarity switching signal in the first integration period. The first integration circuit performs an integrating process in which an integration polarity is switched at the transition timing of the first integration polarity switching signal in the first integration period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Hideo Haneda
  • Patent number: 11902317
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a server, for example a security awareness server or an artificial intelligence machine learning system that establishes a job score for a user based on the user's job title. In embodiments, the vulnerability of a user to malicious cybersecurity attacks, the propensity for the user to engage with a malicious attack, and the severity of a malicious attack likely to be sent to the user and the severity of the harm to the user's organization is the user engages with the malicious attack is represented in a user risk score. The risk score for a user of a security awareness system, or for a group of users of a security awareness system, may be calculated based on one or more of a frequency score for the user, a propensity score for the user, a severity score for the user, and a job score for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KnowBe4, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Wayne Sites, Ryan Scott Davis, Daniel James DeCola
  • Patent number: 11899121
    Abstract: This application provides an angle measurement result sending method and an apparatus. The method includes: The second device receives a reference signal sent by the first device; the second device measures the reference signal to obtain a first angle measurement result, where the first angle measurement result is a measurement result of a first measurement object, the first measurement object is a direct path or a reflection path, the first angle measurement result includes M angle measurement parameters, at least one of the M angle measurement parameters in the first angle measurement result includes a plurality of angle measurement values, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; the second device sends the first angle measurement result to the location management device; and the location management device determines the location of the first device based on the first angle measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yingjie Yu, Su Huang, Yi Wang
  • Patent number: 11902888
    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment comprising circuitry configured to transmit system information specific for aerial UEs, the system information specific for aerial UEs comprising assistance information for cell selection/reselection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma
  • Patent number: 11901632
    Abstract: A phased array antenna device for receiving a signal from a satellite includes subarrays including antenna elements and phase shifters that shift phases of signals received by the antenna elements with set phase shift values, a demodulator that demodulates the signals from the satellite with the phases shifted by the phase shifters and outputs the demodulated signals, and a controller that sets the phase shift values of the phase shifters and controls a beam direction. The controller calculates, for each of the subarrays, a direction-correction phase shift value that maximizes a power value of the signal from the satellite by being added to the phase shift values of the phase shifters included in the subarray and adds the direction-correction phase shift value to the phase shift values of the phase shifters included in the subarray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11896417
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for quantifying blood flow using time-varying kinetic modeling of high temporal-resolution dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) data. A single tracer is introduced into the body. A first set of images is acquired, via PET, of at least a portion of the body at a plurality of predetermined time intervals. Based on the first set of images, an intensity of the tracer in the at least the portion of the body is determined as a function of time. The intensity of the tracer as a function of time is modeled using a time-varying kinetic model. Based on the model, the blood flow through the at least the portion of the body is quantified. Additional images may be acquired and used to quantify additional parameter(s), such as glucose metabolism, amyloid load, etc., with the single tracer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Guobao Wang
  • Patent number: 11894596
    Abstract: A system is disclosed herein. The system includes a splitter board. The splitter board includes a microprocessor, a converter, and a bypass relay. The converter includes analog-to-digital circuitry and digital-to-analog circuitry. The bypass relay is configurable between a first state and a second state. In the first state, the bypass relay is configured to direct an input signal to the converter. The converter converts the input signal to a converted input signal and splits the converted input signal into a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is directed to the microprocessor. The second portion is directed to an output port of the splitter board for downstream processes. In the second state, the bypass relay is configured to cause the input signal to bypass the converter. The bypass relay directs the input signal to the output port of the splitter board for the downstream processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nanotronics Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: John B. Putman, Matthew C. Putman, Damas Limoge, Michael Moskie, Jonathan Lee
  • Patent number: 11886972
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory (NVM) crossbar for an artificial neural network (ANN) accelerator is provided. The NVM crossbar includes row signal lines configured to receive input analog voltage signals, multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) column signal lines, a correction column signal line, a MAC cell disposed at each row signal line and MAC column signal line intersection, and a correction cell disposed at each row signal line and correction column signal line intersection. Each MAC cell includes one or more programmable NVM elements programmed to an ANN unipolar weight, and each correction cell includes one or more programmable NVM elements. Each MAC column signal line generates a MAC signal based on the input analog voltage signals and the respective MAC cells, and the correction column signal line generates a correction signal based on the input analog voltage signals and the correction cells. Each MAC signal is corrected based on the correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Fernando Garcia Redondo, Shidhartha Das, Paul Nicholas Whatmough, Glen Arnold Rosendale
  • Patent number: 11889374
    Abstract: A moving state reporting method includes communicating, by a terminal, with a network device using a beam to carry a signal reporting, by the terminal, moving state information of the terminal to the network device, where the moving state information includes a speed flag, and the speed flag indicates that a speed of the terminal exceeds a speed threshold, and receiving, by the terminal, beam management information from the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Ning, Jian Wang, Yifan Xue, Yiru Kuang, Bin Gu, Lingxiao Lu
  • Patent number: 11889571
    Abstract: An object of the preset invention is to prevent unnecessary wireless connection from being established and to improve security. An information processing apparatus includes: a notifying unit that notifies a plurality of services which the information processing apparatus provides; a receiving unit that receives a connection request in which one service among the plurality of services is designated, from a terminal apparatus; and a controlling unit that when allowing the connection request, establishes a connection with the terminal apparatus, based on a communication method of wireless communication concerning the connection request and the designated service, and when not allowing the connection request, does not establish the connection with the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Go Inoue
  • Patent number: 11881957
    Abstract: The method comprises the steps of: the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) receiving (Step 1) user's subscription information, in order to determine an initial policy; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) applying (Step 2) the initial rules; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) triggering (Step 3) the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) for the user's service/network resource usage; the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) rating and charging (step 4) the user, in real time; the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) triggering (Step 5) a change of policy in the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF); the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) determining (Step 6) new rules for the new policy; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) receiving (Step 7) the new rules and applying them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: ALCATEL LUCENT, NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kim Brouard, Thomas Levy, Yigang Cai
  • Patent number: 11880116
    Abstract: An optical DAC includes a 1:N splitter that splits a single light beam into N light beams corresponding to bits of an N-bit electrical digital signal (where N is an integer of 2 or more) and makes the N light beams different in optical intensities such that (N?1) light beams corresponding to bits except a least significant bit of the N-bit electrical digital signal each have an optical intensity which is four times as large as an optical intensity of a light beam corresponding to a next less significant bit, an optical intensity modulator that individually intensity-modulates the N light beams, an N:1 combiner that combines the N output light beams intensity-modulated by the optical intensity modulator and outputs the combined light, and a phase shifter that is adjustable such that the light beams that are combined by the N:1 combiner are made in phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Shota Kita, Akihiko Shinya, Masaya Notomi, Kengo Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11881611
    Abstract: An antenna element includes a balun configured to convert an unbalanced signal to a balanced signal and having an input, a first output, and a second output. The antenna element further includes a feed layer having a first feed coupled to the first output of the balun, a second feed coupled to the second output of the balun, a first ridge coupled to the first feed, a second ridge coupled to the second feed, and a center post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SMITHS INTERCONNECT, INC.
    Inventor: David Steward
  • Patent number: 11876530
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes: a voltage-to-current circuit including a first input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal, a subtraction circuit including a second input terminal and a third output terminal, the second input terminal coupled to the second output terminal, a first driver circuit including a third input terminal and a fourth output terminal, the third input terminal coupled to the third output terminal, and a second driver circuit including a fourth input terminal and a fifth output terminal, the fourth input terminal coupled to the first output terminal, the fifth output coupled to the fourth output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Atul Kumar Agrawal, Kanak Chandra Das
  • Patent number: 11866687
    Abstract: Techniques are described for automated microinjection of substances, such as genetic material, into single cells in tissue samples. An example system comprises a robotic manipulator apparatus configured to hold and position a micropipette. Furthermore, the system comprises a microscope camera positioned to observe an injection site. A computing device receives image data from a microscope camera of the system, where the image data represents an image of a tissue sample. The computing device receives, via a user interface, an indication of a line traced by a user on the image of a tissue sample. In response, the computing device controls the robotic manipulator apparatus to move a tip of the micropipette along a path defined by the trajectory line. The pressure controller injects a gas into the micropipette to eject a substance out of the micropipette at one or more points along the path defined by the trajectory line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, Elena Taverna, Gabriella Shull, Wieland Huttner