Patents Examined by Lihong Yu
  • Patent number: 12273140
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment of the disclosure may receive an advertising frame transmitted by an external electronic device through the communication circuit through ultra-wideband (UWB) communication, may receive at least one frame among the advertising frames in a first decision period, may determine whether the number of times an angle based on the at least one frame received in the first decision period is within a specified angle range satisfies a specified condition, and may determine whether the electronic device points to the external electronic device according to whether the specified condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunchul Kim, Moonseok Kang, Yi Yang, Jonghoon Jang
  • Patent number: 12273170
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for beamforming. The method which may be at a network node and includes: obtaining channel information of a terminal device; determining a self-correlation factor of the terminal device according to the channel information; determining main lobe width according to a relationship between self-correlation factor and main lobe width; determining a weight vector on at least one transmitting antenna according to the determined main lobe width; and transmitting a message using the weight vector on the at least one transmitting antenna, to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Yue Huang, Jiying Xu, Hao Zhang, Huaisong Zhu
  • Patent number: 12273151
    Abstract: A method of over-the-air beamforming calibration is disclosed for a multi-antenna transceiver having a first plurality of antenna elements connected to respective transceiver chains. Beamforming calibration comprises determining respective beamforming calibration factors for the transceiver chains of the antenna elements of the first plurality. The method comprises determining a second plurality of measurement resources for calibration sounding, wherein the second plurality is smaller than the first plurality. The method also comprises (for each measurement resource of the second plurality) selecting one or more antenna elements of the first plurality for sounding signal transmission, wherein each antenna element of the first plurality is selected for one or more of the measurement resources of the second plurality. The method also comprises (using each measurement resource of the second plurality) overlappingly transmitting respective sounding signals by the selected one or more antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Joao Vieira, Johan Nilsson, Magnus Åström
  • Patent number: 12267140
    Abstract: Beamforming methods and systems include determining a tradeoff curve between scanning beamwidth and transmission beamwidth based on a channel distribution for a base station. A set of scanning beams is selected based on the tradeoff curve. Devices around the base station are scanned for using the set of scanning beams. A set of transmission beams is selected for communications with the devices based on information received during the scanning. The set of transmission beams are used for transmission with a beamforming transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Khojastepour, Nariman Torkzaban
  • Patent number: 12261654
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods of powerline communications using a preamble with band extension is provided. A method may include receiving a packet data unit PDU. Bit-level repetition is applied to at least a portion of the PDU to create a repeated portion. Interleaving is performed per a subchannel. Pilot tones are inserted in the interleaved portion. Each data tone is modulated with respect to a nearest one of the inserted pilot tones. The PDU is transmitted over a power line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Il Han Kim, Tarkesh Pande, Anuj Batra
  • Patent number: 12261658
    Abstract: One example method includes receiving inputs (1) specifying a total power amount for the communication system, (2) specifying communication system operational parameters, and (3) specifying a number of elements implemented in the IRS. Based on the inputs, a portion of the total power amount needed to switch an element of the IRS from a passive element to an active element, an amplification amount of the element, and the SNR of the wireless signal received at the receiver when the first element is an active element are calculated for all combinations of elements of the IRS. Based on the calculations, a number of elements implemented in the IRS are selected to switch from passive elements to active elements that will result in a maximum SNR of the wireless signal received at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Tejinder Singh, Davi V. Q. Rodrigues
  • Patent number: 12250042
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for preparing CSI. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory with instructions executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to determine a total number of non-zero coefficients associated with a CSI codebook over a set of transmission layers and encode an indication of the total number of non-zero coefficients by selecting a codeword from a plurality of candidate codewords in which the selected codeword identifies the total number of non-zero coefficients. The instructions are executable by the processor to prepare CSI based on the CSI codebook and to transmit the CSI to a base station unit, where the CSI codebook includes a plurality of precoding matrices, and where the CSI includes the selected codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Udar Mittal, Tyler Brown, Khalid Zeineddine, Jiho Song
  • Patent number: 12250014
    Abstract: Many embodiments provide a frequency comb receiver that includes a PIN diode, a THz pulse generator block that generates THz tones (LO) for coherent frequency comb detection, an on-chip antenna for broadband detection and a driver stage switched by a series of buffers, where a repetition rate of the LO tones are tunable over a range and determines a spacing between two adjacent tones in the corresponding frequency comb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Aydin Babakhani, Seyedmohammadreza Razavian
  • Patent number: 12237963
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication for a network entity, comprising transmitting signaling indicating a synchronization signal block (SSB) pattern that identifies SSB slots for sweeping a set of SSB beams over one or more SSB bursts with configurable gaps between at least some of the SSB slots, and transmitting SSBs in accordance with the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 12191976
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a beam information indication method and an apparatus. The terminal device obtains reference domain information of a plurality of beams and a first offset corresponding to each moment, to update beam domain information, where the first offset indicates an offset of domain information of the plurality of beams relative to the reference domain information of the plurality of beams. In technical solutions provided in this disclosure, domain information of the plurality of beams can be updated with low signaling overheads. The technical solutions may be applied to a satellite communication system, to implement interference management of satellite beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Wang, Yunfei Qiao, Xueliang Shi, Hejia Luo, Rong Li, Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 12184455
    Abstract: A method for adapting a continuous time equalizer (CTE) includes determining a gain of a discrete time equalizer (DTE) and determining whether the gain has increased or decreased by more than the threshold amount. Responsive to determining that the gain has increased or decreased by more than the threshold amount, the method includes sequentially configuring the CTE for multiple CTE settings such that gain of the CTE is caused to increase or decrease in a same direction with the change in gain of the DTE. The method also includes determining a separate figure of merit (FOM) for each of the multiple CTE settings and selecting a new CTE setting from the multiple CTE settings based on the FOM for each of the multiple CTE settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Aravind Ganesan, Ajai Paulose, Ankush G. P.
  • Patent number: 12184384
    Abstract: Method comprising: ?selecting a subset of one or more beam pairs among a set of beam pairs via which a terminal and a base station are associated, wherein for each of the beam pairs of the subset, a suitability of the respective beam pair is better than a suitability threshold; for each of the beam pairs of the subset: ??determining a respective set of at least two tones; ??performing a respective relative phase measurement based on the respective virtual wavelength to obtain a respective virtual phase difference; and at least one of ??reporting the respective set of at least two tones and the respective virtual phase difference to the base station; and ??estimating a respective distance between the terminal and a transmission reception point of the base station emitting the respective beam pair based on the respective virtual phase difference and the preliminary uncertainty region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Onel Alcaraz López, Carlos Morais De Lima, Antti Tölli, Juha Pekka Karjalainen, Sami-Jukka Hakola, Timo Koskela, Jari Yrjänä Hulkkonen
  • Patent number: 12176930
    Abstract: Techniques to dynamically adjust the corner frequency of a high-pass filter in response to a time-domain amplitude value of an output signal, thereby preserving accuracy while promptly recovering the signal's baseline value. A system can be configured to filter frequency-domain values of an input signal based on a filtering characteristic. The filtering characteristic can be set dynamically in response to a time-domain value of an amplitude of an output signal. The filtering characteristic can comprise a corner frequency, and the system can include a high-pass filter configured to filter out frequency components at frequencies lower than the corner frequency. The system is configured to dynamically change the corner frequency from a first value to a second value, in response to the time-domain value of the amplitude crossing a threshold value. The system may dynamically change the corner frequency within a time interval after the crossing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Steenson, Jr., Joseph P. Cullen
  • Patent number: 12170587
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure transmits a plurality of first transmission data and a plurality of second transmission data by using an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) method. The transmitting apparatus includes frame configuring circuitry, which in operation, generates a frame including a first period in which a preamble is transmitted, a second period in which the plurality of first transmission data is multiplexed by a time division multiplexing method and is transmitted, and a third period in which the plurality of second transmission data is multiplexed by a frequency division multiplexing method and is transmitted; and transmitting circuitry that transmits the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 12155760
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to time synchronization in a network. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first circuit having a first clock configured to maintain a local time value for a node coupled to a network. The first circuit is configured to send a first message to a second circuit. The first message includes a first nonce. The second circuit has a second clock that maintains a reference time value for the network. The first circuit receives a second message from the second circuit, the second message including a second nonce and is associated with a timestamp identifying the reference time value. The first circuit compares the first nonce to the second nonce to determine whether the timestamp is valid and, in response to determining that the timestamp is valid, uses the timestamp to synchronize the first clock with the second clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Birju N. Shah, Tristan F. Schaap, James E. Zmuda, Manfred von Willich
  • Patent number: 12156126
    Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for multiple-input multiple-output for blind identification that includes receiving an input signal, originated as an output signal of a transmitter, at a receiver. A signal processing module can obtain the input signal from the receiver. The signal processing module can use a finite impulse response filter and one or more matrices derived from the input signal to minimize a cost function and obtain a parameter matrix. The parameter matrix can then be used to estimate the output signal by generating one or more Toeplitz matrices using the parameter matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Abdulmajid Lawal, Karim Abed-Meraim, Qadri Mayyala, Naveed Iqbal, Azzedine Zerguine
  • Patent number: 12155390
    Abstract: A clock recovery circuit comprises an input node receiving a data signal having a data rate, and a digital oscillator producing a local clock signal with a frequency higher than the data rate. A counter clocked by the local clock signal has its count value sampled and reset at the rising and falling edges of the data signal, and a storage block coupled to the counter stores a count value that is updated in response to the current sampled count value of the counter lying in an update range between lower and upper bounds. A threshold value set is produced as a function of the updated count value stored in the storage block. Sampling circuitry receives and samples the data signal, and provides a sampled version of the data signal in response to the count value of the counter reaching any of the threshold values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventor: David Vincenzoni
  • Patent number: 12136960
    Abstract: A method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC includes: generating a set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values by performing an iterative method including selecting a first IQMC candidate parameter value for the at least one parameter of the IQMC; determining, using the first IQMC candidate parameter value, a performance metric value that comprises at least one of (i) an image rejection ratio (IRR) value, (ii) a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) value, or (iii) a signal-to-image ratio (SImR) value; and determining a second IQMC candidate parameter value that is an update to the first IQMC candidate parameter value. The method of optimizing at least one IQMC parameter value for an IQMC further includes determining an IQMC candidate parameter value of the set of tested IQMC candidate parameter values that optimizes the performance metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Elina Nayebi, Pranav Dayal, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 12126373
    Abstract: A method and a modem for communication between at least two devices (10) of a vehicle. The devices (10) communicate with each other via a common power supply line (1). A frequency spread method is used for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Michael Aichinger-Rosenberger, Dominik Fischer, Daniel Hochwarter, Karlheinz Kellner, Thomas Posnicek
  • Patent number: 12127012
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring a user equipment (UE) to communicate with a network entity based on a selected antenna panel reported to a network entity. An example method generally includes transmitting, to a network entity, a report including information associated with an antenna panel selected for communications between the user equipment and the network entity; selecting a starting time and a wait time to apply a configuration associated with the selected antenna panel; activating an update timer based on the starting time and the wait time; and communicating with the network entity based on the configuration associated with the selected antenna panel after expiry of the update timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Yan Zhou, Peter Gaal, Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Junyi Li, Tao Luo