Patents Examined by Nader Bolourchi
  • Patent number: 11483106
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the secure transmission of data and algorithms are disclosed. The coding and modulation schemes meet the need of low signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio applications in areas of high interference. A radio transmitter is used to transmit data signals and a radio receiver is used to receive signals. The new coding algorithms and modulation for wideband communication at very low SNR domains. Systems use orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing modulation and a channel pilot algorithm for timing synchronization and frame alignment. Systems also use an orthogonal code, a super orthogonal convolutional code, and a block code to achieve channel capacity within 80% of the Shannon limit in the subzero decibel (dB) domain with reasonable decoding complexity. In an implementation example given, a 12.5 MHz band radio can transmit at a 108 kbps user data rate at ?20 dB SNR and escape adversity detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: CNF Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher John Walding, Xiangguang Feng, Phillip D. Neumiller
  • Patent number: 11483016
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes a mounting board, a power amplifier, a plurality of transmission filters, a first switch, an output matching circuit, a low-noise amplifier, and an external-connection terminal. The mounting board includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the mounting board. The first switch switches a connection between the power amplifier and the transmission filters. The output matching circuit is connected between the power amplifier and the first switch. The low-noise amplifier is disposed on the second principal surface of the mounting board. The external-connection terminal is disposed on the second principal surface of the mounting board. The power amplifier, the output matching circuit, the first switch, and the transmission filters are disposed on the mounting board in stated order in a direction that is orthogonal to a thickness direction of the mounting board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Sawada
  • Patent number: 11483036
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for redundant antenna systems and methods of managing the power allocated thereto. A redundant antenna system comprises a first antenna array and a second antenna array, wherein each of the first and second antenna arrays are oriented to transmit downlink signals to different geographic areas. A first set of antenna elements of the first antenna array and a second set of antenna elements of the second antenna array are powered by a common power supply. In a normal operating mode, the power supply only powers the first set of antenna elements and in aspects of a redundant operating mode used to serve a degraded geographic service area, the power supply powers both the first set of antenna elements and the second set of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Chaitanya Chukka
  • Patent number: 11475400
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include at least one medical device having a device transceiver configured to wirelessly broadcast a device signal including at least unique identifier data and an information system is configured to maintain an active list of medical device inventory associated with a particular emergency response vehicle, and the processor is configured to automatically determine presence of the at least one medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Guy Robert Johnson, Gary A. Freeman, Ulrich Herken
  • Patent number: 11469930
    Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is mounted on a vehicle to perform wireless communication with a portable terminal. The vehicle control apparatus includes a first processor configured to execute a first process including a determination process that determines whether or not a received signal, which is a wireless signal received by an antenna mounted on the vehicle and encoded, is a regular wireless signal transmitted from the portable terminal by determining whether or not a counted number of short bits sandwiched by two long bits adjacent to each other in the received signal is an even number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Umegaki
  • Patent number: 11457699
    Abstract: An anti-theft zipper includes a first zipper slider, a first zipper puller, a second zipper slider, and a second zipper puller. The first zipper puller has a first connecting end, a first locking end, a first locking ring, and a first engaging portion. The first connecting end is connected to the first zipper slider. The first locking ring is disposed on the first locking end. The first engaging portion is formed on the first zipper puller. The second zipper puller has components and configuration corresponding to those of the first zipper puller. The first engaging portion engages with a second engaging portion of the second zipper puller, preventing the first zipper puller and the second zipper puller from rotating and moving relative to each other. A luggage lock includes the anti-theft zipper and a locking assembly locking the first locking ring and a second locking ring of the anti-theft zipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Shu Ming Lee
  • Patent number: 11457106
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus comprising an interface, a sensor. and a processor configured to detect occurrence of a user event, which corresponds to a command issued to transmit content, through the sensor, identify an external apparatus, which corresponds to the user event, through the interface, identify content to be transmitted and a method of transmitting the content based on current operation circumstances of the electronic apparatus, and transmit the content to the external apparatus through the interface based on the identified method of transmitting the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoungshin Jin, Jaeyong Kim, Minsup Kim, Hojune Yoo, Jaemyung Hur
  • Patent number: 11445475
    Abstract: An electronic including a transceiver configured to receive, from at least one wearable device, information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is being worn; and a processor configured to determine whether the at least one wearable device that is being worn, based on the received information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is being worn, and to provide a notification to the at least one wearable device in response to determining that the at least one wearable device is being worn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-hyun Ryu, Han-joo Chae
  • Patent number: 11437209
    Abstract: A remote control device may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may include a control unit and a base for the control unit. The base may include a frame and a mounting tab that attaches to the paddle actuator of a mechanical switch. The mounting tab may be monolithic with the frame. Alternatively, the base may include a resilient attachment member that extends from the frame and is captively retained by the mounting tab. The frame and the attachment member may be configured such that the attachment member is held in a fixed in position by the frame, or such that the attachment member is translatable relative to the frame. The base may include one or more alignment members. The base may cause a rear surface of the frame to be biased against the mechanical switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Chris Dimberg, Matthew Philip McDonald
  • Patent number: 11433833
    Abstract: A system includes obtaining a plurality of automobile part sets through classification based on at least one of the following factors an interface type of an interface of an automobile part, a transmission type used by the automobile part to transmit data, a manufacturer of the automobile part, a type of the automobile part, a safety level of the automobile part, a service type of a service to which data transmitted by the automobile part belongs, or a service level of the service to which the data transmitted by the automobile part in the automobile belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianyong Cai, Xiaohua Chen, Yalin Liu, Shuaihua Peng
  • Patent number: 11436422
    Abstract: A reading device includes a placing table supporting an article to which an RFID tag is attached. An antenna is configured to emit a radio wave for communicating with the RFID tag toward the placing table. A reading unit is configured to read tag information including a tag identifier identifying the RFID tag by communicating with the RFID tag via the antenna while the placing table and the antenna are integrally moved. An extracting unit is configured to extract a tag identifier in which an amount of change in phase information is a predetermined value or less, based on the phase information of a response wave obtained from the RFID tag when the tag information is read. An outputting unit is configured to output the tag information including the tag identifier extracted by the extracting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigeaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11438134
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose example phase detection methods, phase detection circuits, and clock recovery apparatuses. One example method includes receiving a first signal and deciding a (2M?1) level of the first signal to obtain a decision result, where the first signal is a (2M?1)-level signal, and M is a positive integer. A response amplitude parameter of a transmission channel can then be obtained. Clock phase information in the first signal can then be extracted based on the first signal, the decision result, and the response amplitude parameter. Output clock phase information can then be determined based on at least three decision results and at least three pieces of clock phase information in at least three symbol periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuchun Lu
  • Patent number: 11423183
    Abstract: Thermal imaging protection is provided by, in response to detecting input of an access code on an input device: identifying a sequence comprising the access code; generating a bait code based on the sequence; and outputting a heat signature corresponding to the bait code using heating elements, such as resistor arrays, included in the input device. In some embodiments protection includes measuring temperatures of contact surfaces of the input device where the access code has been input; and adjusting a heat level of the heating elements based on the temperatures measured. Protection is further provided by storing the bait code; and in response to receiving entry of the bait code, activating unauthorized access countermeasures. In some embodiments protection includes, in response to detecting subsequent input of the access code: generating a second, different, bait code based on the sequence; and activating the heating elements based on the second bait code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jorge Andres Moros Ortiz, Julian De Hoog, Fatemeh Jalali, Minh Phong Chau
  • Patent number: 11419496
    Abstract: A patient management system is provided herein. The system can include communications circuitry configured to receive first physiological information relating to a first at least one patient from at least one therapeutic medical device and second physiological information relating to a second at least one patient from at least one monitoring medical device. The system also includes a computing device, which can include a user interface. The user interface can be configured to display the first and second physiological information according to a user selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Jason T Whiting, Gary A Freeman, Thomas E Kaib
  • Patent number: 11414987
    Abstract: Disclosed are perturbation signaling systems and methods for use in a downhole well. Such systems can include a downhole tool configured to hang from a wellbore anchoring mechanism. The tool can have or associate with an energy harvesting system, a power management system, a sensing system, and a wireless communication system. A turbine generator can encode signals into flowing fluid through electric load and related changes in hydraulic energy, transmitting information through the fluid. A receiver station positioned at another well location can decode and or relay the signals. Signals can bypass impediments such as noise zones by inducing signals in adjacent parallel well environments such as an annulus. The receiver station can accumulate energy from repeated redundant signaling over time to enhance communication and signal resolution. An additional wireless communication system can receive and/or relay data to a remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: WiDril AS
    Inventors: Jarl André Fellinghaug, Vegard Fiksdal, Anton Kulyakhtin
  • Patent number: 11411796
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device (WCD) may train a bitwise autoencoder neural network to obtain a constellation mapping. The WCD may determine a bit position ordering for bit positions of modulated symbols associated with the constellation mapping based at least in part on error protection levels of bit positions associated with the constellation mapping. The WCD may perform bit interleaving for one or more coded bits of a communication, based at least in part on the bit position ordering of the constellation mapping, to obtain one or more interleaved bits. The WCD may generate one or more modulated symbols for the communication by mapping the one or more interleaved bits using the constellation mapping. The WCD may transmit, to a receiver device, the one or more modulated symbols for the communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kapil Gulati, June Namgoong, Taesang Yoo, Aaron Klein
  • Patent number: 11396031
    Abstract: Driver circuitry for driving an electromechanical load with a drive output signal based on a digital reference signal at a first sample rate, the drive output signal inducing a first electrical quantity at the electromechanical load, the driver circuitry comprising: a function block configured, based on said first electrical quantity, to digitally determine at a second sample rate higher than the first sample rate an adjustment signal indicative of a second electrical quantity which would be induced at a target output impedance of the driver circuitry due to said first electrical quantity; and a driver configured to generate the drive output signal based on the reference signal and the adjustment signal to cause the drive output signal to behave as if an output impedance of the driver circuitry has been adjusted to comprise the target output impedance, wherein the first electrical quantity is a current and the second electrical quantity is a voltage, or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Lennart Ståhl, Emmanuel Marchais, Anthony Stephen Doy, John L. Melanson
  • Patent number: 11373515
    Abstract: A fire alarm communication device having a first and second output voltage which are constant during normal operation of the fire alarm communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Napco Security Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Carrieri, Thomas F. Karl, Lance S. Lindsay
  • Patent number: 11374632
    Abstract: A wireless access node serves a wireless User Equipment (UE) over wireless communication links that use a same time and frequency resource block. In some examples, the wireless communication links comprise Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers. In the wireless access node, a baseband unit determines backhaul downlink quality for backhaul downlinks. Based on the backhaul downlink quality, the baseband unit selects a number of the wireless communication links for the wireless UE that will use the same time and frequency resource block. The baseband unit receives user data from the backhaul downlinks and transfers the user data to a radio. The radio wirelessly transfers the user data to the wireless UE over the selected number of the wireless communication links using the same time and frequency resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Patent number: 11368207
    Abstract: The present invention provides an alternative communication path which uses a buried wired and a buried wire oscillator to transmit data between a centrally located pivot panel and an end tower control panel. According to a first preferred embodiment, a pivot panel of the present invention preferably includes a machine controller, a smart relay board, a modem, a guidance controller and a buried wire oscillator. According to a further preferred embodiment, a tower control panel of the present invention preferably includes a tower board controller, a modem, and a data antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Valmont Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tracy A. Thatcher, Mark Moeller