Patents Examined by Nguyen T. Vo
  • Patent number: 11177849
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for transceiving signals in multiple modes. In example implementations, an apparatus includes a transceiver that includes a first amplifier; a mixer having at least one input node and at least one output node, with the at least one input node coupled to the first amplifier; and a second amplifier coupled to the at least one output node of the mixer. The transceiver also includes a first register coupled to the first amplifier and a second register coupled to the second amplifier. The transceiver further includes at least one memory realizing a lookup table. The at least one memory is coupled to the first register and the second register. The lookup table includes a first portion corresponding to a first mode of the transceiver and a second portion corresponding to a second mode of the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chuan Wang, Li Liu, Kevin Hsi-Huai Wang, Bhushan Shanti Asuri, Kang Yang, Shrenik Patel
  • Patent number: 11171614
    Abstract: A pre-distorter that both accurately compensates for the non-linearities of a radio frequency transmit chain, and that imposes as few computation requirements in terms of arithmetic operations, uses a diverse set of real-valued signals that are derived from separate band signals that make up the input signal. The derived real signals are passed through configurable non-linear transformations, which may be adapted during operation, and which may be efficiently implemented using lookup tables. The outputs of the non-linear transformations serve as gain terms for a set of complex signals, which are functions of the input, and which are summed to compute the pre-distorted signal. A small set of the complex signals and derived real signals may be selected for a particular system to match the classes of non-linearities exhibited by the system, thereby providing further computational savings, and reducing complexity of adapting the pre-distortion through adapting of the non-linear transformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NanoSemi, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Megretski, Kevin Chuang, Yan Li, Zohaib Mahmood, Helen H. Kim
  • Patent number: 11171679
    Abstract: An improved tactical, first responder and homeland security speaker is provided. The speaker has an interior or exterior flexible membrane made of silicone or other material and is configured to receive a plurality of radio sources and is operable on both AC and DC power. In a preferred embodiment, the speaker weighs less than one pound, has a maximum volume of greater than 100 Db, is operable on a PRC-148 radio battery as well as a variety of AC sources, including 110/220 V and 12V sources, and is able to receive several standard first responder, homeland security and military radio sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: GromaTech, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Worcester, Dennis Rother, Ann-Marie Lock
  • Patent number: 11171663
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter is provided. The digital-to-analog converter includes a first plurality of digital-to-analog converter cells configured to generate a first analog signal. Further, digital-to-analog converter includes a second plurality of digital-to-analog converter cells configured to generate a second analog signal. The first analog signal and the second analog signal form a differential signal pair. Further, the digital-to-analog converter includes a transmission line transformer comprising a first input node coupled to the first plurality of digital-to-analog converter cells, a second input node coupled to the second plurality of digital-to-analog converter cells, and a first output node. The transmission line transformer is configured to present a first impedance at the first and second input nodes and to present a second impedance at the first output node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Gruber, Ramon Sanchez, Kameran Azadet, Martin Clara
  • Patent number: 11165453
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency power amplifier (RFPA) control device. The RFPA control device may include an input signal processing module configured to process an input signal into two signals. A first signal may be used for signal detection, and a second signal may be used for signal amplification. The RFPA control device may also include a delay module. The delay module may be disposed between the input signal processing module and an adjustment module. The delay module may be configured to determine a delay of the second signal such that the second signal and the control signal roughly simultaneously reach the adjustment module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Cao, Xu Chu, Jifeng Chen, Peng Zhang, Yinqi Wang
  • Patent number: 11165450
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wireless module applied to a wireless device, wherein the wireless module comprises a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver is configured to receive a receiving signal from an electronic device external to the wireless device, the transmitter is configured to transmit a transmitting signal, and the control circuit is configured to control a gain of the receiver and controlling a gain of the transmitter. In the operations of the wireless module, the controller refers to transmitter time information and a gain of a transmitter within another wireless module to determine an upper limit of the gain of the receiver, and/or the controller refers to receiver time information and a gain of a receiver within the another wireless module to determine an upper limit of the gain of the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Ming Wen, Juei-Ting Sun, Po-Hsun Huang, En-Chieh Hsia, Chang-Yi Hsu, Che-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11165400
    Abstract: An embodiment electronic device comprises at least two antennas for transmitting signals, and at least one transmission path, the transmission path including a first coupling stage including a power divider, variable-gain power amplifiers, and a second coupling stage including a power combiner. Each coupling stage includes two inputs and two outputs, the two inputs of the first coupling stage being configured to receive a power input signal. Each output of the first coupling stage is connected to a different input of the second coupling stage via the variable-gain power amplifiers, and each output of the second coupling stage is connected to a different antenna. A controller is configured to control the gains of the variable-gain power amplifiers according to the characteristics of the power input signal, the signals transmitted by the antennas, and the coupling stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS SA
    Inventors: Jeremie Forest, Vincent Knopik
  • Patent number: 11165139
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display and a phased array antenna that transmits radio-frequency signals at frequencies greater than 10 GHz. The display may include a conductive layer that is used to form pixel circuitry and/or touch sensor electrodes. A filter may be formed from conductive structures within the conductive layer. The conductive structures may include an array of conductive patches separated by slots or may include conductive paths that define an array of slots. The filter may include an additional array of conductive patches stacked under the array of conductive patches to allow the slots to be narrower than would be resolvable to the unaided human eye. The periodicity of the conductive structures and the slots in the filter may be selected to tune a cutoff frequency of the filter to be greater than frequencies handled by the phased antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simone Paulotto, Matthew A. Mow, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11159191
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver circuit, a front-end module, and an antenna. The front-end module may include amplifier circuitry such as a low noise amplifier for amplifying received radio-frequency signals. The low noise amplifier is operable in a non-carrier-aggregation (NCA) mode and a carrier aggregation (CA) mode. The low noise amplifier may include a first input stage, a second input stage, a complementary degeneration transformer, and an input impedance compensation circuit. During the NCA mode, the first input stage is turned on while the second input stage is turned off, the degeneration transformer is controlled to provide maximum inductance, and the compensation circuit is turned on to provide input matching. During the CA mode, the first and second input stages are turned on, the degeneration transformer is adjusted to provide less inductance, and the compensation circuit is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Aly Ismail, Xi Yao
  • Patent number: 11160019
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an electronic device and methods for determining energy efficiency of the electronic device that receives wireless communication service from a network. The electronic device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine an amount of data transmitted between the electronic device and the network over a duration. The processing circuitry is configured to determine energy consumption of the electronic device over the duration based on a power consumption model. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to calculate an energy efficiency indicator based on the amount of data transmitted and the energy consumption. In an example, the processing circuitry is configured to report the energy efficiency indicator to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Chia-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 11152967
    Abstract: There is provided systems and methods for mitigating interference from an interference signal. In one implementation the system comprises cancellation circuitry configured to: receive a first signal from a first antenna, the first signal comprising an interference component deriving from the interference signal and a desired component deriving from a desired signal; and receive a second signal comprising an interference component deriving from the interference signal and received at one or more of a different antenna or a different frequency to the first signal. The interference component in the second signal is stronger than that the interference component in the first signal. The cancellation circuitry is further configured to derive a cancellation signal from the second signal; generate an output signal by subtracting the cancellation signal from the input signal to substantially remove the interference component from the first signal; and output the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: THALES HOLDINGS UK PLC
    Inventors: Gary Dent, Leslie David Westbrook, Sze-Ching Lu, Simon Delaney
  • Patent number: 11152961
    Abstract: A radio frequency module includes: a module board including first and second principal surfaces; a first transfer circuit that transfers a radio frequency signal of a low band group; a second transfer circuit that transfers a radio frequency signal of a middle band group; and a third transfer circuit that transfers a radio frequency signal of a high band group. The first transfer circuit includes: a first filter having the low band group as a passband; and a first circuit component disposed on a transmission path of the low band group. The second transfer circuit includes a second filter having the middle band group as a passband. The third transfer circuit includes a third filter having the high band group as a passband. The second filter and the third filter are disposed on the first principal surface, and the first circuit component is disposed on the second principal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 11146297
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a street lighting pole base (10), i.a. comprising a sub-divider (38) arranged in a first bay (20a) and adapted to split an airflow (46) from an individual air inlet (28) into a first sub-airflow (48a) intended to mainly cool a first heat dissipating device used for wireless telecommunication (34a) when mounted in a first position (36a) but substantially not a second heat dissipating device used for wireless telecommunication (34b) when mounted in a second position (36b) and a second sub-airflow (48b) intended to mainly cool the second heat dissipating device used for wireless telecommunication but substantially not the first heat dissipating device used for wireless telecommunication. The present invention also relates to a street lighting pole (100) comprising such a base, and to a method of cooling first and second heat dissipating device used for wireless telecommunications mounted in such a base or pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Petra Bijl, Koos Van Oorschot, Alouisius Johannes Gerardus Maria Willemse, Ay Ling De Goederen-Oei
  • Patent number: 11139791
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device is provided. In some examples, the integrated circuit device includes an amplifier stage that receives an input signal and a control signal and provides an amplified signal in response. A main path is coupled to the amplifier stage that receives the amplified signal and provides a first feedback signal corresponding to a signal strength of a data-bearing portion of the input signal. A control path also receives the amplified signal and provides a second feedback signal corresponding to a signal strength of the data-bearing portion and an interference component. A gain control circuit is coupled to the main path and the control path that receives the first and second feedback signals and provides the control signal in response to the feedback signals. In some such examples, the control path and main path include separate mixer stages with different performance characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Harikrishna Parthasarathy, Arnab Das
  • Patent number: 11133836
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) switch circuit is provided. The switch includes a branch configured and arranged to transfer an RF signal coupled at an input node to an output node when a control signal is at a first logic value. A first transistor in the branch includes a first current electrode coupled at the input node and a second current electrode coupled to an intermediate node. The first transistor is formed in a first isolation well coupled to a bias voltage supply terminal. A second transistor in the branch includes a first current electrode coupled to the second current electrode of the first transistor at the intermediate node and a second current electrode coupled at the output node. The second transistor is formed in a second isolation well coupled to the bias voltage supply terminal. A third transistor includes a first current electrode coupled at the first intermediate node and a second current electrode coupled at a first supply terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventor: Yi Yin
  • Patent number: 11128266
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an amplifier circuit including: a first transistor having a first and second current conducting terminals and a control terminal; a second transistor having a first and second current conducting terminals and a control terminal, in which the second current-conducting terminal of the first transistor is connected to the first current-conducting terminal of the second transistor; a first inductor with a first terminal coupled to a first current-conducting terminal of the first transistor and a second terminal coupled to an output of the amplifier circuit; a feedback circuit connected between the output and the control terminal of the second transistor, wherein the feedback circuit includes a first resistor, a second inductor, and a first capacitor; and an input of the amplifier circuit connected between the first resistor and the second inductor, wherein a second current-conducting terminal of the second transistor is connected to a first ground terminal, and wherein a control term
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Michael Lee Fraser, Venkata Naga Koushik Malladi
  • Patent number: 11121730
    Abstract: A radio frequency circuit includes: an antenna connection terminal; a UHB transfer circuit that transfers a signal of a first frequency band including at least a part of a frequency band higher than or equal to 3.3 GHz and under 5 GHz; a NR-U transfer circuit that transfers a signal of a second frequency band including at least a part of a frequency band higher than or equal to 6.6 GHz; and a filter having a frequency band including the first frequency band and the second frequency band as a passband. The filter is disposed between the antenna connection terminal and a connection node of the UHB transfer circuit and the NR-U transfer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotsugu Mori
  • Patent number: 11122648
    Abstract: A distributed antenna system of an aircraft includes first and second antennas and corresponding first and second remote transceiver units (RTUs). Each RTU receives a radio signal from the corresponding antenna and includes a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)/digital signal processor (DSP). The FPGA/DSP of a second RTU receives a second signal corresponding to the radio signal from the second antenna and receives a first signal from the first RTU corresponding to the radio signal from the first antenna. The FPGA/DSP of a second RTU determines which of the first and second antennae will transmit a reply to an interrogation included in the radio signals from the first and second antennae, based on a comparison of the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: James Roy Troxel
  • Patent number: 11115585
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting UAVs in an RF environment are disclosed. An apparatus is constructed and configured for network communication with at least one camera. The at least one camera captures images of the RF environment and transmits video data to the apparatus. The apparatus receives RF data and generates FFT data based on the RF data, identifies at least one signal based on a first derivative and a second derivative of the FFT data, measures a direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, analyzes the video data. The apparatus then identifies at least one UAV to which the at least one signal is related based on the analyzed video data, the RF data, and the direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, and controls the at least one camera based on the analyzed video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: David William Kleinbeck
  • Patent number: 11108399
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes receiver circuitry and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive a first frame addressed to another apparatus, the first frame being transmitted by a first wireless communication apparatus, and estimate a difference between an oscillation frequency of an oscillator of the first wireless communication apparatus and an oscillation frequency of an oscillator of the wireless communication apparatus based on the first frame. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit a third frame at a frequency determined based on the difference during a period at least partially overlapping a period during which the first wireless communication apparatus transmits a second frame addressed to a second wireless communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiro Sekiya, Toshihisa Nabetani