Patents Examined by Phuong Phu
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Patent number: 12250047Abstract: The example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to receive, by a user equipment of a communication network, from a network node information for measurement reporting by the user equipment for beam management in the communication network, and based on the at least one beam reporting configuration, determine beam reporting at least one pair of beams of the more than one beam of the at least one transmission reception point capable for simultaneous reception by the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Youngsoo Yuk, Nitin Mangalvedhe, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu
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Patent number: 12237918Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of mixing input data with coefficient data specific to a processing mode selection. For example, a computing system with processing units may mix the input data for a transmission in a radio frequency (RF) wireless domain with the coefficient data to generate output data that is representative of the transmission being processed according to a specific processing mode selection. The processing mode selection may include a single processing mode, a multi-processing mode, or a full processing mode. The processing mode selection may be associated with an aspect of a wireless protocol. Examples of systems and methods described herein may facilitate the processing of data for 5G wireless communications in a power-efficient and time-efficient manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Jaime Cummins, Jeremy Chritz, Tamara Schmitz
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Patent number: 12231192Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method of operating a network may include transmitting to a first user equipment (UE) connected to the network, at least one transmission signal for downlink traffic corresponding to the first UE based on a first direction, transmitting a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) configured by the network, based on a plurality of directions corresponding respectively to the plurality of SSBs, and identifying a degree of overlap between each of the plurality of directions corresponding respectively to the plurality of SSBs and the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Deokhui Lee, Myounghwan Lee
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Patent number: 12218638Abstract: There is provided an electronic device including a switching element unit that applies a voltage based on a direct-current power supply to one end of an electroacoustic converter in response to a first pulse signal and applies a voltage based on the direct-current power supply to another end of the electroacoustic converter in response to a second pulse signal, and a delay circuit that generates a delay based on a communication frequency in at least one of the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Nakahara, Daisuke Miyazaki
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Patent number: 12218775Abstract: An Advanced Physical Layer (APL) adapter for enabling functional interconnection of a 2-wire APL spur to at least one industrial process legacy field device includes a first pair of terminals, APL physical layer (PHY) circuitry, a second pair of terminals and connectivity circuitry. The first pair of terminals is configured for connection to the 2-wire APL spur. The APL PHY circuitry is capacitively coupled to the first pair of terminals. The connectivity circuitry is configured to communicate with a legacy field device connected to the second pair of terminals in accordance with a legacy communication protocol and control the APL PHY circuitry to communicate through the first pair of terminals in accordance with an Ethernet protocol.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: ROSEMOUNT INC.Inventors: Theodore Henry Schnaare, Eric Russell Lovegren, Yevgeny Yurevich Korolev, Robert Michael Weinberger, Marshall Leon Meier, Eric Darrell Rotvold
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Patent number: 12212648Abstract: A sensor includes detection circuitry and control circuitry coupled to the detection circuitry. The detection circuitry generates a detection signal indicative of a detected physical quantity. The control circuitry, in operation receives the detection signal and a frequency-indication signal, and generates a trigger signal based on the frequency-indication signal and a set of local reference signals. The sensor generates a digital output signal and a locking signal based on the trigger signal and the detection signal. The generating the digital output signal includes outputting a sample of the digital output signal based on the trigger signal. The locking signal is temporally aligned with the digital output signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.Inventors: Matteo Quartiroli, Paolo Rosingana
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Patent number: 12212645Abstract: A clock frequency divider circuit and a receiver are provided. The clock frequency divider circuit includes a reset retimer circuit configured to receive a reset signal and a clock signal, output a reset buffer signal of a differential signal pair obtained by buffering the reset signal, and output a reset synchronization signal obtained by synchronizing the reset signal with the clock signal, a clock buffer circuit configured to receive the clock signal and the reset synchronization signal and output a clock buffer signal of a differential signal pair obtained by buffering the clock signal, and an IQ divider circuit configured to output first through fourth output signals having different phases based on the reset buffer signal and the clock buffer signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Juyun Lee, Vishnu Kalyanamahadevi Gopalan Jawarlal, Kang Jik Kim, Hyo Gyuem Rhew, Jae Hyun Park
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Patent number: 12206755Abstract: Systems and methods for extracting and identifying timing information from wireless signals can include a signal receiver configured to receive a communications signal; a finite impulse response (FIR) filter coupled to the signal receiver and configured to identify a set of transitions in the communications signal; an absolute value operation module coupled to the FIR filter and configured to detect energy in each of the set of transitions within the communications signal; and a comb filter coupled to the absolute value operation module and configured to combine the detected energy in each of the set of transitions within the communications signal. Exemplary systems can also include a cyclic accumulator coupled to the comb filter and a signal processor.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATIONInventor: Alexander Clifton Utter
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Patent number: 12206752Abstract: A system includes a plurality of line cards and a timing card. A clock generation circuit on the timing card generates a clock signal which is pulse width modulated according to information to be transmitted. A clock line supplies the pulse width modulated clock signal to the line cards. The timing card sends a first control word to the plurality of line cards over the clock line after sending a beacon. The first control word includes a size field specifying a first length of first data following the first control word. The timing card sends time of day information over the clock line to the line cards following the first control word. The time of day information may be encrypted. A second control word follows the time of day information. One or more additional control words can follow the second control word before the next beacon.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Vivek Sarda
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Patent number: 12204490Abstract: Techniques for denoising an electromagnetic signal are disclosed. The techniques utilize an antenna, a weight adaptation component, a reservoir computer including a computer interpretable neural network, a delay embedding component, and an output layer computer. The techniques include passively acquiring an electromagnetic signal by the antenna, producing a plurality of reservoir state values by the reservoir computer based on the electromagnetic signal, collecting the plurality of reservoir state values by the delay embedding component into a historical record, determining a plurality of reservoir state value weights by the weight adaptation component based at least in part of the historical record, scaling, by the plurality of reservoir state value weights, to produce a plurality of output values, the plurality of reservoir state values by the output layer computer, and outputting the plurality of output values, where the scaling occurs over a plurality of clock cycles of a clock for the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Peter Petre, Shankar Rao, Gabriel Virbila
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Patent number: 12192315Abstract: A monitoring circuit for a high frequency signal includes: a phase locked loop configured to generate a divided output signal with respect to an input signal based on a plurality of dividers; a plurality of dividing monitoring circuits configured to receive dividing input signals and dividing output signals respectively corresponding to the plurality of dividers, and output dividing error signals; and a jitter monitoring circuit configured to output a jitter error signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dokyung Lim, Sounghun Shin, Wooseok Kim, Wonsik Yu, Chanyoung Jeong
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Patent number: 12191922Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and associated methods are provided for testing, analyzing, and assembling radiofrequency (RF) modules. An example system includes a test station for testing an RF module, including testing mechanical, chemical, and/or electrical parameters of the RF module. The testing may involve various sources of error, and the system determines one or more types of error from the test results as well as how to address the error. From completed testing, test results may be utilized in view of expected test results to improve simulations and to determine how two or more RF module may be combined in an RF assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CAES SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Merrill Durand McFarland, Daniel Alan Herzfeldt, Shane Dixon
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Patent number: 12184457Abstract: A processing method in a wireless telecommunications receiver receiving a digitally modulated single-carrier signal includes, between a matched filter, in the time domain, operating at a frequency drx×B and a frequency equalizer, operating at the frequency B, a decimation step comprising: i/extracting, from a filtered signal frame, a first sequence of samples for aiding the decimation and having the same power; and a second sequence of payload samples intended to be equalized; ii/estimating the variance in the power of each of the drx decimation phases of the first sequence and identifying the nth decimation phase associated with the minimum variance; iii/decimating the second sequence by selecting the nth decimation phase of the second sequence and supplying the decimation phase at the input of the frequency equalizer.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Nicolas Cassiau, Marc Laugeois
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Patent number: 12155410Abstract: A method and system for controlling a ranging period of a multi-ranging session of ultra-wideband (UWB) communication, the method including defining a setup including multiple sessions in an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication, allotting and dividing a plurality of schedule blocks in a first session, the first session allotting and dividing including attempting a ranging by incorporating a first UWB signal into a first region for each schedule block and allotting and dividing one or more schedule blocks in an n-th session (n>1), wherein the n-th session allotting and dividing includes attempting a ranging by incorporating an n-th UWB signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jong Chul Lim
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Patent number: 12150377Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring and controlling electronic devices using wired and wireless protocols are disclosed. The systems and apparatus may monitor their environment for signals from electronic devices. The systems and apparatus may take and disambiguate the signals that are received from the devices in their environment to identify the devices and associate control signals with the devices. The systems and apparatus may use communication means to send control signals to the identified electronic devices. Multiple apparatuses or systems may be connected together into networks, including mesh networks, to make for a more robust architecture.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: CRIUS TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC.Inventor: Phillip Bogdanovich
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Patent number: 12143079Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for an antenna, comprising, a first power amplifier and a second power amplifier and a common ground between the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier, wherein a Radio Frequency, RF, output of the first power amplifier is coupled to the common ground and a RF output of the second power amplifier is coupled to the common ground.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT OyInventors: Antti Lamminen, Mikko Varonen
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Patent number: 12143068Abstract: An envelope tracking system includes an envelope tracking digital baseband (ETDBB) circuit, a digital-to-analog converter circuit, and an envelope tracking supply modulator (ETSM) circuit. The ETDBB circuit performs envelope detection upon a transmit (TX) baseband signal to generate an envelope detection result, and generates a digital envelope input according to the envelope detection result. The digital-to-analog converter circuit converts the digital envelope input into a supply envelope signal. The ETSM circuit generates a modulated supply voltage according to the supply envelope signal, and outputs the modulated supply voltage to a power amplifier. At least one of the ETDBB circuit and the ETSM circuit dynamically adjusts gain compression (GC) of the PA in response to a number of active resource blocks (RBs) in a channel bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventor: Chen-Yen Ho
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Patent number: 12136980Abstract: Disclosed are a signal transmission method and device. In the present application, the method includes: a base station configuring sending resources for at least two of a first signal, a second signal and a third signal, and sending the at least two signals according to the sending resources for the at least two signals, wherein in the at least two signals, the transceiving of one signal is indicated by at least one of the other signals; the first signal is a signal for at least one of the functions of synchronization, wave beam measurement, wave beam acquisition and RRM; the second signal is a signal for at least one of the functions of synchronization, fine synchronization, wave beam measurement, wave beam acquisition, RRM, CSI measurement and terminal wakeup; and the third signal is a signal for paging.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Meiying Yang, Jiaqing Wang, Chen Luo, Shaohui Sun
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Patent number: 12132814Abstract: Interface devices and systems that include interface devices are disclosed. In some implementations, a device includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive data, a lane margining controller in communication with the transceiver and configured to control the transceiver to transmit, through a margin command, to an external device, a request for requesting a state of an elastic buffer of the external device, and control the transceiver to receive the state of the elastic buffer of from the external device, and a port setting controller adjust a clock frequency range of a spread spectrum clocking scheme based on the state of the elastic buffer.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: SK HYNIX INC.Inventors: Yong Tae Jeon, Dae Sik Park, Jae Young Jang, Byung Cheol Kang, Seung Duk Cho
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Patent number: 12132543Abstract: A communication device, method, and computer program product reduce power consumption when one or more transmit chains can be inactivated without unsatisfactory uplink communication quality in single data layer transmit diversity (TxDiv) or multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode. The communication device monitors uplink signal quality of the uplink data stream while connected in single layer mode to a base node using multiple transmit chains. The controller device deactivates transmit chain(s) while the uplink signal quality remains satisfactory. The controller re-activates the inactivated transmit chain(s) in response to the uplink signal quality becoming unsatisfactory.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Daniel C Chisu, Armin W Klomsdorf