Patents Examined by Phuong Phu
  • Patent number: 12250047
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Youngsoo Yuk, Nitin Mangalvedhe, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu
  • Patent number: 12237918
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: Fa-Long Luo, Jaime Cummins, Jeremy Chritz, Tamara Schmitz
  • Patent number: 12231192
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Deokhui Lee, Myounghwan Lee
  • Patent number: 12218638
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Nakahara, Daisuke Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12218775
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ROSEMOUNT INC.
    Inventors: Theodore Henry Schnaare, Eric Russell Lovegren, Yevgeny Yurevich Korolev, Robert Michael Weinberger, Marshall Leon Meier, Eric Darrell Rotvold
  • Patent number: 12212648
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Matteo Quartiroli, Paolo Rosingana
  • Patent number: 12212645
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Juyun Lee, Vishnu Kalyanamahadevi Gopalan Jawarlal, Kang Jik Kim, Hyo Gyuem Rhew, Jae Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 12206755
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alexander Clifton Utter
  • Patent number: 12206752
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Vivek Sarda
  • Patent number: 12204490
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter Petre, Shankar Rao, Gabriel Virbila
  • Patent number: 12192315
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dokyung Lim, Sounghun Shin, Wooseok Kim, Wonsik Yu, Chanyoung Jeong
  • Patent number: 12191922
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CAES SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Merrill Durand McFarland, Daniel Alan Herzfeldt, Shane Dixon
  • Patent number: 12184457
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Nicolas Cassiau, Marc Laugeois
  • Patent number: 12155410
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong Chul Lim
  • Patent number: 12150377
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: CRIUS TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Phillip Bogdanovich
  • Patent number: 12143079
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy
    Inventors: Antti Lamminen, Mikko Varonen
  • Patent number: 12143068
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Chen-Yen Ho
  • Patent number: 12136980
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meiying Yang, Jiaqing Wang, Chen Luo, Shaohui Sun
  • Patent number: 12132814
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SK HYNIX INC.
    Inventors: Yong Tae Jeon, Dae Sik Park, Jae Young Jang, Byung Cheol Kang, Seung Duk Cho
  • Patent number: 12132543
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C Chisu, Armin W Klomsdorf