Patents Examined by Rahel Guarino
  • Patent number: 12388496
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A method is provided for allocating resources in the time domain, the method including in a downlink transmission part of a DL/UL-period of a frame allocating a preset number of adjacent OFDM-symbols for transmission of a PDCCH, generating a bundle of time intervals comprising an integer number of adjacent time intervals, wherein each time interval includes a preset number of OFDM-symbols, wherein the PDCCH relates to the entire bundle of time intervals, allocating a subbundle of OFDM-symbols to transmit a DMRS pattern which multiplexes DMRS signals for a required number of MIMO layers of a PDSCH, and allocating OFDM-symbols for transmission of the PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Gregory Vladimirovich Morozov, Dmitry Sergeyevich Dikarev, Gregory Aleksandrovich Ermolaev
  • Patent number: 12375126
    Abstract: A centralized dynamic resource allocation is suggested to adjust a resource allocation for at least two DPUs. Also, a method for adjusting a resource allocation for the at least two DPUs by a centralized dynamic resource allocation entity is provided. Further, a system comprising at least one such device is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Adtran GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Kuipers, Fred Tze-Yu Chu
  • Patent number: 12368519
    Abstract: An electronic circuitry is proposed. The electronic circuitry comprises a directional coupler comprising a first port configured to receive an input signal from a signal source, a second port configured to output the input signal for transmission to a load, a third port configured to output a forward signal based on the input signal, and a fourth port configured to output a reverse signal based on a reflection of the input signal received at the second port. The electronic circuitry further comprises a Time-to-Digital converter, TDC, coupled to the third port and the fourth port. The TDC is configured to determine a phase difference between the forward signal and the reverse signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Intel corporation
    Inventors: Assaf Ben-Bassat, Eli Borokhovich, Phillip Skliar
  • Patent number: 12368543
    Abstract: An electronic circuit and a method for operating the electronic circuit are provided. The electronic circuit includes a digital filter and a jitter optimization device. The digital filter is configured to receive a first signal and generate a second signal by filtering the first signal. The jitter optimization device is configured to receive the second signal and generate a first parameter and a second parameter according to the second signal. The jitter optimization device is configured to provide a first feature and a second feature associated with the second signal, and the first parameter and the second parameter are generated in response to the first feature or the second feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Chun Liao, Chao Chieh Li, Min-Shueh Yuan
  • Patent number: 12368474
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for adaptive signal equalization in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating in a dusty environment. The system comprises a first and a second multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna channel, each orthogonally polarized, for transmitting data over a carrier frequency from the UAV to a target device on the ground. The system includes a dust level sensor configured to measure dust concentration in real time and a signal equalizer device that compensates for dust-induced distortions. The signal equalizer device estimates the impact of dust on the communication link based on the measured dust level, UAV height, and elevation angle, and dynamically adjusts the transmitted signals to eliminate crosstalk between the MIMO antenna channels. The adaptive equalization ensures robust and interference-free communication, maintaining signal integrity despite environmental challenges posed by dust storms or airborne particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mohamed Yehia Mohamed Shalaby, Yazeed M. Alkhirajh, Mohamad A. Alawad, Abdulrahman M. Shalaby
  • Patent number: 12368463
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of vehicular systems including distributed active antennas, adaptive cellphone evolution (e.g., via a smartphone, mobile device, user equipment, etc.) and/or integrated access and backhaul. In exemplary embodiments, a distributed antenna system includes a central unit onboard a vehicle. The central unit includes a transceiver configured to operate in a cellular network. The central unit also includes an analog to digital converter/digital to analog converter coupled to the transceiver. Four active antennas are onboard the vehicle. Each active antenna includes an analog to digital converter/digital to analog converter and is configured to communicate with the central unit digitally. A link connects each of the active antennas to the central unit. The link is configured to transmit signals digitally and support at least 10 Gbps of bandwidth between the central unit and the active antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Ulrich Möhlmann, Nicola Henseler, Reiner Beck, Michael Potts, Robert Sosack
  • Patent number: 12368621
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for reference signal indication for idle or inactive user equipments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Huaning Niu, Hongbo Yan, Shengshan Cui, Wei Zeng, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Haitong Sun
  • Patent number: 12362796
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for satellite operations are described. A satellite communications system may include a transmitter that applies multiple spreading codes to a data signal to obtain multiple spread data signals. The transmitter may transmit the multiple spread data signals from multiple antenna elements in a composite signal. The satellite communications system may also include a receiver that receives the composite signal and applies multiple despreading codes to the composite signal to obtain multiple despread data signals. The receiver may combine the multiple despread data signals to obtain a combined data signal that corresponds to the data signal processed by the transmitter. To combine the multiple despread data signals, the receiver may estimate coefficients for each of the despread data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Viasat, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter S. Wyckoff
  • Patent number: 12362974
    Abstract: A system and method for data communication using amplitude-encoded sinusoids. The method includes encoding the input digital data using a plurality of symbol waveforms where each of the plurality of symbol waveforms occupies a period of a composite encoded waveform and represents at least one bit of the input digital data. A first symbol waveform of the plurality of symbol waveforms is defined by a sinusoid of a first amplitude and a second symbol waveform is defined by a sinusoid of a second amplitude different from the first amplitude. The method includes generating an encoded analog waveform from a representation of the composite encoded waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Terawave, Inc.
    Inventors: Torsten Schultze, Alvie Smith
  • Patent number: 12362841
    Abstract: An apparatus, including: a first signal receiver circuit including: a first reference voltage generator configured to generate a first reference voltage that tracks noise present in a supply voltage used to generate a first single-ended signal; and a first comparator configured to generate a first signal based on a comparison of the first single-ended signal and the first reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ying Duan, Seuk Son, Qinqing Cao, Panchami Devashya Shivarama, Abhay Dixit, Dhaval Sejpal, Mansoor Basha Shaik
  • Patent number: 12355595
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a signal quality using an error vector magnitude. One method includes receiving an output of a user equipment antenna port. The user equipment antenna port includes a linear combination of two or more transmit antennas. The method includes performing normalized maximum ratio combining on the output of the user equipment antenna port to produce a normalized output. The method includes determining a signal quality of the output of the user equipment antenna port. Determining the signal quality includes determining an error vector magnitude using the normalized output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Colin D. Frank
  • Patent number: 12348283
    Abstract: Techniques for improved wireless reliability are provided. It is determined that a client device is at least one of an augmented reality (AR) or a virtual reality (VR) device. A default set of retry parameters and a second set of retry parameters are determined, where the second set of retry parameters result in increased wireless reliability, as compared to the default set of retry parameters. Data is transmitted to the client device using the second set of retry parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Wai-Tian Tan, Robert E. Liston, Herbert M. Wildfeuer
  • Patent number: 12348343
    Abstract: A method is provided for detecting a proximity of a radio frequency (RF) field during an ongoing RF activity by a wireless device operating in reader mode. In the method, an input signal is modulated to provide a modulated RF signal comprising a plurality of RF modulation periods. The plurality of RF modulation periods are transmitted by the wireless device operating in the reader mode. An RF detector is enabled to monitor the plurality of modulation periods during the transmitting of the plurality of RF modulation periods. An external RF signal is detected when a characteristic of the plurality of RF modulation periods is different from an expected characteristic. In another embodiment, a wireless device is provided that implements the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Markus Wobak, Erich Merlin
  • Patent number: 12348347
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration that indicates, within each symbol of a plurality of symbols, an extra guard interval (GI) before data and a tail GI after the data. The UE may decode first data within a first symbol of the plurality of symbols at a first time location that is based at least in part on the extra GI and the tail GI within the first symbol. The UE may decode second data within a second symbol of the plurality of symbols at a second time location that is based at least in part on the tail GI within the second symbol. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hemant Saggar, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Morteza Soltani, Raviteja Patchava
  • Patent number: 12341586
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for steering vector generation. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes converting time domain data received from an antenna array to channelized frequency domain data. The method also includes receiving a request from a signal detection system, the request including a timestamp and duration of a detected signal of interest (SOI) and an indication that the SOI is pulsed or continuous. The method further includes generating, for a pulsed SOI, steering vectors to steer the antenna array to the pulsed SOI based on a segment of the time domain data stored in a first memory and identified by the time stamp and duration; and generating, for a continuous SOI, steering vectors to steer the antenna array to the continuous SOI based on a segment of the channelized frequency domain data stored in a second memory and identified by the time stamp and duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan E. Long, Christopher M. Muller
  • Patent number: 12341574
    Abstract: Provided are an intelligent metasurface manipulation method, apparatus, and system, an intelligent metasurface, and a storage medium. The intelligent metasurface manipulation method includes determining channel information and beam manipulation information; determining a manipulation parameter to be optimized in a preset target function according to the channel information and the beam manipulation information; determining a target manipulation state of each electromagnetic unit on an intelligent metasurface according to the manipulation parameter to be optimized; and adjusting a current state of each electromagnetic unit to the target manipulation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Yang, Yijian Chen, Min Fang, Jianwu Dou, Zhaohua Lu, Liujun Hu, Wanchun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12335019
    Abstract: Methods for transmitting a first signal x1 and a second signal x2 using a first array of antenna elements of a polarization A and a second array of antenna elements of a substantially orthogonal polarization B. The methods include transmitting x1 in a first beam generated with array size invariant beamforming, using a sub-array A1 of antenna elements from the first array and applying a first precoding matrix, and using a sub-array B1 of antenna elements from the second array and applying a second precoding matrix. The methods also include transmitting x2 in a second beam generated with array size invariant beamforming, using a sub-array A2 of antenna elements from the first array and applying a third precoding matrix, and using a sub-array B2 of antenna elements from the second array and applying a fourth precoding matrix. The sub-arrays within a polarization are typically non-overlapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Robert Baldemair, Sven Petersson
  • Patent number: 12328380
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring a serial receiver. In some embodiments, the method, includes: setting a threshold of a data slicer to a first threshold value; receiving, by the data slicer, a first data value; and setting the threshold of the data slicer to a second threshold value, the second threshold value being equal to the first threshold value plus a first adjustment, the first adjustment having the same sign as the first data value minus the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gaurav Malhotra
  • Patent number: 12328211
    Abstract: A receiver for a high-speed data communication interface includes a differential data signal input, a first termination resistor, a second termination resistor, and a noise measurement node. The differential data signal input includes a positive signal input and a negative signal input. The first termination resistor terminates the positive signal input to a reference voltage node. The second termination resistor terminates the negative signal input to the reference voltage node. The noise measurement node is coupled to detect common mode noise at the reference voltage node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sandor Farkas, Bhyrav Mutnury
  • Patent number: 12316335
    Abstract: A system for automatically calibrating a phase locked loop (PLL), the system comprising: a node a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) coupled to the node and configured to provide an output signal to the node; at least one digital-to-analog converter (DAC) coupled to the VCO and configured to provide a voltage to the VCO; and at least one controller configured to: determine an output frequency of the output signal; responsive to determining the output frequency, compare the output frequency to the voltage; responsive to determining the output frequency, compare the output frequency to a target frequency; and control the DAC to modify the voltage based on a comparison of the output frequency to the voltage and a comparison of the output frequency to the target frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Magathi Willis, Micky R. Harris