Patents Examined by Raymond R Chai
  • Patent number: 12389514
    Abstract: A method in a lighting system includes a lighting system control entity and a plurality of luminaires wirelessly coupled to the lighting system control entity. The method includes controlling light output of a respective luminaire in accordance with a preprogrammed lighting control logic that defines switching on the light output in response to detecting occupancy at the respective luminaire, transmitting status indications to and receiving status indications from other luminaires, deriving relationship data including relationship strength values, each pertaining to a particular luminaire and being descriptive of an extent of regularity at which reception of a status indication that indicates an occurrence of a given event pertaining to the particular luminaire is followed by detecting occupancy at the respective luminaire, and transmitting the relationship data to the lighting system control entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Helvar Oy Ab
    Inventors: Henri Juslen, Matti Vesterinen
  • Patent number: 12382571
    Abstract: A particle accelerator comprises a waveguide configured to accelerate a beam of electrons along an acceleration path. A diversion channel is configured to convey a beam of electrons along a diversion path. A first magnet arrangement is configured to, at a first location, direct electrons from the acceleration path to the diversion path. A second magnet arrangement is configured to, at a second location, direct electrons from the diversion path to the acceleration path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Elekta Limited
    Inventors: Ian Shinton, Duncan Bourne, Peter Doherty, Emma Wooldridge
  • Patent number: 12374793
    Abstract: The present application provides an antenna assembly and an electronic device. The antenna assembly includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The first antenna includes a first radiator, a first signal source, and a first matching circuit, the first radiator has a first feed point, and the first signal source is electrically connected to the first matching circuit to the first feed point. The second antenna includes a second radiator, a third radiator, a second signal source, and a second matching circuit, the second radiator and the first radiator are spaced apart from and coupled to each other, the second radiator has a second feed point, the second signal source is electrically connected to the second matching circuit to the second feed point, and the second signal source is also electrically connected to the second matching circuit to the third radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaopu Wu
  • Patent number: 12374810
    Abstract: An antenna system includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The first antenna can include a first horizontal portion and be used to access a first wireless signal. The first wireless signal can be wirelessly transmitted and/or received over air through the first horizontal portion and a first reference layer. The second antenna can include a second horizontal portion and be used to access a second wireless signal. The second wireless signal can be wirelessly transmitted and/or received over the air through the second horizontal portion and a second reference layer different from the first reference layer. The first wireless signal can be in a first frequency band, the second wireless signal can be in a second frequency band, and frequencies in the second frequency band can be higher than frequencies in the first frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventor: Chung-Hsin Chiang
  • Patent number: 12364222
    Abstract: An integrated ceiling device includes integrated ceiling device including an electronic device housing, a heat dissipating structure, a light source, and a reflection/refraction assembly. An air gap is defined between the electronics housing and other components allowing ambient air to flow therethrough for cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: LIGHTING DEFENSE GROUP, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel S. Spiro
  • Patent number: 12358423
    Abstract: A vehicle comprising a state detection device the detects a behavior and peripheral environmental information of the vehicle, an optical device that displays at least a plurality of condensing marks which are a pattern indicating at least a travelling direction of the vehicle on a road surface, and a lamp controller that controls lighting or blinking of the optical device. The lamp controller acquires a detection signal, lights or blinks the optical device based on the detection signal, and combines a plurality of linear partial irradiation images into the plurality of condensing marks. The optical device arranges and displays the plurality of condensing marks side by side on a road where the vehicle enters in the traveling direction, and displays the plurality of condensing marks in at least two different colors that appear to overlap each other to a viewer when the viewer is a first distance from the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kishigami, Toshinori Sugiyama, Yasuhiko Kunii, Yuji Tsuchiya, Go Shimizu, Masayoshi Takori, Ryuya Kawaji
  • Patent number: 12356525
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit for driving a light emitting element forms at least part of a light emitting element driving device configured to change the number of light emitting elements that are lit among a plurality of light emitting elements connected in series. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a variable resistor controller configured to increase the resistance value of a variable resistor connected in series with the plurality of light emitting elements immediately before, or at the same time as, the time point at which the number of light emitting elements that are lit is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Inventors: Shinsuke Takagimoto, Akira Aoki, Junichi Hagino
  • Patent number: 12334651
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoongeon Kim, Seungho Choi, Seungtae Ko, Junsig Kum, Hyunjin Kim, Youngju Lee
  • Patent number: 12328809
    Abstract: Provided is a technique by which each nuclide is optimized in terms of energy and number of particles and pre-accelerated so as to be injected into a main accelerator in charged particle beam irradiation by the combined use of different nuclides. A charged particle beam injector includes: a first ion source that generates first nuclide ions; a first linear accelerator that linearly accelerates the generated first nuclide ions to form a first charged particle beam; a second ion source that generates second nuclide ions; a second linear accelerator that linearly accelerates the generated second nuclide ions to form a second charged particle beam; and a switching electromagnet that injects one of the first charged particle beam and the second charged particle beam into an inflector of a main accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takeji Miyaoka, Daisuke Kameda
  • Patent number: 12322572
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tuning a megahertz radio frequency (RF) generator within a cycle of operation of a kilohertz (kHz) RF generator are described. In one of the methods, a predetermined periodic waveform is provided to a processor. The processor uses a computer-based model to determine plurality of frequency parameters for the predetermined periodic waveform. The frequency parameters are applied to the megahertz RF generator to generate an RF signal having the frequency parameters during one or more cycles of operation of the kilohertz RF generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur M. Howald, John C. Valcore, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12316003
    Abstract: The invention includes various embodiments of integrated dual-band printed antenna feeds having various combinations of electrical and structural components for use with a prime focus, ring focus, or Cassegrain dish antennas. All of the embodiments of dual-band antenna feeds disclosed herein are configured to be fabricated as a single structure using metal additive manufacturing techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Optisys, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael C. Hollenbeck, Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 12317394
    Abstract: A state change device may be electrically connected to a switched receptacle, or to both the switched and unswitched receptacles, of an outlet. The state change device may generate a change of state signal when power is applied to, or removed from, the switched receptacle. The state change device may wirelessly communicate the signal. The state change device may include a load control circuit that may be configured to control the amount of power delivered to an electrical load that is electrically connected to the state change device. The state change device may receive commands directed to the load control circuit. The state change device may be deployed in a load control system and may operate as a control entity, such that the state change device may issue commands to one or more load control devices, responsive to the application or removal of power at the switched receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Karc, Ankit Bhutani, Galen Edgar Knode, Jamie Steffie
  • Patent number: 12317387
    Abstract: Circuitry configured to deliver an adjustable discharge current to a compensation node of a power converter that supplies a load, which may speed up the power to the load on the new steady state condition, while maintaining the stable response time of the power converter. A driver circuit may measure current to the load and perform overshoot protection for the load. The overshoot protection may also generate a pattern of detectable square wave pulses. The circuitry of this disclosure may adjust the discharge current based on a duration of the pulses in the pattern of pulses, as well as based on a pulse density of the pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Roberto Penzo, Maurizio Galvano
  • Patent number: 12315993
    Abstract: A communication device includes a dielectric substrate, a radiating element that has a flat shape and that is formed on the dielectric substrate, a housing that covers the dielectric substrate, and a rib. The rib is disposed in contact with the housing and the dielectric substrate. Feed points to which a radio frequency signal from an RFIC is supplied are formed in the radiating element. The rib and the dielectric substrate are in contact with each other in a center side region of the radiating element relative to the feed points, in a plan view from a normal direction of the dielectric substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige Sato, Kengo Onaka, Hirotsugu Mori
  • Patent number: 12300449
    Abstract: A remote control device may be configured to be mounted over the toggle actuator of a light switch and to control a load control device via wireless communication. The remote control device may include a base portion and a rotating portion supported by the base portion so as to be rotatable about the base portion. The remote control device may include a control circuit and a wireless communication circuit. The control circuit may be operably coupled to the rotating portion and to the wireless communication circuit. The control circuit may be configured to translate a force applied to the rotating portion of the remote control device into a control signal and to cause the communication circuit to transmit the control signal to the load control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Chris Dimberg, Timothy S. Majewski, Robert C. Newman, Jr., Daniel Curtis Raneri, Matthew J. Swatsky
  • Patent number: 12302487
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a drift tube assembly, comprising a plurality of drift tubes to conduct an ion beam along a beam propagation direction. The plurality of drift tubes may define a multi-gap configuration corresponding to a plurality of acceleration gaps, wherein the plurality of drift tubes further define a plurality of RF quadrupoles, respectively. As such, the plurality of quadrupoles are arranged to defocus the ion beam along a first direction at the plurality of acceleration gaps, respectively, where the first direction extends perpendicularly to the beam propagation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Wai-Ming Tam, Frank Sinclair
  • Patent number: 12284733
    Abstract: A programming device includes a plurality of signal lines including a first signal line and a common ground line, and a first programming circuit coupled between the first signal line and the common ground line, and including a first configurable switch configured to receive a first switch configuration, the first programming circuit being configured to receive a first power signal from the first signal line and to supply a first programming signal to the first signal line, the first programming signal having a level corresponding to the first switch configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: ERP POWER, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Archer, Steven C. Krattiger, Louis Chen, James H. Mohan, Yuko Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 12284738
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a system for parameter adjustment of street lamps in a smart city based on an Internet of Things, the method is realized by the system, which includes a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform and an object platform, the method is executed by the management platform, comprising: issuing a data acquisition instruction to receive road images acquired by the object platform; issuing a parameter determination instruction to determine irradiation intensities of the street lamps on a road based on the road images; acquiring navigation routes of vehicles by communicating with navigation systems of the vehicles; determining road segments where the vehicles are coming and estimated times when the vehicles arrive at the road segments; and adjusting the irradiation intensities of the street lamps at the road segments in a preset time in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yong Li, Yongzeng Liang, Xiaojun Wei, Zhihui Wen
  • Patent number: 12273969
    Abstract: An example of a light fixture is configured to receive, manually or wirelessly from and external device, an instruction to update a setting of the light fixture to a selected intensity or a selected color temperature. An instruction received from the external device may override an instruction provided via manual control. The light fixture may include a set of cool light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a set of warm LEDs. A processing unit of the light fixture may utilize pulse-width modulation to cause the light fixture to emit light having the selected intensity or selected color temperature by implementing a particular duty cycle of a control signal for the cool LEDs and a particular duty cycle of a control signal for the warm LEDs corresponding to the selected intensity or selected color temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventor: Yan Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 12273978
    Abstract: A control method is provided for a lamp. The lamp includes a plurality of light-emitting units, and the method includes: receiving target RGB data from a client terminal; and when the target RGB data exists in a correspondence relationship between RGB data and color temperature values, determining a target color temperature value corresponding to the target RGB data based on the correspondence relationship. The correspondence relationship between the RGB data and color temperature values is used to convert color temperature data into corresponding RGB data when an original Tuya protocol does not support color temperature data transmission. The method also includes controlling the plurality of light-emitting units to display corresponding lighting effect according to the target color temperature value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Shenzhen Intellirocks Tech. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianqiang Su, Wenlong Wu