Patents Examined by Shaima Q. Aminzay
  • Patent number: 12095524
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for performing wireless power transfer on the basis of heterogeneous communication. Disclosed in the present specification is a wireless power receiving device comprising: a power pickup unit configured to receive wireless power from a wireless power transfer device by magnetically coupling with the wireless power transfer device at an operating frequency, and convert an alternating current signal generated by the wireless power into a direct current signal; a communication/control unit configured to receive the direct current signal from the power pickup unit, and perform an in-band communication using the operating frequency and/or an out-band communication using a frequency other than the operating frequency; and a load configured to receive the direct current signal from the power pickup unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jingu Choi, Joonho Park, Jinkwon Lim, Yongcheol Park
  • Patent number: 12010634
    Abstract: A wireless device may use power ramping for transmissions of message preambles and/or transport blocks. A first ramped transmission power may be used to transmit a preamble of a message, and a second ramped transmission power may be used to transmit a transport block of the message. Channel access procedures may be used to determine clear channel or busy channel for transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Kai Xu, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park, Ali Cagatay Cirik
  • Patent number: 11997618
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to provide a power headroom report (PHR) to a network. The UE receives a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) configuration from a base station of the wireless network, wherein the PUSCH configuration includes a plurality of beams over which PUSCH repetitions should be transmitted, determines at least one power headroom report (PHR) based on a power control parameter set corresponding to at least one of the plurality of beams or PUSCH repetitions and transmits the at least one PHR to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 11984966
    Abstract: A solid state power amplifier uses a Doherty power amplifier that can be implemented as a monolithic microwave integrated circuit. By adjusting the DC bias of the amplifying stages in each branch of the Doherty amplifier, the output power, linearity, and DC power can be adjusted to provide a specified output, where the specification for the output can include the maintaining of desired DC power and linearity. The Doherty power amplifier can be used in a satellite payload or other application utilizing solid state power amplifiers, while providing the proper amount of RF output power and DC power. A single amplifier can have its bias levels adjusted for different output levels, helping to minimize the number of designs that are required for a given satellite payload, reducing the variety of parts in a satellite payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Maxar Space LLC
    Inventors: Seyed Tabatabaei, Jim Sowers, Ghislain Turgeon
  • Patent number: 11985761
    Abstract: A calibration circuit board for an antenna. The calibration circuit board may include: a first metal layer configured to be grounded; a first substrate over the first metal layer; a second substrate over the first substrate; and a plurality of couplers. Each coupler may include: a transmission line provided with an input port and an output port at both ends thereof, respectively; and a coupling line coupled with the transmission line and including two first portions respectively located at both sides of the transmission line, and a second portion connected between the two first portions. The coupling lines may be connected in series to provide a first calibration port and a second calibration port. One of the transmission lines and the coupling lines may be between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the other of the transmission lines and the coupling lines may be over the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xiaotuo Wang, Hangsheng Wen, Xun Zhang, Changfu Chen
  • Patent number: 11943043
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a transmission frequency for an uplink transmission based at least in part on a reference point for the uplink transmission, the reference point being associated with one of: a satellite that provides a cell covering the user equipment, the satellite being associated with a non-terrestrial network, or a gateway associated with the satellite; and transmit the uplink transmission based at least in part on the transmission frequency. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiao Feng Wang, Peter Gaal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Jun Ma, Qiang Wu, Liangping Ma, Ayan Sengupta, Dan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11917549
    Abstract: A wireless device receives radio resource control messages indicating: a first maximum total transmit power of a first group comprising first cell(s) of a first frequency band; and a second maximum total transmit power of a second group comprising second cell(s) of a second frequency band. A first total power for transmission of first signal(s) via the first group exceeding the first maximum total transmit power is determined. First transmission power of first signal(s) are scaled so that an updated first total power does not exceed the first maximum total transmit power. Second total power for transmission of second signal(s) via the second group exceeding the second maximum total transmit power is determined. Second transmission power of second signal(s) are scaled so that an updated second total power does not exceed the second maximum total transmit power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11909456
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that enable a supplemental voltage to be delivered to a Remote Radio Unit (RRU) to compensate for a voltage loss that occurs between a primary Direct Current (DC) power source and the RRU. A supplemental voltage controller is described that captures current environmental metadata associated with an operation of the RRU and calculates an RRU voltage at the RRU. In doing so, the supplemental voltage controller may generate a supplemental voltage control signal that supplements the RRU with a supplemental DC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Fischer
  • Patent number: 11910317
    Abstract: This application provides a signal monitoring method and an apparatus, to reduce power consumption of a terminal device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a downlink signal; and monitoring, by the terminal device, a first type of signal in the downlink signal, where the first type of signal is a signal used to indicate power consumption reduction information, the terminal device does not monitor a second type of signal when monitoring the first type of signal, and the second type of signal is a signal used to indicate data scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yifan Xue, Jian Wang, Yu Cai, Xiaocui Li
  • Patent number: 11899123
    Abstract: An edge device includes a first antenna array and a control circuitry that senses a surrounding of the edge device to recognize a user equipment (UE) in motion as valid to receive services from the edge device. A position of the UE in motion from the edge device is tracked to execute beamforming for directing a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold to the UE in motion. A first portion of the first antenna array is used to sense the surrounding area and one or more second portions of the first antenna array is used for the beamforming to direct the first beam of RF signal in a defined radiation pattern. Further, the defined radiation pattern of the first beam of RF signal is dynamically updated based on a change in a position of the UE in motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PELTBEAM INC.
    Inventors: Venkat Kalkunte, Mehdi Hatamian
  • Patent number: 11889585
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for forming a virtual user equipment (UE) group and enhancing communication using joint reception and transmission mechanisms. For example, a UE may establish sidelink channels for communications with one or more other UEs. The UE and the one or more other UEs may form a virtual UE group (also interchangeably referred to as a virtual UE) using the sidelink channels. The UE may exchange information with other UEs in the virtual UE group to enhance communications between the one or more UEs of the virtual UE group and a network entity. The information exchanged depends on at least one of a joint reception mechanism or a joint transmission mechanism used by the virtual UE group. The UE communicates with the network entity based, at least in part, on the exchanged information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun, Mostafa Khoshnevisan
  • Patent number: 11874389
    Abstract: An edge device includes a first antenna array that includes a first portion and one or more second portions. The edge device includes control circuitry that senses a surrounding area of the edge device by use of the first portion of the first antenna array. The control circuitry executes beamforming to direct a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold to a first user equipment (UE), by use of the one or more second portions of the first antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: PELTBEAM INC.
    Inventors: Venkat Kalkunte, Mehdi Hatamian
  • Patent number: 11876577
    Abstract: An inductive communication unit is for use in two-way communication. The unit has a transmitter coil configured to generate a first alternating magnetic field representing first information to be transmitted, and a receiver coil configured to receive a second magnetic field representing second information to be received. The transmitter coil and the receiver coil are arranged extending in parallel in vicinity to each other and positioned overlapping each other in part to an extent that, upon exposure of the first alternating magnetic field to the receiver coil, an overlapping portion of the receiver coil induces a first current and a nonoverlapping portion of the receiver coil induces a second current, and where the first and the second currents are of same magnitude and opposite polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: WPC Wireless Power and Communication AS
    Inventors: Geir Olav Gyland, Karsten Husby
  • Patent number: 11856490
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for creation and storage of online community groups is provided. In various implementations, digital communication data is stored representing interactions between users as part of an online community platform. In various implementations, a user of the online community platform indicates the desire to create a group comprising digital accounts which have interacted with the user as indicated by the digital communication data. In various implementations, a digital communication group is created comprising digital accounts specifically chosen by a user of an online community platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nextdoor, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatyana Mamut, Paul Howe
  • Patent number: 11849405
    Abstract: A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information for a power control of a sidelink and a downlink reference signal (RS) to measure a downlink channel from the BS, wherein the sidelink is established between the UE and another UE; receiving, from the BS, the downlink RS based on the configuration information; calculating a first pathloss for the downlink channel between the UE and the BS based on the configuration information; identifying a second pathloss for the sidelink between the UE and the other UE; and transmitting, to the other UE, a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) based on the first pathloss and the second pathloss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li Guo
  • Patent number: 11844024
    Abstract: Methods and devices including a processing circuit for a User Equipment, UE, wherein the UE includes a radio frequency, RF, receiver, wherein the processing circuit is configured to set a power switching pattern of the RF receiver for UE power saving in Discontinuous Reception, DRX, Radio Resource Control, RRC, IDLE mode based on a paging occasion, PO, and a signal block associated with the PO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Rui Huang
  • Patent number: 11828864
    Abstract: An edge device includes a first antenna array that includes a first portion and one or more second portions. The edge device includes control circuitry that senses a surrounding area of the edge device by use of the first portion of the first antenna array. The control circuitry executes beamforming to direct a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signal having a signal strength greater than a threshold to a first user equipment (UE), by use of the one or more second portions of the first antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PELTBEAM INC.
    Inventors: Venkat Kalkunte, Mehdi Hatamian
  • Patent number: 11808872
    Abstract: Techniques are discussed herein for providing on-demand positioning reference signals (PRS) to user equipment (UE). An example method for determining a location of a user equipment according to the disclosure includes receiving a first assistance data associated with a first positioning reference signal configuration, transmitting a request to modify one or more parameters of the first positioning reference signal configuration, receiving a second assistance data associated with a second positioning reference signal configuration, wherein the second positioning reference signal configuration is based at least in part on the request to modify the one or more parameters of the first positioning reference signal configuration, obtaining measurements from one or more positioning reference signals based at least in part on the second assistance data, and determining the location based at least on part on measurements obtained from the one or more positioning reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sven Fischer, Stephen William Edge, Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 11785551
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes obtaining, by user equipment (UE), a maximum transmit power; determining, by the UE, a transmit power of a data channel and/or a transmit power of a control channel based on the maximum transmit power and a first parameter, where the first parameter includes at least one of the following: a bandwidth of the data channel, a bandwidth of the control channel, or a carrier type of a carrier of a first link; and sending, by the UE, the control channel and the data channel in a same subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao Li, Xingwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11778557
    Abstract: A device and method for communicating identifying information to a nearby portable electronic device is disclosed. A low energy electronic device comprises a transceiver operable to transmit and receive signals and a processing unit in communication with the transceiver. The processing unit, in response to being activated by user input, switches the transceiver into a one-way communication mode, wherein the transceiver transmits a generic wake-up signal comprising a generic wake-up identifier for a first time period, and transmits a user identifier signal comprising a user identifier for a second time period after the first time period as elapsed. The processing unit then switches the transceiver into a two-way communication mode after the second time period has elapsed to facilitate receipt of an incoming confirmation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Luis Marcelo Hayashi