Patents Examined by Tuan Pham
  • Patent number: 12273823
    Abstract: A control device may be configured to transmit messages using an adaptive transmit power. The control device may determine a transmit power for transmitting the message based on a command in the message. The control device may determine a transmit power based on a change in lighting intensity caused by the command. The transmit power may be greater when the change in lighting intensity is above a threshold than when the change in light intensity is below the threshold. The control device may determine whether the message was successfully received based on the receipt of an acknowledgement message. The control device may increase the transmit power when the message fails to be received and retransmit the message including the command at an increased transmit power. The control device may store (e.g., learn) the increased transmit power for later use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ankit Bhutani, Richard S. Camden, Kaiming Li
  • Patent number: 12273853
    Abstract: An arrangement provides addressing for a plurality of equipment. Each piece of the equipment is non-varyingly logically linked to a corresponding transceiver having a unique identifier and a plurality of transceiver antennae with non-identically oriented antenna lobes. Each corresponding transceiver is configured to transmit a signal having the unique identifier associated with the transceiver via each of the transceiver antennae individually and to receive any signal of a neighboring transceiver attributing it to the actually receiving transceiver antennae in order to determine pattern information pairs. A central instance is configured to collect the pattern information pairs from the transceiver transceivers and to compare the pattern information pairs with a stored pattern of the equipment to identify each transceivers' position in the stored pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG
    Inventors: Andrew Muirhead, Craig Depner, Cornelis Broers
  • Patent number: 12273827
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatuses, and methods for enhanced PHR reporting in support of UE antenna scaling. A wireless device, which comprises at least one antenna array each comprising a plurality of antenna elements may perform antenna scaling by activating or deactivating at least one of the plurality of antenna elements (with corresponding RF chains) of one or more antenna arrays. The wireless device may generate a power headroom (PHR) report based at least on a difference between beamforming gains obtained after the antenna scaling and before the antenna scaling. The wireless device may then send the PHR report to a base station in communication with the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Xiang Chen, Anatoliy S Ioffe, Dawei Zhang, Fucheng Wang, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12273762
    Abstract: A wire device receives: configuration parameters of: a primary cell with a primary physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); and a secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH; a transmit power control (TPC) radio network temporary identifier (RNTI); a primary TPC index of the primary PUCCH; and a secondary TPC index of the secondary PUCCH. The wireless device receives a downlink control information (DCI) associated with the TPC RNTI. The secondary TPC index identifies a TPC command in an array of TPC commands in the DCI. The wireless device adjusts a transmission power of the secondary PUCCH based on the TPC command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 12265568
    Abstract: Methods and systems for object-based text searching using group score expressions are provided. A method may include receiving a query including a request to search specified columns of a table for a set of search terms, and a group score filter for use in filtering the table based at least on a group score associated with a plurality of groups of rows of the table, determining the group score for each of a plurality of groups of rows of the table, filtering the table based at least on the group score filter included in the query and the group score determined for each of the plurality of groups of rows of the table, and providing at least one group of rows of the plurality of groups of rows that includes at least the portion of the set of search terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Andreas Amler, Joerg Fellmann, Till Merker, Oliver Horn
  • Patent number: 12264775
    Abstract: An electronic device attachment system is described. The attachment system includes an electronic device case configured to receive and house an electronic device such as a smartphone, a mobile media player, a tablet, or the like. The attachment system also includes a storage component affixed to the case either permanently or removably. The storage component is configured with a storage space to receive and house at least one attachment when the attachment is not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventor: Gary J. Pontecorvo
  • Patent number: 12265565
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide query processing techniques for generating optimized query results. The techniques include generating using a machine learning framework, one or more predictions for a natural language query. The one or more predictions may include an intent prediction and an event prediction. The technique may include generating an intent classification for the natural language query based on the intent prediction and the event prediction. The techniques may include in response to the intent classification corresponding to a target query intent: generating, a plurality of candidate data objects based on an identifier associated with the natural language query, identifying one or more relevant data objects from the plurality of candidate data objects based on a relevancy score for each of the plurality of candidate data object; and providing, via a user interface, a natural language query result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Optum, Inc.
    Inventors: Laura D. Hamilton, Vinit Garg, Ayush Tomar
  • Patent number: 12261570
    Abstract: To provide a mixer and a semiconductor device which each have a small circuit area and each of which operation capability is inhibited from being decreased due to heat. The mixer includes a differential portion, a current source, a first load, an input terminal, and a first output terminal; the differential portion includes a first and a second transistor; and each of the first and the second transistors includes a metal oxide in a channel formation region. A first terminal of each of the first and the second transistors is electrically connected to the input terminal and a current source and a second terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first terminal of the first load and the first output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Ohshima, Hitoshi Kunitake, Tatsunori Inoue
  • Patent number: 12259874
    Abstract: A method and/or system of managing metadata are disclosed that include connecting a source data storage system (DSS) that stores both data and metadata to a metadata management platform (MMP); scanning metadata records onto the MMP from the DSS; storing metadata attributes for at least one of the group consisting of directories and buckets on the DSS in a look-up table on the MMP; and adding updated metadata attributes to the look-up table on the MMP for each subsequent scan of the DSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Raul E. Saba, Joseph W. Dain, Theodore Timothy Harris, Jr., Gregory T. Kishi, Scott Brewer, Sara Megan Coronado
  • Patent number: 12262331
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for power headroom reporting in integrated access and backhaul nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12255680
    Abstract: A controller area network including one or more first network nodes biased from a first power supply voltage, and a second network node biased from a second, lower, power supply voltage. The second network node includes a transmitter driving a differential voltage onto bus lines to communicate a dominant bus state at a second dominant state common mode voltage, a receiver coupled to the bus lines, sense circuitry to sense a common mode voltage at the bus lines, and control circuitry to control a recessive state common mode voltage in response to the sensed dominant state common mode voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Deep Banerjee, Lokesh Kumar Gupta, Madhulatha Bonu, Vikas Thawani
  • Patent number: 12253916
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to a database recovery routine to start up a database system in response to a database failure. The database system accesses checkpoint information identifying a set of active database transactions that were active at a flush point that occurred before the database failure. As a part of the database recovery routine, the database system replays database transactions that occurred between a recovery point and the flush point. The database transactions include the set of active database transactions but exclude any committed or aborted database transactions that occurred between the recovery point and the flush point such that less than a total number of database transactions occurring between the recovery point and the flush point are replayed. The database system further replays, without excluding committed or aborted database transactions, database transactions occurring between the flush point and a recovery end point at which the database failure occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Manchale Sridhar, Matthew Woicik, James E. Mace
  • Patent number: 12250646
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for triggering a change in beam configuration based on UL beam conditions. The UE may detect an unsafe UL beam condition for an UL beam based, at least in part, on an MPE level being exceeded by the UL beam. In response to the detection, remedial actions that to alleviate the unsafe UL beam condition may be performed. The remedial actions may prioritize UL beam quality over DL beam quality and may include reducing a transmit power of the UL beam based on an MPR, triggering an intra-panel antenna switch to a candidate UL beam that satisfies one or more conditions for intra-panel beam switching, triggering an inter-panel antenna switch to a candidate UL beam that satisfies one or more conditions for intra-panel beam switching, and/or signaling a beam failure to a network serving the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Rohit U Nabar, Wei Zeng, Yakun Sun, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12249757
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes strand mounts for small cell radios. The strand mount assembly includes a cable strand and a strand mount. The strand mount includes two or more interconnected frame sections that form a frame, each frame section having opposing sides configured such that one or more small cell radios and/or antennas can be mounted thereto. The strand mount further includes a plurality of mount apertures sized and configured to receive the cable strand. Each of the mounting apertures is collinear with the other mounting apertures to create an unimpeded opening that the cable strand extends through, thereby mounting the strand mount on the cable strand. Alternative strand mounts and strand mount assemblies are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: OUTDOOR WIRELESS NETWORKS LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Severin, Robert Campbell
  • Patent number: 12235794
    Abstract: A system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising attaching a protection policy associated with a rule to a storage object, wherein the rule can be applicable to prevent redundant snapshot creation. The operations can further comprise, in response to the attaching of the protection policy to the storage object, triggering creation of a first snapshot and a second snapshot of the storage object. The operations can further comprise detecting any uniquely allocated storage regions between the first snapshot and the second snapshot. The operations can further comprise, based on a determination of whether any extra bits of the any uniquely allocated storage regions are unallocated or zeroed out, determining whether to prevent a third creation of a third snapshot external to the first snapshot and the second snapshot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Adithi Gurunath, Rosh Mohan Ravi
  • Patent number: 12237911
    Abstract: Apparatus is for reception and transmission of data signals at one or more user locations. The data signals are received from and transmitted to remote locations typically via a satellite or cell phone transmission system. The operating condition of the apparatus at the user location is selectively adaptable such as to take into account the particular format in which the data signals are received or are to be transmitted to thereby allow the apparatus to be used in different locations and adapted for use at the time of installation or at a time after installation with no, or minimal, intervention or skilled technical personnel attendance being required at the user location to allow the operation of the apparatus to be adapted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Global Invacom Limited
    Inventor: Gary Stafford
  • Patent number: 12238233
    Abstract: A grip shield is provided for a cell phone accessory to enhance its functionality. The grip shield is secured to a rim of an extendible accordion accessory to provide a backstop for the user's hand, a downwardly extending flange for reducing catching on pockets and pocketbook items, as well as enhancing the aesthetics of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: David L Durfee, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12229120
    Abstract: A method for accessing a database that is stored in a storage system, the method includes: (a) receiving a request to obtain a database entity (DE) of a requested version line out of multiple version lines that differ from each other by one or more transactions; (b) obtaining, for each DE portion out of multiple DE portions of the DE, content of the DE portion as written during a transaction of the requested version line that was a last transaction of the requested version line that wrote the DE portion to the database; wherein the obtaining includes (i) using first metadata that is indicative of transactions of the requested version line, and (ii) using second metadata that is indicative of which transactions were involved in writing to a logical address range that is associated with the DE portion; and (d) sending a response to the request, wherein the response comprises, for each DE portion of the DE portions, the obtained content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: VAST DATA LTD.
    Inventors: Asaf Levy, Eyal Gordon
  • Patent number: 12229112
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program executable by at least one processing unit of a device. The program receives a set of entities for updating a set of master data stored on a set of storages. The program further determines, for each entity in a subset of the set of entities, whether the entity exists in the set of master data stored on the set of storages. Based on the determinations, the program also updates the set of master data stored on the set of storages with the set of entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Satish Kumar Kara
  • Patent number: 12232052
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives P-Max that is configuration information of maximum transmit power in a cell in Frequency Range 2 (FR2) among Frequency Range 1 (FR1) and the FR2; and a control unit that performs, when the P-Max of the cell in the FR2 is not supported, an operation of ignoring the P-Max of the cell in the FR2 or an operation of considering the cell in the FR2 as a barred cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda