Patents Examined by Tuan Tran
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Patent number: 12294422Abstract: The method includes a step of generating a magnetic signal with an electromagnetic functional unit, wherein the electromagnetic functional unit is an actuator of a loudspeaker of the device or wherein the electromagnetic functional unit is an electromagnetic resonant circuit connected to the device, wherein the magnetic signal carries the data to be transferred from the device to the other device: Furthermore, the method includes a step of detecting the magnetic signal with an electromagnetic resonant circuit of the other device in order to obtain the data to be transferred from the device to the other device, wherein the magnetic signal is FSK-modulated, wherein a resonance frequency of the electromagnetic resonant circuit of the other device and a carrier frequency of the FSK-modulated magnetic signal are tuned with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Jakob Kneißl, Gerd Kilian, Robert Koch, Karol Bieg, Dominik Soller, Josef Bernhard, Markus Siebenhaar
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Patent number: 12294446Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a non-terrestrial network, NTN, of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises transmitting a plurality of spot beams, each of the spot beams providing a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from communications devices within a coverage region formed by the each of the spot beams, determining, for one or more of the spot beams, that the coverage region formed by the one or more of the spot beams is at least partially located within a geographical region in which NTN services are not permitted, and changing a utilisation state of each of the one or more of the spot beams from a first utilisation state to a second utilisation state.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Vivek Sharma
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Patent number: 12289690Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums in which interference is mitigated on a wireless radio frequency channel used by multiple computing devices by adjusting (e.g., lowering) the power level of one or more computing devices (e.g., mobile devices such as User Equipment (UE) devices) and using successive interference cancellation to decode the combined signals. Successive interference cancellation may first decode a strongest signal of a combined signal of all computing devices. The decoded signal is then subtracted from the combined signal. The strongest signal of that combined signal is then decoded and then subtracted and so on until all signals are decoded.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Roy D. Kuntz
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Patent number: 12284304Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaehong Jung, Gyeongtae Kim, Yongseok Lee, Jinman Kim, Souksu Jang, Hyeyeong Choi, Jiwoo Lee
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Patent number: 12284080Abstract: The radiation tolerant software defined radio device for multi-band radio applications in space systems comprising components for terrestrial application not qualified officially for use in space, the components comprising a power supply, a base band processor, such as e.g. a processor of the Xilinx SoC (system-on-chip) product family Zynq-7000, volatile and non-volatile memories, such as e.g. SDRAM and NAND flash memories, a radio frequency transceiver, such as e.g. the RF agile transceiver AD9361 from Analog Devices, allowing for software-based reconfiguration of various radio frequency characteristics, such as local oscillator frequency, analog filter band width, gain control of input and output amplifiers, sample rates of analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters, and mitigation mechanisms on hardware and software level for autonomously recovering to a nominal state.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.Inventor: Jan Budroweit
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Patent number: 12273188Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device includes a communication circuit for supporting a Bluetooth™ communication, and at least one processor functionally connected to the communication circuit. The at least one processor is configured to establish, via the communication circuit, a Bluetooth™ low energy (BLE) communication link with an external electronic device, to generate a first data packet from first audio data using a first coding scheme, and generate a second data packet from first audio data using a second coding scheme, and through the BLE communication link, to transmit the first data packet to the external electronic device in a first time interval of a predetermined time interval, and transmit the second data packet to the external electronic device in a second time interval of the predetermined time interval.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Gupil Cheong, Kyusang Ryu, Hyungseoung Yoo, Doosuk Kang, Kyungtae Kim
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Patent number: 12273089Abstract: The integrated circuit includes a power amplifier intended to provide a signal in a fundamental frequency band, an antenna, and a matching and filtering network having a first section, a second section, and a third section. The three sections include LC arrangements configured to have an impedance matched to the power amplifier's output in the fundamental frequency band. The LC arrangements of the first section and the second section are configured to have resonant frequencies adapted to attenuate the harmonic frequency bands of the fundamental frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.Inventors: Guillaume Blamon, Emmanuel Picard, Christophe Boyavalle
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Patent number: 12267759Abstract: A Bluetooth (BT) device includes a host processor and a BT controller coupled by a Host Controller Interface (HCI) including a Host Controller Transport Layer and a HCI Driver. The host processor implements an applications layer and includes HCI firmware for communicating via the Host Controller Transport Layer with the BT controller. The BT controller includes a processor coupled to a memory and to a transceiver, and a RF driver. The HCI firmware also includes HCI command code for a user to define a topology of the BT network including configuring the BT device in a current chain including a plurality of BT devices including configuring from which BT device it receives data from and which BT device it forwards data to. For communicating data across the BT network the BT device forwards the data without host processor involvement in at least resending the data back to its BT controller.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Ram Malovany, Chen Loewy, Dotan Ziv, Lior Gersi, Liran Cohen
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Patent number: 12261637Abstract: A method and apparatus for cancelling local oscillator feedthrough (LOFT). A transmitter includes a first mixer configured to mix a transmit signal with a first local oscillator signal. An observation receiver receives a fraction of a power of the transmit signal as a feedback signal and processes the feedback signal. The observation receiver includes a second mixer configured to mix the feedback signal with a second local oscillator signal. A LOFT correction estimation circuitry is configured to determine a DC offset to cancel LOFT at the first mixer in the transmitter based on measurements on outputs of the second mixer. An LOFT correction circuitry is configured to add the DC offset to the transmit signal. The LOFT correction estimation circuitry may determine the DC offset based on several measurements obtained by varying the DC offset and a phase shift in the second local oscillator signal in the observation receiver.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Kameran Azadet, Marc Jan Georges Tiebout
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Patent number: 12256339Abstract: Disclosed is an operation method of an electronic apparatus assigning power based on a position of a terminal, the method including receiving data transmission requests from a first terrestrial terminal and a second terrestrial terminal, wherein the first terrestrial terminal and the second terrestrial terminal use overlapped frequency resources, and assigning a first transmission power intensity to the first terrestrial terminal and assigning a second transmission power intensity to the second terrestrial terminal based on a position of the first terrestrial terminal and a position of the second terrestrial terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENTInventors: Hyeok Gyu Choi, Seung Ho Kim, Chul Hee Choi, Ju Hyung Lee
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Patent number: 12250056Abstract: A method of operating a transmitter node (101) configured to communicate with one or more receiver nodes (102-104) using a re-configurable reflective device. RRD (109), is provided. The RRD (109) is re-configurable to provide multiple spatial filters, each one of the multiple spatial filters being associated with a respective spatial direction (351-353) into which incident signals are selectively reflected by the RRD (109). The method includes repeatedly transmitting reference signals (198) towards the RRD (109) at one or more transmit periods (551-554).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Jose Flordelis, Erik Bengtsson, Olof Zander, Kun Zhao, Fredrik Rusek
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Patent number: 12241701Abstract: A system and method for determining a discharge event of a firearm is provided. An event detection module receives (i) acceleration input signals including a first acceleration input signal along a first axis, a second acceleration input signal along a second axis and a third acceleration input signal along a third axis; and (ii) rotation input signals including a first rotation input signal around the first axis, a second rotation input signal around the second axis and a third rotation input signal around the third axis. An acceleration vector magnitude is calculated from the acceleration signals. The acceleration vector magnitude is compared to a threshold acceleration. A sample event candidate is assigned to the acceleration vector magnitude based on the comparing. The sample event candidate comprises the acceleration input signals and the rotation input signals for a predetermined duration of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Armaments Research Company, Inc.Inventors: John Asbach, Michael Canty
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Patent number: 12237854Abstract: Circuit and method for inter-symbol and intra-symbol voltage method are disclosed. Herein, a transceiver circuit is configured to determine a voltage target(s) for generating a modulated voltage(s) to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal modulated in multiple symbols. Specifically, the transceiver circuit will generate multiple voltage targets for any of the symbols to thereby enable intra-symbol voltage modulation when the respective symbol is modulated to carry a selected type of information or generate a single voltage target for any of the symbols to thereby enable inter-symbol voltage modulation when the respective symbol lacks the selected type of information. By dynamically performing inter-symbol and intra-symbol voltage modulation based on the type of information carried in a symbol(s), the modulated voltage can be timely adapted to closely track a time-variant power envelope of the RF signal to thereby avoid potential distortion and protect critical information in the RF signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Inventors: Nadim Khlat, James M. Retz, Arthur Nguyen
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Patent number: 12230591Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first switch, a second switch, and an amplifier electrically connected between the first switch and the second switch. An RF signal path passes through first switch, the amplifier, and the second switch in this order. The IC includes an input terminal and an output terminal that are to be connected to each other between the first switch and the amplifier or between the amplifier and the second switch outside of the IC with a component connected therebetween. In a top view of the IC, a first region of the first switch, a second region of the amplifier, and a third region of the second switch are disposed on a straight line such that a virtual straight line connects any point of the first region, any point of the second region, and any point of the second region in this order.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
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Patent number: 12225473Abstract: Methods and/or systems for power management by a user equipment (UE) in an uplink transmission. The method may include determining, whether feedback related to transmit power of the UE, from a network entity is available and determining a first transmit power of the UE based on the determination and at least one of a plurality of transmitting parameters associated with the UE, evaluating a first spectral efficiency of the UE upon transmitting data at the first transmit power in a predefined time duration, determining a plurality of second transmit power. The method may include evaluating a plurality of second spectral efficiencies and determining a maximum spectral efficiency among the first and the plurality of second spectral efficiencies and transmitting the data at final transmit power among the first and the second plurality of second spectral efficiencies, the final transmit power corresponds to the maximum spectral efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jajohn Mathew Mattam, Manasi Ekkundi, Rishav Agarwal
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Patent number: 12212704Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for customizing modifiable videos. An example method includes analyzing recent messages associated with a user in a multimedia messaging application to determine a context of the recent messages, determining, based on the context, a property of a modifiable feature, selecting, based on the context, a list of relevant modifiable videos from a database configured to store modifiable videos associated with a preset modifiable feature, replacing a property of the preset modifiable feature in relevant modifiable videos of the list of relevant modifiable videos with the property of the modifiable feature, and rendering the list of relevant modifiable videos for viewing by the user, where the rendering includes displaying the modifiable feature in the relevant modifiable videos.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Voss, Victor Shaburov, Ivan Babanin, Aleksandr Mashrabov, Roman Golobokov
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Patent number: 12213211Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, from a computing device, a user request to perform a subscriber identity module (SIM) swap for a subscriber, wherein the computing device and a user device are accessible to a user, based on the receiving the user request, generating a code for the SIM swap, resulting in a generated code, providing the generated code to the computing device for presentation, obtaining, from the user device, data associated with the user, the user device, or a combination thereof, facilitating user authentication responsive to the obtaining the data, detecting a transmission of a particular code from the user device, resulting in a detected code, and, based on the detecting the transmission and based on the facilitating the user authentication, performing an action relating to the SIM swap. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Lars Benjamin Johnson, Wei Wang, Rachel Rosencrantz, Mikhail Istomin
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Patent number: 12206466Abstract: A method of communicating between a first electronic communication device of a plurality of electronic communication devices and a wireless communication initiating device for reading the first electronic communication device. The method comprises receiving, at the first electronic communication device, a communication signal from the wireless communication initiating device and determining a first characteristic value relating to the communication signal. The method further comprises receiving at least a second characteristic value relating to a communication signal received by at least a second electronic communication device that is connected to the first electronic communication device and initiating communication with a reading device based on the first and second value.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Worldpay LimitedInventors: Daren Pickering, Nicholas Telford-Reed
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Patent number: 12207203Abstract: A wireless device includes one or more antennas coupled to a transmit (TX) chain. The TX chain is configured to generate output RF signals using baseband signals. The TX chain includes a TX power controller configured to classify a packet of the output RF signals into a priority category of a plurality of priority categories based on priority information within the packet. The TX power controller is further to determine a time average specific absorption rate (TAS) energy budget of the wireless device. The TAS energy budget is based on a pre-configured regulatory power limit (e.g., SAR transmit power limit) of the wireless device over a time interval. Transmission power for transmitting the packet is determined based on the priority category and the TAS energy budget. The packet is encoded for transmission via the one or more antennas using the determined transmission power.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Sudeep Divakaran, Brent Elliott, Kwan Ho Lee, Gil Meyuhas
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Patent number: 12206363Abstract: Apparatus and methods for load modulated power amplifiers are provided. In certain embodiments, a load modulated power amplifier system includes a power amplifier that receives a radio frequency signal at an input and provides an amplified radio frequency signal at an output, and a controllable load impedance coupled to the output of the power amplifier. The controllable load impedance receives an envelope signal that changes in relation to an envelope of the radio frequency signal, and the envelope signal is operable to control an impedance of the controllable load impedance to modulate a load at the output of the power amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Philip John Lehtola, David Steven Ripley