Patents Examined by Tuan Tran
  • Patent number: 12241701
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Armaments Research Company, Inc.
    Inventors: John Asbach, Michael Canty
  • Patent number: 12237854
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: Nadim Khlat, James M. Retz, Arthur Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12230591
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 12225473
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jajohn Mathew Mattam, Manasi Ekkundi, Rishav Agarwal
  • Patent number: 12212704
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Voss, Victor Shaburov, Ivan Babanin, Aleksandr Mashrabov, Roman Golobokov
  • Patent number: 12213211
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lars Benjamin Johnson, Wei Wang, Rachel Rosencrantz, Mikhail Istomin
  • Patent number: 12207203
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sudeep Divakaran, Brent Elliott, Kwan Ho Lee, Gil Meyuhas
  • Patent number: 12206363
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip John Lehtola, David Steven Ripley
  • Patent number: 12206466
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Worldpay Limited
    Inventors: Daren Pickering, Nicholas Telford-Reed
  • Patent number: 12203715
    Abstract: A system for providing discharge monitoring of a firearm includes an event detection module, a signal processing module and a trigger pull sensor assembly. The event detection module has at least one sensor that senses an acceleration and generates an acceleration signal. The signal processing module receives the acceleration signal. The signal processing module is configured to determine whether the acceleration signal is a discharge event and generate an event detection signal based on the determination and is configured to maintain a shot count of the firearm based on the determination that the event detection signal is a discharge event. The trigger pull sensor assembly senses mechanical movement of a trigger of the firearm and communicates a trigger actuation signal to the signal processing module corresponding to a position of the trigger. The event detection signal is further based on the trigger actuation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Armaments Research Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff O'Dell, James Gordon, Michael Canty
  • Patent number: 12177997
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for a functional cover are described. A removable cover (e.g., a functional cover) for a wearable ring device (e.g., a ring wearable) may include one or more electrical components positioned at least partially within the removable cover. In some cases, the functional cover may wireless connect with the ring wearable. The removable cover may further include a first inductive component within the removable cover, where the first inductive component is configured to wirelessly communicate with a second inductive component of the wearable ring device when the removable cover is in a mounted state on the wearable ring device. The first inductive component of the removable cover may be configured to transfer electrical current, data, or both, between the one or more electrical components of the removable cover and one or more additional electrical components of the wearable ring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Oura Health Oy
    Inventors: Jose Julio Doval, Avi Halpern, Gary Watts, Jonathan Watson, Kirt Alan Winter, Teemu Juhani Haverinen
  • Patent number: 12169246
    Abstract: An information handling system is disclosed and includes a processor, a memory, a power management unit (PMU), at least two antennas, and a wireless interface operatively coupled to the at least two antennas. The processor may execute code instructions for a distance and direction detection module therein configured to enable phase-based ranging with narrow band tone exchange, to add at least one constant tone duration to a wireless data signal frame, to monitor for nearby peripheral devices, and to measure at least two distances between each of the at least two antennas at the information handling system and a nearby peripheral device using switching between the at least two antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Harpreet S. Narula, Suresh K. Ramasamy, Liam B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 12167498
    Abstract: This Application describes mechanisms for enterprise remote management of cellular services provided via access credentials, e.g., subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and/or electronic SIMs (eSIMs), for wireless devices. To minimize requirements for user interaction, installation and management of business-supplied cellular service profiles on the wireless device can intercept alert notifications to reduce interruptions and allow for background management of the business-supplied cellular service profiles. Additionally, a business enterprise can use multiple, distinct services to initiate installation of an eSIM to a wireless device. When two different services attempt to install eSIMs on the wireless device in parallel, management software on the wireless device can control an order of installation and disallow duplicate installations of an identical eSIM to the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Can Xiong, Sherman X. Jin, Eric Zelenka, Graham S. McLuhan, Li Li, Rafael L Rivera-Barreto, Raj S. Chaugule, Rohan C. Malthankar
  • Patent number: 12160829
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a sleep-wake schedule associated with Wi-Fi communication of a Wi-Fi station (STA). The method also includes obtaining UWB-related information associated with ultra-wide band (UWB)-communication of a ranging capable device (RDEV). The method also includes determining a UWB ranging timeline based on a comparison of the sleep-wake schedule and the UWB-related information. The method also includes instructing the RDEV to use the UWB ranging timeline in a UWB ranging event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rebal Al Jurdi, Rubayet Shafin, Hao Chen, Boon Loong Ng
  • Patent number: 12149647
    Abstract: In a roll-slide mobile terminal having a flexible display in which a front area is expanded or reduced, in order to solve a problem that the flexible display is not stably supported when expanded, there is provided a roll-slide mobile terminal comprising a first frame, a second frame configured to slidably move in a first direction with respect to the first frame, a display part configured to be flexible, having a front surface provided on a front surface of the first frame, wound at an end portion in a first direction of the second frame, and provided over a rear surface of the second frame, wherein a front surface area is expanded or retracted in response to a movement of the second frame, and an expansion support part configured to expand in the first direction in response to an expansion of the front surface area of the display part to support the front surface area of the display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: In Su Song, Timothy Kang, Min Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 12144580
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods and systems are provided that comprise, under control of one or more processors of a medical device, where the one or more processors are configured with specific executable instructions. The methods and systems include sensing circuitry configured to define a sensing channel to collect biological signals, memory configured to store program instructions, a processor configured to implement the program instructions to at least one of analyze the biological signals, manage storage of the biological signals or deliver a therapy, and communication circuitry configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other implantable or external device, the communication circuitry configured to transition between a sleep state, a partial awake state and a fully awake state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Pacesetter, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjian Wu, Chao-Wen Young, Jun Yang, Reza Shahandeh, Gabriel A. Mouchawar
  • Patent number: 12143171
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay Limited
    Inventors: Daren Pickering, Nicholas Telford-Reed
  • Patent number: 12142818
    Abstract: Devices are provided that include radar circuits arranged to send and receive radar signals that can be used to, for example, detect gestures performed in the vicinity of the device. Arrangements of the circuits and associated antennas allow for the device to have no bezel or a minimal bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jian Wang, David J. Weber, Jiang Zhu, Maryam Tabesh, Arnold Feldman, Jaime Lien
  • Patent number: 12143173
    Abstract: A power transmission apparatus has a first communication function for communicating with a power reception apparatus and a second communication function for communicating with the power reception apparatus at a radio frequency different from a radio frequency used in the first communication function, and makes a decision as to whether to use the first communication function or the second communication function in communication for controlling wireless transmission of power, the decision being made on the basis of device information obtained from the power reception apparatus through communication using the first communication function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Shichino
  • Patent number: 12135178
    Abstract: A system and method for determining an operational status of a firearm based on a discharge event is provided. A first acceleration is measured on the firearm at a first time. A second acceleration is measured on the firearm at a second time. A measured shot separation of first and second accelerations between the first and second times is calculated. The measured shot separation is compared to at least one shot separation threshold. A speed of a movement member in the firearm is assigned based on the comparing. The operational status of the firearm is determined based on the assigned speed. The operational status is communicated to a first user of the firearm in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Armaments Research Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle William Broadway, Michael Canty