Patents Examined by V. Trans
  • Patent number: 11960310
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a power management device configured to supply a plurality of input voltages; a power module configured to generate an output voltage using at least one of the plurality of input voltages, and to output the generated output voltage; and a system load configured to operate by receiving the output voltage, wherein the power module includes: a first power module configured to receive a first input voltage from the power management device, and to generate a first output current using the first input voltage; and a second power module configured to receive a second input voltage from the power management device, and to generate a second output current using the second input voltage based on the first input voltage being lower than a first reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongyeol Lee, Dongwook Suh
  • Patent number: 11962998
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and provides a communication method, including: receiving, by a mobility management network element, first information from a terminal device; obtaining a user equipment context of the terminal device in a public network and a user equipment context of the terminal device in a private network based on the first information; and using the user equipment context of the terminal device in the public network and the user equipment context of the terminal device in the private network as a user equipment context of the terminal device. According to the solution provided in embodiments, the user equipment context of the terminal device includes the user equipment context in the public network and the user equipment context in the private network, so that the terminal device can access both the public network and the private network, thereby improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanmei Yang, Jiangwei Ying
  • Patent number: 11960311
    Abstract: A linear voltage regulator with isolated supply current is disclosed. The voltage regulator is configured and controlled such that its output current closely matches its input current (any quiescent current consumed by the regulator is negligible relative to the amount of current passed by the regulator). In certain implementations, the voltage regulator is implemented as an analog component. In other implementations, the voltage regulator includes or cooperates with digital elements, such as an analog-to-digital converter, a digital processing core, or a digital-to-analog converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Seth N. Kazarians, Adam S. Trock, Jalal Elidrissi, Fatemeh Delijani
  • Patent number: 11962063
    Abstract: An antenna structure with multiple frequency capabilities applied to an electronic device includes frame body, first feed point, a first switch point, and second switch point. The frame body has at least one portion made of metal material and defines two gaps. The frame body between gaps form a first radiation portion. The first feed point from a source feeds current and signal to the first radiation portion. The first switch point and the second switch point are located at two ends of the frame body adjacent to the first gap. The first switch point and the second switch point are grounded through a switch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Cho-Kang Hsu, Min-Hui Ho
  • Patent number: 11962247
    Abstract: A resonant half-bridge flyback power converter includes: a first transistor and a second transistor which form a half-bridge circuit; a transformer and a resonant capacitor connected in series and coupled to the half-bridge circuit; and a switching control circuit configured to generate a first driving signal and a second driving signal to control the first transistor and the second transistor respectively for switching the transformer to generate an output voltage. The first driving signal is configured to magnetize the transformer. The second driving signal includes at most one pulse between two consecutive pulses of the first driving signal. The switching control circuit generates a skipping cycle period when an output power is lower than a predetermined threshold. A resonant pulse of the second driving signal is skipped during the skipping cycle period. The skipping cycle period is increased in response to the decrease of the output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ta-Yung Yang, Ying-Chieh Su, Yu-Chang Chen
  • Patent number: 11962067
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises: a front housing including a display on a front surface; a rear housing located on a rear surface of the front housing; an antenna clip coupled to the rear housing, wherein the antenna clip may comprise: a coupling body coupled to one end of the rear housing; a first contact portion extending from the coupling body and electrically connected to an external radiator, and a second contact portion electrically connected to a circuit board between the front housing and the rear housing. Other various embodiments may be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sunghyup Lee, Yongseok Lee, Seungki Choi, Jungsik Park, Heeseok Jung, Kyoungho Kim, Sangmin Kim, Yongyoun Kim, Seunghoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11962066
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a metal frame. At least two slots are provided on one side of the metal frame; at least two antenna feed points are provided on an inner side wall of the metal frame, and different antenna feed points in the at least two antenna feed points are located on sides of different slots. The terminal device is further provided therein with a signal reflecting wall, and there is a gap between the signal reflecting wall and the at least two slots. The signal reflecting wall is formed by a metal wall of a battery compartment of the terminal device, and the signal reflecting wall is a reflective curved surface that is convex. The metal frame and the signal reflecting wall are electrically connected with a ground plate in the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yijin Wang, Xianjing Jian
  • Patent number: 11962242
    Abstract: A buck voltage converter is disclosed. The buck voltage generator includes a controller configured to generate one or more pulse width modulation (PWM) signals, and a plurality of serially connected switches configured to receive the PWM signals and to generate an output voltage signal at an output terminal based on the received PWM signals. The output voltage signal has an average voltage corresponding with a duty cycle of the PWM signals, a first switch of the plurality of serially connected switches has a first breakdown voltage and a second switch of the plurality of serially connected switches has a second breakdown voltage, and the first breakdown voltage is less than the second breakdown voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: EMPOWER SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventor: Timothy Alan Phillips
  • Patent number: 11962246
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power supply control device and a flyback converter. The power supply control device includes: a comparator, comparing a current sensing signal generated by IN conversion of a primary side current flowing in the primary winding with a threshold voltage; a switching controller, turning off a switching element according to a comparing result of the current sensing signal and the threshold voltage by the comparator; an external terminal, connectable to a connection node of an external resistor connected in series between one end of the auxiliary winding and an application end of a ground potential; a current detector, detecting a terminal current flowing through the external terminal; and a threshold voltage corrector, correcting the threshold voltage based on a current detection signal of the current detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11955695
    Abstract: An antenna module includes: a middle frame, wherein a bezel of the middle frame is provided with an opening for providing a functional module, the bezel is formed with a first conductive strip on one side of the opening, and the bezel is formed with a second conductive strip on the other side of the opening, wherein the first conductive strip and/or the second conductive strip is/are connected to a feed line, to be used as an antenna radiator for transmitting and receiving radio signals. The first conductive strip and the second conductive strip are formed by the bezel at the opening for providing the functional module, to transmit and receive the radio signals, such that the bezel at the opening can be multiplexed to transmit and receive the radio signals in a case that space is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Heng Cao
  • Patent number: 11954189
    Abstract: A method and system of authenticating a user logon builds a user logon profile with a plurality of user logon features gathered during at least one successful attempted user logon, determines a logon feature novelty score for each feature, receives a user logon request for authentication and extracts current user logon features, retrieves corresponding logon feature novelty scores, determines a first distance function score for the corresponding logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, builds a failed logon attempt database, determines a failed logon feature novelty score, extracts the failed logon feature novelty scores corresponding to current user logon features, determines a second distance function score for the corresponding failed logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, and determining to one of allow or deny the user logon request based on at least one of the first distance function score and the second distance function score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Erramilli, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Anuj Gargeya Malkapuram
  • Patent number: 11954068
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems are disclosed for receiving and indexing a plurality of files for later querying, for dynamically generating scripts to be executed during a query of a data store, and for horizontally distributing a query and aggregating results of the distributed query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Luke A. Higgins, Robert R. Bruno
  • Patent number: 11953927
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a bias generating device and a method for generating bias. A bias generating device includes a first diode-connected transistor pair connected to receive a first voltage; a second diode-connected transistor pair connected to receive a second voltage; and a first transistor pair connected to the first diode-connected transistor pair and the second diode-connected transistor pair. The first transistor pair is configured to generate a third voltage in response to the first voltage and the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Perng-Fei Yuh, Yoshitaka Yamauchi, Yih Wang
  • Patent number: 11955733
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new wideband mm-wave end-fire magneto-electric dipole antenna with excellent beam-scanning radiation patterns and reasonably low side lobes and low cross polarizations. The antenna comprises: an asymmetrical substrate integrated coaxial line feed comprising: a first substrate having a first substrate thickness; a second substrate placed on the first substrate and having a second substrate thickness different from the first substrate thickness; a conductive signal line deposited on an upper surface of the first substrate; and two rows of waveguiding vias positioned along and at both sides of the signal line respectively; a ?-shaped probe adopted to excite the antenna; a pair of shorted planar parallel plates serving as magnetic dipole and two pair of vertical conductive vias serving as electric dipole; and a folded vertical reflector consisting of conductive vias and strips is added to reduce the back radiation and to improve the gain of antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Kwai Man Luk, Ao Li
  • Patent number: 11953926
    Abstract: Voltage regulation schemes for powering multiple circuit blocks are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a front end system includes a reference voltage circuit that receives power from a power supply voltage and generates a reference voltage, a group of circuit blocks each selectively enabled by a corresponding one of a group of enable signals, and a programmable voltage regulator that generates a programmable regulated voltage based on the reference voltage and provides the programmable regulated voltage to the circuit blocks. The programmable regulated voltage has a voltage level that changes based on a selection of the circuit blocks that are enabled by the enable signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Bang Li Liang, Guillaume Alexandre Blin, Thomas Obkircher
  • Patent number: 11955697
    Abstract: An antenna device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a dielectric layer, a radiator and a dummy electrode. The radiator is disposed on the upper surface of the dielectric layer. The radiator includes a first mesh structure, and the first mesh structure includes a first antenna electrode line and a second antenna electrode line which cross each other. The dummy electrode is spaced apart from the radiator by the separation region on the upper surface of the dielectric layer. The dummy electrode includes a second mesh structure, and the second mesh structure includes a first dummy electrode line and a second dummy electrode line which cross each other. A spacing distance between the first dummy electrode line and the radiator is different from a spacing distance between the second dummy electrode line and the radiator at the separation region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jun Lee, Han Sub Ryu, Gi Hwan Ahn
  • Patent number: 11955700
    Abstract: Cellular base station antenna concealments, such as palm and tree concealments, utilize artificial branches with nonmetallic (e.g., polymeric) interfaces to avoid loose metal-to-metal connections to mitigate the generation of passive intermodulation (PIM) interference by the branches. Representative embodiments include “palm concealments” with low-PIM artificial palm fronds, and “tree concealments” with low-PIM artificial tree branches. That is, “low-PIM fronds” and “low-PIM tree branches” are two representative examples of “low-PIM branches” illustrating representative embodiments of the invention. The low-PIM palm frond includes a nonmetallic (e.g., polymeric) sleeve positioned between a metal frond shaft and a metal frond receiver. A first example of the low-PIM tree branch includes nonmetallic (e.g., polymeric) fastener isolators positioned between metal fasteners and a metal tree branch receiver. A second example of the low-PIM tree branch includes a nonmetallic (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: VALMONT INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Oberman, Mark R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11955736
    Abstract: An antenna includes a housing, a first conductor group, and a power supply line. The housing includes a first surface including at least three first corner portions, a second surface including at least three second corner portions and facing the first surface, and a side surface connecting the first and second surfaces. A housing portion is surrounded by the first, second and side surfaces. The first conductor group includes a first conductor extending along the first surface, at least three second conductors separated from one another, and a second conductor group. The second conductors extend along the side surface from the first corner portions to the second corner portions and are electrically connected to the first conductor. The second conductor group extends along the second surface and capacitively couples the at least three second conductors. The power supply line is connected to any one portion of the second conductor group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Masamichi Yonehara
  • Patent number: 11954197
    Abstract: A user may conduct a plurality of access requests with a plurality of resource provider computers. A processor server computer may determine whether resource provider computers store access data associated with the user in various ways, including detecting patterns in sets of a plurality of access requests conducted between the user and each of the plurality of resource provider computers. Upon detecting that access data has changed, the processor server computer may automatically send the updated access data to each of the identified resource provider computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Meredith Altenhofen, Amy Alterman, Robert Yost
  • Patent number: 11955904
    Abstract: In first power transmission in which power is transmitted from a first DC power source to a second DC power source, a control circuit performs on/off drive control of a positive electrode-side switching element and a negative electrode-side switching element in a first bridge circuit and a second bridge circuit and stops on/off drive of a positive electrode-side switching element and a negative electrode-side switching element in a third bridge. For a positive electrode-side switching element and a negative electrode-side switching element of a fourth bridge circuit, when a first power transmission amount by the first power transmission is greater than a predetermined first reference value, the control circuit performs on/off drive control, whereas when the first power transmission amount is smaller than the first reference value, the control circuit stops on/off drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Itogawa, Yusuke Higaki