Patents Examined by Vineeta S. Panwalkar
  • Patent number: 12040874
    Abstract: A device may receive sequential digital signals generated by a radio unit based on receipt of sequential radio frequency waveforms provided to ports of the radio unit by a signal generator and analyzer. The device may calculate uplink direction beamforming performance of the radio unit based on the sequential digital signals. The device may provide data identifying the uplink direction beamforming performance for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: VIAVI Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Wong, Ken Trudgeon, Patrick Charriere
  • Patent number: 12041156
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system that can include an antenna; a receive (Rx) path coupled to the antenna; and a transmit (Tx) path comprising a balun; and a radio frequency (RF) attenuator comprising a first port and a second port, the balun coupled to the first port, the antenna coupled to the second port. The RF attenuator can include a first switch coupled between the first port and the second port; a second switch and a first attenuator coupled to each other in series between the first port and the second port, the first attenuator having a first attenuator value; and a third switch and a second attenuator coupled to each other in series between the first port and the second port, the second attenuator having a second attenuator value greater than the first attenuator value of the first attenuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Bevin George Perumana, Mohyee Mikhemar, Tirdad Sowlati, Alvin Lin, Sudharshan Srinivasan, Wei-Hong Chen
  • Patent number: 12040859
    Abstract: A base station may transmit to a device an indication of codebook subset restriction (CBSR), which includes at least a restriction on a frequency basis. The device may receive the indication of CBSR, and may transmit to the base station channel state information (CSI) according to the received indication of CBSR. The indication of CBSR may also include a restriction on a spatial basis and restrict the device from reporting the CSI based on a subset of the frequency basis in addition to the spatial basis per configuration of the base station. The indication of CBSR may include a separately configured maximum allowed amplitude of a weighting coefficient for the spatial basis and the frequency basis, where the weighting coefficient is associated with a column vector of a precoding matrix used by the base station and the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim
  • Patent number: 12040863
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for uplink transmission, a method and apparatus for receiving signal, a terminal device, a service node and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method for uplink transmission may include: performing beamforming on a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) according to a target parameter, and transmitting the SRS beamformed, wherein the target parameter is determined according to downlink channel information; receiving precoding information; and transmitting an uplink transmission signal according to the target parameter and the precoding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Guozeng Zheng, Hao Wu, Zhaohua Lu
  • Patent number: 12040891
    Abstract: A method for modulating and demodulating 5G and 6G messages is disclosed, in which the message elements are configured with a large phase margin between adjacent modulation states, and are demodulated in a way that preserves the large phase margins. Phase noise, a major problem at high frequencies, scrambles adjacent modulation states, causing message faults. The disclosed modulation schemes and demodulation methods accommodate such phase noise without faulting, by providing a wide acceptance range for phase. Hence substantial phase noise can be accommodated without changing the demodulated state, thereby avoiding a message fault. The rate of message faults due to phase demodulation errors may be substantially decreased, and message faults at higher frequencies may be reduced, according to some embodiments. Strategies for minimizing amplitude faults are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 12034509
    Abstract: A method of operating a lower-layer split central unit, LLS-CU, includes allocating a plurality of downlink signals to a plurality of physical resource blocks, PRBs, of a physical downlink channel, generating a data-associated control information, DACI, message including a section description associated with the plurality of downlink signals, the DACI message including an indication of a plurality of sets of beamforming weights to be applied by a radio unit, RU, when transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the UE, transmitting the DACI message to the RU, and transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the RU for transmission to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Jacob Ă–sterling
  • Patent number: 12034452
    Abstract: A Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) is provided. The DAC includes a code converter circuit configured to sequentially receive first digital control codes for controlling N digital-to-analog converter cells. N is an integer greater than one. The code converter circuit is further configured to convert the first digital control codes to second digital control codes. Additionally, the DAC includes a bit-shifter circuit configured to receive shift codes for the second digital control codes. The shift codes are obtained using dynamic element matching and indicate a respective circular shift by ri bit positions for the i-th second digital control code, wherein ri is an integer smaller than N?1. The bit-shifter circuit is further configured to generate third digital control codes by circularly shifting the second digital codes based on the shift codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Gruber, Michael Kalcher, Martin Clara
  • Patent number: 12015431
    Abstract: An example device may include an antenna node configured to be coupled to an antenna element. The antenna node may be configured to pass wireless communications over multiple frequency bands. The device may also include multiple signal paths coupled to the antenna node. Each of the multiple signal paths may be configured to carry a signal from a different one of the multiple frequency bands. The device may further include a switch element coupled to the antenna node by the multiple signal paths and an amplifier circuit within the multiple signal paths between the switch element and the antenna node. The amplifier circuit may be configured to amplify the signals carried by the multiple signal paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Simon Duxbury, Wing Kai Chong, Didier Margairaz, Bahador Amiri
  • Patent number: 12015688
    Abstract: A fast-locking phase-locked loop comprises a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator, a frequency divider, and a fast-locking control unit which receives a reference clock signal at its first input terminal and a phase-locking enable signal at its second input terminal and outputs a reset signal at a high level in response to a rising edge of the reference clock signal when receiving the phase-locking enable signal, wherein the frequency divider is connected to an output terminal of the fast-locking control unit and configured to trigger generation of a feedback signal in response to the reset signal at the high level, and the phase frequency detector is connected to the output terminal of the fast-locking control unit and configured to output a phase error between the reference clock signal and the feedback signal in response to the reset signal at the high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Hangzhou Geo-chip Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanping Zhou, Chun Geik Tan, Sy-Chyuan Hwu
  • Patent number: 12009848
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for digital pre-distortion (DPD). An apparatus for wireless communication generally includes a power amplifier (PA); a first DPD circuit, a second DPD circuit, and a transmitter. The first DPD circuit is generally configured to: obtain an input signal; apply a first DPD to the input signal to generate a first resulting signal; and output the first resulting signal to the second DPD circuit. The second DPD circuit is generally configured to: obtain the first resulting signal from the first DPD circuit; apply a second DPD to the first resulting signal to generate a second resulting signal; and output the second resulting signal to the PA. The PA is generally configured to amplify the second resulting signal to generate an amplified second resulting signal. The transmitter is generally configured to transmit the amplified second resulting signal to a second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Igor Gutman, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 12003612
    Abstract: A clock recovery circuit includes a clock detector configured to receive a serial data stream from a remote device over a reverse channel, wherein the serial data stream includes clock reference data, reverse channel data, or a combination of the clock reference data and the reverse channel data, and the clock detector configured to output a clock detect signal in response to detecting the clock reference data in the serial data stream; a phase lock loop including a first detector configured to receive the serial data stream and to detect phase and frequency; and a controller configured to receive the clock detect signal and to selectively enable the first detector based on the clock detect signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerzy A. Teterwak
  • Patent number: 12003295
    Abstract: A node of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network comprises processor circuitry and interface circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to make a determination concerning crosslink interference (CLI) between (a) a beam transmitted from a parent node to the IAB node and (b) a beam transmitted from the IBA node to a child node of the IAB node; and in accordance with the determination, and to generate a command configured to modify a property of the beam transmitted from the parent node to the IAB node. The interface circuitry is configured to transmit the command to a beam controller of the parent node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenneth Park, John Michael Kowalski, Kazunari Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 11996914
    Abstract: Supporting distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (DM-MIMO) in a distributed communications system (DCS) is disclosed. The DCS includes multiple remote units each configured to communicate downlink and uplink radio frequency (RF) communications signals with a number of user equipment (UEs) at different UE locations in the DCS. Each remote unit includes multiple antennas, multiple RF chains, and an RF switch circuit configured to dynamically couple the RF chains to a subset of antennas in accordance to the UE locations such that the subset of antennas can be activated to concurrently radiate the downlink RF communications signals and absorb the uplink RF communications signals. By dynamically activating the subset of antennas in accordance to the UE locations, it is possible to optimize signal strength and channel quality for each UE in the DCS, thus making it possible to improve wireless data capacity of the DCS with negligible additional hardware cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Solomon Tesfay Abraha, Qing Ji, Xiaojun Liang, Anthony Ng'oma
  • Patent number: 11991523
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to apparatus, software and methods for thwarting radio spoofing techniques by requiring and sending data from multiple radios positioned such that the receiving client can determine that it came from multiple spatially separated radios due to the Angle of Arrival of each radio's signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Bahr, David Daniel Smith
  • Patent number: 11984946
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for performing the following. The apparatus maintains, in at least one memory, information on a reference incidence direction and reference configuration information defining a plurality of configurations of a plurality of tunable load impedance circuits of a tunable reflective array of a reconfigurable intelligent surface or a subpanel thereof for the reference incidence direction. The apparatus measures an incidence direction from which electromagnetic waves are received by the reconfigurable intelligent surface. The apparatus calculates, based on the reference incidence direction, the measured incidence direction and the reference configuration information, corrected configuration information defining a plurality of corrected configurations for the measured incidence direction. Finally, the apparatus configures the plurality of tunable load impedance circuits according to a corrected configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Saeed Reza Khosravirad, Divyakumar Mahiman Badheka, Jakub Sapis
  • Patent number: 11984953
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to utilizing an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), a tracking algorithm, or both, to receive, calibrate, and maintain orbital angular momentum (OAM) signaling between wireless devices. The present disclosure describes a first wireless device transmitting spatial-multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) beams to the IRS such that reflected waves from the IRS form a spatial mixture of OAM modes. The IRS may reflect such OAM modes to a second wireless device for subsequent reflection (e.g., a second IRS), reception, calibration, and optimization. For example, the second wireless device may perform pattern recognition of the concentric OAM modes (e.g., by estimating ellipse geometry) to determine the modes of the OAM signaling. The second wireless device may also perform decorrelation, where small perturbations to the elliptical OAM geometry allow the second wireless device to perform one or more optimization techniques related to the OAM signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, Qiang Wu, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Ozge Koymen, Navid Abedini, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji
  • Patent number: 11979757
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for demand-based dynamic carrier scaling. In one embodiment a method is disclosed, comprising: determining, at a gateway supporting dynamically created cells in a wireless network, whether there is a requirement for additional capacity; when there is a requirement for additional capacity, then providing, by the gateway, dynamically created cells as needed to handle the requirement for additional capacity; determining, at the gateway, whether there is a requirement for less capacity; and when there is a requirement for less capacity, then turning off, by the gateway, dynamically created cells as needed to handle the requirement for less capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Parallel Wireless, Inc.
    Inventor: Rajesh Kumar Mishra
  • Patent number: 11968017
    Abstract: A method of operating a lower-layer split central unit, LLS-CU, includes allocating a plurality of downlink signals to a plurality of physical resource blocks, PRBs, of a physical downlink channel, generating a data-associated control information, DACI, message including a section description associated with the plurality of downlink signals, the DACI message including an indication of a plurality of sets of beamforming weights to be applied by a radio unit, RU, when transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the UE, transmitting the DACI message to the RU, and transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the RU for transmission to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Jacob Ă–sterling
  • Patent number: 11956006
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing wireless communication using digital post distortion, for example, with a large antenna array where the number of transmit antennas may be greater than a number of spatial streams. A transmitting device and a receiving device determine a perturbed precoding matrix based on a precoding perturbation rule. The transmitting device precodes a signal using the perturbed precoding matrix and transmits via the number of antennas greater than the number of spatial streams. The receiving device receives the signal and subtracts non-linearities from the received signal based on a channel estimation using the perturbed precoding matrix over one or more iterations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Elad Meir, Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Yaron Laufer, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger
  • Patent number: 11943018
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) having partially coherent antennas may be configured for simultaneous transmissions on groups of antennas. To achieve the benefits of simultaneous transmissions using groups of antenna that are partially coherent, without having the transmissions affect each other, the UE may apply a hybrid closed-loop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scheme among each antenna in the antenna groups where phase coherence can be maintained. Following the hybrid closed-loop MIMO scheme, the UE may apply a transparent diversity scheme across each antenna of the groups. Alternatively, the UE may first apply the transparent diversity scheme and next apply the hybrid closed-loop MIMO scheme. By applying a hybrid closed-loop MIMO scheme, and a transparent diversity scheme, the UE may fully realize its resources and contribute to an improved spatial diversity for a MIMO system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi Huang, Gokul Sridharan, Wei Yang, Taesang Yoo, Peter Gaal