Patents Examined by Whitney Moore
  • Patent number: 11121463
    Abstract: A Van Atta antenna array comprising a number of antenna elements electrically connected to operate as a Van Atta antenna array and fabricated on and within a substrate. Each antenna element has a number of patch elements fabricated on the top surface of the substrate, with the patch elements being interconnected by substrate integrated waveguides. The antenna array provides a two-dimensional retro-reflective surface, which makes it especially suitable for InSAR monitoring of infrastructures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventors: Dorel Marius Necsoiu, Brad D. Moore, Emilio Martinez, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11119185
    Abstract: A system and method to detect a target with a radar system of a vehicle involve transmitting two or more chirps, in turn, from two or more transmit elements. Each chirp is a continuous wave liner frequency modulated waveform. The method also includes receiving reflections generated by each of the two or more chirps from each of the two or more transmit elements at two or more receive elements, and processing the reflections based on a Doppler sampling frequency corresponding with a period of each of the two or more chirps to determine velocity of each detected target relative to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gonen Barkan, Ilya Shapir Poltorak, Ishai Eljarat, Igal Bilik
  • Patent number: 11105918
    Abstract: The present invention is a nodal radar system having a metamaterial-based object detection system. An intelligent antenna metamaterial interface (IAM) associates specific metamaterial unit cells into sub-arrays to adjust the beam width of a transmitted signal. The nodal radar system is positioned on infrastructure to complement sensor information from mobile vehicles and devices within an environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventors: Maha Achour, Tim Curley, Matthew Harrison
  • Patent number: 11105892
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a radar apparatus which can create and display only necessary trail data. The radar apparatus may include an acquisition module, an echo data creation module, a memory, a trail data creation module, and a display unit. The acquisition module may acquire an echo based on a reflected wave from a target object, of a transmitted electromagnetic wave. The echo data creation module may create, based on the echo, echo data at least indicative of a position of the target object. The memory may store determination data set, for every given display area, whether trail data indicative of a moving trail of the target object is to be newly created based on the echo. The trail data creation module may create the trail data based on the echo and the determination data. The display unit may display the echo data and the trail data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Takumi Fujikawa, Yugo Kubota
  • Patent number: 11076265
    Abstract: A load control system may include control-target devices for controlling an amount of power provided to an electrical load. The control-target devices may be capable of controlling the amount of power provided to the electrical load based on control instructions. The control-target devices and/or the control-instructions may be determined based on a gesture performed by a user. The user may wear a wearable control device capable of measuring movements performed by the user and transmit digital messages that may be used to control an electrical load. The wearable control device may identify gestures performed by the user for controlling a control-target device and/or provide control instructions to the control-target device based on the identified gestures. A gesture may be associated with a scene that includes a configuration of one or more control devices in a load control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventors: Rhodes B. Baker, Erica L. Clymer, Galen Edgar Knode, Sanjeev Kumar, John Nill, Daniel L. Twaddell, Michael J. Zizza
  • Patent number: 11067428
    Abstract: A radar fill level measurement device for fill level measurement or for detecting a topology of a filling material surface in a container is provided, including: a first radar chip and a second radar chip, the first radar chip including a first synchronization circuit configured to generate a high-frequency signal, and the second radar chip including a second synchronization circuit; a high-frequency line arrangement configured to transfer the high-frequency signal from the first synchronization circuit to the second synchronization circuit for synchronizing the two radar chips; and a high-frequency amplifier arranged in the high-frequency line arrangement and configured to amplify the high-frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: VEGA Grieshaber KG
    Inventors: Roland Welle, Steffen Waelde
  • Patent number: 11067666
    Abstract: A method for self-calibrating a radar system includes forming a calibration loop-back signal path. The calibration loop-back signal path is configured for determining a passband response of each of a radio frequency (RF) signal path, a local oscillator (LO) signal path, and an intermediate frequency (IF) signal path of the radar system. The method also includes transmitting a set of calibration signals into the RF signal path and the LO signal path and measuring output signals from the IF signal path in a receiver of the radar system. The method further includes determining the passband response of each of the RF signal path, the LO signal path and the IF signal path from the measured output signals and compensating for distortions and/or non-linearities in the signal paths using the passband response of each signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Brian D. Cordill, James Douglas Franklin
  • Patent number: 11067679
    Abstract: Provided is a narrow-band radar device including an orthogonal code generator configured to generate a plurality of orthogonal generators, a pseudo-noise code generator configured to generate a plurality of pseudo-noise codes, a radar transmitter configured to spread-modulate transmission data using the plurality of orthogonal codes and pseudo-noise codes, and a radar receiver configured to demodulate a reception signal using the plurality of orthogonal codes and pseudo-noise codes, and calculate at least one of an azimuth angle, elevation angel, speed, or range of a target from the demodulated reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ik Soo Eo, Bon Tae Koo
  • Patent number: 11067684
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a data receiver with a unit for receiving sub-data packets configured to receive at least two sub-data packets from a data transmitter, and to combine the at least two sub-data packets to obtain a data packet that is transmitted split into the at least two sub-data packets by the data transmitter, wherein each of the at least two sub-data packets is shorter than the data packet, a unit for receiving sub-data packets configured to receive the at least two sub-data packets on at least two different carrier frequencies a unit for determining a phase difference configured to determine a phase difference between the at least two sub-data packets that is caused by the at least two different carrier frequencies and the path delay, and a unit for determining a distance difference configured to determine a distance difference between the data receiver and the data transmitter based on the determined phase difference between the at least two sub-data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Niels Hadaschik, Marc Faßbinder, Josef Bernhard, Jörg Robert, Jörn Thielecke, Markus Hartmann, Hans-Martin Tröger, Ferdinand Kemeth
  • Patent number: 11067660
    Abstract: An angle of arrival system can be self-calibrating. The angle of arrival system can continuously estimate imperfections caused by the analog RF components and dynamically apply corrections based on these estimates. As a result, an angle of arrival system can employ inexpensive components, will not require factory calibration, but can still perform geolocation with high precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Radivoje Zarubica, Larry S. Thomson, Bing Shen, Cory A. Reimschussel
  • Patent number: 11054511
    Abstract: Various sensing systems may benefit from appropriate handling of signal to noise ratios. For example, detecting and measuring physiological signals may benefit from a phasor approach to signal to noise ratio measurement evaluation. A method can include obtaining a plurality of observations of a target volume. The method can also include determining a weight for each observation of the plurality of observations of the volume. The weight can be based on a change in phasor characteristics of the observation. The method can further include combining the plurality of observations based on the weight. The method can additionally include identifying a physiological signal based on the combined observations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Durgaprasad Shamain, Wuyuan Li
  • Patent number: 11055626
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for training quantum evolutions using sub-logical controls. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of accessing quantum hardware, wherein the quantum hardware includes a quantum system comprising one or more multi-level quantum subsystems; one or more control devices that operate on the one or more multi-level quantum subsystems according to one or more respective control parameters that relate to a parameter of a physical environment in which the multi-level quantum subsystems are located; initializing the quantum system in an initial quantum state, wherein an initial set of control parameters form a parameterization that defines the initial quantum state; obtaining one or more quantum system observables and one or more target quantum states; and iteratively training until an occurrence of a completion event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Babbush, Hartmut Neven
  • Patent number: 11043593
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a Fin FET device. The Fin FET device includes a first fin structure extending in a first direction and protruding from an isolation insulating layer, a first gate stack including a first gate electrode layer and a first gate dielectric layer, covering a portion of the first fin structure and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a first source and a first drain, each including a first stressor layer disposed over the first fin structure. The first fin structure and the isolation insulating layer are disposed over a substrate. A height Ha of an interface between the first fin structure and the first stressor layer measured from the substrate is greater than a height Hb of a lowest height of the isolation insulating layer measured from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheng-Yen Yu, Che-Cheng Chang, Tung-Wen Cheng, Zhe-Hao Zhang, Bo-Feng Young
  • Patent number: 11043654
    Abstract: A multilayer encapsulation, a method for encapsulating and an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes a first electrode layer, an organic light-emitting layer stack abutting the first electrode layer, a second electrode layer abutting the light-emitting layer stack and a multilayer encapsulation abutting the second electrode layer, wherein the multilayer encapsulation comprises a barrier layer and a planarization layer, wherein the planarization layer abuts the second electrode layer, and wherein the planarization layer is arranged between the second electrode layer and the barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED Gmbh
    Inventors: Sebastian Wittmann, Arne Fleissner, Erwin Lang
  • Patent number: 11038016
    Abstract: A transistor device includes a first silicon nanowire array-MOSFET and a second silicon nanowire array-MOSFET integrated with a bulk drift region. The first silicon nanowire array-MOSFET is configured as an n-MOSFET by substantially only accommodating an electron current, and the second silicon nanowire array-MOSFET is configured as a p-MOSFET by substantially only accommodating a hole electron current. A current strength of a current through the first silicon nanowire array-MOSFET caused by electrons is at least 10 times larger than a current through the first silicon nanowire array-MOSFET caused by holes in an on-state of the transistor device. Further embodiments of transistor devices are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Christian Philipp Sandow, Franz Josef Niedernostheide, Vera van Treek
  • Patent number: 11038081
    Abstract: A method according to embodiments of the invention includes providing a light emitting semiconductor structure grown on a substrate. The substrate has a front side and a back side opposite the front side. Notches are formed in the substrate. The notches extend from the front side of the substrate into the substrate. After forming notches in the substrate, the back side of the substrate is thinned to expose the notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Filip Ilievski, Norbertus Antonius Maria Sweegers, Kwong-Hin Henry Choy, Marc Andre De Samber
  • Patent number: 11038082
    Abstract: A method comprises forming a mask on a first surface of a substrate. The mask is patterned to form openings on the first surface of the substrate. Notches are formed in the first surface of the substrate in the openings. The mask is removed from the first surface of the substrate A plurality of LEDs are provided on the first surface of the substrate and between notches. A second surface of the substrate is thinned to expose the notches and separate the LEDs. The second surface of the substrate is opposite of the first surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Filip Ilievski, Norbertus Antonius Maria Sweegers, Kwong-Hin Henry Choy, Marc Andre De Samber
  • Patent number: 11029384
    Abstract: A system for detecting fake information about a vehicle location may include a radio signal receiver configured to receive a radio signal from a communication system; a message receiver configured to receive the radio signal to generate a message and determine the message to generate information about a location of the communication system; a radio signal incident angle calculator configured to generate a radio signal incident angle; an azimuth calculator configured to generate a location information azimuth angle by use of the information about locations of the communication system and a receiving vehicle, and a fake vehicle generated by the communication system; and a location information fake detector configured to determine whether location information of the fake vehicle is faked by use of a difference value between an angle corresponding to a reference axis of the location information azimuth angle and the location information azimuth angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Jong Rok Park, Dong Gyu Noh, Su Lyun Sung, Dae Sung Hwang, Hahk Rel Noh, Cho Rong Ryu, Tae Jun Lee, Hyo Gon Kim, In Seon An, Yong Tae Park, Tae Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 11018135
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods including a memory array having alternating levels of semiconductor materials and dielectric material with strings of memory cells formed on the alternating levels. One such apparatus includes a memory array formed substantially within a cavity of a substrate. Peripheral circuitry can be formed adjacent to a surface of the substrate and adjacent to the memory array. Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Toru Tanzawa
  • Patent number: 11018313
    Abstract: A light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants emitting light in a balanced manner and has high emission efficiency is provided. Further, a light-emitting device, a display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. A light-emitting element which includes a plurality of light-emitting layers including different phosphorescent materials is provided. In the light-emitting element, the light-emitting layer which includes a light-emitting material emitting light with a long wavelength includes two kinds of carrier-transport compounds having properties of transporting carriers with different polarities. Further, in the light-emitting element, the triplet excitation energy of a host material included in the light-emitting layer emitting light with a short wavelength is higher than the triplet excitation energy of at least one of the carrier-transport compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Takahiro Ishisone