Patents by Inventor Andreas Nilsson

Andreas Nilsson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230146269
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for performing a beam management procedure. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining configuration information from a terminal device for which the network node provides network access. The configuration information specifies that the terminal device is in need for evaluating different polarization states in different time units during the beam management procedure. The method comprises performing the beam management procedure with the terminal device. The beam management procedure involves the network node to, per slot, transmit reference signals according to a reference signal transmission scheme. The reference signal transmission scheme depends on the obtained configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sven PETERSSON, Andreas NILSSON
  • Publication number: 20230138221
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna arrangement for a radio transceiver device. The antenna arrangement comprises at least two antenna arrays, wherein at least one of the at least two antenna arrays has antenna elements of two polarizations. The antenna elements of one polarization at each of the at least two antenna arrays define a respective set of antenna elements. The antenna arrangement comprises at least two baseband chains. The antenna arrangement comprises a switching network configured to selectively operatively connect each of the at least two baseband chains with its own set of antenna elements such that no two baseband chains are operatively connected to one and the same set of antenna elements. Each of the at least one antenna array that has antenna elements of two polarizations is operatively connected to the switching network via a respective hybrid connector configured to provide a signal from one of the baseband chains to antenna elements of both polarizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sven PETERSSON, Andreas NILSSON
  • Patent number: 11639696
    Abstract: A method of determining the nature of a fault in the operation of a hydraulic fuel injector includes sending an actuation pulse to an actuator of the injector, the actuation pulse being above the minimum drive pulse of the injector. The method also includes analyzing a signal from an accelerometer of the injector to determine if there is a high frequency vibration component subsequent to the end of the activation pulse. The method also includes determining the functionality of a needle control valve of the injector dependent on the outcome of analyzing the signal from the accelerometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Edward Williams
  • Publication number: 20230130428
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wireless communication device 1 having an upper part 10 and a bottom part 11, the upper part 10 comprising one or more transmission antenna device(s) 12a, 12b; 15. The upper part 10 and the bottom part 11 are arranged movably in relation to each other, so that the bottom part 11, in use mode, is closer to the user than the upper part 10. The bottom part 11 comprises one or more reception antenna device(s) 14a, 14b, 14c, 14d.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andreas NILSSON, Anders DERNERYD, Anders STJERNMAN
  • Patent number: 11637666
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) the UE being configured to receive a message comprising configuration information, CI, indicating that a reference signal, RS, is quasi-co-located, QCL, with a transmission; and adjust a spatial Tx configuration for the transmission based on an RS associated with the received CI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stephen Grant, Sebastian Faxér, Mattias Frenne, Andreas Nilsson, Ravikiran Nory, Niklas Wernersson
  • Publication number: 20230119660
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for scheduling communication with terminal devices. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises receiving, in response to having performed a beam management procedure involving transmission of reference signals in a set of beams, a beam report from each of the terminal devices. Each beam report indicates one of the beams as top ranked. The method comprises scheduling communication for the terminal devices in beams of the set of beams. At least a first terminal device of the terminal devices and a second terminal device of the terminal devices are both scheduled in a first beam of the beams not indicated as top ranked in the beam report of the second terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik ATHLEY, Andreas NILSSON, Sven PETERSSON
  • Patent number: 11632151
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of a first wireless communication device configured for massive multi-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MEMO) communication with two or more second wireless communication devices. The first wireless communication device comprises a plurality of antenna ports, each antenna port associated with at least one of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The method comprises acquiring an estimation of a communication channel between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication devices and acquiring an estimation of a quantization distortion caused by either DACs or ADCs. The method also comprises jointly determining (for the two or more second wireless communication devices) a transmission power and a transmission resource for each of the second wireless communication devices, wherein the joint determination is based on the estimation of the communication channel and on the estimation of the quantization distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sven Jacobsson, Mikael Coldrey, Andreas Nilsson, Giuseppe Durisi
  • Patent number: 11632214
    Abstract: A method, wireless device and network node for performing sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. According to one aspect a method includes receiving a definition of one or more SRS resource sets to be configured, comprising at least one SRS transmission setting. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selected SRS resource set to use for a SRS transmission, from the one or more configured SRS resource sets and determining a precoding configuration for the SRS transmission based on the selected SRS resource set and the at least one SRS transmission setting. The method also includes transmitting a SRS according to the determined precoding configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11627535
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) determines a power management parameter for at least one of its antennas, maps transmit ports to antennas based at least in part on the power management parameter, and transmits a set of references signals on the antennas according to the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11626910
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for beamformed transmission towards groups of terminal devices. Each terminal device is, according to a bandwidth part (BWP) configuration, configured with a BWP set. One BWP in the BWP set is an active BWP for the terminal device. The method is performed by a network node. The method comprises configuring a new terminal device entering one of the groups with an active BWP based on frequency overlap avoidance with the active BWPs of the terminal devices already part of the group entered. The method comprises serving all terminal devices by performing beamformed transmission towards the terminal devices in accordance with the active BWPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sven Petersson, Andreas Nilsson, Fredrik Athley
  • Patent number: 11622338
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for transmission of synchronization signals. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises transmitting polarized bursts of SSB in beams. One SSB is transmitted per each beam in each burst. Polarization of at least one of the SSBs changes between two consecutive bursts of the SSBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventor: Andreas Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11616561
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for beam selection. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises performing a beam management procedure for at least two terminal devices. During the beam management procedure reference signals are transmitted in a beam sweep as performed in a set of beams. During the beam management procedure, each of the at least two terminal devices reports at least two beams in the set of beams for which the reference signals have been received with highest power. The method comprises selecting which beams to serve the at least two terminal devices based jointly on the reports and a mutual interference criterion for the at least two terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson, Niklas Jaldén, Martin Johansson
  • Publication number: 20230084460
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for Channel State Information (CSI) feedback for Non-Coherent Joint Transmission (NC-JT). In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device comprises receiving a CSI report configuration that comprises either: a first group of Non-Zero Power CSI reference signal (NZP CSI-RS) resources for channel measurement and a second group of NZP CSI-RS resources for channel measurement or a list of NZP CSI-RS resource tuples each comprising one or more NZP CSI-RS resources for channel measurement. The method further comprises selecting a first NZP CSI-RS resource and/or a second NZP CSI-RS resources in the first group of NZP CSI-RS resources and/or the second group of NZP CSI-RS resources, respectively, or in a NZP CSI-RS resource tuple in the list of NZP CSI-RS resource tuples. The method further comprises reporting, to a network node, CSI based on the first and/or second NZP CSI-RS resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Shiwei Gao, Mattias Frenne, Simon Järmyr, Helka-Liina Määttänen, Siva Muruganathan, Andreas Nilsson, Claes Tidestav
  • Publication number: 20230076139
    Abstract: Methods for enhancing Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) reliability. In embodiments disclosed herein, a base station provides, and a wireless device receives, an instruction for transmitting a plurality of PUSCH repetitions based on two Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource sets. Accordingly, the wireless device transmits, and the base station receives, the plurality of PUSCH repetitions based on the instruction. In a non-limiting example, the wireless device can be configured to transmit the multiple PUSCH repetitions in accordance with codebook based PUSCH transmission or non-codebook based PUSCH transmission. As a result, it is possible to efficiently use multiple SRS resource sets for transmission and/or reception of PUSCH repetitions, especially in Frequency Range 2 (FR2) in which an uplink transmit beam may be formed with a narrower beam-width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, Simon Järmyr, Andreas Nilsson, Jianwei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230073090
    Abstract: A method of transmitting an uplink transmission by a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises a wireless device receiving signaling configuring the wireless device with a plurality of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources. The wireless device subsequently receives an indication, in a physical layer downlink control channel, of a selected plurality of SRS resources selected from among the plurality of configured SRS resources and transmits a plurality of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers of a PUSCH transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson
  • Patent number: 11601165
    Abstract: There is provided an antenna arrangement for a radio transceiver device for simultaneous use of two polarization directions. The antenna arrangement comprises at least two baseband chains. The antenna arrangement further comprises a first set of antenna elements of a first polarization direction, and a second set of antenna elements of a second polarization direction. The antenna arrangement comprises an analog distribution network operatively connecting the at least two baseband chains to both sets of antenna elements. All of the baseband chains are operatively connected to each respective antenna element of the first set and to each respective antenna element of the second set via the analog distribution network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sven Petersson, Fredrik Athley, Andreas Nilsson
  • Publication number: 20230049502
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for transmission of reference signal resources from a terminal device. A method is performed by the terminal device. The terminal device comprises at least two antenna panels and a baseband chain operable to be switched between the at least two antenna panels. The baseband chain is thereby connected to each of the antenna panels one at a time. The method comprises distributing a fixed set of reference signal resources among the at least two antenna panels by selecting which beams are to be used for transmission of the reference signal resources. The reference signal resources are distributed among the at least two antenna panels according to antenna panel selection information. The method comprises transmitting each of the reference signal resources in a respective one of the beams as the baseband chain is connected to each antenna panel used for generating the beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sven PETERSSON, Andreas NILSSON, Fredrik ATHLEY, Eleftherios KARIPIDIS
  • Patent number: 11569559
    Abstract: A method (10) for restoring a microwave link is provided. The method (10) is performed by a network entity (7) and comprises receiving (11) information from a node (3) controlling a microwave antenna (5), the information indicating that an obstacle is at least partly obscuring the microwave antenna (5), and instructing (12), based on the received information, an unmanned aerial vehicle (6) adapted for maintenance work to fly to a given location for removing the obstacle on the microwave antenna (5). A method (40) in a network node (3), a method (70) in an unmanned aerial vehicle (6) and devices are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mikael Coldrey, Andreas Nilsson
  • Publication number: 20230027215
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for beam related statistics aided resumed beamformed communication with a terminal device. A method is performed by a radio access network node. The method comprises providing network access to the terminal device by, in a first set of beams, performing beamformed communication with the terminal device until the terminal device leaves radio resource control (RRC) connected mode. The method comprises storing beam related statistics of the beamformed communication. The method comprises providing resumed network access to the terminal device by, in a second set of beams, performing resumed beamformed communication with the terminal device upon the terminal entering RRC connected mode. How to perform the resumed beamformed communication is based on the beam related statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Andreas NILSSON, Sven PETERSSON
  • Patent number: D978546
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Arjo IP Holding AB
    Inventors: Jon Backman, Hjalmar Lundström Hallberg, Andreas Nilsson, Anders Åbjörnsson