Patents by Inventor Brian Clark

Brian Clark 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: 20240008116
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish a first communication link using a first radio access technology (RAT). The UE may establish a second communication link using a second RAT. The UE may determine whether to prioritize antenna selection for the first communication link using the first RAT or the second communication link using the second RAT. The UE may prioritize antenna selection for the first communication link or the second communication link based at least in part on the determination. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Brian Clarke Banister, Sridhar Bandaru, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 11856531
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first configuration to perform an uplink communication using a first frequency spectrum band. The UE may receive a second configuration to receive a downlink communication using a second frequency spectrum band. The UE may determine an interference caused by at least one of the first frequency spectrum band or the second frequency spectrum band. The UE may reroute, based at least in part on the determination, the uplink communication to a first uplink path or a second uplink path associated with the first frequency spectrum band. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Leena Zacharias, Reza Shahidi, Arnaud Meylan, Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Publication number: 20230406323
    Abstract: A method of monitoring for circumvention of an ignition interlock system is described herein including detecting an electrical parameter associated with an electrical power state of a vehicle electrical system in a vehicle comprising an ignition interlock device that includes at least a relay device and a controller device electrically interconnected within the vehicle electrical system, measuring a rate of degradation associated with the electrical parameter of the vehicle electrical system, and comparing the electrical parameter to a threshold condition. The method further includes comparing the rate of degradation of the electrical parameter to a threshold rate. Depending on the rate of degradation, a violation state may be generated, a violation state may be reversed, a violation state may be maintained, a log entry may be generated, or more than one of these may occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: David Livingston Smith, Carol A. Vokes, Jennifer Johnson, Brian Clark
  • Publication number: 20230403053
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may determine a time-averaged power limit of a set of antennas. The apparatus may modify an antenna switching configuration based at least in part on the time-averaged power limit. The apparatus may transmit a signal using an antenna, from the set of antennas, associated with the modified antenna switching configuration, wherein the antenna is associated with a higher power limit than one or more other antennas. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Thawatt GOPAL, Sridhar BANDARU, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Reza SHAHIDI, Troy CURTISS, Akhil DEODHAR, Lin LU, Jagadish NADAKUDUTI
  • Publication number: 20230399708
    Abstract: Disclosed are nucleic acid oligonucleotides, including primers, probes, and target capture oligonucleotides, for detection of SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A, and Influenza B. Also disclosed are methods of specific nucleic acid amplification and detection using the disclosed oligonucleotides. Corresponding formulations, reaction mixtures, and kits and related methods for preparing aqueous reaction mixtures from dried formulations are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Craig Brian CLARK, Jimmykim PHAM, Paul M. DARBY, Yi-Hsuan Elisha HO
  • Publication number: 20230388990
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may communicate via a first component carrier (CC) during a first time period. The UE may communicate via a second CC during a second time period. The UE may receive a first indication to deactivate the second CC during a third time period that at least partially overlaps with the first time period. The UE may receive a second indication to activate the second CC for communication during a fourth time period. The UE may communicate via the second component carrier during the fourth time period using an initial frequency error correction at a beginning of the fourth time period, the initial frequency error correction based at least in part on a frequency error of the first CC during the third time period. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Paolo MINERO, Ajay K.R. BODDU, Scott HOOVER, Kai XIE, Levent AYDIN, Aamod KHANDEKAR, Brian Clarke BANISTER
  • Publication number: 20230388001
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, for each of one or more candidate beams in a set of candidate beams, a downlink throughput, an uplink throughput, a downlink power consumption, and an uplink power consumption. The UE may select a beam based at least in part on: at least one of the downlink throughput or the uplink throughput, at least one of the downlink power consumption or the uplink power consumption, and one or more throughput thresholds. The UE may communicate using the selected beam. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Jun ZHU, Mihir Vijay LAGHATE, Raghu Narayan CHALLA, Brian Clarke BANISTER
  • Patent number: 11832244
    Abstract: In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink (UL) grant (e.g., dynamic UL grant, UL configured grant (CG)) from a network, but may decide to skip the UL grant altogether or not transmit any user plane data on the UL grant. In such instances, the UE may maintain or expedite expiration associated with one or more timers (e.g., discontinuous reception (DRX) and bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timers, secondary cell (SCell) deactivation timer, etc.). The UE may also maintain or expedite expiration associated with one or more timers if it receives downlink (DL) transmission (e.g., DL semi-persistent scheduling (SPS)) from the network that includes no user plane data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Linhai He, Peter Gaal, Leena Zacharias, Mahbod Ghelichi, James Francis Geekie, Brian Clarke Banister, Arnaud Meylan, Michel Evan Chauvin
  • Publication number: 20230379766
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may initiate a broadcast or multicast (broadcast/multicast) application associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) while the UE is in a standalone mode for a second RAT; switch from the second RAT to the first RAT based at least in part on initiating the broadcast/multicast application; and switch from the first RAT to the second RAT based at least in part on failing to detect a communication associated with the broadcast/multicast application using the first RAT. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun LEE, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Bhupesh Manoharlal UMATT
  • Patent number: 11817926
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may determine a time-averaged power limit of a set of antennas. The apparatus may modify an antenna switching configuration based at least in part on the time-averaged power limit. The apparatus may transmit a signal using an antenna, from the set of antennas, associated with the modified antenna switching configuration, wherein the antenna is associated with a higher power limit than one or more other antennas. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thawatt Gopal, Sridhar Bandaru, Brian Clarke Banister, Reza Shahidi, Troy Curtiss, Akhil Deodhar, Lin Lu, Jagadish Nadakuduti
  • Publication number: 20230344484
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for antenna selection at a user equipment (UE). The UE may have a set of available antennas for uplink and downlink communications, and may select a first subset of antennas for uplink communications and a second subset of antennas for downlink communications. The first subset of antennas may be based on one or more uplink metrics, and the second subset of antennas may be based on the first subset of antennas and one or more downlink channel metrics, traffic amounts, or any combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Arash Ebadi Shahrivar, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Brian Clarke Banister, Yung-Yih Jian, Jianming Zhu, Raghu Narayan Challa, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Aamod Khandekar, Ruhua He
  • Publication number: 20230337230
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may implement cross-carrier scheduling. A user equipment (UE) may identify a minimum scheduling delay and may receive a downlink grant on a first CC. The UE may further identify the slot in which a downlink data transmission corresponding to the downlink grant will be received, and may identify the slot such that the minimum scheduling delay is satisfied. The UE may the receive the downlink data transmission, as indicated in the downlink grant, in the identified slot. In some examples, the UE and the base station may alternate between a long minimum scheduling delay and a short minimum scheduling delay. In some examples, the UE and the base station may alternate between a cross-carrier mode, and a self-scheduling mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Pui Lok Ang, Peter Gaal, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Tingfang Ji, Brian Clarke Banister, Wanshi Chen, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Huilin Xu, John Edward Smee, Heechoon Lee, Hari Sankar
  • Publication number: 20230336324
    Abstract: According to embodiments, an example UE may include means for obtaining a set of ADC samples generated by an ADC based on analog signals and an ADC input clock and means for generating, at a first time point, a start signal indicating a starting point of capturing the set of ADC samples. The UE may also include means for synchronizing, at a second time point, the start signal and a system clock and means for generating, at a third time point, a capturing sample clock for capturing the set of ADC samples. The means may further include means for inputting the start signal and the capturing sample clock to a counter to determine a time difference between the second time point and the third time point and means for determining the ADC output timing of the set of ADC samples based on the time difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Lennart Karl-Axel MATHE, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Christos KOMNINAKIS, Minkui LIU
  • Publication number: 20230336192
    Abstract: According to embodiments, an example method for determining an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) output timing in a user equipment may include operating a switch in a first mode to route a system clock from an oscillator to an input of the ADC and determining a first ADC output timing based on a first set of ADC samples generated by the ADC. The method may also include operating the switch in a second mode to route analog signals from a transceiver of the user equipment to the input of the ADC and obtaining a second set of ADC samples generated by the ADC based on the analog signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Lennart Karl-Axel MATHE, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Christos KOMNINAKIS, Minkui LIU
  • Patent number: 11787415
    Abstract: A method of monitoring for circumvention of an ignition interlock system is described herein including detecting an electrical parameter associated with an electrical power state of a vehicle electrical system in a vehicle comprising an ignition interlock device that includes at least a relay device and a controller device electrically interconnected within the vehicle electrical system, measuring a rate of degradation associated with the electrical parameter of the vehicle electrical system, and comparing the electrical parameter to a threshold condition. The method further includes comparing the rate of degradation of the electrical parameter to a threshold rate. Depending on the rate of degradation, a violation state may be generated, a violation state may be reversed, a violation state may be maintained, a log entry may be generated, or more than one of these may occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Consumer Safety Technology, LLC
    Inventors: David Livingston Smith, Carol A. Vokes, Jennifer Johnson, Brian Clark
  • Publication number: 20230328556
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for measurement of cells and determination of a non-standalone (NSA) coverage status using an NSA coverage database. The NSA coverage database may indicate candidate frequencies of New Radio (NR) cells that provide NSA coverage corresponding to a given Long Term Evolution (LTE) serving cell. The NSA coverage database may also indicate whether a system information block 1 (SIB1) has been previously received on a candidate frequency. The user equipment (UE) may perform measurement of candidate frequencies using the NSA coverage database, and may identify cases where a cell not providing NSA coverage has a same candidate frequency as a cell providing NSA coverage using the indication of whether SIB1 has been previously received on a candidate frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kuo-Chun LEE, Arvind Vardarajan SANTHANAM, Brian Clarke BANISTER, Bhupesh Manoharlal UMATT, Xuepan GUAN, Jyotica YADAV, Ehren J D VAN MELLE, Gautham JAYARAM, Sumit Kumar SINGH, Touseef KHAN, Arjun SURI, Sushant VIKRAM, Longjun CHEN, Sasikanth Reddy ADAPALA
  • Patent number: 11784697
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may configure a first set of throughput targets and a second set of throughput targets for an application layer. The UE may set a target throughput rate associated with the application to a required throughput target included in the first set of throughput targets. The UE may monitor a real-time throughput rate associated with the application layer. The UE may set the target throughput rate to a value in the second set of throughput targets based at least in part on a difference between the real-time throughput rate and the required throughput target satisfying a threshold. The UE may select, from a set of candidate beams, a serving beam associated with an estimated application layer throughput that satisfies the target throughput rate. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Michael Lee McCloud, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Patent number: 11784674
    Abstract: Aspects relate to a calibration of an antenna array module of a wireless communication device in open space. The antenna array module may be used as a proximity sensor to detect an object's proximity relative to the antenna array module. Aspects include displaying an open space calibration instruction on a display of the wireless communication device, transmitting a proximity test signal from the antenna array module, measuring a value of a first signal received at the antenna array module in response to transmitting the proximity test signal, and storing the value of the first signal as an open space calibration value of the antenna array module. The first signal may be measured at cross-polarized antennas of the antenna array module. The value of the first signal may be representative of perturbations of the proximity test signal at the cross-polarized antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Udara Fernando, Brian Clarke Banister, Eyosias Yoseph Imana
  • Patent number: D1003708
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Michael O. Okoroafor, Erik Holm, Peter Brian Clarke, James E. McCay, Sean Evelich, Corey James Marchetti
  • Patent number: D1007310
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: H.J. Heinz Company Brands LLC
    Inventors: Peter Brian Clarke, Sean Evelich, Trond Erik Tollefsen