Patents by Inventor Gregory Chance
Gregory Chance 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).
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Publication number: 20240154324Abstract: Disclosed herein are antenna systems, methods, and devices. The device includes a first portion including a first antenna array; and a second portion including a second antenna array, wherein the first portion and the second portion are movable with respect to one another, and wherein the first antenna array and the second antenna array are arranged such that in a first relative position of the first portion and the second portion with respect to one another the first antenna array and the second antenna array operate in combination with one another, and in a second relative position of the first portion and the second portion with respect to one another the first antenna array and the second antenna array operate independently of one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Sreenivas KASTURI, Xi LI, Gregory CHANCE, Wayne BALLANTYNE, Bruce GEREN, Peter PAWLIUK, Nebil TANZI
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Patent number: 11955732Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
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Publication number: 20240007070Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatic gain control (AGC). A transceiver includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert a received analog signal to digital signal, a measurement circuitry configured to measure a signal level on the digital signal, an AGC controller configured to generate, based on the measured signal level, an analog gain control signal to change a gain to be applied to a received analog signal in analog domain and a digital gain control signal for digital gain compensation corresponding to the gain change in analog domain, and a digital gain compensation circuitry configured to apply the digital gain compensation based on the digital gain control signal. The digital compensation gain applied to the digital bits follows a ramp profile that is an inverse of a transient response to the gain change in analog domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Gregory CHANCE, Peter PAWLIUK
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Publication number: 20230199516Abstract: A wireless communication device can include an antenna array and processing circuitry coupled to the antenna array to segment antenna elements of an antenna array into a configurable plurality of groups of antenna elements. The circuitry can also activate analog beamforming for at least one group of the plurality of groups of antenna elements. Subsequent to enabling analog beamforming, the processing circuitry can configure digital beamforming for the at !east one group based on a criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Gregory Chance, Ashoke Ravi, Benjamin Jann, Paolo Madoglio
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Publication number: 20230198596Abstract: A wireless communication device can include a communication control interface. Beamforming circuitry coupled to the communication control interface receives, over the communication control interface, an index value into a coarse codebook and an offset vector. The index value indicates a value within the coarse codebook, and the offset vector indicates an offset value for a desired beam relative to the index value. The beamforming circuitry determines a new beam direction based on the index value and the offset vector using one of interpolation and extrapolation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Bruce Geren, Gregory Chance, Joseph Hayden, III
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Publication number: 20230188194Abstract: A wireless communication device can include modem circuitry to connect the UE to a repeater over a side-link connection. The device can also include processing circuitry to control a repeater beamforming process to select a beam angle from the repeater to a base station and initiate a communication procedure using the selected beam angle. Other methods, systems and apparatuses are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Bruce Geren, Wayne Ballantyne, Gregory Chance, Xi Li, Peter Pawliuk, Nebil Tanzi
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Publication number: 20230189182Abstract: A wireless communication device can include an oscillator circuit. The oscillator circuit can include an oscillator and measurement circuitry coupled to the oscillator. The measurement circuitry can receive an output signal of the oscillator and measure oscillator error by comparing the output signal of the oscillator to a nominal frequency for an amount of time. The oscillator circuit can further include adjustment circuitry to adjust an oscillator frequency of the oscillator based on the measured oscillator error.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Wayne Ballantyne, Benjamin Jann, Bruce Geren, Gregory Chance
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Publication number: 20230145401Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
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Publication number: 20220384956Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asi, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
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Patent number: 11424539Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
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Publication number: 20220190851Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting output signals includes a pre-distortion circuit configured to perform digital pre-distortion (DPD) on input signal samples using a plurality of DPD coefficients to generate a plurality of pre-distorted samples. The apparatus further includes an estimation window search circuit configured to determine a signal power characteristic for each pre-distorted sample of the plurality of pre-distorted samples, and select a subset of the plurality of pre-distorted samples based on the determined signal power characteristics. The subset of the plurality of pre-distorted samples is selected to fit within a predetermined estimation window size. The plurality of DPD coefficients is updated based on the subset of the plurality of pre-distorted samples.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Peter Pawliuk, Benjamin Jann, Gregory Chance
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Patent number: 11329706Abstract: In a communication device and corresponding methods, a hierarchical, reduced power, beam search process includes a hierarchical activation of the radio frequency frontend (RFFE), transceiver, and baseband integrated circuit (BBIC) for a beam searching operations. For example, a first signal metric measurements can be performed to determine signal information. An operating mode can be determined based on the signal information. In a first operating mode, one or more second signal metric measurements can be performed for a subset of beamforming configurations of the wireless communication device to determine beamforming information. In a second operating mode, one or more third signal metric measurements can be performed on the beamforming configurations to determine the beamforming information.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Wayne Ballantyne, Gregory Chance, Bruce Geren, Dror Markovich, Peter Pawliuk, Nebil Tanzi
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Patent number: 11258450Abstract: Techniques are provided for reducing or mitigating phase noise of a digital phase lock loop or the system depending on the digital phase lock loop. In an example, a multiple-mode digital phase lock loop can include a digital phase lock loop (DPLL), multiple frequency scalers configured to receive a reference clock, and a multiplexer configured to receive a mode command signal and to couple an output of one of the multiple frequency scalers to an input of the DPLL in response to a state of the mode command signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Niranjan Karandikar, Wayne Ballantyne, Gregory Chance, Simon Hughes, Daniel Schwartz, Nebil Tanzi
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Patent number: 11146276Abstract: A wireless communication device can include an antenna configured to sense a radio frequency (RF) signal. The wireless communication device can include signal estimation circuitry configured to generate estimates of amplitude and frequency for unmodulated spurs within the RF signal. The wireless communication device can further include multi-tone generator circuitry coupled to the signal estimation circuitry and configured to generate a composite spur cancellation signal based on the estimates of amplitude and frequency for unmodulated spurs within the RF signal. The wireless communication device can further include adder circuitry configured to subtract the spur cancellation signal from the RF signal to generate a spur cancelled signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Niranjan Karandikar, Mohammed Alam, Gregory Chance, Armando Cova, Michael Milyard, John J. Parkes, Jr., Ashoke Ravi, Daniel Schwartz, Dong-Jun Yang
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Publication number: 20210234596Abstract: In a communication device and corresponding methods, a hierarchical, reduced power, beam search process includes a hierarchical activation of the radio frequency frontend (RFFE), transceiver, and baseband integrated circuit (BBIC) for a beam searching operations. For example, a first signal metric measurements can be performed to determine signal information. An operating mode can be determined based on the signal information. In a first operating mode, one or more second signal metric measurements can be performed for a subset of beamforming configurations of the wireless communication device to determine beamforming information. In a second operating mode, one or more third signal metric measurements can be performed on the beamforming configurations to determine the beamforming information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Wayne Ballantyne, Gregory Chance, Bruce Geren, Dror Markovich, Peter Pawliuk, Nebil Tanzi
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Publication number: 20210067163Abstract: A wireless communication device can include an antenna configured to sense a radio frequency (RF) signal. The wireless communication device can include signal estimation circuitry configured to generate estimates of amplitude and frequency for unmodulated spurs within the RF signal. The wireless communication device can further include multi-tone generator circuitry coupled to the signal estimation circuitry and configured to generate a composite spur cancellation signal based on the estimates of amplitude and frequency for unmodulated spurs within the RF signal. The wireless communication device can further include adder circuitry configured to subtract the spur cancellation signal from the RF signal to generate a spur cancelled signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Niranjan Karandikar, Mohammed Alam, Gregory Chance, Armando Cova, Michael Milyard, John J. Parkes, JR., Ashoke Ravi, Daniel Schwartz, Dong-Jun Yang
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Publication number: 20210021272Abstract: Techniques are provided for reducing or mitigating phase noise of a digital phase lock loop or the system depending on the digital phase lock loop. In an example, a multiple-mode digital phase lock loop can include a digital phase lock loop (DPLL), multiple frequency scalers configured to receive a reference clock, and a multiplexer configured to receive a mode command signal and to couple an output of one of the multiple frequency scalers to an input of the DPLL in response to a state of the mode command signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Niranjan Karandikar, Wayne Ballantyne, Gregory Chance, Simon Hughes, Daniel Schwartz, Nebil Tanzi
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Patent number: 10790332Abstract: Techniques to fabricate an RF filter using 3 dimensional island integration are described. A donor wafer assembly may have a substrate with a first and second side. A first side of a resonator layer, which may include a plurality of resonator circuits, may be coupled to the first side of the substrate. A weak adhesive layer may be coupled to the second side of the resonator layer, followed by a low-temperature oxide layer and a carrier wafer. A cavity in the first side of the resonator layer may expose an electrode of the first resonator circuit. An RF assembly may have an RF wafer having a first and a second side, where the first side may have an oxide mesa coupled to an oxide layer. A first resonator circuit may be then coupled to the oxide mesa of the first side of the RF wafer.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Bruce A. Block, Paul B. Fischer, Nebil Tanzi, Gregory Chance, Han Wui Then, Sansaptak Dasgupta, Marko Radosavljevic
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Publication number: 20200091608Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
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Patent number: 10171126Abstract: Embodiments of front-end module (FEM) circuitry and a communication device are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the FEM circuitry may be configured to provide uplink (UL) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signals and/or UL carrier aggregation (CA) signals for transmission by the communication device. The FEM circuitry may comprise a hybrid coupler to generate a first antenna transmit signal and a second antenna transmit signal. The FEM circuitry may further comprise one or more tunable phase shifters. In some embodiments, the phase shifters may phase-shift a first radio frequency (RF) signal and a second RF signal according to a 90 degree phase difference to generate the hybrid coupler input signals. Accordingly, the antenna transmit signals may be transmitted according to the UL-MIMO configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Gregory Chance, Nebil Tanzi