Patents by Inventor John P. Lesso
John P. Lesso 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: 20240125864Abstract: Circuitry for determining an impedance of an electrochemical cell comprising at least one first electrode and a second electrode, the circuitry comprising: drive circuitry configured to apply a stimulus to the electrochemical cell, the stimulus having a stimulation frequency and a stimulation amplitude; and measurement circuitry configured to: sample an output of the electrochemical cell at a sampling frequency to generate an output signal; determine an output amplitude of output signal at one or more alias frequencies, the one or more alias frequency based on the stimulation frequency and the sampling frequency; and determine the impedance of the cell at the stimulation frequency based on the output amplitude at the one or more alias frequencies and the stimulation amplitude; and control circuitry configured to: control the sampling frequency and the stimulation frequency such that a Nyquist rate of the sampling frequency is greater than stimulation frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventors: John P. LESSO, Toru IDO, Yanto SURYONO
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Publication number: 20240125854Abstract: Circuitry for processing a response from an electrochemical cell to a stimulus, the circuitry comprising: sense circuitry configured to measure the response of the electrochemical cell to the stimulus; and processing circuitry configured to: sample the measured response to obtain a plurality of samples; and determine a first average signal based on a first number of samples of the plurality of samples; and output the first average signal, wherein the first number of samples in the first average signal is selected to minimise a first variance in the first number of samples.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventors: John P. LESSO, Scott P. WARRICK, Yanto SURYONO
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Patent number: 11958075Abstract: The present disclosure relates to circuitry for driving a load. The circuitry comprises driver circuitry configured to generate a drive signal, based on an input signal to the driver circuitry, for driving the load, and commutator circuitry for coupling the driver circuitry to the load. The commutator circuitry is configured to alternate between commutation states in response to a level of the drive signal meeting a drive signal threshold or in response to a level of the input signal meeting a first input signal threshold. The circuitry is configured to apply an offset to the input signal when the input signal is below a second input signal threshold so as to increase a minimum level of the drive signal above the drive signal threshold or to increase a minimum level of the input signal above the first input signal threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: John P. Lesso, Toru Ido
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Publication number: 20240107231Abstract: An apparatus, comprising: an audio input for receiving an input audio signal; an tuning input for receiving a tuning signal; a filter chain comprising a plurality of filters for filtering the audio signal to produce a filtered input audio signal, the filter chain comprising: a first filter module operating at a first sampling rate; and a second filter module operating at a second sampling rate greater than the first sampling rate, wherein a phase response of the first filter module is dependent on the tuning input and wherein a magnitude response of the first filter module is substantially independent of the tuning input.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventor: John P. LESSO
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Patent number: 11937509Abstract: The present disclosure relates to circuitry for driving a piezoelectric transducer. The circuitry comprises pre-processor circuitry configured to process an input signal to generate a processed signal; driver circuitry coupled to the pre-processor circuitry and configured to generate a drive signal, based on the processed signal, for driving the piezoelectric transducer; and processor circuitry configured to determine a resonant frequency of the piezoelectric transducer. The pre-processor circuitry is configured to process the input signal based on the determined resonant frequency so as to generate the processed signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: John P. Lesso, Anthony S. Doy
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Publication number: 20240085370Abstract: Circuitry for measuring a characteristic of an electrochemical cell, the electrochemical cell comprising at least one working electrode and a counter electrode, the circuitry comprising: driver circuitry configured to apply a working bias voltage to the at least one working electrode and a counter bias voltage at the counter electrode to produce a first voltage bias between the at least one working electrode and the counter electrode; control circuitry configured to adjust the first voltage bias over a first bias range by varying the working bias voltage and the counter bias voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventor: John P. LESSO
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Patent number: 11918345Abstract: A method of cough detection in a headset, the method comprising: receiving a first signal from an external transducer of the headset; receiving a second signal from an in-ear transducer of the headset; and detecting a cough of a user of the headset based on the first and second signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: John P. Lesso, Yanto Suryono, Toru Ido
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Publication number: 20240074319Abstract: The present disclosure relates to circuitry for driving a piezoelectric transducer. The circuitry may be implemented as an integrated circuit and comprises driver circuitry configured to supply a drive signal to cause the transducer to generate an output signal and active inductor circuitry configured to be coupled with the piezoelectric transducer. The active inductor circuitry may be tuneable to adjust a frequency characteristic of the output signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventor: John P. LESSO
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Publication number: 20240068980Abstract: Circuitry for measuring a characteristic of an electrochemical cell, the circuitry comprising: a comparator having a first comparator input, a second comparator input and a comparator output; a feedback path between the comparator output and the second comparator input configured to provide a feedback signal to the second comparator input; and a loop filter configured to apply filtering to the feedback path to generate the feedback signal, wherein the loop filter comprises the electrochemical cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventors: John P. LESSO, Toru IDO
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Patent number: 11916526Abstract: A method of equalising an audio signal derived from a microphone, the method comprising: receiving the audio signal; applying an order-statistic filter to the audio signal in the frequency domain to generate a statistically filtered audio signal; equalising the received audio signal based on the statistically filtered audio signal to generate an equalised audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: John P. Lesso, Craig Alexander Anderson
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Patent number: 11900730Abstract: A method of biometric identification of a person comprises, during an enrolment phase determining at least one enrolment transfer function for bone conduction of an audio signal through an enrolling user's head. The enrolment transfer function is stored. During a verification phase, at least one verification transfer function for bone conduction of an audio signal through the person's head is determined. It is then determined from the at least one verification transfer function and the at least one enrolment transfer function whether the person is the enrolling user.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: John P. Lesso, Jason P. Rhode
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Patent number: 11894000Abstract: A speech signal is received by a device comprising first and second transducers, and the first transducer comprises a microphone. A method comprises performing a first voice biometric process on speech contained in a first part of a signal received by the microphone, in order to determine whether the speech is the speech of an enrolled user. A first correlation is determined, between said first part of the signal received by the microphone and a corresponding part of the signal received by the second transducer. A second correlation is determined, between said second part of the signal received by the microphone and the corresponding part of the signal received by the second transducer. It is then determined whether the first correlation and the second correlation satisfy a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventor: John P. Lesso
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Patent number: 11889280Abstract: An apparatus, comprising: an audio input for receiving an input audio signal; an tuning input for receiving a tuning signal; a filter chain comprising a plurality of filters for filtering the audio signal to produce a filtered input audio signal, the filter chain comprising: a first filter module operating at a first sampling rate; and a second filter module operating at a second sampling rate greater than the first sampling rate, wherein a phase response of the first filter module is dependent on the tuning input and wherein a magnitude response of the first filter module is substantially independent of the tuning input.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventor: John P. Lesso
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Patent number: 11871193Abstract: A microphone system, comprises a first transducer, for generating a first acoustic signal, and a second transducer, for generating a second acoustic signal. A high-pass filter receives the first signal and generates a first filtered signal, and a low-pass filter receives the second signal and generates a second filtered signal. An adder forms an output signal of the microphone system as a sum of the first filtered signal and the second filtered signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: John P. Lesso, Thomas I. Harvey
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Publication number: 20230408597Abstract: Circuitry for a resistance of an electrochemical cell comprising at least one first electrode and a second electrode, the circuitry comprising: drive circuitry configured to apply a stimulus to the at least one first electrode of the electrochemical cell; sense circuitry configured to measure a response of the electrochemical cell to the stimulus, the response comprising a faradaic component and a non-faradaic component; and processing circuitry configured to: sample the response at a sample time, the sample time selected to maximise a ratio of the non-faradaic component to the faradaic component; and determine the resistance of the electrochemical cell based on the response at the sample time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventor: John P. LESSO
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Publication number: 20230408596Abstract: Circuitry for determining an impedance of an electrochemical cell comprising at least one first electrode and a second electrode, the circuitry comprising: drive circuitry configured to apply a stimulus to the electrochemical cell; sense circuitry configured to measure a response of the electrochemical cell to the stimulus; and processing circuitry configured to: determine an estimated transfer function of the electrochemical cell based on the stimulus and the response; determine a score for the estimated transfer function; and adjust the stimulus or circuitry used to measure the response based on the score.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventors: John P. LESSO, Yanto SURYONO, Toru IDO
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Patent number: 11849643Abstract: Circuitry for estimating a displacement of a piezoelectric transducer in response to a drive signal applied to the piezoelectric transducer, the circuitry comprising: monitoring circuitry configured to be coupled to the piezoelectric transducer and to output a sense signal indicative of an electrical signal associated with the piezoelectric transducer as a result of the drive signal; wherein the circuitry is configured to generate a difference signal based on the drive signal and the sense signal; and wherein the circuitry further comprises processing circuitry configured to apply at least one transfer function to the difference signal to generate a signal indicative of the displacement of the piezoelectric transducer.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: John P. Lesso, Robert A. Steven
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Patent number: 11846600Abstract: Circuitry for measuring a characteristic of an electrochemical cell, the circuitry comprising: a comparator having a first comparator input, a second comparator input and a comparator output; a feedback path between the comparator output and the second comparator input configured to provide a feedback signal to the second comparator input; and a loop filter configured to apply filtering to the feedback path to generate the feedback signal, wherein the loop filter comprises the electrochemical cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: John P. Lesso, Toru Ido
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Publication number: 20230384390Abstract: Circuitry for determining an impedance of an electrochemical cell comprising at least one first electrode and a second electrode, the circuitry comprising: drive circuitry configured to apply a stimulus to the electrochemical cell, the stimulus having a stimulation frequency and a stimulation amplitude; and measurement circuitry configured to: measure an output of the electrochemical cell to generate an output signal; separate the output signal into a linear component and a non-linear component; and determine the impedance of the cell based on the linear component of the response.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.Inventor: John P. LESSO
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Patent number: 11832523Abstract: The present disclosure relates to circuitry for driving a piezoelectric transducer. The circuitry may be implemented as an integrated circuit and comprises driver circuitry configured to supply a drive signal to the piezoelectric transducer to cause the transducer to generate an output signal and active inductor circuitry configured to be coupled with the piezoelectric transducer. The active inductor circuitry may be tuneable to adjust a frequency characteristic of the output signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventor: John P. Lesso