Patents by Inventor Mahdi FORGHANI

Mahdi FORGHANI 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: 20240072813
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having mixer circuitry configured to receive an oscillator signal from phase-locked loop circuitry. The phase-locked loop circuitry may include a digital or analog phase-locked loop having a first frequency divider, a ring oscillator, and an auxiliary phase noise cancellation loop coupled to the ring oscillator. The auxiliary phase noise cancellation loop may include at least a time-to-digital converter, a second frequency divider, an amplifier, and a bandpass filter configured to reject thermal and quantization noise associated with the time-to-digital converter. The first frequency divider may have a first division ratio, whereas the second frequency divider may have a second division ratio that is less than the first division ratio to provide faster phase noise correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmed I Hussein, Mahdi Forghani, David M Signoff
  • Patent number: 11909406
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having mixer circuitry configured to receive an oscillator signal from phase-locked loop circuitry. The phase-locked loop circuitry may include a digital or analog phase-locked loop having a first frequency divider, a ring oscillator, and an auxiliary phase noise cancellation loop coupled to the ring oscillator. The auxiliary phase noise cancellation loop may include at least a time-to-digital converter, a second frequency divider, an amplifier, and a bandpass filter configured to reject thermal and quantization noise associated with the time-to-digital converter. The first frequency divider may have a first division ratio, whereas the second frequency divider may have a second division ratio that is less than the first division ratio to provide faster phase noise correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed I Hussein, Mahdi Forghani, David M Signoff
  • Publication number: 20220180080
    Abstract: Remote measuring and sensing. Some example embodiment related to optical energy harvesting by identification device, such as infrared identification device (IRID devices). Other embodiments relate to RFID device localization using low frequency source signals. Yet still other embodiments related to energy harvesting by RFID in electric fields in both conductive and non-conductive environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aydin Babakhani, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Pour, Mahdi Forghani, Yuxiang Sun, Yaswanth Kumar Cherivirala
  • Patent number: 11263412
    Abstract: Remote measuring and sensing. Some example embodiment related to optical energy harvesting by identification device, such as infrared identification device GRID devices). Other embodiments relate to RFID device localization using low frequency source signals. Yet still other embodiments related to energy harvesting by RFID in electric fields in both conductive and non-conductive environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Aydin Babakhani, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Pour, Mahdi Forghani, Yuxiang Sun, Yaswanth Kumar Cherivirala
  • Publication number: 20210326545
    Abstract: Remote measuring and sensing. Some example embodiment related to optical energy harvesting by identification device, such as infrared identification device GRID devices). Other embodiments relate to RFID device localization using low frequency source signals. Yet still other embodiments related to energy harvesting by RFID in electric fields in both conductive and non-conductive environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aydin Babakhani, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Pour, Mahdi Forghani, Yuxiang Sun, Yaswanth Kumar Cherivirala
  • Patent number: 11048893
    Abstract: Remote measuring and sensing. Some example embodiment related to optical energy harvesting by identification device, such as infrared identification device GRID devices). Other embodiments relate to RFID device localization using low frequency source signals. Yet still other embodiments related to energy harvesting by RFID in electric fields in both conductive and non-conductive environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: William Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Aydin Babakhani, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Pour, Mahdi Forghani, Yuxiang Sun, Yaswanth Kumar Cherivirala
  • Publication number: 20190180065
    Abstract: Remote measuring and sensing. Some example embodiment related to optical energy harvesting by identification device, such as infrared identification device GRID devices). Other embodiments relate to RFID device localization using low frequency source signals. Yet still other embodiments related to energy harvesting by RFID in electric fields in both conductive and non-conductive environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Aydin BABAKHANI, Seyed Mohammad Kazem POUR, Mahdi FORGHANI, Yuxiang SUN, Yaswanth Kumar CHERIVIRALA