Patents by Inventor Marcus GROSSMANN

Marcus GROSSMANN 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).

  • Patent number: 11973549
    Abstract: A receiver processes a radio signal received via a radio channel from a transmitter employing a plurality of antenna ports, determines complex precoder coefficients and delays of one or more space-delay precoders for one or more transmission layers and antenna ports at the transmitter so as to achieve a predefined property for a communication over the radio channel, and feeds back, explicitly or implicitly, delays and the complex precoder. The space-delay precoder has a dual-stage structure having a spatial codebook matrix including spatial beamforming vectors, a frequency-domain codebook matrix, and a combining element per layer for complex scaling or combining one or more of the vectors selected from the spatial and/or frequency-domain codebook matrices. The frequency-domain codebook matrix is defined by a sub-matrix of a DFT matrix, which the sub-matrix of the DFT matrix is associated with a range of delay values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Venkatesh Ramireddy, Markus Landmann, Marcus Großmann
  • Publication number: 20240129011
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses (UE, network node or gNB) for CSI reporting. The method performed by a UE comprises: receiving from the gNB, a radio signal via a MIMO channel, wherein the radio signal contains at least one DL-RS according to a DL-RS configuration; estimating said MIMO channel based on said received at least one DL reference signal for configured subbands; calculating a precoder matrix or a CSI matrix for a number of antenna ports of the gNB and configured subbands; the precoder matrix based on a first codebook and on a second codebook and a set of combining coefficients for complex scaling/combining one or more of vectors selected from the first codebook and the second codebook; and reporting, to the gNB, a CSI feedback report and/or a PMI/RI, used to indicate the precoder matrix or the CSI matrix for the configured antenna ports and subbands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: VENKATESH RAMIREDDY, Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann
  • Publication number: 20240118212
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a sample using a system, wherein the sample is a solid sample comprising a first chemical element and a second chemical element, wherein the system comprises a plasma spectrometer and an analytical device, the method including: determining a concentration of the first chemical element using the analytical device; determining a sensitivity of the plasma spectrometer to the first chemical element and to the second chemical element; measuring a signal intensity of the first chemical element using the plasma spectrometer; measuring a signal intensity of the second chemical element using the plasma spectrometer; and calculating a concentration of the second chemical element using the determined concentration of the first chemical element, the sensitivities to the first chemical element and to the second chemical element, and the signal intensities of the first chemical element and the second chemical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Marcus Großmann, Iouri Kalinitchenko, Wolfram Weisheit, Philipp Frederic Schulz
  • Patent number: 11949483
    Abstract: Method performed by a UE for providing a channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless communication system including at least the UE and a gNB or a radio network node. The UE is operative to: estimate the MIMO channel between the gNB and the UE based on received DL reference signals for the configured resource blocks. The UE is further operative to calculate, based on a performance metric, a precoder matrix, for a number of antenna ports of the gNB and configured subbands, the precoder matrix being based on two codebooks and a set of combination coefficients for complex scaling/combining one or more of vectors selected from a first codebook and a second codebook, and the UE is operative to report a CSI feedback and/or a PMI and/or a PMI/RI, to the gNB, used to indicate the precoder matrix for the configured antenna ports and resource blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Ramireddy Venkatesh, Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann
  • Patent number: 11944522
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region and a crotch region disposed between the first and second waist regions. The absorbent article further includes a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and a laminate. The laminate has an elasticized region. The laminate includes a first nonwoven, a second nonwoven and an elastomeric material sandwiched between said first and second nonwovens in the elasticized region. The laminate includes a bonding region with a bond density of at least 4% and at least partially overlapping the elastomeric material. The laminate exhibits an Unload Force at 50% of at least 0.90 N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nelson Edward Greening, II, Erica Lynne Locke, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Marcus Schönbeck, Maria Oude-Lansink, Jan Michael Trinkaus, Marius Janas, Marcel Grossmann
  • Publication number: 20240097802
    Abstract: An apparatus configured for wirelessly communicating in a wireless communications network includes a wireless interface configured for wireless communication and a controller configured for controlling a beam pattern of the wireless interface and at least one communication parameter of the wireless interface. The apparatus is configured for receiving a locking signal indicating a request for locking at least a part of the beam pattern and the at least one communication parameter. The controller is configured for locking at least the part of the beam and the at least one communication parameter responsive to the locking signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas HAUSTEIN, Paul LEATHER, Ramez ASKAR, Leszek RASCHKOWSKI, Marcus GROßMANN, Markus LANDMANN
  • Patent number: 11936456
    Abstract: A method performed by a UE for providing CSI feedback in the form of CSI reports in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a gNB, higher layer configurations of one or more downlink reference signals, and CSI report configurations associated with the downlink reference signal configurations, and a radio signal including the downlink reference signals according to the one or more downlink reference signal configurations, the downlink reference signals provided over a configured number of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and one or more ports; determining, for each CSI report, a precoding matrix based on the downlink reference signals and two codebooks, and one or more non-zero combining coefficients for complex combining of one or more spatial domain and delay domain basis vectors; and reporting to the network node the CSI reports for the CSI report configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Ramireddy Venkatesh, Markus Landmann
  • Publication number: 20240069150
    Abstract: An apparatus including a processor unit configured to provide a first high-definition map, a sensor unit configured for providing sensor data representing an environmental condition in a periphery of the apparatus and a receiver unit configured to receive data representing a second high-definition map. The processor unit is configured to fuse the second high-definition map and the sensor data so as to provide the first high-definition map. The apparatus further includes a transmitter unit configured for transmitting a result of fusing the second high-definition map and the sensor data, and includes a command generator unit configured to generate a command signal representing a vehicle control command for a vehicle carrying the apparatus based on the first high-definition map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Kim MAHLER, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Marcus GROSSMANN, Kei SAKAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240073896
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for enhancing the reliability and performance of the PDCCH in a wireless network. The method performed by a UE comprises: receiving a configuration of search space sets for the PDCCH, each search space set comprises a number of PDCCH candidates made up of a number of resource elements; monitoring for DCIs of a specific format as indicated in the configured PDCCH candidates; wherein a configuration an indication of an association of the search space sets with a search space set pool is provided to the UE, and at least two PDCCH candidates from the search space sets are associated with the same DCI content, or an association of two or more TCI states with a single CORESET is obtained from the network node; and applying the configuration(s) or indication of the association for receiving one or more PDCCH(s) on the search space sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann, Sutharshun Varatharaajan
  • Publication number: 20240063926
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an antenna and a transceiver. The transceiver transmits a first signal via the antenna, the first signal including a unique identification of the apparatus and a request for receive information about the first signal at a receiver. The transceiver receives from the receiver a second signal via the antenna, the second signal including first information about a direction of arrival (DoA) of the first signal at the receiver and second information indicative of a location of the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Martin KURRAS, Lars THIELE, Thomas WIRTH, Marcus GROSSMANN
  • Publication number: 20240056135
    Abstract: The application relates to a communication device [e.g., UE] for communicating with one or more other communication devices using multiple-input-multiple-output, MIMO, communication, wherein the communication device is configured to: select [e.g., from ?] one or more preferred beams [e.g., bi]; and find one or more other beams [e.g., those such that INRk(cl)>?1] which have a comparatively high spatial correlation with the one or more preferred beams or which have a comparatively high probability of interference with the one or more preferred beams [e.g., if INRk(cl)>?1], wherein the communication device is configured to provide, to a coordinating communication device [e.g., BS, gNB]: first information [e.g., Fk,1] identifying the one or more preferred beams [e.g., Fk,1 is made of columns identifying the preferred beams]; and second information [e.g., rk,i,1, rk,i,2] identifying the one or more found other beams or a region [e.g., shape] in a map of beams comprising the one or more found other beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Martin KURRAS, Lars THIELE, Junyoung NAM, Marcus GROßMANN, Niels HADASCHIK, Thomas HAUSTEIN
  • Patent number: 11901996
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses (UE, network node or gNB) for CSI reporting. The method performed by a UE comprises: receiving from the gNB, a radio signal via a MIMO channel, wherein the radio signal contains at least one DL-RS according to a DL-RS configuration; estimating said MIMO channel based on said received at least one DL reference signal for configured subbands; calculating a precoder matrix or a CSI matrix for a number of antenna ports of the gNB and configured subbands; the precoder matrix based on a first codebook and on a second codebook and a set of combining coefficients for complex scaling/combining one or more of vectors selected from the first codebook and the second codebook; and reporting, to the gNB, a CSI feedback report and/or a PMI/RI, used to indicate the precoder matrix or the CSI matrix for the configured antenna ports and subbands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Venkatesh Ramireddy, Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann
  • Publication number: 20240032063
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses for enabling transmission of at least one PUSCH. A method comprises: configuring a UE to receive a single PDCCH or a higher layer grant that schedules at least one PUSCH transmission occasion. If one PUSCH transmission occasion is scheduled: scheduling the UE to transmit at least two segments of the PUSCH, each segment is associated with a transmission setting comprising a set of transmission parameters, at least one transmission parameter associated with one of the segments is different from the corresponding transmission parameter associated with at least one other segment. If more than one PUSCH transmission occasion is scheduled, each PUSCH transmission occasion is associated with a transmission setting, wherein at least one transmission parameter associated with one of the PUSCH transmission occasions is different from the corresponding transmission parameter associated with one other PUSCH transmission occasion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann, Sutharshun Varatharaajan
  • Patent number: 11881919
    Abstract: A method performed by a UE for providing CSI feedback in the form of CSI reports in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a gNB, higher layer configurations of one or more downlink reference signals, and CSI report configurations associated with the downlink reference signal configurations, and a radio signal including the downlink reference signals according to the one or more downlink reference signal configurations, the downlink reference signals provided over a configured number of frequency domain resources, time domain resources and one or more ports; determining, for each CSI report, a precoding matrix based on the downlink reference signals and two codebooks, and one or more non-zero combining coefficients for complex combining of one or more spatial domain and delay domain basis vectors; and reporting to the network node the CSI reports for the CSI report configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann, Ramireddy Venkatesh
  • Publication number: 20240022310
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment is provided, configured to receive a first message and/or a second message from a further network entity, and configured to determine one or more transmit spatial filters and/or one or more receive spatial filters and/or one or more beam directions; wherein the transmit spatial filters and/or the receive spatial filters are identical to at least one initial spatial filter or are derived by the apparatus from the at least one initial spatial filter; wherein the beam directions are identical to at least one initial beam direction or are derived by the apparatus from the at least one initial beam direction. Furthermore, the apparatus is configured to apply the transmit spatial filters and/or the receive spatial filters and/or the beam directions on one or more downlink resources and/or on one or more uplink resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Mohammad ALAWIEH, Sutharshun VARATHARAAJAN, Marcus GROßMANN
  • Patent number: 11876589
    Abstract: A communication device for providing an explicit channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive, from a transmitter a radio signal via a radio time-variant frequency MIMO channel, the radio signal including downlink reference signals according to a reference signal configuration, and downlink signals including the reference signal configuration, and a processor. The processor estimates the CSI using measurements on the downlink reference signals of the radio channel according to the reference signal configuration over one or more time instants/slots, constructs a frequency-domain channel tensor using the CSI estimate, performs a higher-order principal component analysis, HO-PCA, on the channel tensor, identifies a plurality of dominant principal components of the channel tensor, thereby obtaining a compressed channel tensor, and reports to the transmitter the explicit CSI including the dominant principal components of the channel tensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Venkatesh Ramireddy, Markus Landmann, Marcus Grossmann, Florian Römer
  • Publication number: 20240015851
    Abstract: A user device UE for a wireless communication with a plurality of wireless network elements includes a plurality of antennas. The plurality of antennas are configured to form a plurality of spatial or directional beams. The user device is configured to provide simultaneously a plurality of independent wireless communication links using the plurality of spatial or directional beams, wherein the user device is configured to provide a first wireless communication link with a first wireless network element using a first spatial or directional beam and to provide a second wireless communication link with a second wireless network element using a second antenna beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Haustein, Thomas Wirth, Lars Thiele, Martin Kurras, Marcus Grossmann, Marco Breiling, Junyoung Nam
  • Patent number: 11871220
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses for enabling transmission of at least one PUSCH. A method comprises: configuring a UE to receive a single PDCCH or a higher layer grant that schedules at least one PUSCH transmission occasion. If one PUSCH transmission occasion is scheduled: scheduling the UE to transmit at least two segments of the PUSCH, each segment is associated with a transmission setting comprising a set of transmission parameters, at least one transmission parameter associated with one of the segments is different from the corresponding transmission parameter associated with at least one other segment. If more than one PUSCH transmission occasion is scheduled, each PUSCH transmission occasion is associated with a transmission setting, wherein at least one transmission parameter associated with one of the PUSCH transmission occasions is different from the corresponding transmission parameter associated with one other PUSCH transmission occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Markus Landmann, Sutharshun Varatharaajan
  • Patent number: 11870503
    Abstract: An apparatus configured for wirelessly communicating in a wireless communications network includes a wireless interface configured for wireless communication and a controller configured for controlling a beam pattern of the wireless interface and at least one communication parameter of the wireless interface. The apparatus is configured for receiving a locking signal indicating a request for locking at least a part of the beam pattern and the at least one communication parameter. The controller is configured for locking at least the part of the beam and the at least one communication parameter responsive to the locking signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Haustein, Paul Leather, Ramez Askar, Leszek Raschkowski, Marcus Großmann, Markus Landmann
  • Publication number: 20230421220
    Abstract: A method performed by a UE for generating a CSI report in a wireless communication system, including receiving from a network node, a CSI report configuration information including at least one parameter, D, for indicating a first basis set of D basis vectors used for constructing for each transmission layer a precoding vector or matrix for a rank set; identifying a precoding vector matrix for each transmission layer based on the first basis set, a second basis set comprising P basis vectors, and a number of combining coefficients for combining selected vectors from the first and second basis sets; generating a CSI report based on the CSI report configuration information for a RI, or v of the rank set; and transmitting the CSI report to the network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Marcus Grossmann, Venkatesh Ramireddy