Patents by Inventor Mark T. Dawkins

Mark T. Dawkins 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: 11075784
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a wideband multiphase transmitter with two-point modulation. A transmitter includes a control circuit configured to receive a source signal having amplitude and phase components. Using the phase component, the control circuit generates a frequency control signal and a phase jump signal. The transmitter further includes a phase conversion circuit configured to generate a first phase-modulated signal using the phase component and the frequency control signal. The phase conversion circuit is also configured to adjust the phase of the first phase-modulated signal using the phase jump signal. The first phase-modulate signal and the amplitude component are provided to an amplifier, which generates a transmit signal based thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mark T. Dawkins, Yi-An Li, Yen-Ling Huang
  • Patent number: 10848948
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for simultaneously minimizing power and latency in a scan for advertisement packets from one or more peripheral devices in a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) frequency band having a number of advertisement channels. A receiver front end receives BLE signals, and a local oscillator (LO) generator has an output frequency that is sequentially tuned to a frequency of each of the advertisement channels. An energy detector monitors signal energy on each of the advertisement channels in sequence, and when the signal energy exceeds a threshold, fixes the output frequency of the LO generator to that advertisement channel. An automatic gain controller controls a gain of the signal on the one of the plurality of advertisement channels to generate a controlled gain signal, and a correlator correlates the controlled gain signal with an advertisement packet on the one of the advertisement channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mark T. Dawkins, Guy Bitton