Patents by Inventor Niccolo' BRAMBILLA

Niccolo' BRAMBILLA 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: 20250148133
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to security management for a ferroelectric memory device are described. An example method can include receiving, at a memory controller and from a host, a command and firmware data. The memory controller can manage a non-volatile memory device, such as a ferroelectric memory device, and the host and the memory controller can communicate using a compute express link (CXL) protocol. The command can be executed to update firmware stored on the non-volatile memory device. The method can further include accessing a first public key from the non-volatile memory device. The method can further include validating the first public key with a second public key within the firmware data. The method can further include validating the firmware data. The method can further include verifying a security version of the firmware data. The method can further include updating the non-volatile memory device with the firmware data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Danilo Caraccio, Federica Cresci, Alessandro Orlando, Paolo Amato, Angelo Alberto Rovelli, Craig A. Jones, Niccolò Izzo
  • Patent number: 12294180
    Abstract: A connector including a plug configured to mechanically mate with a socket to establish a connection from a first conduit to a second conduit. The plug is configured to mechanically engage the first conduit and the socket is configured to mechanically engage the second conduit. In examples, the plug is configured to insert into a socket well of the socket. The connector includes an electromagnet configured to energize and produce a magnetic field when the plug mechanically mates with the socket. The electromagnet is configured such that the magnetic field generates an electromagnetic force on a plug armature of the plug to help sustain the mechanically mating of the plug and the socket. The connector may include a user device configured to provide an output indicating when the plug is mechanically mated or unmated with the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Bellco S.R.L.
    Inventors: Niccolo Chelli, Giuliano Giganti
  • Publication number: 20250132673
    Abstract: A DC/DC converter including a low side and a high side is disclosed. The converter includes a first switching device being part of the low side, a low side current generator configured to generate a low side current flowing in the first switching device, a second switching device, a compensation resistor coupled in series to the second switching device, a valley current reference current generator configured to generate a valley current threshold current (Ivalclth) flowing in the second switching device and in the compensation resistor for obtaining a first voltage value, and a comparator configured to compare the first voltage value and a reference voltage for generating an error signal as a function of the comparison, the error signal controlling a conductivity of the first switching device of the low side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Niccolò Brambilla, Valeria Bottarel, Sandro Rossi, Alessandro Saccà
  • Patent number: 12275635
    Abstract: A circuit includes a cross-talk compensation component including a power profile reconstruction component for reconstructing the power profile of a digital microphone coupled to a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device, wherein the power profile represents power consumption of the digital microphone over time between at least two operational modes of the digital microphone, and a reconstruction filter for modeling thermal and/or acoustic properties of the digital microphone; and a subtractor having a first input for receiving a signal from the digital microphone, a second input coupled to the cross-talk compensation component, and an output for providing a digital output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Straeussnigg, Niccoló De Milleri, Andreas Wiesbauer
  • Publication number: 20250117209
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices related to firmware validation for firmware updates are disclosed. A controller can, in association with a firmware update of a memory module: determine whether first security information and first customer information of a manifest of a firmware package are valid using second security information and second customer information, respectively, stored by a non-volatile memory device of the memory module; determine whether a first public key of a first image of the firmware package is valid using a second public key of the manifest corresponding to the first image and associated with the first security information and the first customer information; and determine whether a third public key of a second image of the firmware package is valid using a fourth public key of the manifest corresponding to the second image and associated with the first security information and the first customer information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Niccolò Izzo, Alessandro Orlando, Danilo Caraccio
  • Publication number: 20250112542
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a bootstrap drive circuit for driving a bootstrap switch in a DC-DC converter is proposed. The bootstrap drive circuit includes a non-overlapping circuit, a first and a second capacitor, and a first and a second n-channel transistor. The non-overlapping circuit is configured to receive an input signal, the input signal being a function of a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal, wherein the input signal and the PWM signal are characterized by a first logic level, generate a first control signal from the input signal at a first output terminal of the non-overlapping circuit, the first control signal having the first logic level, and generate a second control signal from the input signal at a second output terminal of the non-overlapping circuit, the second control signal being characterized by a second logic level different from the first logic level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Sandro Rossi, Alessandro Saccà, Niccolò Brambilla, Valeria Bottarel
  • Patent number: 12260916
    Abstract: A processing device in a memory sub-system initiates a partial block handling protocol for a closed block of a memory device, the block comprising a plurality of wordlines. The processing device further sends a first programming command to the memory device to program one or more wordlines of the block with first padding data having a first data pattern, wherein the one or more wordlines are adjacent to a last wordline of the block programmed before the block was closed. In addition, the processing device sends a second programming command to the memory device to program all of a set of remaining wordlines of the block with second padding data having a second data pattern comprising fewer bits of data per cell than the first data pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhongguang Xu, Nicola Ciocchini, Zhenlei Shen, Charles See Yeung Kwong, Murong Lang, Ugo Russo, Niccolo' Righetti
  • Publication number: 20250088104
    Abstract: A Buck converter includes: a first power switch coupled between a supply voltage node and a switching node, where the first power switch is configure to be controlled by a first control signal; a boot-strap capacitor, where a first terminal of the boot-strap capacitor is coupled to the switching node; a first buffer coupled between a first node and a control terminal of the first power switch; a first switch circuit coupled between the first node and a second terminal of the boot-strap capacitor, where the first switch circuit is controlled by the first control signal, and is configured to pass through a first charging current provided by the boot-strap capacitor when the first control signal is asserted; and a slew-rate control capacitor, where a first terminal of the slew-rate control capacitor is coupled to the first node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Sandro Rossi, Niccolò Brambilla, Francesco Franco
  • Publication number: 20250088379
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of collaborative decision making between a plurality of participant devices is described. The method comprises: establishing a connection between a server and each of the participant devices, wherein the participant devices are remote from the server: assigning to each of the participant devices connected to the server one of a plurality of options; and (a) establishing, by the server, a plurality of device groups and assigning each of the participant devices to one of the device groups such that there are two or more differing assigned options across the participant devices of each device group, the set of assigned options across a device group being defined as an option set; and establishing, by the server, one or more master groups, each master group comprising one or more device groups which are assigned the same option set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Georgina Denis, Niccolo Pescetelli
  • Publication number: 20250076413
    Abstract: Provided is a power converter including first, second, third and fourth nodes and a wire bonding test circuit. The wire bonding test circuit includes a multiplexer having a first terminal of a first side coupled to the first node and second and third terminals of a second side. The wire bonding test circuit includes a first switch having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal or the third terminal of the multiplexer and a second terminal coupled to the second node. The wire bonding test circuit includes a second switch having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal or the third terminal of the multiplexer and a second terminal coupled to the third node. The wire bonding test circuit includes a third switch having a first terminal coupled to the second terminal or the third terminal of the multiplexer and a second terminal coupled to the fourth node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Giulio RICOTTI, Alessandro SACCA', Valeria BOTTAREL, Niccolo' BRAMBILLA
  • Publication number: 20250057557
    Abstract: Particular embodiments disclosed herein provide a surgical instrument comprising a device having a proximal end and a functional end configured to be inserted into a body part, an assembly having a proximal end and a distal end, a shaft coupled to the proximal end of the assembly, the shaft having a shaft housing, a bearing positioned around the assembly, wherein the bearing is configured to slide over the assembly, a hub having a sleeve tube. The basket comprises a plurality of grooved levers, each grooved lever having a proximal end received by the shaft housing and a distal end coupled to a tip of the basket, wherein compressing one or more of the plurality of grooved levers moves the bearing and the hub relative to the shaft and toward the functional end of the device, causing the sleeve tube to transition the device from the deactivated state to an activated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Niels Alexander Abt, Reto Grueebler, Timo Jung, Thomas Linsi, Niccolo Maschio
  • Publication number: 20250062332
    Abstract: There is provided a cathode composition for a battery of the general formula: Li1+aMn1?bMg1?cO2; wherein the values of a, b and c are greater than 0. There is also provided a method of making the cathode composition for a battery, a cathode containing the cathode composition, and an electrochemical cell containing the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Juliette Marie BILLAUD ep. BOUVILLE, Matthew Robert ROBERTS, Niccolo GUERRINI
  • Patent number: 12230311
    Abstract: An energy-efficient and area-efficient, mitigation of errors in a memory media device that are caused by row hammer attacks and the like is described. The detection of errors is deterministically performed while maintaining, in an SRAM, a number of row access counters that is smaller than the total number of rows protected in the memory media device. The reduction of the number of required counters is achieved by aliasing a plurality of rows that are being protected to each counter. The mitigation may be implemented on a per-bank basis, per-channel basis or per-memory media device basis. The memory media device may be DRAM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund Gieske, Cagdas Dirik, Robert M. Walker, Sujeet Ayyapureddi, Niccolo Izzo, Markus Geiger, Yang Lu, Ameen Akel, Elliott C. Cooper-Balis, Danilo Caraccio
  • Publication number: 20250052688
    Abstract: The present invention refers to an optoelectronic device for the detection of substances dispersed in a fluid. The optoelectronic device comprises: —a light source adapted to emit a light radiation; —an optical splitter comprising an optical input port optically coupled to said light source and a plurality of optical output ports, said optical splitter being adapted to receive a first light beam at said optical input port and to provide one or more second light beams, each transmissible from a corresponding optical output port; —a plurality of detection stages operatively coupled to said optical splitter and arranged in parallel with one other, —a plurality of control stages arranged in parallel to one another, each control stage being operatively coupled to a corresponding detection stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Carlo Guardiani, Lorenzo Pavesi, Francesco Ferraro, Niccoló Ardoijno, Mattia Mancinelli
  • Publication number: 20250053301
    Abstract: Control logic in a memory device causes a first pulse to be applied to a plurality of word lines coupled to respective memory cells in a memory array. The control logic further causes a second pulse to be applied to a first set of word lines of the plurality of word lines. The control logic can cause a third pulse to be applied to a second set of word lines of the plurality of word lines and cause a fourth pulse to be applied to a source line of the memory array to erase the respective memory cells coupled to the first set of word lines and to program the respective memory cells coupled to the second set of word lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. McNeil, Jonathan S. Parry, Ugo Russo, Akira Goda, Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Violante Moschiano, Niccolo' Righetti, Silvia Beltrami
  • Publication number: 20250054962
    Abstract: There is provided a cathode composition for a battery of the general formula: Li1+aMn1?bTi1?cO2; wherein the values of a, b and c are greater than 0. There is also provided a method of making the cathode composition for a battery, a cathode containing the cathode composition, and an electrochemical cell containing the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Juliette Marie BILLAUD ep. BOUVILLE, Matthew Robert ROBERTS, Niccolo GUERRINI, Rachel Hazel BLACKMORE, Damien Philippe GUEGAN
  • Patent number: 12223088
    Abstract: A method for preserving privacy with respect to modeling event sequence data is provided. The method includes: receiving information about a sequence of events; modeling the event sequence by a Hawkes process that has an intensity that includes an exogenous base intensity rate and an indigenous component that has an excitation rate and a decay rate; analyzing the received information; and determining estimated values of the exogenous base intensity rate and the excitation rate, such that an accuracy of the estimates corresponds to a length of time over which the sequence of events is observed. Differential privacy is introduced by adding noise to the sequence of events in order to preserve the privacy of individuals associated with the events, and a cost of the differential privacy is expressible as an additional length of observation time required to ensure the accuracy of the estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Mohsen Ghassemi, Eleonora Kreacic, Niccolo Dalmasso, Vamsi Krishna Potluru, Tucker Richard Balch, Manuela Veloso
  • Publication number: 20250040627
    Abstract: Padding (10) produced by means of 3D printing and comprising a multi-plane structure (11) comprising a plurality of overlapping layers (12), each of which is defined by an alternation of solids and voids, wherein the plan view conformation of each of said layers (12) is made according to at least one open and/or closed pattern, and in that said plan view conformation is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: CYTECH S.R.L.
    Inventors: Denis BERTOLDO, Enrico CAMPARI, Laura MAZZOCCHETTI, Luigi ANGIOLINI, Niccolò GIANI
  • Publication number: 20250042768
    Abstract: There is provided a cathode composition for a battery of the general formula: Mg1+xNi1?xO2 or Mg1+xMn1?xO2; wherein the value of x is greater than 0. There is also provided a method of making the cathode composition for a battery, a cathode containing the cathode composition, and an electrochemical cell containing the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Juliette Marie BILLAUD ep. BOUVILLE, Matthew Robert ROBERTS, Niccolo GUERRINI
  • Publication number: 20250042763
    Abstract: A cathode composition for a battery of the general formula: Li1+aMn1?bNi1?cO2, wherein the values of a, b and c are greater than 0. There is also provided a method of making the cathode composition for a battery, a cathode containing the cathode composition, and an electrochemical cell containing the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Juliette Marie BILLAUD ep. BOUVILLE, Matthew Robert ROBERTS, Niccolo GUERRINI, Rachel Hazel BLACKMORE, Damien Philippe GUEGAN