Patents by Inventor Rainer Strobel

Rainer Strobel 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: 12291304
    Abstract: A gear set arrangement (10) for a bicycle gearbox (400) includes a planetary assembly, a stationary component (24), a first and a second brake (B1, B2), and a first and a second freewheel clutch (F1, F2). One planetary gear set (12) of the planetary assembly includes a first rotary element, a second rotary element, and a third rotary element. The first rotary element is rotationally fixable on the stationary component (24) by the first brake (B1). The first rotary element is connectable to the output (36) by the first freewheel clutch (F1). The second rotary element is rotationally fixable on the stationary component (24) by the second brake (B2). The second rotary element is connectable to the output (36) by the second freewheel clutch (F2). The third rotary element is connected to the input (34) for conjoint rotation. The gear set arrangement (10) is configured to provide three ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Peter Ziemer, Thomas Riedisser, Hagen Doepfert, Ulrich Doerr, Christoph Margraf, Reinhard Deppert, Uwe Schraff, Sebastian Grimm, Markus Strobel, Harald Tiesler, Matthias List, Rainer Grundler, Ingo Lippenberger
  • Publication number: 20250096920
    Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method may include assigning an activation window by an optical line terminal during a portion of an upstream transmitting window in a passive optical network (PON). The method may include performing a first modification to a first upstream transmission. The method may include performing a second modification to a second upstream transmission. The method may include receiving the first upstream transmission from a first optical network unit (ONU) during the activation window, the first ONU synchronized in the PON. The method may include receiving a second upstream transmission from a second ONU during the activation window, the second ONU requesting activation in the PON.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventor: Rainer Strobel
  • Publication number: 20250088303
    Abstract: A system includes at least one station and a transmitter. The transmitter may be operable to transmit a transmission to the at least one station. The transmission may be associated with a bandwidth. The transmitter may adaptively select a modulation and coding scheme for the transmission. The modulation and coding scheme may allocate distributed resource units to the transmission. The distributed resource units are assigned to the at least one station and are distributed throughout the transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Sigurd Schelstraete, Rainer Strobel, Iñaki Val Beitia, Marcos Martínez Vázquez
  • Publication number: 20250088978
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for an access point (AP) including a processing device and a transceiver. The processing device may receive, at the AP from a station (STA), information about an interference path between the STA and the AP; select, at the AP, a transmit power based on the information about the interference path between the STA and the AP; and determine, at the AP, a transmission type based on the transmit power, wherein the transmission type comprise one or more of a spatial reuse transmission or a spatial nulling transmission. The transceiver may transmit, from the AP to the STA, a transmission based on the transmission type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Avi Avraham Mansour, Sigurd Schelstraete
  • Publication number: 20250038883
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for an optical receiver. The optical receiver may include an optical and digital signal processing (ODSP) device. The ODSP device may include a photodiode operable to convert an optical signal to an electrical signal; a digital signal processor operable to generate a digital signal based on the electrical signal; a quantization component operable to generate a quantized output signal based on the digital signal; and a processing device. The processing device may be operable to measure one or more signal statistics of the digital signal; and identify one or more quantization thresholds, wherein the one or more quantization thresholds are computed based on the one or more signal statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Gert Schedelbeck, Axel Geiler
  • Publication number: 20250030441
    Abstract: An optical receiver includes a receiving component, a log-likelihood ratio component, and a forward error correction decoder. The receiving component may be configured to receive a data transmission of transmitted data and convert a portion of the data transmission into one or more digital samples. The log-likelihood ratio component may be configured to generate a log-likelihood ratio value using a set of the one or more digital samples. The forward error correction decoder may be configured to correct errors in in the log-likelihood ratio value and recover the transmitted data using the log-likelihood ratio value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Gert Schedelbeck, Vladimir Oksman
  • Publication number: 20250023584
    Abstract: A system for a fiber-optic network includes a transceiver. The transceiver includes a fiber-optic interface unit and a host unit. The host unit includes a low-complexity error correction decoder and a high-complexity error correction decoder. One or both from the low-complexity error correction decoder and the high-complexity error correction decoder are selected to decode input data from the fiber-optic interface unit, the input data including codewords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Gert Schedelbeck, Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 12199689
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing timesharing in discontinuous systems, for example to implement low power modes, are discussed. In some embodiments, a set of bit loading tables is determined in advance, and bit loading tables are then selected based on which lines are transmitting and which are quiet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Germany Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Lilia Smaoui, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 12199744
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining information about a next upstream burst transmission. The method also includes determining a set of settings based on the information. The method includes adjusting a physical medium dependent (PMD) module based on the set of settings prior to receiving the next upstream burst transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Gert Schedelbeck, Thomas Heuken, Franz Josef Schäfer, Rainer Strobel
  • Patent number: 12155459
    Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method may include assigning an activation window by an optical line terminal during a portion of an upstream transmitting window in a passive optical network (PON). The method may include performing a first modification to a first upstream transmission. The method may include performing a second modification to a second upstream transmission. The method may include receiving the first upstream transmission from a first optical network unit (ONU) during the activation window, the first ONU synchronized in the PON. The method may include receiving a second upstream transmission from a second ONU during the activation window, the second ONU requesting activation in the PON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventor: Rainer Strobel
  • Publication number: 20240356581
    Abstract: A node circuit associated with a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network is disclosed. The node circuit includes an optimizer circuit configured to process a plurality of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values associated with a plurality of subcarriers, respectively, associated with a set of cable modem (CM) circuits coupled to the node circuit. In some embodiments, at least one subcarrier is allocated to the set of CM circuits for communication with the node circuit. In some embodiments, the optimizer circuit is further configured to determine an optimal transmit power of the node circuit, based on the plurality of SNR values and a transmitter distortion of a transmitter circuit associated with the node circuit. In some embodiments, the transmitter distortion defines a transmitter distortion associated with the transmitter circuit in terms of a total transmit power of the node circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Thushara Hewavithana
  • Publication number: 20240333312
    Abstract: A multi-carrier transmitter apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an outer encoder, a shell mapper and an inner encoder. The outer encoder is configured to receive a signal, perform error correction using an outer code on the received signal and generate an outer encoder signal. The shell mapper is configured to perform constellation shaping on a subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate one or more constellation shaping bits. The inner encoder is configured to perform inner error correction/encoding using an inner code on a second subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate an inner correction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 12028125
    Abstract: A node circuit associated with a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network is disclosed. The node circuit includes an optimizer circuit configured to process a plurality of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values associated with a plurality of subcarriers, respectively, associated with a set of cable modem (CM) circuits coupled to the node circuit. In some embodiments, at least one subcarrier is allocated to the set of CM circuits for communication with the node circuit. In some embodiments, the optimizer circuit is further configured to determine an optimal transmit power of the node circuit, based on the plurality of SNR values and a transmitter distortion of a transmitter circuit associated with the node circuit. In some embodiments, the transmitter distortion defines a transmitter distortion associated with the transmitter circuit in terms of a total transmit power of the node circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Thushara Hewavithana
  • Patent number: 12028194
    Abstract: A receiver for a passive optical network is provided. The receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter circuitry configured generate a digital receive signal based on an analog receive signal. The analog receive signal is based on an optical receive signal encoded with a binary transmit sequence. The receiver additionally comprises linear equalizer circuitry configured to generate an equalized receive signal by linearly equalizing the digital receive signal. Further, the receiver comprises secondary equalizer circuitry configured to generate soft information indicating a respective reliability of elements in the equalized receive signal using the Viterbi algorithm. In addition, the receiver comprises decoder circuitry configured to generate a digital output signal based on the soft information using soft decision forward error correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Ravindra Singh
  • Patent number: 12009839
    Abstract: A multi-carrier transmitter apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an outer encoder, a shell mapper and an inner encoder. The outer encoder is configured to receive a signal, perform error correction using an outer code on the received signal and generate an outer encoder signal. The shell mapper is configured to perform constellation shaping on a subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate one or more constellation shaping bits. The inner encoder is configured to perform inner error correction/encoding using an inner code on a second subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate an inner correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
  • Publication number: 20240187108
    Abstract: A receiver circuit is disclosed and is configured to receive an optical signal. The receiver circuit includes a receiving circuit configured to receive the optical signal and convert the optical signal from a duobinary signal format into a binary signal based on a plurality of decision thresholds. The receiver circuit also includes a clock data recovery circuit configured to sample the binary signal per data period at a first time instant based on a predetermined clock data recovery technique, and sample the binary signal per data period at a second time instant offset from the first instant, as well as determine an intermediate sample based on an offset for decoding a transmitted bit sequence according to soft information based on the samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventor: Rainer STROBEL
  • Publication number: 20240171231
    Abstract: An access point (AP) for wireless communication may include data processing hardware; and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware, the memory hardware storing instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations including: identifying, at the AP, one or more transmitting stations having one or more spatial streams; sending, from the AP to the one or more transmitting stations, a sounding request; performing, at the AP, multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) channel estimation based on the sounding request response; computing, at the AP, one or more precoder coefficients for the one or more transmitting stations based on the MU-MIMO channel estimation; and sending, from the AP to the one or more transmitting stations, the one or more precoder coefficients and a transmission trigger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Avi Avraham Mansour, Sigurd Schelstraete, Ziv Avital, Rainer Strobel
  • Publication number: 20240162920
    Abstract: A system for a fiber-optic network includes a transceiver. The transceiver includes a fiber-optic interface unit and a host unit. The host unit includes a low-complexity error correction decoder and a high-complexity error correction decoder. One or both from the low-complexity error correction decoder and the high-complexity error correction decoder are selected to decode input data from the fiber-optic interface unit, the input data including codewords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Gert Schedelbeck, Rainer Strobel, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 11909460
    Abstract: Methods and devices are discussed. A device configured to operate in a network comprises communication circuitry and a transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Germany GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Strobel, Lilia Smaoui, Vladimir Oksman
  • Patent number: 11901954
    Abstract: A receiver circuit is disclosed and is configured to receive an optical signal. The receiver circuit includes a receiving circuit configured to receive the optical signal and convert the optical signal from a duobinary signal format into a binary signal based on a plurality of decision thresholds. The receiver circuit also includes a clock data recovery circuit configured to sample the binary signal per data period at a first time instant based on a predetermined clock data recovery technique, and sample the binary signal per data period at a second time instant offset from the first instant, as well as determine an intermediate sample based on an offset for decoding a transmitted bit sequence according to soft information based on the samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventor: Rainer Strobel