Patents by Inventor Sony

Sony 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: 20250119864
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for communication. In an aspect, a first node determines equiphase contour information associated with an antenna of the first node at one or more carrier frequencies, and transmits an indication of the equiphase contour information to a second node. In another aspect, a device determines equiphase contour information associated with an antenna of a first node at one or more carrier frequencies, and corrects measurement information associated with a carrier phase-based position estimation session based at least in part on the equiphase contour information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Jingchao BAO, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Tao LUO, Juan MONTOJO, Alexandros MANOLAKOS
  • Patent number: 12273846
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a positioning entity receives motion state information associated with a user equipment (UE), the motion state information indicating constraints on a location of the UE relative to a moveable object with which the UE is associated, and estimates the location of the UE based on at least the motion state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Navid Abedini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12273286
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a positioning reference signal configuration of a base station. The UE may determine, based on the positioning reference signal configuration, a reference point within a carrier bandwidth of a component carrier and a frequency domain allocation for a positioning reference signal relative to the reference point. The UE may transmit the positioning reference signal or measure the positioning reference signal based on the frequency domain allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Sony Akkarakaran, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Sven Fischer
  • Publication number: 20250113209
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to sidelink communications between user equipments (UEs). A method of wireless communication performed by a first UE comprises establishing a connection with a second UE on a first frequency channel; transmitting, via the first frequency channel, an indication of resources on a second frequency channel; transmitting, via the second frequency channel using the indicated resources, one or more signals sweeping a plurality of beam directions; receiving, via the first frequency channel or the second frequency channel in response to transmitting the one or more signals, an index associated with a preferred beam direction; and communicating with the second UE in the second frequency channel using the preferred beam direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Hua WANG, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Kazuki TAKEDA, Jelena DAMNJANOVIC
  • Publication number: 20250113299
    Abstract: A method of performing positioning operations at a user equipment includes: operating the user equipment in a discontinuous reception mode including time interleaved ON times of the discontinuous reception mode and OFF times of the discontinuous reception mode, where the time interleaved ON times defines an ON time window of the discontinuous reception mode; and determining, at the user equipment, whether to measure a portion of a positioning signal based on timing of the portion of the positioning signal relative to at least one of a first one of the ON times of the discontinuous reception mode or a first one of the OFF times of the discontinuous reception mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Jingchao BAO, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Tao LUO, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Juan MONTOJO
  • Publication number: 20250106653
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A network node may calculate a set of weights for a first set of data associated with training a machine learning (ML) model in accordance with a first set of operating conditions for maintaining a communication link. Each weight of the set of weights may be associated with a respective datum of the first set of data and may be based on a probability that the respective datum is included in a second set of data. The second set of data may be associated with obtaining predictions using the machine learning model in accordance with a second set of operating conditions for maintaining the communication link. The network node may identify an event associated with the ML model and may output information indicative of the set of weights based on the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Mohamed Fouad Ahmed MARZBAN, Priyanka KASWAN, Wooseok NAM, Sony AKKARAKARAN
  • Publication number: 20250107068
    Abstract: The present technology includes vertical cell array transistor (VCAT) with improved gate induced leakage current. The arrays one or more bit lines arranged in a first horizontal direction and one or more word lines arranged in a second horizontal direction. The arrays include one or more channels extending in a vertical direction generally orthogonal to the first direction and the second horizontal direction, such that the bit lines intersect with a source/drain region of the plurality of channels, and the word lines intersect with gate regions of the plurality of channels. Arrays include where at least one word includes a first section adjacent to the source/drain region and a second section adjacent to the gate region, where the second section contains a high work function material and the first section contains a low work function material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Tong LIU, Sony VARGHESE, Zhijun CHEN, Fredrick FISHBURN, Balasubramanian PRANATHARTHIHARAN
  • Publication number: 20250105966
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from one or more transmission-reception points (TRPs), one or more on-demand downlink positioning reference signals (DL-PRS), the one or more on-demand DL-PRS having one or more downlink transmission parameters, and transmits, to the one or more TRPs, one or more uplink positioning reference signals (UL-PRS), the one or more UL-PRS having one or more uplink transmission parameters, wherein values of the one or more uplink transmission parameters are the same as or within a threshold of values of the one or more downlink transmission parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Weimin DUAN, Alexandros MANOLAKOS, Sony AKKARAKARAN
  • Patent number: 12262418
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, an indication of a first uplink timing advance for communications from the second UE to a base station. The UE may estimate, based at least in part on the first uplink timing advance received from the second UE, a second uplink timing advance for transmission of a random access message from the first UE to the base station. The UE may transmit, to the base station, the random access message using the second uplink timing advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Jung Ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 12262287
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a federated learning configuration that indicates one or more parameters of a federated learning procedure associated with a machine learning component. The base station may receive a local update associated with the machine learning component from the UE based at least in part on the federated learning configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hamed Pezeshki, Tao Luo, Taesang Yoo, Jung Ho Ryu, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Patent number: 12262389
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a grant to a first user equipment (UE) that indicates a resource allocation for a sidelink communication, either from the first UE to a second UE or from the second UE to the first UE. The grant may include a destination identifier associated with the sidelink communication, as well as a mapping between the resource allocation and the destination identifier. The destination identifier may be based on information in an indication received from the first UE. In some examples, the base station may configure a default receiver UE for transmissions from the first UE, and the base station may identify a receiver UE in the grant if the intended receiver UE is different than the default receiver UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiaojie Wang, Piyush Gupta, Junyi Li, Sony Akkarakaran, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Ozcan Ozturk, Juan Montojo
  • Publication number: 20250093453
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) systems that support positioning of ESL devices. In a first aspect, a method includes: determining known positions of a first subset of ESL devices; receiving positioning measurements for each ESL device in a second subset of ESL devices; estimating a first position of each ESL device in the second subset based on the positioning measurements received for that ESL device and the known positions of the first subset; determining a positioning error associated with the first position of each ESL device in the second subset; and estimating a second position of each ESL device in the second subset based on the positioning error and additional positioning measurements received for that ESL device. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Varun Amar Reddy, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Publication number: 20250095472
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support enhanced ESL position determination and ESL position based notifications. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes obtaining first position information for an asset of one or more assets associated with an electronic shelf label system based on first wireless information, and the first position information is associated with a first time. The method also includes obtaining second position information for the asset based on second wireless information, and the second position information is associated with a second time. The method further includes determining a notification for the asset based on the first position information, the second position information, the first time, and the second time. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Varun Amar Reddy, Sony Akkarakaran
  • Publication number: 20250096864
    Abstract: A base station may select at least one of one or more 2D beams for at least one first SSB of a plurality of SSBs or one or more 3D beams for at least one second SSB of the plurality of SSBs. A UE may identify a beam type of at least one of one or more 2D beams for at least one first SSB of a plurality of SSBs or one or more 3D beams for at least one second SSB of the plurality of SSBs. The base station may transmit, to the UE, at least one of the at least one first SSB via the one or more 2D beams or the at least one second SSB via the one or more 3D beams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Min HUANG, Wei XI, Chao WEI, Yu ZHANG, Hao XU, Danlu ZHANG, Sony AKKARAKARAN
  • Publication number: 20250098142
    Abstract: A memory cell array includes a plurality of memory levels stacked in a first direction, each of the plurality of memory levels including a cell transistor having a source region electrically connected to a bit line extending in the first direction, a drain region, a word line layer, a lower channel layer electrically connected to the source region and the drain region and disposed below the word line layer in the first direction, and an upper channel layer electrically connected to the source region and the drain region and disposed above the word line layer in the first direction, and a cell capacitor electrically connected to the drain region, and a plurality of inter-level isolation layers, each separating adjacent memory levels of the plurality of memory levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Tong LIU, Sony VARGHESE
  • Publication number: 20250097905
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink configuration that indicates a set of sidelink slots comprising a first subset of sidelink slots to be used for first transmissions of sidelink communications and a second subset of sidelink slots to be used for second transmissions of the sidelink communications. The UE may communicate based at least in part on the sidelink configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Hua WANG, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Tao LUO, Junyi LI, Yan ZHOU, Hong CHENG, Jelena DAMNJANOVIC, Peter GAAL, Jung Ho RYU
  • Publication number: 20250098149
    Abstract: The present technology includes vertical cell array transistor (VCAT) that include a bit line arranged in a first horizontal direction and a word line arranged in a second horizontal direction. The arrays include a channel extending in a vertical direction generally orthogonal to the first direction and the second horizontal direction, such that the bit line intersects with a source/drain region of the plurality of channels, and the word lines intersect with gate regions of the plurality of channels. Arrays include where the channels have at least one source/drain region and a channel body disposed between the first end and the second end. Arrays include where the channel body has a thickness that is greater than or about 5% less than a thickness of at least a portion of the at least one source/drain region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Tong LIU, Sony VARGHESE
  • Publication number: 20250096984
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink transmission that includes a transport block, and may transmit sidelink feedback, for each of a plurality of code block groups included in the transport block, in respective physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources. In some aspects, a UE may receive a sidelink transmission that spans a plurality of slots, and may transmit, for the sidelink transmission, sidelink feedback in at least one of: first one or more PSFCH resources that occur during the sidelink transmission, or second one or more PSFCH resources that occur after the sidelink transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Gabi SARKIS, Guangyi LIU, Sony AKKARAKARAN, Tien Viet NGUYEN
  • Patent number: 12256384
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a second UE, sidelink configuration information indicating one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for at least one sidelink channel between the first UE and the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hua Wang, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Yan Zhou, Hong Cheng, Jelena Damnjanovic, Peter Gaal, Jung Ho Ryu
  • Patent number: 12256398
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may involve a first user equipment (UE) receiving an indication of a set of sidelink resources and an indication of a set of uplink resources for transmitting sidelink feedback information. The first UE may receive a sidelink shared channel transmission from a second UE and upon receiving the sidelink shared transmission, generate feedback information regarding the sidelink shared channel transmission and transmit the feedback information directly to the base station using the set of uplink resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yisheng Xue, Jing Sun, Chih-Hao Liu, Xiaoxia Zhang, Xiaojie Wang, Piyush Gupta, Peter Gaal, Shuanshuan Wu, Sony Akkarakaran