Patents by Inventor Stefan Mendel

Stefan Mendel 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: 9214947
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an all digital phase-lock loop (ADPLL). The ADPLL determines an error generated by a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) which is operated using a tuning word, stores information related to the error, and compensates for the error based on the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Mendel
  • Publication number: 20150295608
    Abstract: There is described a contactless communication device. The device comprises (a) a receiver unit (110, 610) having an antenna input (RXn, Vmid, RXp) for connecting to an antenna, the receiver unit (110, 610) being adapted to couple with a transmitting device and to receive an RF signal transmitted by the transmitting device, the receiver unit (110, 610) being further adapted to determine a point of time relating to a position of data within the RF signal, (b) a comparator (120) adapted to generate a comparator output signal (agc_comp) which is indicative of a relation between a voltage at the antenna input (RXn, Vmid, RXp) of the receiver unit (110, 610) and a reference voltage (Vref), and (c) a voltage regulation circuit coupled to the comparator (120) and to the antenna input (RXn, Vmid, RXp) of the receiver unit (110, 610), the voltage regulation circuit being adapted to repetitively regulate the voltage at the antenna input (RXn, Vmid, RXp) based on the comparator output signal (agc_comp).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Erich Merlin, Helmut Kranabenter, Stefan Mendel, Michael Pieber
  • Publication number: 20150031315
    Abstract: There is described an RF bidirectional communication device utilizing active load modulation, the device comprising (a) a resonance circuit including an antenna (326), and (b) a control unit (322) for controlling communication of the device, including switching between a transmission mode and a receiving mode, wherein the control unit is adapted to (c) modify a configuration of the resonance circuit such that the resonance circuit has a first resonance frequency (f0) when the device is in the transmission mode and a second resonance frequency (f0+?f) when the device is in the receiving mode, and (d) modify the configuration of the resonance circuit such that a Q-factor of the resonance circuit is periodically decreased while the device is in the transmission mode. There is also described a corresponding method and a system comprising a RF device and a reader/writer device. Furthermore, there is described a computer program and a computer program product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Pieber, Erich Merlin, Stefan Mendel
  • Publication number: 20130162355
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an all digital phase-lock loop (ADPLL). The ADPLL determines an error generated by a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) which is operated using a tuning word, stores information related to the error, and compensates for the error based on the stored information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventor: Stefan MENDEL
  • Patent number: 8384488
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an all digital phase-lock loop (ADPLL). The ADPLL determines an error generated by a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) which is operated using a tuning word, stores information related to the error, and compensates for the error based on the stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Mendel
  • Publication number: 20110081863
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an all digital phase-lock loop (ADPLL). The ADPLL determines an error generated by a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) which is operated using a tuning word, stores information related to the error, and compensates for the error based on the stored information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Stefan Mendel
  • Publication number: 20100074387
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for frequency to phase conversion using uniform sampling, where a uniform or constant clock period is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Stefan Mendel, Christian Vogel