Patents by Inventor Tao AN

Tao AN 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: 11985514
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information identifying a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration, that is different from an access link DRX configuration, associated with operation in a sidelink communication deployment. The UE may monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) discontinuously using the sidelink DRX configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Jelena Damnjanovic, Hua Wang
  • Patent number: 11985702
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes performing, by a user equipment (UE) device, a channel sensing operation during a first window of a frame period associated with a wireless communication network. Performing the channel sensing operation includes performing a direction-based scan of one or more beams associated with the wireless communication network, and the channel sensing operation is included in a joint sensing operation performed with a base station. The method further includes, based at least in part on a result of the channel sensing operation, determining whether to perform, during a second window of the frame period, one or more communication operations with the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Vinay Chande, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11985482
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for neural network-driven feedback cancellation for hearing assistance devices. Various embodiments include a method of signal processing an input signal in a hearing assistance device to mitigate entrainment, the hearing assistance device including a receiver and a microphone. The method includes performing neural network processing to identify acoustic features in a plurality of audio signals and predict target outputs for the plurality of audio signals, and using the trained neural network to control acoustic feedback cancellation of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly Fitz, Carlos Renato Calcada Nakagawa, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11985531
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration message indicating a first reporting quantity type and a second reporting quantity type for generating a measurement report. The UE may determine a measurement payload size to use for generating a measurement payload for the first reporting quantity type and the second reporting quantity type. The UE may measure a first set of resources in accordance with the first reporting quantity type and a second set of resources in accordance with the second reporting quantity type. The UE may transmit, to the base station, the measurement report including a first measurement payload having the measurement payload size for the first reporting quantity type and a second measurement payload having the measurement payload size for the second reporting quantity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11985668
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for uplink transmit beam update using uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states. An example method generally includes receiving, from a network entity, signaling of an uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state update for one or more uplink transmissions. The example method generally includes determining the uplink TCI state update is to be applied for dynamically scheduled uplink transmission, semi-persistently scheduled uplink transmission, or periodic uplink transmission. The example method generally includes applying the uplink TCI state update to one or more uplink transmissions in accordance with the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kiran Venugopal, Yan Zhou, Tao Luo, Tianyang Bai, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11985478
    Abstract: An earphone, including a sound production component; an ear-hook configured to place the sound production component near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal, at least a portion of the sound production component extends into a concha cavity; and a microphone assembly including a first microphone and a second microphone disposed in the sound production component or the ear hook, the sound production component or the ear hook includes a first sound hole and a second sound hole corresponding to the first microphone and the second microphone, respectively; wherein a projection of the first sound hole on a sagittal plane and a projection of the second sound hole on the sagittal plane have a first distance, a ratio of the first distance to a size of a projection of the sound production component on the sagittal plane along a major axis direction is 0.7-1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11985691
    Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) indicating two or more transmission configuration indication (TCI) states for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The UE may differentiate that the two or more TCI states apply to all demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports or all transmission layers across all resource blocks and symbols for the PDSCH from TCI states that apply to different sets of DMRS ports or different sets of resource blocks or symbols. The UE may generate a composite quasi-co-location (QCL) based on the two or more TCI states in response to the differentiating. The UE may receive the PDSCH based on the composite QCL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mostafa Khoshnevisan, Xiaoxia Zhang, Tao Luo, Jing Sun, Sungwoo Park, Wooseok Nam
  • Patent number: 11985669
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication performed by a base station includes receiving one or more particular signals. The method further includes receiving one or more transmissions associated with a first CC and a second CC. The one or more transmissions include first data and a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) that are associated with the first CC, and the one or more transmissions further include second data and a second DMRS that are associated with the second CC. A determination whether to demodulate the second data using the first DMRS is based on the one or more particular signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Tao Luo, Gokul Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11984258
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a rare earth permanent magnet material and a preparation method thereof. The method includes a sintering treatment step performed by laying a composite powder for diffusion on the surface of a neodymium iron boron magnetic powder layer and carrying out spark plasma sintering treatment to obtain a neodymium iron boron magnet with a diffusion layer solidified on the surface thereof, and diffusion heat treatment and tempering steps. The method of the present invention has high efficiency, good diffusion effects, and reduced quantities of heavy rare earth elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY & MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhou, Tao Liu, Xinghua Cheng, Xiaojun Yu
  • Patent number: 11985648
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for secondary cell activation using temporary reference signals and beam selection are provided. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is performed by a UE and includes receiving, from a base station (BS) via a first cell, an activation command to activate a second cell different from the first cell. The method further includes receiving, from the BS via the second cell during a cell activation period, a first reference signal different from a synchronization signal block (SSB) based on beam information. The method further includes performing a first measurement of the first reference signal, and operating in the second cell based on the first measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Changhwan Park, Heechoon Lee, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri
  • Patent number: 11985649
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to support transmission of a resource modification information request from a user equipment (UE) to a base station, where the resource modification request may request an increased density of uplink transmission occasions. For example, the resource modification request may request an increase from a first density of uplink transmission occasions configured for the UE. The resource modification request may include a request for a decreased periodicity of uplink transmission occasions, an increased number of groups of repetitions for uplink transmission occasions, an increased number of resource blocks for uplink transmission occasions, or an increased modulation coding scheme for uplink transmission occasions. The base station may receive the resource modification request and may transmit a message to the UE, which may indicate a modified or new uplink grant configuration for uplink transmission occasions having a higher density (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri, Tao Luo, Jelena Damnjanovic, Ozcan Ozturk, Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Jing Sun, Sony Akkarakaran, Yan Zhou, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 11985647
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for sidelink groupcast communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a beam training request to a base station to determine beams for use with other UEs in a sidelink groupcast communications group. The base station may receive the beam training request, identify wireless resources that a group of UEs may use to perform beam training, and may transmit a beam training grant to each UE of the group of UEs. The UE may transmit a number of training beams using the wireless resources provided in the beam training grant, and the other UEs may measure received signals on the wireless resources to identify one or more beams. Each UE may provide a beam training report to the base station. The base station, based on the beam training reports, may determine beams and resources for use in the groupcast sidelink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Kapil Gulati, Hong Cheng, Juan Montojo, Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11983482
    Abstract: A system and method for converting a document is described. The system accesses a document comprising one or more section breaks. The system detects sections of the text document demarked by the one or more section breaks and generates a section title metadata and a section summary metadata for each section of the plurality of sections. The system inserts the section title metadata and the section summary metadata at the corresponding section breaks in the text document. The system modifies the text document into slides. Each slide being formed for each section based on the corresponding section title metadata and the section summary metadata. The system generates a presentation document based on the slides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tomasz Lukasz Religa, Utsab Bose, Si-Qing Chen, Lei Cui, Tao Ge, Huitian Jiao, Ravi Mandliya, Kaushik Ramaiah Narayanan, Max Wang, Furu Wei
  • Patent number: 11981037
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positioning tool, a robotic arm system, and a surgical system. The positioning tool includes a body, a registration tip, and a trackable element. The body is used to connect with a terminal of a robotic arm at one end and connect to the registration tip at the other end. The registration tip is used to abut a predetermined position. The trackable element is to be disposed on the body, the registration tip or the robotic arm and is used to communicate with a navigation device. The positioning tool provided in present disclosure is an integrated registration tool, which is able to be used to accomplish registrations for both the robotic arm and the object without replacements of the registration tool during the entire registration process, thereby simplifing the operation and shortening the operation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SUZHOU MICROPORT ORTHOBOT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Li, Chao He, Zhou Jiang
  • Patent number: 11983798
    Abstract: Systems/techniques that facilitate AI-based region-of-interest masks for improved data reconstructions are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a set of two-dimensional medical scan projections. In various aspects, the system can generate a set of two-dimensional region-of-interest masks respectively corresponding to the set of two-dimensional medical scan projections. In various instances, the system can generate a region-of-interest visualization based on the set of two-dimensional region-of-interest masks and the set of two-dimensional medical scan projections. In various cases, the system can generate the set of two-dimensional region-of-interest masks by executing a machine learning segmentation model on the set of two-dimensional medical scan projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Tao Tan, Buer Qi, Dejun Wang, Gopal B. Avinash, Gireesha Chinthamani Rao, German Guillermo Vera Gonzalez, Lehel Ferenczi
  • Patent number: 11980598
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an N-(substituted naphthyl-ethyl) substituted amide compound and uses thereof serving as a melatonin receptor agonist and 5-HT2C receptor antagonist, and specifically relates to the compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a solvate or a mixture of them, and a pharmaceutical composition, where X, R1, and R2 are as defined in the present text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Greatway Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Gu, Hong Tao
  • Patent number: 11983421
    Abstract: In some examples, a system causes execution, in each respective storage node of a cluster of storage nodes, of a respective frontend service that provides a frontend to a client over a network for access by the client of a storage volume accessible by the cluster of storage nodes. The system obtains node-specific configuration data portions from a configuration data repository, the node-specific configuration data portions being for respective storage nodes of the cluster of storage nodes, and sends the node-specific configuration data portions to the respective frontend services for configuring the frontend services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Xiaokang Sang, Tao Jin
  • Patent number: D1026856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Grandsun Electronic Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jiugao Peng, Haiquan Wu, Tao Han, Ruiwen Shi, Zhijun Zhang, Chuanqi Zhang
  • Patent number: D1026943
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Kuaimajiabian Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sainan Guan, Tao Gong
  • Patent number: D1027264
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen XinShengYang Opto-electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhong Tao, Boliang Fang