Patents by Inventor Thomas Wirth

Thomas Wirth 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: 20260270162
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is to use at least one Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning model, AI/ML model, or at least one AI/ML functionality for performing one or more tasks. On the basis of certain information, the UE is to do one more of the following determine one or more of the AI/ML models or AI/ML functionalities to be applicable by the UE, or manage the use of the AI/ML models or AI/ML functionalities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Inventors: Tatiana RYKOV, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIEGAND, Alvaro LÓPEZ RAVENTÓS, Buket TORUN
  • Publication number: 20260270159
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a user device, UE, of a wireless communication network, the wireless communication network using one or more Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, AI/ML, models for one or more use cases, wherein the UE is configured or preconfigured with a plurality of AI/ML models for performing one or more certain operations, and wherein, dependent on one or more criteria, for performing the one or more certain operations, the UE is to switch from a first AI/ML model to a second AI/ML model, or deactivate one or more of the plurality of AI/ML models, or switch from a current operation mode to a new operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2026
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIEGAND, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Patent number: 12732336
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication is disclosed which communicates with one or more radio devices using a radio signal comprising a plurality of time blocks in a time domain. The radio signal includes a plurality of time blocks used for a communication between the UE and the one or more radio devices, and one or more additional time blocks not used for a communication between the UE and the one or more radio devices. The UE communicates with one or more of the radio devices using two or more of the time blocks, the two or more time blocks being offset by at least one of the additional time blocks of the radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Wirth, Lars Thiele, Thomas Haustein, Chaitali Pawase, Priyanka Dey
  • Publication number: 20260262019
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system including a plurality of user devices, UEs. Responsive to a trigger for a transmission, the UE obtains a candidate resource set for the transmission by selecting resources for the transmission within a selection window following the trigger. The UE selects the resources by taking into consideration sensing results obtained by the UE during a sensing window preceding the trigger, and the sensing results indicate whether certain resources are available or unavailable for the transmission. The UE receives from one or more further UEs one or more reports or assistance information messages, AIMs, including resource allocation related assistance information, and considers a received report or AIM for selecting resources for the transmission when one or more predefined conditions are met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2026
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Inventors: Sarun Selvanesan, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 12726242
    Abstract: In a communication system, a transmitter is configured to change a transmission characteristic used for the communication with a receiver, wherein a receiver is configured to determine a reception quality of a communication link between the transmitter and the receiver and to transmit a feedback information to the transmitter indicating whether a reception quality has changed or in which direction the reception quality has changed, or whether a transmission characteristic should be maintained, wherein the transmitter is configured to further change the transmission characteristic used for the communication with the receiver in dependence on the feedback information received from the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kurras, Shady Ibrahim, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Haustein, Lars Thiele, Cornelius Hellge, Baris Göktepe, Tatiana Rykova, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente
  • Patent number: 12726321
    Abstract: A receiver for a wireless communication system, wherein the receiver is configured to receive a data signal having a time domain and a frequency domain, the data signal including control data and payload data, the data signal further including at least one data portion including at least one payload data transport block including a payload data package consisting of a portion of the payload data, wherein the data signal is received over transmission time intervals, wherein a length of one of the transmission time intervals is shorter than the duration of the data portion, so that the data portion is received over more than one of the transmission time intervals, and wherein the receiver includes a signal processing device configured for processing the data portion which have been received over more than one of the transmission time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Dennis Wieruch
  • Patent number: 12727007
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described that communicates with one or more network entities of the wireless communication network, like a base station or another UE. The UE receives from a network entity a transmission, the transmission including a control region, like a Physical Sidelink Control Channel, PSCCH, and a data region, like a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel, PSSCH. The transmission includes a first control message, like a 1st-stage SCI, in the control region, and a second control message, like a 2nd-stage SCI, in the data region. The second control message includes control data and occupies some or all of the resources allocated in the data region of the transmission, or is associated with control data included in at least a part of the data region of the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sarun Selvanesan, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge
  • Patent number: 12726269
    Abstract: A radio device for a wireless communication network includes a backscatter transmitter for transmitting a signal using a backscattered signal, and to at least one or more groups of a plurality of different device groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wiegand, Alvaro López Raventós, Buket Torun
  • Patent number: 12719592
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas. The apparatus comprises a communication interface for receiving a control signal. The apparatus is configured to form a first radio frequency beam in accordance with a predetermined test case independent from the control signal using the antenna array. The apparatus is configured to form a second radio frequency beam that is different from the predetermined test case responsive to instructions contained in the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Paul Simon Holt Leather, Thomas Haustein, Kei Sakaguchi, Lars Thiele, Thomas Wirth
  • Publication number: 20260242470
    Abstract: The invention provides a fusion protein and a nucleic acid construct encoding the fusion protein, preferably an oncolytic viral particle that contains the nucleic acid construct encoding the fusion protein, wherein the fusion protein from N-terminus to C-terminus comprises or consists of a secretory leader peptide-anti-CD3-antibody section-hinge-HIV-Tat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 20, 2026
    Inventors: Florian Kühnel, Thomas Wirth, Malin Peter
  • Patent number: 12712675
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of transceivers. The plurality of transceivers include at least a first transceiver and a second transceiver. The first transceiver and the second transceiver are configured for a sidelink communication with each other. The wireless communication system supports a retransmission protocol for the sidelink. The retransmission protocol enables the first transceiver to perform a retransmission for a data packet, responsive to an explicit or an implicit feedback from the second transceiver, which receives one or more data packets from the first transceiver, in case of a non-successful transmission of the data packet over the sidelink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Sarun Selvanesan, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Robin Thomas, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl
  • Publication number: 20260238365
    Abstract: The present document relates to techniques (e.g., devices and methods) for signalling, e.g., for new radio unlicensed (NR-U). A user equipment (UE) exchanges control signals with a first cell and a second cell. The first cell is a licensed or unlicensed cell and the at least one second cell is an unlicensed cell. The UE exchanges control signals with the first cell and, meanwhile: receives assistance information assisting the UE in receiving at least one discovery reference signal, the assistance information including timing information regarding the timing of the at least one discovery reference signal periodically sent by the at least one second cell; perform measurement(s) on discovery reference signal as acquired by the UE, from the at least one second cell, using the timing information included in the assistance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2025
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Robin Rajan THOMAS, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH
  • Patent number: 12707363
    Abstract: Improvements and enhancements of the functionality of integrated access and backhaul, IAB, nodes, for a wireless communication network are described, which includes one or more base stations or integrated access and backhaul, IAB, donors, one or more IAB nodes, the IAB node connected, directly or via one or more further IAB nodes, to the IAB donor, and one or more user devices, UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Haustein, Roya Ebrahim Rezagah, Thomas Wirth, Jasmina Mcmenamy
  • Patent number: 12707319
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, acts as a relaying entity so as to provide functionality to support connectivity between one or more remote UEs and a destination of the wireless communication network, wherein a connection between the remote UE and the destination comprises one or more sidelinks, each sidelink associated with a predefined or negotiated Quality-of-Service, QoS. The UE is connected via a sidelink to one or more of the following: one or more of the remote UEs, the destination, one or more further relay UEs. The UE determines a status of the sidelink with regard to the predefined or negotiated QoS, and sends the status of the sidelink towards a network entity, like a base station, of the wireless communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Nithin Srinivasan, Roya Ebrahim Rezagah, Jasmina McMenamy, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Sarun Selvanesan, Thomas Fehrenbach
  • Publication number: 20260230404
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is disclosed. The UE is configured or preconfigured with at least one Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning model, AI/ML model, or at least one AI functionality for performing one or more tasks. The UE is to monitor a performance of one or more AI/ML models or one or more AI functionalities. Responsive to a certain event, the UE is to perform one or more actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2026
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Tatiana RYKOV, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 12700980
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. The he UE performs measurements of one or more reference signals received from a network entity of the wireless communication network, each reference signal being associated with a TCI state. For transmitting or receiving a transmission associated with a certain TCI state, the UE uses one or more parameters obtained by the measurement of the reference signal being associated with the certain TCI state of the transmission. Responsive to a certain event, the UE resets parameters obtained by a measurement associated with the TCI state of at least one of the one or more reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Baris Goektepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Clemens Korn, Julian Popp, Josef Bernhard, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 12696183
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is connectable to two or more of a plurality of network slices of the wireless communication network, wherein a slice specific random-access channel, RACH, resource configuration is associated with one or more of the plurality of slices. The UE is configured or pre-configured with slice specific RACH resource configurations for some or all of the plurality of slices. Responsive to a RACH event, the UE is to determine a slice that triggered and/or that is associated with the RACH event, and select the slice specific RACH resource configuration associated with the determined slice to be used for performing a RACH procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Eiko Seidel, Sarun Selvanesan, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge
  • Patent number: 12696078
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, like a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, network, is described. The UE has a plurality of UE capabilities, the UE capabilities indicating functions the UE is capable to perform. The UE is to inform on one or more parts of the plurality of UE capabilities using one or more identification values, e.g., hash values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Tatiana Rykov, Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20260205339
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transceiver device such as a user equipment, UE, configured for operating in a wireless communication network providing a plurality of time resources in a time-frequency grid, the plurality of time resources comprising a first subset of time resources being sub-band full duplex, SBFD, time resources and a second subset of time resources being non-SBFD time resources. The transceiver device is to operate based on an association between a sounding reference signal, SRS, transmitted by the transceiver device and a first reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2025
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Priyanka DEY, Thomas HAUSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20260206010
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transceiver device such as a user equipment, UE, configured for operating in a wireless communication network providing a plurality of time resources in a time-frequency grid, the plurality of time resources including a subset of time resources being sub-band full duplex, SBFD, time resources; wherein a SBFD time resources provides for at least one uplink, UL, subband; and for at least one downlink, DL, subband. The transceiver device is to receive instructions indicating a link direction associated with whether to transmit UL or receive DL in a SBFD time resource; and to operate accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2025
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Priyanka DEY, Thomas HAUSTEIN