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).

  • Patent number: 12659822
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, where the wireless communication system includes one or more UEs and a plurality of cells. A UE entering into a predefined handover event measures a channel condition of one or more neighboring cells for a predefined time, e.g., the time to trigger, TTT. The apparatus adapts the TTT based on one or more channel conditions of the one or more neighboring cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Göktepe, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Nithin Srinivasan
  • Publication number: 20260164414
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication device, e.g., a user device, configured for processing a signal transmitted occupying at least one slot/subframe/radioframe that is according to a second wireless communication scheme. The signal is an adaptation of a first communication scheme to fit the second communication scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2025
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Lars THIELE, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Chaitali PAWASE, Priyanka DEY
  • Publication number: 20260164502
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE communicates with one or more further UEs using a sidelink, SL. The UE operates in a Discontinuous Reception, DRX, mode. When out-of-coverage, the UE obtains one or more resources available for a transmission from an assistance information message, AIM, received from one or more of the further UEs during an ON duration of one or more DRX cycles, and/or from an assistance information message, AIM, received from one or more of the further UEs during a listening duration, and/or by carrying out sensing in a set of sidelink resources or in a sidelink resource pool of the wireless communication system during an ON duration of one or more DRX cycles, and/or by carrying out sensing in a set of sidelink resources or in a sidelink resource pool of the wireless communication system during a listening duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2025
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Patent number: 12652570
    Abstract: A user device, UE, is described which monitors a plurality of beams for a predefined time period for one or more predefined event criteria and determines a meeting of the one or more predefined event criteria using a Layer1 measurement. The one or more of the predefined event criteria include one or more of the following: LTM2, LTM3, LTM4, LTM5. Responsive to meeting one or more of the predefined event criteria, the UE provides a measurement report. The UE sends the measurement report to a network entity in case a leaving condition is met, the measurement report having a CRI and/or a SSBRI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 9, 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
  • Publication number: 20260156658
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is described. The UE is to communicate with one or more further UEs in the wireless communication network over a sidelink, SL. The UE is configured or preconfigured to support sidelink carrier aggregation, SL-CA, the SL-CA comprising a plurality of component carriers, CCs. The UE is to select the CCs for the SL communication in accordance with a configuration or pre-configuration of the SL-CA, and/or based on inter-UE coordination, IuC, information indicating available/preferred or unavailable/not-preferred resources or a collision, e.g., collision indicator, CI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIEGAND, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20260150121
    Abstract: In the field of wireless communication systems or networks, the design of resource pools as they may be used in sidelink communications among users of the wireless communication system, for example in V2X applications, is described. In particular, an improved resource pool design, for example for resource pools to be used in sidelink communications in V2X services in view of the advantages defined by the NR 5G standard, is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Robin THOMAS, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Eiko SEIDEL
  • Publication number: 20260149949
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a novel form of communication within a cellular wireless communication network. One aspect of the invention concerns a User Equipment for a cellular network, wherein the UE inter alia includes a first interface for UE-to-Basestation communication configured to communicate with a base station of the cellular network and a second interface for UE-to-UE communication configured to communicate with one or more other UEs of a UE-Group to which the UE belongs. According to the invention the UE is configured to receive via its first interface configuration data for configuring its second interface, and to coordinate, via the second interface, a communication within the UE Group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Robin Thomas, Thomas Schierl, Lars Thiele, Eiko Seidel
  • Publication number: 20260142769
    Abstract: A receiver receives and processes a data signal having at least one data signal block. The data signal block has a number of symbols in the time domain and a number of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. The data signal block includes a control region to provide control data to the receiver and a payload region to provide payload data to the receiver. Payload data is allocated to the control region of the data signal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Dennis WIERUCH, Bernd HOLFELD, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Martin KURRAS
  • Patent number: 12634890
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Sarun Selvanesan, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl
  • Publication number: 20260136411
    Abstract: A radio transmitter apparatus for transmitting a data transmission for at least one radio tag of a plurality of radio tags is described. The data transmission includes a first part and a second part including data to be transmitted to the at least one radio tag. The radio transmitter apparatus processes the second part of the data transmission such that the data is free of a pattern representing a start indicator for any of the plurality of radio tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIEGAND, Alvaro LÓPEZ RAVENTÓS, Buket TORUN
  • Publication number: 20260136414
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The UE is to communicate with the wireless communication system via at least one relay UE, the UE and the relay UE communicating over a sidelink interface. When communicating with the wireless communication system via the relay UE, e.g., when starting and/or during a communication, the UE is to establish a network control layer in its protocol stack, and the network control layer is to provide some control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2026
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventors: Jasmina MCMENAMY, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20260134236
    Abstract: A reader device for communicating with at least one radio tag of a plurality of radio tags is described. The reader device is connectable to a radio access network, RAN, entity of a wireless communication system and to one or more or all of the plurality of radio tags. Responsive to one or more conditions, the reader device operates in accordance with a radio tag mode, e.g. an A-IoT mode, in which a data transfer between the radio device and the at least one radio tag is enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIEGAND, Alvaro LÓPEZ RAVENTÓS, Buket TORUN
  • Publication number: 20260136261
    Abstract: A user equipment for communication over a cellular network is configured for simultaneously communicating with one or more cells of first and second nodes of the cellular network, and to methods for operating such user equipments for communication over a cellular network. Furthermore, a user equipment for communication over a cellular network includes a plurality of base stations which are connected over a xhaul network of the cellular network to a core network of the cellular network, wherein the user equipment is configured for communicating with one of the base stations of the cellular network, which is used as a serving base station, or for communicating with more of the base stations of the cellular network simultaneously, which respectively are used as serving base stations, and to methods for operating such user equipments for communication over a cellular network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventors: Roya Ebrahim Rezagah, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Haustein, Jasmina McMenamy
  • Publication number: 20260136226
    Abstract: A user device, UE, is described which monitors a plurality of beams for a predefined time period for one or more predefined event criteria and determines a meeting of the one or more predefined event criteria using a Layer1 measurement. The one or more of the predefined event criteria include one or more of the following: LTM2, LTM3, LTM4, LTM5. Responsive to meeting one or more of the predefined event criteria, the UE provides a measurement report. The UE sends the measurement report to a network entity in case a leaving condition is met, the measurement report having a CRI and/or a SSBRI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIEGAND, Alvaro LÓPEZ RAVENTÓS, Buket TORUN
  • Publication number: 20260128958
    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: October 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIEGAND, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20260128824
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit or receive data in at least one transmission time interval on certain allocated resource elements of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to at least partially blank a transmission time interval for a data block to be transmitted or received by the transmitter, wherein the transceiver is configured (a) to signal to another transceiver a transmission grant in a blanked part of the at least partially blanked transmission time interval or (b) to at least partially blank the transmission time interval based on a blanking pattern received from another transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2025
    Publication date: May 7, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Thomas WIRTH, Lars THIELE
  • Publication number: 20260113153
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE communicates with one or more transmitting UEs using a sidelink, supports a certain number of HARQ processes, and buffers one or more transmissions for each HARQ process. During a unicast communication with a transmitting UE using the sidelink, the UE receives from the transmitting UE a transmission during a transmission time interval, the transmission associated to control data, e.g. SCI, including a HARQ process ID, buffers the received transmission for the HARQ process, and combines the buffered transmissions prior to decoding. In case a successfully identified transmission is not buffered, the UE indicates to the transmitting UE that the transmission is not buffered at the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2025
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Inventors: Robin THOMAS, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Sarun SELVANESAN, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH
  • Publication number: 20260100747
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. The UE is a sidelink, SL, UE, and is to communicate with one or more further SL-UEs over a sidelink, SL, using more than one antenna or antenna element. The UE is served by a base station of the wireless communication network. The UE is to be assisted by the base station for one or more beam management procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2025
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20260095298
    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: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2025
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Lars THIELE, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Chaitali PAWASE, Priyanka DEY
  • Publication number: 20260095249
    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: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2025
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIEGAND, Alvaro LÓPEZ RAVENTÓS, Buket TORUN