Patents by Inventor Wei Mao

Wei Mao 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: 12627402
    Abstract: A non-access point (AP) station (STA) may be configured for receipt of a multi-user physical layer protocol data unit (MU-PPDU) with network coding. The STA may decode at least portions of a MU-PPDU received from an access point (AP). The MU-PPDU may comprise a first data portion addressed to the STA, a second data portion addressed to a second STA2, and a parity portion addressed to both the stations. The parity portion may be generated by the AP based on a network coding of the first and second data portions. When the first data portion is received by the STA with errors, the STA may attempt to recover the first data portion using both the parity portion and the second data portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Wei Mao, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Javier Perez-Ramirez, Hosein Nikopour
  • Publication number: 20260050779
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed control on-off switching in wireless networks. An example computer readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause at least one programmable circuitry to at least generate a mathematical graph that includes measurement information about a first communication cell and a second communication cell; process a first embedding of the mathematical graph with a graph convolutional network layer to generate an updated embedding; concatenate the first embedding and the updated embedding to generate a concatenated embedding; and process the concatenated embedding via a neural network; and cause the first communication cell to be deactivated based on the result of the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2025
    Publication date: February 19, 2026
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Omid Semiari, Hosein Nikopour, Lili Wei, Wei Mao, Shu-Ping Yeh
  • Patent number: 12519459
    Abstract: A switch circuit includes a first audio input pin configured to receive a first audio signal having a first amplitude, a second audio input pin configured to receive a second audio signal having a second amplitude, an input pin, an output pin, and at least one switch configured to convert the input voltage to the output voltage. When a maximum of the first amplitude and the second amplitude is lower than a first threshold voltage, the output voltage is a default voltage. When the maximum of the first amplitude and the second amplitude is greater than the first threshold voltage but lower a second threshold voltage that is greater than the first threshold voltage, the output voltage is a first voltage greater. When the maximum of the first amplitude and the second amplitude is larger than the second threshold voltage, the output voltage is a second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangyi Yang, Lei Li, Wei Mao, Panyin Liu, Li Wang
  • Patent number: 12489698
    Abstract: A system for wireless communication, the system may include a processor configured to generate encoded packets representative of input packets. The processor may also be configured to determine a probability of a transmission error for each link of a plurality of links. In addition, the processor may be configured to determine a probability of a link blockage error for each link of the plurality of links. Further, the processor may be configured to determine an allocation scheme for the encoded packets on the plurality of links based on the probability of the transmission error and the probability of the link blockage error for each link of the plurality of links. The processor may be configured to allocate the encoded packets on the plurality of links according to the allocation scheme. The processor may also be configured to instruct to wirelessly transmit the encoded packets on the plurality of links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Mao, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwar
  • Patent number: 12463780
    Abstract: According to various examples, a communication system is described comprising a receiver configured to receive, for each of a plurality of object classes, via a wireless communication channel shared among transmitters of a respective set of transmitters, a superposition of transmitted hyperdimensional code words, comprising, for each transmitter of the respective set of transmitters, a hyperdimensional code word transmitted via the wireless communication channel and encoding data of an object of the object class acquired by the transmitter, a memory configured to store, for each of the plurality of object classes, the received superposition in association with the class, a processor configured to classify a hyperdimensional code word representing an object to be classified by correlating the hyperdimensional code word with each stored superposition and to generate a classification result corresponding to the object class associated with a superposition fulfilling a predetermined criterion based on correlation
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jan Schreck, Wei Mao, Nageen Himayat, Shilpa Talwar, Ariela Zeira
  • Publication number: 20250337331
    Abstract: A control circuit for an isolated switching converter. The control circuit includes a secondary control circuit and a primary control circuit. The secondary control circuit detects whether a load rise has occurred based on an output voltage and pulls down a voltage at a secondary winding of the switching converter in response to the detected load rise. The primary control circuit monitors a voltage across an auxiliary winding of the switching converter, generates a wakeup detecting signal based on the voltage across the auxiliary winding, and generates a primary switch control signal to control a primary switch based on the wakeup detecting signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2025
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Inventors: Xiangyi Yang, Li Wang, Qiang Fan, Panyin Liu, Wei Mao
  • Publication number: 20250323839
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and at least one programmable circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to: execute a machine learning model based on performance data corresponding to a base station device to determine a configuration that includes at least one of a duration of an active period or a duration of a nonactive period, the base station device to consume a first amount of power during the active period and a second amount of power during the nonactive period, the second amount less than the first amount, and deploy the configuration to the base station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2025
    Publication date: October 16, 2025
    Inventors: Wei Mao, Hosein Nikopour, Omid Semiari, Lili Wei, Shu-ping Yeh
  • Publication number: 20250286461
    Abstract: A multiphase power supply with easy control is discussed. The multiphase power supply has a master circuit and n slave circuits coupled in parallel with each other between in input voltage and an output voltage. The master circuit provides a first clock signal to the slave circuits via a firs synchronous port, and a second clock signal via a synchronous port. All the circuits are then configured to generate a respectively phase clock signal to control the power stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Jian Zhang, Wei Mao, Ganggang Niu
  • Patent number: 12385109
    Abstract: A device for efficiently separating ethyl tin from molten crude tin is disclosed. The device includes grab buckets, connecting rods, an inverted T-shaped push rod, alloy legs, a hanger plate, a cylinder and a lifting ring; wherein one end of the connecting rod is fixedly connected with one side of the grab bucket, and the other end of the connecting rod is detachably connected with the bottom end of the inverted T-shaped push rod; a top flange of the inverted T-shaped push rod is detachably connected with the bottom flange of the cylinder through threads, and the inverted T-shaped push rod is powered by the cylinder to push and pull. The device has simple structure, small volume, light weight, convenient use and placement, reduced occupancy rate of production site space and flexible use; the invention adopts a remote control mode, mechanized operation, higher safety and labor saving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: YUNNAN TIN CO. LTD. TIN BRANCH
    Inventors: Mingjiang Wang, Zhilu Li, Fan Bai, Haibin Yuan, Chi Zhang, Zhang Zhang, Wanli Xu, Duzuo Tang, Jianwei Wang, Sheng Lei, Wei Mao, Hongwu Jia
  • Publication number: 20250226824
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a load switch circuit including a switching element and a controlling circuit. The switching element is coupled between an input terminal and an output terminal of the load switch circuit. The controlling circuit coupled to the switching element, and is configured to regulate a set current limit of a load current flowing through the switching element. The controlling circuit is configured to control a loop formed by the controlling circuit and the switching element based on a sensed signal indicative of the current flowing through the switching element, so that the loop remains stable when the set current limit is changed from a first set current limit to a second set current limit. The load switch circuit provided by the present invention can stabilize the current regulation loop even when the set current limit changes in a larger dynamic range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Xiangyi Yang, Wei Mao
  • Publication number: 20250219932
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems for encoding data packets for transmitting over at least two transmission paths, which may include a sub-6 GHz link and multiple high frequency band links. The system may divide an upper layer packet into a predefined number of equal-sized segments, encode the segments with linear packet network coding to generate a set of network coded packets, allocate for transmission to a destination node over two or more transmission paths subsets of the set of network coded packets to corresponding ones of the two or more transmission paths, and transmit to the destination node each subset of the subsets of network coded packets on its corresponding transmission path of the two or more transmission paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Wei MAO, Hosein NIKOPOUR
  • Patent number: 12323319
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to multi-access traffic management in multi-access computing environments. A reliability enhancement engine (REE) operated by a multi-access multipath traffic manager identifies traffic flows that have high reliability requirements (“reliability flows”) and performs admission control for the reliability flows. The REE determines a coding rate (e.g., a redundancy factor) and traffic distribution strategies for the identified reliability flows. The REE applies cross-access network coding (NC) on the reliability flows, and handles multi-access acknowledgements and traffic pacing, which may involve multiplexing traffic of the reliability flows with non-high-reliability traffic. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-ping Yeh, Wei Mao, Hosein Nikopour, Shilpa Talwar, Murali Narasimha, Jingwen Bai
  • Publication number: 20250175088
    Abstract: A flyback converter with timely wakeup is discussed. The flyback converter adopts a wakeup circuit to monitor a voltage drop at the output voltage of the flyback converter. If the output voltage drops to a certain ratio of the previous voltage value, the wakeup circuit would notice the primary side of the flyback converter, to wake up the primary power switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Xiangyi Yang, Wei Mao
  • Publication number: 20250055422
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for a switching power supply circuit has an enable pin, a power supply pin, a switch pin, a ground pin, a power switch and an amplifier. The enable pin receives an enable signal. The power supply pin is coupled to a power supply capacitor. The switch pin receives an input voltage. The power switch has a normally-on switching device and a normally-off switching device. A first terminal of the normally-on switching device is coupled to the switch pin. A first terminal of the normally-off switching device is coupled to a second terminal of the normally-on switching device, a second terminal of the normally-off switching device is coupled to the ground pin. The amplifier provides an amplified signal based on a difference between a voltage at the power supply pin and a voltage at the second terminal of the normally-on switching device to control the normally-on switching device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Xiangyi Yang, Wei Mao
  • Patent number: 12185163
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein provide techniques for integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes. For example, embodiments include techniques associated with: rate-proportional routing for network coding; utilizing multiple routes in IAB networks; user equipment (UE) and parent selection for efficient topology in IAB networks; establishing efficient IAB topologies; and/or adaptive coded-forwarding for network coding. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Mao, Murali Narasimha, Jaemin Han, Meryem Simsek, Hosein Nikopour, Sudeep Palat, Navid Naderializadeh
  • Patent number: 12107728
    Abstract: Embodiments of a virtualized radio-access network (RAN) node configured to implement functions including an O-RAN Distributed Unit (DU), an O-RAN Radio Unit (RU), an O-RAN Central Unit-Control Plane (CU-CP), and an O-RAN Central Unit-User Plane (CU-UP), are described herein. In some embodiments, a reliability enhancement strategy is determined according to measurement reports collected from user equipment (UEs), the DU and the CU-UP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-ping Yeh, Jaemin Han, Wei Mao, Jingwen Bai, Murali Narasimha
  • Publication number: 20240312319
    Abstract: Optical connector assemblies are described. One aspect includes a source terminal configured to electrically and mechanically connect to an electrical signal source via a first electrical interface, a sink terminal configured to electrically and mechanically connect to an electrical signal sink via a second electrical interface, an optical communication channel optically connecting the source terminal and the sink terminal, and an auxiliary terminal. The optical communication channel may include a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The source terminal and sink terminal may be configured to communicate with each other over the optical communication channel. In one aspect, the auxiliary terminal receives a power signal from an auxiliary signal source and transmits the power signal to the source terminal. The source terminal converts the power signal to a boosted power signal, and transmits the boosted power signal to the LEDs to illuminate the LEDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yun Bai, Wei Mao, Zuodong Wang, Zhilu Yuan, Jie Ge
  • Patent number: 12093200
    Abstract: Methods for USB signal communication over an optical link are described. One aspect includes detecting connection of a device circuit to a USB device. The detecting may further include transmitting an electrical pulse through a reactive network, and detecting a change in a delay associated with the electrical pulse responsive to connecting the device circuit to the USB device. An optical signal associated with the detected connection may be transmitted to a host circuit via an optical communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: WINGCOMM CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Jianming Yu, Zuodong Wang, Wei Mao, Yun Bai
  • Patent number: D1069740
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: WINGCOMM CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Ge, Jie Ge, Zuodong Wang, Wei Mao, Yun Bai
  • Patent number: D1077762
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: WINGCOMM CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Ge, Jie Ge, Zuodong Wang, Wei Mao, Yun Bai