Patents by Inventor Ziyi CHANG

Ziyi CHANG 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: 11967966
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a circuit and method for expanding the lock range of injection-locked oscillators. The circuit includes N injection-locked oscillators and a lock detector, where the lock detector includes an alignment monitor, a clock selector, and N self-samplers. A pulse reference signal is inputted into the N injection-locked oscillators, and the output of each injection-locked oscillator is connected to the clock selector and the corresponding self-sampler. The self-samplers sample the outputs of the N injection-locked oscillators and output the sampling results to the alignment monitor. The alignment monitor monitors the sampling results, determines the locking conditions of the injection-locked oscillators, and turns off the unlocked oscillators. The clock selector selects a locked oscillator and transmits the output of the locked oscillator as a system lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ziyi Chang, Bo Zhao
  • Patent number: 11777771
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of IoT (Internet of Things) chips, and discloses a BLE protocol-based battery-free multi-mode transceiver including a wireless energy harvester module, a power management module, a transmitter, a receiver and a backscattering module, where the wireless energy harvester module supplies power to the whole transceiver; the power management module provides required stable currents and voltages for circuits; the transmitter modulates a baseband signal inputted by an external device into a GFSK modulated Bluetooth intermediate frequency signal compatible to a BLE protocol, modulates a received continuous waveform signal by using a backscattering technology, backscatters digital information compatible to the BLE protocol, and transmits a Bluetooth radio frequency signal; the receiver receives the Bluetooth radio frequency signal, amplifies the Bluetooth intermediate frequency signal in an output of the rectifier, and demodulates the Bluetooth intermediate frequency signal t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microaiot, Ltd., Hangzhou (CN)
    Inventor: Ziyi Chang
  • Publication number: 20230117853
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a circuit and method for expanding the lock range of injection-locked oscillators. The circuit includes N injection-locked oscillators and a lock detector, where the lock detector includes an alignment monitor, a clock selector, and N self-samplers. A pulse reference signal is inputted into the N injection-locked oscillators, and the output of each injection-locked oscillator is connected to the clock selector and the corresponding self-sampler. The self-samplers sample the outputs of the N injection-locked oscillators and output the sampling results to the alignment monitor. The alignment monitor monitors the sampling results, determines the locking conditions of the injection-locked oscillators, and turns off the unlocked oscillators. The clock selector selects a locked oscillator and transmits the output of the locked oscillator as a system lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ziyi CHANG, Bo ZHAO