Noise Or Interference Elimination Patents (Class 455/296)
  • Patent number: 12224789
    Abstract: A system for interference mitigation includes: a transmit coupler; a receive coupler; a duplexer; and an interference cancellation module that includes a receive-band filter, a transmit-band filter, and an interference cancellation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung-il Choi, Mayank Jain, Wilhelm Steffen Hahn, Alfred Riddle
  • Patent number: 12213241
    Abstract: A circuit package may comprise (1) a substrate, (2) at least one radio frequency (RF) circuit disposed on the substrate, and (3) a plurality of screw holes that are incorporated into the substrate and configured to support mounting the substrate to an enclosure, wherein at least one of the screw holes is further configured to provide at least one supplemental function in connection with the RF circuit. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Qiuming Li, Colden Niles Eldridge, Ming Lei, Yibo Liu, Md Rashidul Islam, Sung Hoon Oh
  • Patent number: 12155404
    Abstract: Systems and methods for handling cancellation of a Passive Intermodulation (PIM) signal are provided. The network device has access to and controls one or more transmitters and one or more receivers. The network device applies a determined PIM model to a transmitted signal from each transmitter of the network device, to obtain a modelled signal. The PIM model comprises a forward path model for each transmitter to the PIM source, a common non-linear model of the PIM signal from the PIM source being applied to a combined signal comprising the signals from each transmitter modelled by the forward path model, and a linear reflective path model from the PIM source to each of the receivers of the network device for a received PIM signal. The network device further subtracts the modelled signal from a received signal on each of the receivers of the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jin Ellgardt, Jim Svensson, Spendim Dalipi
  • Patent number: 12149230
    Abstract: Disclosed is a filter bank die that includes a first acoustic wave (AW) filter having a first antenna terminal coupled to the antenna port terminal and a first filter terminal, wherein the first AW filter is configured to have a filter skirt with a slope that spans at least a 100 MHz gap between adjacent passbands, and a second AW filter having a second filter terminal, and a second antenna terminal coupled to the first antenna terminal to effectively diplex signals that pass through the first AW filter and the second AW filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: Gangadhar Burra, Bror Peterson, Richard Perkins, Chris Levesque
  • Patent number: 12150121
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for resource scheduling. A method at a base station comprises determining a passive interference cancellation capability of a User Equipment (UE) having a passive interference issue. The passive interference is coupled into a receive path of the UE from a transmission of at least one signal through a transmit path of the UE. The method further comprises scheduling at least one uplink resource for the UE based on the passive interference cancellation capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Chunhui Liu, Yuanchun Xie, Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12149278
    Abstract: Provided herein are circuits and methods for processing samples of a received in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) domain signal that includes a desired signal and an interference signal that spectrally overlaps the desired signal. In the I/Q domain, a first contribution to the interference signal is removed from the samples using a first algorithm to generate first processed signal samples. Amplitudes and phases of the first processed signal samples are obtained. In an amplitude domain, a second contribution to the interference signal is removed from the amplitudes of the first processed signal samples using a second algorithm to generate second processed signal samples. A signal quality metric of the second processed signal samples is obtained. Based on the signal quality metric of the second processed signal samples, one or more parameters of the first or second algorithm are adjusted to improve the signal quality metric of the second processed signal samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip A. Dafesh, Phillip Brian Hess, Gourav K. Khadge
  • Patent number: 12113582
    Abstract: An access point allocates resource units within a first channel to mitigate interference from an adjacent second channel. The access point obtains a measure of signal strength corresponding to each wireless device attached to an access point, and assigns, for each wireless device, resource units with a first frequency band of the first channel to mitigate interference with a second frequency band of a second channel adjacent to the first channel. An assignment between a set of resource units and a particular wireless device is based on the measure of signal strength corresponding to the particular wireless device. The access point communicates with the wireless devices on the resource units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Aaron Silverman, Pooya Monajemi, Vishal Satyendra Desai, John Martin Blosco
  • Patent number: 12095536
    Abstract: A system and method for providing multi-input multi-output (MIMO) feeder links for a multibeam satellite system. The method includes configuring a X×Y MIMO antenna system using X-antennae having dominant line-of-sight (LoS) of Y-antennae; transmitting, simultaneously, a Tx signal as X Tx signals on a MIMO channel with the X-antennae; receiving the X Tx signals on the MIMO channel with the Y-antennae as Y Rx signals, wherein each of the Y-antennae generate one of the Y Rx signals; and ground-interference processing the X Tx signals or the Y Rx signals to recover the Tx signal; satellite-interference processing the X Tx signals or the Y Rx signals to recover the Tx signal. In the method, the ground interference processing includes countermeasures as either pre-interference processing when the X-antennae are disposed on a ground or post-interference processing when the X-antennae are disposed in a Geosynchronous orbit satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Bassel F. Beidas
  • Patent number: 12096248
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to method and system for improving Wi-Fi performance in co-existing communication networks using learning methodologies. In recent times, most of telecom operators have expressed interest in deploying LTE (Long-Term Evolution) over the unlicensed spectrum. However, simultaneous use of unlicensed band (by operators using LTE and other Wi-Fi) presents coexistence challenges in terms of network performance especially for the Wi-Fi. The disclosed techniques enable improving the Wi-Fi performance in the co-existing communication networks based on learning methodologies. The disclosed techniques improve Wi-Fi performance based on several steps that includes detecting an interfering channel, and further identifying an optimal channel to mitigate the interference caused by the detected interfering channel. The optimal channel is identified based on an optimization technique, wherein the optimization technique is a reinforcement learning technique based on a Q-learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Garima Mishra, Nikita Trivedi, Hemant Kumar Rath, Bighnaraj Panigrahi, Shameemraj Nadaf
  • Patent number: 11990927
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a method for improving performance of a low-intermediate frequency receiver, a storage medium, and a receiver. The method comprises: selecting a local oscillator signal from a preset local oscillator frequency set as an initial local oscillator signal to perform frequency mixing processing on an input signal, so as to obtain a low-intermediate frequency signal comprising a low-intermediate frequency useful signal and a low-intermediate frequency interference signal; determining whether an energy ratio of the low-intermediate frequency interference signal to the low-intermediate frequency useful signal is greater than a first preset ratio; and if the energy ratio is greater than the first preset ratio, selecting another local oscillator frequency from the preset local oscillator frequency set as the current local oscillator signal to process the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HYTERA COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Ni Huang, Dawu He, Cunhao Gao, Guangbin Huang, Yongdong Wang
  • Patent number: 11984848
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a frequency generator arrangement having an oscillator for generating an oscillator signal having an oscillator frequency and an oscillator output for outputting the oscillator signal, the frequency generator arrangement further comprising a frequency multiplier coupled and/or connected to an oscillator output for generating an output signal of the frequency generator arrangement having a multiplier frequency corresponding to a multiple of the oscillator frequency, wherein the frequency multiplier comprises a frequency multiplier core directly causative of the frequency multiplication, the frequency multiplier core having a power supply, and the frequency generator arrangement having a control input for controlling the power supply to the frequency multiplier core, whereby an output power of the output signal is adjustable by controlling the power supply to the frequency multiplier core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: 2pi-Labs GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Jaeschke, Simon Kueppers
  • Patent number: 11979161
    Abstract: In described examples, a quadrature phase shifter includes digitally programmable phase shifter networks for generating leading and lagging output signals in quadrature. The phase shifter networks include passive components for reactively inducing phase shifts, which need not consume active power. Output currents from the transistors coupled to the phase shifter networks are substantially in quadrature and can be made further accurate by adjusted by a weight function implemented using current steering elements. Example low-loss quadrature phase shifters described herein can be functionally integrated to provide low-power, low-noise up/down mixers, vector modulators and transceiver front-ends for millimeter wavelength (mmwave) communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Sudipto Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11973583
    Abstract: A communication method of a heterogeneous distributed wireless network system includes calculating a first transmission threshold in the heterogeneous distributed wireless network system including a plurality of distributed networks that share a same frequency band, determining whether data is transmitted by transmitter/receiver pairs included in the heterogeneous distributed wireless network system, based on the first transmission threshold, calculating a second transmission threshold locally for each of the distributed networks, based on whether data is transmitted by at least one transmitter belonging to the transmitter/receiver pairs, selectively determining whether data is transmitted for each of the distributed networks based on the second transmission threshold, and transmitting the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Joonhyuk Kang, Jinu Gong, Wanjik Kim, Dongwon Kim
  • Patent number: 11962461
    Abstract: A system and a method to dynamically reprovision network devices may include a first network device configured to reprovision a second network device in accordance with a specific location of the second network device in a predefined area. The first network device may be configured to sense the second device at the specific location in the predefined area, identify reprovisioning parameters associated with the specific location, and provide the reprovisioning parameters to the second network device. In turn, the second network device may be configured to perform one or more roles associated with the specific location in the predefined area based at least in part upon information in the reprovisioning parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Domenico Ficara, Amine Choukir, Salvatore Valenza, Vincent Cuissard
  • Patent number: 11910328
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station via the transceiver, an indication to apply an amplitude drooping based at least in part on an uplink band being adjacent to a downlink band in a full-duplex operation. The UE may transmit, to the base station via the transceiver, an uplink transmission in the uplink band based at least in part on the amplitude drooping. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Attia Abotabl, Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 11876724
    Abstract: The technology of this application relates to a flow characteristic extraction method and apparatus, and belongs to the field of network technologies. The method includes a network device that determines a burst parameter of a burst traffic segment of a received first packet flow, and determines a burst parameter of the first packet flow based on the burst parameter of the burst traffic segment of the first packet flow. The first packet flow is an elephant flow, the burst traffic segment indicates a burst degree of traffic within one period of time, the burst parameter of the burst traffic segment is a parameter used to describe the burst traffic segment, and the burst parameter of the first packet flow is a parameter used to describe at least one burst traffic segment included in the first packet flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Wang, Wenbin Yang, Yu Bai, Guang Li
  • Patent number: 11870474
    Abstract: Example access network devices are described. One example access network device includes a signal processing apparatus. The signal processing apparatus includes a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a first filter, a second filter, and a combiner. The first filter filters a second signal obtained by the first power amplifier, to obtain a first sub-signal belonging to a first frequency band and a second sub-signal belonging to a second frequency band. The second filter filters a fourth signal obtained by the second power amplifier, to obtain n sub-signals including at least a third sub-signal belonging to a third frequency band. The combiner combines the first sub-signal and i sub-signals in the n sub-signals based on a preset condition, to obtain a first combined signal. The communication module sends the first combined signal by using a first port, and sends the second sub-signal by using a second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia Lv, Haizheng Tang, Ling Guo
  • Patent number: 11846744
    Abstract: An electrical prospecting signal transmission device capable of suppressing electromagnetic coupling interference, including a rectangular wave signal source, an output circuit for supplying power to the ground and a plurality of transmission channels. Each of the plurality of transmission channels includes an isolated driving circuit, a low-pass filter circuit and a power amplification circuit connected sequentially in series. The rectangular wave signal source is configured to generate a rectangular wave or a composite rectangular wave. A signal output terminal of the rectangular wave signal source is connected to an input terminal of the isolated driving circuit, and an output terminal of the power amplification circuit is connected to the output circuit to supply power to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Guohong Fu, Hui Cheng, Songyuan Fu, Xiangqin Zhong
  • Patent number: 11797828
    Abstract: To configure a set of user devices, which comprises one or more user devices, to monitor a subset of beams, at least one past beam sequence indicating one or more beams, which served the set is determined, and inputted to a trained model which outputs a probability distribution. Then as many beams as is a number of beams determined for the set to monitor is selected from the probability distribution according to a first criteria, and the set of user devices is configured to monitor and report beams in the beam group. Past beam sequences are also used in training. From the past sequences, set-specifically, past beams that served a set within a first time interval are determined to be used as training data, and future beams that served the set within a second time interval following the first time interval are determined to be used as validation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Aliye Kaya, Michal Maternia
  • Patent number: 11791856
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver, and an antenna. The transceiver may include a mixer that outputs signals to a transimpedance amplifier. The mixer has an output impedance that varies depending on the frequency of operation. An adjustable resistance can be coupled to the input of the transimpedance amplifier. A control circuit can tune the adjustable resistance to compensate for changes in the output impedance of the mixer as the transceiver operates across a wide range of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Woo, Florian Mrugalla
  • Patent number: 11784724
    Abstract: An access point allocates resource units within a first channel to mitigate interference from an adjacent second channel. The access point obtains a measure of signal strength corresponding to each wireless device attached to an access point, and assigns, for each wireless device, resource units with a first frequency band of the first channel to mitigate interference with a second frequency band of a second channel adjacent to the first channel. An assignment between a set of resource units and a particular wireless device is based on the measure of signal strength corresponding to the particular wireless device. The access point communicates with the wireless devices on the resource units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Aaron Silverman, Pooya Monajemi, Vishal Satyendra Desai, John Martin Blosco
  • Patent number: 11765011
    Abstract: There is provided a method of transmitting and receiving data across a network. A receiver device comprises a recovery module comprising a neural network trained to recover signals from clipped signals. The transmitter device may clip the original signal more aggressively due to the improved performance of the machine-learning based recovery module, thereby reducing the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Abubaker Abdelhafiz, Ming Jian
  • Patent number: 11758570
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for use in a frequency division duplex (FDD) wireless network including a base station (BS) and a user equipment controller (UE) communicating through a medium having an uplink communication channel supporting communications from the UE to the BS, and a downlink communication channel supporting communications from the BS to the UE. The method includes identifying an uplink frequency spectrum in the uplink communication channel affected by an interfering signal, and determining the uplink power level of the interfering signal and whether the interfering signal is caused by passive intermodulation distortion (PIM). In response to determining that that the interfering signal is caused by PIM, the method includes adjusting, based on the uplink frequency spectrum and the uplink power level of the interfering signal, one or more of a downlink power level of a downlink transmission signal and a downlink frequency range in the downlink communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Viavi Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Walter Hakanson, Jeffrey Abramson Heath
  • Patent number: 11750152
    Abstract: Provided is a power amplifier circuit that can increase output power and also reduce the effect of intermodulation distortion. The power amplifier circuit includes a power divider, a distortion compensation circuit provided on the secondary path, a power combiner, and a first amplifier configured. The distortion compensation circuit includes a generation circuit configured to generate the second-harmonic wave of the input signal, a filter circuit configured to attenuate the fundamental wave and pass the second-harmonic wave, and a phase adjustment circuit configured to adjust the phase of the second-harmonic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Hase
  • Patent number: 11733364
    Abstract: Backend components for noise radar and techniques for operation of those components are provided. Some embodiments include noise radar apparatuses. A noise radar apparatus may include a first unit that generates a random signal or a broadband noise signal using asynchronous logic gates constituting the first unit. The noise radar apparatus also may include a second unit that generates a reference sequence using the generated random signal or the generated broadband noise signal. The second unit comprises at least one tapped delay line formed by second asynchronous logic gates having sampling functionality and storage functionality. The noise radar apparatus may further include a third unit that receives a return signal correlates the return signal and the reference sequence in nearly real-time using third asynchronous logic gates constituting the third unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: Kratos SRE, Inc., The University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Inventors: Seth D. Cohen, Aubrey Beal
  • Patent number: 11696318
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may receive, from a second wireless communication device, an announcement associated with a first future communication and that indicates a set of resources associated with the first future communication. The first wireless communication device may communicate using the set of resources based at least in part on a determination that an estimated interference that will result from a second future communication using the set of resources satisfies an interference condition. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jung Ho Ryu, Sony Akkarakaran, Junyi Li, Tao Luo, Juan Montojo, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Peter Gaal, Arumugam Chendamarai Kannan, Xiaojie Wang, Ozcan Ozturk, Gene Wesley Marsh, Jelena Damnjanovic, Piyush Gupta
  • Patent number: 11695446
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus creates a prediction model taking into consideration of the actual fluctuation of a self-interference signal. The communication apparatus selects, where the self-interference signal has largely fluctuated, a prediction model in accordance with a fluctuation pattern at an early stage of the fluctuation. The communication apparatus generates a cancel signal by control applying a gain and an amount of phase shift represented by the prediction model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naohiro Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11683066
    Abstract: A wireless transceiver. The transceiver includes: (i) a transmit signal path; (ii) a calibration path, comprising a conductor to connect a calibration tone into the transmit signal path; (iii) a receive signal path, comprising a first data signal path to process a first data and a second data signal path, different than the first data signal path, to process a second data; (iv) a first capacitive coupling to couple a response to the calibration tone from the transmit signal path to the first data signal path; and (v) a second capacitive coupling to couple a response to the calibration tone from the transmit signal path to the second data signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Debapriya Sahu, Rohit Chatterjee, Srinivas Venkata Veeramreddi
  • Patent number: 11663151
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to chips used to receive and process neurological events in brain matter as captured by electrodes. Such chips may include an array of amplifiers and electrodes to receive neurological voltage signals, the chip including a config circuitry in communication with the array of amplifiers and a controller, the config circuitry configured to receive program instructions and instruct the amplifiers of a voltage threshold and instruct the controller to pass on signals from only specific rows and columns of amplifiers, the controller in communication with the array of amplifiers, the controller configured to packetize the neurological voltage signals into data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NEURALINK CORP.
    Inventors: Dongjin Seo, Paul A. Merolla, Manuel Alejandro Monge Osorio
  • Patent number: 11664947
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for using orthogonal demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) for downlink control channels in wireless communications systems. In an aspect, a method for a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one or more DMRSs over a multi-symbol downlink control channel. The method may further include identifying a time-first control channel element (CCE)-to-resource element group (REG) mapping for the multi-symbol downlink control channel, and identifying an orthogonal DMRS of the one or more DMRSs based on the time-first CCE-to-REG mapping, and decoding the multi-symbol downlink control channel based on at least the identified orthogonal DMRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Heechoon Lee, Jing Jiang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11650056
    Abstract: A physical quantity detection circuit includes a passive filter that receives a first analog signal based on an output signal of a physical quantity detection element, an analog/digital conversion circuit, and a precharge circuit that includes an operational amplifier, a first chopper circuit provided between the passive filter and the operational amplifier, and a second chopper circuit provided between the operational amplifier and the input capacitance of the analog/digital conversion circuit and precharges an input capacitance of the analog/digital conversion circuit, the first and the second chopper circuits perform a chopping operation in synchronization with an operation that the analog/digital conversion circuit samples the second analog signal at the input capacitance, based on an output signal of the passive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Yamada, Hideo Haneda
  • Patent number: 11639667
    Abstract: A rotor support device includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a dielectric material, and at least one alternating-current power supply. The dielectric material is disposed between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. The at least one AC power supply is configured to apply an alternating-current voltage across the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes and induce flows of gas by causing dielectric barrier discharge between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. At least one of the plurality of first electrodes or the plurality of second electrodes is disposed apart from each other in a static system that is stationary with respect to a rotor provided in an aircraft. The static system is adjacent to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Maki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11638210
    Abstract: Methods and circuits for reducing power dissipation in wireless transceivers and other electronic circuits and systems. Embodiments of the present invention use bias current reduction, impedance scaling, and gain changes either separately or in combination to reduce power dissipation. For example, bias currents are reduced in response to a need for reduced signal handling capability, impedances are scaled thus reducing required drive and other bias currents in response to a strong received signal, or gain is increased and impedances are scaled in response to a low received signal in the presence of no or weak interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Theta IP, LLC
    Inventor: Yannis Tsividis
  • Patent number: 11632150
    Abstract: A system and method for providing multi-input multi-output (MIMO) feeder links for a multibeam satellite system. The method includes configuring a X×Y MIMO antenna system using X-antennae having dominant line-of-sight (LoS) of Y-antennae; transmitting, simultaneously, a Tx signal as X Tx signals on a MIMO channel with the X-antennae; receiving the X Tx signals on the MIMO channel with the Y-antennae as Y Rx signals, wherein each of the Y-antennae generate one of the Y Rx signals; and ground-interference processing the X Tx signals or the Y Rx signals to recover the Tx signal; satellite-interference processing the X Tx signals or the Y Rx signals to recover the Tx signal. In the method, the ground interference processing includes countermeasures as either pre-interference processing when the X-antennae are disposed on a ground or post-interference processing when the X-antennae are disposed in a Geosynchronous orbit satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems
    Inventor: Bassel F. Beidas
  • Patent number: 11582789
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a first device, the first device performs sidelink communication with one or more destinations. The first device receives and/or selects a sidelink grant associated with a sidelink transmission. Responsive to the sidelink grant, the first device selects a first destination of the one or more destinations based upon a report signaling. The first device performs the sidelink transmission associated with the sidelink grant to the first destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Hsuan Kung, Chun-Wei Huang, Li-Chih Tseng
  • Patent number: 11576111
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predictive scanning and handover are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive context information; predict a loss of a first wireless connection based upon the context information; in response to the prediction, start scanning for a second wireless connection while maintaining the first wireless connection; and switch to the second wireless connection prior to losing the first wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Kamal Joseph Koshy, Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Minho Cheong, Dileep Kumar Soma
  • Patent number: 11558836
    Abstract: One example discloses a near-field wireless communications device, including: a near-field antenna; a near-field noise detector coupled to receive a first set of near-field signals from the near-field antenna; wherein the near-field noise detector is configured to identify a set of attributes of the near-field noise within the first set of near-field signals; a controller configured to generate at least one synchronization signal based on at least one of the attributes of the near-field noise; and a transmitter circuit configured to transmit a second set of near-field signals in response to the synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Anthony Kerselaers, Liesbeth Gommé
  • Patent number: 11444490
    Abstract: A power transmission device of a non-contact power feeding device according one or more embodiments may include a control circuit configured to control at least one of a switching frequency or a voltage of AC power supplied from a power supply circuit to a transmission coil, on the basis of a change over time in a strength of a magnetic field detected by a magnetic field detection element configured to detect a strength of a magnetic field generated from the transmission coil of the power transmission device. Whereas, a power reception device has a resonant circuit having a reception coil configured to receive electric power from the power transmission device and a resonance suppression coil arranged to be capable of being electromagnetically coupled to the reception coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Goro Nakao, Yusuke Kawai, Kenichi Tabata, Atsushi Nomura, Takahiro Takeyama, Masanobu Nakajo
  • Patent number: 11444688
    Abstract: In one implementation, a wireless communication terminal includes a sense antenna module configured to sample an interference signal. The wireless communication terminal also includes a primary antenna module configured to receive a desired signal. The sense antenna module has a first polarization type, and the primary antenna module has a second polarization type, substantially orthogonal to the first polarization type of the sense antenna module. In addition, the wireless communication terminal includes at least one signal combiner configured to receive output from the sense antenna module and output from the primary antenna module. The at least one signal combiner is configured to mitigate interference with the desired signal by shifting the phase of the output from the sense antenna module by substantially 180 degrees and combining the phase-shifted output from the sense antenna module with the output of the primary antenna module to produce an interference mitigated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: IRIDIUM SATELLITE LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Bull
  • Patent number: 11442493
    Abstract: Disclosed in various embodiments of the present invention are an electronic device for controlling a clock frequency and an operating method therefor. The electronic device comprises a communication module and a processor, wherein the processor can be configured to check, by using the communication module, a state of a downlink channel of a carrier to be transmitted, determine, on the basis of the channel state, a reference frequency band for a signal to be transmitted through the communication module, determine, as a first clock frequency, a clock frequency for at least one constituent element included in the electronic device if the reference frequency band is a first reference frequency band, and determine, as a second clock frequency, a clock frequency for at least one constituent element included in the electronic device if the reference frequency band is a second reference frequency band. Other embodiments are also possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Kim, Jungmin Park, Yongjun Park, Gunjong Bong
  • Patent number: 11438020
    Abstract: Example signal processing methods and apparatus are described. The signal processing apparatus includes a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a first filter, a second filter, and a combiner. The first filter filters a second signal obtained by the first power amplifier to obtain a first sub-signal belonging to a first frequency band and a second sub-signal belonging to a second frequency band. The second filter filters a fourth signal obtained by the second power amplifier to obtain n sub-signals including at least a third sub-signal belonging to a third frequency band. The combiner combines the first sub-signal and i sub-signals in the n sub-signals based on a preset condition to obtain a first combined signal. The communication module sends the first combined signal by using a first port, and sends the second sub-signal by using a second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia Lv, Haizheng Tang, Ling Guo
  • Patent number: 11431388
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to channel estimation and tracking in a wireless communication system. A wireless communication entity estimates a received signal utilizing any suitable process. The wireless communication entity applies a Wavelet decomposition filter to the estimated received signal to generate a channel coefficient estimate. The Wavelet decomposition filter may be configured to employ a Haar mother Wavelet. The wireless communication entity generates a prediction of a future channel estimate at a later time, by characterizing the channel according to a first-order autoregressive model of channel aging. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vikas Arya, Shubham Kshiteesh Mishra, Anil Kumar Allada
  • Patent number: 11417952
    Abstract: An antenna device with an electrostatic discharge protection function and an electrostatic discharge protection method thereof are provided. The antenna device includes a first and a second antennae, and a voltage level, a switching, and a radio frequency (RF) front end circuits. The switching circuit is selectively coupled to the first or second antenna. The RF front end circuit is coupled to the switching circuit and controls the switching circuit to couple to one of the first and second antennae for communication transmission. The voltage level circuit detects a voltage level of the one of the first and second antennae. When determining that the voltage level is greater than a threshold voltage, the voltage level circuit transmits a control signal to the RF front end circuit to control the switching circuit to couple to another one of the first and second antennae to continue the communication transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11418235
    Abstract: One example discloses a near-field wireless device, including: a controller configured to be coupled to a near-field antenna; wherein the near-field antenna includes, a near-field electric antenna configured to transmit and/or receive near-field electric (E) signals; and a near-field magnetic antenna configured to transmit and/or receive near-field magnetic (H) signals; a conductivity monitor configured to determine a conductivity of a medium proximate to the near-field device; wherein the controller is configured to modulate an E/H ratio of fields generated by and/or received from the near-field electric (E) antenna and the near-field magnetic (H) antenna based on the conductivity of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Liesbeth Gommé, Anthony Kerselaers
  • Patent number: 11363601
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated beamforming in a wireless mesh network, are disclosed. One system includes a network that includes a plurality of nodes connected through wireless links, and a controller. The wireless links including aggressor links and victim links wherein the aggressor links interfere with the victim links. The controller is operative to identify aggressor links and victim links of a group of nodes of the plurality of nodes, coordinate beam scans of the one or more victim receive nodes associated with the victim links of the group, coordinate transmission of one or more aggressor transmit nodes associated with the aggressor links of the group, characterize or receive characterizations of measured interference at the one or more victim receive nodes during the coordinated beam scans, and select beamforming coefficients for the victim receive nodes based at least on the characterizations of the measured interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Dunn, Krishna Gomadam, Djordje Tujkovic
  • Patent number: 11357060
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a first signal; listen, after transmitting the first signal and during a listening interval, for a second signal from a user equipment (UE) affected by the first signal, the second signal being indicative of interference at the first UE; receive the second signal during the listening interval; and initiate an interference management procedure based on receipt of the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmed Kamel Sadek, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 11349465
    Abstract: In described examples, a quadrature phase shifter includes digitally programmable phase shifter networks for generating leading and lagging output signals in quadrature. The phase shifter networks include passive components for reactively inducing phase shifts, which need not consume active power. Output currents from the transistors coupled to the phase shifter networks are substantially in quadrature and can be made further accurate by adjusted by a weight function implemented using current steering elements. Example low-loss quadrature phase shifters described herein can be functionally integrated to provide low-power, low-noise up/down mixers, vector modulators and transceiver front-ends for millimeter wavelength (mmwave) communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Sudipto Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11336239
    Abstract: A high-frequency amplifier circuit has a source-grounded first transistor that amplifies a high-frequency input signal, a gate-grounded second transistor that further amplifies the amplified signal, a first inductor and a first reference voltage node, a second inductor connected between a first node and a second reference voltage node, a third transistor that is connected between the first node and a drain of the second transistor, is turned on at the time of selecting the first mode to transmit the amplified signal to the first node, and is turned off when selecting a second mode to disconnect the first node from the drain of the second transistor, a bypass path that bypasses the high-frequency input signal from an input node of the high-frequency input signal to the first node at the time of selecting the second mode, and a bypass switching circuit that is connected on the bypass path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Seshita, Yasuhiko Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 11309014
    Abstract: Disclosed is a memory device, which includes a buffer die that outputs a first power supply voltage to a first through-substrate via (e.g., through-silicon via (TSV)) and receives a small swing data signal from a second TSV generated based on the first power supply voltage, and a core die that is electrically connected to the buffer die through the first and second TSVs, includes a first cell capacitor electrically connected to the first TSV and configured to block a first noise introduced to the first power supply voltage received through the first TSV. The core die outputs the small swing data signal to the second TSV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byongmo Moon, Sungoh Ahn
  • Patent number: 11296738
    Abstract: An RF module includes a switch IC on a surface of a module substrate and a passive circuit provided in and/or on the module substrate. The switch IC includes a high-frequency circuit on an IC substrate and a digital control circuit. In a plan view of the IC substrate, the digital control circuit is surrounded by the high-frequency circuit. The high-frequency circuit includes analog ground electrodes in a boundary portion with the digital control circuit in the high-frequency circuit to surround the digital control circuit in the plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Naniwa, Hideki Muto