Control messaging for multi-beam communications
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250565
Some aspects include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for facilitating control messaging for multi-beam communications in 5G wireless communication systems. Nodes of a 5G network may be generate Medium Access Control Control Elements (MAC CEs) to update User Equipment (UE) with different Component Carrier (CC) settings. The MAC CEs may update a list of CCs to reduce messaging overhead and latency. For example, a MAC CE may indicate an update for a Transmission…
Time-domain resource allocation for configured grant transmissions in new radio (NR) systems
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250693
Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for time-domain resource allocation for configured grant transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems. For example, some embodiments are directed to an electronic device including radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to generate a radio resource control (RRC) signal…
Control signaling for uplink frequency selective precoding
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250677
Systems and methods using control signaling for uplink frequency selective precoding at a user equipment (UE) are disclosed herein. A base station may indicate a transmission rank indicator (TRI), a wideband transmission precoder matrix indicator (TPMI), and one or more subband TPMI(s) to the UE. The base station may indicate, to the UE, whether to use the wideband TPMI or a subband TPMI to precode a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission from the UE to the base station. The…
System and method for fast beam tracking in a high frequency wireless communication system
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250668
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for performing fast beam switching in a high-frequency wireless communication environment. Higher frequencies reduce transmission wavelength, which allows for an increased number of antennas and an increased number of beams. Therefore, beams become narrower and are more prone to failure. The UE must be capable of quickly identifying the beam failure and switching to a new beam. Therefore, the UE is capable of receiving multiple beams from the base…
Power saving sensing for reduced sensing UEs using partial sensing and additional sensing with a prioritized resource selection window
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250660
Systems and methods used by reduced sensing user equipment (UE) (relative to a full sensing UE) are disclosed herein. A UE performing partial sensing may use knowledge of resource reservation periods for a resource pool of one or more resources to reduce sensing as compared to the full sensing case. A UE performing resource re-evaluation and/or resource pre-emption may use one or more sensing windows that are relatively smaller than windows used in the full sensing case to reduce…
Dynamic power budget allocation using individualized MTPL per radio link for uplink transmission
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250647
This application describes methods and apparatus to allocate uplink (UL) power dynamically across multiple parallel radio frequency links for wireless devices. The wireless device sets an initial maximum transmit power level (MTPL) for each UL radio link of multiple radio links used for UL traffic based on a duty cycle prediction for the respective UL radio link. The wireless device adjusts the initial MTPL for each UL radio link based on a predicted data throughput for the UL radio link…
Beam management solution for MPE
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250646
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for triggering a change in beam configuration based on UL beam conditions. The UE may detect an unsafe UL beam condition for an UL beam based, at least in part, on an MPE level being exceeded by the UL beam. In response to the detection, remedial actions that to alleviate the unsafe UL beam condition may be performed. The remedial actions may prioritize UL beam quality over DL beam quality and may…
Enhancing inter-node handover signaling for conditional handover
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250600
One or more methods for enhancing inter-node handover (HO) signaling for conditional HO (CHO). At least one of the methods include: providing a message that comprises indications of a plurality of potential target cell identifiers that are applicable to a CHO operation; and performing a CHO operation based on the message.
Technologies for relay user equipment reselection
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250599
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for security enhancement with respect to reselection of relay user equipment.
Measuring the performance of a wireless communications network
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250579
In an example computer-implemented method, a management module receives measurement data from one or more first network modules of a wireless communications network. The measurement data pertains to at least one of establishing one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules, or modifying one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules. The management…
Enhanced overdrive or underdrive for flat panel displays
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249271
Devices and methods are provided to overdrive or underdrive a display panel to account for display pixel hysteresis due to several frames of pixel history. An electronic device may include an electronic display and processing circuitry. The electronic display includes a number of display pixels. The processing circuitry may generate image data for the display pixels. The processing circuitry may receive a current frame value of the image data targeted for a first display pixel and, based…
Systems and methods for multi-link device privacy protection
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250545
A method for communicating over a wireless network includes broadcasting, by a Multi-Link Device (MLD) device, service data indicative of one or more services for wireless communication with a client device; wherein the service data indicates that a service type is differentiated based on a type of the client device; establishing a security association with the client device; and in response to establishing a security association with the client device, granting access by the client…
Methods and user interfaces for audio synchronization
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250529
The present disclosure generally relates to audio synchronization. An example method includes, at a first device with a communication device: performing an audio timing synchronization process that includes: transmitting, via the communication device, to a second device, a request for the second device to participate in the audio timing synchronization process; subsequent to transmitting the request to the second device, causing an output of an audio tone; subsequent to causing the…
Eye tracking using efficient image capture and vergence and inter-pupillary distance history
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250474
Tracking an eye characteristic (e.g., gaze direction or pupil position) of a user's eyes by staggering image capture and using a predicted relationship between the user's eyes between eye captures to predict that eye's eye characteristic between those eye captures. Images of a user's eyes are captured in a staggered manner in the sense that the images of second eye are captured between the capture times of the images of the first eye and vice versa. An eye characteristic of the first eye…
Imbalance compensation for uplink (UL)—multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250033
Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can compensate for imbalances between multiple transport streams of an uplink (UL)-multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can adjust one or more signal metrics of multiple recovered transport streams of the UL-MIMO transmission that are received in the presence of imbalances between the multiple transport streams of the UL-MIMO transmission. As an example, these systems, methods,…
Phased array systems and methods with phase shifter
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250019
This disclosure provide various techniques for improving the quality of a signal. By integrating phase-shifting circuitry with a transmit/receive (T/R) switch, insertion loss may be reduced while decreasing space consumed on an integrated circuit or printed circuit board. In particular, embodiments disclosed herein include a transmitter and a receiver, each including one or more differential amplifiers coupled to a first inductor, and a switching network coupled to a second inductor and…
Power supply noise reduction by current cancellation circuit
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249909
The present disclosure describes a circuit having a current source and a load circuit coupled to the current source. The current source can include a transistor electrically coupled to a voltage supply and can be configured to generate a first current with a first current rate-of-change during a time interval, where the first current can be a cancellation current. In addition, the load circuit can be configured to generate a second current with a second current rate-of-change during the…
Wireless power transfer structure
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249839
An electronic device can include a metallic housing defining an interior that contains one or more systems of the electronic device. The metallic housing can further define a pocket within the metallic housing separated from the interior. The pocket can have a window to an exterior of the metallic housing to facilitate wireless power transfer. An electronic device can include a non-metallic housing defining an interior that contains one or more systems of the electronic device and a…
Mono-grain cathode materials
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249707
Methods of making such compounds, powders, and cathode active materials are described. The powders are formed of particles with specific properties: a particle size distribution with a D50 ranging from 10 ?m to 20 ?m, a D10 less than 8 ?m, and a D99 of the particles ranges from 25 ?m to 35 ?m. The final compound is represented by the Formula Li?(Co1-x-y-zMnxMezAly)O?, wherein 0.95<?<1.05, x?1.00, 0<y?0.04, 0<z?0.050, and ??2.
Multiple chip module trenched lid and low coefficient of thermal expansion stiffener ring
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249599
Multiple chip module (MCM) structures are described. In an embodiment, a module includes a first and second components on the top side of a module substrate, a stiffener structure mounted on the top side of the module substrate, and a lid mounted on the stiffener structure and covering the first component and the second component. The stiffener is joined to the lid within a trench formed in a roof of the lid.
