Intel Patent Applications

MECHANISM TO ENABLE ALIGNED CHANNEL ACCESS

Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240137984
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to aligned channel access. A device may perform a first backoff countdown on a first link associated with a first station device (STA) of the device, wherein the device is a multi-link device (MLD). The device may detect a second backoff countdown associated with a second STA of the MLD after the first backoff countdown reaches zero. The device may determine to hold the first backoff countdown at zero based on the value of…

ENHANCED TRAFFIC INDICATIONS FOR MULTI-LINK WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES

Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240137800
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to traffic indications for multi-link devices (MLDs). A device may generate a first traffic indication map (TIM) with a first bitmap including a first indication that traffic is to be sent by a first access point (AP) device of the MLD to a first non-AP device of a second MLD using a first communication link The device may generate a second TIM with a second bitmap including a second indication that no traffic is to be sent…

MICROELECTRONIC ASSEMBLIES

Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240136323
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, and a die secured to the package substrate, wherein the die has a first surface and an opposing second surface, the die has first conductive contacts at the first surface and second conductive contacts at the second surface, and the first conductive contacts…

INITIALIZER FOR CIRCLE DISTRIBUTION FOR IMAGE AND VIDEO COMPRESSION AND POSTURE DETECTION

Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240135750
An initializer for circle distribution on a 2D surface using a polar coordinate system for image compression, video compression, motion detection, and posture detection. The initializer can also be used for sphere distribution in a 3D shape. The initializer uses a mixed deterministic and iterative/stochastic approach. Using the polar coordinate system for initialization enables coverage of the user space, and after parameters are initialized, the method transitions to a cartesian…

TUNNING CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS FOR GRAPHICS PIPELINE FOR BETTER USER EXPERENCE

Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240135485
The disclosure relates to tuning configuration parameters for graphics pipeline for better user experience. A device for graphics processing, comprising: hardware engines; a graphics pipeline at least partly implemented by the hardware engines; and a tuner, coupled to the hardware engines and the graphics pipeline, the tuner to: collect statuses of the device during runtime for a previous frame; determine configuration parameters based on the collected statuses, the configuration…

CONSTANT MODULO VIA RECIRCULANT REDUCTION

Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240134604
Described herein is a generalized optimal reduction scheme for reducing an array modulo a constant. The constant modulo operation calculates a result for array of bits xi, width n modulo an odd positive integer constant d, (e.g., x[n:0] mod d). Circuitry to perform such operation can be configured to compress the array of bits xi, width n into an array of bits yi width m. The techniques described herein enable the design of optimal circuitry via iterative exploration of all potential…

WAFER-LEVEL BOND STRENGTH MEASUREMENT

Granted: April 25, 2024
Application Number: 20240133799
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to bond strength measurement. A device may comprise a first portion of a plate connected to a movement mechanism, a second portion of the plate comprising a sticky probe and a third portion of the plate comprising a mirror with a reflective side pointing outwards. The device may further comprise an optical fiber sensor assembly comprising an optical fiber bundle for sending light through a first optical fiber and receiving…

APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONFIGURING AN UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN A TRIGGER-BASED MULTI-USER UPLINK TRANSMISSION

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129944
For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine an expected interference-based value corresponding to an Uplink (UL) transmission from a wireless communication station (STA) in a Trigger-Based (TB) Multi-User (MU) UL transmission to be communicated from a plurality of STAs to the wireless communication device; to determine one or more transmit (Tx) configuration parameters for the STA based on the expected interference-based value corresponding to the UL…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR A FLEXIBLE 3D POWER PLANE IN A CHASSIS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240130068
Technologies for a flexible three-dimensional power plane in a chassis are disclosed. In one embodiment, a flexible ribbon cable is laid along a circuit board tray. The flexible ribbon cable is secured to the tray using power bosses. The power bosses connect to one or more conductors on the ribbon cable. When the circuit board is mounted on the circuit board tray, the power bosses extend through holes in the circuit board and mate with power clips on the surface of the circuit board…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240130002
Various technologies relating to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are disclosed, including, but not limited to, device onboarding and authentication, network association and synchronization, data logging and reporting, asset tracking, and automated flight state detection.

TECHNOLOGIES FOR FUSING DATA FROM MULTIPLE SENSORS TO IMPROVE OBJECT DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION, AND LOCALIZATION

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240127478
Technologies for performing sensor fusion include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry configured to obtain detection data indicative of objects detected by each of multiple sensors of a host system. The detection data includes camera detection data indicative of a two or three dimensional image of detected objects and lidar detection data indicative of depths of detected objects. The circuitry is also configured to merge the detection data from the multiple sensors to…

APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) NETWORK SLICING OVER WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN)

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129804
For example, an Access Point (AP) may be configured to process network slicing information including slice identification information and Service Level Agreement (SLA) information, wherein the slice identification information is to identify one or more Quality of Service (QoS) network slices. For example, the AP may be configured to determine a configuration of one or more radio resource allocations to be assigned to the one or more QoS network slices, and to transmit a network slicing…

Lossless Compression for Multisample Render Targets Alongside Fragment Compression

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129503
Described herein is a data processing system having a multisample antialiasing compressor coupled to a texture unit and shader execution array. In one embodiment, the data processing system includes a memory device to store a multisample render target, the multisample render target to store color data for a set of sample locations of each pixel in a set of pixels; and general-purpose graphics processor comprising a multisample antialiasing compressor to apply multisample antialiasing…

METHOD AND SYSTEM OF VIDEO CODING WITH HANDLING OF ILLEGAL BLOCK PARTITIONS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129496
Methods, systems, and articles are described herein related to video coding. The method comprises receiving compressed image data of video frames including a block of image data of at least one of the frames. The method also comprises receiving first partition data to be used to decode the compressed image data and indicating a partition in the block. This method comprises detecting whether or not the block has an illegal block partition. Also, the method comprises generating second…

APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OFDM) TRANSMISSION OVER A WIDE BANDWIDTH

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240129058
For example, an apparatus may include a segment parser to parse scrambled data bits of a PPDU into a first plurality of data bits and a second plurality of data bits, the PPDU to be transmitted in an OFDM transmission over an aggregated bandwidth comprising a first channel in a first frequency band and a second channel in a second frequency band; a first baseband processing block to encode and modulate the first plurality of data bits according to a first OFDM MCS for transmission over…

HARDWARE ACCELERATION OF DATA REDUCTION OPERATIONS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240128982
A hardware accelerator device is provided with circuitry to perform one or more reversible data transforms on data based on a request and compress the transformed data to generate compressed transformed data. The hardware accelerator device generates an output including the compressed transformed data and transform metadata indicating the set of reversible data transforms applied to the compressed transformed data.

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CONTACT STRUCTURES

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240128340
Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) contact structures, and related devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, an IC contact structure may include an electrical element, a metal on the electrical element, and a semiconductor material on the metal. The metal may conductively couple the semiconductor material and the electrical element.

MICROELECTRONIC ASSEMBLIES

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240128255
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, and a die secured to the package substrate, wherein the die has a first surface and an opposing second surface, the die has first conductive contacts at the first surface and second conductive contacts at the second surface, and the first conductive contacts…

PACKAGE ARCHITECTURE WITH GLASS CORE SUBSTRATE HAVING INTEGRATED INDUCTORS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240128247
Embodiments described herein enable a microelectronic assembly that includes: a first substrate comprising glass and at least one inductor, the first substrate having a first side and an opposing second side; a second substrate coupled to the first side of the first substrate; and a plurality of integrated circuit (IC) dies. A first subset of the plurality of IC dies is directly coupled to the second side of the first substrate, a second subset of the plurality of IC dies is directly…

DECOUPLING CAPACITORS BASED ON DUMMY THROUGH-SILICON-VIAS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240128023
Disclosed herein are IC structures with one or more decoupling capacitors based on dummy TSVs provided in a support structure. An example decoupling capacitor includes first and second capacitor electrodes and a capacitor insulator between them. The first capacitor electrode is a liner of a first electrically conductive material on sidewalls and a bottom of an opening in the support structure, the opening in the support structure extending from the first side towards, but not reaching,…