Centurion Patentors as of December 17, 2024

Welcome to December 17, 2024. This week, we aim to celebrate the centurion patentors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields.

Youngdae Lee

Principle Research Engineer at LG Electronics.

Patent №: 12171011 (December 17, 2024) – Reconfiguration of sidelink configuration and sidelink resource allocation.

When a first wireless device transitions to a new state, it continues sidelink transmission to a second wireless device using an initial sidelink configuration received via dedicated signaling. The first device then receives an updated sidelink configuration via broadcast signaling and adjusts its sidelink transmission accordingly.

Tianyang Bai

Wireless System Engineer at Google.

Bai received the B.Eng. degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2011, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2013 and 2016, respectively, all in electrical engineering.

His research interests include applications of stochastic geometry, mmWave communications, and massive MIMO.

Patent №: 12170977 (December 17, 2024) – Identifying and reporting beams of interest for position estimation. A first node receives multiple beams from a second node, determines their times of arrival, identifies beams of interest based on these times, and reports them to the second node. The second node then transmits position reference signals in the direction of the identified beams of interest.

Patent №: 12170918 (December 17, 2024) – Capability for L1/L2 non-serving cell reference signal measurement and reporting. The UE transmits capability information to a serving cell for performing L1/L2 measurements on target reference signals (RS) from a non-serving cell. Based on this, the UE receives a configuration with a TCI state to schedule reception of the target RS and perform measurements. The number of RS reported depends on UE capability, received indications, or pre-configuration.

Patent №: 12170636 (December 17, 2024) – Solving slot format conflicts in full-duplex systems. The UE receives a configuration for HD communication on a first set of symbols and DCI scheduling FD communication on a second set of symbols. When a subset of symbols has conflicting HD and FD configurations, the UE cancels either the FD transmission or FD reception in the conflicting symbols.

John Robert Van Wiemeersch

Patent Engineer at Ford Global Technologies, LLC (FGTL).

Patent №: 12169754 (December 17, 2024) – Systems and methods for tracking a tool stored in an enclosure.

A tool monitoring device detects a failure in a tool’s wireless communication system. The tool is stored in an enclosure. The device determines the failure is caused by the enclosure’s temperature being outside the system’s operating range. A notification of the failure or its cause is displayed or sent to a tool tracking device.