Centurion Patentors as of April 29, 2025

Welcome to April 29, 2025. This week, we aim to celebrate the centurion patentors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields.

Shota Aoyagi

Industrial designer.

As a member of Jony Ive’s design team, Aoyagi worked on key hardware innovations, including the iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods.

In late 2023, Aoyagi left Apple to join LoveFrom, Jony Ive’s design firm, where he is now collaborating on next-generation AI hardware in partnership with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Patent №: D1072815 – Keyboard.

Patent №: D1072736 – Charger.

Yan Zhou

Staff Engineer (Wi-Fi Advanced R&D) at Qualcomm.

Yan has over 15 years of professional experience, including more than 10 years specializing in wireless standards R&D at globally recognized companies. He also holds dual Ph.D. degrees from top-ranked universities, reflecting a strong academic background.

Patent №:  12289771 – Physical random access channel configuration for a maximum permissible exposure condition. This disclosure relates to wireless communication, where a device receives PRACH configurations from a base station and selects one based on maximum permissible exposure (MPE) conditions and a rule provided by the base station.

Patent №:  12289745 – User equipment extended reality information-based beam management. This disclosure relates to wireless communication, where a user equipment (UE) uses its orientation information to predict movement, signals a beam based on the prediction, and receives an updated beam or measurement configuration in response.

Patent №:  12289731 – Techniques for joint sidelink relay scheduling downlink control information. This disclosure relates to wireless communication, where a relay UE receives scheduling information for transmissions between a source, itself, and a destination, and sends feedback or the second transmission to the base station.

Patent №: 12289168 – DAI and codebook updating for DCI scheduling multiple CCs. A user equipment receives control information scheduling downlink transmissions across multiple carriers and sends uplink feedback with HARQ-ACK positions; similar methods apply to the base station.

Hung Dinh Ly

Qualcomm Wireless Research.

Experienced and innovative wireless systems engineer working on 3G UMTS, 4G LTE, and now 5G/6G R&D.

Patent №: . 12289757 – Time-division multiplexing of uplink communications during make-before-break handover. In wireless communication, a user equipment (UE) receives an instruction to perform a make-before-break handover and, based on a prioritization rule, manages uplink transmissions to both the target and source base stations during the handover.

Patent №:  12289709 – Paging indication for communicating a paging control channel. In wireless communication, a user equipment (UE) receives a signal with a paging indicator, determines whether to monitor a paging control channel, estimates timing or frequency if needed, and either receives the channel or skips monitoring based on the result.

Patent №:  12289687 – Downlink transmit power control group common DCI. Methods and systems for wireless communication include a network transmitting control signaling that defines a format and power control for group common DCI linked to tracking reference signals, which user equipment uses to monitor those signals.

Patent №:  12289188 – Dynamic peak reduction tone allocation with low overhead. Techniques are provided for reducing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) using a tone reservation algorithm, where a transmission point stores peak reduction tone (PRT) sequences and selects PRTs based on received parameters.