Centurion Patentors as of July 8, 2025

Welcome to July 8, 2025. This week, we aim to celebrate the centurion patentors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields.

Jelena Damnjanovic

Doctor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from GWU.

Joined Qualcomm in 2001, shaping the future of 3G, 4G, and 5G — from design to global standards to prototypes.

Patent №:  12356388 – Network coding with user equipment cooperation.

A target UE receives network coding parameters, gets coded sub-packets from the network and a cooperative UE via sidelink, and decodes them to recover original packets.

Patent №:  12356371 – Techniques for configuring component carriers for sidelink communications. A first UE receives a set of sidelink component carriers and a subset supported by both UEs. This subset may be selected by the network or the UEs, enabling sidelink communication with the second UE.

Vincent Pham

Data Scientist | Machine Learning Engineer.

Patent №:  12355918 – Systems and methods for integrated third-party callbacks.

A mobile device triggers a third-party callback when a nearby remote device detects a specified event, enabling convenient and accurate service requests.

Patent №: 12353822 – Methods and systems for generating alternative content. Methods use a generative adversarial network (GAN) via an API layer to generate personalized content in real time as a user accesses original content like websites or videos.

Jizheng Xu

Research Scientist at ByteDance.

Patent №: 12356020 – Cross-component adaptive loop filtering in video coding.

A video processing method determines if cross-component adaptive loop filtering is enabled for a video block based on its color properties, then performs the conversion accordingly.

Patent №: 12355983 – Restriction of applicability for intra block copy mode. A video processing method determines if intra block copy (IBC) mode is allowed based on block size, then performs conversion using that decision.

Matthew T Mason

Chief Scientist at Berkshire Grey and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University.

Patent №:  12350713 – Perception systems and methods for identifying and processing a variety of objects.

A drop perception system includes an open housing with top and bottom openings and multiple perception units arranged inside to capture data at various points within the internal volume.

Srinivasan Nimmala

Director of Software Engineering, iOS Cellular Software at Apple.

Patent №:  12356492 – Methods and apparatus for inactive state initial uplink transmission using pre-configured grant at a user equipment in wireless communication.

A UE receives pre-configured grant (pre-CG) settings for RRC_INACTIVE state from the network. It uses these to send initial data while inactive, based on conditions like access type, priority, LCH/DRB/QoS flow, and valid timing advance.