Centurion+ Patent Holders as of February 20, 2024

Welcome to the 20th of February 2024: Our goal is to celebrate the patent holders who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields this week.

Bartley K Andre

Senior Industrial Designer at Apple.

Andre joined Apple in 1992 along with Jony Ive and was one of the last remaining members of the design team that worked with Ive on many of Apple’s legendary products.

Bart Andre retired after three decades on design team in 2024.

Patent №: D1015291 (February 20, 2024) – Electronic device

Patent №: D1015288 (February 20, 2024) – Electronic device

Patent №: D1015187 (February 20, 2024) – Band

Patent №: D1014964 (February 20, 2024) – Card holder

Eugene Antony Whang

Industrial designer at Apple Inc..

Patent №: (February 20, 2024) – D1015291 – Electronic device

Patent №: (February 20, 2024) –  D1015288 – Electronic device

Patent №: (February 20, 2024) –  D1015187 – Band

Patent №: (February 20, 2024) –  D1014964 – Card holder

Kyungmin Park

Research and Development at Ofinno.

Patent №: 11910450 (February 20, 2024) – Resetting MAC layer in two-step random-access procedures. A wireless device receives configuration parameters for transmitting a message payload. Upon receiving a reset request from the radio resource control layer, the device clears the designated resource for transmitting the message payload.

Patent №: 11910419 (February 20, 2024) – Communication and data processing in wireless communications. Wireless communications facilitate data processing by allocating resources to wireless devices. Data is received and processed based on predefined resource groups, optimizing communication efficiency.

Patent №: 11910420 (February 20, 2024) – Communication and data processing in wireless communications. Wireless communications enable data processing, with priority determined by message indications. If a message lacks priority indication, parameters dictate priority for processing.

Patent №: 11910345 (February 20, 2024) – Random access preambles using transmit beams of base station. The method involves a base station receiving random access preambles from a wireless device via a cell, then transmitting a random access response, including a preamble identifier corresponding to one of the received preambles. Data is subsequently received from the device using the same transmit beam.

Patent №: 11910309 (February 20, 2024) – Base station power state transition in the presence of uplink traffic. The base station receives random access preambles from a device, then sends a response with a corresponding identifier. Subsequent data transmission occurs using the same beam.

Patent №: 11910297 (February 20, 2024) – Access information for closed access groups. The base station CU requests wireless device context configuration from the DU, specifying allowed access groups and cell restrictions. The CU receives an acknowledgment containing cell configuration parameters for the specified groups.

Patent №: 11909907 (February 20, 2024) – Charging policy information for a home session management function. The home SMF receives a PDU session creation request from a visited PLMN’s SMF, including charging policy information. It then sends back a second charging policy, specifying the charging method and level for the session.

Kapil Gulati

Principal Engineer at Qualcomm.

Patent №: 11910242 (February 20, 2024) – Flexible resource reservation indication in sidelink.

A method involves a first UE determining different resource reservations for communicating with a second UE, including ones with varying frequency allocations. Control information indicating these reservations is then transmitted to the second UE, facilitating communication based on these reservations.

Kazuki Takeda

Qualcomm – Senior Staff Engineer.

Mr. Takeda received his M.S. and Dr.Eng. degrees in communications engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2008 and 2010, respectively.

Since 2011, Kazuki has been attending 3GPP RAN1 group and working on standardizations on LTE-Advanced, LTE-Advanced Pro, and 5G-NR. He has been with Qualcomm Japan, Tokyo, since May 2019.

Patent №: 11910385 (February 20, 2024) – Control channel monitoring configurations for cross-carrier scheduling. A method involves receiving scheduling configurations from a base station (BS) for two cells, each including monitoring parameters for a search space. By monitoring the search space in the second cell according to these configurations, downlink control information (DCI) is detected.

Patent №: 11910378 (February 20, 2024) –  Downlink control information size configuration in cross-carrier scheduling scenarios. This disclosure concerns wireless communication, specifically regarding a UE’s management of DCI sizes for cross-carrier scheduling between primary and secondary cells. The UE adjusts DCI size configurations based on thresholds, ensuring effective monitoring of DCIs.

Patent №: 11910219 (February 20, 2024) –  LTE cell-specific reference signal interference handling. User equipment (UE) may receive from a base station a configuration for Long Term Evolution (LTE) cell-specific reference signal (LTE-CRS) interference measurements associated with neighboring LTE cells.

Patent №: 11909696 (February 20, 2024) –  Uplink control information (UCI) transmission for bandwidth part (BWP) switching. A terminal is disclosed including a transmitter for uplink (UL) transmission and a receiver for downlink (DL) reception.

Julian Jaede

Industrial Designer at Apple.

Patent №: D1015291 (February 20, 2024) – Electronic device 

Patent №: D1015288 (February 20, 2024) – Electronic device

Patent №: D1014964 (February 20, 2024) – Card holder

Mathew A McPherson

President and CEO at McPherson Contractors Inc.

Patent №: 11906262 (February 20, 2024) – Archery bow with centered cable guard.

This invention features an archery bow that includes a riser with a grip, a bowstring, a cable, and a cable guard designed to exert force on the cable at a specific contact location. The bow is characterized by a shooting axis positioned in a longitudinal and lateral plane, with the bowstring in the longitudinal plane and the contact location on the lateral plane.