Centurion+ Patent Holders as of April 2, 2024

Welcome to the 2nd of April 2024: Our goal is to celebrate the patent holders who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields this week.

Juan Montojo

Mr. Montojo is VP, Technical Standards at Qualcomm Technologies where he leads 3GPP standardization.

He joined Qualcomm in January 1997 and has worked on the system design and standardization of 3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi, satellite, and cable communications.

From 2011 to 2015, Mr. Montojo led Qualcomm Research Germany. He holds telecommunications engineering degrees from UPC, Barcelona, Spain, and Institute Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Juan received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from USC and the University of California at San Diego, respectively.

Patent №: 11950235 (April 2, 2024) – Resource selection with sidelink receiver sensing. This describes a method where a first UE receives resource indications from a second UE, which is configured to receive transmissions from a third UE over those resources, and subsequently transmits to a fourth UE using different resources, while the second UE may have received sidelink control information from the third UE, and the first UE may also transmit to the second UE over different resources.

Patent №: 11950220 (April 2, 2024) – Sidelink carrier aggregation cross carrier scheduling. This relates to cross-carrier scheduling of sidelink carrier aggregation, involving determining a component carrier index for either a sidelink transmission with a second UE or a Uu transmission with a network entity, indicating the CCs involved, and communicating the transmission based on this index.

Patent №: 11950201 (April 2, 2024) – Triggering of an aperiodic or semi-periodic positioning reference signal procedure. A UE obtains multiple PRS configurations and triggers a PRS procedure, either aperiodic or semi-periodic, based on the PRS configuration indicated by an L1 or L2 message received from a BS.

Patent №: 11950191 (April 2, 2024) – Configuring client device regulation modes for sidelink communications. This describes systems and methods for sidelink communications where a first device determines its transmit power parameter, either from its associated base station or using a default parameter if not associated, then transmits a sidelink message to a second device based on this parameter, and receives a response with a power level determined by the second device’s transmit power parameter.

Jason L Harris

Engineering Fellow at Ethicon, Inc.

Customer focused, technical leader who has demonstrated excellence in novel therapy development by consistently delivering solutions that promote superior patient outcomes and business results through innovative designs focused on less invasive, less costly means.

Patent №: 11944338 (April 2, 2024) – Multiple level thresholds to modify operation of powered surgical instruments. Thresholds for surgical device operation trigger actions like stopping or modifying operations when reached, with multiple thresholds based on various parameters enabling calibrated actions such as slowing operations based on sterilization cycles and current draw.

Patent №: 11944310 (April 2, 2024) – Non-circular end effector features for surgical stapler. A surgical instrument comprises a stapling assembly and an anvil for compressing tissue and forming staples. The stapling assembly includes a housing, a deck member with staple openings, and a knife member. The deck member has an exterior perimeter and an interior perimeter with different shapes. The knife member has a non-circular cutting edge intersecting the central axis.

Patent №: 11944308 (April 2, 2024) – Compressible adjunct with crossing spacer fibers. A staple cartridge assembly for a surgical stapling instrument comprises staples, a cartridge deck, and a compressible adjunct against the deck, enabling staple deployment into tissue. The adjunct consists of two biocompatible layers with crossed spacer fibers between them.

Patent №: 11944307 (April 2, 2024) – Surgical stapling system including jaw windows. A fastener cartridge comprises a body with a deck and fastener cavities holding fasteners. The body may have extensions of varying sizes and configurations to regulate tissue flow and support fasteners during ejection.

Patent №: 11944300 (April 2, 2024) – Method for operating a surgical system bailout. The method involves operating a surgical instrument assembly through an operating stroke, partially retracting the operating system using a manually-driven bailout system, and then partially advancing the operating system through the stroke using the same bailout system.

Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli

Dr. Kiran Mukkavilli is a Sr. Director of Engineering in Qualcomm Wireless Research where he currently leads the systems research team for sub-24GHz technologies for 5G Advanced and 6G.

He joined Qualcomm in 2003, and has been involved in system design, standardization, implementation, and commercialization of a variety of technologies at Qualcomm.

Kiran was one of the principal architects of MediaFLO, a mobile broadcast solution from Qualcomm, and played a key role in the product development, standardization, and commercialization efforts.

Dr. Mukkavilli received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University and holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Patent №: 11950251 (April 2, 2024) – Configured grant based physical uplink shared channel transmission with associated scheduling request. This disclosure pertains to wireless communication where a UE transmits a physical uplink shared channel communication along with a scheduling request, monitored by a base station (BS), which then schedules a retransmission based on the monitoring result.

Patent №: 11950241 (April 2, 2024) – Self-contained time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure for wireless communications. This disclosure presents a self-contained subframe structure for TDD carriers, where each subframe enables bi-directional communication without relying on another subframe. A single subframe includes scheduling information, data transmission, and acknowledgment packets, along with optional header and trailer for additional communication functions.

Patent №: 11949618 (April 2, 2024) – Distortion probing reference signal configuration. This describes methods and systems for wireless communications where a configuration for a reference signal is determined based on signaling from the transmitting and/or receiving device, enabling the determination of non-linear behavior of transmission components.

Jinsam Kwak

JinSam Kwak received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1998, 2000, and 2004, respectively.

From 2004 to 2005, Mr. Kwak was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.

In 2006, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Wireless Networks and Communications Group, The University of Texas at Austin.

From 2007 to 2012, JinSam was the Chief Research Engineer with LG Electronics, where he carried out research tasks focused on the IMT-advanced and also led the standards activities for wireless communications, such as IEEE 802, Wi-Fi Alliance, and WiMAX Forum.

Since 2012, he has been with WILUS, Inc., where JinSam is currently the CEO and the co-founder. His main research interests focus on wireless communications and immersive A/V technologies, including 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi, and MPEG standards. He served as an alternate board member with Wi-Fi Alliance.

Patent №: 11950244 (April 2, 2024) – Signalling method through resource allocation in wireless communication system and wireless communication terminal. This method involves a terminal receiving data in a wireless system by decoding a PPDU from an access point. The PPDU includes a U-SIG field and an EHT-SIG field with at least one content channel. The total bandwidth is divided into segments, and redundant information may be present except for the RU allocation field between adjacent content channels within the same segment.

Patent №: 11950226 (April 2, 2024) – Channel multiplexing method and multiplexed channel transmission method for wireless communication system and device using same. The processor ensures that when scheduling a second physical uplink data channel transmission alongside the first channel’s uplink control information (UCI) transmission, the UCI is sent to the base station in a different time-frequency resource from the second channel transmission.

Patent №: 11949616 (April 2, 2024) – Wireless communication method and wireless communication terminal using same. This invention relates to a wireless communication method and terminal for suggesting an efficient packet preamble structure in mixed environments with legacy and non-legacy terminals. It involves generating a packet with two preambles, where the second preamble’s symbols are modulated using binary phase shift keying (BPSK), and transmitting the packet.

Durai Vishak Nirmal Ramaswamy

Vice President of Advanced DRAM and Emerging Memory at Micron Technology.

Durai leads DRAM, Emerging Memory and CMOS Technology Development at Micron with teams in the US, Japan and Italy.

Patent №: 11950426 (April 2, 2024) – Memory device having 2-transistor vertical memory cell and wrapped data line structure. Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods. One apparatus comprises a first transistor with a channel region and a separate charge storage structure; a second transistor with a channel region over the charge storage structure; and a data line contacting both channel regions, separated from the first channel region by a dielectric material.

Patent №: 11950402 (April 2, 2024) – Memory device having 2-transistor vertical memory cell and shield structures. One apparatus comprises a conductive region, first and second data lines, first and second memory cells each coupled to a respective data line and the conductive region, a conductive structure, and a conductive line forming gates for the memory cells. The conductive structure is located between and electrically separated from charge storage structures in the memory cells.