Centurion+ Patent Holders as of February 27, 2024

Welcome to the 27th of February 2024: Our goal is to celebrate the patent holders who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields this week.

Kai Zhang

Mr. Zhang received a B.S. degree in computer science from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2004, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2011.

From 2011 to 2018, Kai was with Tencent Inc., Beijing, China; Mediatek Inc., Beijing; and Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, USA, with a focus on video coding standardization.

He joined Bytedance Inc., San Diego, CA, USA, in 2018, where Zhang is leading the Standardization Team.

Most of his patents are essential to popular video coding standards. His research interests include video/image compression, coding, processing, and communication, especially video coding standardization.

Patent №: 11917211 (February 27, 2024) – Signaling of slice and tile picture partitions. A video processing method involves converting a video into a compressed bitstream by specifying rules for slice placement within tiles. These rules govern the size and placement of slices within each tile.

Patent №: 11917208 (February 27, 2024) – Reference picture resampling. Various video encoding and decoding methods are described, including one where a subpicture in a video is converted into a bitstream following a rule.

Patent №: 11917197 (February 27, 2024) – Extensions of intra coding modes in video coding. One video processing method involves extending intra-prediction modes (IPMs) by revising existing IPMs to include new coding methods.

Patent №: 11917196 (February 27, 2024) – Initialization for counter-based intra prediction mode. A video processing method involves converting a video with multiple video units into a coded representation. During this conversion, when processing a video unit, frequency tables and/or sorted intra prediction mode (IPM) tables are reset or initialized.

Patent №: 11917169 (February 27, 2024) – Palette mode for local dual tree. A video processing method involves converting a video block into a bitstream using a palette mode, representing samples with a palette of colour values. The palette size is determined based on whether a local dual tree is applied during conversion.

Takashi Ando

Principal Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

Ando received the B.S. and M.E. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1999 and 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 2010, all in Materials Science.

He started to work on Gate-First High-k/Metal Gate technology in 2006 when he was assigned to IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Then, he moved to IBM in 2008. In his early career at IBM, he developed a novel method of EOT scaling, which was termed ‘remote interfacial layer scavenging’. In parallel, he applied scientific learning to the productization of High-k/Metal Gate technology and enabled successful implementation in 32/22nm SOI products and 32/28nm LP products.

Patent №: 11916099 (February 27, 2024) – Multilayer dielectric for metal-insulator-metal capacitor.
A semiconductor device comprises a first conductive electrode; a first dielectric stack on the first electrode; a second conductive electrode on the first dielectric stack; a second dielectric stack on the second electrode; and a third conductive electrode on the first dielectric stack.

Patent №: 11916014 (February 27, 2024) – Gate contact inside gate cut trench

Patent №: 11915926 (February 27, 2024) – Percolation doping of inorganic-organic frameworks for multiple device applications. A porous thin film consists of a framework with numerous pores extending from an upper opening to a bottom surface. The pores are coated with a film on their sidewalls and bottom surface.

Patent №: 11915751 (February 27, 2024) – Nonvolatile phase change material logic device

Patent №: 11915734 (February 27, 2024) – Spin-orbit-torque magnetoresistive random-access memory with integrated diode. This stack includes a free layer, tunnel junction layer, and reference layer. A cylindrical diode structure is then formed above the SOT-MRAM cell stack, with a write line in contact with the SHE rail and a read line adjacent to the diode structure’s outer electrode.

Jinsoo Choi

WLAN standard leader, professional at LG Electronics.

Patent №: 11917704 (February 27, 2024) – Method and apparatus for receiving important update information on APs in transmission MLD in a wireless LAN system

Patent №: 11917680 (February 27, 2024) – WLAN sensing based on multiple channel or resource. These channels or resources can be allocated to one or more wireless devices conducting WLAN sensing, allowing them to perform measurement and signal transmission/reception processes using these channels or resources.

Patent №: 11916822 (February 27, 2024) – Method and device for transceiving frame in wireless LAN system. This method involves an Access Point (AP) transmitting a frame to one station (STA) while receiving a frame from another STA on different bands, combined as a multi-band. This allows simultaneous Downlink (DL) and Uplink (UL) transmissions.

Patent №: 11916816 (February 27, 2024) – SIG configuration in wireless local area network. This specification addresses a signaling field accommodating different transmission methods in a wireless LAN system. It allows for supporting new transmission methods alongside basic ones by adjusting the configuration of the signaling field.

Patent №: 11916711 (February 27, 2024) – Method and device for configuring NGV frame for wideband transmission in wireless LAN system. The transmission device generates the NGV frame and transmits it via a 20 MHz first band.

Yi Huang

Principal engineer at Qualcomm.

Patent №: 11917664 (February 27, 2024) – Techniques for counting a scheduling request periodicity. Wireless communication methods, systems, and devices aim to minimize conflicts between scheduling requests and downlink resources. By configuring the user equipment (UE) with specific periodicity and offset parameters, both the UE and the base station can identify scheduling request opportunities that don’t overlap with downlink transmission resources.

Patent №: 11917627 (February 27, 2024) – Multiplexing a scheduling request and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement having different priorities and different physical uplink control channel formats. The disclosure pertains to wireless communication, where a user equipment (UE) can combine a scheduling request (SR) and a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) into a single transmission.

Patent №: 11917617 (February 27, 2024) – Resource selection for sidelink coordination information request messages. The disclosure concerns wireless communication, where a user equipment (UE) receives a configuration of resources for sidelink coordination information requests. The UE then transmits a sidelink coordination information request message using at least one resource selected from this configured set.

Patent №: 11917444 (February 27, 2024) – Channel state information feedback in wireless communication. The disclosure involves wireless communication and the use of Channel State Information (CSI) correlation information to validate CSI reports. A user equipment (UE) determines this correlation information based on the reference signal resources scheduled for measuring CSI and interference on the channel between the UE and the network entity.

Patent №: 11917442 (February 27, 2024) – Data transmission configuration utilizing a state indication

Patent №: 11916843 (February 27, 2024) – Techniques for triggering CSI report on PUSCH based on downlink grant signaling. The disclosure offers methods for the user equipment (UE) to generate and transmit a channel state information (CSI) report on the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) following the issuance of a downlink grant by the base station.

Patent №: 11916634 (February 27, 2024) – Channel state information (CSI) prediction and reporting

Seunghwan Kim

LG Electronics Assistant VP (Head of Video Coding Standard)

Kim received a Ph.D. degree from the Gwangju Institute of Science Technology (GIST) in 2008.

Since 2016, he has been with LGE U.S., where he is an Assistant Vice President and has lead versatile video coding (VVC) activity, as the Head of video codec part.

His main research interests include image and video signal processing, data compression, pattern recognition, and machine learning.

Patent №: 11917210 (February 27, 2024) – Method and device for processing general constraint information in image/video coding system. The method for video decoding involves parsing level information and constraint information from a bitstream, which indicate the level and constraints of output layer sets.

Patent №: 11917155 (February 27, 2024) – Image coding apparatus and method thereof based on a quantization parameter derivation. The picture decoding method involves decoding image information, deriving an expected average luma value for a block, and calculating a luma quantization parameter (luma QP) based on neighboring samples and the quantization parameter (QP).

Patent №: 11917145 (February 27, 2024) – Adaptive loop filter-based video or image coding.
The document proposes encoding/decoding ALF filter coefficients using fixed order-based exponential Golomb coding.

Patent №: 11917143 (February 27, 2024) – Adaptive loop filter-based video or image coding. The document suggests hierarchically signaling ALF parameters and/or LMCS parameters. This reduces the amount of data needed for video/image coding and improves coding efficiency.

Changhwan Park

Mr. Park was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1982. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2005, 2007, and 2011, respectively.

From 2005 to 2011, Changhwan was a Research Assistant at the Mobile Communications Lab, at Chung-Ang University.

Since 2011, he has been a Deputy Principle Research Engineer with LG Electronics, Seoul.

His research interests include mobile communication and digital signal processing, especially for MIMO-OFDM and 5G.

Patent №: 11917686 (February 27, 2024) – Method for transmitting and receiving signals in wireless communication system, and device supporting same. It involves receiving configuration information for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS), performing a channel access procedure (CAP) based on this information, and transmitting the SRS within a specific time period.

Patent №: 11917684 (February 27, 2024) – Channel access procedure by apparatus in unlicensed band. The apparatus determines a contention window size (CWS) and accesses a first channel based on this size.

Patent №: 11917643 (February 27, 2024) – Method for transmitting and receiving downlink signal between terminal and base station in wireless communication system supporting unlicensed band, and device supporting same. It involves transmitting and receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal in the unlicensed band to exchange system information related to a specific synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block.