Centurion+ Patent Holders as of January 2, 2024

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

Patent №: 11863997 (January 2, 2024) – Frame based channel access in wireless communication. A wireless device checks spectrum availability using a fixed frame structure, including initial beam-based sensing and an idle period for efficient spectrum sharing.

Patent №: 11864029 (January 2, 2024) – Grouping bandwidth parts for efficient bandwidth part switching. This involves a wireless device with different switching delays for bandwidth part groups, allowing it to efficiently switch between parts for communication with a base station.

Patent №: 11864127 (January 2, 2024) – Methods and apparatus to facilitate automatic association of pathloss reference and spatial relations for fast uplink beam switching. The method involves receiving an indicator, creating a reference signal from the transmit beam, and measuring pathloss using this reference signal.

Patent №: 11863281 (January 2, 2024) – Methods and apparatus to facilitate cross-carrier beam association. A method for a user device (UE) involves receiving an indication of a cross-carrier beam association between two carriers, determining beam associations between sets of beams on each carrier based on this indication, and receiving data on these associated beams.

Patent №: 11864129 (January 2, 2024) – Power adjustment requests for downlink signaling based on received power overloading. A user device (UE) can signal an overload condition to a base station, which can then coordinate power reduction among transmit/receive points (TRPs). The base station may allocate different resources for UEs in near and far-field situations.

Patent №: 11864009 (January 2, 2024) – Techniques for reporting channel state information (CSI) for an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. This involves wireless communication techniques, where a service is received on a component carrier, potentially in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum. Signals on this carrier are measured to estimate channel state information for that spectrum.

Patent №: 11864136 (January 2, 2024) – Synchronization signal block and control resource set multiplexing in wireless communications. Multiple blocks are transmitted using different beams, with a gap for radio frequency component switching. The gap is longer than the cyclic prefix, and some blocks may use different waveforms for SSB and CORESET, sharing a common reference signal.

Patent №: 11863286 (January 2, 2024) – Efficient reconfigurable intelligent surface or repeater assisted communication. A user device (UE) receives a signal from a base station, which has a modulation signature associated with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or a repeater. The RIS or repeater redirects the signal with modulation that reverses the original signature, allowing the UE to decode it

Patent №: 11863319 (January 2, 2024) – Multicast network coding

Patent №: 11864176 (January 2, 2024) – Extended slot aggregation scheduling in IAB network. An aggregation pattern is conveyed via a single DCI message, and transmission can end early when data is successfully received, allowing for efficient resource usage.

Patent №: 11864164 (January 2, 2024) – Multiple beam monitoring and transmitting in a wireless medium.

Patent №: 11863324 (January 2, 2024) – Repetition transmissions with overlapping resources. An apparatus receives communication, decodes data packets during a decoding period, and transmits the decoded data to a next hop node using a separate set of resources, which may overlap with others.

Patent №: 11863265 (January 2, 2024) – Precoders for multi-panel uplink transmission presents techniques for precoding in multi-panel uplink transmission scenarios. It enables user equipment (UE) to determine preferred precoders for uplink transmissions, aiding in more efficient data transmission. 

Patent №: 11863257 (January 2, 2024) – User equipment assisted inter-sector interference avoidance, explores techniques to reduce inter-sector interference in MU-MIMO mode. By utilizing feedback reports from UEs, the base station can take actions to mitigate interference and improve network performance.

Patent №: 11863281 (January 2, 2024) – Methods and apparatus to facilitate cross-carrier beam association. A user device (UE) receives an indication of cross-carrier beam association from a base station, links beams between two carriers based on this indication, and receives data on these linked beams.

Patent №: 11864029 (January 2, 2024) – Grouping bandwidth parts for efficient bandwidth part switching.

Patent №: 11864224 (January 2, 2024) – Techniques for handling scheduling conflicts between access link communications and sidelink communications. A first user device (UE) selects resources for access link and sidelink communication, but if there’s a conflict, it can drop some resources based on priorities and rules.

Patent №: 11864215 (January 2, 2024) – Beam determination prior to beam activation indication.

Patent №: 11864219 (January 2, 2024) – Per UE priority definition for multi-UE scheduling conflict handling. A first UE receives scheduling information for a group of UEs, including priorities for each. It resolves conflicts with a second UE by adjusting resources to minimize self-interference, based on these priorities.

Patent №: 11864200 (January 2, 2024) – Control channel mapping within search space for wireless systems. A user device (UE) receives instructions on when and where to monitor control channels within a radio frame. The UE identifies control channel candidates within specified slots and receives user-specific control information based on these candidates.

Patent №: 11864231 (January 2, 2024) – Listen-before-talk (LBT) aware autonomous sensing for sidelink. This describes wireless communication techniques for LBT-aware autonomous sidelink sensing, where a first UE selects and uses resources within a shared frequency band to transmit sidelink data to a second UE based on LBT completion time.

Patent №: 11864109 (January 2, 2024) – Wake-up signal operation for multiple transmission and reception points. Selected transmission points (TRPs) send wake-up signals to a user device (UE), which monitors them. When the UE receives a wake-up signal before an active DRX cycle, it identifies TRPs transmitting data/control info during that time and retrieves the information.

Patent №: 11864216 (January 2, 2024) – Acknowledgment feedback for semi-persistent scheduling in wireless communications. A base station activates a user device’s SPS configuration using the first DCI transmission. The second DCI transmission specifies feedback resources for SPS acknowledgment feedback, and the user device follows these instructions for SPS transmissions.

Patent №: 11864189 (January 2, 2024) – Multi-slot transmissions for multi-transmission reception points. User equipment (UE) receives scheduling for a transport block spread across multiple slots and transmits parts of it across these slots using different transmission parameters.

Patent №: 11864109 (January 2, 2024) – Wake-up signal operation for multiple transmission and reception points. This patent describes techniques for enabling transmission points to signal to user equipment (UE) the presence of data or control information during specific on-duration states of a discontinuous reception cycle. UE can then receive and process this information effectively, leading to more efficient wireless communications.

Patent №: 11863253 (January 2, 2024) – Type-1 codebook construction with multiple aggregation factors. This patent focuses on generating feedback codebooks for downlink transmissions. By considering the associated repetition factors selected by a base station and whether the transmissions were successfully received and decoded, UE can generate and transmit a feedback report including a feedback codebook to the base station. This technique enhances the accuracy and reliability of feedback in wireless communications systems.