Centurion+ Patent Holders as of January 9, 2024

Welcome to the 9th of January 2024: Our goal is to celebrate the patent holders who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields this week.

Patent №: 11864845 (January 9, 2024) – Sterile field interactive control displays. Biocompatible adjuncts attach to staple cartridges, promoting tissue healing by controlling fluid flow through absorbable sub-structures in their lattice structure. The invention also covers stapling assemblies for surgical staplers.

Patent №: 11864765 (January 9, 2024) – Compressible adjuncts with fluid control features. These adjuncts are made of biocompatible materials and can be retained on a staple cartridge. They influence tissue healing when deployed by controlling fluid movement through absorbable sub-structures within their lattice main structure. The invention also includes stapling assemblies for surgical staplers.

Patent №: 11864760 (January 9, 2024) – Staple cartridges comprising driver arrangements. Improved staple cartridge assemblies are described, featuring tri-staple drivers that eject three staples simultaneously.

Patent №: 11864747 (January 9, 2024) – Anvil assemblies for circular staplers. Circular stapling tools include anvil assemblies with collapsible support parts. These are inserted into a patient through an opening, expanded, and attached to an anvil plate assembly with a staple-forming surface. This alignment ensures proper staple placement in the stapling head. Multiple anvil support and plate options are detailed.

Patent №: 11864729 (January 9, 2024) – Method of using imaging devices in surgery, focuses on a surgical visualization system. This system leverages pre-operative imaging data, intraoperative imaging data, and structured light patterns to generate a three-dimensional digital representation of an organ. By incorporating spectral light waves, it can identify structures beneath the surface of the organ and overlay their representation onto the visual display.

Patent №: 11864728 (January 9, 2024) – Characterization of tissue irregularities through the use of mono-chromatic light refractivity, describes a surgical image acquisition system that utilizes multiple illumination sources operating at different wavelengths. The system captures data from the light sensor, calculates structural data related to characteristics of tissues, and transmits this information to smart surgical devices such as staplers, RF sealing devices, or ultrasonic cutting devices.

Patent №: 11868678 (January 9, 2024) – User interface sound emanation activity classification presents methods, computer program products, and systems for analyzing sound emanating from a key press-based user interface. By generating context patterns based on audio input, this technology can accurately classify user activities and provide appropriate outputs.

Patent №: 11864925 (January 9, 2024) – Machine learning techniques for detecting splinting activity highlight his expertise in leveraging machine learning algorithms to detect splinting activity. This technology utilizes various machine learning models, including observed inspiration-expiration waveform patterns, to identify instances of splinting activity.

Patent №: 11871399 (January 9, 2024) – User equipment (UE) and methods for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) sidelink communication in accordance with a short transmission time interval (TTI). A User Equipment (UE) selects a short time interval for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) sidelink transmissions. Legacy time intervals are used for legacy UEs, while short intervals are allocated for non-legacy UEs. The UE sends different control channels during these intervals to notify both legacy and non-legacy UEs about its V2V sidelink transmission.

Patent №: 11870716 (January 9, 2024) – OFDMA-based multiplexing of uplink control information. This describes techniques for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) in OFDMA-based uplinks. It maximizes frequency diversity by mapping UCI symbols to specific resource elements (REs) on the grid, taking into account the proximity to reference signal-carrying REs for improved channel estimation performance.

His research interests include massive MIMO wireless systems, cooperative multipoint cellular networks, interference mitigation in wireless communications, and cellular positioning. He was a recipient of the Alcatel-Lucent Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF).

Patent №: 11871259 (January 9, 2024) – Sounding reference signal (SRS) guided downlink channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) scan. This disclosure focuses on using either a reciprocity-based or CSI-RS-based scheme for channel measurements and reporting in wireless communication, based on cell-specific criteria.

Patent №: 11871257 (January 9, 2024) – Measurement period formulation for reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurements. This patent describes techniques for wireless positioning, enabling user equipment to accurately determine its location. By leveraging positioning reference signals (PRS) and measurement gap configurations, the patent introduces effective measurement periodicity, enhancing the precision of positioning measurements.

Patent №: 11870653 (January 9, 2024) – Adaptive scalable numerology for high-speed train scenarios, addresses the challenges posed by high-speed train communications. It introduces adaptive resource management in new radio operations, enabling user equipment travelling at high speeds to maintain reliable connectivity. The patent achieves this by dynamically adjusting subcarrier spacing and cyclic prefix configurations based on the UE’s velocity.

Patent №: 11868901 (January 9, 2024) – Compiler for optimizing memory allocations within cores. Some embodiments involve a compiler for optimizing the implementation of a machine-trained network on an integrated circuit. It takes a network specification, creates a graph of implementation options for each layer, and selects the best set of cores for the network. The compiler also optimizes memory storage to prevent reading and writing from the same memory unit within a core simultaneously.

Patent №: 11868898 (January 9, 2024) – Machine learning through multiple layers of novel machine trained processing nodes. This invention presents machine-trained networks that employ unique processing nodes with novel activation functions. By utilizing these nodes, the machine-trained networks can efficiently define complex mathematical expressions with fewer layers, enabling the solution of specific problems more effectively. For instance, face recognition and speech recognition have significantly benefited from these advancements.

Patent №: 11868871 (January 9, 2024) – Circuit for executing stateful neural network. This invention introduces a neural network inference circuit designed to execute neural networks with multiple nodes that utilize state data from previous executions. The circuit includes computation circuits for executing the neural network and memories for storing state data generated during previous network executions. The stored data assists the computation circuits when executing nodes of the network for a particular input.

Patent №: (January 9, 2024) –  11868646 – Read level tracking by random threshold movement with short feedback loop. This invention pertains to a data storage device that includes a memory device and a controller. The controller’s function is to determine and adjust read threshold voltage levels, calibrate read thresholds based on comparative analysis, and choose target read thresholds for calibration. This innovation has the potential to enhance efficiency and accuracy in data retrieval.