Centurion Patentors as of August 12, 2025

Welcome to August 12, 2025. This week, we aim to celebrate the centurion patentors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields.

Xiaoxia Zhang

Dr. at Qualcomm Incorporated.

Patent №: 12389455 – Multi-transmitter scheduling using slot-based and sub-slot based physical sidelink shared channels.

A device checks if a channel is clear, then sends one data block on a sub-slot and another on a full slot to one or more devices.

Patent №: 12389429 – Third stage sidelink control information design. A wireless device can send three stages of sidelink control info (SCI-1 in the control region, SCI-2 and SCI-3 in the data region), with SCI-2 carrying details to decode SCI-3, alongside sidelink data in the same slot.

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Designer / Advisor.

Patent №: D1087966 – Band.

Patent №: D1087965 – Light seal

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Industrial Designer at Apple.

Patent №:  D1087963 – Front cover for head-mounted display.

Patent №: D1087962 – Housing portion for head-mounted display.

Yushu Zhang

Engineer Manager, RAN1 lead, at Google.

Patent №: 12389450 – Methods of signaling directional and omni COT for frequencies between 52.6 GHz and 71 GHz.

A wireless system can send TCI parameters for 52.6–71 GHz via higher-layer signaling, with a DCI message indicating the active TCI state to use for a given channel occupancy time.

Patent №: 12389362 – Aperiodic and semi-persistent positioning reference signal and measurement gaps. A base station signals a UE with code point mappings to specific positioning reference signals (PRS), indicates which code point to activate, and then transmits the corresponding PRSs for the UE to receive.