Centurion Patentors as of August 19, 2025
Welcome to August 19, 2025. This week, we aim to celebrate the centurion patentors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields.
Junyi Li
Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm. Qualcomm Fellow. IEEE Fellow. Co-founder of Flarion Technologies. A pioneer of OFDMA.
Patent №: 12396019 – Radio frequency emission reduction with interference cancellation.
A UE receives uplink configuration and interference cancellation instruction => modulates symbols on subcarriers => transmits a waveform with both subcarrier sets.
Wayne Ernest Conrad
Chief Scientist, President and Founder of Omachron.
Patent №: 12390067 – Surface cleaning apparatus.
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing with a cyclone and pre-motor filter chamber => pivotally mounted to a hand vacuum body => movable for use or emptying with both chambers openable together.
Patent №: 12390062 – Hand carryable surface cleaning apparatus. A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclone with a front-rear axis, and a main body with a lower suction motor positioned ahead of a battery in the pistol grip handle.
Gary W Grube
Retired Sr. Principal Engineer with nearly 30 years of experience in semiconductor test technologies.
He spent over two decades at FormFactor, Inc., followed by senior engineering leadership at Translarity, Inc.
Today, Gary enjoys life in the Pacific Northwest, where he has traded circuit boards for fishing rods as a full-time captain.
Patent №: 12394004 – Patent licensing method utilizing a distributed ledger infrastructure.
A method uses a patent ledger => detects use, issues license request, links patents to an NFT, sets terms in a smart contract, and records it on the blockchain.
Ali Cagatay Cirik
Technical Director, 5G/6G at Ofinno Technologies.
Patent №: 12396023 – Semi-persistent scheduling in high frequency.
A base station sends SPS configuration and DCI to a device => activates periodic downlink resources, assigns a PUCCH for feedback, updates DAI => receives feedback bits via the PUCCH.
Chandra S Namuduri
Technical Fellow of Electric Drives and Power Electronics Systems Group, GM Global R&D Center.
Dr. Namuduri is a recipient of four IEEE Prize Paper Awards and a NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Award.
Patent №: 12395111 – Overvoltage mitigation system.
An electric motor control system includes an AC motor, rectifier, energy storage across outputs, and a diode limiting positive voltage.
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Angelina Kushnarova
Angelina Kushnarova (Sverediuk) was born in Ukraine. She graduated from Ternopil Medical University with a specialization in Medicine and completed an internship in Radiology at Lviv University. She worked as a Radiologist, while also working as a web developer.