Centurion Patentors as of December 24, 2024

Welcome to December 24, 2024. This week, we aim to celebrate the centurion patentors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields.

Patent №: 12177896 (December 24, 2024) – Proxy sensing-based channel access for shared spectrum. A control node configures active network nodes to communicate without sensing, while proxy nodes monitor the spectrum. Based on reported results, the control node identifies interference as occasional or persistent and adjusts network operations

Patent №: 12177887 (December 24, 2024) – Handling missed hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) opportunities, multiple HARQ opportunities, or both for discontinuous reception (DRX). A UE uses timers to stay active during DRX. Upon receiving a TxOP for HARQ feedback via DCI, the UE activates a timer after the TxOP, ensuring it remains active. A base station may offer multiple feedback opportunities, with the UE activating or reactivating the timer based on the feedback sequence.

Patent №: 12177856 (December 24, 2024) – Differentiation of full duplex (FD) traffic scheduling combinations in a wireless wide area network (WWAN). A base station transmits a DCI message indicating the scheduled FD UL and DL combination, allowing the UE to identify overlapping UL and DL transmissions. The UE may also use the DCI message to manage power-saving modes.

Patent №: 12177846 (December 24, 2024) – Indication of sidelink process for sidelink feedback. A second UE requests HARQ responses from a first UE for a set of sidelink processes using sidelink control information. The second UE specifies a sliding window of processes, transmits data within the window, and receives feedback.

Patent №: 12177845 (December 24, 2024) – Slot position offsets associated with a downlink control information in a physical downlink shared channel. The first grant in the second DCI part is offset from its slot position, and the second grant is offset relative to the first grant. Additionally, multiple grants may be grouped and mapped to a PUCCH.

Patent №: 12177843 (December 24, 2024) – Resource block grid alignment at sidelink nodes. In one example, a receiving UE may use multiple decoding hypotheses for different RB grids from a transmitting UE. In another, a common RB grid aligns the sidelink control channel for both UEs.

Patent №: 12177783 (December 24, 2024) – Discontinuous reception (DRX) with sidelink (SL). A first UE communicates with a second UE over SL while maintaining DRX with a base station. During an active DRX period, the UE monitors downlink and SL transmissions. The UE may extend the active period if control information is received from the base station or second UE.

Patent №: 12177158 (December 24, 2024) – User terminal and radio communication method. A user terminal receives overlapping PDSCH transmissions from two TRPs and controls HARQ-ACK feedback, sending the first ACK to the first TRP and the second ACK to the second TRP, enabling efficient multi-TRP communication.

Patent №: 12177051 (December 24, 2024) – Common frequency resources for different numerologies. The UE may use one numerology for non-group-common and group-common communications in specified CFRs and another numerology for additional group-common communications.

Patent №: 12177166 (December 24, 2024) – Distributed resource unit signaling. An AP may send a trigger frame with RU allocation and tone distribution details, specifying contiguous or distributed transmission. A PPDU may also indicate the transmission type via distributed signaling information.

Patent №: 12177154 (December 24, 2024) – Enhanced sounding packet designs. An enhanced NDPA frame may support legacy and non-legacy formats, include BSS identification, and STA information fields. An EHT PPDU may signal if it is formatted as a sounding NDP.

The method prevents negative responses from an AF. The AF receives a notification from an SMF. It determines the action cannot be processed immediately. The action is delayed for a set time instead.

For each video frame, touch movement trends are analyzed to calculate a position offset for a graphical representation. If the offset exceeds a threshold, the graphical position is adjusted in the video frame to produce an updated frame.

Patent №: 12174770 (December 24, 2024) – Data conveyance and communication of three or more LVDC enabled devices. Each circuit has a transmit section converting digital data to analog signals and a receive section converting analog signals to digital data. A drive sense circuit enables one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-one communication among the circuits.

Patent №: 12174618 (December 24, 2024) – Analog world interfacing for automated systems. Drive-sense circuits drive and sense transducers via single lines, convert sensed analog features to digital signals, and send them to the computing device. The computing device processes these signals to generate commands for the automated apparatus to execute.