Centurion Patentors as of February 25, 2025

Dawei Zhang

iOS Wireless Technologies at Apple.

Patent №:  12238763 – MsgA PUSCH validation.

A UE determines an initial UL/DL slot configuration, receives an updated slot configuration from a base station, generates a MsgA PUSCH occasion, and validates whether it is scheduled in a permissible transmission slot.

Patent №:  12238717 – Configuring cellular sidelink control channel with frequency hopping and multi-beam diversity. A base station selects a configuration incorporating one or both techniques and transmits the configuration details to a wireless device. This enhances signal reliability, reduces interference, and improves overall sidelink communication performance.

Patent №:  12238716 – Techniques for PDSCH/PUSCH processing for multi-TRP. A UE configured for single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation determines multiple PDSCHs within a slot and calculates the minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing using symbols from one or both PDSCHs, optimizing acknowledgment efficiency.

Patent №:  12238686 – Systems and methods for enhancement on sidelink power control. A UE selects a parameter set for transmit power calculation based on its distance from a peer UE and determines whether to use SL pathloss-based calculations. It also manages PSFCH transmissions and receptions based on UE capability and session requirements.

Patent №:  12238685 – Systems and methods for enhancement on sidelink power control. A UE selects a transmit power parameter set based on its distance from a peer UE and determines whether to use SL pathloss-based calculations. It also manages PSFCH transmissions and receptions according to UE capability and session requirements.

Patent №:  12238633 – Access control at a relay user equipment. This disclosure describes a relay UE facilitating communication between a remote UE and a network. The relay UE determines its relay capabilities and performs access control to indicate whether the remote UE is allowed to use it as a relay.

Patent №:  12238551 – Network operations to reduce PDCCH monitoring. The UE reports a reduced PDCCH monitoring capability for a search space set (SSS), and the base station determines and transmits a corresponding reduced monitoring configuration to optimize resource usage.

Patent №:  12238514 – Security key generation for handling data transmissions from user devices in an inactive state. A first node sends an RRC suspend message with an NH chaining counter (NCC) value, releases AS resources, derives a node key from the NCC, and processes an uplink message from the user device using the NCC without re-allocating AS resources.

Patent №:  12238027 – Timing-related considerations for network-controlled repeaters. The repeater determines whether to apply the indicated beam to transmission (Tx), reception (Rx), or both spatial filters and implements the configuration for forwarding DL transmissions to the UE or relaying UL transmissions to the network.

Hisao Sasai

Senior Manager, Chief Engineer – Panasonic.

Patent №:  12238326 – Moving picture coding method, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding method, moving picture decoding apparatus and moving picture coding and decoding apparatus.

The unit identifies merge block candidates in merge mode by utilizing colpic data—such as motion vectors and reference picture indices from neighbor and collocated blocks stored in memory—and then generates a combined merge block from these candidates.