Centurion Patentors as of July 8, 2025

Mahesh A Iyer

Intel Senior Fellow | IEEE Fellow | Altera Fellow | Synopsys Fellow | Software Engineering Executive | Electronic Design Automation | ASIC and FPGA Engineering.

Patent №:  12355359 – Switch based on load current.

A programmable fabric with multiple power domains adjusts the number of domains based on current sensed. When current crosses a threshold, the system reconfigures power domains accordingly.

Afshin Haghighat

Principal Engineer, 5G/6G Standardization, RAN1 and PHY Technology, InterDigital Inc.

Afshin Haghighat (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1992, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 1998 and 2005, respectively, all in electrical engineering.

Patent №:  12355523 – Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sounding reference signal antenna switching.

A WTRU reports SRS power imbalance for specific xTyR antenna configurations, indicating affected resources and corresponding imbalance values.

Patent №: 12355509 – Method for transmission of radio signals between a transmitter device and a wireless transmit-receive unit using a reconfigurable intelligent surface and corresponding device. A nearly-passive RIS uses fixed-phase unit cells to reflect signals toward WTRUs. Selected cells align reflections with direct signals to improve reception.

Tangi Poirier

Senior Engineer at InterDigital, Inc.

Patent №:  12355996 – Encoding and decoding methods and corresponding devices.

A decoding method determines context for a syntax element using block area, coefficient position, and non-zero neighbors in a shape-dependent local template, then decodes the element based on that context.

Athanasios Leontaris

Video Codec Architect at Apple.

Dr. Leontaris received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

Patent №:  12355965 – Video compression and transmission techniques.

Embodiments include methods for rate allocation with look-ahead and ABR control, using past and future picture data. Techniques may involve intra rate control, complexity handling, and coding parameter adaptation.

Xiangying Yang

Sr. iOS System Engineer at Apple Inc.

Patent №:  12356200 – Electronic subscriber identity module transfer eligibility checking.

The method for checking if eSIMs can be transferred between mobile devices. The process verifies whether the target device’s eUICC meets security requirements, using network servers to determine compatibility.

Koichi Motoyama

Senior Engineer at IBM / IBM Master Inventor.

Patent №:  12356638 – Metal-insulator-metal capacitor structure with enlarged capacitor area.

A MIM capacitor features a bottom plate with multiple trenches, a top plate, and an insulating layer between them — including inside the trenches. Electrodes connect to both plates for improved performance.