Centurion Patentors as of November 12, 2024

Tetsuya T Minami

Sr. Design Director, INNOVATION, Global football at Nike.

Patent №: 12137775 (November 12, 2024) – Sole structures and articles of footwear having separate outsole and midsole components.

Wade M Demmer

R&D VP at Medtronic.

Patent №: 12138461 (November 12, 2024) – Input switching in a ventricular intracardiac pacemaker.

An intracardiac pacemaker system generates atrial event signals via a sensing circuit, initially selecting a primary atrial event input. If certain criteria are met, it switches to a secondary input, including atrial event signals from another implantable device the pacemaker receives.

Takayuki Sasaki

Specially appointed associate professor at Yokohama National University.

Patent №: 12141279 (November 12, 2024) – Backdoor inspection apparatus, backdoor inspection method, and non-transitory computer readable medium.

In a backdoor inspection apparatus, a static analysis unit identifies a potential backdoor code block and its execution condition within target software. It then outputs the software with added details about this code block and condition to a dynamic analysis unit, which performs backdoor testing based on this information.

Bonkee Kim

CTO/VP of HiDeep.

Patent №: 12141375 (November 12, 2024) – Pen and touch input system or controller.

This pen and touch input system includes a touch device with a sensor unit, a control unit to manage the sensor, and a stylus pen that interacts with the touch device.

Tao Li

User Experience Designer at SAP.

Patent №: 12141983 (November 12, 2024) – Image processing method and apparatus for segmenting objects.

This image processing method acquires a target image with divided regions, each containing an annotation point linked to a segmentation object. The method iteratively expands around the annotation points until the loss results meet a termination condition, identifying the expanded area as the target object’s region in the image.