Centurion Patentors as of October 21, 2025

Abhishek R Appu
GPU/AI Hardware Architect/Micro-Architect.
Patent №: 12450819 – Apparatus and method for routing data from ray tracing cache banks.

An apparatus includes ray traversal hardware with multiple storage banks to process rays through a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH). A cache temporarily stores traversal data, and a switch matrix with an arbiter dynamically connects cache banks to storage banks each cycle.

Tze-Liang Lee
Technical Manager of Diffusion Program of Advanced Module Technology Division, Research and Development Organization.

A semiconductor device has two etch stop layers of different thicknesses over a source/drain plug and a gate, with a dielectric and contacts formed above them.

Marco Pistoia
Senior Vice President of Industry Relations at IonQ.
Patent №: 12452046 – Systems and methods for secure cryptographic secret distribution.

A key relay station receives and stores a secret from a webserver, authenticates an end user, and securely transfers the secret to the user’s device, which stores it securely, encrypts data, and sends the encrypted data back to the webserver.

Shuanshuan Wu
Research Engineer.
Patent №: 12452838 – Techniques for using physical resource blocks (PRBS) in a sidelink resource pool.

This disclosure describes techniques for sidelink communication where a user device identifies physical resource blocks (PRBs) not part of assigned sub-channels and uses these remaining or special PRBs for additional communication purposes.

David Edward Newman
SVP, Head of Enterprise Knowledge Graph Solutions, Data Management and Insights Group, Wells Fargo B at Wells Fargo.
Patent №: 12450241 – Semantic entity search using vector space.

A method enables semantic search using a neural network–based vector space of concepts. A user’s query is converted into a vector, compared to concept vectors by distance, and related concepts are displayed as search suggestions in the interface.

Sandra Choi
Creative Director at Jimmy Choo.

Patent №: D1098724 – Footwear.

Patent №: D1098696 – Fashion ornament.