Centurion Patentors as of September 16, 2025
Welcome to September 9, 2025. This week, we aim to celebrate the centurion patentors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields.
Yan Zhou
Staff Engineer (Wi-Fi Advanced R&D) at Qualcomm.
Patent №: 12418926 – Consolidated feedback indication and feedback transmission.
A UE receives a bitmap with multiple ACK/NACK feedback indicators for uplink transmissions and retransmits based on that feedback.
Patent №: 12418922 – Transmission configuration indication (TCI) in downlink control information (DCI) rules and associated techniques. A UE receives multiple DCI messages with different TCI updates, sends ACKs for each, and switches TCI states based on prioritized updates.
Stephen Olivier Lemay
UI Designer at Apple.
Patent №: 12417596 – User interfaces for managing live communication sessions.
A system manages live communication by inviting users, modifying avatars, switching between spatial and non-spatial sessions, and showing participant info.
Chanro Park
RIE Engineer at IBM.
Patent №: 12419080 – Semiconductor structure with wrapped-around backside contact.
A semiconductor structure has a backside contact that wraps around an unmerged source/drain region.
Weihua Qiao
Mr. Qiao was a Senior Technical Specialist at Ofinno Technologies.
Patent №: 12418960 – Group communication service request.
An AMF manages group communication by receiving a session ID, getting device and PDU session lists, deciding which devices to page, and handling their service requests.
Rui Fan
Research leader at Ericsson (China) Company Ltd.
Patent №: 12418355 – Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network.
A 5G method lets a device use an index to select an uplink configuration, transmit accordingly, and handle OFDM signals with different numerologies across subframes.
Yoav Galin
VP Research & Development, Founder.
Patent №: 12418177 – Distributed power system using direct current power sources.
A distributed power system uses batteries with converters that charge or discharge, connect in series, and are managed by a controller to keep voltage or current at a set value.
Centurion Patentors as of August 5, 2025
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About The Author
Angelina Kushnarova
Angelina Kushnarova (Sverediuk) was born in Ukraine. She graduated from Ternopil Medical University with a specialization in Medicine and completed an internship in Radiology at Lviv University. She worked as a Radiologist, while also working as a web developer.