Inventor Recognitions with Centurion Plus Utility Patents as of August 1, 2023
Welcome to the 1st of August 2023: Our goal is to celebrate the pioneering inventor recognitions who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields this week.
Wanshi Chen
Mr. Chen received a Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
He is currently the Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm Inc., where he is involved in 5G research and standardization. He is also 3GPP TSG RAN Plenary Chair appointed in April 2021.
Previously, Wanshi was the 3GPP TSG RAN WG1 Chair from August 2017 to May 2021 and the Vice-Chair from August 2013 to August 2017. As the RAN WG1 Chair, he successfully led the group to deliver both the first 5G release (Release 15) and the second 5G release (Release 16) on time and with high quality.
He also serves as the Lead Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine: Mobile Communications and Network Series.
Patent №: 11716750 (August 1, 2023) – Feedback prioritization for wireless communications.
Patent №: 11716721 (August 1, 2023) – Signaling and reporting multi-bit feedback per transport block.
Patent №: 11716726 (August 1, 2023) – Message handling for device-to-device coordination messages.
Hongyuan Zhang
Mr. Zhang received a B.E. in electronics engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing China in 1998, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China in 2001, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, in 2006.
From May 2005 to Aug 2006, he worked for Mitsubishi Electrical Research Labs, Cambridge MA, participating in projects related to WLAN and WiMax standardizations and implementations.
He is currently a staff system engineer in the wireless systems group, Marvell Semiconductor Inc., Santa Clara CA, working on baseband design and standardization of WLAN and wideband WPAN systems.
Dr. Zhang has authored one book chapter, and numerous journal and conference publications. He has authored or co-authored over 30 invention disclosures or pending patents.
He was granted the 2007 Ph.D. Dissertation Award by NC State University. He was also one of the key contributors to the MIMO antenna selection and beamforming features in the IEEE 802.11n draft standard.
Patent №: 11716177 (August 1, 2023) – Physical layer (PHY) data unit encoding for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission.
Patent №: 11716770 (August 1, 2023) – Device and method for multi-link operations.
Aleksandar Damnjanovic
Aleksandar received his Diploma in electrical engineering from the University of Nis, Serbia, in 1994 and his D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University in 2000.
He joined Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc., San Diego, California, in 2000, where he worked on cdma2000 base station controller development.
In 2003 he joined Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, where he worked on 3G cellular standards and, since 2005, standardization and prototyping of 3GPP LTE and LTE-Advanced systems, leading MAC design efforts.
Damnjanovic is a co-author of a book, The cdma2000 System for Mobile Communications.
Patent №: 11716758 (August 1, 2023) – Receiver-assisted transmitter sensing for channel access.
Patent №: 11716755 (August 1, 2023) – Multiple opportunity ack to pre-grant design for receiver side eCCA for mmWave band operation.
Patent №: 11716751 (August 1, 2023) –Techniques for new radio frame structures for data transmission.
Sunghoon Kim
Dr. Kim Sunghoon is a South Korean biologist.
Education: 1981 B.S. Seoul National University; 1983 M.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; 1991 Ph.D. Brown University, U.S.
His research unveils novel regulatory networks mediated by human aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that have been regarded as housekeeping machinery for protein synthesis. These proteins’ regulatory roles and implications in human diseases have been largely overlooked for decades. His series of discoveries on the new function, pathology and medicine of ARSs are rapidly opening a research area that throws new insights into the central dogma of life and human diseases.
Patent №: 11716246 (August 1, 2023) – Device and method for providing edge computing service in wireless communication systems.
Patent №: 11716621 (August 1, 2023) – Apparatus and method for providing mobile edge computing services in wireless communication systems.
Dmitry Lubomirsky
Vice President at Applied Materials since 1996.
Patent №: 11715625 (August 1, 2023) – Semiconductor processing chamber.
An exemplary semiconductor processing system consists of a pedestal supporting a semiconductor substrate, which also acts as the first plasma-generating electrode. The system includes a lid plate with a radial volume and a faceplate supported on the lid plate, functioning as the second plasma-generating electrode. The space between the pedestal and the faceplate creates a plasma processing region within the radial volume of the faceplate. The faceplate has several small apertures, while a showerhead between the faceplate and pedestal has more apertures than the faceplate.
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