Inventor Recognitions with Centurion Plus Utility Patents as of August 15, 2023

Juntao Li

Mr. Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2003, and a Ph.D. degree in nanoscale engineering from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY, USA, in 2010.

He joined IBM Research at Albany Nanotech, Albany, NY, USA, in 2010, where he is currently a Senior Engineer with the Department of Inline Characterization and Advanced Failure Analysis.

His research interests include advanced analytical characterizations of emerging CMOS and non-volatile memory technologies.

Juntao is the author or a coauthor of more than 100 technical journal articles and conference proceedings, and one book chapter. He is a Master Inventor of IBM.

Patent №: 11728433 (August 15, 2023) – Vertical transistor with self-aligned gate.

This method creates a vertical transistor. It involves forming two sets of vertical fins on separate layers, each in its own row. The vertical fins in the same row have a certain distance between them, and those in adjacent rows have another gap distance. A gate metal layer is added on these vertical fins, leaving gaps between fins in the same column. Then, a cover layer plug fills the remaining gaps.

Thomas Wiegand

Mr. Wiegand received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany, in 1995, and a Dr.-Ing. degree from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 2000.

As a student, he was a Visiting Researcher at Kobe University, Japan, the University of California at Santa Barbara and Stanford University, USA, where he also returned as a Visiting Professor.

Thomas was a consultant and co-founder of several start-up companies. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin. He is jointly the Head of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Howard W Lutnick

Howard W. Lutnick is Chairman of Newmark Group, Inc. (which operates as Newmark), one of the world’s leading commercial real estate advisory firms; Chairman & CEO of BGC Partners Inc., a leading global brokerage and financial technology company; and Chairman & CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., one of the world’s leading financial services firms. CF Group Management, Inc. is the managing general partner of Cantor.

After losing 658 employees, including his brother, in the September 11 attacks, Lutnick survived the collapse of towers on the ground and has become known for his charity efforts through the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, which helps to aid families of the attacks and natural disasters.

Patent №: 11727489 (August 15, 2023) – Interprocess communication facilitating Sellside marketmaking.

An electronic exchange platform receives approved Buy and Sell orders, links marketmaking orders to a price close to the best price in an order book, displays this to approved Buyers, and handles orders between them and specific Sellers. It also updates bid and offer prices and adjusts marketmaking offers to match changes.

Jizheng Xu

Mr. Xu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

In 2003, he joined Microsoft Research Asia, where he is currently a Research Manager. He is an active contributor to ISO/MPEG and ITU-T video coding standards.

Xu has authored or co-authored more than 140 refereed journal articles and conference papers. His research interests include image and visual signal representation, image/video compression and communication, computer vision, and deep learning.

Jizheng was a Co-Organizer and the Co-Chair of Special Sessions on scalable video coding, directional transform, and high-quality video coding at various conferences.