Recognizing Inventors with Centurion+ Utility Patents as of October 3, 2023

Irving L Weissman

Dr. Weissman is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine along with Michael Longaker.

He developed methods to identify stem cells, and has extensively researched stem cells and progenitor cells. Dr. Weissman’s research focus is “the phylogeny and developmental biology of the cells that make up the blood-forming and immune system.

His work has contributed to the understanding of how a single hematopoietic stem cell can give rise to specialized blood cells.

Weissman is also a leading expert in the field of cancer stem cell biology, where his work sheds light on the understanding of the pathogenesis of multiple human malignancies. He is also known for transgenic research in which human brain cells are grown in the brains of mice.

Gerard De Haan

Gerard de Haan is a Professor of Electronic Systems within the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

His research field is video signal processing in a broad sense. Application areas include multimedia systems and video health monitoring. The general goal of the processing is a signal enhancement to improve the image quality and accurate sensing of vital signals amidst strong artifacts, with topics including: noise and artifact reduction, video format conversion, display specific processing, and enabling technologies such as motion estimation and object detection.  

De Haan’s research has been documented in 4 books and 3 book chapters, about 200 papers

Shuanshuan Wu

Shuanshuan Wu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Northeastern University, China, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. 

His current research interests include the design, analysis, and modeling of wireless/cellular communications systems.

Patent №: 11778642 (October 3, 2023) –Facilitating device-to-device communications.

Patent №: 11778585 (October 3, 2023) – Sidelink positioning reference signal transmission and reception.

Patent №: 11778517 (October 3, 2023) – Resource reservation information sharing with data. Wu addresses the need for efficient wireless communication. This patent focuses on the transmission of data on a sidelink channel, utilizing resource reservations transmitted within a control element.

Ernest W Moody

Ernie Moody is a legend in the gaming industry. After finding the development of new table games too complicated and expensive, he moved on to video poker and came up with Triple Play Poker, a groundbreaking development that revolutionized the game by introducing multi-hand play.

His arrangement with IGT earned him millions of dollars, which he later invested in gaming startups, some of which have also impacted the industry greatly. He inspired a generation of game developers and today continues to innovate and inspire. 

Patent №: 11776361 (October 3, 2023) – Gaming system and method providing a wagering game with a bonus hands feature.

Yi Guo

Principal Engineer at Intel.

Patent №: 11778529 (October 3, 2023) – Robust header compression indication after path switch during handover.

This patent introduces systems, methods, and devices that offer robust header compression (ROHC) decompression for packets. It ensures efficient communication during path switches during handovers between source and target cells. The technology involves deciphering and reordering packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) packets and performing ROHC decompression based on packet indications.