Inventor Recognitions with Centurion Plus Utility Patents as of September 12, 2023
Guenole Jan
Senior Director advanced MRAM.
Patent №: 11758820 (September 12, 2023) –Protective passivation layer for magnetic tunnel junctions.
This describes a magnetic device used in technologies like MRAM. It has a structure called a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) between two electrodes. To protect the MTJ during manufacturing processes, a special protective layer made of materials like Boron (B), Carbon (C), or Germanium (Ge) is added. This layer is very thin (about 3 to 10 Angstroms) and prevents harmful reactions during high-temperature steps in the manufacturing process. It’s important that this layer remains amorphous to avoid the diffusion of reactive oxygen or nitrogen.
Yue Yu
Principal Video Standard Engineer.
Patent №: 11758153 (September 12, 2023) – Weighted angular prediction for intra-coding.
A method of decoding JVET video. It involves receiving a bitstream that shows how a coding unit was divided based on a partitioning structure. Then, it selects an intra-direction mode and reference lines to make a predictor. The predictor combines pixel values from the main and side reference lines, weighted according to a shift conversion factor.
This method is used in user equipment. It involves creating a specific signal called a “narrowband random access preamble” using a Zadoff-Chu sequence. Then, this signal is sent to a network node through a narrowband channel, which shares the frequency with another channel called PUSCH. This narrowband channel consists of slots with a specific duration and operates within a certain period.
Niklas Johansson
Head of Systems Concepts and Standards at Ericsson.
Mr. Johansson received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and Licentiate degree in communication systems from Lund University, Sweden, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.
Since 2000 he has been with Ericsson Research where he is currently the project manager for the LTE-Advanced project. In WINNER Phase II he was the work package leader for the multiple antenna and relaying related activities. He has authored and co-authored over 25 international journal and conference papers.
Patent №: 11757595 (September 12, 2023) – NB LTE PRACH design.
Vijay Venkataraman
Wireless Technologies at Apple.
14+ years of experience working on multiple generations of cellular products. Currently working in the wireless technologies engineering group at Apple.
Key interests: 5G, Cellular technologies, Embedded Systems, Operating systems, Algorithms
Patent №: 11758608 (September 12, 2023) –Managing a persistent connection using a network component.
Patent №: 11758602 (September 12, 2023) – Intelligent transmission port selection and power utilization for a cellular device
Patent №: 11758451 (September 12, 2023) – Scanning optimization in 5G NR multi-rat environments.
Patent №: 11758000 (September 12, 2023) – System and method for survival time delivery in 5GC.
Patent №: 11758420 (September 12, 2023) – Smart mechanism to manage thermal impact in 5G NR.
Seung Kyu Lee
Mr. Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Pennsylvania State University, in 2009.
Lee was a Principal Research Scientist with the Advanced Media Laboratory, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Yongin, South Korea. He is currently an Associate Professor at Kyung Hee University. His research interests include time-of-flight depth cameras, colour/depth image processing, symmetry-based computer vision, and 3-D modelling and reconstruction.
Patent №: 11756471 (September 12, 2023) – Display device and driving method thereof.
The patent is a display device with a processor and a display panel. The panel has a target pixel and observation pixels. When the observation pixel values are high enough, the target pixel gets one voltage, and when they’re not, it gets another voltage. These voltages are different from each other.
Vladimir Shveidel
Distinguished Engineer and Lead Data Path Architect at Dell EMC.
Patent №: 11755479 (September 12, 2023) –Storage management system and method.
This patent is about a method for writing data to a storage system. In the normal mode, data goes to the cache, then a journal, an acknowledgment is sent, and finally, it’s written to storage. When switching to a testing mode, data goes to the cache but skips the journal, an acknowledgment is sent immediately, and data is written to storage from the cache.
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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.