Recognizing Inventors with Centurion+ Utility Patents as of November 7, 2023

Welcome to the 7th of November 2023: Our goal is to celebrate the pioneering recognizing inventors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields this week.

Austin Grant Walters

Founder IP Copilot. 

Machine learning engineer, manager and researcher focused on natural language processing and automated machine learning.

Patent №: 11811615 (November 7, 2023) –Systems and methods for dynamic modification of events based on bandwidth availability. This system adjusts scheduled events based on available bandwidth for multiple user devices. It evaluates network conditions, calculates a combined bandwidth metric, and provides event modification recommendations if the metric meets a threshold on the user device interface.

Patent №: 11809968 (November 7, 2023) –Control of hyperparameter tuning based on machine learning. This invention introduces systems, methods, and prediction models to estimate the potential improvement in hyperparameter tuning techniques. It allows for the automated selection and adjustment of hyperparameters to optimize the success metric, streamlining the hyperparameter tuning process and improving overall efficiency.

Patent №: 11810000 (November 7, 2023) – Systems and methods for expanding data classification using synthetic data generation in machine learning models. It introduces systems and methods for training data classification models, creating synthetic data generators, and developing synthetic classified datasets. By incorporating additional classes into the training process, Walters’ inventions aim to enhance the accuracy and reliability of data classification techniques.

Ye-Kui Wang

Scientist at ByteDance.

Mr. Wang received a B.S. degree in industrial automation from the Beijing Institute of Technology in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in information and telecommunication engineering from the Graduate School in Beijing, University of Science and Technology of China, in 2001.

His earlier working experiences and titles include the Chief Scientist of Media Coding and Systems at Huawei Technologies Company Ltd., San Diego, the Director of Technical Standards at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and the Principal Member of Research Staff at Nokia Corporation.

His research interests include video coding, storage, transport, and multimedia systems. 

Patent №: 11812067 (November 7, 2023) – Slice and tile partitioning in video coding. A method involves

converting a video containing a video tile and its bitstream based on a rule. The rule determines the slice height within the video tile by using a first syntax element in the bitstream, which indicates the number of explicitly provided slice heights for slices within the tile.

Patent №: 11812063 (November 7, 2023) – Video coding using parameter sets. Wang’s patent focuses on a video processing method involving the conversion between video and its associated bitstream. By employing a format rule, the patent specifies conditions under which certain syntax structures are present in a sequence parameter set. This approach allows for improved control and customization during the video coding process.

Patent №: 11812062 (November 7, 2023) – Syntax for signaling video subpictures. The method involves converting a video into a bitstream that adheres to a format rule. Through this approach, a first syntax element in the sequence parameter set indicates the length of subpicture identifiers, regardless of the explicit signaling of these identifiers in the sequence parameter set or a picture parameter set.

Yasuyuki Arai

Mr. Arai has extensive IP experience.  He graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering (Department of Electrical Engineering), Tokai University, and began his career at the R&D Division of Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (SEL). 

Mr. Arai was engaged in the development of solar cell and thin film transistor (TFT) devices for 12 years. He also worked for the IP division at SEL.

Technical field: Semiconductors, LCD, OLED, Mobile Communications.

Patent №: 11809030 (November 7, 2023) –Display device. The display device consists of a flexible display panel with scanning lines and signal lines intersecting. It has a supporting part at one end, a signal line driver circuit for the supporting part, and a scanning line driver circuit for the flexible display panel’s surface, perpendicular to the supporting part.

John Ulrich Knickerbocker

Distinguished Engineer at IBM.

Dr. Knickerbocker is leading research on healthcare sensors and diagnostics in the Micro-System Technology & Solutions team at IBM Research – Yorktown Heights, New York with the goal of improving patient quality of life using precision healthcare monitors and diagnostics.  

Research interests include targeted healthcare sensor functional data streams, early detection diagnostics solutions, data analysis and machine learning that provide healthcare monitoring and insights for personalized medicine and chronic disease management.

Dr. Knickerbocker received his Ph.D. degree in 1982 from the University of Illinois studying Materials Science & Engineering and has over 40 years of experience at IBM in development and research. 

Patent №: 11810893 (November 7, 2023) – Silicon interposer sandwich structure for ESD, EMC, and EMC shielding and protection. This patent presents an interposer sandwich structure that combines integrated circuit electronic devices with effective shielding against Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), Electromagnetic Interference (EMI), and Electromagnetic Conductivity (EMC) in compact 3D packaging.

Bradley E Marshall

Senior Principal Engineer – Identity and Access Management at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Patent №: 11811657 (November 7, 2023) – Updating routing information based on client location. This patent encompasses a content delivery network service provider’s ability to update routing information associated with client location data, enabling efficient and optimized delivery of requested content.