Recognizing Inventors with Centurion+ Utility Patents as of October 24, 2023
Welcome to the 24th of October 2023: Our goal is to celebrate the pioneering recognizing inventors who have reached noteworthy milestones in their fields this week.
Shou-Shan Fan
Member of the Chinese Academy of Science.
Department of Physics, Tsinghua University
Patent №: 11796796 (October 24, 2023) – Off-axis two-mirror infrared imaging system.
This system, featuring freeform surfaces, employs a primary reflecting mirror and a secondary reflecting mirror. It enhances the imaging capabilities of infrared light beams, resulting in improved image quality and precision.
Assaf Natanzon
VP Technology, CTO Huawei OceanProtect; Storage CTO at Toga Networks; Lecturer at Tel Aviv University.
Patent №: 11797564 (October 24, 2023) – System and method for data registration.
This patent introduces a computing device that includes persistent storage and a data register manager. It allows for the efficient organization and management of data within computing devices, ensuring optimum performance and meeting various operational criteria.
Jian Gao
Director, Software Engineering at Dell EMC
Skilled in Storage Area Network (SAN), Storage, Agile Methodologies, Unix, Linux, Project Planning, Execution and Delivery. Engineering professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Computer Science and Engineering from Beihang University.
Jian Gao has managed a team that won DELL EMC CCOE Team of the Year in 2017. Personally won the DELL Greater China President Award (3 out of 20k) in 2018, and won the Dell Technologies Chairman Award in 2018.
Patent №: 11796825 (October 24, 2023) – Display apparatus, VR apparatus and display method. His recent patent provides an improved visual experience by employing a microlens array with varying focal lengths. This approach minimizes beam width and enhances the precision of light emitted from each light-emitting point, resulting in a more immersive VR experience for users
Noboru Kato
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
For many years, Noboru Kato has been involved in new business and product development of electronic components for high frequencies.
Products he has invented include 1) multilayer LC filters, 2) resin multilayer parts, 3) RFID modules, and 4) NFC antennas.
Patent №: 11797815 (October 24, 2023) –Container including RFID module.
This container features an insulating base material that forms its outer shape and a metal film on its main surface. Notably, a unique slit is formed in the metal film, allowing for an electrical connection between the RFID module’s first and second electrodes. This innovative design provides enhanced tracking capabilities and seamless communication using RFID technology.
Jerome Henry
Wireless Research Engineer at Cisco.
Jerome Henry is a Principal Engineer in the Office of the Wireless CTO at Cisco Systems. His main field of research is around the optimization of clients’ performances in unlicensed wireless networks, which includes IoT, indoor location, QoS and privacy.
Focusing on his wireless and networking experience, Jerome joined Cisco in 2012. Before that time, he was consulting and teaching heterogeneous networks and wireless integration with the European Airespace team, which was later acquired by Cisco to become their main wireless solution.
Patent №: 11799912 (October 24, 2023) – Network compliance and admission control. This directive ensures adherence to multi-user uplink policies in a wireless network environment. By actively monitoring and disciplining computing devices that deviate from these policies, Henry’s innovation ensures the efficient and fair utilization of network resources.
Patent №: 11799948 (October 24, 2023) – Cloud service datacenter selection based on data sovereignty policies. This invention deals with the provision of cloud services by a distributed network of geographically distributed datacenters. It addresses the crucial issue of data sovereignty requirements, ensuring compliance with the client’s preferences regarding the geographic location of their data. The innovation enables seamless migration of cloud service requests from one server to another within the network, all while satisfying data sovereignty policies.
Hiroki Harada
Mr. Harada received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Yokohama National University in 2003, 2005, and 2008, respectively.
He was a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Yokohama National University from 2005 to 2008.
He joined NTT DOCOMO, Inc. in 2008, and has been engaged in 3GPP LTE standardization, including small cell enhancements and LAA.
He received the IEEE VTS Japan VTC2006-Fall Student Paper Award in 2006, and the IEICE Young Researcher’s Award in 2011
Patent №: 11799603 (October 24, 2023) – Base station apparatus. This disclosure pertains to a user apparatus utilizing multiple subcarrier spacings. It involves a receiver for synchronization signals and system information, as well as a processor for identifying symbol positions within periodic blocks that contain these signals. Additionally, a base station apparatus and communication method are also described.
Centurion+ Patent Holders as of December 26, 2023
Centurion Patentors as of May 20, 2025
Inventor Recognitions with Centurion Plus Utility Patents as of September 5, 2023
About The Author
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.