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(0 comments) It’s not surprising that we’ve experienced an explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) patent activity over the past several years. As recently as 2016, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued less than 1,000 AI-related patents.
By 2019, that number rose to over 3,300, and we are on pace for more than 5,000 AI-related patent grants in 2020. USPTO launched its Artificial Intelligence Initiative in 2019, engaging the innovation community and experts to determine whether AI required any changes to the U.S. Patent system.
Read more at Inside Big Data
(9 hits) (0 comments) Sept. 16, 2020 -- Galenagen, LLC, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 10,776,453 relating to remote monitoring of Parkinson's Disease.
Galenagen's patent is directed to methods of employing remote data gathering and monitoring for diagnosing, staging and treatment of Parkinson's Disease, movement and neurological disorders and chronic pain. The technology will help facilitate early Parkinson's staging and ongoing monitoring of a patient's condition.
(22 hits) (0 comments) Square Inc. – a company led by CEO Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame – has announced a new initiative that will allow cryptocurrency and blockchain companies to form and remain innovative without all the hassles and problems associated with patents.
Read more at Live Bitcoin News
(30 hits) (0 comments) The moon is both seductively close to Earth and cosmically far away: Decades after the end of the space race, it remains extraordinarily expensive and difficult to actually get there. The journey just got a bit easier, however, thanks to a freshly published NASA invention. The agency's patent doesn't cover a new piece of equipment or lines of code, but a trajectory — a route designed to save a lunar-bound mission time, fuel, and money and boost its scientific value.
On June 30, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted and published NASA's patent for a series of orbital maneuvers, which Business Insider first learned about via a tweet by a lawyer named Jeff Steck. (read more at Business Insider)
(406 hits) (0 comments) Microsoft's patent is for a keyboard with a small prism under each key. This prism has enough sides to reflect four different beams of light onto the key above it.
To display a character, the keyboard shines light in the shape of the character onto a prism. The beam reflects off of the prism onto the underside of a key, which then displays the character.
However, because these key markings are just beams of light, they can be changed on the fly. This gives them an advantage over keyboards with printed or etched keys, which stay that way for life.
(Read more at Makeuseof.com)
(18 hits) (0 comments) The new patent made public this week reveals an idea for a drone-powered towing system designed for skiers, surfers, skaters, and more.
(Read more at Geekwire)
(39 hits) (0 comments) A new Microsoft patent reveals details about a topic-based summarizer for meetings and presentations. The summarizer would be helpful for people who were unable to attend the meeting or for users to refresh on what occurred during the meeting – without the effort of watching the entire recording.
Targeted towards video conferencing, the system will generate a summary of a session among the users based on the determined relative importance of each statement made during the session to other statements made using hierarchical agglomerative clustering, a bottom-up approach of cluster analysis.
(Read more at Neowin.net)
(30 hits) (0 comments) A coalition of four technology companies - Apple Inc, Google LLC, Cisco Systems Inc, and Intel - have sued the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office over a rule change that allows the agency to decline to review patents that are also being litigated in federal court.
The four companies sued the PTO on Wednesday, alleging it violated administrative law by adopting a policy known as the “NHK-Fintiv rule,” which allows the agency to decline to review patents through proceedings known as inter partes review (IPR).
(Read more at Reuters)
(18 hits) (0 comments) The United States and China find themselves in fierce competition to see which country will dominate the AI landscape and control future implementations of this emerging technology.
(Read more at Forbes)
(57 hits) (0 comments) Apple’s patents give strong clues as to what the company is going to reveal next. So, the AirPods (or AirPods Pro) patent that has just been published may tell us what Apple has planned for users of its popular in-ear headphones. And it comes in the same week as rumors of a new virtual exercise service from the company.
(Read more at Forbes)
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