The subject areas we have conducted research on and built solutions for.
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Patents and writing under this tag treat artificial intelligence and machine learning as building blocks inside a larger system: data analysis, predictive models, and methods that improve with use, rather than AI as a product category by itself.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover how a system decides who may access data and how that access is proven: authorization, authentication, and privacy controls, largely in healthcare and finance.
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Patents and writing under this tag treat blockchain as a specific technical mechanism, a shared and tamper-evident ledger, and cover the applications that actually need that property rather than a database with extra steps.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover the mechanics of organizing, storing, and retrieving data at scale: infrastructure other products are built on, not a product in its own right.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover methods for estimating what a specific dataset is worth for a specific use, as distinct from data volume or data quality on their own.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover monitoring the operating condition of a device itself, such as a medical device, separate from monitoring the patient or user it serves.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover digital and mobile payment mechanisms: how a transaction is authorized, transmitted, and settled electronically.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover measuring and responding to an organization's public reputation signals online, distinct from the marketing or PR work that acts on them.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover electronic medical records, the digital record of a patient's history, and the access, integration, and security work that surrounds it.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover collecting and reconciling feedback from many contributors into a single usable signal: the underlying mechanism, not any one feedback product.
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Treating patents, disclosures, and marks as assets that have to be tracked, maintained, and put to work. Writing here covers portfolio upkeep, what independent inventors contribute, and how a small holder keeps a filing useful years after grant.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover automation built into medical devices themselves: monitoring, control, and decision support inside the device rather than layered on top of it afterward.
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Patents and writing under this tag treat natural language processing as an underlying capability, extracting structure and meaning from text, used inside other products rather than sold as NLP by itself.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover near-field communication as a short-range wireless mechanism, and the specific problems it solves in payments and device pairing that other wireless methods do not.
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How rights change hands. Writing here covers what a licensee should look for in a portfolio, how open families across several industries make a licence worth more, and what terms hold up once a product ships.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover matching educational content to an individual learner's context and pace, an earlier name for what this site now treats more fully under Precision Education.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover diagnosing the condition of equipment or a device from a distance, using sensors and data transmission instead of an in-person inspection, in healthcare, automotive, and manufacturing.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover remote patient monitoring: collecting a patient's vital signs and health data outside a clinical setting and getting it to the people who need to act on it.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover sentiment analysis: determining whether text expresses a positive, negative, or neutral view, and using that signal at scale across support tickets, reviews, and social content.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover automating routine service-delivery workflows: reducing the manual steps between a request and its completion.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover software inventions broadly, where the innovation is in the method or system rather than in a specific device or biological mechanism.
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Buying or licensing inventions rather than filing them. Writing here covers sourcing from independent inventors, judging what a filing is worth to a specific product line, and where an acquired patent changes a competitive position.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover automating discrete tasks inside a larger workflow, as distinct from automating an entire process end to end.
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Patents and writing under this tag cover telemedicine: delivering diagnosis, consultation, or treatment over telecommunications rather than in person.