Inventing the Future May 15, 2021
GM Global ; Georgia Tech ; Scripps Covid19 Vaccine ; Ceres Coin Stable Blockchain Cannabis
I am testing publishing a second weekly newsletter focused on new patent publications published for the week at the US Patent Office. Each week I will sort through the thousands of new patent publications and highlight three to five interesting new applications published and their current status at the USPTO. I am thinking to have it published sometime Saturday or Sunday for some weekend reading.
For the week of May 13, 2021 there were 7,909 new applications published.
1) An Autonomous Vehicle related application from GM Global Technology $GM 16/679791. Current Status Docketed New Case - Ready for Examination - 01/07/2020. Cantor Colburn LLP is doing the patent prosecution.
The patent application is trying to solve traffic signal management for an autonomous vehicle. Per the patent, the AV needs to determine exactly where the traffic light is located in the field of view. The AV also needs to determine which lane each light signals to drive in. The crux of the invention seems to be using signal phase and timing (SPaT), which I never heard of.
2) Artificial Meniscus application 17/045886 from GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION the licensing arm of Georgia Tech. Per their web page the technology is available for license. More information can be found here. Current Status Application Dispatched from Preexam, Not Yet Docketed - 02/23/2021 . Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC is doing the patent prosecution.
The application discloses an artificial meniscus which includes the following:
a peripheral edge,
an interior edge,
anterior and posterior horns, an inferior surface,
and a superior surface;
a polymer material;
at least one circumferential fiber bundle;
and at least one non-circumferential fiber bundle
wherein the at least one circumferential fiber bundle and the at least one non-circumferential fiber bundle are each embedded in the polymer material, the non-circumferential fiber bundle fully encapsulated within the polymer material, and the circumferential fiber bundle extending out of anterior and posterior horns of the artificial meniscus and terminating in ends that are configured for fixation to bone
3) Stabilized Coronavirus Spike (S) Protein Immunogens and Related Vaccines application 17/087704 from The Scripps Research Institute. Current Status Application Dispatched from Preexam, Not Yet Docketed - 02/03/2021.
The patent application describes an engineered immunogen polypeptide derived from the spike (S) protein of a coronavirus
comprising an altered soluble S sequence that has modifications relative to wildtype soluble S sequence of the coronavirus that stabilize the prefusion S structure
wherein the modifications comprise
(a) a mutation that inactivates the S1/S2 cleavage site, and
(b) a mutation in the turn region between the heptad repeat 1 (HR1) region and the central helix (CH) region that prevents HR1 and CH to form a straight helix during fusion.
4) STABLECOIN AS A MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE ON A BLOCKCHAIN-BASED TRANSACTION NETWORK application 17/098308 from Ceres Coin LLC. Current Status Application Dispatched from Preexam, Not Yet Docketed - 12/07/2020. The parent application of four applications the company had published this week. BANNER & WITCOFF, LTD is doing the patent prosecution.
The patent application describes a system for providing a blockchain-based transaction network for a regulated industry (in this case purchasing cannabis from a legal dispensary), the system comprising:
At least one user device and a stablecoin server for a stablecoin securities entity in network communication with a blockchain-based securities stablecoin platform.
A blockchain transaction network operating on the blockchain-based securities stablecoin platform, the blockchain transaction network connected to a tax agent.
A distributed blockchain ledger operating on the blockchain transaction network, wherein the blockchain transaction network posts and validates one or more transactions between the stablecoin securities entity and one or more participants in a stablecoin ecosystem on the distributed blockchain ledger.
And a SEC qualified stablecoin used as a medium of exchange for the one or more transactions between the stablecoin securities entity and the one or more participants, wherein the one or more transactions include transferring the SEC qualified stablecoins for a product, wherein the blockchain-based securities stablecoin platform automatically provides a tax payment to the tax agent via the blockchain transaction network for the one or more transactions.
Hopefully you enjoyed this newsletter entry. If there is a certain technology type, company, or additional information that you would like to see added, drop me a note at iphawk@outlook.com.