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This Week's Patent News:
⚡ Nextpower hit with new patent lawsuit. Nextpower faces a major patent suit over solar‑tracking technology, raising investor concerns and increasing pressure on its US‑focused IP strategy.
🏛️ UPC rejects Amazon’s motion in InterDigital case. The UPC denied Amazon’s request to pause InterDigital’s injunction, intensifying legal pressure and complicating Amazon’s appeal strategy.
📘 EU Parliament sues Commission over SEP Regulation withdrawal. The European Parliament challenges the Commission for abruptly withdrawing the SEP Regulation, escalating institutional conflict over future patent‑licensing policy.
🔧 Health Discovery Corp. sues Nvidia for patent infringement. Health Discovery accuses Nvidia of infringing machine‑learning diagnostic patents, targeting GPU‑accelerated medical‑analysis technologies in a significant US lawsuit.
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BOE - 52
Apple - 48
LG- 48
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✈️ The Jet Bridge
How Frank Der Yuen Made Boarding Less of a Balancing Act.
There was a time when air travel meant braving the elements just to reach your seat.
Rain in your face. Snow on your shoulders. Wind determined to steal your hat and possibly introduce it to a jet engine.
Boarding an airplane was less “glamorous Jet Age” and more “running of the bulls, on stairs.”
Enter Frank Der Yuen, a Hawaiian engineer with a knack for removing unnecessary risk from modern life. In the late 1950s, he engineered what would become the passenger boarding bridge: a telescoping, enclosed walkway that connected the airport gate directly to the aircraft door. Think of it as a drawbridge, except instead of knights in armor, it ushered in families, business travelers, and wide-eyed tourists, coats dry and dignity intact.
The timing couldn’t have been better. The early 1960s marked the arrival of the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8, jets that demanded faster, smoother, and more orderly boarding. Airlines eager to project modernity embraced the jet bridge as both a functional upgrade and a visual symbol of progress.
Passengers loved it. No more clambering up icy stairs in heels. No more wrestling luggage in the wind. Boarding became calm, predictable, and almost civilized.
Today, the jet bridge is so routine we barely notice it. Yet every time we walk through that quiet tunnel toward seat 27B, we’re beneficiaries of Der Yuen’s foresight, proof that the best inventions don’t dazzle. They simply make life work better.
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Trivia
Who co-invented the “Einstein refrigerator”?
A) Einstein and Planck
B) Einstein and Bohr
C) Einstein and Szilárd
D) Einstein and Curie
Please scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to find out.
Featured Inventor
🧠 The Architect of Motion Tolerant Biometrics
How Dr. Steven LeBoeuf helped make wearable health monitoring possible at scale.
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf isn’t just an inventor with more than 100 patents. He is one of the quiet architects behind modern wearable health sensing, the kind now found on wrists, in earbuds, and inside fitness gear around the world.
Long before Apple and Samsung made heart-rate tracking feel inevitable, LeBoeuf was solving the hardest problem in optical biosensing: motion. Traditional photoplethysmography (PPG) worked only when users stayed still.
Real life, of course, refused to cooperate. Through years of work on motion-tolerant PPG, LeBoeuf helped transform optical sensing from a lab curiosity into a practical, everyday technology.
As President and Co-Founder of Valencell, he guided this breakthrough out of research and into real products, partnering across consumer electronics, medical devices, and audio: from global technology firms to hearing-health leaders like Starkey. A former GE scientist turned entrepreneur, LeBoeuf moved seamlessly from optoelectronics labs to the global wearables’ ecosystem, where his work now underpins a wide range of health-monitoring devices.
Following Valencell’s acquisition in 2024 and the launch of Quellios in 2025, LeBoeuf continues to focus on the same core question that has defined his career: how do sensors move from data collection to meaningful health outcomes?
Without motion-tolerant biometrics, wearables wouldn’t have scaled, and digital health would still be standing still.
Today in Patent History
🍋 Small invention. Big usability. Even everyday problems deserve elegant solutions.
On January 6, 1891, the U.S. Patent Office issued U.S. Patent No. 444,063 for a lemon squeezer, a reminder that not every meaningful invention reshapes industries.
Some simply make daily life easier. At a time when patents ranged from heavy machinery to early electrical systems, this humble kitchen tool solved a small but universal problem: extracting juice efficiently, cleanly, and by hand. Its genius lay in simplicity.
The lemon squeezer stands as a quiet counterpoint to world-changing technologies, proving that innovation does not always roar. Sometimes, it just squeezes.
U.S. Patent No. 444,063
Introducing New Data Products and Enhancements
💡From INVENT to INVEST — Just One Letter (and One Vault) Away |
INVENT and INVEST are nearly identical. Swap the N for an S, and you turn ideas into impact. |
And bridging the gap is the UpFront Research Reports Vault, your toolkit to transform invention into opportunity.
Scientists have discovered that melittin, a compound in honeybee venom, can destroy aggressive breast cancer cells within an hour while leaving healthy cells mostly unharmed. The finding opens the door to safer, more targeted cancer treatments, especially for hard-to-treat types like triple-negative and HER2-enriched breast cancer.
This UpFront Research report summarizes Patents, prolific inventors, companies doing research, and attorney having subject matter expertise on this topic. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals and Polytherics Limited are the leading companies doing research. |
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Centurion Patentors
Congratulations to last week's Centurion Patentors! |
The Centurion Patentors are 0.185% of ALL Inventors worldwide who hold more than one hundred U.S. patents. They are the Navy SEALs of innovation. They don’t just have good ideas once; they’ve built a discipline, a repeatable process for turning thought into impact. |
We are excited to welcome the following inventors into these prestigious patent clubs: |
Trivia
Answer: C) Einstein and Szilárd ✅
🧊 Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd patented this silent, freon-free refrigerator in 1930.
Recommendations
Is This The Next Billion-Dollar A.I Acquisition?
Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion. Amazon bought Ring for over $1 billion. Each move was a calculated bet on the future of connected living.
Now, Apple is entering the smart home war—launching Face ID-powered smart locks and in-home displays hubs. As the giants race to dominate the $158B smart home market, one critical category remains wide open… and ripe for innovation:
Smart window shades.
It’s the most boring thing in your home—and the biggest opportunity. From apartments to offices to hotels, shades cover billions of windows—and yet, not one major player has owned this space. Until now – meet RYSE.
This startup is leading the charge in smart shade automation with patented technology that works with any window shade or blind—turning it smart in minutes.
And the traction is real: 💡 10 granted patents protecting their IP 📈 Over $15M in lifetime revenue 🚀 200% YoY growth
Just like how Ring reinvented doorbells and Nest reimagined thermostats, RYSE is defining the future of smart shades—and could be the next prime acquisition in a trillion-dollar ecosystem.
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