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How 433 Investors Unlocked 400X Return Potential

Institutional investors back startups to unlock outsized returns. Regular investors have to wait. But not anymore. Thanks to regulatory updates, some companies are doing things differently.

Take Revolut. In 2016, 433 regular people invested an average of $2,730. Today? They got a 400X buyout offer from the company, as Revolut’s valuation increased 89,900% in the same timeframe.

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This Week's Patent News:

1. 🏛️ Rex Medical v. Intuitive Surgical. Rex Medical appealed a ruling that reduced its $10 million jury award to just $1 in a surgical stapler patent case. The court found the expert testimony lacked proper apportionment. Rex insists the jury’s original award was justified.

2. 🔍 Oura vs. Ultrahuman Escalates. The smart ring patent feud intensified as Oura accused Ultrahuman of impersonation and Wikipedia sabotage. The dispute now includes allegations of bad faith and cross-border trolling tactics.

3. 🧬 Stanford–Roche–Foresight Diagnostics Settlement. Stanford retained ownership of key cancer detection patents. Roche secured a non-exclusive license after settling a multi-pronged dispute involving trade secrets and unfair competition.

4. 🚗 Qi Wireless Charging Patent Pool Expands. LA’s Qi patent pool added Korean supplier BH EVS, boosting its coverage to nearly half of global automotive suppliers. The pool focuses on standard-essential patents for wireless EV charging.

*Where one patent can have more than one assignee, Entity data assignment as of September 2, 2025

Her 1966 patent featured peepholes, a camera, two-way microphones, and a remote-controlled door lock, essentially, the blueprint for the modern security camera system. With her setup, she could see who was at the door and communicate with them safely. Think of it as an early version of Ring, but without the WiFi glitches.

Despite the brilliance of her invention, security companies were slow to recognize its potential. Eventually, her design became the foundation for the surveillance technology now used in homes, businesses, and high-security facilities worldwide. Today, you have Marie Van Brittan Brown to thank whether you're monitoring a package thief or interrogating a pizza delivery guy who "forgot" your extra cheese.

Brown wasn’t just ahead of her time, she practically invented the future of home security. And while the world eventually caught up, one thing remains true: no one messes with a woman who holds the patent on keeping people out.

Long before Ring doorbells and AI cameras, a nurse from Queens built the first home security system to keep her family safe. Marie Van Brittan Brown’s 1966 invention quietly rewrote the rules of safety at home. Want more stories of hidden inventors who shaped your everyday life? Subscribe and never miss the next breakthrough.

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😁 Zia Chishti: The Man Who Made Braces Disappear

By 2000, they’d raised a war chest of $140 million from Kleiner Perkins, and in 2001 took the company public, cresting a $1 billion valuation. Orthodontists, once skeptical, soon found themselves retrained in the new clear-tray gospel.

Zia stayed at the helm until 2003, then jumped to his next acts: Orthoclear (a short-lived rival Align later bought out for $20 million) and Afiniti, an AI unicorn that quietly optimized call centers while most of us still cursed hold music. Banker, founder, and inventor, Chishti never stopped tinkering.

He may not have been the smiling pitchman type, but he didn’t need to be. Zia Chishti turned orthodontics into software, braces into plastic trays, and dental misery into a multibillion-dollar grin factory.

So the next time you flash your perfectly straight teeth, remember: it all started with one MBA student who just wanted to ditch the metal mouth.

📼 The Compression Breakthrough That Changed How We Watch Everything

Congratulations to last week's Centurion Patentors!
We are excited to welcome the following inventors into these prestigious patent clubs:

🟩 Answer: C. Ketchup bottle 🍅

👉 In the 1990s, Paul Brown, a packaging inventor, patented the upside-down, stay-clean squeeze bottle with a valve cap. First used for shampoo, it was later licensed to Heinz for ketchup. That simple flip, storing the bottle on its cap so ketchup was always ready to pour generated hundreds of millions in revenue and became one of the most lucrative packaging patents in history.

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