There’s no pussyfooting around – Miami is producing the technological goods and the U.S. Gov has proven it!
Don’t think that Miami isn’t cranking out high tech goodies, because she is!
Below are just some of best technological inventions coming out of Miami.
There’s a lot of talk back and forth about whether Miami is – or will be – the new Silicon Valley, with a lot of the folks on either side of the debate being for or against the incoming tech businesses. But while all that yammering is going on, a lot of really good stuff is being produced in *Miami and patented.
Miamians are producing technology patents like the Florida orange groves produce citrus products. In July, alone, well over 100 patents were approved for the Miami area. Miami’s strongest patent focus is in the area of Healthcare and Research, where developers have produced a slew of helpful devices and methods to improve our lives – such as, a new treatment for excessive sweating conditions, a new treatment for emotional pain and insomnia, a game to help detect and improve lazy eye in children, a new robotics spine surgery system, a dental implant with a coded upper surface, a method for improving healthcare through social robotics, a new method and system for treating aneurysms, and one for treating ischemic heart disease, too, plus an external hand control for surgical power tools (and let’s hope we never have to see one!) and more.
In keeping up with the Miami spirit – everything isn’t all about work. Miamians have jumped on the fun technology patent wagon, too. They have patented a new golf swing training device, a new kind of fishing lure, a cellphone case that dispenses perfume, recycled yarn fun, two different sexual devices, a musical generating apparatus, and, for those flying first class, a new divan for aircrafts.
Utilitarian continues to be utmost on everyone’s mind, especially since the pandemic. Whatever we can have automated for us, to help us or alert us to disaster, we’re in. And Miami inventors have been busy creating. There’s a new smart firearm with components embedded in it that enable the firearm to determine if a user of the firearm is authorized to use it (and it enables or disables accordingly), plus it can send communication signals to the remote device of the owner. Other useful patents approved in July: a new wireless home phone that receives emergency alerts, a cleaning hand mitt with a selectively invertable scrubbing pad (because you never know!), a vehicle interior environment control device, a new emergency event detection and response system, and a new outage prevention for an electric power distribution grid using smart meter messaging. Oh, there’s also the rigid piston valve that incorporates a solenoid (for those who actually know what a solenoid is!).
Now, for the Silicon Comes to Miami part – where Miamians are on the cutting edge of coding and technology patents and cranking out the best invention technologies – here are just a few patents (of the many) that we can try to explain (look at the list below to see if anything else makes sense to you – oh, those crafty coders!). A system and process for having wireless service value included in a SIM card, a digital wallet with installments and a combo-card, a machine for generating unstructured syntax, a system/apparatus/method for reducing/eliminating the ability of a smart speaker to hear or react to audible communications, a system and method for enabling reusable code across applications of different operating systems, new methods and apparatus for managing risk in digital communications, and a VoIP analog telephone system (hello, VoIP, it’s you again!)
So while everyone is debating about where Miami is on the tech scale, some real Miamians are out there, building, creating and devising to make things happen – whether some people like it or not. We suggest you peruse the list below, because we think you’ll like it. (I mean, come on! A cellphone case that dispenses perfume?!)
List of just SOME of the patents coming out of our amazing Miami brains! Technology & Innovation Miami Strong!
* The patents referenced below are either a Miamian invention, or a Miamian was part of the invention team.
Health and Research Patents
Binocular amblyopic therapy
Blood pump with impeller rinse operation
Combinations of opioid/TLR4 antagonists and acetaminophen for use in the treatment of emotional pain and insomnia
Compositions and methods for treating ischemic heart disease
Convertible examination table
Dental implant with coded upper surface
Elastic band resistance device and method for physical therapy and rehabilitation
External hand control for surgical power tool
Formulation for soft anticholinergic analogs – excessive sweating condition
Ingestible capsule device for collecting fluid aspirates
Interbody fusion system and methods
Medication identification label
Method for isolating cross-reactive aptamer and use thereof
Robotic spine surgery system and methods
Smart bandage for electrochemical monitoring and sensing using fabric-integrated data modulation
Surgical draping holster system
System and method for improving healthcare through social robotics
Systems and methods for treating aneurysms
Therapeutic uses of relacorilant, a heteroaryl-ketone fused azadecalin glucocorticoid receptor mod
ulator
Time-resolved positron emission tomography encoder system for producing real-time, high resolution, three dimensional positron emission tomographic image without the necessity of performing image reconstruction
VAD with intra-housing fluid access ports
Fun Patents
Apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for generating musical pieces
Cellphone case that dispenses perfume
A newly designed fishing lure
Golf swing training device and method of use
Magnetic mount string light apparatus
Stimulation device
Suspended theater edge actuated seat moving machine
Suspended theater with edge actuators
Three-place berthing aircraft divan
Yarn manufactured from recycled clothing fibers and process for making same
Useful Patents
Antenna assembly for portable radio
Automated plant sleeve production assembly
Automatic shutdown device for battery-powered electronics
Cleaning hand mitt with selectively invertable scrubbing pad
Device coupling for a motor
Emergency event detection and response system
Eyewear lens or optical film with decorative dichromic mirror pattern having variable opacity
Flexible eyewear assembly
Intermediate node to power submarine cable system
Managing content on a social network
Method and system to amplify and measure breath analytes
Outage prevention in an electric power distribution grid using smart meter messaging
Power transfer and harvesting system having anchor-shaped antennas
Rigid piston valve incorporating a solenoid
Rotationally deployed non-blocking firearm mirror accessory
Shape memory-based self-healing polymer composite reinforced with graphene foam
Sliding and rotatable vented damper for the control of a fluid through a conduit
Smart firearm
Systems and methods for repurposing paid time off
Utilizing IOT devices for detecting an emergency and locating a convenient parking space
Vehicle interior environment control
Wireless home phone configured for receiving emergency alerts
Technology / Coding Patents
Ambient project management
Apparatus, system and method for electronic gaming
Automated document filtration and priority scoring for document searching and access
Automated document filtration with machine learning of annotations for document searching and access
Codex search patterns
Codex search patterns virtual maestro
Computer system providing SAAS application session state migration features and related methods
Device and process for data throttling for wireless device
Digital wallet with installments and combo-card
Display panel or portion thereof with a transitional graphical user interface
Docking station accessory device for connecting electronic module devices to a package
Enhanced authentication method using dynamic geographical location information
Global motion estimation and modeling for accurate global motion compensation for efficient video processing or coding
Machine for generating unstructured syntax
Method and system for generating a virtual user interface related to a totem
Methods and apparatus for calibrating RFID readers and related RFID locationing systems
Methods and apparatus for managing risk in digital communications of the industrial internet of things
Secure messaging system with constrained user actions for ensured compliant transmission of sensitive information
Selecting a version of an application
Sensor based system and method for augmenting insurance claim filing
System and method for enabling reusable code across applications of different operating systems
System and method for gaining access of devices based on user’s identity
System and process for having wireless service value included in a SIM card
System, apparatus, and method for reducing or eliminating the ability of a smart speaker to hear or react to audible communications
Systems and methods for operating a display system based on user perceptibility
Systems and methods for providing remote desktop access
Totem controller having an illumination region
Transporter segmentation for data capture system
VoIP analog telephone system
Wireless service card having machine readable codes and device and process for use therewith
Visit the Miami Patent and Trademark Resource Center if you have some good ideas!
Research (and patent copy descriptions): patft.uspto.gov
Photo credit of cute cat: Manja Vitolic