Prior Art

$4,000 for Transparent Wireless wireless patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Transparent Wireless Systems, LLC, an NPE. The '034 patent relates to a wireless parking payment and enforcement system for both street parking and closed garages. The '506 patent relates to smartphone-based access control for facilities, especially parking garages.

The contests will expire on July 18, 2026. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

US 9123034 - Wireless Parking Payment and Enforcement System

US 10783506 - Access Control to Secure Facilities

$6,000 awarded for Gaea data storage patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $6,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Gaea LLC, an NPE. The patents relate to storage devices with controller and memory that enforce storage policies for content handling. They have been asserted against Samsung and Meta.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

US 10776023 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device

Winners - Brooklyn Sasumata, Matyas Rathonyi, Joshua Beck

Winning Submission: US 20080002272, US 9002795; Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Project Documents

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US 11327669 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device

Winner - Guddu Yadav

Winning Submissions: SCSI OBSD Command Set Proposal

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US 11907553 - Content Retrieval from a Data Storage Device

Winners - Ketan Sachdeva, Umesh Kumar

Winning Submissions: US 7882320, US 8484736, Willow: A User-Programmable SSD

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$4,000 for Digital River media access patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Digital River Inc., an NPE and entity of Danube Private Holdings II, LLC. The patents relate to account-based systems for controlling access to online media.

The contests will expire on July 11, 2026. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

US 8566461 - Network Media Access Control

US 9043481 - Network Media Access Control

Chargelogic EV battery patent prior art found

The team at Unified used Pearl to successfully identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 10,090,567, asserted and owned by ChargeLogic LLC, an NPE. The ‘567 patent relates to chargers and other technology to control charging, use, user-notifications, and optimization of the battery. It has been asserted against Tesla.

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Magma Scientific neural network patent prior art found

The team at Unified used Pearl to successfully identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 11,328,206, owned by Magma Scientific, LLC, an NPE and entity of Bedrock IP Co., Ltd. The ‘206 patent relates to using deep neural networks to predict and optimize computing-device or processor behavior, especially microarchitecture operations.

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