$2,000 awarded for AIIA 3D imaging patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Umesh Kumar and Guddu Yadav, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on claim 17 of U.S. Patent 10,979,693, owned by the Artificial Intelligence Imaging Association Inc., an NPE and entity of R. Hewen & Co., LLC. The '693 patent relates to a stereoscopic imaging device for capturing 3D images and video with a wide field of view. The disclosed system is designed to support virtual reality use by immersing a user in a simulated environment created from the captured 3D content. The patent has been in a complaint seeking declaratory judgments of noninfringement, invalidity, and unenforceability filed by Plus One Robotics.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. 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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

• Non-Linear Filter for Gyroscope-Based Video Stabilization, (“Bell et al.”)

• Joint Subspace Stabilization for Stereoscopic Video, (“Liu et al.”)

• US 8896713

$2,000 awarded for Gaea data storage patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Umesh Kumar and Josh Beck, who split $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 12,265,715, owned by Gaea LLC, an NPE. The ‘715 patent relates to a data storage device—especially an SSD—that uses configurable, policy-based handling of data rather than fixed manufacturer-set behavior. It has been asserted against Samsung and Meta.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. 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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

• US 9069703

• US 10289547

• Willow: A User-Programmable SSD (“Willow”)

$2,000 awarded for High Velocity Capital media patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Umesh Kumar and Ketan Sachdeva, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,249,912, owned by High Velocity Capital LLC, an NPE. The '912 patent relates to a method and system for analyzing and optimizing advertising effectiveness across various media platforms.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. 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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

• US 20050283792

• US 20070250901

• Effects of Program Responses (“Moorman”)

• US 20070055986

$4,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, cryptographic patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to cryptographic systems. The ‘062 patent has been asserted against MARA Holdings, Core Scientific, and Foundry Digital LLC.

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 7020281 - Timing Attack Resistant Cryptographic System

Winner - Umesh Kumar

Winning Submissions: "Speeding up the computations on an elliptic curve using addition-subtraction chains" by François Morain and Jorge Olivos (1990); “Minimum weight modified signed-digit representations and fast exponentiation,” by Jedwab, J. & Mitchell, C.J. (1989); “Speeding up Elliptic Cryptosystems by Using a Signed Binary Window Method" by Kenji Koyama and Yukio Tsuruoka (1993)

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US 8666062 - Performing Finite Field Calculations

Winners - Umesh Kumar & Ketan Sachdeva

Winning Submissions: US 7069287; “Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Smart Cards Without Coprocessors,” Adam D. Woodbury, Daniel V. Bailey, and Christof Paar (2000)

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$2,000 awarded for Mov-Ology electronic forms patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Nisha Devi, Ekta Aswal, SP Ragupathy, and Umesh Sharma, who shared an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,286,282, owned and asserted by Mov-Ology, LLC, an NPE. The patent relates to methods to retrieve data from partially completed electronic forms and use the retrieved data to identify the consumer who accessed the electronic form. The patent has been asserted against Oracle, BigCommerce, Temenos AG, Formisimo, and Mouseflow ApS.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. 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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

• US 6651217

• US 20080104500

• US 8190693

• US 20130227386