Patent Cases Available
January 6, 2026
Interested in taking a pro bono case from Georgia PATENTS? Please contact us at:
Phone: (404) 369-0909 Email: patents@gapatents.org
We are happy to announce that the USPTO is issuing certificates to recognize practitioners who provide at least 50 hours of patent pro bono service to Georgia PATENTS during calendar year 2025. We hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity!
If you are interested in a case below, please email the identifying case information to patents@gapatents.org
Thank you to Ram W. Sabnis, Ph.D of Arclin USA LLC and Jonathan Hummel of Ballard Spahr for taking a case since our last newsletter!
ELECTRIC/COMPUTER
A6086-1-P: The Jirah ARS system
Inventor has carried on the family multi-generation profession of barbering. Inventor has been in the business for 34 years. His invention is an improvement on his previously patented utility cart. His invention is an air cooling, rechargeable, sterilization unit for electrical tools and implements used in the beauty and barber industry. The unit may be stationary or portable and contains a power bank and has the ability to charge and keep charge while in use.
A5798-1-P: AI Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring
The inventor holds dual degrees in electrical and computer engineering and is currently pursuing graduate degrees in biomedical engineering and business administration. Motivated by her desire to improve the lives of relatives with diabetes, hypertension, and cancer, she developed a non-invasive glucose monitor utilizing machine learning algorithms. Unlike existing devices, her invention features adaptive technology, increased data collection, and continuous updates, enabling users proactively seek medical treatment. Inventor has a working prototype.
A2255-3-P: Improvement for Self-Recording Messaging Systems
Inventor has over ten years experience in software development management and over two years experience in software development. She wanted to improve boring, static email and video messaging, as well as enhance user self-esteem through automated, modified content when messaging on the internet. Her invention saves users time, gives them creative control over their appearance in internet messaging, and makes their messages stand out in marketing or storytelling.
A5957-1-P: New type of car accessory
A mother of three and special education teacher has invented a new combined display-and-holder for a car. She noticed a problem with current car accessories, which lacked functional features. Her invention improves upon similar products because it is a single unit with electrical and computer components that are lighter, less costly, more user-friendly, and more versatile.
A6036-1-P: Symbolic Resonance Array
Inventor has a background in computer repair and web design and development. Inventor noted a problem with the energy consumption required in the use of AI. She has created an improvement in neuromorphic hardware using vanadium dioxide tapered pillars arranged in a radial array to enable symbolic processing and resonance-based computation. The invention uses lower power consumption, is compatible with AI, scalable, analogue and has lower maintenance costs. Inventor has a provisional patent.
A6039-3-P: Physics-Constrained Attribution Framework
Inventor has a background in video editing who is well versed in cyber threats and security issues. Inventor noted that a number of videos violate the laws of physics. The invention is a computer-based system that uses the laws of physics to check whether cyber attribution claims are valid. The invention is more accurate than other similar programs giving real-time determination of source and authenticity. As well, it saves the reasoning allowing review of decision outcomes and is a record of decision. Inventor has a number of provisional patents covering different aspects of the invention.
A6039-2-P: Epistemic Validation Framework for Attribution
Inventor noted the high degree of cyber attacks in the financial services industry and wanted to help track and share anonymized data and a database across such institutions. The invention is a computer-based framework that uses logic and probability to verify cyber attribution before information is shared. The invention introduces heightened cybersecurity features to track and share data as well as inform decisions and show trend data. The invention includes an accounting ledger to show why decisions were made and validates threat decisions. The data used as the basis for decisions is stored to permit later auditing.
MECHANICAL
A6686-1-P: Together Forever Burial System
Father (who is also a grand champion BBQ pitmaster, coach, plumber, and devoted children' s hospital volunteer) and daughter (who is also a mother of two, a grandmother, a construction accountant, and advocate for men's breast cancer awareness) have co-invented a unique burial system. They noticed a problem with the traditional burial process after a good friend of theirs had to pay to exhume their loved one to place additional family remains. This invention improves upon similar products because it allows cremated remains of a spouse, pet or loved one to be added into the casket of prior burial from the top of the ground without it having to be dug up. The system will go from the top of the ground through the vault and through the casket into the inside of the casket and be sealed off forever with the marker for the additional remains.
OTHER
A4285-2-P: Improved Rally Flagpole
Inventor is a disabled navy veteran with a civil engineering degree. After attending a rally where flag poles of certain materials were confiscated, he developed an improved rally flagpole that is usable in most jurisdictions. It is light, portable, and weatherproof. Inventor has a working prototype.
Georgia PATENTS thanks the companies, law firms and patent practitioners who earned a 2024 USPTO Patent Pro Bono Certificate.
COMPANIES
Arclin USA LLP
LAW FIRMS
Alston & Bird
Ballard Spahr
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Smith Gambrell Russell
Troutman Pepper Locke
PATENT PRACTITIONERS
Arclin USA LLP
Ram Sabnis
Alston & Bird
Akintunde Akinbola
Alison Davis
Chris Lightner
Carter Reeb
Ballard Spahr
Charley Brown
Alexander Gee
Jonathan Hummel
Jonas Jarvolm
Michele Kliem
Brian Meadows
Alexander Porte
Sandra Sciascia-Zirger
Kristine Waddell
Sommer Zimmerman
Smith Gambrell Russell
Thomas Wiseman
Thompson Hine
Clint King
Georgia PATENTS is pleased to share a new resource for under-resourced inventors:
the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Pro Bono Program. For more information on this Program, please visit: https://www.ptabbar.org/ptab_pro_bono.php
Inventors must meet the same financial criteria as inventors to the Georgia PATENTS Program, but do not need to come through a Patents Pro Bono Program to be eligible for free legal assistance. Volunteers provide free legal assistance in preparing ex parte appeals to the PTAB. This new program is provided through the PTAB Bar Association. Given Georgia PATENTS does not ask its volunteers to assist with appeals (although they may), please refer any inventors seeking assistance with PTAB appeals to:https://ptabbar.org/information_for_inventors.php
Also, if any volunteer for the Patents Pro Bono Program would like to volunteer for the PTAB Pro Bono Program, please submit a volunteer form: https://www.ptabbar.org/ptab_pro_bono.php