the Ultimate Data-Input Wearable
a revolutionary invention on a one-hand worn eyes-free haptic data-input device that detects thumb-to-finger interactions via electromagnetic sensing with minimal hand instrumentation
Potential
- become a universal standard for one-handed eyes-free input devices used in mobile scenarios
- turn into the ultimate gadget in Wearable Electronics
Advantages
- fully frees 1 hand
- allows eyes-free use
- preserves natural haptic feedback of palm and fingertips (worn only on thumb tip, base of several fingers and part of the wrist)
- accepts discrete and continuous inputs (text, commands, pointing..)
- replaces keyboard, mouse and keypad (by a much smaller wearable device)
- suppresses need for onscreen keyboards (those that pop up on mobile phone screens)
- worn and carried with comfort (key elements are just a thimble and 1-4 rings)
- multi-functional (keyboard, pointer, biometric authenticator..)
Target industries
The ThumbRay® invention may attract any firms that design, manufacture or commercialize interfacing devices between humans and computers, e.g. companies in the industries of technological consumer goods such as:
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Computers and Laptops
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Mobile phones and Tablets
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Peripherals
Applications
ThumbRay® can integrate, in one single device, different functionalities:
- entering of alphanumeric characters or commands (as with a keyboard or a keypad),
- entering of pointing data (as with a mouse, a trackball, a touchpad or a joystick), or
- user authentication via biometrics
Hence, it can be used in any applications where humans transmit alphanumeric, pointing, commanding or hand-based biometric data to electronic or computing devices.
THE PATENTS
Patents in key countries of the world
Patent Family
ThumbRay® IP comprises a positive PCT, a granted European Patent, and multiple national patents, a majority of them granted.
Granted Patents
international / regional patents:
national patents:
Pending Patents
(as of 2023/12/31)
Property & Authorship
Majority owner of the invention’s Intellectual Property is ThumbRay Technologies SL.
Inventor and minority owner is Daniel Sáenz Löbsack.
Patent Drawings
Patent Excerpts
About patents in general
THUMBRAY TECHNOLOGIES
a Deep Tech startup, built around the Thimble & Ring Data-input Wearable, a high-tech engineering invention
Key Milestones
- 💡 developed the ThumbRay technology
- ⭐️ received grant for the European Patent
- 🌐 filed global patenting procedure PCT and obtained fully positive report
- 💰 obtained subsidies and grants from the Spanish Patent & Trademark Office (OEPM) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
- 👊🏻 built endorsement from solid international non-executive advisory board comprising strategists, executives, entrepreneurs, scientists and academics
- ⭐️ achieved granted patents for 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 🇫🇷 France, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, and 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
- ⭐️ generated patents pending of grant for 🇺🇸 USA, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇮🇳 India, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇰🇷 Korea, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇮🇱 Israel, 🇸🇬 Singapore, and 🇵🇭 Philippines
- 💰 assured funding to maintain IP until 2024
- 🎖 selected finalist of the international Deep Tech & Deep Science Startups Competition at the European Meeting on Science, Technology & Innovation, TRANSFIERE Málaga 2022
- ✍🏻 signed MOU with established award-winning Deep Tech company, specialised in implantable and high-density microelectronics.
- 🔬 initiated collaborative agreements with miscellaneous R&D institutions and agents
- 🎖 selected finalist of the of the Premios +50 Emprende 2023, a Spanish senior entrepreneurship competition.
- 💻 developed first virtual model with only 17 thimble sensor and 1 ring with 2 ring sensors to prove easy coverage of 66 languages based on Roman alphabet
- 👩🔬 developed first mockup prototypes of the device
- 💰 awarded EU Next Generation aid (“Activa Startup”) to contract development of 1st ThumbRay’s functional prototypes
Parenting Company
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Talent Force
This innovation venture has become a reality thanks to the excellent work of a smart international team of talent: a selective worldwide spread set of independent lawyers, engineers, accountants and creative professionals which have been coordinated by the firm’s CEO, in turn supported and guided by a solid advisory board.
Advisory Board
We are endorsed and counselled by a solid international panel of non-executive advisors comprising relevant strategists, executives, entrepreneurs, scientists and academics.
The joint expertise of this extraordinary board covers not only a wide and rich span of wisdom but also an extensive worldwide footprint of influence.