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 21 countries
IP Shield over 75% of world GDP
Patent Family
ThumbRay® Intellectual Property includes a patent family comprising a positive PCT, a granted European Patent, and 21 national patents, 12 granted and 9 pending.
Granted Patents
Pending Patents
(as of 2022/12/31)
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
Parent Company
an innovative and long-term visionary firm committed to the creation of world-changing inventions
Given the diverse nature and potential business path of each of its inventions, Taurum creates, funds, breeds and parents a different subsidiary/startup for each of them.
All IP shielding and branding an invention end up being owned and managed by the associated subsidiary.
Taurum and subsidiaries share talent force and advisory board.
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.