mPhase Technologies, Inc. focuses on software relating to artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable commercial development of its patent portfolio and other intellectual property.
In February 2019, the company announced the formation of mPhase Technologies India, Pvt, Ltd to focus on software and technology development for new and existing projects. In February 2019, the company announced that it has commenced discussions with a global pharmaceutical company to explore the use of i...
mPhase Technologies, Inc. focuses on software relating to artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable commercial development of its patent portfolio and other intellectual property.
In February 2019, the company announced the formation of mPhase Technologies India, Pvt, Ltd to focus on software and technology development for new and existing projects. In February 2019, the company announced that it has commenced discussions with a global pharmaceutical company to explore the use of its ‘Smart Surface’ technology for transdermal drug delivery. The company’s technology uses electronic or other external stimulus to dispense an unattended, predetermined quantity of drug or medical agent through a smart surface membrane.
In March 2019, the company announced the acquisition of Travel Buddhi, a software platform to improve travel through ultra-customization tools that tailor a planned trip experience.
During 2021, the company announced that it would be adding 5G and EV charging to its consumer engagement platform as part of a major strategic focus to monetize additional points of contact during consumer travel and travel planning. As of July 2021, the company planned pilot programs in 5G and EV charging, as part of a major strategy to build an AI-driven consumer ecosystem.
mPower EV/5G Consumer Engagement Platform
The company is building an AI-driven, global consumer engagement platform that incorporates both patented in-house and third-party technologies to support adoption and use. To create this ecosystem, it is utilizing the technology and teams from its CloseComms Limited (CloseComms) consumer engagement group and its Travel Buddhi trip planning experts and other engineering teams. The company onboarded experts in EV charging and 5G communication to create new points of contact for this emerging platform. The completed platform would be designed to learn individual consumer preferences to match retail and other promotional activities to consumer behavior during travel. The platform would enable travelers to customize their experience, including tailoring to create a set of tools for the ‘green’ consumer.
The consumer engagement portion of the platform is tested at major quick service restaurant chains, including Subway, while the technology segments in 5G and EV charging are in the pilot planning phase. The focus is to have a full ecosystem in pilot mode by the end of 2021. The platform creates multiple monetizable points of contact under a hybrid SaaS/TaaS model.
The 5G portion of the platform is also being developed to target municipal and other government entities seeking to develop networks for education and other public services.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
The company has a team of software engineers and data analysis experts capable of enabling it to provide products in the artificial intelligence and machine learning areas. Additionally, through its transaction with CloseComms, the company has contracted with software engineer consultants enabling it to provide retail customers major customer data, while enabling AI-enhanced, targeted promotions to drive store traffic and sales. The company has in place and is developing proprietary software to enable customers to improve their business capabilities by providing digital analysis of volumes of data to provide solutions to major problems.
Smart Surfaces
The company’s technology platform is the Smart Surface. By being able to control the surface properties of materials down to the nanometer scale, new and improved devices could be designed and built that might lead to compelling business opportunities. One type of smart surface of particular interest allows properties to be changed in response to an external stimulus.
Initially, the company’s development focused on Micro Electronic Mechanic Systems (MEMS) devices by manipulating the surface of silicon materials – the same material used to make microelectronic materials and devices.
Synthetic hydrophobic surfaces include Scotchgard treated fabric, Teflon coated metal, or Rain-X coated glass. On a hydrophobic surface, water beads up and could move around without being absorbed by the solid material that it is resting on.
As the company’s research and development efforts evolve, in addition to silicon materials, the ability to control the surface properties of materials could be extended to other substances, such as polymers, ceramics, metals, and fibers providing opportunities for its platform technology to be used in a range of potential applications, such as energy storage and power management for portable electronics and microelectronics, self-cleaning surfaces, filters for water purification or desalination systems, materials for environmental remediation that separate liquids or solvents, and other situations where the control of the interaction of a solid surface exposed to a liquid is major.
Smart NanoBattery
The company engages in using their proprietary superhydrophobic porous silicon membrane technology as the basis to build the Smart NanoBattery, a reserve battery providing Power On Command prior to initial activation. It has fabricated and demonstrated its first 3-volt lithium-based Smart NanoBattery, based on a design allowing either manual or remote activation by the user, the feature known as Power on Command.
Strategic Alliances
The company continued during 2020, together with Picatinny Arsenal, to jointly seek federal funding under Small Business Innovative Research grants to develop additional new products for military small munitions applications. The company has a cooperative relationship for product development and testing with Picatinny Arsenal having entered into 3 Cooperative Research and Development Agreements with this small munitions testing facility of the U.S. Army.
Patents and Licenses
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
The company is evaluating various aspects of its artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies and would file for protective patents and maintain existing patents as determined appropriate.
Nano Technology, MEMS and Battery Portfolio:
Various aspects of the company’s technology are protected by patents either owned directly by it or with respect to which it has sub-licensing rights. The company’s battery related patent portfolio consists of ten issued or licensed patents, of which one is jointly owned with Nokia Corporation, and five are licensed from Nokia Corporation. These cover such aspects of the technology as the ability to use electrowetting to create a moveable liquid lens, methodology and apparatus for reducing friction between a fluid and a body, methodology for etching planar silicon substrates to develop a reserve battery device, methodology and apparatus for controlling the flow resistance of a fluid on nanostructured or microstructured surfaces, methodology for creating a structured membrane with controllable permeability, methodology for a nanostructured battery with end of life cells, and methodology for making a multi-cell battery system with multiple chemistries in each individual cell of the battery pack. Some of these patents are specific to the development of a battery device, while others are primarily generalized. The company has four patent applications that are subject to reinstatement, of which three, it intends to submit for reinstatement.
Other Patents
The company has obtained trademark protection for its mPower Emergency Illuminator and mPower on Command.
In July 2009, the company filed for 3 new patents covering the design features of its manually-activated lithium reserve battery and emergency flashlight products.
In May 2011, the company announced that it had been granted a U.S. patent for multi-chemistry battery architecture.
In February 2012, the company filed a U.S. provisional patent with the USPTO for a Non-Pump Enabled Drug Delivery System.
In February 2013, the provisional patent application was converted to a patent application entitled Drug Delivery System.
History
mPhase Technologies, Inc., a New Jersey corporation, was founded in 1979.
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