Latest health & biotech patents
Health sensors, diagnostics and medical research from Big Tech, including Google's Verily and Sony. The health tech and medical device patent applications we have broken down from the companies we track, newest first.
- in the Nov 12 release
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- in November so far
- 3
- filings tracked
- 24
- last 90 days
- 15
This month's biotech patents
November 2026 so far · 3 filings covered · refreshes every week
Patentlyze has covered 3 biotech filings from IBM and Microsoft in November so far. IBM filed on a dimpled chip surface that helps sensors detect proteins in blood and on a pain treatment system matched to a patient's sleep, mood, and activity patterns. Microsoft filed on an AI tool that guides technicians to seizure spikes in brain scans.
Recent filings
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IBM · Published Nov 5
IBM Patents a Dimpled Chip Surface That Helps Sensors Spot Proteins in Blood
Blood is salty, and that salt can hide the very proteins a sensor is trying to find. IBM's patent application tries to get around it by covering a chip's sensing surface with pits only a few dozen nanometers wide.
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Microsoft · Published Nov 5
Microsoft Files Patent for AI That Points Technicians to Seizure Spikes in Brain Scans
Reviewing a single brain scan session for epilepsy can take a technician about 10 hours. Microsoft's filing describes an AI that puts the clips most likely to show seizure activity in front of them first.
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IBM · Published Nov 5
IBM Files Patent for Pain Treatment Matched to Sleep, Mood and Activity Patterns
Ask a doctor about chronic pain and you usually get one number from one to ten. IBM's patent application describes a system that looks at your sleep, mood, movement and medication instead, then suggests a treatment to match.
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DeepMind (Google) · Published Oct 29
Google DeepMind Files Patent for AI That Flags Disease-Causing Changes in Proteins
A genetic test can turn up a long list of tiny changes in your proteins, and the hard part is knowing which one actually causes illness. This Google DeepMind filing describes an AI that ranks them by how out of place each change looks, using the same protein from many related species as a guide.
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Verily (Google) · Published Oct 15
Verily Files Patent for a Contact Lens That Changes Focus to Slow Nearsightedness
Standard glasses fix your blurry view but do nothing to stop the eye from stretching. Verily's patent covers a contact lens that changes its focus for short stretches to send the eye a different signal.
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IBM · Published Oct 8
IBM Files Patent for Trimming the Run Time of AI Gene Analysis Without Changing Results
IBM has a patent application for making gene-analysis AI run faster, plus a built-in check that going faster didn't change what the AI concludes.
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Sony · Published Oct 8
Sony Files Patent for Zooming Through Giant Tissue Scans Without the Lag
Sony's filing keeps one master set of cell labels on a tissue scan and rebuilds every other zoom level on the fly. The goal is a pathology viewer that doesn't choke when you zoom.
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Verily (Google) · Published Oct 8
Alphabet Spinout Verily Patents a Blood-Sugar Sensor That Sits Under Your Eyelid
Verily's patent application tucks a sensor, as small as 3.5 millimeters long, under your lower eyelid to read blood sugar with invisible light instead of a needle.
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Sony · Published Oct 8
Sony Patents a Surgery Simulator That Makes Virtual Tissue Bleed and Smoke
Sony has filed a patent application for a surgery simulator where a virtual electric scalpel heats virtual tissue until it smokes, and cutting a vessel makes blood flow. The smoke and blood come straight out of a heat simulation of the tissue.
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Verily (Google) · Published Oct 1
Verily Life Sciences Patents a Cancer-Detection Method That Reads Your Breath
A breathalyzer for cancer sounds like science fiction, but Verily Life Sciences has filed a patent describing exactly that: a method where you inhale (or receive) a tracer molecule that hunts down tumor cells, and your breath tells doctors whether they were home.
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Verily (Google) · Published Oct 1
Verily Patents a Contact Lens Case That Knows When You Skip a Wear
Your contact lens case may soon know whether you actually wore your lenses today, or skipped. Verily has filed a patent for a case that uses a tiny light sensor to detect whether lenses are sitting inside, helping track whether wearers are sticking to a prescribed schedule.
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Verily (Google) · Published Oct 1
Google's Health Arm Patents a Layered Brain Implant That Holds Its Own Layers Together
Implants that talk to your brain are only as useful as their ability to stay intact for years inside a living body. This Verily patent focuses on a surprisingly unglamorous problem: keeping a paper-thin electrode assembly from falling apart at the seams.
What we're watching in Biotech
All 33 watchlists →Biotech patent questions, answered
Which companies file the most biotech patents?
Over the last 90 days, Google leads with 7 biotech filings, followed by Sony (4), IBM (3) and Microsoft (1). That is out of 15 biotech filings from all the companies we track in the same period.
How many biotech patents has Big Tech published this month?
3 biotech patent applications from the companies we track have published in November 2026 so far, after 9 in October. Patentlyze has covered 24 biotech filings since May 2026.
What is the newest biotech patent?
IBM Patents a Dimpled Chip Surface That Helps Sensors Spot Proteins in Blood, an IBM filing published November 5, 2026. The latest filings are listed above, newest first.
Does a new biotech patent mean a product is coming?
No. A published application is not a product announcement. Companies file to protect options, and most patented ideas never ship in the form described. What filings do show is which companies are putting research effort into biotech right now.