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Latest health & biotech patents, Page 2

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.

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  1. Sony · Published Sep 24

    Sony Patents a Method to Spot Cancer Cells by Comparing Dyed and Undyed Tissue Samples

    Sony has filed a patent for a cell-analysis method that runs the same AI scan on two versions of a tissue sample, one chemically dyed and one left untreated, then uses the difference to decide whether a target cell is truly abnormal. The idea is that the dye alone shouldn't be doing the heavy lifting in a positive result.

  2. Google · Published Sep 17

    Google Patents a Fingertip Blood Pressure Sensor Built Into Everyday Devices

    Google has filed a patent for a blood pressure sensor small enough to fit under one fingertip, designed to be built directly into phones, tablets, or other personal devices. No cuff, no separate gadget, just a touch.

  3. Sony · Published Sep 3

    Sony Files Patent for a System That Predicts Sleepwalking Before You Fall Asleep

    Sony has filed a patent for a system that reads your body's signals before you go to sleep and assigns a score predicting how likely you are to sleepwalk that night. If the risk is high, a second system watches for the moment it actually starts.

  4. Sony · Published Aug 6

    Sony Patents a Skin-Worn Light Therapy Patch That Lets Your Skin Breathe

    Sony is working on a flexible light-emitting patch you wear directly on your skin, designed to deliver light therapy without trapping heat or moisture underneath it.

  5. X (Google) · Published Jul 30

    Google Patents AI System That Recommends Gene Modifications to Boost Biological Yields

    X Development, Alphabet's moonshot lab, has filed a patent for a system that uses AI to recommend specific genetic changes to living cells, with the goal of making those cells produce more of whatever useful substance they're engineered to make.

  6. Sony · Published Jul 16

    Patent: Brain-Reading Safety Check Could Stop Mind-Controlled Devices From Going Haywire

    What if your brain-computer interface could act on a thought you didn't actually mean to send? Sony is patenting a device designed to catch and block unintended or unauthorized commands before they reach the outside world.

  7. Sony · Published Jun 25

    Sony Patents a System That Tracks Environmental Decline by Scanning Plant Root Bacteria

    Sony is best known for televisions and PlayStation consoles, but a newly published patent reveals the company is working on technology to assess the health of entire ecosystems by analyzing the microscopic life living on and around plants.

  8. Sony · Published Jun 18

    Sony Files Patent for a Device That Decides If You Need Medical Treatment

    Sony is stepping into medical decision-making territory with a patent for a device that can assess a patient's condition and automatically determine whether they need treatment — no doctor required at that first step.

  9. IBM · Published May 14

    IBM Patents a System That Catches Forgotten Meals and Calculates Insulin Doses

    Forgetting to log a meal is one of the most common — and dangerous — mistakes in insulin-dependent diabetes management. IBM's new patent describes a system that notices you ate something even when you didn't tell it you did.

  10. Google · Published May 14

    Google Patents a Stacked Membrane Method for Point-of-Care Diagnostic Tests

    Google has quietly filed a patent covering how to manufacture the layered membrane strips inside point-of-care diagnostic tests — the kind of rapid test you'd use at home or a clinic to get an instant result. It's a manufacturing process patent, not a sensor or AI play, which makes it an unusual move for a software giant.

  11. Google · Published May 7

    Google Patents an AI System That Scores Your Heart's Biological Age

    Your heart might be biologically older — or younger — than your birth certificate says. Google is patenting a system to tell you exactly how much, and then nudge you to close the gap.

  12. X (Google) · Published Apr 30

    X Development Patents AI-Guided Optimization for Biological Synthesis Processes

    X Development — Alphabet's moonshot lab — is building an AI system that doesn't just optimize biological processes for scientific performance, but for economic viability too. It's a rare attempt to close the loop between the lab bench and the balance sheet.

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