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Aug 12, 2026John Cronin

The Next Advantage in Face AI: Edge, Ethics, and the Race to Own It

Why the winners in Face AI will fuse on-device intelligence, demographic fairness, and privacy-preserving tracking, and lock it in with strategic product and IP positions.

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Aug 11, 2026John Cronin

The Multi-Agent AI Moat: Orchestrate Now or Be Orchestrated

A market-facing look at the accelerating patent race in multi-agent AI, the unclaimed white space in orchestration and evaluation, and the product and IP moves that build a durable moat.

A towering stack of glowing white-hot storage blocks inside a dark concrete industrial hall, with a person standing at the base for scale.
Aug 6, 2026Seth Cronin

Thermal storage’s only whitespace is the data center

Antora’s $550 million round landed in a patent field 54,623 families deep and about fifty years old. The only part of it still bending is thermal storage tied to data centers.

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Jul 30, 2026Seth Cronin

The orbital service layer is becoming the real space race

The orbital service layer spans space awareness, rendezvous, servicing, and in-space assembly. A patent landscape shows where the technical and IP positions are forming.

Stacked bar chart titled AI times Cybersecurity: Patent Filings Per Year, 7,043 total patents from 2018 to 2025, split into AI-Assisted (blue) and AI-Autonomous (green). Filings climb sharply each year, and in 2025 AI-Autonomous exceeds AI-Assisted for the first time at roughly 2,000 filings.
Jul 29, 2026John Cronin

AI Cybersecurity Patents Are a Blueprint for Agentic Security

Over 7,000 AI cybersecurity patents filed since 2018, and in 2025 autonomous systems overtook human-in-the-loop. The agentic blueprint already exists.

Donut chart titled AI-Assisted Medical Imaging Patents by Diagnostic Scope 2020 to 2025, total 4,516 patents. Single-Disease Detection 94.7%, Multi-Disease Detection 5.0%, and Cross-Diagnostic Inference just 0.4%, only 16 patents in six years.
Jul 29, 2026John Cronin

Cross-Diagnostic Inference Patents Are Diagnostic AI’s Open White Space

AI can spot heart disease in a mammogram, but cross-diagnostic inference patents are under 1% of AI medical imaging filings, a wide-open white space.

Stacked bar chart titled AI Cancer Diagnostics Patents: Who Owns the Landscape, published patent documents per year 2020 to 2026 stacked by assignee (Grail, Tempus AI, Siemens, Guardant Health, Google/DeepMind, IBM), with separate green bars for Nvidia's broader medical AI patents. A callout notes Nvidia filed 0 cancer-specific patents but holds 185 medical AI patents, and marks the Nvidia-Droplet partnership in March 2026.
Jul 29, 2026John Cronin

Cross-Domain AI Patents Are a Hidden FTO Risk in Medtech

Cross-domain AI patents are a rising freedom-to-operate risk in medtech. Nvidia holds 185 medical AI patents, none cancer-specific, yet many overlap.

Horizontal bar chart titled Reusable Launch Vehicle IP: Who Owns the Claims, patent publications in propulsion, recovery and staging from 2018 to 2026. ArianeGroup 312, Blue Origin 110, Stoke Space 41, Radian Aerospace 15, Rocket Lab 11, Isar Aerospace 9, SpaceX 1, PLD Space 0 filings.
Jul 29, 2026John Cronin

Reusable Launch Vehicle Patents: Who Really Owns the Rocket Race

PLD Space raised $209M, but reusable launch vehicle patents show ArianeGroup, Blue Origin, and Stoke Space already own the technical ground.

Comparison infographic of two failed robotics startups. Rethink Robotics raised $150M and filed 220 patents; HAHN Group acquired its portfolio and the Sawyer robot is still manufactured. K-Scale Labs raised $6.25M, filed 0 patents, open-sourced everything, and investors recovered $0.
Jul 29, 2026John Cronin

The $3,000 Provisional Patent That Outlives a Failed Hardware Startup

For a hardware startup, a $3,000 provisional patent can be the only asset that survives failure. Compare K-Scale Labs and Rethink Robotics.

AI-assisted invent-around work changes the time scale of patent risk. The result is a new kind of vulnerability: portfolio zero-days hiding in claim language.
Jul 28, 2026Seth Cronin

Your Patents Have Zero-Days, and You Don’t Even Know It

AI can suggest possible routes around patent claims, but a credible invent-around still requires experienced claim analysis, structured human invention, and clear conception provenance.

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Jul 23, 2026John Cronin

The Perceived Value of Patents – Invent Anything Ep #73

Invent Anything with John Cronin

The AI race is moving beyond language models. Patent data shows the emerging battleground in world models, multimodal systems, and embodied intelligence.
Jul 23, 2026Seth Cronin

Beyond the LLM Wars: Patent Data Reveals the Real Race to AGI

The AI race is moving beyond language models. Patent data shows the emerging battleground in world models, multimodal systems, and embodied intelligence.

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