Jaiganesh Balakrishnan filed his first patent when he did a PhD at Cornell University at the end of the nineties.
“We have come with an efficient architecture for pulse formation modules (the process of making a signal transmitted more suitable for its purpose), and my mentor told me that the job was quite new to file patents.
I was excited, but did not convince that.
At Rear, clearly visible.
And that’s what feels a lot of inventors, that what they have done is not worthy of patented, “he said.
Balakrishnan is the main architect and colleague in Texas Instruments, a company he followed immediately after completing a PhD in 2002.
He today holds 75 patents.
It’s an average patent every three months.
How did he maintain such a productive rate? He said when he and his team worked on problem solving, they did not start the process of thinking about how to submit a patent.
“Starting is about understanding the current state of art in technology, what has been done before, what metrics need to be improved, and then come up with a solution that will improve,” he said.
Once they solve problems effectively, they see a patented area or process, and compile patent ideas.
It is always a by-product of a solution.
Balakrishnan works in a communication and signal processing system and is closely related to the ongoing 5G transformation.
His team works on products that enter the wireless base station.
The aim is to handle fast data downloads and reduce costs per megabyte.
The integrated transceiver system-on-chip (SOC) is a building block from the station.
It uses a large number of antennas to increase data throughput.
“We come with architecture and products that increase the level of integration, and reduce costs,” said Balakrishnan.
He praised his success with a patent to the IT ecosystem.
“IT has a strong system, including the patent review committee to whom the inventor can reveal the idea of ​​his novel.
The Committee evaluates the novelty, impact, and whether the idea can be detected (detection is what allows patent holders to find out whether someone violates patents),” he said.
This process, he said, is effective for making the first patent, which may not recognize the value of this discovery.
Balakrishnan said one key innovation was to understand the sophisticated state of the domain that worked by collaborating with experts in the organization and reading research papers.