Skin-Touching Electromagnetic Sensing WEARABLE
A one-hand worn eyes-free haptic data-input device detecting thumb-to-finger gestures via skin-touching electromagnetic sensing.
The technology is protected with a worldwide family of granted patents.
Potential
- become a universal standard for one-handed eyes-free input devices used in mobile scenarios
- turn into the ultimate gadget in Wearable Electronics
Advantages
- fully frees 1 hand
- allows eyes-free use
- preserves natural haptic feedback of palm and fingertips (worn only on thumb tip, base of several fingers and part of the wrist)
- accepts discrete and continuous inputs (text, commands, pointing..)
- replaces keyboard, mouse and keypad (by a much smaller wearable device)
- suppresses need for onscreen keyboards (those that pop up on mobile phone screens)
- worn and carried with comfort (key elements are just a thimble and 1-4 rings)
- multi-functional (keyboard, pointer, biometric authenticator..)
Target industries
The ThumbRay® invention may attract any firms that design, manufacture or commercialize interfacing devices between humans and computers, e.g. companies in the industries of technological consumer goods such as:
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Computers and Laptops
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Mobile phones and Tablets
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Peripherals
Applications
ThumbRay® can integrate, in one single device, different functionalities:
- entering of alphanumeric characters or commands (as with a keyboard or a keypad),
- entering of pointing data (as with a mouse, a trackball, a touchpad or a joystick), or
- user authentication via biometrics
Hence, it can be used in any applications where humans transmit alphanumeric, pointing, commanding or hand-based biometric data to electronic or computing devices.
⚠️ ANY MAKING, USING, OR SELLING OF A WEARABLE DEVICE
THAT EMPLOYS SKIN-TOUCHING ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING TO DETECT GESTURES
COULD BE AN ACT OF INFRINGEMENT
OF ONE OR MORE PATENTS OF THE THUMBRAY PATENT FAMILY.
Please contact us if you become aware of any possible violations.
THE PATENTS
Patents in major key countries of the world
Patent Family
ThumbRay® IP comprises a positive PCT, a granted European Patent, and multiple national patents, a majority of them granted.
GRANTED Patents
international / regional patents:
national patents:
Pending Patents
patents pending of grant:
(as of 2023/12/31)
Property & Authorship
Key owners of the invention’s Intellectual Property are ThumbRay Technologies SL and inventor Daniel Sáenz Löbsack.
Patent Drawings
Patent Excerpts
About patents in general
THUMBRAY TECHNOLOGIES
a Deep Tech startup, built around the Skin-touching EM-Sensing Data-input Wearable, a high-tech microelectronics invention
Key Milestones
(descending time order)
2024:
- ⚡️ initiated project to develop 1st functional prototypes in collaboration with specialised partner
- ⭐️ achieved patent grant in 🇨🇳 China
- ⭐️ achieved patent grants in 🇵🇭 Philippines, 🇸🇬 Singapore, and 🇲🇽 Mexico
- ⭐️ achieved patent grant in 🇺🇸 United States
- ⭐️ achieved grants for patents in 🇲🇽 Mexico and 🇵🇭 Philippines
- 📂 initiated building of 🇺🇸 US Patent Family by filing patent continuation application
- 🎖 received ENISA’s Startup Credential, public certification of our emerging and innovative nature, our scalability, and our ownership of technology designed and developed in Spain
- 💰 awarded EU Next Generation aid (“Activa Startup”) to contract development of 1st functional prototypes
2023 – 2022:
- 👩🔬 developed first mockup prototypes of the device
- 💻 developed first virtual model with only 17 thimble sensor and 1 ring with 2 ring sensors to prove easy coverage of 66 languages based on Roman alphabet
- 🎖 selected finalist of the of the Premios +50 Emprende 2023, a Spanish senior entrepreneurship competition.
- 🔬 initiated preliminary collaborative agreements with several R&D institutions and agents
- ✍🏻 signed MOU with established award-winning Deep Tech company, specialised in implantable and high-density microelectronics.
- 🎖 selected finalist of the international Deep Tech & Deep Science Startups Competition at the European Meeting on Science, Technology & Innovation, TRANSFIERE Málaga 2022
- 💰 assured funding to maintain IP until 2024
- 📂 generated patents pending of grant for 🇺🇸 USA, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇮🇳 India, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇰🇷 Korea, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇮🇱 Israel, 🇸🇬 Singapore, and 🇵🇭 Philippines
- ⭐️ achieved grants for patents in 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 🇫🇷 France, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, and 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein
- 👊🏻 built endorsement from solid international non-executive advisory board comprising strategists, executives, entrepreneurs, scientists and academics
- 💰 obtained subsidies and grants from the Spanish Patent & Trademark Office (OEPM) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
- 🌐 filed global patenting procedure PCT and obtained fully positive report
- ⭐️ received grant for the European Patent
- 💡 developed the ThumbRay technology
Videos
Video pitch Emprende+50 startup competition
EU Patent Granted
Certificación Enisa
Looking for prototype developper
MOU ThumbRay – DSRuptive
Pics Emprende+50 Final
1. Thumbray: Qué es
2. Thumbray: Cómo surge
3. Thumbray: En qué consiste
4. Thumbray: Tecnología base
5. Thumbray: Ventajas
6. Thumbray: Mercado
7. Thumbray: Patentes-Reto
Mockup Prototype
US Patent Grant
China Patent Grant
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Talent Force
This innovation venture has become a reality thanks to the excellent work of a smart international team of talent: a selective worldwide spread set of independent lawyers, engineers, accountants and creative professionals which have been coordinated by the firm’s CEO, in turn supported and guided by a solid advisory board.
Daniel has been a multinational executive for around two decades, leading as CEO / Managing Director complex turnaround transformations of fairly sized building-materials and industrial-services businesses located in Europe, Asia and South America. He has worked with permanent residency in countries with highly diverse cultures, religions, languages, and levels of macroeconomic maturity such as Spain, France, Bangladesh, Germany, Malaysia and Peru. His global professional experience has been complemented with a demanding academic trajectory (Engineering Degree, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, MBA at INSEAD, PhD studies, …), an intense top-competitive sports life (24 caps with Spain’s National Senior Rugby team), and a strong interest in envisioning the future and seeking disruptive innovations (inventor behind 3 patent families comprising 80 national patents). As of today, apart from managing some investment projects in Latin America and casual teaching of strategic and business management as master’s university professor, Daniel is fundamentally engaged with his innovation ventures Taurum, Spinswitch, and Thumbray Technologies.
Advisory Board
We are endorsed and counselled by a solid international panel of non-executive advisors comprising relevant strategists, executives, entrepreneurs, scientists and academics.
The joint expertise of this extraordinary board covers not only a wide and rich span of wisdom but also an extensive worldwide footprint of influence.
Mr. José Luis Sáenz de Miera
Former Board Member at global headquarters of CEMEX, one of the largest building materials companies in the world and where he held the positions of President & CEO of Cemex Southern Europe, Africa, Middle East & Asia, CEO of Cemex Spain and Vice-President of Finance & Administration at Valenciana de Cementos. Along his intense professional life, he also became Chairman and CEO of Group Cementos Portland Valderrivas, Board Member of Nueva Pescanova, and Partner – in charge of Audit – at KPMG Spain. He holds a degree in Economic Sciences by the Complutense University of Madrid. Nowadays, he makes use of his vast international executive experience and wisdom to provide consulting and advisory services to miscellaneous businesses, institutions, investors and entrepreneurs.
Dr. Kimio Kase
Ex-President and Professor Emeritus at the International University of Japan (IUJ). Former professor at Chinese Beijing Normal University, at Japanese Ritsumeikan University, and faculty member (on leave) at Spanish IESE Business School. He earned his DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) from Manchester University, and his MBA from IESE Business School. With extensive corporate experience in the fields of Global Trade and Management, he initiated his international career working for a Japanese global trading house, where he specialized in Industrial Marketing. He later took top executive positions in Spain as Director of Price Waterhouse Coopers Europe, and as Partner in a headhunting firm. He also served the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. Professor Kase has written and published – in English, Spanish and Japanese – numerous scientific articles and books on strategy and management. One recent solid success is his co-authorship of “The Nonaka Series of Knowledge and Innovation” (Ed. Palgrave Macmillan). Currently, his major areas of academic interest are Corporate-level Strategy, Strategic Management, Strategic Planning, Knowledge Management, and Sports Management.
Amb. José Ramón Barañano
He has served abroad as Ambassador of Spain to India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, and as Head of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassies in Morocco, Austria and Ecuador. At the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was Ambassador for International Environmental Affairs, Inspector General and Deputy Director-General for Bilateral Economic Relations. He was also Director-General of Fisheries at the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and was board member of several companies such as CESCE (Spanish Export Insurance Company), MERCASA (Spanish Food Wholesaler), DEFEX (Defense Promotion and Export) and CETARSA (Tobacco processing and commercialisation). He holds a degree in International Studies from the Spanish Diplomatic School, a Postgraduate Certificate in High European Studies from the Belgian College of Europe, and a BA (with Hons) in Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Currently, he is international business advisor at miscellaneous American, European and Asian industrial and technological firms.
PhD. Aynur Ünal
Highly reputed scientist, educator, academician and innovation booster. Fulbright Scholar and price-winning Engineering professor at STANFORD University, where she earned her PhD in Engineering & Applied Mathematics, where she founded and created the curricula for Stanford’s Acoustics Institute using research funds from NASA Ames, and where, at Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health in collaboration with UCLA Medical School and IIT Guwahati’s Centre for Nanotechnology, led relevant research projects using AI in bio-sensing and early-health diagnostics to prevent Salmonella infections, lung diseases, gastric cancers, autism and Alzheimer. Former Dean of Engineering & Technology at ANSAL/Sushant University in India. Assignee and inventor of several patents on collaborative planning, field where her works are considered to have been crucial in the creation of instant secure encrypted communication and collaboration software using internet protocols for B2B applications and complex supply chains. Co-founder (and current technological leader) of Digital Monozukuri, an engine for open innovation focused on Smart Systems and e-Services based on AI, AR-VR & Gamification. Along her career, she has taken executive design/manufacturing and IT management roles at Siemens, LSI Logic and Flextronics and has co-founded, developed and directed several American and British startups (E2OPEN, Saqqara Systems, Data Reliability, Imjack/Amteus..). Currently, she completes her intense innovation activities focused, among others, on revolutionary sustainable health-caring digital systems, wearable devices and bio materials, with works as strategic advisor to universities in USA, India and Japan and to technological ventures InfoSec Global, NaquiLogix and Taurum Technologies.
Eduardo G. Hernández
Board Member Director / Advisor in FMCG, Finance, Marketing and NGO sectors. Current COO of Latin America at Coca-Cola FEMSA (publicly traded KOF, largest franchise Coca-Cola bottler in the world), with full responsibility over the results of operations in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina. Within KOF, he also took the positions of Strategy Director and of Director of New Businesses, being instrumental in the successful creation and development of emerging product categories and in the significant M&A growth of the group. He was also CEO of the Food, Beverage & Dairy Division of multinational Grupo Gloria where he led more than 10’000 employees and managed a complex worldwide exporting conglomerate that comprised operations in 7 countries of North America and South America and generated over $ 2B of revenues. Before Grupo Gloria, he served Empresas Polar taking several top executive positions such as Marketing Director Malt Beverage, International Business Director Beer & Malt Beverage, Business Director Beer & Wine, and Business Unit Manager Corn Flour, Oats & Powder Beverage. In sum, Eduardo accumulates 30 years of executive positions within FMCG Industries based in LATAM and US, period during which he has led and executed 2 crucial turnarounds and 4 major acquisitions. He also holds an MBA by Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), a Certificate in Marketing, Administration & Management by Harvard University, and a B.A. by Universidad Metropolitana.
Jorge Pérez de Leza
Jorge is CEO of Metrovacesa since 2016. With over €2.5 billion of assets under management, Metrovacesa is a leading real estate developer in Spain, representing one of the highest valued and most attractive land banks in the country. Jorge joined Metrovacesa to reorganise the company and relaunch its property development activity after the economic crisis in Spain, leading the company’s IPO in 2018. Previously, he worked 12 years as top executive director at Grupo LAR, first as Head of Europe (managing all European operations including Germany, France, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Hungary and the Baltic States) and then as Head of Spain, holding full responsibility over €1’000 million of assets under management and assuming a key role in the IPO and subsequent growth of LAR España REIT. Before Grupo Lar, he was COO of Excite@Home Europe (broadband internet access and multimedia content creation), Managing Director & Partner of Fun & Basics (fashion clothing, footwear and accessories), and Manager at Boston Consulting Group (BCG, global management consulting). Jorge has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management from ICAI Engineering School, at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. He is also Founder and President of Fundación Deporte y Desafío (NGO Sport & Challenge Foundation).
Arch. Guillermo García de Polavieja
Partner and Technical Director at TMA, Head for Sustainable Transport at SBA Consultores, and Co-founder & Chairman of consulting group G5 Expertos Ambientales. His experience comprises two decades of professional practice as environmental consultant in Transportation, Acoustics and Sustainable Planning. Worked as environmental expert for the European Union and consulted for the Madrid Municipality taking responsibility for the Madrid 2nd Strategic Plan for Noise Abatement. Committee Member at Rugby Europe and Directive Executive at the Spanish Rugby Federation. Licensed Architect and Urban Planner by the Madrid School of Architecture, with degrees in Conservation and Restoration of Architectural and Urban Heritage, Building Acoustics, Urban Environment and Airport Planning. Author of multiple technical articles and papers related to environmental noise, impact assessment and environmental planning. Lecturer at various regular graduate and professional courses. Earner of a Career Discovery Scholarship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
JD. Cristina Cazorla
Ms. Cazorla has been serving the U.S. Department of Commerce in Spain for over two decades, where she currently holds the role of International Commercial Trade Specialist, controller and budgeting expert. She has a degree in Law by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Before joining the Embassy of the United States of America in Madrid, she spent six years intensively working at the historical and highly reputed Díaz-Arias Spanish law firm, where she ended up taking full responsibility over the editorial coordination and general management of “Gaceta Fiscal“, the Spanish Tax & Legal magazine with the largest print run in the country.
