Patents & Intellectual Property
Invention Elicitation, Claim Strategy, and Technical Patent Defense
Intellectual Property Track Record & Advisory
Intellectual property strategy requires a deep alignment between physical hardware design, algorithm logic, and legal claim scope. As a named inventor and executive engineering leader, my track record includes:
- 8 Granted Patents as Named Principal Inventor: Covering FPGA vascular detection, biophotonic projection, fluorescence imaging, cancer cell laser ablation, and remote media architectures.
- 50+ Corporate Patents Supervised: Directed company-wide patent portfolios as VP of Engineering.
- Defensive Strategy & Patent Dispute Leadership: Extensive experience leading patent audits, freedom-to-operate (FTO) evaluations, and non-infringing technical design-around initiatives.
Patents Issued to Joe Zott as Named Inventor
Below is a select list of patents issued to Joe Zott as a named inventor across biophotonics, FPGA semiconductor logic, and remote media architectures:
- US 10,568,518 — Device for detecting and illuminating the vasculature using an FPGA
- US 10,517,483 — System for detecting fluorescence and projecting a representative image
- US 10,376,148 — System and method for laser imaging and ablation of cancer cells using fluorescence
- US 10,376,147 — System and method for multi-color laser imaging and ablation of cancer cells using fluorescence
- US 9,782,079 — Device for detecting and illuminating the vasculature using an FPGA
- US 9,072,426 — Device for detecting and illuminating vasculature using an FPGA
- US 8,990,856 — Media playlist management and viewing remote control
- US 8,122,475 — Remote control for video media servers
Patent Strategy Audit Case Pattern (Public & Advisory Analysis)
Tesla Autonomous Sensor Cleaning Patent Audit (US 12,636,684 B1)
An analytical case study evaluating Tesla’s public autonomous sensor cleaning patent. Demonstrates how structured claim defect analysis proved that Tesla’s hardware component-list drafting created prior art vulnerabilities, revealing 3 non-infringing technical design-around vectors for autonomous vehicle OEMs.