Overview
Ricardo J. Claps, PhD, is a patent agent* who focuses on developing intellectual property strategies to support industrial and technological development in numerous fields. He earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in physics.
Ricardo has experience in the following areas:
- Consumer electronics: flat panel displays, including light-emitting diode (LED) and light crystal display (LCD) panels, touch screen devices, hardware and methods for their operation
- Mobile devices: power handling circuitry, batteries, manufacturing and materials, including cases, enclosures and camera assemblies
- Radio devices: omni-directional antennas, electromagnetic interference reduction circuitry and methods, multi-tiered radio systems for ultra-low power applications, radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems and schemes for inventory tracking, for underground sensing and for security systems in various facilities
- Digital cameras: design of lens arrays and micro-lenses, data processing for auto-focus and range finding
- Computer architecture: clock circuits, solid state memory
- Mobile software applications: touch screen processing online content distribution
- Wireless communications: long-term evolution (LTE) networking schemes in cellular networks, data streaming in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi configurations in local area networks, including home entertainment centers
- Cloud Computing: server architectures and data traffic management, security protocols, load balancing schemes, management of social networks of private accounts
- Image processing: methods and devices to improve flat panel manufacturing using color charts, diagnostic of pathologies using pattern recognition on tissue images
- Pattern recognition: touch gesture recognition in capacitive touch displays, principal component analysis and multivariate regression algorithms for spectroscopic data analysis
- Network systems: internet-based business transactions and systems, including encryption mechanisms and geo-coded data collection and processing
- Oil and gas industry applications: exploration, production and data processing
- Biomedical application: optical diagnostics and measures of disease such as cancer and diabetes, arthroscopy applications including optical catheters and intra-venous ultra-sound (IVUS) catheters, ophthalmology applications and surgical robots
*Non-lawyer professional
Credentials
Education
University of Texas at Austin, PhD, Physics, 2000
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, BS, Physics, with honors, 1993
Courts / Agencies
US Patent and Trademark Office
Languages
Spanish
Portuguese
French
English