A productive year for patents
JMP inventors were awarded 10 patents for their innovations last year.
“There is a lot of innovative work that goes on at JMP and the numerous patents in our company are evidence of this," said Laura Castro-Schilo, Senior Research Statistician Developer. "Acquiring patents is one way to secure JMP’s future as we continue to increase our unique, cutting-edge offerings. Personally, I just love being able to think of ways to solve problems in a creative and supportive environment.”
Congratulations!
Research Statistician Developer Caleb King accepts on behalf of the team.Research Statistician Developer Caleb King accepts on behalf of the team.Joseph Morgan @Joseph_morgan2
Bradley Jones @bradleyjones
Ryan Lekivetz @Ryan_Lekivetz
Ryan Parker @RyanParker
Clay Barker @clay_barker
Christopher Gotwalt @chris_gotwalt1
Jeremy Ash @JeremyAsh
Laura Lancaster @Laura_Lancaster
Laura Castro-Schilo @LauraCS
James Koepfler @JamesK4
Caleb King @calking
Yeng Saanchi
SAS held a celebration dinner May 24 at The Umstead Hotel. Legal Counsel Director Tim Wilson offered opening remarks. “So much of what we do in R&D fits into the development, the ‘D’ category,” he said. “What you have done by becoming patent inventors is on the ‘R’ side, not staying at the same level but bringing it up. That takes commitment, experience and often time away from loved ones.”
Laura was among the attendees. “It was great to have an opportunity to celebrate our accomplishments among peers and learn about all the other patents that were awarded last year!” she said
Patents awarded in 2021
Inventors: Joseph Morgan, Bradley Jones, Ryan Lekivetz
COMPARISON AND SELECTION OF EXPERIMENT DESIGNS
Inventors: Ryan Parker, Clay Barker, Christopher Gotwalt
ANALYTIC SYSTEM WITH INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL MODEL SELECTION
Inventors: Jeremy Ash, Christopher Gotwalt, Laura Lancaster
ANALYTIC SYSTEM WITH EXTRAPOLATION CONTROL IN INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL PREDICTION EVALUATION
Inventors: Clay Barker, Ryan Parker, Christopher Gotwalt
ANALYTIC SYSTEM FOR TWO-STAGE INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL MODEL SELECTION
Inventors: Laura Castro-Schilo, James Koepfler, Christopher Gotwalt
GRAPHICAL INTERACTIVE MODEL SPECIFICATION GUIDELINES FOR STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING DESIGNS
Inventors: Joseph Morgan, Ryan Lekivetz, Caleb King, Bradley Jones
TOOL FOR HYPERPARAMETER VALIDATION
Inventors: Ryan Lekivetz, Bradley Jones, Joseph Morgan, Caleb King
TOOL FOR DESIGN EXPERIMENTS WITH UNCONTROLLED FACTORS
Inventors: Ryan Parker, Clay Barker, Christopher Gotwalt
ANALYTIC SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE DIRECT FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Inventors: Ryan Lekivetz, Joseph Morgan, Bradley Jones, Caleb King
TOOL FOR OPTIMAL SUPERSATURATED DESIGNS
Inventors: Joseph Morgan, Yeng Saanchi, Laura Lancaster, Christopher Gotwalt, Caleb King, Ryan Lekivetz
OPTIMIZATION UNDER DISALLOWED COMBINATIONS
The SAS patent process
Clay Barker, Principal Research Statistician Developer, has served on the SAS patent committee for about eight years. “I was very excited to join the committee. We are doing lots of inventive things in the JMP group and I think that having representation on the patent committee truly validates that.”
He described the process: “At those meetings, inventors from all over the company have an opportunity to present and explain why SAS should pursue patenting their invention/idea. Members of the committee like myself provide feedback on these inventions which helps the patent lawyers decide how SAS should move forward. A lot of times we also talk about ways to make the invention even better, which is cool.”
Since the patent office uses the First to File approach, whoever files a patent first is considered the inventor.
“The patent attorneys at SAS, Dwight Thompson and John Sieman, make the process a breeze,” said Ryan. “Any of us would be happy to help anyone wanting to get started.”
Clay agrees. “Long story short: if you think that you’ve done something that might be patentable, you should go for it. We are so fortunate that we get to work with patent lawyers…they are great at finding angles that make our ideas patentable. I was thrilled that Dwight and John won the 2020 High Five Award.”
Learn more about patents at SAS, including what is patentable and the filing process. You'll find the Invention Disclosure Form (IDF), along with documented patents.
Clay enjoys his involvement in the patent committee because “folks at SAS are solving lots of cool problems and I’ve gotten an inside look at a lot of them.”
But it’s not all fun and games. “A handful of times I’ve even broken the bad news that we shouldn’t pursue patenting an inventor’s idea because it has already been in JMP for a while!”
