Jayaganesh Balakrishnan filed his first patent when he was pursuing his PhD Cornell University In the late nineties. “We came up with an efficient architecture for a pulse shaping module (the process of making the transmitted signal better suited for our purpose), and my mentor told me the work was new enough to file a patent. I was excited , but wasn’t convinced it was. In retrospect, it looks obvious. And so do how many inventors think, that what they’ve done doesn’t deserve to be patented,” he says.
Balakrishnan is a leading architect and fellow Texas Instruments, a company he had joined soon after completing his PhD in 2002. Today he has 75. Huh Patent. That’s one patent every three months on average.
How does he maintain such a prolific rate? He says that when he and his team work on a solution to a problem, they don’t start the process by thinking about how to file a patent. “Beginning is about understanding the current state of the art in technology, what has been done first, which metrics need to be improved, and then coming up with solutions that will improve it,” he says.
Once they have effectively solved the problem, they look at areas or processes that are patentable, and draft patent ideas. It is always a byproduct of solutions.
Balakrishnan works in communications systems and signal processing and is closely involved with the ongoing 5G transformation. His team works on the products that go into wireless base stations. It aims to handle faster data downloads and reduce cost per megabyte. An integrated transceiver system-on-chip (SoC) is the building block of those stations. It uses a large number of antennas to increase the data throughput. “We come up with architecture and products that increase the level of integration, and reduce costs,” Balakrishnan says.
He attributes his success with the patent to ti Ecosystem. “TI has a robust system in place, including a patent review committee, to which the inventor can disclose his or her novel idea. The committee is responsible for novelty, impact, and whether the idea is traceable (traceable is what enables the patent holder to know whether someone infringes on the patent),” he says. He says the process is effective for first-time patent filers who may not recognize the value of the invention.
Balakrishnan says one of the keys to innovation is understanding the cutting edge in the area being worked on by collaborating with the organization’s experts and reading research papers.
Balakrishnan is a leading architect and fellow Texas Instruments, a company he had joined soon after completing his PhD in 2002. Today he has 75. Huh Patent. That’s one patent every three months on average.
How does he maintain such a prolific rate? He says that when he and his team work on a solution to a problem, they don’t start the process by thinking about how to file a patent. “Beginning is about understanding the current state of the art in technology, what has been done first, which metrics need to be improved, and then coming up with solutions that will improve it,” he says.
Once they have effectively solved the problem, they look at areas or processes that are patentable, and draft patent ideas. It is always a byproduct of solutions.
Balakrishnan works in communications systems and signal processing and is closely involved with the ongoing 5G transformation. His team works on the products that go into wireless base stations. It aims to handle faster data downloads and reduce cost per megabyte. An integrated transceiver system-on-chip (SoC) is the building block of those stations. It uses a large number of antennas to increase the data throughput. “We come up with architecture and products that increase the level of integration, and reduce costs,” Balakrishnan says.
He attributes his success with the patent to ti Ecosystem. “TI has a robust system in place, including a patent review committee, to which the inventor can disclose his or her novel idea. The committee is responsible for novelty, impact, and whether the idea is traceable (traceable is what enables the patent holder to know whether someone infringes on the patent),” he says. He says the process is effective for first-time patent filers who may not recognize the value of the invention.
Balakrishnan says one of the keys to innovation is understanding the cutting edge in the area being worked on by collaborating with the organization’s experts and reading research papers.
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