Intellectual Property

ISSYS Intellectual Property

The primary competitive advantage of ISSYS' products is that they are based on high-performance MEMS. To protect this advantage, ISSYS owns a comprehensive portfolio of intellectual property rights covering its manufacturing process and product designs.

ISSYS' comprehensive portfolio of intellectual property rights and includes:

Sixteen issued ISSYS patents as well as over 40 pending and provisional ISSYS patents focusing on specific products as well as technologies required to package and manufacture MEMS-based products.

	Patent #	Title
	6,140,144	Methods and Devices for Packaging of Microsensors
	6,338,284	Electrical Feedthrough Structures for Micromachined Devices and Methods for Fabricating the Same
	6,477,901	Micromachined Fluidic Apparatus
	6,499,354	Methods for Prevention, Reduction, and Elimination of Outgassing and Trapped Gases in Micromachined Devices
	6,637,257	Micromachined Fluid Analysis Device and Method
	6,647,778	Integrated Microtube Sensing Device
	6,824,521	Sensing Catheter System and Method of Fabrication
	6,844,213	Process of Forming a Microneedle and Microneedle Formed Thereby
	6,923,625	Method of Forming a Reactive Material and Article Formed Thereby
	6,926,670	Wireless MEMS Capacitive Sensor for Physiologic Parameter Measurement
	6,932,114	Fluid Delivery System and Method
	6,935,010	Method of Fabricating a Micromachined Tube for Fluid Flow
	6,942,169	Micromachined Lysing Device and Method for Performing Cell Lysis
	6,968,743	Implantable Sensing Device for Physiologic Parameter Measurement
	7,059,176	Resonant Tube Viscosity Sensing Device
	7,211,048	A System for Monitoring Conduit Obstructions
	For patent information, please visit http://www.uspto.gov

Six patents (five exclusive for all applications worldwide) licensed from the University of Michigan covering ISSYS' core dissolved wafer process technology and miniature pressure sensors for catheters.

	Patent #	Title (* = exclusive license)
	4,815,472	Multipoint Pressure Sensing Catheter System *
	4,881,410	Ultraminiature Pressure Sensor and Method for Making the Same *
	5,113,868	Ultra-Miniature Pressure Sensor with Addressable Read-Out Circuit *
	5,013,396	Method of Making an Ultraminiature Pressure Sensor *
	5,207,103	Ultraminiature Single-Crystal Sensor with Moveable Member *
	5,377,524	Self-Testing Capacitive Pressure Transducer and Method
	For patent information, please visit http://www.uspto.gov