Invention Disclosure Form: Structure and Examples

Not legal advice. Review with a registered patent attorney.

Purpose of the Form

Administrative
- Title (working):
- Business unit / project:
- Primary contact (email, phone):
- Inventor(s) full legal name, affiliation, contribution summary:
- Dates: first conception, first reduction to practice (if any), public disclosure risks (talks, repos, demos) and dates.
- Obligations: employer IP policy, contractor agreements, assignments, sponsor obligations.
Summary (non‑confidential overview)
- 3–5 sentences capturing problem, novelty, and advantage.
Background and Prior Art
- Known methods/products, citations/links, their limitations.
Technical Description (enablement)
- System/components, materials, parameters with ranges, steps, dependencies.
- At least one complete embodiment and its acceptance criteria.
Variants and Alternatives
- Different architectures, algorithms, materials, and trade‑offs.
Drawings/Diagrams
- Label all figures; reference in text (Fig. 1A, etc.).
Data and Results (if applicable)
- Benchmarks, experimental data, validation setups.
Deployment/Regulatory (as applicable)
- Security/privacy constraints, standards, certifications, clinical or safety context.
Attachments
- File list with versions (CAD, scripts, logs, datasets, specs).

Title: Adaptive multi‑tenant rate‑limit orchestrator for bursty workloads
Summary: Coordinates per‑tenant budgets across services using token‑bucket fusion and predictive smoothing, reducing tail latency p99 from 120ms→40–55ms at 80% utilization.
Background: Existing per‑service limiters create global head‑of‑line blocking; prior art lacks cross‑service coordination under bursty traffic.
Technical Description:
- Architecture: gateway → orchestrator → per‑service shim; consistent hashing by tenant; Redis for shared budgets; time‑quanta 10–50ms.
- Algorithm: hybrid token bucket + EWMA demand predictor; backoff jitter 5–20ms; fairness clamp 0.2–0.8.
- Embodiment: with N=5 services, 20 tenants, workload X, utilization 0.8, observed p99 45ms; acceptance: p99<60ms, no tenant starvation.
Variants: single‑tenant mode; predictive off; window sizes 5–200ms; storage swap (Memcached, in‑proc).
Diagrams: Fig.1 block diagram; Fig.2 sequence of grant/deny.
Attachments: API spec v1.2, k6 scripts v0.9, dashboards links.

Title: Low‑power reflective PPG array with motion artifact suppression
Summary: A tri‑wavelength reflective PPG with adaptive illumination and IMU‑assisted artifact filtering; achieves ±2% SpO₂ RMSE during jogging.
Background: Conventional single‑LED PPG suffers motion artifacts; prior art lacks synchronized IMU fusion with per‑site calibration.
Technical Description:
- Materials: biocompatible silicone strap; LED 530/660/940nm; PD with gain stages; MCU at 32MHz.
- Parameters: LED duty 2–8%; sampling 200–500Hz; IMU 6‑axis at 100–200Hz; window 1–3s.
- Embodiment: treadmill protocol n=12; reference MASIMO; RMSE 1.9%; acceptance: RMSE≤2.5% across HR 60–160.
Variants: transmissive mode; dual‑site fusion (wrist+finger); LED wavelength swap.
Diagrams: placement drawing; signal chain.
Attachments: bench logs, calibration script v0.3, risk table.

Title: Protease X mutant with retained activity at 4–8°C
Summary: Variant maintains ≥70% activity at 6°C enabling cold‑chain compatible wash step.
Background: WT loses activity <12°C; literature variants unstable in detergent.
Technical Description:
- Host: E. coli BL21(DE3); vector pET‑28a; inducer IPTG 0.1–0.5mM.
- Buffer: pH 7.2–7.6; NaCl 150–250mM; detergent 0.05–0.2%.
- Assay: fluorogenic substrate; readout RFU/s; control WT; n=3; activity curve 4–25°C.
- Acceptance: activity≥70% at 6°C; stability 24h.
Variants: mutations at positions 87/132/215; Ca²⁺ cofactor 0.5–2mM.
Attachments: sequencing IDs, lab notebook refs.

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