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   Can we partner with these guys just as we have done with Sensory Inc?
   
   Samsung Licenses Valencell’s Ear-Based Biometrics Tech
   Posted on July 20, 2016 by Alex Perala
   “…Valencell has been keen to emphasize the applications of its technology in products such as earbuds, with a recently granted patent pertaining to ‘earbud covers’.”
   
   Samsung has licensed Valencell patents related to the latter’s ear-based biometric wearable technology. The non-exclusive patent licensing deal provides Samsung access to Valencell’s technology concepts, but not to its products and support.
   
   In a statement announcing the deal, Valencell emphasized the importance of licensing and its patent portfolio to its business, noting that it currently has 35 granted patents and over 70 others pending. CEO Dr. Steven LeBoeuf also highlighted the applications of the technology entailed in the licensing agreement, stating,“We’re pleased to work with Samsung Electronics to provide a patent license for our inventions that are critical for accurate heart rate monitoring in hearables.”
   
   By “hearables”, Dr. LeBoeuf uses his company’s terminology for ear-based biometric devices. Blood flow signals detectable through a user’s ears can be used to monitor a number of cardiac measures, and Valencell has been keen to emphasize the applications of its technology in products such as earbuds, with a recently granted patent pertaining to ‘earbud covers’.
   
   With a major consumer electronics company like Samsung now licensing its technology, it could soon reach an even wider swath of end users in the mass market, further popularizing biometrics in consumer electronics.
   
   this snip of text up from the archives to reread....
   
   third-party algorithm folks to deploy their algorithms on our platform and we do see activities in this area
   
   
   For the casual reader. Looking back SPI is a fine example of a third party algo company.
   Biometrics has very specialized algos, and Valencell, like Sensory, has TOP Notch stuff.
   They are a third party algo group of folks.
   

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   commentary of the deal...
   
   
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   Raleigh wearables upstart scores Samsung deal
   Jul 20, 2016, 2:15pm EDT Updated Jul 22, 2016, 9:49am EDT
   
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   A small Raleigh wearable technology firm has inked what could be a very big deal with consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics.
   
   The deal allows Samsung to access Raleigh-based Valencell’s patent portfolio for use in hearable devices, such as the upcoming Samsung Gear IconX cord-free fitness earbuds.
   
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   Valencell CEO Michael Dering, left, and Steven LeBoeuf, president.
   
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   Unlike other Valencell announcements – such as product licensing deals that put its technology in headphones from brands such as LG Electronics and Scosche – this deal is about the intellectual property.
   
   “It’s a really big deal,” Valencell co-founder and president Steve LeBoeuf said Wednesday in an interview. “You can easily argue that Samsung is the most sophisticated consumer electronics brand when it comes to IP.”
   
   He says the fact that they’re licensing patents and not a module designed for a specific product is a testament to Valencell’s innovation. And it’s innovation the firm has been increasingly bullish about protecting, having filed two recent patent infringement lawsuits against electronics mammoths Fitbit and Apple.
   
   Read: Why Valencell's patent fight against Fitbit and Apple could last 'years'
   
   As LeBoeuf has been talking to Samsung for “several years” about a partnership, it’s likely that the deal was in the works before those suits were filed, though LeBoeuf wouldn’t comment on that Wednesday.
   
   Valencell’s patent portfolio, which includes patent protections that give hearable devices the ability to measure blood flow signals that can be translated into biometric data such as heart rate, includes 35 patents granted and more than 70 additional patents pending. The deal with Samsung does not include access to Valencell products, its support personnel or its North Hills wearables testing lab.
   
   Financial terms were not disclosed. LeBoeuf says that, to his knowledge, it's the first patent portfolio licensing announcement in the health and fitness sensor space.
   
   In the coming months, LeBoeuf says to expect additional announcements about the Raleigh technology’s presence in other name-brand electronic devices, including new products coming directly from the sensor-maker.
   
   The Samsung deal is among Valencell’s more high-profile partnerships, but it’s the second collaboration announced this summer. In June, Valencell announced it had partnered with Gieseck & Devrient, a technology provider for the financial sector, and Z-Smart, a wearable device firm in China. The deal puts Valencell’s sensor technology in a new payments-focused smart watch targeting the banking industry.
   
   Valencell execs say the company has more partnerships than what’s listed on its website. Non-disclosure agreements prevent them from publicizing every relationship – and from talking about every product that utilizes its biometric sensors.
   
   
   
   WHen I read about these guys I wanted to buy a part of their biz. Its not possible.
   
   
   In the big pic this is good for sensor hub people as these algos are more complex and would tax an AP and the MCUs> THe Eos is made for stuff like this.
   
   I wonder what the SoC is for the Samsung IconX?
   

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   this snip is the one to reread...
   
   QUIK said this a while ago...
   This snip was interesting…verrry interesting?
   
   
   And I will actually give a plug for the fact that we have this nice integrated development environment now that software people are accustomed to. They can actually enablethird-party algorithm folks to deploy their algorithms on our platform and we do see activities in this area. So, it’s a long way of saying that we are pushing in all those areas. The end product may be some combination of us and third-parties to do that, particularly in some of these highly specialized areas.
   
   
   Hope we read about something for Valencel IP and the Eos?
   
   So far any company with something to offer in the adjacent possible of sensor fusion has shown that the coral reef is rich, aware, hungry, .....nice job Valencel!
   
   For the casual reader, note that digressive threads get more interesting as time goes by. It IS a CORAL reef after all. Only 2% of the ocean floor, but 25% of the life resides there.
   
   here is a LOT of good stuff on this thread so if you have time spend a few minutes here..........
   
   If SEC is a matchmaker for hardware and IP it will be something to track along....it is said that these 2 (V & S) have been in talks for a looooong time.
   
   
   SEC should just take them out? As far as patent wars go... the patents of Sensory and of Valencel are of great significance going forward......