Medical Devices as Consumer Electronics
Traditional clinical medical equipment has long relied on complex electronics and software to function. As the population ages and the societal factors drive home healthcare, new consumer grade medical devices are appearing that can perform increasingly advanced monitoring and diagnostics ranging from blood glucose monitoring and blood pressure measurement to body fat measurement. Consequently the medical devices sector has become a high-volume market for which technical innovation, cost control and IP management are competitive prerequisites.
While traditional healthcare giants like pharmaceutical companies are familiar with managing IP, as they diversify their business into the consumer medical devices sector they are faced with less familiar technologies such as semiconductor based electronics, sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). However, most medical device companies and their OEM suppliers don’t want to tie up valuable internal engineering resources in the analytical work required for technical intelligence and patent infringement investigations.
Component suppliers to the medical device market like semiconductor chip makers are interested in understanding circuit design trends and application requirements within the high potential medical devices market to help them make product development decision and ensure protection of their intellectual property.
Comprehensive Technical Analysis
With broad experience in consumer electronics products, UBM TechInsights provides sophisticated product teardowns to assist medical device companies in product benchmarking and design. These comprehensive reports include component identification, high-level architectural design analysis and bill-of-materials (BOM) cost estimates. Our inventory of sophisticated product teardown reports covers various consumer medical devices such as body fat meters, blood pressure monitors and ingestible diagnostic tools.
More in-depth technical analysis is also available including circuit schematics, component and microcontroller architectural analysis, waveform analysis and materials analysis. UBM TechInsights has performed hundreds of custom technical reports on consumer electronics products including medical devices such as a blood glucose meters. This type of detailed functional analysis for complex devices is often used to support patent infringement investigations.
The Leader in Technical Insight and IP Services
UBM TechInsights is a leader in comprehensive electronics product teardown and advanced semiconductor reverse engineering (RE) relevant to the medical devices industry. We do the most system and circuit level RE in the industry and see the largest diversity of technology. Our clients benefit from technical insights extending from the silicon to the system level including functional analysis and software reverse engineering.
Our fully equipped lab facilities and engineering expertise is combined with deep intellectual property and patent experience derived from years of involvement in patent litigation and US International Trade Commission cases. Our superior visibility to prior art means faster, more credible evaluation of claims and greater confidence in achieving desired outcomes. We also help evaluate and manage patent portfolios for commercial viability. UBM TechInsights addresses all stages of the IP lifecycle with services and solutions enabled by collaborative workflow tools.
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Large healthcare and consumer product companies as well as consumer electronics OEM/ODMs need a technical analysis and IP management partner that is expert in the underlying technologies used in today’s consumer medical devices. Whether you are a product manager looking for competitive intelligence or a patent specialist concerned with effective intellectual property management, UBM TechInsights’ experience and reputation can work for you.