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• Overview
• Results Summary
• Market Intelligence
  • The Telemedicine Transformation
  • Is Telemedicine Here to Stay?
  • Telemedicine's Future is Remote Monitoring and Medical IoT
  • References
• Notable Top Corporate Assignees
• Summary of All Patent Documents in Domain Collection
• Summary of Patent Applications in Domain Collection
• Summary of Granted Patents in Domain Collection
• Exhibit 1: Date Coverage
• Exhibit 2: Geographic Coverage
• Exhibit 3: Geographic Breakdown of English Patent Application Sections
• Exhibit 4: Frequency of Patent Application Filings Timeline
• Exhibit 5: Top Inventors and the Principal Assignees
• Exhibit 6: Top Assignees
• Exhibit 7: Top Patent Document Citations
• Exhibit 8: Top Patent Document Citations, Sorted by Assignee
• Exhibit 9: Top Inventive CPC Group Codes
• Exhibit 10: Top Inventive CPC Group Numbers
• Exhibit 11: Top Inventive CPC Group Codes by Assignee
• Exhibit 12: Top CPC Inventive Group Codes Heatmap Timeline

This is part three of a three-part series focused on telemedicine and provides an IP landscape of the patent documents deemed to be the most similar to the patent documents assigned to the 33 top competitors in the telemedicine platform technology marketplace. Part two of this series, the "top competitors" landscape, profiled the patent documents of the 33 top competitors, and it is that domain collection from which the "similars" collection of this report was derived.

See the following link for part two of this telemedicine series.
https://www.moellerventures.com/index.php/blog/25-2020-articles/48-2020-04-20-telemedicine-platform-tech-patent-landscape

The similars domain collection in this report utilizes the patent documents from part two in conjunction with Google's patent research dataset, that contains information on similar patent documents, to identify the set of patent documents most similar to those in the "top competitors" domain collection. In total the "similars" domain collection created for this report is a set of patent documents consisting of 1,018 patent applications and 1,349 granted patents. See the patent applications and granted patents summary tables below. The Google patent dataset used in this analysis is current with patent documents published through July 9, 2020.

See the following link for more information on the pantent landscape process.
https://www.moellerventures.com/index.php/blog/25-2020-articles/46-patent-landscape-process-overview

The report sections below consist of a results summary, a market intelligence brief, profiles of the notable top corporate assignees, as well as tables presenting the details of the patent document landscape. These patent document landscape tables cover a profiling of the domain collection (Exhibits 1, 2, 3, 4), tabulations of inventors (Exhibit 5) and assignees (Exhibit 6), an analysis of the most referenced citations (Exhibits 7, 8), and a break-down of the technology classification CPC group codes (Exhibits 9,10,11,12). All the tables in this report (as available on https://www.moellerventures.com/) are interactive and can be sorted and searched via the column headings and available keyword search boxes with each table.

• Overall, the patent documents domain collection of this landscape consists of a very broad set of intellectual property spanning many technology areas from a variety of corporate assignees. This represents the diverse nature of the technologies that are ultimately integrated into successful telemedicine solutions.
• The domain collection includes IP representing telemedicine platform technologies from providers such as InTouch Technologies (now part of Teladoc Health), Amwell, General Electric, and Philips. Also represented are enabling technologies like video conferencing, telecommunications, and networking from companies such as Samsung, Genesys Telecommunications, and Cisco. In addition, however, this landscape encompasses IP representing robotics (notable assignee Intuitive Surgical), healthcare IT software (Cerner), cloud infrastructure (IBM, Microsoft, Amazon), and even wearables and remote monitoring (Apple, Hill-Rom Holdings). See Exhibit 6 for more information.
• The diverse make-up of the corporate assignees spans both companies that are long-time competitors in the healthcare technology market as well as relative newcomers. The intersection of these competitors within the telemedicine landscape potentially indicates the opportunity for these newcomers to capture market share in the healthcare market. For example, companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Google are most directly involved in the cloud infrastructure and wearables portions of telemedicine but can potentially leverage those solutions into a broader market position providing patient data processing and remote monitoring. See the Market Intelligence Landscape section below for more information.
• From a notable patent citations perspective Intuitive Surgical has the most significant intellectual property position followed by InTouch Technologies and iRobot. Intuitive Surgical's cited patents position dates back to the 2002 to 2004 timeframe with many of the patents dealing with telerobotic surgery and stemming from the companies early days, spun out from SRI International and related to a DARPA project focused on remote battlefield surgery. InTouch Technologies and iRobot established their cited patent positions via a partnering in 2011 enabling InTouch to utilize iRobot technology in healthcare applications. See Exhibits 7 and 8 for more information.
• From a CPC Group Code perspective, the most utilized codes to represent inventive ideas in the domain collection are dominated by those pertaining to data processing. The top three most utilized codes to reference inventive ideas embodied in the domain collection include "Electronic Digital Data Processing" (CPC Group Code G06F), "Data Processing Systems or Methods" (CPC Group Code G06Q), and "Healthcare Informatics" (CPC Group Code G16H). These codes together represent approximately 44% of the top 250 referenced inventive idea CPC codes. Beyond that, "Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification" (CPC Group Code A61B) represents ~7.5% of the inventive ideas, and "Transmission of Digital Information" and "Pictorial Communications" each represent just under 7% of the inventive ideas.

Telemedicine has been one of the most radically transformed markets due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The sudden need for remote consultations with healthcare providers has thrust the industry forward by years, if not a decade or more, in the short span of three to six months. And the industry is capitalizing. Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), the leading industry competitor, reported exceptional second quarter earnings results on July 29^th and significantly increased forward guidance for the third quarter and full year, which includes significant organic growth and the inclusion of InTouch Health, acquired in July. In addition, Teladoc expects growth for 2021 in the range of 30% to 40% year-over-year. (1)(2)(3) Other competitors are responding as well with IPOs and financings announced by a number of other companies. Both Amwell and MDLive have announced plans for IPOs, and SOC Telemed plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Healthcare Merger Corp. (4)(5)(6)(7)

But where does the industry go from here? With society working to settle into the new COVID-19 environment, the aggressive growth of telemedicine looks to be waning some. Recent reports have indicated that telemedicine visits are down compared to pandemic peaks, but still up dramatically from the pre-pandemic levels. A report from the Epic Health Research Network (a division of Epic Systems Corporation) indicates that telemedicine visits peaked in mid-April at 69% of visits but have since dipped to 21% of visits as of July. Prior to the pandemic telemedicine visits accounted for only 0.01% of visits. (8)(9)

There are also are questions about how long some of the temporary provisions, enabling telemedicine during the pandemic, will last or if those will be replaced with more permanent legislation and regulations. As a result of the passage of the Coronavirus Supplemental Appropriations Act on March 6th and the declaration of a National Health Emergency on March 13^th, the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) department issued a Notification of Enforcement Discretion effectively allowing temporary rule waivers that immediately enabled more extensive telemedicine services for Medicare patients. (10)(11)(12) This dramatically improved the telemedicine healthcare landscape particularly in servicing Medicare patients, and further resulted in a spill-over effect of telemedicine usage in corporate and independent healthcare plans. But questions remain as to the full benefits to patients and if those telemedicine visits should cost the same as in-person visits, which is a significant adoption issue for many doctors.

Nonetheless, there are numerous efforts to make telemedicine permanent. Many industry trade groups have lobbied for it. (13) On July 16^th the House Telehealth Caucus introduced bipartisan legislation to preserve it, entitled the "Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act." Then on August 3^rd the Trump administration issued an executive order and rule proposal to make the temporary telemedicine rules permanent. (14)(15) From a governmental perspective the potential changes will ultimately fall across the domains of both legislation and regulation. (16)(17) In the private sector, some healthcare insurers are also beginning to make telemedicine reimbursement permanent. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee looks to have been one of the first to institute these changes allowing for reimbursement of in-network telehealth visits. (18) While telemedicine will never fully replace in-person care, it certainly looks like the momentum in unstoppable. To the extent that telemedicine can improve access and reduce costs, it could then also potentially begin to address some very fundamental issues in expanding healthcare to a larger percentage of the population.

One of the most important future trends for the telemedicine industry is its adoption and integration of remote monitoring and medical IoT, as well as its synergistic (yet privacy focused) usage of the resulting data collected from those capabilities. These are critical in advancing the industry past the basic functions of video conferencing and toward the capabilities of delivering truly proactive healthcare. We're already seeing substantial evidence of this trend and, interestingly, it is setting up a potential collision with "Big Tech", namely Apple, Google, and Amazon, as these companies figure out how to capture parts of the healthcare market.

A new report by KLAS Research (a healthcare industry research firm) published on August 27th interviewed 19 executives from 18 healthcare organizations regarding their challenges and solutions during the outbreak of the pandemic. (19)(20) Not surprisingly, telemedicine was the top challenge with 32% of the executives. Overall, though, 84% of the executives indicated that the telemedicine issues were already solved and the remining 16% indicated that the solutions were in progress. However, remote patient monitoring ranked as the second most significant challenge with 26% of the respondents. But furthermore, only 22% of the executives indicated the remote monitoring challenges were solved, with 33% saying it was in progress, and 45% indicating it was completely unsolved. This remote monitoring need is not necessarily new information for many industry competitors. On August 5^th Teladoc Health announced an agreement to acquire Livongo, a company focused on remote monitoring and virtual health services for diabetes and related health issues. (21) Additionally, last October UnitedHealth acquired remote monitoring company Vivify Health. (22) There are many smaller, startup companies in this remote monitoring sector as well, so there is likely to be more acquisitions and consolidation.

The collision with Big Tech companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon results from the potential to combine more consumer-oriented health and fitness wearables with home connectivity personal assistant products and the remote monitoring services needed in telemedicine. That mashup is not only possible, but market evidence would indicate that it is already in progress. Combine all that with the data processing, machine learning, and AI capabilities of Big Tech and you've got an incredibility attractive market opportunity for these companies to disrupt telemedicine as well as healthcare in general.

From a consumer wearables perspective, Apple is the market leader with its smart watch, which is already showing medical applications beyond the basic fitness capabilities. (23) In addition, Google is in the process of acquiring Fitbit, and Amazon just recently introduced its Halo health and fitness wearable. (24) All of these companies also have home personal assistant devices with the connectivity capabilities that can potentially connect to not only their own wearables, but also a variety of third-party wearables. (25) Amazon is the dominant market leader in home personal assistants with its Echo Alexa devices, followed by Google's Nest, and Apple's Homepod a distant third. (26) Recently Google made a $450 million investment in ADT, Inc. with the aim of growing its home personal assistant deployments specifically in the home security market. (27) From a telemedicine perspective, Amazon introduced its pilot telemedicine program, Amazon Care, last fall for its Seattle employees. This service includes virtual primary care as well as home consultations and prescription drug services via Amazon's Pillpak division, a virtual pharmacy company Amazon acquired in 2018. (28)(29) More recently on August 24^th Google announced it was investing $100 million in telemedicine provider Amwell. (30) The synergies mentioned in the deal specifically focused on Google's cloud computing services, but the intersection extends into its data processing and machine learning expertise and can potentially tap into its home personal assistant products for remote monitoring capabilities.

The transformation of telemedicine into remote monitoring and proactive, preventive healthcare will likely continue to involve various strategic investments, business collaborations, and full acquisitions as the ultimate solution combination comes together. For Big Tech, under the current environment, these activities are likely to attract even more scrutiny regarding information privacy and antitrust issues. Nonetheless, it is likely that we will see more deals that crossover between Big Tech and telemedicine as those industries collide. For the current telemedicine competitors, it is clear that the current environment creates a unique opportunity to position virtual healthcare businesses to be a meaningful part of the overall healthcare market. This is likely to leverage deals that consolidate core competencies and expand into new capabilities as the market demands.

1. Teladoc Health Quarterly Results: https://ir.teladoc.com/financial-info/quarterly-results/default.aspx
2. Teladoc's virtual visits grow 200% in Q2, revenue reaches $241M as COVID-19 resurges - Jul 30, 2020: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/teladoc-s-virtual-visits-grow-200-q2-revenue-reaches-241m-as-covid-19-resurges
3. Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC) CEO Jason Gorevic: “Pandemic Accelerated Widespread Adoption of Virtual Care” - August 6, 2020: https://www.wallstreetreporter.com/2020/08/teladoc-health-inc-nyse-tdoc-q2-2020-earnings-call-highlights/
4. Amwell files to go public with $100M boost from Google - Aug 24, 2020: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/amwell-files-to-go-public-boosted-by-100m-investment-from-google
5. Amwell Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering - August 24, 2020: https://business.amwell.com/press-release/amwell-files-registration-statement-for-proposed-initial-public-offering/
6. Telehealth Company MDLive Plans To Go Public Early Next Year, CEO Says - August 14, 2020: https://www.benzinga.com/news/20/08/17082073/telehealth-company-mdlive-plans-to-go-public-early-next-year-ceo-says
7. Acute care telemedicine company SOC Telemed set to go public as part of SPAC deal - Jul 30, 2020: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/boosted-by-telehealth-boom-soc-telemed-goes-public-through-spac-deal
8. Telehealth: Fad or the Future - AUGUST 18, 2020AUGUST 19, 2020: https://www.ehrn.org/telehealth-fad-or-the-future/
9. Telehealth grew wildly popular amid Covid-19. Now visits are plunging, forcing providers to recalibrateelemedicine Market Worth $155.1 Billion By 2027 | CAGR: 15.1% - SEPTEMBER 1, 2020: https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/01/telehealth-visits-decline-covid19-hospitals/
10. R.6074 - Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2020 – March 6, 2020 > https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6074
11. Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak - March 13, 2020 > https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outbreak/
12. Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth Remote Communications During the COVID-19 Nationwide Public Health Emergency – March 17, 2020 > https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/emergency-preparedness/notification-enforcement-discretion-telehealth/index.html
13. Hundreds of industry groups call on Congress to advance permanent telehealth reform - June 30, 2020: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/hundreds-industry-groups-call-congress-advance-permanent-telehealth-reform
14. American Telemedicine Association Applauds Bipartisan House Telehealth Caucus Champions for Introducing the Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act to Permanently Expand Use of Telehealth - JULY 16, 2020: https://www.americantelemed.org/press-releases/ata-applauds-bipartisan-house-telehealth-caucus-champions-for-introducing-the-protecting-access-to-post-covid-19-telehealth-act-to-permanently-expand-use-of-telehealth/
15. Trump Administration Proposes to Expand Telehealth Benefits Permanently for Medicare Beneficiaries Beyond the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and Advances Access to Care in Rural Areas - Aug 03, 2020: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/trump-administration-proposes-expand-telehealth-benefits-permanently-medicare-beneficiaries-beyond
16. Making Telehealth Flexibilities Permanent: Legislation or Regulation? – June 2020: https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2020/06/fact-sheet-making-telehealth-flexibilities-permanent-legislation-or-regulation.pdf
17. How to make telemedicine permanent in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic - June 1, 2020: https://www.aei.org/health-care/how-to-make-telemedicine-permanent-in-the-wake-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/
18. BlueCross Making In-Network Telehealth Services Permanent - May 14, 2020: https://bcbstnews.com/pressreleases/bluecross-making-in-network-telehealth-services-permanent/
19. Healthcare Executives’ COVID-19 Experience - Insights on Technology Challenges & Solutions – August 27, 2020: https://klasresearch.com/archcollaborative/report/healthcare-executives-covid-19-experience/339
20. Healthcare execs say telehealth is their No. 1 pandemic tech problem - September 01, 2020: https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/healthcare-execs-say-telehealth-their-no-1-pandemic-tech-problem
21. Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge to Create New Standard in Global Healthcare Delivery, Access and Experience - AUGUST 5, 2020: https://teladochealth.com/newsroom/press/release/livongo-merger/
22. UnitedHealth, an insurance giant, just scooped up patient monitoring start-up Vivify Health - OCT 30 2019: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/30/unitedhealthcare-acquires-vivify-health-patient-monitoring-start-up.html
23. Top Medical Uses of the New Apple Watch - July 2, 2019: https://www.docwirenews.com/docwire-pick/top-medical-uses-of-the-new-apple-watch/
24. Amazon unveils Halo to battle Apple Watch and Fitbit — tracks activity, body fat, emotions - AUG 27 2020: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/27/amazon-hal-wearable-tracks-activity-body-fat-emotions.html
25. Amazon adds wearables to voice-controlled Alexa collection – October 1, 2019: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/10/01/amazon-wearables-echo-products-alexa.
26. Amazon Smart Speaker Market Share Falls to 53% in 2019 with Google The Biggest Beneficiary Rising to 31% - April 28, 2020: https://voicebot.ai/2020/04/28/amazon-smart-speaker-market-share-falls-to-53-in-2019-with-google-the-biggest-beneficiary-rising-to-31-sonos-also-moves-up/
27. Google to buy a 6.6% stake in ADT in home security push - AUG 3 2020: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/google-to-invest-450-million-to-acquire-a-6point6percent-stake-in-adt.html
28. Amazon launches Amazon Care, a telemedicine-driven care offering for Seattle employees - September 24, 2019: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/north-america/amazon-launches-amazon-care-telemedicine-driven-care-offering-seattle-employees
29. Amazon Care Pilot Program Offers Virtual Primary Care to Seattle Employees; Features Both Telehealth and In-home Care Services That Include Clinical Laboratory Testing – Jan 31, 2020: https://www.darkdaily.com/amazon-care-pilot-program-offers-virtual-primary-care-to-seattle-employees-features-both-telehealth-and-in-home-care-services-that-include-clinical-laboratory-testing/
30. Google is investing $100 million in telehealth provider Amwell - AUG 24 2020: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/24/google-to-invest-100-million-in-amwell-at-ipo-in-cloud-deal.html

Samsung - https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/apps/samsung-health/

• Overview: Samsung’s presence the telemedicine market has been mostly through its devices, namely its smartphones, smart watches, tablets, and associated software apps for those platforms. Its intellectual property relating to telemedicine focuses mostly on robotics, imaging, and video technologies. The company has partnered with various providers of healthcare, telemedicine, and remote monitoring solutions such as Vivify Health (acquired by UnitedHealth), Anthem, Amwell (American Well), Kaiser Permanente, and Aetonix, in deploying market solutions.
• Landscape Presence: #1 on the assignee list, 7 inventors in the top 250, no notable citations, inventions spanning 8 CPC group codes.

Teladoc Health, Inc. – https://www.teladoc.com

• Overview: Teladoc Health is the global leader in virtual care and has executed many acquisitions over the last seven year to offer a full complement of telemedicine capabilities. The company’s capabilities include a variety of virtual visits and supporting services covering areas such as common medical conditions, specialist consultations, mental health therapy, dietary counseling, and drug delivery. These are offered on an integrated, licensable technology platform that can leverage modern data science capabilities such as analytics, AI, and machine learning. The company has more than 2,000 employees and delivers care in 130 countries and more than 30 languages via its partnering with employers, hospitals and health systems and insurers.
• Landscape Presence: Teledoc Health, through its acquisition of InTouch Technologies: #2 on the assignee list, 21 inventors in the top 250, 4 notable citations and the #3 ranked citations portfolio, inventions spanning 6 CPC group codes.

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. - https://www.intuitive.com/en-us

• Overview: Intuitive Surgical produces robotic products for minimally invasive surgery. Today the company is best known for its "da Vinci" surgical system and has sold over 5,500 systems worldwide. Intuitive's technology evolved out of research performed at SRI International in the 1990s in conjunction with the National Institute of Health and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where the initial focus was on remote robotic surgery performed on soldiers wounded on the battlefield. As a result, Intuitive's patent documents in the domain collection focus principally on the robotic control of surgical procedures often described with remote telemedicine embodiments. Thus, many of Intiutive's patent documents are identified as being similar and relevant to the telemedicine domain.
• Landscape Presence: #4 on the assignee list, 16 inventors in the top 250, 14 notable citations and the #1 ranked citations portfolio (including patent docs assigned to Intuitive Surgical and Computer Motion which was acquired in 2003), inventions spanning 2 CPC group code.

iRobot Corporation - https://www.irobot.com/

• Overview: iRobot is a leading global consumer robot company. iRobot's products include the Roomba® Vacuuming Robot and the Braava® family of mopping robots. In 2011 iRobot and InTouch Technologies entered into a joint development and licensing agreement to pursue potential opportunities for robotics in healthcare applications that leverage iRobot platforms. As a result of this agreement iRobot Corporation is the sole assignee or joint assignees on many patents that pertain to telemedicine technology. iRobot Corporation is not directly involved with the telemedicine market and any telemedicine applications of its intellectual property are implemented by InTouch Technologies. In January of 2020 it was announced that InTouch was being acquired by Teladoc Health Inc. for $600 million (~ $150 million in cash and $450 million of Teladoc Health common stock).

• Landscape Presence: #5 on the assignee list, 16 inventors in the top 250, 3 notable citations and the 4^th ranked citations portfolio, inventions spanning 3 CPC group codes.

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. - https://www.genesys.com/

• Overview: Genesys Telecommunications is a global provider of call center technology and related infrastructure. The company provides various technologies and solutions to manage the customer contact experience including call center software, email, real-time on-line chat, interactive messaging, automated chat / voice bots, as well as automated communication routing technology and related software. As a result, the company's patent documents included in the domain collection reflect its focus in these technology areas. In addition, these technologies provide capabilities that are often analogous to managing the contact experience with telemedicine patients, and thus were identified as relevant in the domain collection.
• Landscape Presence: #6 on the assignee list, 10 inventors in the top 250, zero notable citation in the top 100, inventions spanning 3 CPC group code.

APPLE INC - https://www.apple.com/healthcare/

• Overview: Apple has a significant market position in the wearables market via its Apple Watch and AirPods product lines. This product category, which Apple calls "Wearables, Home and Accessories", is the company's fastest growing segment according to its December 2019 financial results, and now accounts for $10 billion in quarterly revenue (exceeding the revenue derived from Mac computers).

• Landscape Presence: #7 on assignee list, 6 inventors in top 250, no notable citations, inventions spanning 1 CPC group codes.

General Electric - https://www.gehealthcare.com/products/patient-monitoring

• Overview: General Electric, via its GE Healthcare division, is one of the leading diversified suppliers of technology solutions for healthcare. The company has various products focused on solutions such as patient monitoring, imaging, ultrasound, and software with the application of AI and machine learning. More recently GE has partnered with InTouch Health for its telemedicine virtual communications technology for integration into GE’s Mural virtual care platform.
• Landscape Presence: #8 on the assignee list, 4 inventors in the top 250, no notable citations, inventions spanning 3 CPC group code.

Cerner Corporation - https://www.cerner.com/

• Overview: Cerner Corporation is a global provider of health care information technology (IT) solutions and services, principally to healthcare providers such as hospitals and clinics. It offers a wide variety of information system solutions covering clinical, financial, and operations management. As a result, the company's patent documents in this domain collection focus on those technology areas and intersect with telemedicine technology principally in the information management aspects of a patient's interaction with a telemedicine system.
• Landscape Presence: #9 on the assignee list, 5 inventors in the top 250, zero notable citation in the top 100, inventions spanning 3 CPC group code.

IBM - https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/d615643q72632b54

• Overview: IBM’s involvement in telemedicine is principally through its Watson Health division focusing on software and cloud solutions for enabling telemedicine solutions.
• Landscape Presence: #10 on the assignee list, 2 inventors in the top 250, no notable citations, inventions spanning 1 CPC group codes.

Amazon.com – Amazon Technologies, Inc. –  https://amazon.care/

• Overview: Amazon has several initiatives it is using to push into the healthcare marketplace. Amazon has joined up with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway in forming Haven Healthcare to deliver next-generation healthcare coverage and services to its employees. The company's Alexa voice assistant became HIPAA compliant in 2019 so that it can communicate protected health information. In addition, in December of 2019 Amazon's AWS launched Amazon Transcribe Medical, a voice transcription service for physicians that inputs text directly into medical records. The program is associated with Amazon Comprehend Medical, which allows developers to understand medical text and identify patient information. Amazon acquired PillPack in 2018 as its entry into the prescription drug market. Amazon launched its own healthcare program, Amazon Care, for employees in Seattle in September of 2019. The program offers virtual health clinics and in-home follow-up visits. The Virtual services include in-app visits with physicians, nurse practitioners or nurses.
• Landscape Presence: #11 on the assignee list, 3 inventors in the top 250, no notable citations in the top 100, no ranked CPC group codes.

Microsoft Corporation / MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/

• Overview: Microsoft focuses principally on software and cloud-based solutions for telemedicine solutions and platform providers.
• Landscape Presence: #13 on the assignee list, 2 inventors in the top 250, no notable citations, inventions spanning 1 CPC group codes.

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc / Hill-Rom Services - https://www.hillrom.com/

• Overview: Hill-Rom Services, Inc. is a provider of connected healthcare products spanning smart beds, patient lifts, patient assessment and monitoring technologies, caregiver collaboration tools, respiratory health devices, and advanced operating room equipment.
• Landscape Presence: #14 on the assignee list, 13 inventors in the top 250, no notable citations, inventions spanning 5 CPC group codes.

CISCO TECH INC – https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/industries/healthcare.html

• Overview: Cisco System, Inc. is a broad provider of communications and networking equipment. Its involvement in the telemedicine market is largely through its video conferencing equipment, which is used by hospitals and clinics to enable remote patient consultations with healthcare provider personnel. Nearly all the patent documents in this domain collection, that are assigned to Cisco, pertain to intellectual property related to video conferencing and related communications networking products.
• Landscape Presence: #16 on the assignee list, 1 inventor in the top 250, no notable citations, no ranked CPC group codes.

Sony Corporation - https://www.sony.com/

• Overview: Sony’s intersection with the telemedicine market has historically been largely focused on its camera, video, imaging, and mobile phone technologies, and Sony patent documents for those technologies are represented in this domain collection. Recently (October 2019) Sony also introduced a mobile health monitoring platform (mSafty), including a smartwatch wearable, that can be an integral part of patient data collection for a telemedicine platform. Other Sony patent documents in this collection cover information storage and robotics technology.
• Landscape Presence: #17 on the assignee list, 7 inventors in the top 250, 1 notable citation in the top 100, inventions spanning 2 CPC group code.

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS - https://www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/

• Overview: Philips is one of the leading telemedicine companies offering a suite of solutions targeted at both clinic / hospital and home markets.
• Landscape Presence: #18 on the assignee list, no inventors in the top 250, 1 notable citations, inventions spanning 1 CPC group code.

Amwell / American Well Corporation - https://www.amwell.com

• Overview: A complete telemedicine platform provider for health systems and hospitals. The company's mobile and web service connects doctors with patients for live, on-demand video visits over the internet and handles all the administration, security, and record keeping services.
• Landscape Presence: #21 on assignee list, 1 inventor in top 250, no notable citations, inventions spanning 1 CPC group codes.

Google - Alphabet Inc. - https://abc.xyz/

• Overview: Much of Alphabet's healthcare focus is on data and resources that can be levered into its Google search capabilities. The company has unique visibility into its Google search results and it receives around 1 billion health questions every day. Alphabet has a research division, Verily Life Sciences, devoted to the study of healthcare sciences. The company has partnered with healthcare provider organizations such as Ascension Health and the Mayo Clinic for healthcare data. Alphabet is also in the process of acquiring Fitbit in the hopes of improving its wearable products and has the potential to leverage these products into health-related data services.
• Landscape Presence: #25 on the assignee list, no inventors in the top 250, no notable citations in the top 100, no ranked CPC group codes.

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• This is a table summarizing the date coverage, listing the earliest and most recent dates for filed patent applications, published documents, and granted patents.
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• This is a table summarizing the geographic distribution of patent applications and granted patents by country contained in the domain collection.
• Total number of patent applications = 2,297
• Total number of granted patents = 1,348
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• This table shows the geographic breakdown of the number patent applications with English abstracts, descriptions, and claims. This table is designed to provide context on the English-searchable patent documents from which landscape semantic-search results are derived and the documents that can be queried for additional intellectual property research.
• Google's BigQuery patents.publications data table contains full text information on U.S patent documents as well as abstract and bibliographic info on international patent documents. As of the date of this report, the BigQuery data table does not contain full text descriptions and claims for international patent documents.
• Total number of patent applications with English abstracts = 2,295
• Total number of patent applications with English descriptions = 1,540
• Total number of patent applications with English claims = 1,540
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• This shows a bar chart timeline of the frequency of patent application filings and provides a concise view of the historic trend of application filings embodied in the domain collection.
• More specifically, the bar chart shows the number of patent applications filed on a quarterly basis beginning with the earliest filed application in the domain collection and ending with the most recent application filing in the domain collection as queried from the Google BigQuery patents.publications dataset table.

• This table identifies the top inventors listed on the patent applications contained in the domain collection and essentially identifies the top intellectual property experts of the domain area profiled. This table also lists the entities (corporations, educational institutions, etc.) to which those inventors have assigned the predominant number of patent applications, and thus identifies relationships between inventors and those assignees.
• The “Total Num of Patent Apps” column indicates the total number of patent applications on which the individual is listed as an inventor. The default sorting of the table is on this column in descending order.
• The “Num of Patent Apps per Assignee” column indicates the number of patent applications, on which the individual is listed as an inventor, that have been assigned to the indicated assignee.
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• This table identifies the top assignees of patent applications contained in the domain collection and largely shows the competitive landscape from an intellectual property perspective.
• The “Total Num of Patent Apps per Assignee” column indicates the total number of applications that have been assigned to the indicated assignee.
• The “Percent of Top 250 Assignees” column indicates the percentage of assignments of the indicated assignee across the top 250 assignees.
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• This table identifies the most cited patent document references across the domain collection and is designed to identify the most significant patent documents to the domain area profiled.
• A cited patent document is typically a patent application or granted patent that is considered as significant (prior art, or in some way relevant) to the patent application that cites it. This table below thus represents the list of most cited patent document references on patent applications in the domain collection. These cited patent documents may or may not be in the domain collection, but nonetheless represent notable references relevant to the domain collection.
• The “Number of Patent Apps” column indicates the number of times the citation was referenced across all applications in the domain collection.
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• This tables shows the same information as the previous Top Patent Document Citations table except this table is sorted by assignee and is designed to identify the assignees with most significant intellectual property position across the domain.
• Like the previous table, the “Number of Patent Apps” column indicates the number of times the citation was referenced across all applications in the domain collection.
• The “Tot Num of Patent Apps” column indicates the total number of patent application citations on an assignee basis. This number is computed by examining the citations per assignee and then summing the number of times those citations are referenced across the domain collection. The default sorting of the table ranks assignees in descending order of “Tot Num of Patent Apps” and thus provides an indication of the assignee’s intellectual property position in the domain area.
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• This is a table of the top inventive CPC group codes (and the group code titles) that are assigned to patent applications across the domain collection and thus provides a ranking of the macro-level technology topics that are utilized in the domain area profiled.
• CPC codes are assigned to every patent application to categorize the inventive ideas embodied the application. The CPC code consists of at least 7 characters and digits as defined by the Cooperative Patent Classification code system. The first four characters and digits are referred to as the CPC group code, which can be interpreted as a macro-level classification of the inventive ideas. The titles of the group codes thus provide a macro-level description of the embodied technology.
• The “Percent of Top 250 Codes” column indicates the concentration of the inventive ideas in the designated group code across the top 250 group codes in the domain collection. Patent applications can be assigned multiple CPC codes representing potentially different inventive ideas embodied in the application.
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• This is a table of the top inventive CPC group numbers (and the group number titles) that are assigned to patent applications across the domain collection and augments the previous Top Inventive CPC Group Codes table.
• This table essentially adds an additional level of description to the inventive ideas embodied in the domian collection. Where the group code represented a macro-level description, the group number is a level more detailed and provides more insight into the technologies embodied in the inventive ideas of the domain collection. Thus "Group Code Title" and "Group Number Title" combined provide two levels of description of the inventive technologies used in the patent applications across the domain collection.
• The “Percent of Top 250 Group Numbers” column indicates the concentration of the inventive ideas in the designated group number across the top 250 group numbers in the domain collection. Patent applications can be assigned multiple CPC codes representing potentially different inventive ideas embodied in the application.
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• This is a table of the most significant CPC Group Code - assignee combinations of patent applications in the domain collection and thus provides an indication of the significant focus technologies for the various assignees.
• The “Number of Patent Apps” column indicates the number of patent applications, designated to the indicated assignee, to which the CPC Group Code was assigned. The default sorting of the table on this column in descending order thus ranks the most significant focus technologies for the indicated assignee.
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• This shows a timeline heatmap of the number of patent applications that utilize the top inventive CPC codes as filed on a quarterly basis spanning the domain collection application filing timeline.
• This heatmap is designed to provide visibility into the technology trends represented by the most used CPC codes in the domain collection.