The McPhail Mechanical Patents Portfolio

The McPhail Mechanical Patents portfolio covers engineered mechanical and electromechanical devices in which the inventive contribution lies in the geometry, sensing architecture, or interaction mechanism rather than in any single material substance. Active areas of development include compact biometric and capacitive sensing systems, ultra-thin form-factor electronics, embedded detection and alarm devices, machine-readable physical indicators for supply-chain and pharmaceutical applications, granular-medium handling devices, and a growing set of devices addressing environmental protection and animal welfare. This includes coastal protection systems for vulnerable species threatened by extreme tidal events, sea-level disturbances, and storm surge. The portfolio is unified by an emphasis on mechanisms that operate reliably in everyday physical and ecological environments while providing functions that would otherwise require larger, more energy-intensive, less integrated, or more harmful solutions. Several inventions in this category address safety, security, and conservation problems for which existing mechanical solutions are either bulky, indiscriminate, or absent altogether.

The accompanying word cloud reflects technical vocabulary associated with the portfolio's current invention set.