Crunchfish granted its first patent focused on Augmented Reality (AR)

Today the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV) issued Swedish patent 538 778 to Crunchfish for grouping and filtering mobile users who are in close proximity. This is Crunchfish’s first granted patent focused on Augmented Reality. Since 2014 Crunchfish has developed aBubbl®, a product within product area Connected AR, that in many ways can augment […]

Today the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV) issued Swedish patent 538 778 to Crunchfish for grouping and filtering mobile users who are in close proximity. This is Crunchfish’s first granted patent focused on Augmented Reality.

Since 2014 Crunchfish has developed aBubbl^®, a product within product area Connected AR, that in many ways can augment the reality for the mobile user. aBubbl^® can be used with any Android or iOS app, enabling users to discover and communicate with other devices in close proximity. The patent is focused on grouping and filtering, which enables mobile users to be categorized into subgroups. The purpose is to be able to identify and count the number of participants, or selectively share and exchange information between subgroups.

“This is a key and commercially very important patent for Crunchfish. Not only because it is our first grant within AR, but because of its wide and fundamental scope. Grouping users into subgroups is a core feature of any social application within social media, dating, business networking, meeting, collaborative gaming, for instance.”, says Joachim Samuelsson, Chairman of Crunchfish and responsible for its IP-portfolio.

Crunchfish patent portfolio

Crunchfish has 51 active patents and patent applications nationally and internationally, based on 16 patent families within two technology areas: gesture control and Augmented Reality. There are 10 unique innovations within gesture control which all have been granted patents and 13 unique innovations within Augmented Reality. This announces the first grant within the AR technology area. The company owns all of its patents and patent applications without restrictions.

Crunchfish’s strategy is to protect the company’s technology in all geographically important markets. Crunchfish intends to expand its patent portfolio continuously to targeted markets and by new innovations within both gesture control and augmented reality.

For further information, please contact:
Chairman of the Board, Joachim Samuelsson +46 708 464 788 or CEO, Joakim Nydemark +46 706 351 609.