Patents by Inventor Dean Bowes

Dean Bowes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260179644
    Abstract: The invention provides a unified assistive technology system, the ADA Empathy Wearable Bundle, enhancing perception, communication, and self-expression for individuals with visual, auditory, or speech impairments. It integrates Empathy Glasses, Empathy Headphones, Word Articulation Guidance (WAGS), Word Articulation Response Monitoring (W.A.R.M.), and Conversational MIDI (C-MIDI), using AI-driven narrative interpretation, augmented reality, and blockchain-based security. The system delivers vivid narrative audio for blind users, multimodal AR overlays for hearing-impaired users, and real-time visual and auditory articulation guidance for speech-impaired or non-verbal users. A tone-based trust protocol ensures operational integrity, while blockchain storage preserves privacy and consent. Grounded in ethical AI, empathy, and human dignity, the system enables users to perceive, understand, and engage with the world fully, offering a holistic, compassionate, and transformative solution in assistive technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2025
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Inventor: Dean Bowes
  • Publication number: 20260154891
    Abstract: The present invention provides a unified AI-driven media ecosystem enabling users to seamlessly integrate personal avatars into pre-recorded visual or audio media and generate fully autonomous content. The system supports adult personalization, supervised child engagement, and AI-generated open-ended narratives. User avatars are mapped in real time onto original media stored in a proprietary .AIMovie or .AIMusic file format, preserving unaltered audiovisual or audio-only content. Biometric authentication, including FaceID, ensures authorized access, while blockchain and zero-knowledge proofs enforce secure validation without bypassing consent. The system dynamically adapts narratives, synchronizes expressions, lip movements, and gestures, or user vocal characteristics, and allows collaborative input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventor: Dean Bowes
  • Publication number: 20260148722
    Abstract: The present invention, LYRA (Learning Your Resonance Alignment), is a resonance-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that interfaces with electric guitar hardware to enable adaptive, emotionally intelligent musical performance. LYRA captures real-time input from guitar components, including pickups, sustainers, and toggle interfaces, and analyzes this data through a resonance mapping engine and alignment detection layer to identify a user-specific vibrational and emotional profile. An expression response interface interprets gestures, string vibration, and control interactions, allowing the system to dynamically adjust audio output-including tonal, harmonic, sustain, and effect parameters-based on the musician's alignment. LYRA continuously updates its memory of the user's expressive patterns, providing real-time haptic, visual, or auditory feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventor: Dean Bowes
  • Publication number: 20260141883
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a universal guitar nut system that integrates multiple pickup technologies, AI-driven signal processing, sustain enhancement, and note-bending capabilities into a single modular assembly. The system captures string vibrations directly at the nut, enabling acoustic-like and electric tonal output independent of bridge pickups or body resonance. It supports piezoelectric, magnetic, optical, and future sensing technologies, providing flexible signal routing via wired or wireless outputs. AI modules analyze performance in real-time, dynamically shaping tone, sustain, and harmonic response. A piezo-actuated sustainer provides controlled string vibration for infinite sustain, while integrated note-bender functionality allows pitch modulation directly at the nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Inventor: Dean Bowes
  • Publication number: 20260134889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a digital audio workstation (DAW) system and method for sequencing, synchronizing, and visualizing musical, conversational, and multimedia content on a cylindrical timeline rather than a traditional linear interface. Each track is mapped to a rotating cylinder, wherein bar length defines the circumference and tempo determines angular velocity. Multiple tracks of arbitrary lengths and independent tempos can run concurrently in perfect synchronization using a shared global time reference. The system inherently supports polymeter and polyrhythm, with events such as notes, gestures, or conversational turns encoded as angular positions and arc lengths. Conversational MIDI (C-MIDI) is integrated to encode emotion, tone, tempo, and phrasing for multi-participant dialogues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2026
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventor: Dean Bowes