Software and artificial intelligence are at the heart of innovation in sectors such as healthcare, autonomous driving, telecommunications, cybersecurity, industrial automation, imaging, and finance. Securing strong patent protection for these inventions requires more than legal expertise alone. It also requires a deep understanding of the underlying technology.
At DeltaPatents, we assist clients with patents for both software-based inventions and AI-based inventions. Our European patent attorneys combine legal expertise with strong technical backgrounds in mathematics, signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, control systems, cryptography, and software engineering. This allows us to understand technically sophisticated inventions in depth and to translate them into strong patent applications and effective prosecution strategies.
Our experience covers both foundational technologies and practical software-implemented products.
We regularly work on inventions involving, for example:
This is particularly important for inventions that are not merely “software” in a general sense, but involve technically meaningful processing, specific implementations, or improvements in the operation of a device, system, or network.
We have experience with software and AI inventions across a wide range of technical fields, including:
Healthcare
medical image analysis, physiological signal processing, diagnostic support, patient monitoring, therapy planning, and workflow automation
Autonomous driving and mobility
object detection, scene understanding, sensor fusion, trajectory planning, driver assistance, vehicle control, and perception systems
Cybersecurity and cryptography
encryption techniques, secure communication, authentication, key management, privacy-preserving processing, and software-based security architectures
Industrial systems
predictive maintenance, machine monitoring, robotics, quality inspection, anomaly detection, industrial control, and process optimization
Telecommunications
signal decoding, channel estimation, radio resource management, protocol handling, network optimization, and software-defined communications
Consumer and enterprise software
search, recommendation, document analysis, intelligent automation, decision support, and large-scale data processing
Why clients choose DeltaPatents
Many software and AI inventions are technically complex and legally nuanced. Patent protection often depends on whether the invention can be presented as a concrete technical solution to a technical problem.
That is where our technical depth matters.
We understand inventions that involve mathematical models, algorithmic processing, software implementation details, cryptographic techniques, sensor data, or learning-based methods. We know how to identify the features that matter for patentability and how to present them clearly and persuasively before the European Patent Office.
Our work often involves inventions where the key issues include, for example:
- how data is processed, transformed, or secured
- how a model or algorithm improves technical performance
- how latency, reliability, accuracy, memory use, or bandwidth is improved
- how software interacts with hardware, sensors, or communication systems
- how a technical effect can be demonstrated in a concrete implementation
Our approach
We do not treat software or AI inventions as abstract concepts. We analyse the invention in technical detail, identify the patentable contribution, and develop a drafting and prosecution strategy aligned with European practice and with the client’s commercial objectives.
Whether your invention concerns cryptography, signal processing, control software, computer vision, machine learning, or another computer-implemented technology, DeltaPatents can help you secure robust patent protection in Europe.