Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Madhur Goel, who received a cash prize of $3,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 6,611,289, owned by Yanbin Yu and Zhongxuan Zhang. The '289 patent, directed to a system and method for producing enhanced images using a digital camera with multiple image sensors and lenses, has been asserted in multiple district court cases. To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.