Patent Pending
Helium22 has moved from building technology for clients to designing products of our own — and is preparing to protect those ideas.
We have started building our own. For three decades Helium22 has designed and delivered technology for other organisations. That work continues — but alongside it we have begun designing and developing products of our own, and we are preparing to seek patent protection for the ideas behind them.
From client work to our own products
Thirty years of engineering across banking, insurance, logistics, engineering and a dozen other sectors leaves you with something valuable: a long list of problems that nobody has solved properly. Some of them are worth more than a single client engagement, because the same problem turns up in every industry, described in different language each time.
Those are the problems we have started building for. Rather than solving them once for one customer and moving on, we are designing them as products — engineered to be used by many organisations, and built to the same standard we apply to client work.
Where we are now
Our current phase is design and development. That means concept work, technical feasibility, prototyping, and the unglamorous business of proving that an idea survives contact with real data and real users before anything else happens. Several concepts are in this stage; some will progress, and some will not, which is exactly what this phase is for.
The next phase: seeking protection
As those designs mature, we will be entering the phase of seeking patents for the ideas that warrant it. Practically, that means:
- Prior-art searching — establishing what already exists, so effort goes into what is genuinely novel rather than into reinventing something already published.
- Working with patent attorneys — drafting claims properly, because a patent is only as strong as the way it is written.
- Deciding what to protect and what to publish — not every good idea should be patented; some are better shared, and some are better kept as know-how.
- Filing in the right territories — protection is national, and it costs money in every jurisdiction, so it follows where a product will actually be sold.
Until an application is filed, disclosure matters. Publicly describing an invention before filing can destroy the ability to patent it in most of the world, which is why the detail on these pages is deliberately limited for now. It is not evasiveness; it is the correct order of operations.
Working with us in the meantime
If you are a potential partner, investor or customer who would like to know more, we are happy to talk under a confidentiality agreement. That lets us be specific about what is being built and where it fits, without compromising the protection we are preparing to seek.