Iftekhar Mirza, Ph.D Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, Us

San Diego, California, Us

San Diego, California, Us

Managing global patent portfolio related to wireless communication and electronics hardwareAdvising technical and business stakeholders on patent mattersSetting and implementing a patent strategy for Dexcom’s innovationsWorking with in-house patent professionals in managing patent harvesting and prosecutionInteracting with patent offices throughout the world in order to strengthen and accelerate the issuance of Dexcom’s patented innovationsManaging outside patent prosecution counsel both domestically and globallySupporting European Opposition and IP litigation as neededDeveloping, coordinating and reviewing patent research and analysis projects, including prior art searches, competitive intelligence, landscapes, patentability analyses, portfolio analyses, infringement/non-infringement analyses, validity/invalidity analysesCoordinating and managing patent committeesManaging a group of IP Liaisons/EngineersProviding internal education and trainings related to IP

San Diego, California, Us

• Built IP assets for the company by working closely with the company’s engineers and scientists and routinely holding patent harvesting meetings• Actively managed patent portfolio (domestic and foreign), external relationships with outside counsel and collaborators• Drove invention capture, patent application drafting and claims mining projects• Worked on patent prosecution (domestic and foreign), freedom-to-operate, infringement and validity analyses

• Work closely with and interview company's engineers and product development teams to draft provisional and non-provisional patent applications• Perform preliminary freedom-to-operate (FTO) assessments to advise product development teams of potential clear pathways and possible prior art roadblocks • Manage and work with outside counsel with respect to patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution and maintenance activities.• Perform search to remain up-to-date on industry trends and activities that impact company’s products and their associated intellectual property rights

King Of Prussia, Pa, Us

• Work with firm's clients and shareholders in all aspects of the patent practice• Review invention disclosure and interview inventors• Draft patent applications• Assist in prosecution of patent applications : review office action and prior art, amend claims, draft response to office action and participate in examiner interview• Draft strategy letters to advise domestic and foreign clients• Work on various technologies related to electrical and computer engineering field: mobile devices, telecommunications, computer software, data encryption, various network and communication systems, display and imaging systems, sensors, physics, optics, medical devices and mechanical systems.

Narrowband Perfect Absorber for Microbolometer Imaging System• Prepared a business proposal and awarded funding for a next generation THz imaging system • In collaboration with Lumilant Co., design narrow THz frequency band perfect absorber • Design material with high loss based on metamaterial structures• Design tunable material with frequency sweeping features • Fabricate and demonstrate a sensitive THz imaging system

Newark, De, Us

Compressive Sensing Hyperspectral Imaging System • Prepare quarterly reports for sponsoring agency and update PI’s on progress on a weekly basis• Prepare time-schedule to meet the deliverable deadlines• Prepare SBIR/STTR/BAA grant proposals for funding solicitation (including budget) • Budget allocation and scheduling for the project • Supervise graduate students • Design and build test systems for compressive sensing imaging in visible and infra-red wavelengths using random aperture pattern and Digital Micro-mirror Devices• Design calibration setup for single pixel infrared detector using black body sources, lock-in amplifier, optical chopper, oscilloscope, etc.Real-time Signal Detection Using Photonic Crystal Waveguide and Metamaterial Antenna • Prepared FY end technical reports and presentations for the project• Collaborated with small businesses for funding solicitation through grant proposals • Managed the coordination of the design, fabrication and testing of tapered dielectric horn waveguides for the purpose of reducing the coupling loss of a waveguiding photonic crystal slab• Designed using customized numerical code and fabricated low and high index contrast dielectric material photonic crystals • Performed transmission (S-parameter) measurements of the waveguiding structure using VNA• Designed artificial inductive metamaterial for antenna miniaturization• Fabricated and tested metamaterial antennas in the anechoic chamber using VNA

Newark, De, Us

Design of Phase Modulators based on Metamaterials• Designed and fabricated tunable split ring resonators to demonstrate phase/ amplitude modulation functionality in Radio Frequency wavelength • Put together a bench-top setup with lens-horn antenna and a two-dimensional monopole antenna scanning system to experimentally demonstrate phase only modulation with metamaterials • Processed and analyzed data using VNA and customized MATLAB codeEmbedded Antenna Project• Designed and modeled antennas and metamaterials using Ansoft High Frequency Structural Simulator (HFSS) software • Carried out the evaluation and assessment of the designed structures for practical applications• Demonstrated miniaturization of the physical size of the antenna using Metamaterials and enhancement of bandwidth for narrow and broadband antennasMetamaterials Project • Developed numerical computational tools using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method (FDTD) and MATLAB for the study of a class of metamaterials: artificial materials with unique and atypical electromagnetic properties that can lead to a perfect optical lens, cloaking devices and smart small antennas. Codes used for theoretical verification and dispersion diagram analysis• Built test setup for experimental measurements of Metamaterials• Experimentally demonstrated the unique behavior of metamaterials through negative refraction

Phd, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bachelors Of Electrical Engineering (With Distinction), Electrical Engineering With Minor In Mathematical Sciences