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Monthly Open Meetings
Every First Saturday
at 10:30 a.m.
First Open Meeting FREE!
Annual Membership $30.00
Next Meeting:
Is at
National Entrepreneur Center
(See Map)
Sept. 6, 2025
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AGENDA
- Announcements
- Presentation (in person) - An Overview of AI-Assisted Invention Development Stephen Matheny (Bring your laptop to follow along too.)
- Networking
- Adjourn
Stephen will provide examples of how chatbots and AI agents can be used to develop inventions with thorough prior art research.
Ideation Phase
Examples of how the usage of various CHatBots or AI agents (Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) can help brainstorm and refine invention concepts, assist in documenting initial ideas and technical specifications.
Prior Art Research Using Agentic Database Mining and Analysis
Patent databases: USPTO, EPO (Espacenet), WIPO Global Brand Database, Google Patents
Technical literature: IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, arXiv
Hands On Usage
We suggest bringing a laptop or tablet to try some of the free versions of the Foundation Large Language Models (LLMs) that will be demonstrated.
Stephen Matheny Biography
As a solutions architect & engineer, he listens to customers' descriptions of problems, performs needs assessments, applies systems thinking/analysis to core/root problems, researches current & emerging technology and current best practices in the field, and synthesizes a balanced technical and business process reengineering solution that is cost effective.
Patents
The user interfaces and information structures and access explained in the patents awarded are relied upon in over 30 Patents that have issued to Google.
Matheny, S., Orwig, G., Holzer, R. and Calloway, J. Electronic maintenance support workstation for product management. US Patent no. 5146404. International Patents: World Patent Organization, WO8802152, European Community EP285639, Japan JP1502621 and Canada CA1299760. 1992.
Consulting Engineer and Systems Designer for the Naval Underwater Warfare Center. Designed and built training systems (16 Mil) for various DOD customers` work required conceptualization and prototyping to delivery and acceptance testing. Systems developed simulated tactical systems and used acoustic databases developed from NAVSEA ocean models.
Executed several research and development projects for the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics related to submarine logistical support and maintenance. Designed and built prototypes for the Trident Shipboard Trainer and wrote the procurement specifications for the same.
Project manager and instructional designer for several interactive multimedia projects (500-750K) simulating an online transaction system for the American Express Card Services Division in Ft. Lauderdale.
Developed interactive courseware to teach nursing skills and scientific problem-solving skills in biology, chemistry, and physics with educational publisher Synergistic Educational Technology Systems and Columbia Community College under Department of Education and National Science Foundation funding.
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National Entrepreneur Center
3201 E Colonial Dr. Suite a20
Orlando, FL 32803