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World IP Day 2026 — Recognized Innovator

Charles Yeomans

  • CEO & Co-Founder
  • Atombeam Technologies Inc.

Recognized as the co-founder and named inventor at Atombeam Technologies, where he helped build a 200+ patent portfolio around a new approach to data efficiency. Atombeam’s patented Data-as-Codewords technology reduces machine and IoT data by up to 75% and is now deployed across U.S. defense programs and enterprise partners including Ericsson and Nvidia

Certificate of Recognition

Top IP Innovator — Data Compaction & Edge Computing · 2026

Atombeam Patents (last 5 years)
0
First Filing
2018
USPTO Art Unit Focus
2136 / 2845 / 2166
Role
CEO & Co-Founder
Presented by InspireIP

World IP Day Recognition Series · 2026

Atombeam patents, last 5 years
0
Filed in 2025 alone
0 +
Recognition category
0 Data & AI
The Recognition

Rethinking how data moves at the binary level

On World IP Day 2026, InspireIP recognizes Charles Yeomans, co-founder and CEO of Atombeam Technologies, for helping build one of the most active patent programs in data compaction, transmission, and security.

Charles co-founded Atombeam in 2017 after his co-founder Asghar Riahi introduced the idea of using machine learning to reduce data at the binary level.

Charles helped validate the concept, raise early funding, and build the company around the technology.

Today, Atombeam’s portfolio spans 201 filings in five years, covering AI-generated codebooks, recursive encoding, searchable reduced-format data, and ultralight encryption. The company now has active contracts with the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, along with technology partnerships with Ericsson, Nvidia, Intel, HPE, and Viasat.

Data Compaction
Edge Computing
IoT Security
Codebooks
Satellite Communications
Defense & National Security
Patent Footprint

A portfolio built at startup speed

2017–2018

Charles Yeomans and Asghar Riahi co-found Atombeam Technologies in Moraga, California. The company files its first set of patents covering data storage and transmission using reference code libraries and AI-generated codebooks. Charles is named as inventor alongside Riahi and chief scientist Josh Cooper in multiple patents.

2019–2021

The portfolio grows to 10+ filings as Atombeam completes v1.0 of its compaction software, and begins building partnerships with Ericsson and Viasat.

2022–2023

Filing activity picks up. 52 patents across two years as Atombeam releases the first commercial version of Neurpac SaaS, signs a distribution agreement with Ericsson, and secures contracts with the U.S. Air Force.

2024–2025

A sharp acceleration. 140 patents across two years, peaking at 77 filings in 2025. Atombeam closes a $20M Reg A+ round on StartEngine, bringing total funding to $35M. The company formalizes a Technology Alliance Partner agreement with Ericsson and wins the 2026 BIG Innovation Award.

Data Compaction & Edge Computing

A small-entity startup filing like a much larger one

Atombeam Technologies is classified by the USPTO as a Small Entity, yet its five-year filing volume sits well above what is typical for data infrastructure startups of its size. Much of that activity is concentrated in the computer architecture, security, and semiconductors art units that protect data encoding, transmission, and processing systems.

Patents in last 5 years
Peak year (2025)
77 filings
USPTO entity status
Small Entity
Art unit focus
2136 / 2845 / 2166
"Leading an innovation program is harder than inventing on your own. It means choosing what to file, who to credit, and where to invest, over and over, for years. The leaders we recognize on World IP Day have done that consistently, and built something that compounds."

Sam Zellner

Founder, InspireIP · Inventor · Innovation Leader

About Atombeam Technologies

Built in California, deployed across defense and enterprise

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in California, Atombeam Technologies builds patented data compaction software for machine and IoT data.

Its software can reduce data size by up to 75%, effectively increasing available bandwidth without hardware changes. The company’s core technology, Data-as-Codewords, uses AI and machine learning to translate data into compact codewords through codebooks.

Atombeam is a technology partner with Ericsson, Nvidia, Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Viasat, and holds active contracts with the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. 

Its Neurpac platform has been recognized with the 2026 BIG Innovation Award and the Gold Award for Technology Innovation at the Merit Awards for Technology. The pace of filing shown above is what makes that kind of commercial and defense expansion defensible.

IP Day 2027

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