Our Mission is to turn every smartphone in the world into an easy-to-use personal safety companion.

One that works for you in all kinds of contingencies. Our goal is to develop innovative technology that stops a crime before it starts.

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Business Model

 

We are a front-end technology development company. We conceptualize, invent, design, and develop disruptive technologies that translate into highly profitable, patent-protected products for our partners.

Once our high-risk R&D is completed, we license technology to one or more global companies interested in developing new market opportunities. Our support includes technology transfer and customization services. In the right circumstances, we will entertain acquisition to accelerate product release and maximize market penetration.

Making a Difference

Our passionate commitment is protecting people’s most valuable belonging—their lives.

It means changing the way we think about public safety. Ever since humans began living in societies, they have relied on others for protection from predators and criminals. Today, we call these people the police. The problem is law enforcement cannot be everywhere, all the time.
 
That’s why we have integrated recent advances in mobile and wearable computing with wireless connectivity and miniaturized criminal deterrents into the world’s first virtual cop.  It goes wherever you go, day or night, ready to spring to your defense whenever you need it. 

Intellectual Property

Patents are our “Rembrandts in the attic.” That is how three Harvard Business Review authors describe the strategic value of a company’s patent portfolio.1

At Micro Apps Group, we develop high-tech concepts that can gain strong legal protection. Our nightSTICK patents exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing competitive personal security devices in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other foreign countries. We own exclusive rights to license or sell the rights defined by these patents.

Some companies view patents as obscure pieces of paper gathering dust in the corporate legal office. We view them as growth engines, every bit as important as sales and product lines.

Our partners use our patents to increase shareholder wealth and gain proprietary marketing advantage by:

  1. Securing a Legal Monopoly Over the Competition for 20 Years

  2. Protecting Core Technology

  3. Increasing Competitiveness

 

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nightSTICK Portfolio

Trade Secrets

Closely guarded information in the field of mobile communications and optical data processing.

  1. Proprietary software for integrating Internet of Things (IoT) devices with smartphones.

  2. Source code in C/C++.

  3. Functionality for pairing mobile phones via Bluetooth with one or more external devices and launching an app.

  4. Documentation for building, deploying, and supporting multiple IoT apps.

  5. Step-by-step instruction to launch and distribute IoT apps.

Patents

  1. U.S. Patent, 11,900,778, February 13, 2024, System for Improving Safety in Schools (aka schoolSAFE).

  2. U.S. Patent  9,589,448,  B1, March 7, 2017, Autonomous Safety and Security Device on an Unmanned Platform Under Command and Control of a Cellular Phone.

  3. U.S. Patent  9,615,235, B2, April 4, 2017, Wireless Personal Safety Device.

  4. U.S. Patent 9,715,805, B1, July 25, 2017, Wireless Personal Safety Device.

 


1 Rivette, Nothhaft, and Kline. “Discovering New Value in Intellectual Property.” Harvard Business Review. Print: January–February 2000. Web: 1 May 2017.