Dr. Edwin A. Hernandez

Technology Leader, Startup Expert, Expert Witness, Tech Investor, Tech Strategy, Media Professional & Inventor.
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Featured in:
  • 17+5 US & European patents issued
  • 50+ IP cases, incl. 15+ IPRs
  • $300M+ in licenses & settlements
  • 80+ startups incubated at EGLAVATOR
  • Incubated PointsKash ( $100M raised)
  • Startup Incubator Expert
  • Ex-Motorola
  • Ex-Microsoft
  • Fulbright Scholar
  • IEEE Member
  • FAU Industry Advisory Board
  • TECHEDTV Podcast host
  • Inventor Modern Handoff
  • Honduras Global Co-Founder
  • Mobility Workx Co-Founder
  • Technical and Damages Expert

Introduction

Serial entrepreneur, inventor, technology leader

Dr. Edwin Hernandez is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and technology leader — the founder of EGLA CORP, a technology company that develops its own technologies and, intellectual property, including MEVIA, MEVIA AI, MEVIA OS, Demolizer, FETTLE AI, PTAB Experts, and others. EGLA serves as a platform where other innovators build ventures at the EGLAVATOR, his technology incubator and accelerator in Coral Springs, FL. The EGLAVATOR assists and invests in early-stage technology companies, offering funding advice, go-to-market strategy, intellectual property guidance, and hands-on execution support.

As a technology leader, Dr. Hernandez has worked with engineering and business teams since his days at Motorola and Microsoft. Through his intellectual property portfolio, he and his team at Mobility Works, have reached licensing agreements with wireless patents covering Motorola, Google, Apple, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, DISH Wireless, Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Comcast, and other major technology companies.

Dr. Edwin is an expert in technology, licensing, and venture funding with extensive experience in wireless communications, AI, cloud computing, IoT, electronic devices, and advanced software platforms — a hands-on coder who builds prototypes for many of the products developed at his incubator and is well versed in code reviews and hardware/software audits.

Dr. Hernandez earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. He is a named inventor on 17 issued U.S. patents and 5 European patents. He has provided technical expert witness services in 50+ intellectual property cases, including 15+ inter partes reviews (IPRs), and four testimonies at trial, Daubert hearings, and numerous depositions. He was a Fulbright Scholar and has twice served as a judge for the Mobile World Congress. He is a Microsoft and Motorola alumnus, a member of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) at Florida Atlantic University, and producer of his own technology podcast, TECHEDTV.

Dr. Hernandez has testified as an expert witness in several high-value matters, including for Blue Radios at trial (a $24.8M award, per Nasdaq), for the Mojo Mobility legal team on wireless-charging patents (a $192M award, per Reuters), for the TOT Power Control team on power-control patents (a $110M award, per Reuters), and for Intellectual Ventures against LG in a multi-million-dollar licensing dispute.

Edwin's Blog

NBC Universal Hackathon – Miami 2018

This weekend I went and spent some time hacking some code at the “NBC Universal Hackathon” and trying it out new ideas, meeting new friends, and learning a ton on many technological aspects and innovating.  The particular problem that we decided to to solve was the irrelevance  aspects of current TV and how more interactive could it be with current

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Anemometer Computer Vision – Wind Speed

Anemometer Computer vision is a method to determine Wind Speed with analysis of frames captured in a camera, I filed for patent on this not so long ago. Back in April 2018, I participated in “Emerge America’s” Hackathon with a project called “Augmented Reality Anemometer” that used Augmented Reality (AR) to capture video frames from the ARKit and computed the

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Cloud to Cable Patent Issued & Inventors Protection Act Updates

Patent Issued for One of Our Media Streaming Technologies As you have read in my blog, Cloud-to-Cable is a platform and technology that merges the worlds of cloud and Cable TV.   One of the main objectives of the patent and as you can read in the description is to: ” ……   systems, devices, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media

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Music Choice Patent Axed Partially by PTAB

   Late September and early October total of two judgments have been filed thus far by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in the case against Music Choice’s patent. As indicated in the rulings for IPR2017-00888 and IPR2017-01191, partial axing fo the patents have been granted to Stingray or against Music Choice’s interest.  Interesting findings that enforce the value

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5G Handover

5G Handover is a very important feature in 5GNR systems (5G New Radio). 5G has come close to standardization with many news from Verizon and T-Mobile regarding deployments and acquisitions specially with NOKIA.   NOKIA inks deal with T-Mobile for $3.5B (Press Release) Verizon and Nokia competete 5G NR Mobility Call (Press Release)  I personally have a patent that covers

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Music Choice Acquisition or Stingray’s patent defense?

Music Choice Acquisition was announced this week. Stingray Digital made an offer to acquire Music Choice for US$120M. In this world of media consolidation, there are very few players left in the world of “Music for Cable” TV.   Stingray Digital, Music Choice, and MEVIA (our technology). During the earnings call on August 8th, 2018  Mr. Eric Boyko, president and

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What is Cloud to Cable TV?

What is Cloud to Cable TV? Use Case : Music for Cable | Amplify your Reach® First Patent is Allowed and will be granted The patent filed for an important component of the “CloudtoCableTV” architecture has received a “Notice of Allowance” meaning that a patent will be granted as soon as fees are paid by me.  I will also file

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An Augmented Reality Anemometer – First Update 

An Augmented Realty Anemometer was presented by me during  the “Emerge Americas Hackathon 2018,” the theme was “Miami Resilience” and specially with all the hurricane  events in Florida a key element in those weather reports is the classic anemometer and wind speed measurements. As we all know, anything over “Tropical Storm” and Floridians prepare for the worst as our waters

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BitCoin Caster  – Finalist – TOP 5 Projects  – Miami Bitcoin Hackathon Jan 19th – 21st, 2018

BitCoin Caster  (aka MEVIACOIN) – Finalist – TOP 5 Projects Jan 19th, 2018 I attended the Miami Bitcoin Hackathon held right at the LAB MIAMI in Wynwood, FL.   I created a team called MEVIA, nobody signed up, only one person joined as he was left out and decided to be part of it, but didn’t know how to code, so

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Inter Parties Review System Proposal

Inter Parties Review System – A New Proposal   I am attempting to make an series of three proposals, on how the patents are reviewed by a PTAB into the future, and how the system could be corrected with an alternative resolution. My three main proposals are: Raise the bar from expert witness testimony to define obviousness, IPR Fees and

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Good People / Friendship as a Lesson

Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa Share Their Experience Selena Gomez was diagnosed with “Lupus” and her desease progressed to the point that her kidneys failed, a friend from childhood and roommate, Francia Raisa became her donor. Selena tried to find a match and could not find anyone in her family, miraculously, and what seems to be God’s hand, her donor

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IPR – Music Choice vs Stingray Digital

Inter-Parties Review  – Case Music Choice vs Stingray Digital – PTAB Board (Patent Trial and Appeal Board) The case between Music Choice and Stingray Digital had a major update. An IPR was filed a few months ago by Stingray to challenge the validity of Music Choice’s patents. October 2017 bas been filled with decisions and milestones made by the IPR

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Predicting Network Traffic using Radial-basis Function Neural Networks – Fractal Behavior

Predicting Network Traffic using Radial-basis Function Neural Networks – Fractal Behavior I found a paper about Predicting Network Traffic using RBFNN.  I wrote this back in December 2011 regarding Radial-basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNN). Currently, new trends in artificial intelligence are key and RBF-Kernels are in use by machine learning methods and systems. ” Fractal time series can be predicted

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LTE Filter Coefficients in Wireless Communication Systems

LTE Filter Coefficients LTE uses a linear filter to perform using a set of coefficients like in Equation 1 presented in this paper. The LTE University.com   quotes the following “Once the UE is configured to do measurements, the UE starts measuring reference signals from the serving cell and any neighbors it detects. The next question is whether the UE

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