- USPTO
- Reg. No. 82,575 (Agent), registered 2024
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Jacob Ballantyne
Patent Agent
- Education
- B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, magna cum laude, The Ohio State University, 2021
- Technical focus
- Circuit design and prototyping, microcontrollers, audio, VR, web applications
Jacob (Jake) Ballantyne is a patent agent. He joined Eschweiler & Potashnik in 2022 as a patent engineer and was registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2024. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, magna cum laude, from The Ohio State University in 2021. At Ohio State, Jacob was vice president of Engineers for Community Service and co-leader of its Wheelchair Ramp Project, helping design and build wheelchair ramps for local community members.
Jacob has experience with circuit design, debugging, and prototyping; microcontrollers; audio equipment; virtual reality (VR); and web applications, using languages such as Java, C, C++, C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, and ASP.NET. He is a native English speaker and a proficient Spanish speaker, having completed extensive Spanish coursework at Ohio State, including advanced grammar, composition, and phonetics.
Before joining the firm, Jacob was an information technology intern at McNeil & Company and an electrical engineering co-op at Battelle Memorial Institute. At McNeil & Company, he designed and developed web applications for internal operations that are still used daily to report statistics to the company’s chief officers. At Battelle, he helped research, develop, and test projects such as the Critical Care Decontamination System (CCDS), which decontaminated N95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the DroneDefender counter-UAS device, for which he directed a team of several electrical engineers and technicians.