Provisional patent applications
What has been filed, at the level that can be stated publicly.
Applications on file
Jason Colapietro has five U.S. provisional patent applications on file (patent pending). He is a named inventor on U.S. provisional patent application 63/947,120, and the other four are 63/946,189, 63/946,192, 63/946,212 and 63/946,217. Each application is a filing, not an issued patent.
Filing receipts
The USPTO issued the filing receipts for all five in January 2026. Provisional applications are not published, so their titles and claims are not public until an application converts.
Why file at all
A self-funded company competing with platform incumbents needs defensible ground. Filings are that ground. They also force precision: a claim has to be reduced to practice before it can be written down.
What a provisional application is
A provisional application is a US patent filing made under 35 U.S.C. 111(b). It needs no formal patent claims, and the USPTO does not examine it on its merits. It establishes an early filing date and allows the invention to be described as patent pending. Its pendency lasts 12 months and cannot be extended.
What has to follow
A provisional application expires 12 months after its filing date, when it becomes abandoned by operation of law. To keep that filing date, a nonprovisional application claiming its benefit has to be filed within those 12 months, or within 14 by a petition stating the delay was unintentional, or the provisional has to be converted to a nonprovisional by petition within the 12 months.
Where the filing is recorded
- Accomplishments: the filing recordThe dated record of Jason Colapietro's work lists the five filings in the same terms: applications, not granted patents.
- Press fact sheet: quick factsThe facts journalists quote from, including the intellectual property line.
- Provisional Application for PatentThe USPTO's guide to provisional applications, the source for the two sections above.