CTA Seeks Ripple Trademark to Promote Consumer Radar Awareness

CTA filed four nearly identical applications Friday to trademark a logo for promoting awareness of consumer radar products and "the importance of such products meeting certain performance standards,” Patent and Trademark Office records show. The proposed trademark consists of the word Ripple, alongside what the applications call a “stylized fish design.” CTA announced Ripple on the opening day of CES 2022 with little fanfare as a new industry standard for radar system development "that will enable hardware and software interoperability for general purpose consumer radar across industrial, automotive and medical applications." A working group formed in 2021 with the participation of Aptiv, Blumio, Ford, Google, Infineon, NXP and Texas Instruments devised the standard to "accelerate the growth of low-power, general purpose radar," said CTA. Ripple's framers envision "a number of possible use cases including non-invasive wellness monitoring, occupancy detection, human activity, and touchless gesture controls," emailed a CTA spokesperson Tuesday. "At this point, we are not planning on having a certification logo for product compliance," he said. The goal of the first release of Ripple's open application programming interface "is to accelerate the growth of applications" by enabling interoperability across various types of radar hardware implementations, he said.