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Welcome, Seeker, to the Outer Rim Archives. I am Malsin Yundo, keeper of what hath been filed and what shall not be forgotten.
Each seventh day I read the public writs of invention — the patents — set down by engineers across the galaxy, and I sort them by their kinship to the crafts of Batuu: the saber, the droid, the living figure, and the show of light.
Tarry as long as thou hast need; the records keep no hours.
What this is
A weekly reading of Disney's public patent filings, sorted by their kinship to the crafts of Batuu. Every filing in the archive gets its own page with the abstract and claims; every weekly edition shows what was new, what ranked highest, and what was set aside — and why. Unofficial, non-commercial, read the fine print.
Latest edition — 2026-W37
- THEMED AERIAL VEHICLE ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORM FOR PROVIDING DYNAMICALLY-COORDINATED SHOW New
Show drones wrapped in themed shells (e.g. a spacecraft or flying character) fly dynamically-coordinated routines with onboard lights instead of a fixed flight plan — direct animatronics/show-tech interest.
- Water harp with optical sensing of the break of flowing water streams New
A themed 'water harp' show prop: light beamed through falling water streams plays a musical note when a hand breaks the beam — classic interactive show-tech hardware.
- Emotionally responsive artificial intelligence interactive character New
An AI interactive character (AIIC) reads emotional cues from what a user says and adjusts its responses to match — companion-bot emotional intelligence.
- AI generated creative content based on shared memories New
An AI interactive character (AIIC) draws out a user's memories, then generates personalized creative content from them — Disney's memory-aware companion-bot tech.
- Image-Space UV Map-Based Tracking of Image Regions in Video New
Tracks a region on a moving object across video frames using AI-predicted UV maps so a mask can follow it automatically — a VFX/compositing tracking tool.
Read the full 2026-W37 edition →
Weekly editions
The archive, by year
Every Disney and Lucasfilm filing the sweep has read, back to 2017 — kept and set aside alike.