Bryn Mendenhall

Bryn Mendenhall is a patent agent in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group, focusing on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications across a broad range of technologies, with particular focus in software and data-driven innovations.

Bryn has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting U.S. and international patent applications, as well as handling post-grant proceedings, including ex parte reexaminations and inter partes reviews. Bryn also has experience supporting litigation matters as a technical expert, working closely with attorneys to analyze complex technologies and develop technical positions.

Her technical practice spans bioinformatics, computer software, medical and mechanical devices, financial technology, artificial intelligence, computer system architecture, and computer vision, among other computational technologies. Bryn regularly works with cutting-edge innovations from biotech to fintech involving machine learning systems, distributed computing architectures, and data-intensive platforms.

A key aspect of Bryn’s practice is advising on patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. She has significant experience developing eligibility strategies and drafting applications to emphasize technical improvements to many different technologies. This experience enables Bryn to help clients secure durable and defensible patent protection for software and AI-related inventions.

Prior to joining Sterne Kessler, Bryn was a research assistant at Brigham Young University, focusing her research in cancer at the transcriptomic and proteomic level. She led a project that used machine learning to predict clinical outcomes of cancer patients using protein and RNA levels. She also worked in collaboration with the Simmons Center for Cancer Research and New York University to develop deep learning methods to classify molecular subtypes of tumor cell biopsy images. She developed an advanced course for teaching Cancer Bioinformatics, including topics such as copy number variations, protein domain structures, and gene enrichment, while also creating an encryption python package for instantaneous grading.

Bryn received her B.S. in bioinformatics with a minor in computer science from Brigham Young University.