Patents
The Script-to-Scrimmage process used by Practis is covered by four issued US patents currently in force, out of five issued to date. The patents are held by ROLR, Inc., which has granted Mantra Systems, Inc. — the company trading as Practis — a perpetual licence to use them. They are one continuous family rather than five separate inventions, with earliest priority running back to June 13, 2009.
The PRACTIS™ Method itself is not patented, deliberately. It is published open and free for any team to run, teach, adapt, and certify against. What is patented is the process for installing it.
The five patents
| Patent | Title | Filed | Issued | Assignee of record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US 10,079,993 B2 | System for juxtaposition of separately recorded videos | June 14, 2010 | September 18, 2018 | ROLESTAR, Inc. |
| US 10,636,413 B2 | System for communication skills training using juxtaposition of recorded takes | August 13, 2018 | April 28, 2020 | ROLR, Inc. |
| US 11,030,992 B2 | System for communication skills training using juxtaposition of recorded takes | March 2, 2020 | June 8, 2021 | ROLR, Inc. |
| US 11,848,003 B2 | System for communication skills training using juxtaposition of recorded takes | June 7, 2021 | December 19, 2023 | ROLR, Inc. |
| US 12,148,416 B2 | System for communication skills training | December 18, 2023 | November 19, 2024 | ROLR, Inc. |
On status. Five patents issued; four are in force. US 11,030,992 B2 shows “Expired - Fee Related” on its public record, meaning maintenance fees lapsed — it is a continuation whose parent and children are both active. Those are different numbers and we state both rather than only the larger one. Each patent number above links to its record, where the current status is shown; read on August 10, 2026, and the public record is authoritative, not this page.
The assignee column shows the name recorded on each patent at the time it issued. ROLR, Inc. — ROLESTAR, Inc. on the earliest filing — is a separate company from Mantra Systems, Inc., not a former name of it. ROLR holds the patents; Practis uses the technology under licence.
One family, 2009 to now
Each patent claims priority from the one before it. That continuity is the point: the approach was not assembled recently to justify a product. The earliest application was filed in 2009, more than a decade before Practis began using the technology under licence.
- Provisional 61/186,841 Filed June 13, 2009 — earliest priority date
- PCT/US2010/038552 International application, filed June 14, 2010
- US national phase 13/377,814 Granted as US 10,079,993 B2
- Continuation-in-part 16/102,231 Granted as US 10,636,413 B2
- Continuation 16/807,058 Granted as US 11,030,992 B2
- Continuation 17/341,170 Granted as US 11,848,003 B2
- Continuation-in-part Granted as US 12,148,416 B2
Questions
What do these patents cover?
The Script-to-Scrimmage process: drilling a rep on specific language until it is automatic, then testing that language under pressure against a simulated customer, with separately recorded takes juxtaposed so the performance can be reviewed and scored. That sequence — drill, then prove — is the patented part.
Is the PRACTIS™ Method itself patented?
No, and deliberately not. The Method is published open at practis.ai/method and free for any team to run, teach, adapt, and certify against. The patents cover the process for installing it, not the standard itself. A standard nobody is allowed to use would not be a standard.
Does Practis own these patents?
No. The patents are held by ROLR, Inc. Practis — a trade name of Mantra Systems, Inc. — operates under a perpetual licence from ROLR to use them. We would rather state that plainly than let "patented" imply ownership we do not have.
Why is a different company named on the patents?
Because ROLR, Inc. is a different company, not a former name of ours. ROLR filed and holds the patents — the earliest application dates to 2009 — and licensed the technology to Mantra Systems, Inc., which does business as Practis. The assignee shown on each patent is ROLR, Inc., or ROLESTAR, Inc. on the earliest filing.
Are all five patents still in force?
No — four are. US 11,030,992 B2 shows "Expired - Fee Related" on its public record, meaning maintenance fees lapsed, so five were issued and four are currently active. We publish the status column rather than a bare count of five, because a count of issued patents is not the same as a count of live protection and the difference is one click away on Google Patents anyway. The lapsed patent is a continuation whose parent and children are both active.
Are these five separate inventions?
No. They are one continuous continuation family descending from a single provisional application filed in June 2009. Each later patent builds on and claims priority from the earlier ones, which is why the titles are near-identical.
Can we still run the Method if the process is patented?
Yes. Running the Method with your own team, teaching it to your managers, and certifying your own people against it are all explicitly free and unrestricted. The patents concern the specific technical process the Practis platform uses to install and score it, and they are not ours to enforce in any case — ROLR, Inc. holds them.
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