DAEJEON, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Patent applications related to floating solar power are surging. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) Tuesday, the number of related patent applications, which stood at 20 to 30 per year from 2010 to 2013, has been on the rise since then, with 49 in 2014, 74 in [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. has the third-largest number of patents related to artificial intelligence (AI), coming behind two U.S. tech giants, a report showed Friday. Microsoft Corp. has the most, with 18,363 AI-related patents as of January, followed by IBM Corp. with 15,046 and Samsung with 11,243, according to the [...]
DAEJEON, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — With virtual reality (VR) sports like screen golf becoming popular, related patent applications have surged. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Wednesday, there have been 357 domestic patent applications in the field of VR sports over the past three years from 2016 to 2018, up 69 percent [...]
DAEJEON, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee has become more than just a drink, an important part of everyday life for South Koreans. Now, coffee comes in various shapes and sizes, including cups, cans, coffee mixes, and instant coffee. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), 543 patents applied for in the past five [...]
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:INO) announced today that it has received the first two U.S. patents for its DNA-encoded monoclonal antibody technology (dMAb™) from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and has been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance its [...]
DULLES, Va., Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — ATPCO today announced that it has been awarded Patent #10,032,195 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to cover new technology, developed by its data scientists and technical architects, that enables construction of airline ticket prices using graph database and “functional programming” techniques. This technology permits a [...]
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Axiom Foods, Inc. (“Axiom”) has been awarded its first application patent for any rice protein ever, U.S. Patent No. 9,820,504 for its Oryzatein® rice protein; Axiom Foods is one of the largest makers of rice and pea protein ingredients. Allowed as of November 11, 2017, the “method of use” [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The therapeutic qualities of art may be scientifically verifiable thanks to a professor at Sahmyook University in Seoul, who has devised a way to use next generation technology to measure the efficacy of art as treatment. Together with software developer Open Bus, professor Kim Sung-woon has applied to the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run information and communications promotion agency said Thursday local companies have filed the third-largest number of patents related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology over the past 12 years. The Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) said its finding is based on AI-related technologies applied to [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Pantech Co. South Korea’s smallest smartphone manufacturer that recently announced it will suspend production of mobile devices, turned over 230 U.S. patents to another company, official data showed Sunday. Information provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) showed that Patech, owned by Solid Inc. a local [...]