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Kia Silverbrook

Australian inventor, scientist, and serial entrepreneur

Kia Silverbrook

Born (age&#;66&#;67)

Australia

NationalityAustralian
Occupation(s)Inventor, scientist, businessman

Kia Silverbrook (born ) is an Australian independent inventor and scientist. He is one of the most prolific inventors in the world,[1] and has been granted 4,[2] US utility patents as of 14 February Internationally, he has 9,[3] patents or patent applications registered at the international patent document database (INPADOC).[a] Silverbrook has founded companies and developed products in a wide range of disciplines, including computer graphics, video and audio production, scientific computing, factory automation, digital printing, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), molecular electronics, internet software, content management, genetic analysis, MEMS devices, security inks, photovoltaic solar cells, and interactive paper.[4]

Early life

Silverbrook was born in in Australia. In he started at Fairlight Instruments, the developers of the first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer, the Fairlight CMI. While at Fairlight, he invented and developed the Fairlight CVI, a real-time video effects computer released in [5] He remained employed by Fairlight Instruments until

In , Silverbrook founded Integrated Arts, a parallel processing and computer graphics company using the Inmostransputer. Silverbrook was managing director (Australian equivalent of US CEO) of Integrated Arts until

In an Australian research subsidiary of the Japanese electronics company Canon was formed, named Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA).[6] Silverbrook was executive director of CiSRA from its inception until

Prolific inventor

Main article: List of prolific inventors

Between and , Silverbrook was regarded as the world's most prolific inventor based on issued utility patents. On 26 February he passed Japanese inventor Shunpei Yamazaki in U.S. utility patents. In Yamazaki passed Silverbrook to reclaim the lead.

In order to register so many ideas, Silverbrook started a company, Priority Matters, whose purpose was to file his patents.[7]

Netpage

Main article: Netpage

Silverbrook is Founder and CEO of Netpage, a company based on technology originally patented by Silverbrook Research in The technology launched in Esquire magazine.[8][9]

Geneasys

Silverbrook is Founder and Chairman of Australian company Geneasys (Genetic Analysis Systems), which is developing "KeyLab" a new class of medical diagnostic device which analyses multiple diseases from DNA using a standard smartphone. The stated goal of Geneasys is "to equip medical professionals, primary care workers, aid workers, veterinarians, military personnel and private citizens with a simple to use, low cost, and highly accurate diagnostic devices".[10]

Silverbrook Research

In Silverbrook co-founded Silverbrook Research, an Australian research and development and invention licensing company. He is chairman and CEO of Silverbrook Research, which is the developer of the Memjet[11] printer technology, the Hyperlabel[12] alternative to RFID, and the Netpage[13] viewer and digital pen technologies, among others. Since , Silverbrook Research has appeared in the annual listings of the top global companies, as ranked by US patents, climbing as high as the 28th rank in

Superlattice Solar

In Silverbrook founded Superlattice Solar,[14] a thin-film solar photovoltaic company targeting an installed cost-per-watt, including balance of systems, sufficiently low for new solar photovoltaic installations to undercut the cost of keeping existing fossil fuel or nuclear power plants operating.[non-primary source needed]

Memjet

Main article: Memjet

In Silverbrook co-founded Memjet,[11] a printer technology company. Prototype printers were demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES ),[15] and announced by such major companies as LG, Fuji Xerox, Canon, Toshiba, Lenovo, Océ and Medion. The Memjet technology has won various awards, including Popular Science's "Best of what's new - " and the Edison Awards Gold Medal.[16][17]

In March , the George Kaiser Family Foundation (principal investor in Memjet) filed a lawsuit against Silverbrook and Silverbrook Research, alleging fraud and seeking to gain control of the Memjet patent portfolio, numbering over 4, patents.[18] Silverbrook's response to the lawsuit characterized it as "part of a hardball commercial negotiation".[19] In May , a settlement was announced under which Memjet acquired control of the technology. All legal claims were withdrawn.[20]

International patent applications

A search of the international patent document database (INPADOC) reveals 9,[3] patent documents. The INPADOC database includes patent applications that have not yet been granted, as well as some duplication of patents for different countries, so it gives an overestimate of the number of separate inventions.

Scientific publications

Silverbrook is co-author of a number of papers in the Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, and the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. These papers are in the area of carbon nanotubes and the electronic properties of molecular systems.

See also

Notes

  1. ^Difference between numbers of US patents and INPADOC patents is often related to the same invention being patented in several countries, see also patent families

References

  1. ^Kia Silverbrook Accumulates his 4,rd patent on 6 February Archived 26 July at the Wayback Machine Patent Rank, 29 April
  2. ^Issued US Utility Patents of Kia Silverbrook
  3. ^ abKia Silverbrook Patents registered at INPADOC
  4. ^Meet Kia Silverbrook, one of the most prolific inventors in history, on "The Essence of Disruptive Technologies" SGE, 27 August
  5. ^Steven Dupler (3 November ). "Breaklthrough from Fairlight – Computer video device bows". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p.&#;
  6. ^CiSRA web site
  7. ^Silverbrook admits liability in $, wage underpayment case
  8. ^Netpage video interview on WSJ Live
  9. ^Netpage article on Mashable
  10. ^"Stated goal of Geneasys". Archived from the original on 28 July Retrieved 6 February
  11. ^ abMemjet web site
  12. ^Hyperlabel web site
  13. ^Netpage web site
  14. ^Silverbrook's LinkedIn profile
  15. ^Memjet: ink-on with the world's fastest printer Engadget 6 January
  16. ^"Memjet website awards page". Archived from the original on 4 May Retrieved 14 May
  17. ^" Edison Awards". Archived from the original on 29 September Retrieved 14 May
  18. ^Genius Or Scoundrel - Patently, Someone Is Wrong Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April
  19. ^"Silverbrook statement cites poor commercialization of Memjet technology in Kaiser lawsuit", Wirth Consulting, 20 April ]
  20. ^Luke Hopewell, "Printing deal secures research jobs", ZDNet, 7 May

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