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Xerox Awarded 27 Percent More Patents In 2006
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Emphasis On Innovation Fills Pipeline With 'Next Generation Ideas'
Scientists and engineers at Xerox Corporation and the Palo Alto Research Center, its wholly-owned subsidiary, received 558 U.S. utility patents in 2006, a 27 percent increase over 2005. The increase reflects the company's intensified focus on innovations that will power its next generation of products, solutions and services.
Xerox's joint-venture partner in Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., received 255 U.S. utility patents in 2006, for a Xerox group total of 813 patents.
"Next-generation ideas are the lifeblood of the innovation process, and many of our ideas surface through customer interaction," says Sophie Vandebroek, president of the Xerox Innovation Group and chief technology officer. "We have increased our focus on customer-centric research and at the same time increased our efforts in filing patents. The results have been dramatic. Xerox generates more than two-thirds of its equipment sales from products launched in the last two years plus the iGen3 digital production printer."
Among the significant patents issued in 2006:
- Several related to the next generation of Emulsion Aggregation Toner, a process developed by Xerox research teams to grow toner from a molecular level rather than the traditional method of grinding toner into fine particles.
- Patents related to the process for making semiconductor nanoparticles that will support applications in printed organic electronics.
- A number of patents covering software and hardware developed to support the new Tightly Integrated Parallel Printing platform for the Xerox Nuvera™ Digital Production System. Parallel printer architecture enables two print engines to work together seamlessly as one printer device, powering the world's fastest duplex cut-sheet printer.
- Natural Language Parser and a Method for Multi-Class, Multi-Label Categorization; both software patents supporting Xerox document content analysis and processing for future services offerings.
- Registration-Sensitive See-Through Moiré for Anti-Counterfeiting; Watermarking Printed Images; Glossmark Applications for Graphics Enhancement: and Variable Glossmarks; these patents support an array of specialty printing applications that add security components to documents.
Xerox's investment in innovation generates a steady stream of advanced technology. The company holds more than 8,000 active patents and invests about 6 percent of its revenue in research, development and engineering activities.
Listen to Steve Harrington discuss the process of innovation at Xerox.
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| 2008
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| Xerox Makes Environmental Remediation Patents Available to All Through Eco-Patent Commons
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| Scientists Develop 3-D Document Visualization for "No Surprises" Printing
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| DARPA program builds on PARC foundation in printing large-area, flexible electronics
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| Xerox Joins IORG
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| Xerox Research Centre Europe coordinates EU CACAO project to provide cross-language access to online catalogues and libraries
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| Incubating Inside Xerox Labs: Innovation that Benifits the Workplace, Healthcare, and the Environment
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| Robert Loce Elected SPIE Fellow
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| Rochester Engineering Society Celebrates Technical Excellence
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| Xerox is Among the World's Best Analyst Competing to Win the Edelman Prize for Achievemnt in Operations Research & Analytics
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| Patent Powerhouse: Xerox Boasts 101 Inventors with 50 or More Patents
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| 2007
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| Xerox Reveals Breakthrough Software that Categorizes Text and Images at the Same Time
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| Xerox funds new services laboratory at NC State University
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| The Science Consultant Program: Bringing Science to Life for 40 Years
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| Xerox Technology Tricks Counterfeiters
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| Xerox Opens Its Labs to Journalists on TechDay
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| R&D Magazine Lauds Xerox FreeFlow VI Software Suite
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| Getting to 100 before 50; Xerox scientist Bob Loce Reaches Patent Milestone
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| Xerox to Fund Green, Nano, Imaging Fellowships at MIT School of Engineering
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| Know-How Results in breakthrough paper: saves trees and money
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| Xerox Funds 11 New University Research Projects
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| Surpassing Search: New Xerox text mining software goes beyond "keywords" to deliver more relevant information
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| Xerox receives the National Medal of Technology
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| Now You See It, Now You Don't: Xerox Scientists Develop Fluorescent Writing To Deter Counterfeiting
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| Xerox Scientist Creates 'Color Language' Making Color Matching as Easy as Describing a Color
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| PARC Scientist Stu Card Wins Franklin Institute Bower Award for Achievement in Science
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| Inside Innovation at Xerox: Scientists Create a Rainbow of Custom Blended Colors for DocuTech Highlight Color Systems
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| Xerox's Santokh Badesha Reaches Rare Milestone; Inventor Awarded 150th Patent
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| Content Centric Networking
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| Groundbreaking Canadian Nanotechnology Partnership Lays Foundation For Big Success From Tiny Tech
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