You’d be forgiven for scanning past the headline that Xerox increased their patents by 16% last year. But when that company is responsible for recent inventions such as: (1) solid ink cartridges and (2) erasable paper, paying attention might prove worthwhile.According to a 30 January 2010 report at Azooptics.com, the US Patent Office stamped 706 applications from Xerox last year – putting the ink cartridge manufacturer in the top 25 receivers of patents.
So what wondrous inventions number among those patents? XeroxTechnology.com lists such patents as U.S. 6,187,512: ‘Process for halomethylation of high performance polymers’ and U.S. 7,340,199: ‘Image forming device.’
Admittedly these aren’t too exciting-sounding – but no doubt they’ll be lynchpins in tomorrow’s printers. We’re excited to see the high performance polymers in action - especially when they’re the final product of a total $1.5b annual funding!
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