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Xerox received 1,168 U.S. patents in 2013, making it one of the world’s top innovative companies and adding to its portfolio of more than 12,100 active U.S. patents that help businesses and organizations simplify work.
IFI Claims, a research company that compiles an annual patent list, ranked Xerox as 32nd in its 2013 report based on 1,013 patents, which does not include more than 150 patents from its wholly owned subsidiaries, such as the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), A Xerox Company. Combining subsidiaries and the 800 U.S. patents awarded in 2013 through Xerox’s joint venture in Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., Xerox would be ranked 10th with 1,968 patents on the IFI Patent Intelligence list worldwide.
Xerox is celebrating its 75th year of innovation which began when Chester Carlson, the company’s founding inventor, made the first xerographic copy in a make-shift lab in Astoria, Queens, NY, and was granted U.S. Patent 2,297,691, illustrating the basic process of xerography.
“Chester Carlson’s legacy lives on through Xerox scientists and engineers around the globe who continue to help our clients create agile and personalized business processes,” said Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox chief technology officer and president of the Xerox Innovation Group. “By collaborating closely with our clients, we create differentiated document technology and simplify the way work gets done in industries such as healthcare, finance, education, customer care and transportation.”
For example:
• U.S. Patent 8,617,081 was issued for a system and method that can detect a human pulse rate from a sequence of video images, leading to low-cost non-contact medical monitoring.
• U.S. Patent 8,520,074 describes a system and method for using infrared imaging to automatically detect the number of people in an image, such as the number of people in a car. This research enables optimizing usage of high occupancy vehicle lanes and helps relieve congestion as well as creates a new source of transportation revenue.
• U.S. Patent 8,537,398 describes a “cloud based” method and system for managing the inventory of printer supplies for remote printers.
IFI Claims, a research company that compiles an annual patent list, ranked Xerox as 32nd in its 2013 report based on 1,013 patents, which does not include more than 150 patents from its wholly owned subsidiaries, such as the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), A Xerox Company. Combining subsidiaries and the 800 U.S. patents awarded in 2013 through Xerox’s joint venture in Japan, Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., Xerox would be ranked 10th with 1,968 patents on the IFI Patent Intelligence list worldwide.
Xerox is celebrating its 75th year of innovation which began when Chester Carlson, the company’s founding inventor, made the first xerographic copy in a make-shift lab in Astoria, Queens, NY, and was granted U.S. Patent 2,297,691, illustrating the basic process of xerography.
“Chester Carlson’s legacy lives on through Xerox scientists and engineers around the globe who continue to help our clients create agile and personalized business processes,” said Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox chief technology officer and president of the Xerox Innovation Group. “By collaborating closely with our clients, we create differentiated document technology and simplify the way work gets done in industries such as healthcare, finance, education, customer care and transportation.”
For example:
• U.S. Patent 8,617,081 was issued for a system and method that can detect a human pulse rate from a sequence of video images, leading to low-cost non-contact medical monitoring.
• U.S. Patent 8,520,074 describes a system and method for using infrared imaging to automatically detect the number of people in an image, such as the number of people in a car. This research enables optimizing usage of high occupancy vehicle lanes and helps relieve congestion as well as creates a new source of transportation revenue.
• U.S. Patent 8,537,398 describes a “cloud based” method and system for managing the inventory of printer supplies for remote printers.