Turning Food Waste into Eco-Friendly Fertilizer

 

We’d like to introduce an idea product that turns food waste into nutrient-rich compost.

 

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Nagual

Turn Home Waste Into Fertilizer in 1.5HRS

 

Leaving food waste in your home can make it smelly and unpleasant. It gets even worse in summer, but it's difficult to throw out garbage every time it comes out. We’d like to introduce “Nagual”, which immediately removes food waste and turns it into eco-friendly compost. 

One of the problems with food waste is that it is bulky. Nagual shreds food waste and then heats to dry it, reducing its volume by up to 90%. Any food waste can be disposed of, such as fish, meat and eggshells.

Also, Nagual's method of crushing and drying is similar to the process of making soil. It can be sterilized by heating and drying at 126 degrees (Celsius), and the odor generated during the treatment process is also removed with charcoal. The processed food-waste can be used as compost.

WIPS New Product, "A.I Patent Classifier"

 

We’d like to introduce “ A.I Patent Classifier “ which WIPS has newly launched in 2022.

  A.I patent classifier is a patent document automatic classifier. As bigdata, a huge amount of patents are filed around the world every year. Because patent describes various technologies and includes both structured and unstructured data, there are many difficulties in collecting and researching patent information. In general, patent research requires a search query in a specific technical field to remove noise and classify the collected patents. Since this process is mostly done manually by reading and classifying the technology, it takes a lot of time and money, and requires so much energy. A lot of efforts have been made in the past to automate the classification of patent documents in various ways, but to no avail. But now, A.I technology have made surprising advances.

  WIPS has been conducting professional A.I R&D on patent data for a long time, and has now released A.I patent classifier this year with specialized technology and data for patent literature.

  In patent research and analysis, denoising (which means filtering patents that is not fit the analyzing purpose) and classifying works are very essential but costs a lot and time-consuming because  most of it is done by hand. It is really hard work. Although we have IPC, IPC information does not respond to the rapidly changing technology system and is not suitable for use as a technology classification system for patent analysis because it is submitted directly by the applicant. Moreover, in the field of new technology, it is difficult to find suitable experts, and the criteria for classification are different depending on the analyst. 

  Patent classification requires prior classification of patent documents so that suitable results for the purpose of patent analysis can be derived. Even the same technology, classification is different depending on purpose of structure, method, etc. It makes more difficult to produce classifier products by the reason that a single classification criterion for a particular technology can’t be defined.

 WIPS' A.I patent classifier is a customized classification that is trained with the user's correct answer data. So it’s a unique classifier for the user (or company) only.

  It learns user’s correct data using 5 specialized AI algorithms and generates a classification engine which is best fit for the user’s data. Companies with internal classification criteria can be more tailored to this services. It enables consistent, short-time processing of review, denoising, and classifying that must be repeated over and over again.

The inference result provides three categories per patent and the probability of each inference result. Numerous tests have confirmed over 90% accuracy.

  Based on the classified patents worked by A.I patent classifier, you can identify trends by technology field and establish R&D strategies. In addition, you can establish a response strategy by analyzing the main technologies of competitors and identifying whitespaces.

 

Create your own classifier by learning the correct answer data you have.

For more information, please contact, global@wips.co.kr 

[International IP Briefing] US, KR

 

US

US Harrity Analytics Announces Top 300 List of Patent Registrations in 2022

 On January 6, 2022, Harrity Analytics, a patent analysis company, announced the list of ‘Top 300 Patent Holders in 2022’ based on the number of patent registrations in 2021.

Harrity Analytics has published a list of the Top 300 Patent Holders that have been jointly researched with the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) of the United States every year. The annual ranking is the top 300 companies, organizations, and universities in the patent field based on the total number of US patents registered in the past 12 months.

Looking at the main contents, IBM maintained the first place with the most patents registered in the United States in 2021 and 2020, despite a significant decrease in the total number of patents due to the spin-off of Kyndryl, and Samsung Electronics (8,517) in second place, LG (4,388) in 3^rd , Cannon (3,400) in 4^th , and Huawei (2,955) in 5^th .

· The rankings of TSMC, Qualcomm, and Micron increased year-on-year, while those of Microsoft and Raytheon Technology fell.

· The biggest change in this ranking is that the total number of patents acquired by 300 patented companies decreased by 22,358 in 2021 compared to 2020.

▲ 2022 US Patent Registration TOP 10

 

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 KR

Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), selected as the world's most innovative intellectual property institution

 On January 12, 2022, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced that the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and the European Intellectual Property Office ( EUIPO) are ranked in the 1st place together.

WTR is a British IP specialized media founded in 2002. Since 2017, they’ve been conducting expert evaluation and self-information collection on 16 indicators in three areas: online service capacity of each country's patent office, trademark protection and utilization policy, and user communication effort.

 Korea has been making continuous innovation efforts, such as introducing the world's first mobile trademark application system in 2020. Through these efforts, it has steadily risen to the top spot, ranking 6th in 2019 and 3rd in 2020, and ranked first in the world in the 2021 evaluation.

· In this evaluation conducted for the patent offices of the top 60 countries with trademark applications in 2020, Singapore, which ranked first in the previous year, ranked 3rd, the UK 4th, Japan 12th, and the United States 13th.

· KIPO ranked first in the field of online service capabilities such as convenience of use, electronic filing service, and search system using artificial intelligence (AI), up five steps from the previous year (6th place). In addition, in the field of user communication effort, which measures the degree of communication with stakeholders, the ranking increased significantly, taking first place this year from 23rd in the previous year.

· KIPO is striving to improve examination quality by developing its own artificial intelligence-based trademark image search system for examiners. By continuously improving the electronic application system, it was found that 98% of trademark applications were filed online in 2021.

· In addition, as the non-face-to-face daily life by COVID-19 continues, online counterfeit products has increased. KIPO has been strengthened on-line and offline crackdowns to prevent it.

                                                             ▲ Ranking of major countries

※ ( ) is the '20 ranking

 

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Hydrogen patents to lead the energy market, and growth in Asia

 

Hydrogen, the main energy source of fuel cells, has recently received a lot of attention among eco-friendly energy. Hydrogen is a sustainable energy source because it can be produced from water or organic materials. It does not generate carbon dioxide (CO₂), which affects global warming, and emits only a very small amount of nitrogen oxides, the cause of fine dust.

Therefore, in this project, we will check the contents related to hydrogen value chain from hydrogen production to storage, transportation, charging, and use by combining patent trends.

■   The Rise of the Hydrogen Ecomony

Currently, in the US, Japan, and Europe, hydrogen city models that have changed life based on fossil fuels to life based on hydrogen energy are being demonstrated and spread. The concept of hydrogen economy is being newly proposed as a model for innovative growth that leads to industrial development accompanied by infrastructure transformation into a clean city with an eco-friendly hydrogen energy source eco-system.

▲ Hydrogen value chain

■   Hydrogen Value Chain

The value chain structure of hydrogen energy consists of the production, storage, transportation and use of hydrogen. Hydrogen can be produced through various methods, such as obtaining by reforming methane gas from fossil fuels and biomass, using by-product hydrogen in oil refineries and steel mills, and electrolysis of water using new renewable energy. Hydrogen energy produced in various ways can be stored and transported on a large scale in various forms of gas, liquid, and solid, and is used as an energy source for all consumption sectors, including household, industrial, transportation, and power generation equipment using fuel cells. As presented below, we want to give a help in understanding the changes in the complex hydrogen economy through the patent trends and the current status of major companies at each stage of the hydrogen value chain.

  ■ Patent trend of Hydrogen energy

      ◎ Hydrogen production

In this article, the analysis was limited to the most important hydrogen production and storage stages among the hydrogen value chain.

Among the various hydrogen production methods, we looked into the reforming, gasification, and electrolysis methods that are most used by year, country, and applicant trends.

▲ Application trend by year

▲ Application trend by applicant

The proportion of patent applications is high in the order of reforming > electrolysis > gasification. Although the proportion of hydrogen production through reforming was high due to the advantages of efficiency and low production cost, it can be seen that the technological direction is changing recently with the electrolysis method that does not emit carbon dioxide. In addition, as the main applicants for hydrogen production, Japanese applicants occupy the absolute number of patent applications and technical superiority, so it is necessary to confirm detailed analysis of related patents.

  ◎ Hydrogen Storage

While the market for the hydrogen storage stage for transporting the produced hydrogen to users is expected to grow, domestic and foreign companies are starting the hydrogen storage tank business in earnest. Through the trend of valid patent data for 20 years, we reviewed the trend by year and applicant.

▲ Application trend by year

Liquid hydrogen storage technology is in a growth phase in which both the number of applicants and the number of applications are rapidly increasing. In the mid-2000s, patent applications were centered on applicants of EP, US and JP nationality, and in the early and mid-2010s, applicants of JP nationality were centered. After 2017, it is observed that patent applications are actively made by applicants of KR and CN nationality, similar to the status of applications by country.

                                                       ▲ Application trend by applicant

We can see the top 20 applicants with the highest number of applications, LINDE filed the most applications with 21, KAWASAKI HEAVY IND (16), GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (16), TOYOTA MOTOR (15), PANASONIC (14), AIR LIQUIDE (13) ) and MARTIN MARIETTA (13), and as for nationality of the applicant, Korea (6), Japan (6), the United States (4), Europe (3), and China (1) were confirmed in that order.

■ Korean major corporation by hydrogen value chain

In view of the changes in energy-related technology trends of the times, economic and social demands using hydrogen energy have become a reality that cannot be put off any longer. Thorough preliminary preparations for the upcoming hydrogen economy society and specific technological directions are required and the driving force to implement them is necessary.

   In order to obtain a driving force, a market system in the private market such as expansion of clean hydrogen production and reduction of production costs, expansion of renewable energy to be used for hydrogen supply, expansion of distribution infrastructure, and reduction of hydrogen car prices must be established. In addition, policy support to provide guidelines should be paralleled.