Kia Silverbrook

Kia Silverbrook (born 1958) is an Australian inventor, scientist, and serial entrepreneur. He is
the most prolific inventor in the world, and has been granted 4,665 US utility patents as of 26
March 2014. Internationally, he has 9,874 patents or patent applications registered at the
international patent document database (INPADOC). A patent is a set of exclusive rights

granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time

in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.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.
Silverbrook has made numerous inventions in the fields of digital music synthesis, digital video,
digital printing, digital paper, internet commerce, computer graphics, liquid crystal displays,
robotics, 3D printing, organic chemistry, DNA analysis, lab-on-a-chip, solar photovoltaics,
software, image processing, microelectromechanical systems, mechanical engineering,
cryptography, sensors, nanotechnology, microfluidics, polymers, fault tolerance, parallel
processing, semiconductor fabrication, and integrated circuit (chip) architecture.

Prolific inventor
Silverbrook became the world's most prolific inventor on 26 February 2008, when he passed
Japanese inventor Shunpei Yamazaki.[6] Yamazaki had previously passed Thomas Edison, who
had widely been known as the world's most prolific inventor.[7] The top five inventors, ranked by
number of worldwide utility patent families, are shown in the following table:
Inventor
Kia Silverbrook
Shunpei Yamazaki
Paul Lapstun
Gurtej Sandhu
Lowell Wood

# of Patent Families

4711
4063
1276
1170
1094

Country
Australia
Japan
Australia
India
United States

Early life
Silverbrook was born in 1958 in Australia. In 1977 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 1984. He remained employed by Fairlight Instruments until 1985.

In 1985, Silverbrook founded Integrated Arts, a parallel processing and computer graphics
company using the Inmos transputer. Silverbrook was Managing Director (Australian equivalent
of US CEO) of Integrated Arts until 1990.
In 1990 an Australian research subsidiary of the Japanese electronics company Canon was
formed, named Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA).[14] Silverbrook was
Executive Director of CiSRA from its inception until 1994.

Netpage
Silverbrook is Founder and CEO of Netpage, a company based on technology originally patented
by Silverbrook Research in 1999. Netpage is a software system and infrastructure which makes
printed paper interactive. It has multiple manifestations, including digital pens, digital paper, and
augmented reality interfaces, such as the Netpage mobile app. The app uses image recognition
technology to recognise content on Netpage-enabled printed pages, and then serves up a "digital
twin" of the recognized page. The digital twin contains enhanced functionality such as the ability
to share the page via social media sites (e.g. Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter), the ability to
purchase products, watch embedded videos, follow hyperlinks, translate text, download and
attach files, and other functionality.
Any iOS or Android smartphone acts as the mouse, and the printed surface acts as the screen.
When in use, the Netpage universal print browser app looks like the smartphone is displaying a
camera view of the printed page, but is actually displaying a digital web page (the digital twin)
styled to mimic the printed page and rendered in real time. The digital twin can have as many
web links and features as required, allowing the printed surface to have identical functionality to
that possible on a web page displayed on a touch screen device.
The technology launched in Esquire magazine, which is published by Hearst, in the December
2012 edition as reported by the Wall Street Journal and Mashable.The research project is
conducted in Australia by Australian researchers and with Australian funding.

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".Geneasys hopes that "through the proliferation of the KeyLab device, the spread of
infectious diseases and deaths caused by preventable diseases will be reduced as the scope and
reach of healthcare is universally increased". KeyLab is a low cost disposable device that plugs
directly into the USB port of a smartphone or personal computer, and simultaneously detects up
to 48 infectious or hereditary diseases from the genetic material in a sample. It has 12 channels
of independent RNA or DNA amplification, each capable of amplifying 4 DNA or RNA
sequences, and has 1080 DNA hybridization probes, sensed by a disposable CMOS image sensor

included in the KeyLab. It uses ECL (Electrochemiluminescence) detection to eliminate the need
for a laser or other light source, and has SNP (Single-nucleotide polymorphism) level
discrimination between DNA sequences, which would allow it to, for example, determine which
strain of influenza was present. It is fully self-contained, and requires no sample preparation or
reading machine (other than a standard smartphone). It is intended to be sufficiently cheap,
reliable and easy to use that it can transform medicine in developing, as well as developed,
nations. The research project is conducted in Australia by Australian researchers and with
Australian funding.

Silverbrook Research
In 1994 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 printer technology, the Hyperlabel[24] alternative to RFID, and the
Netpage viewer and digital pen technologies, among others. Since 2001, Silverbrook Research
has appeared in the annual listings of the top 200 global companies, as ranked by US patents,
climbing as high as the 28th rank in 2008.
On 16 April 2014 a liquidator was appointed to wind up Worldwide Specialty Property Services
Pty Ltd (formerly trading as Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd).
Year
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011

Rank
142
145
149
109
71
42
37
28
45
34
31

U.S. Patents
[26]

117
121[27]
122[28]
172[29]
247[30]
510[31]
533[32]
608[33]
474[34]
752[35]
812[36]

In 2011 Silverbrook Research was assigned 812 US utility patents, more than half of the total of
1,533US utility patents assigned to Australian entities in that year.

Superlattice Solar
In 2011 Silverbrook founded Superlattice Solar,[20] 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.

Memjet
In 2002 Silverbrook co-founded Memjet, a printer technology company. Prototype printers were
demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011), and announced by such major
companies as LG, Fuji Xerox, Canon, Toshiba, Lenovo, Oc and Medion. The Memjet
technology has won various awards, including Popular Science's "Best of what's new - 2011" and
the Edison Awards 2012 Gold Medal.[39][40]
In March 2012, 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 4,000 patents. Silverbrook's response to the
lawsuit characterized it as "part of a hardball commercial negotiation". In May 2012, a settlement
was announced under which Memjet acquired control of the technology and Silverbrook
remained a special advisor to Memjet. All legal claims were withdrawn.

International patents
A search of the international patent document database (INPADOC) reveals 9,874 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.

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