Positive Quiddity: Inventor Kia Silverbrook

Kia Silverbrook

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Kia Silverbrook (born 1958) is an Australian inventor, scientist and serial entrepreneur.  Silverbrook is the world's most prolific inventor with 3,779 granted U.S. utility patents as of 5 April 2011. Silverbrook has 8,926 patents or patent applications registered the international patent document database (INPADOC).

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, organic chemistry, microelectromechanical systems, mechanical engineering, cryptography, se4nsors, nanotechnology, oarallel processing and integrated circuit (chip) architecture.

For all of the 20th century, Thomas Edison was the most prolific inventor in history, with 1,084 U.S. utility patents. Edison was passed by Japanese inventor Shunpei Yamazaki on June 17, 2003.  Yamazaki was subsequently passed by Silverbrook on February 26, 2008.

In 1994 Silverbrook co-founded Silverbrook Research, an Australian research and development and invention licensing company. Silverbrook is currently chairman and CEO of Silverbrook Research, the largest non-government research company in Australia, with around 500 scientists and engineers. Silverbrook Research is the developer of the Memjeet  printer technology, the Hyperlabel alternative to RFID, and the Netpage digital pen technology, 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.

In 2002 Silverbrook co-founded Memjet, a printer technology company. Silverbrook is currently chairman and CTO of Memjet. When Silverbrook first announced the Memjet technology in March 2007, it was widely thought to be a hoax,as the technology seemed to be implausibly advanced. However, now that printers have been demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011), and announced by such major companies as Lenovo and Medion the technology has been shown to be real.

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Memjet

At the heart of Memjet-powered printers are Memjet printheads that release more than 700 million drops of ink per second through more than 70,000 inkjet nozzles. Memjet-powered printers differ from traditional inkjet printers in that the Memjet printhead is 8.77" (222.7mm) wide and spans a standard page. The Memjet printhead does not move back and forth. This enables the super high speeds at which Memjet-powered printers operate: 60 pages per minute (12 inches per second) with 1600 dpi color. Early Memjet technology was first unveiled in 2007 to share its potential with OEM printing partners. Since then, Memjet has been working closely with global OEMs for their market releases of printers that leverage Memjet technology. The company launched its labels and packaging market presence November 2010 at Pack Expo in Chicago, Illinois. Memjet said then it will make a series of announcements for a variety of industries in 2011. The company's website includes videos of its print engines and reference designs.

Memjet has partnerships with several leading OEMs including Lenovo in China, Kpowerscience Co., LTD in Taiwan, WeP in India and more recently partnered with Medion in Germany to introduce Memjet-powered printers to the European market, distributed by Tech Data to bring its high speed printing technology to consumers across the globe.

The word "Memjet" is derived from Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The color printing technology was developed by Silverbrook Research, located in Balmain, Australia.. Research began in 1994, and a working Memjet prototype printer was displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2009. Memjet color printing technology is protected by 3,000 global patents, with 2,000 more pending.

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