Patents imply intellectual property and it has a $ value that can be associated depending on the field and type of patent that is allocated. Patents also increase the enterprise value of the company and help prevent copy-cats from copying the idea without having royalt payments or licencing deals. We like it when companies get patents awarded!. To protect IP companies aggressively file provisional patents even before they have a working product. The below table provides a way to look at what has been done by companies and use this as a factor to make investment decisions.
| Title | Filing Date | Publication Date | Grant Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use of Hybrid collimation for Interleaved Emission and Transmission Scans for … | 2010-8-27 | 2011-4-07 | |
| Multi-short-scan technique in spect imaging | 2007-11-14 | 2008-6-26 | |
| Using large field-of-view data to improve small field-of-view imaging | 2007-11-06 | 2008-6-05 | |
| Combined cold plate and radiation shield | 2007-5-22 | 2010-6-08 | 2010-6-08 |
| Emission-data-based photon scatter correction in computed nuclear imaging … | 2006-8-16 | 2009-8-04 | 2009-8-04 |
| Discrete sampling of gamma ray field over multiple portions using multiple … | 2006-8-15 | 2007-5-03 | |
| Automated three dimensional patient tracking during medical imaging procedures | 2005-9-28 | 2008-4-29 | 2008-4-29 |
| Charge pump power supply with noise control | 2004-10-04 | 2006-3-28 | 2006-3-28 |
| Signal enhancement module | 2004-2-18 | 2004-9-09 |