Intellectual Ventures Exclusively Licenses Filed Patents to Visualant
November 25 2014 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Intellectual Property Developed by Inventor
Network
Visualant, Inc. (OTCQB: VSUL), a leading provider
of disruptive light-based technologies, announced today that
Intellectual Ventures (IV) has exclusively licensed to Visualant
filed patent applications developed by their inventor network. The
patents in question cover a number of unique applications and
enhancements of the Visualant ChromaID™ technology.
Visualant and IV entered into a strategic relationship late last
year. Pursuant to that agreement Visualant provided twenty ChromaID
development kits to Intellectual Ventures for distribution to
twenty inventors and inventor groups in the IV global inventor
network. Those inventors returned a significant number of invention
disclosures from which IV will file a number of patents based upon
the Visualant ChromaID technology. Pursuant to the agreement
between the parties, IV filed a number of patents which they have
exclusively licensed to Visualant in exchange for a royalty payment
resulting from commercialization of the technology. Additionally,
IV will pursue commercialization opportunities for the Visualant
technology through their own business development process.
ChromaID is a breakthrough, light-based identification and
measurement technology, with the potential to disrupt traditional
spectral analysis and other costly methods of identification,
authentication and diagnosis. The ChromaID development kits allow
companies to work with the Visualant technology and explore unique
applications of the technology to solve particular problems in
their industry segment.
Ron Erickson, Visualant Founder and CEO said, “We have had a
first class experience working with Intellectual Ventures and their
global inventor network. We provided our foundational technology to
them and they in turn created a broad array of exciting
applications and extensions to our technology. IV has filed patents
that grew out of that process and has now assigned those filed
patents to Visualant. Now, we will go out into the market to
exploit and license that intellectual property.”
Eric Bell, Senior Director, Investment Strategy at the Invention
Development Fund of Intellectual Ventures, said, “Our inventor
network developed creative extensions of the Visualant technology
around which we have filed a number of patents. These are now
exclusively licensed, worldwide to Visualant. We will continue to
work with Visualant to assist them in exploiting their ChromaID
technology and finding marketplace commercialization opportunities
for their technology.”
About Intellectual Ventures
Founded in 2000, Intellectual Ventures (IV) is the global leader
in the business of invention. IV collaborates with leading
inventors, partners with pioneering companies and invests both
expertise and capital in the process of invention. IV’s mission is
to energize and streamline an invention economy that will drive
innovation around the world. For more information on IV, go to
www.intellectualventures.com.
About IVIN
The Intellectual Ventures Invention Network (IVIN) is a
collaborative community of scientific and technical experts,
inventors and entrepreneurs who work together to create, improve
and evaluate inventions. IVIN membership provides access to
financial incentives and the global resources of Intellectual
Ventures, an invention capital company with one of the largest and
fastest-growing intellectual property portfolios in the world.
Members can submit their inventions to IV for patenting and
monetization or get paid for reviewing new inventions, analyzing
existing patents or inviting other inventors to join IVIN. By
supporting good ideas and the people who develop them, IVIN
encourages a continual supply of useful and valuable
inventions.
About Visualant, Inc.
Visualant™ is a public company whose shares trade under the
stock symbol “VSUL.” The Visualant Spectral Pattern Matching™ (SPM)
technology directs structured light onto a substance or material,
through a liquid or gas, or off a surface, to capture a unique
ChromaID™. A ChromaID can be used to identify, detect, or diagnosis
markers invisible to the human eye. ChromaID scanner modules can be
integrated into a variety of mobile or fixed-mount form factors.
The patented, award-winning technology is disruptive, making it
possible to effectively conduct analyses in the field that could
only previously be performed by large and expensive lab-based
tests. For more information on Visualant, visit the company’s new
website at www.visualant.net.
Intellectual VenturesNick Gibsongibson@intven.comorVisualantHal
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