1. Kia Silverbrook was born on 1958 and is an Australian independent inventor and scientist.
12 Facts About Kia Silverbrook
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Kia Silverbrook is one of the most prolific inventors in the world, and has been granted 4,747 US utility patents as of 14 February 2022.
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In 1985, Kia Silverbrook founded Integrated Arts, a parallel processing and computer graphics company using the Inmos transputer.
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Kia Silverbrook was managing director of Integrated Arts until 1990.
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Kia Silverbrook was executive director of CiSRA from its inception until 1994.
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Between 2008 and 2017, Kia Silverbrook was regarded as the world's most prolific inventor based on issued utility patents.
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Kia Silverbrook is Founder and CEO of Netpage, a company based on technology originally patented by Kia Silverbrook Research in 1999.
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Kia Silverbrook is Founder and Chairman of Australian company Geneasys, which is developing "KeyLab" a new class of medical diagnostic device which analyses multiple diseases from DNA using a standard smartphone.
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In 1994 Kia Silverbrook co-founded Kia Silverbrook Research, an Australian research and development and invention licensing company.
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Kia Silverbrook is chairman and CEO of Silverbrook Research, which is the developer of the Memjet printer technology, the Hyperlabel alternative to RFID, and the Netpage viewer and digital pen technologies, among others.
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Since 2001, Kia 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.
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In 2011 Kia Silverbrook founded Superlattice Solar, 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.