In 2000, several patents were awarded to technologies that exploit customer habits and preferences to steer buyers toward certain products or services.
In January 2009, he had pleaded guilty to overbilling the government by $265,000 on government contracts awarded to a technology company he ran.
J.G.H. and A.D.M. were supported by MEXT Ministryy of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, awarded to J.G.H.
Each year, the IP Accelerator Fund is awarded to a handful of technologies through a competitive process.
The patent, number 6,185,415, was awarded to John Boatwright, a former chief technology officer for the @Comm Corporation in Burlingame, Calif., which owns the patent.
Mr. Frank said he had not reviewed the patent awarded to Zi, but that "interface technology for Chinese characters on mobile phones is certainly an area where a lot of work is going on".
This study was supported by the Malaysia Genome Institute-Stanford University International Research Grant awarded to SN by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia.
More than $1 billion of surveillance technology projects were awarded to Hikvision and Dahua for those projects in Xinjiang.
In August 2011, technology development contracts were awarded to BAE Systems Land & Armaments for $449.9 million and General Dynamics Land Systems for $439.7M.
More traditionally, the $1.75m XPrize Water Abundance was awarded last year to technology that uses distillation to take the water content out of humid air.
