Wal-Mart stands to benefit from this week’s INOV8 Arkansas Patent of the Week. Some Arkansas innovation will fuel Arkansas’ own retail giant once Wal-Mart begins implementing the device that will pre-scan customers’ merchandise in their shopping cart while they wait in the check-out line. The device was patented on August 18 by Dung Nguyen and [...]

It’s Friday, and nothing says Friday with the sun a-shinin’ like patents. Good ol’ Arkansas patents. We do produce them, you know. Along with rice and shank-wielding FOBs (that’s Friends of Bill for you kids — think Clintonophiles), Arkansas generates patents. No doubt to the eternal amazement and perhaps even consternation of the coasts. IA [...]

There must be something in the water out west. Innovation seems to be dripping out of Colorado these days. The big square cranked out 1,848 patents last year. That’s good for 11th nationally, and even a little more impressive when you consider Colorado’s population stands at about 4.9 million, good for 22nd. Arkansas’ 2.8 million [...]

Innovate Arkansas routinely checks the website of the U.S. Patent Office to see what new ideas are being generated out of Arkansas. Check out the patents section of IA’s redesigned site. This past week, for example, saw 1,897 patents issued (that includes all U.S. territories and possessions). Arkansas produced three. Which may not seem like [...]