RotoView Tilt and Scroll Smartphone Patent Cited
Over 100 Times
HOUSTON, TX -May 26-
INNOVENTIONS, Inc. has announced that its RotoView® "tilt and
scroll" display navigation for smartphones has now been cited as prior art
by over 100 different US patents. Measuring the number of citations of a
published patent is a vital indicator for establishing the importance of a
strategic patent and indicates key innovative technologies.
"Only five percent of US
patents receive more than 20 citations. With 101 citations, including citations
from patents owned by major smartphone manufacturers, the RotoView patents have
reached a major milestone," said Dr. David Feinstein, president of
INNOVENTIONS. "It clearly shows that the 'tilt and scroll' view navigation
we invented in the late 1990s is now materializing in the smartphone
arena."
The citation analysis was
based upon data from the US Patent Office web site as of May 21, 2010. (Results
are available online.) Major companies that cite RotoView as prior art in
their patents include Apple Computer, Casio Computer, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard,
Intel Corporation, LM Ericsson, Matsushita, Microsoft, Motorola, NEC, Nintendo,
Nokia, Palm, Samsung, Seiko Epson, Sharp, Siemens Corp and Sony.
RotoView provides intuitive
single-hand navigation for mobile devices like smartphones, allowing the user
to simply tilt the device left-right or up-down to see beyond the virtual
boundaries of the display. Under active development since the late 1990s,
RotoView is available as a free iPhone app. RotoView demonstration apps will
soon be available on other smartphone platforms, including Google Android.
"Our goal is the
integration of RotoView into the core of all mobile operating systems, bringing
fundamental single-hand view navigation capabilities to mobile devices such as
smart phones and tablet PCs," said Dr. Feinstein. "As we continue our
R&D efforts, we seek a major smartphone manufacturer that will either
purchase our portfolio and technology or partner with us to achieve this
goal."
Further information is
available at the RotoView Web site.
About INNOVENTIONS
INNOVENTIONS, Inc., a private
Houston-based company established in 1984, has pioneered a number of successful
electronic devices, including the RAMCHECK portable memory tester.
For further information
please contact Scott LaRoche, Director of Sales at INNOVENTIONS, Inc., 10425
Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX 77099. Phone (281) 879-6226. e-mail:
scott@innoventions.com
iPhone is a trademark of
Apple Inc. RotoView and INNOVENTIONS are registered trademarks of INNOVENTIONS,
Inc. Source: INNOVENTIONS, Inc.
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