If the technology works, it could get future payouts totaling 20 times its initial investment.
The technology works by identifying the unoccupied white spaces to transmit and receive wireless signals.
But Jenner has one suggestion: Require inventors to prove their technology works before giving them a patent.
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He explains that the technology works by first generating electricity in the traditional manner of a wind turbine.
Unfortunately, specific details on the how the technology works--or how far along it is--were somewhat lost in translation.
Dowling says that while technology works, given time and training, the "cultural stuff around it" is more difficult.
As light waves have shorter wavelengths than radio waves, the technology works at shorter distances and lower speeds.
"We've proven that our technology works, and we've proven the business model works, " says Charles Katz, CEO of 1stup.
Remote desktop technology works great for us, as it does for many of our clients and other small businesses.
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If the driverless car technology works, Google could provide the driverless software to manufacturers, rather than making cars itself.
The technology works by placing a thin acrylic panel over the computer display.
The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material - typically plastic - to build complex solid objects.
And as long as the technology works, game players don't really mind plunking down a couple hundred cold ones to get it.
The technology works by reducing frictional resistance between the vessel hull and seawater using air bubbles along the bottom of the ship.
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The commission found that technology works well in some jurisdictions and that old-fashioned paper ballots marked with a pen work well also.
And, perhaps to some parents, if utilizing technology works, so be it.
We'll say this too: the technology works even if you normally have a little trouble keeping your eyes focused on a given point.
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That technology works best with higher resolution images and a known photo, like a passport or driver's licence, with which to compare to the footage.
And even when the technology works, it can be totally irrelevant.
The Gracenote technology works by "listening" to a few seconds of a song and matching it to its unique audio fingerprint in the Gracenote database.
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And just as the hacking community seeks to understand how a technology works, people are increasingly looking to know who and how their food is produced.
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The technology works seamlessly with Ooyala Discovery, which enables video content providers to increase view-related revenue by algorithmically recommending highly relevant content within the Ooyala Player.
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C. for a year, " he says, "is that many of the people making the rules and setting the policies have absolutely no idea how the technology works.
Start-ups with bright ideas to address care transition have often no clue how a hospital functions, or little evidence that their technology works in a hospital setting.
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Officially, the government's pilot plant is a demonstration for others (particularly China, which is building coal plants at breakneck speed) designed to show that the embryonic technology works.
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The technology works by attaching a radioactive marker, called thioflavin, to the tangles of protein, known as amyloid plaques, that are found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's.
Unlike baby boomers, who are simply happy if technology works, Millennials grew up taking the Internet and mobile phones as much for granted as they take electricity and running water.
The system was established as a trade-off that provides a public benefit: the state agrees to grant a limited monopoly to an inventor in return for disclosing how the technology works.
Codexis's technology works with pharmaceutical precision indeed, one of its main commercial products is the enzyme system for making the chemical precursor to Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that is marketed by Pfizer.
WD's hybrid technology works in conjunction with the PC operating system to deliver higher performance than current hybrid offerings while minimizing NAND wear to allow the use of less expensive MLC NAND.
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