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Intel Patents Biocompatible Coatings for Medical Devices

Starting at the beginning of January 2013, I started publishing what we call Companies We Follow over on IPWatchdog.com. The primary author of the series is Steven Brachmann, a freelance journalist who has covered the technology sector for years.

One of our goals is to come up with a representative set of companies that we could realistically profile from time to time in order to get a feel for what the company is working on in terms of research and development. For the most part, you know when you profile Apple that you will see a lot of mobile and wireless technologies and associated gadgets, our profiles of IBM always show that they are heavy into cloud computing and intelligence-based software systems (think Watson) and our AT&T profiles typically show a company that focuses on communications and multi-media technologies. Then there are companies like Qualcomm that work on a variety of diverse, cutting-edge technologies. But, for the most part, you know what types of innovations you are likely to find.

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