{"id":2362,"date":"2017-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-921\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:36:11","slug":"innovation-anthology-921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/12\/19\/innovation-anthology-921\/","title":{"rendered":"#921: Mal Carroll:  Syncrude Celebrates 18 New Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 921.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At this year&rsquo;s research and development seminar, Syncrude celebrated the granting of 18 new patents.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to Mal Carroll, that brings the oil sands company&rsquo;s total to 195 patents for new inventions<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mal Carroll is Syncrude&rsquo;s General Manager of Research and Development.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MAL CARROLL:<\/span> &nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The patents do a few things for us. So from a business point of view, it&rsquo;s very important that we have control over our intellectual property. &nbsp; If you invent something, you want to be able to use it. &nbsp;But it&rsquo;s also a great opportunity to recognize the great work that our folks are doing. &nbsp;And certainly, everybody involved in it appreciates receiving a patent plaque. &nbsp;We will have our CEO shake everyone&rsquo;s hands. &nbsp;And it&rsquo;s a great opportunity to get a sense of the volume of work that is accomplished. &nbsp;So it is a milestone and it also brings things to a bit of a closure. &nbsp;You know, I&rsquo;ve finished this body of work, we&rsquo;ve been able to have it recognized in terms of a patent, which is quite a formal process. &nbsp;And now I have provided a significant value to the company as a scientist.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mal Carroll says there are already 40 more patents in the works.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thanks today to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Syncrude.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Learn more at Innovation Anthology.com<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/div>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02017-12-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil sands company Syncrude received 18 patents in 2017, says head of Research &amp; Development, Mal Carroll.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> (Syncrude)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-innovation","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/3-17Syn_MalCarroll.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}