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Chapter 266 First-class enterprises set standards

"Xiaoyuan plans to enter the field of high-end medical equipment?" Tang Wan keenly grasped the unfinished meaning in Liang Yuan's speech.

There was no need to hide from Tang Wan, Liang Yuan nodded.

"This matter depends on my mother's situation. Under the premise that magnesium diboride is useful, once GM is stalked to the end, I plan to cooperate with Siemens, Germany and enter the medical field in advance."

"Yuanjia has accumulated this area? Why has Uncle Ning never heard of it?" Ning Lei asked curiously.

"There is no Yuanjia, but Dongda has it. My parents in my junior class are mainly engaged in this business. However, due to the limited domestic computer processing capabilities, the system they developed is built on the basis of advanced hardware abroad."

"In the past two years, Hong Kong-based power collectors have made great progress in processors. Now the development of the next-generation processor C3 has entered the fast lane. As long as C3 is successfully offline, there will be no technical difficulties in porting that system to C3."

"Dongdaeng develops NMR? Why has Aunt Ning never heard of it?"

"Some time ago, the old man at home did a routine physical examination at 301 Hospital and lamented that foreign equipment was advanced. I don't know how many years it will take for our country to catch up." Tang Wan's tone was half a step higher.

The 301 Hospital of the Republic is changed to local names, which is the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, which is very familiar to the people of the whole country. It is responsible for the medical care work of the Central Committee of the Republic, the Central Military Commission, senior commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army, and the older generation of revolutionaries. The advanced level of medical equipment is no match for the Republic.

"The project under development of Dongda University is CT, but there are many similarities between CT equipment and NMR equipment. I don't hide it from Uncle Ning and Aunt Ning. If the premise of our establishment is established, as far as my personal wishes are concerned, I tend to cooperate with Siemens and use the brand new superconducting technology to exchange for CT in Siemens, and several other core technologies of NMR equipment."

"After completing the technology exchange with Siemens and Yuanjia has entered the threshold of high-end medical equipment, Yuanjia and Siemens can fully form patent joint ventures for the nuclear magnetic resonance industry. Turn all Philips in the Netherlands, GE in the United States, Toshiba in Japan, and Shimazu in Japan into external workers."

Liang Yuan has successively produced a lot of explanations of terms that are quite novel in the Republic.

Patent joint ventures are also called patent pools in the West. They are widely used in capitalist society and are also a legal weapon for large Western industrial groups to escape antitrust accusations. The most familiar case for the people of the Republic is the 3C industrial alliance of Western industrial groups on VCD and DVD back then.

In order to maximize economic benefits, patent joint ventures are often combined with technical standards. In the New Century Republic's media, half-bottle of water, the top-notch companies that boast about making standards is completely simple and out of context. It is not easy to make sense.

To be precise, making standards for first-class enterprises should be a brand new business model, and the specific process should be technology patenting - patent standardization - internationalization. In the promotion of standardization, standards are often operated in the form of patent joint ventures.

Taking the MPEG-2 compression standard that has just been born in the computer field as an example, the MPEG-2 patent joint venture brings together the technologies of many universities or companies including the University of California, Philips, Toshiba, Sony, French Telecom, Fujitsu, Canon, etc. in the United States.

In procedurally, the above-mentioned rights holder will first license the patents related to the implementation of the MPEG-2 standard to MPEGLA - that is, the patent joint venture organization that implements the MPEG-2 standard authorization. It will specifically conduct non-discrimination and one-stop licensing of the core patents of MPEG-2 to users around the world, and be responsible for allocating patent licensing benefits.

In the MPEG-2 patent joint venture, patents are divided into "essential patents" and "related patents". Essential patents refer to technologies that constitute the basic complementarity of MPEG-2; and "relevant patents" refer to improved patents based on existing essential patents.

Generally speaking, patents that are easier to replace will be divided into ordinary patents, usually free cross-licensing, and the contributors of the patent will not receive licensing fees.

The necessary patents are completely different. Even members of the alliance must give the contributors of the necessary patents a return on the authorization fund in advance when using the necessary patents.

In patent joint ventures, the competition between essential patents and ordinary patents is quite fierce. The mere technical advantages and disadvantages do not occupy a monopoly position in this game. The real R&D strength of an enterprise occupies a decisive position in this close combat.

If one company is able to use unambiguous technology to avoid the very advanced technology of another company, but another company cannot do this, then the company that cannot be avoided can only be ranked as an ordinary patent no matter how advanced the technology it holds.

Taking Liang Yuan’s plan to implement as an example, if communication with GE fails, Yuanjia will take advantage of the time advantages of the first discoverer of magnesium diboride to register garbage patents around the related processing technology of magnesium diboride, such as registering patents for certain elements with mixed quantification, ultra-fine powder processing technology, etc., to block the path of innovation for other companies from the process flow and consolidate its position as necessary patents in the patent alliance.

After establishing a patent alliance with Siemens, a complete patent chain for nuclear magnetic resonance has been built. If other companies do not want to be eliminated by market competition, they can only choose to join. In this way, Yuanjia, which has the necessary patents, is good at producing nuclear magnetic resonance equipment by itself or focusing on improving the superconducting performance of magnesium diboride. At least when the money is tight, Yuanjia can find a reason to increase the necessary patent licensing fund.

This complete set of dynamic real-time games will never stop, which is the entire step for first-class enterprises to do standards.

Liang Yuan's long speech made Ning Lei and Tang Wan dizzy.

"Does Xiaoyuan do MRI or CT? Which device is it used for superconductivity?" Tang Wan asked in a confused manner.

In the field of high-end medical equipment, CT and nuclear magnetic resonance technologies are of great versatility. Although the working principles of the two are very different, the sorting of data collected by the detection system is in line with each other.

The core of CT technology can be divided into two major systems: hardware and software. The hardware is represented by X-ray generator, detector, slip ring technology, and high-performance computer workstations. The software system is an algorithm for CT scanning reconstruction technology.

The technical core of nuclear magnetic resonance is superconducting coils, high-efficiency cooling systems, magnetic field compensation systems, high-performance computer workstations, and image data reconstruction algorithms.

Image data reconstruction occupies an extremely important position in CT equipment or MRI equipment. The data detected by the machine must be reconstructed through data image before it can be transformed into something that humans or doctors can understand. If this link is not done well, it will be useless to be advanced in hardware equipment.

An excellent image reconstruction algorithm can improve the clarity of CT or MRI images up to 20%. This is undoubtedly the greatest help for diagnosing doctors.

The reason why Liang Yuan's Neusoft in that life was able to break through the barriers of foreign CT equipment without providing any qualified hardware equipment in the local industrial community of the Republic was that it relied on the unique data image reconstruction algorithm.

Neusoft made a breakthrough in the CT field back then. Although Neusoft made global procurement of hardware equipment, due to various reasons, the hardware subsystems that could be obtained were not the most advanced in the world at that time.

In 1998, when Neusoft's first CT was released, the image reconstruction speed took 58 seconds, while the CT produced by GE at the same time only took 14 seconds.

At that time, the manager of Philips Medical China once said meaningfully that Neusoft's products were born ten years later, and the implication was self-evident.

Neusoft, which worked hard, only took more than a year to optimize the algorithm and computer performance to transform the image reconstruction time from 58 seconds to 4 seconds. Then he launched a counterattack. The share of foreign CT equipment in the medical market in the Republic has dropped sharply from 100% to 40%, and the equipment price has also plummeted, and it has simply fallen by two-thirds.

With Neusoft's large-scale conquest of cities and land, the price of CT scans in Republic hospitals has dropped from thousands of yuan each time to a level of several hundred yuan. It can be said that without Neusoft's success, the people of the Republic could only pinch their noses and endure nuclear magnetic resonance of 3,000 yuan per time and CT scans of 3,000 yuan per time and thousands of yuan per time.

In later generations, some tech idiots with smooth cerebral cortex cursed the Republic's health care system, and then turned to worship large Western companies, so that the Republic's market was regarded as a model country with a lot of money, stupid people, and quick arrival.

Liang Yuan and Liang Pan are both studying at Dongda University, and are familiar with the hardships and passions of Neusoft when they started their business. It can be said that when Liang Yuan was founded, he was determined to expand the glory that Neusoft was destined to achieve, deploying industrial processors and discrete devices, and suppressing all objections and insisting on superconducting technology, which is closely related to the future Neusoft.

However, the battle in Ninglei Nansha disrupted Liang Yuan's step-by-step strategic concept. During this year, Liang Yuan led Yuan Jia into the unfamiliar aviation field, so that the entire group's funds were tilted towards aviation-related aspects. Liang Yuan could only instruct the Shangri-La Foundation to slow down the pace of forming a joint enterprise with Dongda University.

Liang Yuan gave Tang Wan and Ning Lei a detailed science on CT and MRI. Then he said lazily: "Aunt Ning, McKinsey, who consulted with United Airlines, submitted a development report on high-end medical equipment in the next ten years for Yuanjia."

"In the development report, McKinsey predicts that with the rapid development of the semiconductor industry, the global high-end medical equipment will soon enter a boom period. In the next decade, the global market capacity of CT and nuclear magnetic resonance is close to hundreds of billions of dollars."

"There are currently no more than ten companies in the world that are capable of producing two products. It can be said that as long as Yuanjia is not garbage, it is undoubtedly necessary to grab one-tenth of this cake."

Liang Yuan straightened his back and stared at Ning Lei and said, "Uncle Ning, do you say that Yuanjia gave up the vast market at least one billion US dollars a year to exchange for the single crystal metal of the aircraft engine? Isn't it a very disadvantageous thing?"

Liang Yuan has been ruining a lot of words and made a big fuss. In the final analysis, it is just a sentence. Don’t look at the fact that magnesium diboride is not allowed to play with the organization. It is limited to changing single crystal alloys. If Yuanjia does not guarantee the interests of Yuanjia, the young master will not play with you. It is necessary to maintain confidentiality for half a year. Even if it is made public, Yuanjia will be able to establish an advantageous technological monopoly position in the field of high-end medical care.

When the time comes, the party and the country will find single crystals wherever they are willing to find single crystals.

Tang Wan thought about it for a while and finally savored Liang Yuan’s voice, took out the sofa cushion behind her and threw it on Liang Yuan’s head, and said with a smile: “You little bastard, you are so rude. Aunt Ning was thinking about the fact that there were too many departments involved in keeping the secret, which was really difficult to deal with. Now, after Xiaoyuan said this, it seems that the headache should be your Uncle Ning and the others.”

Tang Wan hit the point. If you exchange single crystal metal, it can be said that there is no room for Yuanjia to speak. A private enterprise, a private enterprise, is considered a senior. Even if Liang Yuan successfully exchanges with GE, a banner and a certificate are enough to send someone.
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