The cost for a typical US patent, from start to finish, is between $10,000 and $40,000, and generally takes 2-7 years. Currently, the published average time from filing to grant is about 3 1/2 years.

Belgium-based Aerospacelab, a manufacturer of satellites, said it has set up a new facility in Torrance. According to the company, the new facility will increase the production of its satellite ...

Irvine-based voicemail services provider YouMail said this morning that it has inked a partnership to keep people from being hit by deepfaked artificial intelligence (AI) calling campaigns. According ...

Irvine-based GoDocs, a developer of commercial loan document automation software, says it has partnered with a specialty banking company, EverBank. According to GoDocs, it will 'streamline multifamily ...

A non-profit arm of the Lithuanian government, the Innovation Agency, says it has tapped UCLA Anderson School of Management to help companies launch into the United States. According to the Innovation ...

Westlake Village-based Anchor Operating Systems, a developer of ticketing and point of sale systems, says it has signed a number of customers. The company said it signed Miami's Art XSpace, The ...

A non-profit arm of the Lithuanian government, the Innovation Agency, says it has tapped UCLA Anderson School of Management to help companies launch into the United States. According to the Innovation ...

A worldwide IT outage--which resulted in chaos in airports, delayed hospital procedures, and more--has been blamed on a end of week update pushed out to Windows machines worldwide by IT management ...

Los Angeles-based dating app developer Tinder has rolled out a new, AI-powered feature which helps its users find better photos. According to Tinder, the new Photo Selector feature will look through a ...

Solana Beach-based Alvys, a developer of logistics and supply chain management software, announced today that it has raised $20.5M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Titanium Ventures ...

Los Angeles-based Fugo Precision 3D announced today that it has launched a "centrifugal 3D printer", which it says provides layerless 3D printing, sub-30-micron accuracy and throughput up to ten times ...

Auto maker Volkswagen Group said this week that it will invest up to $5 billion in Irvine-based EV maker Rivian. According to the two, they are in a joint venture to create a "next generation software ...