The patent is part of the record 9,262 US patents that IBM inventors received in 2019 -- achieving a milestone of most patents ever awarded to a US company and marking IBM’s 27th consecutive year of patent leadership.
FireCheck, a fire hazard mapping and fire spread simulation project funded by the DOST, aims to extinguish the increasing threat of urban fires, putting them out before they happen.
Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology, UP was able to generate maps with resolution of up to 1x1 meter which can be used for planning and reconstruction of areas damaged by the Taal Volcano eruption.
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) secretary Fortunato de la Peña has expressed his goal of intensifying the commercialization of DOST-developed products and technologies...
It was also in August 2019 that a bill creating the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) was signed into law. The PhilSA, however, was placed under the administrative supervision of the Office of the President (OP) and not as an attached unit of the DOST as originally intended.