EHS & Industrial Safety Incidents

Monetary Fine and Non-Monetary Sanctions for Industrial Safety Incidents in 2024 and Improvement

USI-ESG-Legal Compliance

2024 Intellectual Property (IP) Management Performance

Innovation patent and invention application platform

We have established an application platform on the employee portal. After registration, R&D personnel can record in detail their innovation ideas and experiment outcomes from work and store them in the encrypted folder. After data is complete and the review and approval of related supervisors, employees may apply for patents according to the procedures.

Patent

# Title Project No. Country Remarks
1 HYDROGENATED BLOCK COPLYMER AND COMPOSITION THEREOF US 10,450,455 B2 (application no.15/914,878) USA Awarded the patent on 2019/10/22 (expired on 2038/03/07)
2 Hydrogenated block copolymer and composition thereof I660975 Taiwan Awarded the patent on 2019/06/01 (expired on 2038/03/05)
3 MULTILAYER SHEET STRUCTURE FOR DENTAL APPLIANCE US-2020-0237478 USA Awarded the patent on 2022/05/31 (expired on 2040/08/10)
4 Fire retardant composite structure (utility model patent) M597795 Taiwan Awarded the patent on 2020/07/01 (expired on 2030/03/12)
5 Fire retardant composite structure (utility model patent) CN213675870-U China Awarded the patent on 2021/07/13 (expired on 2030/06/01)
6 Recyclable Crosslinked Polymer Foam Material and Its Applications I824566 Taiwan Awarded the patent on 2023/12/01 (expired on 2042/06/15)
7 Recyclable Crosslinked Polymer Foam Material and Its Applications 202211580397 China An application was summited on 2022/9/22

Trade secret management

The R&D Division stores the reports, documents, and related IPs from each R&D project individually in USI’s internal encrypted web folders with access control. The system also automatically audits abnormal access and alerts the responsible supervisor to check the access to ensure the proper management of trade secrets.